Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-01

their TICKET nad the prOpoSltlon oeeu
made at the beginning and so would
the others. In this way the labor UNI
ions could have cincfed representation
without fighting for it. AS it was the
liberal vote. when plunked for Herman,
gave him enough with the labor vote
to elect him and leave the original
labor candidate third man in the race
or, had labor centered on Lamb leaving
| the other two candidates to fall by the
(; wayside. Lamb would have been at
least second man in the race and would
| have been elected. The sure way Tor
labor to land its candidate is to try for
one and center on him. This has been
done in other commission plan towns
with success.
| II the recount of ballots is not at
tended with fraud OF any kind the
chances are all in favor Of Derby for
the reason that the judges II election
were more favorable personally IN
most cases to the opposition and 1t can
| be presumed that all the possible
| doubts were decided in Mr.. Lambs
f! favor to begin with. Derby is just as
likely to run ahead az he is to lose the
three votes he has to spare.
The grounds for the contest, too.
were himsy as set forth except that
| in equity any man orght to have the
right of recount when the margin IS
no greater than three votes The grant
| ing OF a ballot outside Of the voting
| place was done under the advice OF the
county attorney when a crippled voter
was carried to the voting place in an
auto and allowed to vote without get
1 he ha mr.
| of blank ballot to a saloon keeper In
the Second ward invalidated nothing
because he handed It right back and
received a good ballot with which to
vote. The charge that Derby promised
Egermayer the clerkship Is ridiculous.
| Undoubtedly Mr.. Lamb believed 1t
| when his attorney and the stenographer
told him about it but the purpose OF the
attorney is very apparent. Lambs at
torney has also been attorney for the
saloon keepers and the saloon keepers
will do almost anything Just now to
"con" the labor unions and get signers
| to their petition. They would not only
fight laho-'s battle for 1t but they would
not hesitate to queer" the antI-saloon
bunch with the union men by telling
them that Derby had a deal on with
the attorney employed by the drys.
Politics Is queer HamA
The saloon petition, will be out next
week II It has not already been started
on the quiet. The dEht starts in as
q desperate one and people may expect
desperate methods to be used. Nearly
LOO voters, for instance, have either
signed q remonstrance against saloons
or have said that they would sign one
| while some 400 others have said that
they would never sign either one and
fully 800 more have not yet been APP
preached to ascertain how they stand.
This leaves less than 500 that are
known to be willing to sign a saloon
petition but there WIN be more names
than this secured. Signatures may be
bought. as has been done in many
another saloon fight. Men will be per-
suaded by Misrepresentation. others
will be bluffed into It. The enormous
business Of nearly 100000 annually Is
at stake and money win be put into the
! fight to save this business. The fact
that this 5000 900 al! comes out OF the
wage workers pay check and out Of
Ifthe farmers purse VIII not be permit
ted to stand in the way Of signing up
the men who pay the bin.
However, the fight Is going to be a
hard one for the saloons. The extraor-
binary vote cast compels them to OBJ
tain fully 200 more signatures than the
remonstrance people had to obtain. II
will require 1853 valid signatures to
carry the consent and. Of course many
| more must be on the petition to stand
the Inevitable shrink in q fight. The
| fight itself. too. may 60 hard with some
+; names VIII surely be ferreted out and
prosecutions for illegal voting pursued
in order to strike them OF the saloon
petition. Voters must have lived in the
state six months. in the county sixty
days and in the precinct ten days to
| vote legally. If they did not qualify on
all of these requirements the penalty,
upon conviction. is both fine and Jail
! sentence. Voters knowing themselves
i to be in doubtful standing had better
keep their names off from. that saloon
| petition If they would escape search
+, ing scrutiny by the lawyers.
&
It now appears that the $500 raid
on the city treasury to recover ex-
penses for litigation which the mayor
gos himself and his officers into large
~ because Of advice from his personal
counsel was only an April Fools joke.
The city treasurer upon advice from
City Attorney Northup has Cancelled
! the credit given the mayor on the war;
/ rants and has rendered them stamped
unpaid for want OF funds" Lawyers
in goodly number are giving Of their
opinions freely that there II law enough
to prevent this deal going thru. What
| is needed is somebody to start some
| thing.
But It is no April Fools joke for
Northup to be able to hold that the city
treasurer had no legal authority to pay
those hurry-up warrants out Of their
regular order. It is moro like real
fretribution. It will be remembered
/. that when the federal officers were be-
fore the mayors court City Attorney
1 Northup was somewhat rudely ignore!
by the mayor who persisted in appeal
ing to the advice OF his personal coun-
sci but when the cases came to trial
in the federal court poor Northur
found that they had made him the
goat" as the boys in the street would
say. Having no part in the conduct o.
the mayors case himself he could no,
prevent evidence going to the court
which caused the Judge to charge
Northup among others with response
bihty for the bad advice which had
given the mayor such q bum steer
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