Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1910 — Appeals. [ARTICLE]

Appeals.

No longer does fame come from skill at fencing or tilting, nor from l either physical or mental prowess, as we have been wont to understand these things, nor even, as many believe, from riches. Nowadays a man is known by his appeals. Almost any one, no matter to how low a.stratum in society he has sunk, can secure at least one trial with little difficulty, but to be able to secure two trials for the same offense marks a man more fit to survive, according to modern standards. To be able to keep right on, making appeal after appeal, and securing trial after trial, aye, even untn the Supreme court itself, distinguishes an individual as little less than supers human in his power over mundane obstacles. And, if a man has been on the four-side of the Supreme court and by appeal and a new trial gets on the five-side, he is a king indeed. Let him fie crowned.