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HP rnH- THE LEON REPORTER. O. E. HULL, Publish* LEON, IOWA Sibaoriptlon Rates: One year fl-M Six mouths 7o (three months 4" Entered as second claat Ceon.Iowa,Po»toffice. matter c»t the Hon. P. L. Prentiss, of Ringgold county, member elect of the coining legislature,and who has been counted as a strong Gear man,hasannounced tbatbe has pledged himself to support Cummins. If a stampede to Cummins is once started there will be a grand rush to get into the band wagon 5 I) nited States. received $250,000 from government for arguing the boundary ewe, which was one of the largest fees ever paid. -J-' Everything the printer buys in the way of material has advanced from -& to 50 per cent during the past six months. Another cut of 5 per cent, was taken from type discounts to-day mak ing display type cost double what it did two years ago. Verily, prosperity catches the wicked as well as the just. —Waterloo Courier. "Coal is up, clothing is up, food is up —everything the trusts have any con trol of is up. And the fellows not in trusts are taking advantage of the tren ral upward trend of prjees to raise the price of what they have to sell. Now let's have a boost in the wages of men who work for the trusts. Give them a chance to break even this winter any how.—Toledo Bee. Speaker Henderson will be presented with a gavel by the governor of Iowa at the opening session of the house of rep resentatives. It has always been the custom to give a gavel made of some historic material to a newly elected speaker. Mr. Henderson's gavel will be made from rosewood taken from the Spanish cruiser Reina Christina, Ad miral Montijo's flagship. We are not alarmists, but we are im pressed with the belief that the people of the United States are facing to-day a menance to the peace of the country as great and powerful as slavery was in 1801. In 1900 it will be a national issue. In that contest we believe that the republican party will be on the side of the people against the criminal trusts. The political party that stands as the protector and promoter of the allied money interests ought to and will go down in ignominous defeat.—Topeka papjta). THE DROPQSED SOLD BILL. The bill is drawn in ten sections. By the fir "'{and second sections it is sought to leg -nze the gold standard by a plain and definite statute. Section three pro vides for the creation of a division of issue and redemption, providing a re serve fund to meet tbe demand for the redemption of greenbacks and treasury notes when presented. Section four enables the secretary of the treasury to maintain the gold stan dard by selling fropds whenever neces sary. Sections five and six. provide for the coinage of subsidiary silver out of bul lion purchased under act of July 14, }890. Section seven authorises the secre tary of the treasury to issue or re isisUe United States notes in denomina tions of one dollar, two dollars and five ^dollars. Section eight premits the banks to issue notes up to tbe par value of their bonds deposited with the treasurer, Section nine repeals a 1 per cent, tax or bank circulation and substitutes a tax on one-tenth of. 1 per cent, eacli half year oh capital, surblus and undivided "profits. Sectioa ten authorizes the organize ,tion of hanks of 125,000 capital in com Imiinities of 2,000 inhabitants. The effect of the bill if passed, would simply this: It would give us the tigi* gold standard, retire greenbacks ftlLtreasury-notes, giving in place intnotes would drive all silver from osteoid' DEC? 12,99 ABSOUUTEIvtouRE Makes the food more delicious and wholesome BRYAN SURE IN 1000. New York is on the threshold of a Democratic redemption. The returns have all been gathered, and the addi tions and subtractions made. Now that thedust of combat has so far settled that one may gain some glimpse of results, what, think you, is the'Republican majority in the State of New York, as shown two weeks ago? It comes out as a shadow over 9,000. No mammoth Kx President Harrison is one of the plurality, truly! In 18% the black bisiest men in the United States to day majority was240,000. Its'Clevelandlsm and he probably has the largest income that did that. In 1897 it bleached to of anv lawyer in the west, if not in the 80,000. One year ago (1898) it whitened According to reports he out still further, and stood as 18,500. the Venezuelan ,This autumn (1899) the Republicans in their superiority, as stated, fade and pale to a trifle above 9,000. In 1900— mark The Verdict's word—that su periority will have died and disappeared —buried beneath a Bryan plurality of £0,000. And all this makes the morose and sulky reason of present Republican gloom. The further they travel, the darker it gets.—New York Verdict. CONDEMNS BOND OFFER worn uwm powptw oo.. mw vowu Mr, Bryan talked freely at Spring Held, Missouri, of Secretary Gage's offer to purchase $25,000,000 bonds. ''The republicans," he declared, "have been Baying all the time that there was plenty of money in the country. When the free silver people advocated the en largement of the money supply they were told that the circulation fully met all the demands of trade. '•Now, when Wall street becomes short of money thegovernmenl is prompt 1885 to go to the relief of the speculators. All we free silver people ask is that Uncle Sam shall treat the farmer and the laborer with as much consideration. "The gold men, claiming that there is plenty of money in the country, never make the proper distinction between a standard dollar and a credit dollar. Tbey assume that for all purposes an actual dollar and a promise to pay a dollar are the same,' ''This failure to make the distinction between the money of final account and the various forms of credit employed in the transactions of the country has greatly confused the minds, of those controlled by the gold standard idea, UNITE TO CONQUER. There is every evidence that in the campaign of 1900 all the elements op posed to the administration of public affairs by McKinley will unite and form one solid democratic column to .oppo sition. Leaving tne money question entirely out of the account, the two great issues of anti-trust and anti-imperialism wil gervp as a comtpon ground on which the anti-McKinley hosts can rally But the money question is not dead by any meanB. Former Congressman Towne, tbe able leader of the silver re publican party, in speaking of this mat ter, says: "If congress this winter'in response to the demand of the president destroys the bond-paying value of silver, calls in silver certificates, the silver question will be a leading issue in the next pres idential campaign. "Such action ou the"part of congress would furnish an entirely different prop' osition from that which confronted the people in the last campaign. The ie' publican party won because of the fear of the ratio of 16 to 1. The adoption of the Gage and McKinley financial plan py ppngres8 would mean the contraction of the currenoy of the oountry and the people would*te confronted with a fact not a theory, in tbe battle of standards. The silver question is not dead in Amer ican political affairs." Without united action on the part of all those who desire the overthrow of the republican party nothing can be accomplished. this fact had ample illustration in tbe recent election in Ohio. With a popu lar majority of 50,000 against him,Nasb, the republican candidate for governor, was elected. This story will be repeated, in 19Q0 if tbe same policy of persdnfcl selfishness is followed by those who ought to sink personal ambition for the common good. There is but one motto pu those who wish to rescue tbe republic from tbe that lat BAKING POWDER H-K* .* FARMERS' WA8EI. "The farmer has no wages except as wages are measured by the price of hia product, and when you place it in the power «f the trust to fix the price of what the farmer sells,you place it in the power of the trust to lower the wages that the farmer receives for his work and when yon pUceit in the power of the trust to raise the price of what he buys, you do the farmer a doub'e iij iry, because he burns the candles at both ends and suffers when he sells to the trust and again when he buys of the trust."—W. J. Bryan. DIED IN OFFICE six Vice Presidents Cut Down by Orlnv Reaper Whll. on Duty. Elbridge Gerry, also vice-president to President Madison, died in his carriage in Washington, November 23,1814. William R. King, the third vice-presi dent to die in office was elected on the ticket with Franklin Pierce in 1852, but died shortly after being elected. Henry Wilson, vice-president to Gen eral Grant died ^November 22, 1875, in his 64th year. Thomas A. Hendricks was elected vice-president on the ticket with Grover Cleveland in 1884, and died November Garret A. Hobart, was the sixth vice president to die in office, having been elected on the ticket with McKinley in 1896 died on November 21st, 1899. TARIFF AND THE TRUSTS. Trusts do not fear statute laws, for they can be fought indefinitely from court to court and their operation ren dered ineffectual. But tbe trusts do fear the withdrawal of special privileges granted by the fed eral tariff. The way to prevent the trusts from advancing prices of products and tax ing the consumer to the last extreme is to take away from these combines the protection of the tariff and put them in competition with foreign enterprise. Discussing this matter, Lawson Purdy who has made the subject a careful study, says: I do not cbntend that the only cause for combinations which restrain trade is the tariff, but the tarifll does foster and assist in maintaining such combinations. The tariff is under the control of the federal government the abolution of duties updb articles pro duced by trusts is easy, immediate and effective. When this special privilege is withdrawn we will then be in a better position to do what further may be necessary. Law has made trusts by conferring special privileges, tfnd those privileges can be abolished. The chief privilege and the one molt easily reached is the tariff. "Trusts have little dread of statute law which the courts will take years to interpret. They fehr the repeal of priv ilege, and 'repeal' should be the battle cry of thdse who believe in equal right* before the law." While the republican party under the control of Hftnpa, Mc^infcy & Co., fos ters and protects trusts, many men in the rgnfea are beginning to feel the op-, pression of high prices produced by the action of the trusts. Loyalty to party is one thing and paying a tax for the privilege of being loyal is 'another thing. Republican voters are growing restless and before long there will be a protest which will make itself heard in Waahineton. Doubtless tbe question of the ptotect iye tariff will be discussed this %inter in congress and many lepublicans will be found opposed to taxing the people, to enrich the trusts. It is not likely, however, that any re lief will be given the people, so long as Hanna and Mckinley remain in power, and, therefore, the democrats must work unitedly to secure the downfall of tbe great trust-protecting combine headed by William McKinley.-^Chicago ifts patch. I Through Pullman Tourlat Sleeping Service to Texas, Old Mexico and Calltorrtla. tne Out of a list of twenty-four vice-presi dents, six have expired while wearing the robes of office. They are as follows: George Clinton, vice-president during the administration of James Madison, died at Washington, April 20,1812, aged 73 years. •Shi* ria Via the Chicago Great Western RyT to Kanaas City and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the San Antonio & Arkansas Pass and Southern Pacific Railways through Dallas, San A&tonio, El l'nso and Los Aiigelea to San Francisco. The only through car line from the North west to Texas points and connecting at Spofford Junction for all points in Old Mexico. A new weekly service estab lished on November 3rd and continuing weekly thereafter. They will be in charge of an experienced official and will leave Minneapolis at 10:45 p. m. and Sk Paul at 11:20 p. m. every Friday and reach Dallas the following Sunday, San Antonio on onday, El Paso on Tuesday, Los Angeles at'noon Wednes day ana San Francisco early Thursday morning. These cars are the Standard Pullman Slewing Cars, similar to those run on all tranB continental lines and the charges for berths are about half those charged in regular Standard Pull man Sleepers. To persons who have made the trip to California via other routes, this Southern route will prove a most delightful change, and to person* contemplating a trip to Texas or Mex ican points it furnishes facilities hereto fore unoffered. Thif car may be taken at any point along the line of the Chi cago Great Western Railway between nneapolis and Kansas City. For full inf&mation and assistance* call on or address any Chicago Great Western agent, or F. H. Lord, General Pass. & Ticket Agent, 113 Adams St., Chicago. 10 tf Money to Loan on improved farms at 6. 7 and 8 per cent, interest for 5, 6 to 10 yearBtime. F. VABGI & SON. 'CHtCMCSTKR'B (HOLISM li ttED tad Mi KUllto bona. m*1»4 vtthMMv&Hta. TakeMttker.StAu* MW HatiMHiill— KtMlmifctowr. Nasal CATARRH In all Its stage* thus iboold be deadlines*. Ely's Cream Balm ele*naee,»ootbcf andbeala the diseased membrane. It corn catarrh and drives away a sold la the bead quickly. Craam Balm li placed into the nostrils, spreads over the membrane and is absorbed. Belief la Im mediate asd a ctu« follows, it Is aot drying—doe* not produce saeeshig. Large Sire, so eents at Drug gist* or by mail Trial SUe, 10 cents by mall. SLY BROTBKBS, Warren Street, New York. of *4 AA* ft/ mr Dmliu mb4 4e. M*BM 1 lam by »_ all DrugftMs. OktA Sold by & We bought an immense stock of 4: I 2^41^ I $4+ Jhe Big ishStore. Conned Goods and REPORTER IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllHIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIMIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIHIIHIIIHHIIIIIIIMMMIIIUHMIIIHMIIIHriHHmiinilll 8 to 20 Si 3 Old Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiui*iiiiiiiiiiiiitniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiitiiitiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii§ Clearing Sale of Ladies', Misses' and Children's Jackets! To close thetn out. we ofter them at twenty-five per cent, discount thus giving all wlio are interpfcted a chance to buy Ja choice, Htylish jacket ut the begining of the At Leon, and Tuskeega. 3 pound can pie plant per can 10 cents. 3 pound can California peaches per can 15c. 3 pound can California apricots per can 15c. 1 gallon can California peaches per can 40c. 1 gallon can California Apricots per can 40c. 1 gallon can pieplant per can 25c. .... 1 gallon can pitted Oregon plums per Can 40c. 3 pound can blackberries 2 cans for 25c. 3 pound can raspberries 2 cans 25c. Pint jars of Jams and Preserves 2 cans 25c. 21b lean blackberries 5c. Choice California prunes per pound 6c. Fancy California dried peaches per pound 10c. 1 pound package cleaned currants 10c. I pound package seeded raisins 10c. the season, and you can now get choice in size and style. Come in at once, if you are interested, as these choice gar ments will not last long at such bargains., Underwear. We also offer some excellent bargains in underwear for ladies' misses and children. Ladies' fleece jined union suits 50c., 75c. and $1.00. ^e simply ask you to see these garments. You will decide at once that I hey are bargains. HAMILTON & GAMMILL. LEON QUEENSWARE CO. NE YEAR AGO this moutlKwe were doing our first holiday I business and from tbe way our business has grown since that time it looks li'.-e the people are satisfied with our way of doing business. During this month we want every person coming to Leon take a look through our GHrlN/Y DEP/YRTMENT! Remember lhat we have the best and that made than ours. W China Cups and Saucers About 20 4-piece Glass JJJ sets to out at 25c. per set. jjj Si Fancy lamps $1.00 each all complete, ft THE LEON QUEENSWARE CO. OPERA HOUSE BLOCK. 'Phone 59. THE BIG CASH LOW PRICED STORE. Every farmer and citizen in Decatur county wilt the advance in the price on all these goods. competitors "with a natura.l" We do not day just we se'll gcods cheaper than anybody, but Quote the "real thing" in Iplack and white. And make the & FRUITS, NUTS, VEGETABLES, CANDIES, "OYSTERS, DRESSED POULTRY. 's Barn, Leon, Iowa, Reason than they can be bought at the usual clearing sale at the end They will be at the barn Saturday before the sale. Call and see them. Catalogue gives all particulars. Write for one to either of us. t1 S I I F. P. HEALY, Bedford, la., 1 W. R. WILSON, Arispe, la. for much U-ss iS ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft -V, 25g. per set. ft there's no lower prices ft ft ft ft ft ft Mr E -.V?1 ."M**f.ih TIME TABLE. C. B. to. SOUTH NORTH Hussenger....7:00a.m. Passenger 2:38 p. Freight 1»:*) a. tn. I Freight 8:00 p. m Passenger.. 11:57 a.m.) Freight 4 B0 p. ni Freight 12:35 p.m. Passenger. ..8:11 p. m- W. SOUTH. I NORTH. I Passenger 11:45 a. ra, I Freight 9:90 a. Freight 4:50 p. m. Passenger 8:45 p, ni No. 17 Stock express going, north, Sunday* only. Due 7:15 a m. No. 19. Freight on Wednesday only 8:05 a. m, Takes the place o( No. 13. Coupon tickets on sale to all points. Call for them and have baggage checked to desti nation, A. S. THAHP, Agent. TRUSSES, && W-M VP 65c U* T«7 *BMt Truaw nia nrtae cursed by •then, wife Makers of Paint \u an li H«« TlT« inn or" Iwk RmnM* Haiti* Tnua, IlluiUstcd above, cut thla ad. oat and Mod to uawlth OOTI STMUL HICIuul, it&M roar Htlflit. WtigM, Acs, how lon( yon have been ruptund, whether rupture lelarce or email alio atata number Instaea around the body on a Une with the rupture, eay whether rupture la on right or left aide, ..Jsj and we will send either true* to you with the under atantUns. Wit la acta parfcat It aad a«ailU tawaaa tkal ratall thrae tlmee prlee,you can return It and we will return your money. WHITE FOR FREE TRUtS CHHUWII •f traMM. Including the Haw •!•.«• Ua Tnas' UittiirM ihint uj $2.75 MM, U4 wkMi w« Mil lar M«NHSCARSa ROCDUOK Co. (WICAOQ if White lead and zinc, keep talking about strictly pure, no matter how bad the, stuff is, "it's strictly pure.": Somebody gets a chemical analysis,'usually to prove that tbe other fellow'H stuff isn't strictly pure. What do you care for strictly pur« paint if it dopsn't do what! paint is for? Paint is goods forwhat.it does, not what, it is. We sell the Devoe Ready Paint we don't know whether its strictly pure or not, and don't "care. The makers say "'If anybody has any fault to find wih it, make it good at our expense, we garantee results." We've got the paint, and we^ make that guaranty g6od. W. E. MYERS & C0. Moith Side Druggists- the benefit of our buying before [Here's where we hit our would-be K** A w- t'1 fe...