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A SATURDAY, April 21, i906. TRAPES IHGSY COUNCILS sTri-Weekly Courier. THE COURIER PRINTING CO. Founded Qtjh An^r^t, 1848. A. W- LRE Publisher JAS. F. POWELL Bnslnean Manager na.lv IN T?ipnhnH7'/(editorial 52i*Ea.sti Secon? f\trept- creatures beside God himself. And it wa 4 W ness as compared with all that man, aided by every force or wealth and in genuity, can do. No matter how great mortals may appear, no matter how great they may think they have become, a minute's frown upon the brow of nature renders all their work as naught. 1 Telephone or business office). NEWS AND THE EARTHQUAKE. Viewed from the practical stand point qf the newspaper man, who, in his zeal to get news and give It to his patrons, forgets perforce all the senti mental points and the misery and ^nriorCiRvc« bv mMlTE^...$sno heart-aches caused by that of which Tri-Weekly Courier, year ....' 1.50!he writes, the earthquake at San Fran- I cis?o was one of the greatest and Address the Courier Printing Co., Ottnm-1 news value has occurred since the suc wa, Iowa. cess of the peace negotiations at Ports mouth, and the manner in which it 17/ lOOH at Ve^postofflor ottumwn. Wn. was "handled" in the newspapers can miijer the Act of CQngrPFR of Mnroh 3. not fairly be compared with the way 1878. I A1- ...... the Portsmouth conference was treat led. THE CATASTROPHE. History records few disasters great- continents were at Portsmouth for er than the one that will be known weeks, waiting for the end of the con ftnd remembered through decades to ference, in order that they might send come as the San Francisco earthquake, the news to the corners of the earth. As the more detailed news comes from Every possible advantage was given Fhe unfortunate city today It is them. They had their offices, their learned that the results of the earth- stenographers, their.messengers, their quake are worse than first reports in- leased teleerraph wires, their comfort dicated and that the stricken territory able Hotel auarters and everything that fs not at all confined to San Francisco could be asl*ed to aid them in the work ahd its suburbs. Many cities sur- for which they went to Portsmouth, rounding the Golden Gate are wrecked On the other hand, the earthquake and many lives have been lost outside f-t San Francisco was, of course, a sur of San Francisco. It would be impos- prise, a bolt from a clear sky. There Bible to estimate the number of mil- were, no specially detailed and picked lions of dollars that might represent writers at hand there were none of the money loss, but it Is safe to say the conveniences that even a cub re that $100,000,000 is conservative. porter would consider necessary to his most noteworthy events in recent his- tQry Nothlng 'to Such a catastrophe as that which demands in getting up a news "story, has befallen the Pacific slope exempli- The whole city was in confusion, sucn fies and illustrates the littleness of confusion as steals from the most self men and their efforts as compared possessed man all his energies of mind with the might of nature. It cannot except the animal instinct of self pres bttt make the most flippant pause and ervaiion. But in spite of this, the consider how small is one of God's makes more easy the process of believ- compare world. Ainutes was sufficient time for nature aster, but still to tear down all that man has built up ,.tt more than fifty years. Buildings ?7\d that have been erected by dint of the combined efforts of the intellects and wIth bated tho ing the accounts of miracles that areyf.ew®' Crowds gathered around bulle told in Biblical history. Fifty years is a long time as com- pared with three minutes. But three' tln b^rde (o the pf brick and mortar without the warn- over the continent. And it is to inSLeVe? ufit?n Trusting them and to the reporters of San to the stability of structures men h?d mr.-lsct) that the newspaper reading puilt, hundreds of people, saw their. p.,t,ic and lighted fires in all the pitiable piles of ruins. TSuch a calamity as that of Wednes day may well cause men to ponder wonders of nature and her great- at, Portsmouth. 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Bohham, COB GREEN AND SECOND STS. r- with it In The best writers obtainable in three breath, waited for y°»nS men who "cover' the news field of San Francisco to send out the iT1 and every city in the country excitement ran high a thousand ml les *he ror.s BtoBteU ft™. of hundreds %,'LZm SS a I S S bor at night and lay, down to sl^n in their homes were crushed unrfpr tons sce™ F™ncisR0 °f ,n qln ,worked th®. bu"dI,i?!vp/Jh? deatb t*r traPs- onen from a a lives in (he£. hlnds to send the news uniting millions of people scat- owc_s a debt 0f faith destroyed when nsiture invisible new? of tlie c3.ts.strophe. myriads of invincible hands tumbled, \vh-3n the excitement of the moment down high buildings of brick and stone subsides snlendidly written descriptive .... g^orjes wj,. 1 OTTUMWA, IOWA gratitude for the published, telling of the earthquake and its results, but they will be written by the arm chair re porters, the kind that was to be found Remember we have bea located in Ot tumwa for fifteen years, and have a refutation of treat ing people honestly, as well as successfully, and you can be treated here for Blood or Skin diseases Contagious Blood Dls- eaves, as thoroughly as in any Hot Springs In the country. We have cured many who failed to be cured at the Springs., i\v .v Vr: We Treat Rheumatism", Blood arid Skin Diseases, Sciatica, Lum bago, Stomach, Liver and Kidney Diseases by the use of Baths, Electricity, Vibrator Massage that can not be duplies'. ?d by any trav elling -doctor or pretender. eW have Turkish, Vapor, Electric, Show er, Shampoo and all ainds of baths. Our office is equipped with the X-ray Machine, Electric Cabinets, Vibratory Massage Apparatus, In haling Apparatus and every known treatment that can be given in a well equipped office. ELKS' BLOCK. •Mi in their way, some of them, but they will not be news. There is only one time to cover news, and that is while the news is happening—while it is news. The San Francisco reporters did this, and they did well. The Associated Press deserves full credit for its report of the earthquake. Its reports to its members, of which the Courier is one, were singularly well connected and comprehensive, considering the stress under which the work was done, the great confusion that existed in San Francisco and the meagre facilities for sending the news out of the stricken city.1 The Associ ated Press gave its afternoon paper3 splendid reports and demonstrated again, as it has many times, that it is the most perfect news gathering or ganization ever effected. ... V- THE JOINT CONFERENCE. The manne^ in which the coal situa tion in Iowa is being adjusted is an eloquent testimonial to the value of the system of joint conferences .be tween employers and employes, the representatives of capital and the rep resentatives of labor. The joint con ference, when rightly conducted, is of value and benefit to both sides. It gives the employer an opportunity to bring to the attention of the employe all the questions of business expedi ency and that arise in connection with the expense of conducting industries where labor is employed. It gives the employe an opportunity to call up for his employer's consideration all the points about the business that are wrong from the workman's standpoint. And to both it gives an opportunity to agree on wages and conditions of em ployment such as shall suit both sides, or shall come near enough satisfaction to make it profitable for both sides to asquiesce in the settlement. Years ago, before the age of unions and when everyone was for himself in business of every nature, employers dealt individually with employes. The real employer often never knew any thing of the actual conditions with which his workmen had to deal. He knew but few of them and naturally there was no bond of sympathy. Bui now that is changed. Laboring men organize into unions. They choose of ficers, learn rules of parliamentary law, and become orderly and useful citizens much faster than before the day qf organizations. This is one ben efit they derive and their employer participates, for added intelligence makes them better workmen, more able to carry out the desires of their employer, and worth more money to him from a practical business stand point. With the joint conference in vogue, these organized working men sena del egates from their local bodies to a meeting where they confer witn lep resentatives of the employers, who or ganize in order to be on a level foot ing with their organized employes. At the joint conference these men, repre senting the two sides of the labor act uation, discuss all the points that arise in connection with the work in question. They decide on a just basis for arranging a wage scale for a stat ed period, taking into consideration the demand for the comniodities pro duced, the jbondition of the market and the rates of pay that have governe! the industry in the past. In Iowa the joint conference between the coal operators and miners is tfie largest affair of this ciass. It has been in vogue for several years and one conference is now in session with good prospects for an amicable and satisfac tory settlement within a few days. This settlement will be in the nature of a compromise between the original demands of the two sides. The nia ers wanted an increase this year In their wages the operators thought the 1905 scale high enough and demanded assurance from the miners that the men employed in the various Iowa mines would work faithfully through out the period covered by the agree ment. The basis finally decided upon means the arrangement of an agrte ment which shall include assurances such as the operators demanded and a wage scale the same as that of 1,903, which was reduced for 1904 and 1905 by 5.55 per cent. 1 Joint conferences, when conducted on a sane and fair basis, are of great value to the employerb and employes and both should make, every effort to get their industries upon such a basis where such a move is possible. 8HAW ON SUNDAY SCHpOLS. Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the treasury, has said a great many things during his brilliant public career that are worth copying and worthy the con sideration of all. He has spoken on questions of political interest to this country and the whole world and most of his time has been devoted to these matters. But that he has had time for other affairs, important in another way, is shown by the address he made a few days ago before an audience of 10,000 young and old people in, the chapel of St. James Methodist Episco pal church at Brooklyn, N. Y. He told his hearers that Bible study and Sun day schools are vitally essential to the welfare and progress of the country. Mr. Shaw said: "I believe SJ day schools are doing a great work for the country. You young men, when you get through here and go out into the world, don't forget lessons you have learned here. I do not say the Bible should be taught in the public schools, but I do say that it is not taught in the public schools. It's the Bible as the book that is not taught in the pulpit, either. I am not prepared to say that it would not drive many people away from church. If the Bible is taught you at all, the chances are you students here will get the most of your knowledge of the book from Sunday school study of it and for that reason the Sunday schoolB are the greatest institutions in the country." Leaves of Healing, the Zion City offi cial publication in whose columns Dr. Dowie has so often maligned all who did not believe as he taught, has been rejected by the postal authorities for transmission through the mails be cause the latest issue contained a slanderous attack upon the deposed leader. If Voliva's writing can't pass muster after Dowle's was not stopped, then the new "Elijah" must indeed O W A O I 1 An American woman has started on an exploring tour of Morocco and will traverse the section where Cunning ham Graham was attacked by Moor ish brigands years ago. Is she pre paring for a career like that of Miss Ellen Stone? If Mr. Carnegie runs out of money before he dies he can doubtless make a living as a Chautauqua attraction. He has never sunk a vessel in a Cu ban harbor but he has been kissed by Georgia women. That ought to help a good deal. ,, The czar will have plenty of money now, and can buy up Gapons and Gorkys too, no doubt.' France, Bel gium and Austria have loaned Russia a trifling $440,000,000. Sioux Falls will lose its popularity now that the supreme court has de clared against hasty divorces, and "Dakota widows" will become an obso lete term. With Bryan and Gorky on the lec ture platform next summer. Debs ought to be able to take a short vaca tion. Don't forget that you must help if Ottumwa is to be made a perfectly clean city and dpn't forget that the cleaning days are" April 26, 27 and 28. The crop of spring poets is a little light this year. What's the row? IOWA PRISS COMMENT. "After all. is Andrew Carnegie to KO down into history not as the great ironmaster and philanthropist, but as the man who was kissed against his will?" asks the Sioux City Journal. A Sioux City man who has made $200,000, says he is willing to retire on that amount. "Many a man would be willing to Retire on half of the amount," remarks the Cedar Rapids Republican. "The question is to get the $100,000." The Council Bluffs Nonpareil be lieves that Mr. Perkins had the better of the Spirit Lake debate. His facts, it sayp, went farther with the practi cal reople of Dickinson county than the jrovt rnor's fancies. "It was an. un fortunats moment for the governor," continues the -Nonpareil, "this colli sion of his with the staid old logician and philosopher of Sioux City. It is n* wonder the governor shrinks from the prospect of a series of such de bates." —o— "Hysteria grows in every clime and at usual Intervals," says the Mason City Globe-Gazette. —o— The Fort Dodge Post, dem., is get ting ready to line up for Mr. Bryan. "Mr. Bryan." it says, "may not air ways have been right in the past, ow ing to youth and immature judgment, but with the influx of the years, and with wider opportunities for travel, an-l a smoothing away of some of the provincialism acquired along the Platte river in those old days, and with the undoubted fact that his heart has always been in the right place, there is little doubt that the Cleveland democracy can and wilt turn to him if occasion requires." The Keokuk Gate City observes that with all his intensely practical and materialistic tendencies the average American citizen is willing to pay generously for being fooled and fleeced, especially by religious mounte banks. "Iowa is going to have some warm political battles the next few weeks," suys the Cedar Falls Record. "It will be & good time to remain sweet and composed. This old world will wag on just the same whichever faction wins out." The -Boone Republican would wager that. if the governor could go on a primary ballot in Sioux City he would get a bigger percentage of the vote than Perkins will get in Des Moines. "It looks like a stampede it Cum mins." says the Waterloo CouWer. "If this animosity and intensity or poiit-cal activity is the result of the biennial amendment," says the Uav enport Times, "let Iowa hasten back to the old way of choosing officers ev ery year." The Glidden Graphic says that the present factional tight is not excep tional to Iowa: that "the same sort of 1 ... v. tJRL it-t, Perkinsj-'»JL, By J. H. MERRILL^f/"* vW- For three sessions of the Iowa legislature I sat in the senate with the Hon. Geo. D. Perkins and became well acquainted with him, and found him to be a man of ability, conscientious and true in every instance. While not unfriendly to railroads he was always in the interest of the people, claiming much for them but conceding the rights of both. He is a man of good judgment. His opinion when formed he will at all times and places assert. He has been a staunch republican, but at all times ready to criticise his party, when he deemed it necessary. As an editor and journalist he has al ways been outspoken,, but just. Certainly his joflrnal will attest his right to a nomination for governor in a state he has so well represented. He has never been called upon to prove his loyalty to his party. My acquaintance with him leads me to hope he will be our next gov ernor. have a whip lash for a tongue and a redhot brand for a pen. John J. Hanrahan, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, is a man to be envied. Because of his prominent position in the ranks of la bor his marriage yesterday at St. Paul attracted widespread attention. The gifts were worth $10,000 and President Hill, of the Great Northern, offered him his own private car for a wed ding trip. That's going some for a railway fireman. But Hanrahan is, no doubt, worthy of the attentions paid him, else he would not be so honored. Col. J. Ham. Lewis, he of the flow ing beard and fat job under Mayor Dunne, of Chicago, has decided that it is better to stay out of jail than to be punished for contempt of court. So he has withdrawn the suit, the filing of which aroused the ire of a Chicago judge. Another instance where dis cretioajiroved Jo Ae ih^.bqjtt Tom Piatt announces that he wilt not seek re-election to the senate at the end of his present term in 1909. This would be more magnanimous, says the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, "if the old chap didn't have one foot in the grave and the other on the brink thereof." .... "There Is a big opening for some non-attached candidate for governor in Iowa just now," says the Daven port Times. The Marlon Register says: "The unpledged candidate is the man who should be and who doubtless wll\ be. ncminated.'.' And in another place it says again: "We have made no pledges, have been asked by no one for a pledge and as we have said be fore will not be asked for one." 'The Register is Major Rathbun's paper. If Governor Cummins should fall to receive the nomination the Knoxville Journal hopeg that Major Rathbun will win. O— The Royal Banner says it is sup porting Mr. Perkins because *he has always been a good, sound republican and never advocated anything but sound republican doctrine." —Q— The Fontanelle Observer doubts whether Mr. Herrlott can get a hear ing above the din and clamor of the campaign 'now being waged by others. "There is a Barnum in the field with considerable canvass already spread," the Observer poins out. Why debate the wisdom of capital punishment? asks the Cedar Rapids Republican. "Law is law, and the l£lw of Iowa is hanging. Would" it not be well for the state, through its courts, to obey the law occasionally and ful fill its mandates, whether they meet with universal approval or not?" THE CITY MAN'S GARDEN. Minneapolis Journal.—This is the time "of the man with the rake, not the muck rake which the exposers of thf- dime magazines make use of so handily, but the garden rake, with which he is Industriously bent upon cleaning up his yard, removing the deaci leaves of last autumn, and en couraging the grass to come out and f'lig its song without words. The yearning to delve in the soil is something which the farmer has v| J. H. Merrill. light If. In progress In every state In the union." l' —o— The Altjona Courier, dem.. says that tho republicans of Kossuth county have gone further in their denuncia tion of corporate greed than the dem crats of any place have ever gone. *0: The Coon Rapids Enterprise says that John Herriott's address sounds like "genuine republican gospel." —o— •"lhe governor's campaign necessar i'y must be aggressive," says the Sac City Sun. "A divided republican party' nol may prove to be a serious affqlr for i?0S," suggests, the Cedar Falls Ga zou« O— ..!.v "By this time all the cartoonists have taken their choice between ap plying the Vesuvius idea to either Dowle or the United States senate remarks the Sioux City Journal. The Comers ''"News says it has been mainly through Mr. Perkins' sturdy republicanism that the northwest por tion of the slate is so thoroughly re publican and has stood by the party through adverse as^ well as prosperous cond'lions. —o "The people of Iowa are in no such peril as the governor would have thein believe," says the Council Bluffs Non pareil. "They are contented and pros perous and happy, and their prospects are better than ever they were before. Their public affairs have been well admir.'lstered'in the past and-they will be well administered in the future." Consul tation Advice 110 monopoly upon. While he may turn over acres to the city man's square feet, he does it with no' more pride in the venture than the perspiring office hero who has hurried home from the city to burn, clean and plant. Pity is due the man who has no de sire to plant seeds and wait for them to sprout, who Is not ready to sacri fice ease, leisure and even baseball games to the enthusiasm of garden ing. What though the return be small, what though his wife may buy earlier and larger radishes in the mar ket! They are not his radishes. He did not watch and tend them, and after all they have a market flavor which is insipid. The home grown radish represents devotion. It is eaten in the excited glow of achieve ment. The market radish has no sen timent and frequently' it is hollow otherwise. Besides, the home garden counter acts the tendency to dyspepsia which makes its appearance periodically in mortals who devote themselves too assiduously to the intoxicating pleas ures of the office chair. It brings into being muscles of which the owner wotted not, and the perspiration that it develops goes far to prove the phys iological assertion that man is com posed .of three butckets of water, an assortment of wires and a capacity to comprehend his wife's directions. Thomas Lowry, once made the re mark that no man ought to he per mitted to own land who was not will ing to do something with it. He meant not merely to buy and sell, but to im prove it. This applies to city lots as well as to farms of vast extent. The forms of improvement of land are many. One of the most rudimentary is the act of clearing it .up. This means too often merely the duty of re moving from the face of the earth the distortions of nature which the crim inal Instincts of man have put there, namely, bottles, cans, ashes and dis carded articles of clothing. Nature 111 A: W- iSSfe*-- 4PEOPLE'S Dr. B. A. Stockdale SPECIALIST Cures Chronic and Nervous Diseases Eye, Ear, FOR MEN I can cure you of any chronic dis ease that you may have. Perhaps yoi do not realize how much your happi ness depends upon the state of youi health. If you are suffering from any of the diseases which ruin the lives of so many men, unfitting them for busi ness and marriage, call to see me. can cure you. My reputation has been built upon my success and the truth of the state ments I have made. If, after investigation, (which costs you nothing) I find that I cannot cure you I will tell you frankly, thus avoid ing any expense to you, but IF I UNDERTAKE YOUR CASE I WILL CURE YOU. If you are suffering from nervous debility I want to talk to you. I can cure this trouble and by so doing, re store you to health and vigor. Remember that the longer a case Is let run the harder It is for me to cure and the more it will cost you. See me on my next visit and let me start you on the road to health. Heart, Stomach, Liver and Lung Troubles. be In his office in 5 -v,y Ballingall Hotel, Ottumwa, one day, Thursday, May 3? from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. and return every four weeks. •F PILES AND RECTAL DISEASES CURED OR NO PAY. $:v^ys.lf not convenient to call, write me address EXIT THE MUCK RAKER. Council Bluffs Nonpareil.—The man with the muck rake is being driveil out of the alley. He has been pester ing around until he has brought the old woman out with the broom. After a few days of sunshine to dry up the opei. places, the man with the white wash br.ush will follow, and then all will once more be lovely. Don't be a, muck raker. Keep your eyes heavenward. Dwell not on the vlleness and baseness of things earth ly. Leave the vermin to themselves. They may eat the bottoms oft your trousers, but no matter. Be you high minded. Look only for the bright spots. The muck raker is he who stirs things up. -Don't be one of them. The sight is more comely just as it is. Let things alone. Look up. Never mind what's going on below. It would not look well If raked over. It's muck. Keep'Vway from It. Fasten your eye on a star. Smile, don't complain. En dure, don't rebel. Don't be a muck raker. Everything's all right. The sun is shining, the grass is growing, with the ripening and the yielding in the near by-and-by. Peace be with you. There are no muck rakes In Utopia. Make a bon-flre of them. They can be of no use to you. The muck rake can only serve to divert your attention downward and to dlspoll your virgin confidence. Keep clean. The muck rake leads to dirt. Let it alone. It turns up bribery, forgery, larceny, de bauch of the ballot, wee children toll ing their lives away in noisome mills and factories that a few may live In palatial style, the widowed mother bent over the wash board, grafters, false trustees, dishonest public ser vants, insurance policyholders robbed, cities betrayed, trusts gormandizing, the money changers in the temple and all the multitude of hideous and shape less things of the heap. Let it alone. It's unsightly, disagreeable. It makes of our pleasant dream ah awful night mare. Break the prongs from your muck rake and use it for a staff to scale the heights. Dr. B. A. Stockdale,- 619 West Walnut St: [}es Moines, Iowa See me in Des Moines office Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays. If given a chanc'e will do the rest. Even weeds have their beauty as com pared with the grosser litter scattered by man. They are green and have a certain shapeliness. The man who clears his lot does something. The man who does not clear his should have something done to him. iy^eKfjtSB!s58^L«feSA-tiSS&tti)iv*#zi/yli6toi5siMSt ,1 ji. 'A 44 PULPIT. V-0 I I I I 1 Editor of Courier:—Major Mahon in the Courier on the 16th Inst., says: "There Beems to'be great misappre hension if not misunderstanding on the present position of the republican party in Iowa -in regard to railroad rate question." I am of the opinion that the major is under some misap prehension himself, seeing there is no division of. the sentiment among re publicans of Iowa on local railroad rates. As an evidence of this I call the attention of the major to Governor Larrabee's letter of April 10, 1906, to Governor Cummins, which the latter made public on last Saturday at Spirit Lake, in the joint debate with Hon. Geo. D. Perkins. In part, the letter is as follows: "I have much pride in our law of 1888, which you helped much to frame, especially in putting on the finishing touch concerning the long and short haul clause. This, especially, I have looked upon as the best legislation on 3 Guarantee ^y.\ Cur FOR WOMfef? I can successfully treat you for any weakness that you may be afflicted with. Lack of perfect health means the loss of nearly everything that a woman holds dear in life and if you ire not perfectly well, call and sea nie. *v Consultation costs you nothing and1 It is always confidential. Many chronlo diseases, if taken in time are easily cured, by the skillful specialist and the cost Is so trifling, compared with the suffering endured by their neglect, that it Is infinitely cheaper to be made well again. If women realized how much their mental balance depended upon their bodily vigor, they would not hesitate to be cured. Do not delay coming to see me, but do so at once and you will never regret it. I have been Instrumental in restor ing happiness to hundreds of unhappy homes and have great faith in my abil ity to successfully treat all diseases peculiar to women. the subject I have ieigss should not have written you upoaflE'ia subject, but I feel deeply the neces sity of curtailing corporation powers and Influence?, as I know yon, do, and you haVe the battle in charge." No, as I understand it, there Is no division among Iowa republicans on local railroad rates nor as to the sup port given by Iowa republicans favor ing the passage of the Hepburn-Dolll ver rate bill now before the TJnited States senate. There is, however, a contest on in Iowa as to whether the people or the railroads and other cor porate organizations shall dominate the state and control legislation. And this is a contest not at. all peculiar to Iowa, but it is one that covers the entire country. It is a question that will not down. It is up for settlement and it will not cease until the matter is rightfully settled. One of the fac tors for its settlement Is a state wide primary law, which will enable the people under statutory regulations to select all their candidates for publio office, city, county, congressional and state, and indicate by their votes their choice for United States senators. Nor Is this primary law wanted by Iowa people alone. There 1b a demand for it everywhere. Governor Deneen, of Illinois, in a message to the Illi nois legislature says: "The duty of the legislature Is plain* The solemn pledges given to the peo ple in a matter touching the funda mental condition of republican govern* ment should be redeemed. This will not have been done until there has been placed upon the statute books a law which, while complying with con stitutional requirements, will secure tne substantial relief sought Tho people have demanded the substance instead qf the semblance of participa tion in the nomination of candidates. Their demand can be answered only by the enactment of laws which will restore to the people control of the entrances ID public life. It 1B 5 1 f*- We, the *i 1 i: 6 •A youe duty to see that this is accomplished. so that the voters shall have the power not merely of electing but o{ selecting their candidates. The prob lem before you, therefore, is how to achieve a government of the people and for the people through agenta and agencies selected by the people." —Governor Deneen to the legislature of Illinois. t, The differences now agitating Iowai republicans may be stated thus:i 5 Those republicans who are supporting Governor Cummins for a third term favor first an efficient anti-railroad pass law second, a state wide legal- $ lzed primary law third,the elimination if of railroads and other corpora'\combl nations from having aVdomlr^W In fluence In political conventloi|8ijf0d in halls, of 'legislation. Otherto '^1 1 .1 cans are opposing, and favor »-d ination of Hon. Geo. D. Periuhds people of-Iowa, are under n. his guilt. hension about the issues Jo'"" pre-convention campaign. MEN ME W. H. I, .. County Cumtnlns. aa the offices of I\ A Card, here were about twek unflersigneijfconditlons dl politics agree to refund the n^icularly the coming gu cent bottle of Greene's Jfatest w-' Ydiscussed in up of Tar If It fails to |ome le'®^ /. The Secre or cold We also, guagiub W go I that there is bottle to prove satisfy east ^ro^/e membership refunded. F. B„. Clar^nd th :re%ie membership Th in®/meeting hel of the PPiyThursday evea 7pany