Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — The Times-Herald’s Egyptian [ARTICLE]

The Times-Herald’s Egyptian

cartoon of last Monday, represents the method of settling boundary disputes in ancient Egypt One Egyptian, looking very much like our Uncle Sam, is kicking another ancient Egyptian, bearing a strong family resemblance to John Bull, off the disputed territory, much to the evident disrelish of John, and greatly to the equally evident satisfaction of the Frenchman, Russian, German and other national!* ties looking on. A fierce and warlike American eagle savagely pulls the Jail of a British lion, who is howling in pain and trying to get away. It is. a very amusing cartoon, and would be gratifying to our national pride, except for the fact that Uncle Sam has had neither spirit nor disposition to kick anyone but himself since the present administration went into power.

Summing up and commenting upon the various and conflicting decisions of circuit judges upon the Nicholson law, the Fowler Republican Era has this to say of Judge Wiley’s decision in the Strickfaden case: Judge Wiley, at Rensselaer, decides, that, under section 9, remonstrators against an applicant cannot withdraw their names’ from the remonstrance unless they do so before the remonstrance is filed with the County Auditor. Judge Wiley’s decision is certainly good law, but he was most erroneously reported in the papers. Certainly a remonstrator would be permitted to take his name from the remonstrance at any time before the paper was filed, bufwEeii filed it should stand as a finished document. But the whole intent of the law would be nullified and the law turned into a plaything if signers cJald withdraw at any time before ’Hie commissioners had made a finding. The Republican Era is certainly in error as to the tenor of Judge Wiley’s decision; which was that the remonstrators had the right to withdraw at any time, before the commissioners had acted upon the remonstrance. The remark of the Era that the remonstrance, when filed, should stand as a finished document, while it looks like good sense and good justice, is not good law, according to the decision of Judge Wiley and large numbers of other circuit judges.