Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-18

Jones will be vindicat ton for Lamo
in this contest and actual recall OF
| Jones will be condemnation and SUD
lection CT Lamb 10 a position OF help
! less minority. Union labor is attacked
Just as much as is Jones in this fight
That there must be some sinister
influence back of the move is evil
denced by the bill of complaint filed
II contains three charges two Of which
read tina, the council has done IL
legal things Only one charges the
mayor personally and that is the lie
! ensing Of an objectionable lunch
wagon. so trifling e thing as to make
+ the charge contemplate There Is no
. more reason for recalling Jones for
what the council did than for recalling
Herman or Lamb. The purchase OF
/ the water pipe was made in the open
No suspicion of crookedness is even
ventured in the charge. Simply be-
cause the new Ia " required resolutions
Of purchase 10 ne adopted once. laid on
the table for a week and then adopteS
a second time and was not fully COM
r,lied with by the second adoption is
10 ground for putting man out OF or
fee and men as shrewd as the coterie
proposing ii do not think that 1t is
II is put in the bill SO as to reach
Lamb by indirection with the club
hurled at Jones as this was Mr.. Lambs
purchase and Herman knew it. Tech
| n.cal faults of this kind by the
score can be laid on TO Herman. And
SO it is with the transfer OF money
from one fund TO another. The city
has the money. No one stole anything.
Whether 1t was legal or not may be
question among lawyers The city al
torney decided that il was legal and
wrote the resolution authorizing it !ir-
IngleGue. when mayor, caused the ar
rest Of federal officers and had them
illegally detained in jail but the fed
eral court let him off from Jail SEN
tence himself on The ground that ne
! had been wrongly advised by the law
vers whom he consulted. II court
kill let Ingledue off in this way after
having wrongfully caused the arrest
Of fedora, officers IngIedue ought to
excuse Jones and Lamb even II Jef
Wilson and Simon LaShelle have de-
cided that they had been badly ad-
vised by the city attorney. The charges
are bogus TIE deal is a dirty deal
. and if it were attempted in poker
, game somebody would probably get his
wrist knocked out of joint.
s 1t is little wonder that the talk OF
: recalling Herman is rife on the streets
: The friends Of Jones quite generally
: want an eye for an eye and the friends
7 Of Lamb threaten TO take 1t. However
= +. would be political mistake to recall
: Herman with no other excuse than the
: desire for reprisal The charges against
? him would have 10 be trumpet up ant
= qvou!d probably consist Of technica
= errors due to ignorance and il the3
: we're no more serious than those pre-
j fcrred against Jones and Lamb Woulc
5 :,e equally as inexcusabie. Herman:
e course since he vas last elected ha:
created more general disapproval ant
lie would undoubtedly be defeated In
recall election while it is more thal
probable that Jones would be re
q elected II is also true that accord1nt
20 the harsh rules OF politics Herman
o ras il coming 10 him since he is tn
II aggressor against Jones. Fair play i
n fair play. If it is dirty politics to get
II Jones without grounds Or excuse in tn
IS way of malfeasance ii would also D.
: dirty politics to get" Herman with
,r out malfeasance on his part. Pol1tl
: cally speaking 1t would cloud the is
% she The first thing to do is to defea
n the recall petition by not signing II
~ We would then have no election and
so general mixup. Failure to get suffi
80 Gent names would be the most humtlf
re ating defeat that could come to La
n Shelie and Herman and the stronges
he possible vindication Of Jones an
le Lamb. 1t would save the priceless re
ty call feature Of our new plan from be
n ins- rrostitute6 to dirty politics. II tn
De petition is filed 1t should be canvasse
for Withdrawals and checked for foE
geries and II the election should
forced the outturn Of good citizenshi
ce should be overwhelming and conv1nc
s. ing. Herman once ran with InEledu
he and LaSnelle and became popular.
tx fighting Insledue's unwise scheme
IN His vision has been obscured BY -
at saloon issue and he il running VIII
es evil influences again. Rejection OF tn
n tetition might Jar him back into a