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THE LEON REPORTER.
I O. E. HULL, Publisher. ®$
IOWA
Subscription Rates:
Joe year ..fl.60
Six months 75
Three months .-. 40
ffntered a» second class matter atlht
Leon ,/otoa ,PostoJ)Ice.
GEAR WINS ogr.
The bitter contest which lias beenT&f!
ing for the past two months in the re
publican party of Iowa over the selec
tion of a IJ. S. Sanator was brought to
close Saturday.night when the repub
lican caucus for speaker was held at Des
Moines. The fight between Gear and
Cummins for senator also involved the
selection of speaker of the house, the
Gear candidate being D. II. Bowen, ol
Allamakee, and the Cummins candidate
W. L. Katon, of Mitchell,.
In the caucus the Gear men forced the
members to an open ballot, so that they
could see whether the votes they had
bargained for were delivered. It was
never done before, and the members al
ways hail the privilege of a secret ballot.
But this time Gear's managers could
take no chants for Cummins was crowd
ing him too close.
The result of the ballot gave Bowen 43
and Eaton 3S votes, and this practically
decided the senatorial contest.
Dr. Eiker, of Decatur county, remain
ed true to his colors and stood bravely
against the Leon gang, casting his vote
for Katon, the Cummins candidate, and
his cburse is endorsed by the better, ele
ment of the republican party oi this
county. jv
Senator Gear was re-elected without
opposition at the joint caucus Monday
nignt, Mr. Cummins withdrawing from
the contest.
WHO WAS HE?
One of Dr. Eiker's constituents is
very angry because that gentleman vot
ed for Eaton for speaker. This morning
he called upon speaker Bowen and asked
permission to present a petition from
2,175 of the '2,200 republicans in Decatui
county requests the speaker to give Dr.
^-sliiker a nineteenth place on the coin-
AinKtieer
on revolutioiiiry claims.—Dfes
Moines Daily News.
TWO THINGS CERTAIN.
Springfield (Mo.) leader-Democrat:
The St. Louis Star wants toknow"What
will congress do"? Well, the Lord only
knows. Since it is Republican, it may
be assumed, however, that it will loot
the treasury and lay the foundation for
the administration party to get everlast
ingly walloped in the next campaign.
Some of the local republican bosses
'who made an agreement to deliver Dr.
Eiker's vote to Gear made a contract
which they could not fulfill.
The Gear bosses did not give up their
etlort to force Dr. Kiker to support the
gang's candidate nntil the last minute
but they found he was a man whom
they could not force.
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Howard Tedford, of the Mt. Ayr
Record was elected state binder by &£
«lamation having no opposition,
one of the fatest plums in the
paying,in the neighborhood of $17,000
a year and Howard ia-to be congratnla
tad on his good fortune.
The Journal maintained a discreet
silence last week on the senatorial
question. It did not even attempt an
explanation of the telegram it sent
to the Des Moines News announcing
that Dr. Eiker had agreed finally to
support Gear and, which Dr. Eiker
Vroinply branded as a machine lie.
It placed the
vjnble position.
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"A few years ago the editor of THE
RKI'OBTKK sutlered a malignant attack of
postpfiice.Qn the brain, Not half a do/,
en patrons Of the. office cfauld bd found
who would sig^'his petition and it is
needless to say bis appointment, was
not made."—Leon Journal.
Every patron of the Leon postoAice
A Smiled when they read the above in last
week's Journal. The editor of THE RE
PORTER was not a candidate for the
appointment of Leon, and no patron of
the office was ever asked to sign his pe
tition for the reason that he never had
*-\'a petition and had signed the petition
of another party for the appointment.
We will pay the I.eon Journal flOO
"apiece for the names of any reputable
patrons of the Leon postoffice who ever
)0qvn a petition asking for our appoint
ment as postmaster and the same
^amount for the names'of ahy who sign
such a petition, upon condition that
/"the Journal will acknowledge in its edi
torial columns that it has wilfully lied
piin its assertion, if it fails to produce any
"^parties who either signed or were asked
I to sign such petition In order to se
•LV-cure the 100 for each nanie. it must be
[^Bupported: by-affidavit, for the Journa
^••editor's word does not count for much
pn this county,as was vied need last week
wben Cr Kikerbranded the telegram
sent byihe 3ournal to the Des Moines
News as entirely unarithorized antf.. ex
ji»cl^oo|itriiiy/tp,what he hsjd. sal
Will the Journal editor and the I .eon
?jng support Dr. Eiker for are election?
The Des Moines LeaJer says:
If the Des Moines hotels should col
lapse with their present occupants,
what scramble would follow for the
vacant postmasterships.
WOULD JACKSON HAVE ALLOWED THIS?
The Buffalo Evening Times wants to
know: "IfAndrew Jackson were presi
dent doe? anybody suppose he would
be hobnobbing with money kings like
liockefellar, Morgan and llavemeyer,
and to name as depository for receipts
of the internal revenue department a
bank which is the fiscal agent of the
most powerful of all the trusts, the
Standard Oil?
"Would Old Hickory have permitted
this?
"No, by the Eternal!"
COINCIDENCES.
Coincidences are not necessarily
proofs, but they serve to iudicate
conditions and thus take ou the nature
of a demonstration.
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It was a peculiar coincidence that the
very day the gold bill was passed in the
house there was a panic on Wall Street
and'stock values shrunk over $100,000
000.
It was a coincidence that when the
house was engaged in contracting the
currency the Produce Exchange Stock
Company of New York failed with lia
bilities of $12,000,000 because there was
a scarcity of money.
Suppose a democratic currency bill
bad been met with such a coincidence,
what would the republican press have
said?
But this happened to be a republican
financial measure and the significant
coincidence was i^red^Jlif ^rnip
istration press.
But, in all reason, what promise of
relief for contracted currency conditions
was given by the house bill? None at
all, of course indeed, it was a menace
and it helped make a panic.
What hope for the uture is there ia
this bill? None at all, for the condition
of attraction is to be made permanent
and to a greatly increased degree.
Not all the aid which the United
States treasury stands ready to give the
stock gamblers will be able to
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ESTABLISHED 1854. LEON. IOWA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 11.1900.
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Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
RO^AL BAKIMQ POWOOt 00., NEW YORK.
counteract
the evils of contraction.
Business men who wilf be forced to
keep their enterprises afloat with the
currency condensed to half its usual
proportions will realizefully the beauties
of this republican. measure. The- gold
standard is a beautiful thing for the
men who own the gold, but is.not so
lovely for the masses who will have to
pay two prices to get it?
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ASH YOUR
WCTOft!
Ask your physician this ques
tion, What is the one (great
remedy for consumption?"
He will answer, "Cod-liver
oil." Nine out of ten will
answer the same way.
Yet when persons have
consumption they loathe all
fatty foods, yet fat is neces
sary for thehr^recoVery and
they cannot take plain cod*
liver oil. The plain oil dis
turbs the stomach and takes
away the appetite. The dis
agreeable fishy odor ahd
taste make it almost unen
durable. What.istobedone?
This question was ans
wered when we first made
Msoorr9
EMULSION
of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypo
phosphites. Although that
was nearly twenty-five yean
ago, yet it stands done to
day the one great remedy
for all affections of the throat
and lungs.
The bMta&uid odor luve been
taken away, the oil itself has been
partly digested, and the most sen
sitive stomach objects to It nutty.
Not one in ten cm take and dfecst
the plain oH. Nine out of ten em
take SCOTTS EMULSION and*,
gest tt. Thafs why aro io
njany cases of early comw
fven in advmnd cases it
comfort and greitly prolongs
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POWDER
The postmasters, federal office holder*
and railroad attorneys who have been
running over tne county in Gear's inter
est can now attend to the business for
which thev draw salaries.
Ed. II. Schenck, of Leon, was selected
as file clerk of the senate, receiving 21
votes to 12 for his opponent W. A. Van
Houten. The Leon candidate was en
dorsed by the Gear element and had
an easy victory.
The entire poperty holdings of the
UniteifrStates are estmated at $60,000,
000,000, or about $750 per capita. Of
this sixty billions, 5,947 persons, out of
seventy-live million^, own one-fifth the
entire amount. 811!
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When Andrew Jackson smashed the
bank of the United States all the news
papers of the then great cities turned
on him and declared that his defeat was
certain. In the next election, out of
288 electoral votes Jackson received
219, and his nearest competitor, Clay,
rolled up the impressive total of 49.
Mr. McKinley has not been smashing
banks, but feeding them.,
History can be challenged to show
one instance of a colony in tl|% tropics
which has been a source of profit to an
Anglo Saxon people. The commercial
world to-day afiords uncounted illus
trations of the falsity of the theory
that trade foHows the flag. The people
or the party deserting the moral prin
ciple that governments should not be
imposed upon by any people against
their will have only disapointment in
store for tbemselyes if they expect pe
cuniary benefit to result.
Internal revenue collectors have re
ceived from the commissioner of in
ternal revenue at Washington a very
important ruling on the law of cancel
latiott of documentary Btatifps ot at
ficials or other persons other than the
oneB
using the stamps and documents.
The ruling is to the eflect that all
persons who affix a stamp to a docu
ment must cancel it as the law pre
scribes and that cancellation by other
than that person is illegal and pun
ishable according to the laws relating
to the matter.
The New York World calls attention
to the fact that the comptroller of the
currency for the last three administra
tions has stepped directly from the
treasury building into the presidency
jf a national bank, It 4nay be mere
coincidence, but wben one bears in
mind the fact that the business of the
comptroller of the curreney is to sup
ervise the methods of national banks,
and that at any time he holds the
power to greatly, aid or totaHj^ destroy
any bank which has adopted irregular
methods-, the' ..^Incidence seems at
least rather suggestive.
boieb* suaaeSTioN.^,
Former governor Stoles, of IOwa, ha
given his opinion to the New York
World regarding what should be the
democratic issues for the campaign of
1900.
At a time when this subject is much
discussed, the views of Boies are worth
consideration.
His suggestions are briefly, as follows:
"The issues which should be pushed to
the front in 1900 are
"1. Undying opposition to a colonial
system that requires for its maintenance
the exercise in any degree of the mili
tary power of the government.
"2. An unqualified pledge that the fu
ture governmenf of the Philippine la
lands shall upon honorable conditions
be left exclusively to the people of those
islands, uninfluenced by the exercise to
any extent of the military power of this
government.
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"3. The inviolate k^lping of the pledge
of the nation that Cuba shall be free.
"4. Opposition to a great standing
army.
"5. Ceaseless antagonism of trusts in
whatever form organized and the imme
diate removal of all protective tarifls
from goods the manufacture or sale of
which is now or may be controlled by
trusts, however organized.
"0. A broad-declaration that the issue
of the currendy ofihe country, both coin
and paper, is. rightfully a function of
government alone the volume of which
should be controlled by the congress of
the nation, instead of by private cor
porations organized for indiyidual gain,
"7. An unqualified declaration in fa
vor of the continued coinage on govern
ment account of both of the money met
als at the existing ratio, to the full limit
required by the business interests of the
country, such limit to be determined by
congress, and the issue of a national
paper currency in exchange for bullion
of each of the money ipetais at market
value, the same to be redeemable on de
mand in bullion Q' either metal at the
government's option at like value, and
immediately re-iMued in payment for
other bullion to supply* the place of that
withdrawn from the treasury.^"
"8. A demand that all government
currency, coin and paper alike, shall be
unlimited legal tender.
"9. Continued opposition to all pro-
tarifij.
i^BPQsition
been hoping
war taxes
report of
revenue,
to the
Those people who have
for an earlv reduction of
will find little com for tin the
the commissioner of internal
In. that cffieial's annual'report
secretary of the treasury, he gives the
receipts rfor the year aB $273,484,573,
winch is an increase over the previous
year of $102,617,000. Notwithstanding
this enormous increase Commissioner
Wilson urges the amendment of the
revenue law so as to require the
stamping of receipts for individual
deposits in banks. A citizen cannot
even be allowed to .draw his money
itutof the bank^fot'-his own use with
out paying tribute to the war against
the Philippines. SCill the telegraph
companies and the express companies,
which havederived large benefits from
the war, are exetnpted from the bur
dens which are placed on the, individ
ual citizen. •.
One of the most terrible commentaries
upon the horrors of campaigning in the
Philippines is the following telegram
from. Sin Francisco: "The following
soldiers, declared to be insane, have
been sent to Washington, D. C. from the
Presidio military reservation: Sergeant
Tbomiu Fi Collins, Company O, Sixth
infantry Sergeant Owen H. Wissmaq
hospital corps Privates Thos. F. Barry,
hospital corps Anton Barber, Company
E, Fourth infantry Michael Gallagher,
Company 0 Twenty third infantry Geo.
M, Barton, Troop C, Fourth cavalry
WiUer A. O'Neil, Battery F, Sixth ar
tillery I^ouis Ford, Company L, Fourth
infantry Emerick Mulner, Company B,
Sixth infantry Dayid E. Young, Com
panv A, Seventeenth infantry Frank
Thayer, Company /, Seventeenth in
fantry George W. Decker Company E,
Eighteenth infantry! Josfeph Hoffman,
Company E, Twenty-second infantry
George J. Nixon, Company I, Twelfth
infantry. Nearly all of these men lost
their minds as a result of ..campaigning
ia the Philippine^r 'tetegrana ia
l\ot fictiou it is fa$t. {t may be
tefi?«»^the conritrjr know* the Mrutb
'wtacerining'tte Philippine bualiKw^ •&s'-
bo subsidies of every
name anife character. fes
11. The
extension
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i^tead of«fntrac­
tion of our civil service system."
Most of these suggestions will meet
with approval on the part of democrats
in general and the only paragraph which
will excitevopposition is the seventh,
which is open to discussioj^i,.
On tnilitarism, trusts, imperialism, the
tariff, legal tender and subsidy, former
Governor Boies is eminently sound in
his democracy.
The can be ho doubt that democrats
will fight the opposition along the lines
90 indicated by him.
We bought an immense stock of
The Big
Cash Stpr^.
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'PHONE 59. OPERA HOUSE BLOCK
LEON QUEENSWARE CO.
We wish all a happy.
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NewYear!
We want to thank the people of Leon
jA and Decatur county for the business
jm that they helped us do during the 7
year of 1899, and hope by honora
bledealing and our low prices, that W
we will see you at our store during w.
the year 1900. All this month we
will make special prices on all fancy Jg
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Our Grocery Slock is Complete
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All of our fi .00 Fancy Lamps,this week 75c
Salid Bowls worth 85c this week 65c
Best can corn 2 canR .....15c
Green Gage Plums, fine, per can.... 15c
A good canned Peach per can 15c
10 bars Something Good Soap 25c
2 packages Boston Rolled Oats 15c
A good Broom. 15c
Pftckagt Rairtins, all new per package 10c
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3 pound can pie plant per can 10 cents.
3 pound can California peahes 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 25cJ
21b can 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.
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THE BIG CASH LOW PRICED STORE,
S Every farmer and citizeriln Decatur county will get the benefit of our buying before S
the advance in the price on all these goods. Here's where we hit our would-be S
competitors "with a natural." We do not say that we sell goods cheaper 9
than anybody, but Quote the "real thing" in black and white. And make the
FO AWAT DOWN PRICES
FRUITS, NUTS, VEGETABLES, CANDISE, OYSTERS, DRESSED POULTRY
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TIME TABLE
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SOUTH I NORTH st
Passenger....7:00a.m. Passenyor 2 38 p. m.
Freight tw:«l a. ra. I Freight 3:UU p. afp
Passenger., 11:5T a.m Freight 4 00p. itfji
If relght :.13:S5p. m. Pussengor. ..8:11 m.
K. & W.
SOUTH. I NORTH.
Passenger 11:«a.m. Freight »:20 sua'
Freight 4:50 p. m. Passenger 3:45 p,
No. 17 Stock express going north. Sundays
only. Oue7:lSa. m.
No. 10. Freight On Wednesday only 8 OS
a.
m, Takes the place ot No. 13.
Coupon Uokets on sale to air points. Catl
for them ahd have baggage checked to destl^/ys A
nation.
A.^BVTHJCHP.
Makers of
Paint
White lead a!
..talking about!
no matter
stuff is, "it's
Agfiit
Somebody
analysis, usu1
that"thi&pth
isn't strict
-do you care
paint if it
^paint is for? PaTn
for what it does, not
^it is. We sell the
Devoe Ready Paint
lv
we don't know whether its "5
srrictly pure or not, an|
don't care. The niakers
say "'If anybody has any
fault to find wih it, mak«
it good at our expense, we
garantee results." We've
got the paint, and we'll
make that guaranty good.,-a
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NoithSlde Druggists.
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AOMINISTKATOK'S NOTICE.
Estate of J. (1. Bailey, decoastd
Notice 1s hereby givon to all" persons Inter"
ested. that on the 30th day of December, A. I.
1899. the undersigned was appointed by the'
clerk of the district court, of Decatur ountv.
Iowa, admlnlstrafevr of the estate of-J. H-.
Bailey deceased.&Jtte of said county. All
persons indebteiine said estate will make
payment to the unnfsslgned. and those having
claims against the same will present tliem
legally authenticated, to said court for alio'
ance.
Administrators
NOTICE—PKdBWP OF WiVI
of Iowa, UieogPTtur p-\unty, nt.
ifcouTi-'i. iifyacation.
fifn it may concern
ireby gl^lp^iat an instrument
ctft oTW"""1 -t:
this day produa
understtrned and that I EWv
loth day of January, 1900, as the dny for
ing proof in relation thereto.
Witness my official signature with the seal
of said Court hereto affixed, this 26th day of
December.,1899.
J. O.
STOCKTON'. Clerk.
WANTED!
Reliable nYa7t*«42^^^J£gS
branch office I wish Wo
pen in
this Vicinity.- Good 0'pen.mg for
an energetic sober inau. Kind
ly mention this paper when
writing.
A. T. MORRIS, Cincinnati, O
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