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DR. EIKER'S COMMITTEES.
Sonje expressions worth noticing (lit
tfil across tlie faces of the representa
tives diiri i»u the half hour consumed ly
Or. Bowen in the nnnouuciiig of 'his
committees yesterJny morning. It was
a motusnlous time for political aspirants
nnl any urn tint of rending of newspa
pers anil writing of letters could not
dispel the atmosphere of suspense. Dr.
Howen sung them oil' rapidly and in a
culm voice, apparently unconscious that
they were falling on anxious ears.
There was a stupendous and states
manlike attejnpt to conceal expressions
of satisfaction on the part of the men
whose names were read first on the
good committies, hut the stoical pose
did not altogether go, especially among
new member*.
.•••:'.-• Among trie hearts that beat anxiously
was the one belonging to Kiker, of De
catur, who distinguished himself several
weeks ago by the pathetic query,
"VVheie am I at?" Dr. Eiber was sure
-he would be made chairman of not less
than three good committees, lie had
every reason to believe that, for was he
not one of the first lieutenants of the
Cummins camp, and were not the
leaders of the opposition to be well
cared for? lie was going to show the
honorable members of the house of
representatives though that committee
chairmanships meant nothing to Eiker
of Decatur, he was used to bigger
things than that eyery day in the week.
Had he not once had all the politica
managers of Iowa chasing the country
after him? So because be was Eiker of
Decatur and not somebody that wanted
lobe great instead of'being that way
already, he took out his pen and ink
and began his weekly letter home as
soon as Dr. Bowen tose to make the
Committee appointments. Ways and
il^eans ^passed without him, judiciary
nrtliy and still no developments in
'*M the Eiker situation at the close of
appropriations his fair name had not
resounded through the house chamber,
but over in the north-west corner he
continued the treatise he was engaged
'upon, stopping only for an occasional
phew at bis pen. j\fter railroads, mun
icipal corporations, ^anks and almost
everything else had gone and it
seemed a feure thing that the gentle
man from Decatur would not be too
busy to ei'joy the city during the
session, the speaker readied the com
mittee on public health and then the
little doctor sat up. This was his day
at last, so he looked meditatively at
the chandelier while he went on record
as the eleventh man on the committee
to look\after the good health of the
public. It was a great plum but he
»ok it gracefully, for he had a sus
picion there was more to come. And
sure enough, Representative Eiker
from Decatur received tenth place on
fjqunty ftnd township organisations,
ninth on domestic manufactures, eleven
th on the State Universary, seventh on
pardons, tenth on woman's suflrage,
here he rubbed his head and for the
first time looked iworried, and sixth on
the hospital tor the insane-he remarked
afterwards he was sure no inference bad
been intended by the speaker regard
ing the last,
"No I cannot accept your invitation
to dinner," remarked Representative
Kiker as he walked proudly down the
g|$at gtaipyay of tiie capiiol, "my
friend Bowen has so arranged it that
I shall be entirely too busy to engage
in any social affairs whatsoever. Sorry,
but business is business, especially with
us statesmen, don't- you know?"—Des
Moines News.
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HIGH PRICES AND PROSPERITY.
•"•'.-• From the Loa Angeles Herald: For
the sake of consistency, not to mention
responsibility to the cause of truth, the
administration organs ought to lay
bare the fact that as a result of ex
pessiye duties nails,' iron, steel and
many other articles have advanced in
••'-prices from 100 to 200 per cent. If tbey
would do this they would not be amen
able to the charge of being more parti
sun than patriotic. To argue that these
advances are proofs of prosperity will
doubtless be conyincing to the bene
*7Mlciar!es, but comsumera will hardly be
a»le to understand it.
METHODS OF THE 6LASS TRUST.
From the Philadelphia Ledger: ^n
-"•flx'afpple pf thp ppetUodji of t^sts Is.
ajjorded by the action of the American
^,7,Window (J) lass Company, in scaling
dowp its prices of all window glass
one-third as a declaration of war
ggainst independent producers, wliich
jt proposes to drive ot^ of bigness.
Vhen the Bipaller manufacturers have
Lteen driven to the wall and forced out
of business or compelled to accept the
ter(B8 of the trust prices will doubtless
be restored and- made as steep a^ "the
traffic wilfbear." pgj
AbsoluteivPure
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
The voice that uttered the following
words is not that of a calamity howler
or a crank it is the voice of the
Springfield (Mass Republican, a true
blue, but one that will, not truckle:
"The country has been fmssing through
a period of rare and dizzy intoxica
tion—drunk with 'gold and glory,'
drunk with the pride of military
achievement and conscienceless ag
gression, drunk with false expectations
as to the limitless possibilities of trade
which conquest in the far east was
to open up to the nation—and so
rushing along through a veritable
saturnalia of corporate combination,
recapitalization and wil-4 and reckless
inflation to anticipate a boundless
prosperity,, or to reap a harvest of
dollars from the pockets of the people
in exchange for the wind-blown paper
of the trusts."
Democratic County Chairman \V. K.
Currie announces that, the central m
mitlee of Ringgold county is arranging
for a big political banquet at Mt. Ayr
late in March or early in April, not far
from the date of Thomas Jefferson's
birthday. From 150 to 20) represent
ative Democrats of the eighth district
are expected to be present at the ban
quet, while the speakers will be of
state-wide and perhaps national rep
utation. The afluir is planned as an
opening gun for the presidential cam
paign. v^,.o
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: "Natur
ally the Sultan of Sulu .must be interest
ed in the proceedings in the Roberts
case. The elimination of Roberts from
congress must naturally suggest to the
Sultan an abrogation of the bargain
which was made with him by the presi
dent of the United States."
Not a bit of it Mr. Enquirer! Belong
ing to the republican party has always
sanctified the polygamists elected from
and appointed in Utah and imperialism
sanctities polygamy in the Philippines.
Ft. Madison Democrat.
The Gear gang got in its work on Dr.
Kiker when it came to making the com
mittee appointments. He did not re
ceive a single chairmanship and was
pamed as eleventh member of the com
mittee on public health, tenth place on
county and township organization,
ninth on domestic manufactures,
eleventh on state university, seventh
on pardons, tenth on woman's suffrage
and sixth on the hospital for the insane.
How can a man who knows nothing
but the manipulation of money under
stand the simplest problems of human
ity?
Babies and children need
proper food, rarely ever medi
cine. If they do not thrive
on their food something is
wrong.,
vThey
NOMMKIHAPOWAER oo„ HEW VORK.
need a little
help td get their digestive
machinery working properly.
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COD LIVER OIL
W/THHYPOPHOSPMTES or LIME 4 SODA
will generally correct this
difficulty
If you will put from one
fourth to half a teaspoonful
in baby's bottle three or four
times a day you will soon see
a marked improvement For
larger children, from1 half to
a teaspoonful, accb^Kng to
age, dissolved in theft Milk,
if you so desire, will very,
soon show its great nourish
ing power. If the mother's
milk does noli newish
baby, she needs the emul
sion. It will show an effect
at once both jipon mother
and childj-
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fidOTT & BOWtiE, Chemlits, New Virtu
Powder
CARTER HARRISON'S VIEWS.
The Democracy of the nation is for
tunate in that the big -battle before us
does not depend upon mere partisan
ship for success. 1 venture to say that
in the coming contest 'patriotic inspira
tion will prove a more effectual spur to
action than in any fight in which our
party has b« en engaged for many years.
Almost every day reveals a development
in the management of the aflairs of the
nation that is a challenge to the patri
otic.instincU of the people. Daily is
made some new assault on the tradi
tions- illumining the pathway of our
couutry's progress and glory. To em
phasize the true character of these de
velopments and their inevitable conse
quences unless speedily checked—to en
lighten the great mass of the people and
to make plain the dangers of the course
in which we are drifting is the impera
tive duty of the hour for those in charge
of the Democratic organization. For net
true American can doubt, no honest
American uninfluenced by participat
Make plain the full significance of the
present tendency toward a re-establish
ment of the theory proclaiming the "di
vine right of kings" slightly dinging
as it may be in the policy of imperialism
and the growth of a moneyed aristoc
racy.
Let the true story of the trusts be
told and the appalling consequences
sure to follow their establishment be
adequately pictured. Let the hypoc
risy that calls a patriot in Cuba a rebel
in the Philippines be fully exposed and
if this is done he is but a poor soldier of
the Democratic army, indeed, who
would haye any doubt as to the result
of the fight iu 1890.
To entertain misgivings of the result
would be to question the honesty and
the patriotism ot the average Ameri
can.
Party fealty alone would be sufficient
ammunition ou which to rely for vic
tory. When partisanship is re enforced
by patriotism there is a combination of
elements that cannotfail to prove a/inc
ible. The dissemination of factt^ can
not be had without thorough organiza
tion, and for this our hope mainly lies
in the young men of the nation who as
suredly will respond to the trumpet
blast of duty.
The present Bituation calls not only
for the wisdom of experience, but eveu
more for the ardor of youth effectu
ally to grapple with the truBts and
the corruption prevailing irf high as
well as low places.
Our young wen are the hope and the
future bulwark of' the republic they
should regard service in politics as
the highest proof of their patriotism.
Let them work in the primary districts
and in the wards, organizing from the
bottom up and remembering that ward
politics form the foundation upon
which rests the entire structure of
the national government, and that
ward politics are ignoble only in so far
as those who labor in that field of ac
tivity degrade them. It certainly lies
in the power of the young Democracy
of the nation to carry forward the cru
sade for,purity in politics until corrup
tion shall have been driven from high
places and honesty shall prevail in
every department of the municipal,
state and national government. The
giant strength of the young Democracy
will be heeded for the overturning of
the great trusts which could not exist
but for the corrupt practices at work
to save them from the people's anger.
They feed and foster the corruption
upon which they fatten, without which
they cannot live and the people,
realizing that unless the vast and
increasing po^er of wealth is curbed
the nation w\ll bp an ttyo downward
g^ade, are crying for relief.
The young Deraocraoy should to
impiessed with the
fact
LEON. IOWA. THURSDAY. .JANUARY 25.1900.
02
in the Republican crusade against the
nation's real interests would wish to
doubt that all needed to bring success
to our standard the coming fall is to
spread the facts before the people. To
a large extent the press is in the hands
of, or is controlled by the same money
ed machine that directs the Republican
party's policy. Constant iteration iu
the press of falsehoods, constant sup
pression of facts, constant and uncea*
in^c repetition of cainpai/u lies and
slanders cannot fail of a dangerous ef
fect unless oil jet by prompt and elabo
rate didiuM ot' vur ice .1 »jr.itic
literature.
l^et the whole truth be told about the
manipulation of the republican party by
the money kings, exposing to full view
the incidental corruption and general
rascality.
that a republic's
flrst need is purity of the ballot. ibi
second need the incorruptibility
of
entrusted by it with the reins
thoM
gotrv
emment. The trusts and monopolies
conscienceless as tbey are corrupt the
one fnd debaqch the other. They are
hot beds breeding amass of corruption
which is to-day the greatest. d»ogsr
threatening tbe pertnaopnoy efaur tree
institutions. Herein is daniftr, in-
deed that cannot be overthrown unless
the young manhood of the country
enthusiastically aids in the eflort to
stamp it out. ,,
My advice is "Organizfe and spread
the light." CABTKR H. HARRISON.
Let this be another answer to the
timorous. When Mayor Harrison of
Chicago was asked the other day
whether 16 to 1 would be in the next
Democratic platform, he replied:
"The Democratic party is not in the
bunco business. When the Republicans
talk about bimetallism they mean 'the
gold standard.' When the Democrats
say bimetallism, they mean silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1. There is no other
ratio and the two phrases are identiciil.
The silver question will be one of the
issues of the coming campaigm—not the
leading.one.' It will be talked about
and argued to some extent, but other
issues will be in the forefront. It is
nonsensical to about the Demo
cratic party forsaking silver or attempt
ing to regulate it because a change of
mind has undergone."
There are some who fancy that the
father of lies has been chained up tor a
thousand years, and, of course, tbey are
easily deceived in excepting everything
as gospel truth. But there are many
who think a lie well stuck to is as good
as the truth, and it is those against
whom it is well to be on gaurd. When,
therefore, it is reiterated that this, that
or the other issue will be abandoned by
the Democratic party, let it be under
stood that the Democratic party cannot
abandon issues of vital importance to
the American people. Silver is one of
them. The great party of the people
has never yet betrayed its principles,
and in the present condition of affairs
it insists upon all of them. It has no
McKinleyB blowihg hot and cold plead
ing for Bilver and them strangling it
denouncing a contraction of the circu
lating medium, and then contracting it
to the detriment of the nation piously
protesting against "criminal aggres
sion," and then practicing it to the
extent of wading in blood. It stands
for no hypocrisy and no double dealing.
The Democratic party is here meant, not
a few of its members. One swallow does
not make a summer, nor did one udas
destroy Christianity. •,
Attorney-General Q||jpP'has refiiaod
to employ, the la a case
against A combination of ea|tern raiW
roads. The only effective employment
of the anti-t?u?t law thus far recorded
has been against labor unions. It is
this law which Gen. Grosvenor assures
tbe people.demonstrates the sincerity
of the antagonism of the Republican
party to the trusts.
Children love to take Morley's Little
Liver Pills for Bilious People, because
they are small, look and taste like
candy and do not gripe nor sicken them.
One a dose. Sold only by L. Van Wer
den.
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We bought an immense stock of
21b can blackberries 5c.
The Big
C^ishStper,
Choice California prunes per pound 6c.
Fancy California dried peaches per pound 10c,
1 pound package^ cleaned currants 10c.
1 pound package seeded raisins 10c.
JJ A full an^ctf&vpiete lin
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 Tarns and Preserves 2 cans 25c.
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highest. Do not forget that we
want your produce.
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'Phone 59. Opera House Block.
THE BIG CASH LOW PRICED STORE
Every farmer and citizen in Decatur county will get the benefit of our buying before
"the advance in the price on all these goods. Here's where we hit our would-be
competitors "with a natural." We do not say that we sell gcods cheaper
than anybody, but Quote the "real thing" in black and white. And make the
OLLOWING AWflY DOWN PRICES
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REPORTER SERIES VOL. XXV. NO. 22
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jj The ice man, the coal man, the clothing
2? .$? man, the dry goods man and many
others have made all kinds of com
W plaint about the weather, but there
95 is one kind of a thaw that you never
2J will never hear any kind of com
plaint from.
3J Where is it? ,,,,T
at the
Leon
SIt is a thaw on prices of closing out the
surplus stock.
1^12 piece decorated
(ft Chamber Set, worth
4ft $7.50 to be sold at-
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/fi and many other bargains too n^ater
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TIME TABLE.
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V' SOUTH I NORTH
Passenger....7:00a.m. Passenger).,.. 8:38 p. m.
Freight Preight .. 3:00 p. m.
Passenger..
11:57 a. Freight 4jfi0p. m.
Freight 12:35 p.m. Passenger....Sfill p,
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Passenger 11:46a.m. I Freight 9:£Ma.m
Freight 4:60 p. m. 1 Passenger 2:45 p.
No. 17 Stock express goingj north, Sundays
only. Due 7:15 a m.
No. 19. Freight on .Wednesday only 8:05a.
m, Takes the place of No. 18.
Coupon tickets on sale to all points. Call
ror them and have baggage checked to destl
natlon. A. S. THAHP. Agent.
Makers of
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talking about strictly pore,
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matter how bad the
.stuff is, "it's strictly pure."
Somebody gets a chemical
analysis, usually to prove
that the other fellow's stuff
isn't strictly pure. What
do you care for strictly pure
paint if it doesn't do what
paint is for? Paint is gaqd
for whatjt. does, not what\
seY. the
Ready Piint
we don't kno»v whether its
strictly pure or not, and
don't rare. The makers
say "'If anvbody has any
fault to find will it, make
it good at our expense, we
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gurantee results." We've
'.. got the paint, and we'll
make that guaranty good.
"W. E. MYERS & CO.
NorthSlde Druggists.
EXECUTOli'S NOTICE.
Estate ot Wm. Knight, deceased. .r.
Notice Is hereby given to all persons Inter
psted. Ihaton the lAth day of January. A. D.
1900, the undersigned was appointed by the
clerk of the district court ot Decatur county
Iowa, executor of the estate of Wm.
Knight deceased, late of said couniy. All
persons indebted to said estate will make pay
ment to the undersigned, and those having
claims against the Bame will present them
legally authenticated to said court for allow
anee.
Dated Jan. 15,
lSon.
2l-3r MINERVA E KNIGHT, Executrix!'
WANTED!
tellable man for Manager of
wish to
pv •f"Mty. Mowrrrpu....^
enwg^ticAober man. Kind
ly men Hon pei' v#h»n
writing.
A. T. MORRIS, Cincinnati, O.
Illustrated catalogue4c.postage
A branch office oi "Blair" tbe Des
Moines florist, has been established at
THE REPORTER office. Parties desiring
cut flowers can leave their order at this
office and the flowers will be promptly
furnished. Can quote prices on any cut
flowers, and guarantee flowers fresh.
Seasoned native lumber, posts and
wood for sale. C. E. GARDNER.
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