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THE LEON REPORTER.
O. E. HULL, Publisher.
LEON,
IOWA
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One year
Six months 75
Three months 40
flittered aa second clati mutter at Ike
LeonJova,Po»tofflce.
The next democratic national con
vention will be held at Kansas City on
.Julj 4tb.
WANTED—A candidate for Vice-Presi
dent on the Republican ticket. Banker
a*, or Trust magnate preferred.
The McKinley organs are working
over time trying to reconcile the abso
lute gold standard withitheir 1890 plat
form.
"1 am for the Republic and against
the Empire," says DeArmond of Mis
souri—and that should be the campaign
rallying cry of every faithful and con
sistent American.—St. Louis Republic.
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COMPATIBLES.
"In God we trust."—Dollar motto.
"20 per cent, increase on price of
Bibles."—Bible trust.
"Let us prey."—Chorus of trusts.
Representative Eiker's bill to limit
the wages of a person exempt from
garnishment to
$8
per week, was killed
by the house last Friday after having
been increased to $10 per week in the
Committee room. Only five votes were
cast in favor of the bill.'^ vt,-
Once more, lest you forget, we call at
tention to the fact that the McKinley
administration is taking $2 from your
pocket in the way of taxes, where form
erly Uncle Sam took but $1. Govern
ment expenditures have doubled since
McKinley's adyent.—Helena. Mont.,
Independent.
ONLY TWENTY EIGHT YEARS MO.
'The national government should
se^k to maintain honorable-peace with
I natiqns, protecting its citizens
iverywherfe and sympathizing with all
people *ho strive for greater liberty
—Republican national platform of 1872.
A Washington dispatch says:
"Many public men. in view of the
Paurcefote-Hay treaty end this new
develop ment, believe that the constant
reiteration of the charge that a secret
alliance exists between the Uuited
States and Great Britain has Isolid
foundation. They assert it is obvious
that the state department removed Mr.
Macrum to prevent bis complaint from
being that of a United States govern
ment official."
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HEPBURN'S ANTI CANAL CAMPAIGN.
W. P. Hepburn represents in Congrets
e'even couniies in Southern Iowa. The
district is peopled mainly with farmers.
The queBlii'iis therefore suggest them
selves: Do these farmers oppose the
early completion of the Nicaragua
canal? Do they countenance their rep
resentative's tactics to protect the in
terests of the transconijnental railways?
The Iowa farmers know something of
the difficulties of securing legislation to
regulate railways. They have felt the
inconvenience of high freight rates. Do
they stand, In the. present conflict be
tween supporters of the Nicaragua canal
on the one side and the friends of the
transcontinental railways on the other,
with the canal or with the railways?
If they are friendly to the canal, these
farmers are misrepresented by Mr. Hep
burn. He has prepared a canal bill in
plain violation of the provisions of the
G'layton-Bulwer treaty, and he is urging
its passage in defiance of the fact that,
under his bill, no canal can be con
structed as matters now stand. While
he is urging the passage of his bill,
moreover, he is opposing the ratifica
tion of any new treaty to supersede the
Clay ton-Bui wer treaty and open the way
for canal work. The logic of his efforts
is the defeat of all measures for a Nica
ragua canal under government control.
To be Consistent, Mr. Hepburn should
urge the passage of bis cana^ and
at the same time insist that the Hay.
Pauncefote treaty be amended so as to
eliminate all reference to the Suez canal
and European concert so as to provide
that England shall not fortify points in
Central America so as to limit the
treaty to the relations of the United
ytate?.«nd England. Then he should be
as zealous for the ratification of the
treaty thus amended, as he pretends to
be for the passage of the House canal
bill. Then his constituents in the
Eighth Congressional district of Iowa
might believe that be is honest in his
attempts to promote the early comple
J^'lRn of the canal.
But as long as Mr. Hepburn urges
t«?vthe passage of a bill in conflict with the
-^C'ayton-Bulwer treaty, and at the same
time opposes the ratification of a new
treaty to supersede the old one, bis
^constituents in Iowa cannot believe
that he is in earnest any more than
can the rest of the people of the United
fitatei.—Chicago Tnter-Ocean (Rep.)
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THE 60EBEL LAW.
Since the tragic death of Governor
Goebel numerous inquiries concerning
the provision of the election statute
which bears his name have been ad
dressed to the Enquirer. In some in
stances the inquiries have been couched
in language which would apparently in
dicate an anticipation that something in
the Goebel law might be found to point
to the inspiration for the momtrous and
cowardly crime 'which cut
It is necessary to preface the review,
however, with the explanation that the
denunciation of the Gdebel law was but
a feature of a campaign of desperate
misrepresentation and mendacity, fi
nanced and engineered by corporations
which have for years practically con
trolled Kentucky politics.
They were fighting to retain their cor
rupt power. In a degree they succeed
ed. By bribing in a number of counties
they defeated the purposes of the law
and cut down the Democratic vote to
suit themselves. There was military in
timidation elsewhere, and the grossest
frauds in the mountain districts. But
this work of corruption, performed fre
quently with ease and safety under the
old law, could not be concealed with the
new statute in force. Hence the effect
ive contest of the Denaocratic state offi
cers. Had Governor Goebel lived, cer-
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Bhort
the
career of him whose steadfast courage
and absolute, incorruptibility made his
name a terror to the political filth
dwellers of the commonwealth. Many
persons, who, having no interest in the
gubernatorial campaign in Kentucky,
never sought to inform themselves
concerning its chief issues, now are
curious concerning the provisions of the
act which William Goebel drew and
which his enemies denounced. It is for
this reason that this review of the law is
published.
.. WHY IT WAS DENOUNCED.
tain amendments be had in view would
havrperfected the Goebel lj»w as a J&iMw
Miiatxi ana I
mot aiaa^iam
guard against election frauds.
PROVISIONS OF THK GOBBKL LAW.
The chief provisions of the Goebel
election law are:
1. That the General Assejnbly shall
elect three Commissioners, to be styled
"The State Board of Election Commis
sioners." who shall have charge of the
conduct of elections in the common
wealth. (The chief duties and responsi
bilities devolving upon this board are in
most stales fulfilled by one official In
Ohio it is the Secretary, of State.)
2. That the State Board of Election
Commissioners shall annually appoint
three Election Commissioners in each
county to ha ye charge of the conduct of
elections in the county. (Under the
o'd lew the duties and responsibilities of
t'lese County Commissioners were ful
filled by one man, the County Judee.
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You may have
about SCOTT'S EMULSION
heardi
and have a vague notion
that it is cod-liver oil with
its bad taste and smell and
all its other repulsive fea
tures. It is cod-liver oil, the
purest and the best in the
world, but made so palata
ble that almost everybody
can take it Nearly all!
take it Nearly
children like it and ask
more.
for
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EMULSION
looks like cream it nour
ishes the wasted body of
the babyt child or adult
better than cream or an
other food in existence,
bears about the same re|a
tion to other emulsions that
cream does to mffl(. If you
have had any experience,
with other so-called "just as
tfood" preparations, you
will find that this is a fact
ny1
Tht hypoptophKes that are
combined wtth the cod-liver oil
S
addttioral value to it bccaue
tone up die nervous iptem
Impart strength to the whole
body.
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SCOTT&BOWiE, ChMd«u,KiW YoA.~
3. That each County Board shall an?
nually appoint for each election pre
cinct in the county two Judges, one
Clerk and one Sherifl one Judgt a re
publican and the other a democrat,' the
Clerk and bherifl.to be a democrat and a
republican. (In addition, each of the
two principal political parties is allowed
an Inspector, selected by the party
authorities to witness the count.)
4. That when the election of a
Governor or Lieutenant Governor is con
tested the contest shall be considered by
a board of three Senators and eight
Representatives, selected by lot, and
that the report of this board must be
presented to the General Assembly for
final action. (Under the oll law tbe
report of the contest board was final.)
5. That the State Board of Elections
sitting as aBoard of Contest,s'uall finally
determjne all cohtestB for stgte offices
other than those of Governor ahd Lieu
tenant Governor.
The fin&l clause of the Grteliel law is as
follows:
"Because of the frauds that are now
perpetuated in elections in this common
wealth there is an emergency that this
act take immediate eflect, and this act
flhall take effect upon its approval by
the Governor on its passage."
The bill passed the Senate and the
House oh March II, 1898. over the veto
of Governor Bradley.
The following are extracts from the
Mayfield speech of the dead leader, de
livered on August 12, the opening of his
campaign:
"This statute was rendered necessary
by the fraudB *y which the vote of Ken
tucky was in 1896 taken from Bryan and
given to McKinley. By what means
were frauds in the election of 1896 com
mitted? By the deliberate and system
atic violation of the most important
provision of the secret ballot election
law, designed to prevent frauds, namely,
that provision which directed that at
each voting precinct there shall be a
the pohtical parties contesting.-in tbe
election. There never was a secret bal
lot election law enacted anywhere that
did not contain that safeguard against
fraud. Why is that provision so itn
portant? Because by other provisions
of the law it is directed that immediate'
ly upon the closing of the polls tbe bal
lots shall be counted, and immediately
upon the conclusion of the counting the
ballots sh&ll be destroyed, and then the
voter is prohibited from testifying in
any proceeding, civil or criminal, how
he voted. It is obvious that under such
a system, if election officers act corrupt
ly they can with impunity make the
result of an election what they choose
without reference to how the votes are
cast. The ballots being destroyed, and
the voter prohibited from testifying
how lie voted it, it is impossible to
prove the fraud. .When the officers are
divided among the political parties, the
representatives of each party can see to
it—and if they are honest they will see
to it—that no false count in the ballots
is made, and they will refuse to join in
certif\ing any other than the honest
result. W*
KltAUDS OK
sv*a^
'96.
"From the time that the bill for tbe
election law v^as offered in tbe Senate,
every time I have publicly said anything
about tbe law I have stated this fact
In the election of 1896 the election
officers of the city of Louisville were so
appointed that at over 40 precincts
there was not a single election officer for
Bryan. This statement has never been
questioned by any one. Under these
circumstances a, majority of 13,000 was
turned out in*- Jefferson county for Mc
Kinley. It would have been quite as
easy to have made this-majority 23,000,
and there can he no doubt that if the
Democratic majority in the First and.
Second Congressional Districts had not
been underestimated by the Republican
party leaders and tbeir allies in that
contest the McKinley majority in Louis
ville and Jefferson county would have
been much larger than it was.
"There is nothing better known than
the fact.that in 1896 no definite knowl
edge could be hacl as to what was the
Republican majority in the Eleventh
Congressional District for a week after
the election. The report as to what
that majority was were changed. every
day, and the Republican party grew
with every change. It is reasonably
certain that if the returns of the elec
tion in 1896 from the other parts of
state had not yet reached Frankfort the
returns from the Eleventh Congressioh
al District would still.be held back.
"In only one way conld indefinite repe
tition of these frauds be prevented
That way was by changing the appoint,
ing power so as to render it certain that
at every voting precinct in the common
wealth the Democratic party would be
represented by two real. Democrats, as
well as the Republican party by two
Republicans, and this the new law doe*
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was asserted that no penalty for offenses
committed by election'officers was pro
vided, by the new taw, and consequently
there was no law providing punishment
for such offenses. But in the. suit, to
test the validity of the law the Appel
late Court adjudged, as the advocates of
the law had contended, that the penal
ties provided by' the original secret bal
lot election law remained in force and
were applicable to every wrong done
after enactment of tbe new law, It was
claimed that because the new statute
did not provide for appeals to the
Courts from decisions of election-con
test boards in election contests, there
fore thit right was destroyed. But the
Court of Appeals decided, as the Demo
crats contended, that the right of ap
peal to the Courts remained unaffected
in every case in which there was such
before the new law' was enacted.
'The republican platform declares
that the law 'commits j&aad. -power to
irresponsible Comtnis8iv%ers not cbosen
by or accountable to the people for their
acts.' To whom is a county judge in
any of the mountain cojinties having
large Republican majorities responsible?
And what would such a Judge care for
criticism because he had not, in appoint
ing electioh officers, divided them among
tbe political parties? Under the old law
the action of the County Judge in ap'
pointing election officers could not be
reviewed, nor could be be removed from
office nor be in anywise pupisbed for
disregarding the law governing the ap
pointment of election, officers. There
can scarcely be imagined a more irre
sponsible power than that conferred by
the old law upon the County Judge.
"But the new law empowers the State
Commissioners to remove from office afT
any time any County Commissioner, so
that whenever any County Commission
er violates the law there is an immediate
remedy by bring the ^natter to the at
tention of the8tate*Bbard.
THK OHIO, LAW.
"It was said this la$r was without pre
cedent, but in Ohio the Republican
party has for years had in operation a
Taw which vests in oKe'man, the Secre
tary of State, the 'power to appoint
County Election Commissioners tor all
counties in .the state save those contain
ing the large Republican cities, and in
those excepted counties, which ustially
go republican even when the state goes
democratic, the power to appoint the
Election Commissioners is vested in the
Mayors. The Republican press' of Ohio,
of course, continues to denounce the
'infamous' Kentucky election law.
"The character of the. opposition to
this law is the best evidence of its
necessity and wisdom. Every corrupt
and malign influence- in the comtiion
wealth or out of it that concerns itself
with our elections opposed the enact
ment of this law, denounces it now and
demands its repeal. When the bill for.
the law was pending the rrilroad lobbyi
the Book Trust lobby: and every other
corrupt influence at Frankfort used
every possible means to defeat it:
Every influence and agehev that foil*h
the Demd&acv in MM' helped-la
ateal Kentucky's Vote' opposed the
enactment of this layi, and is against it
now.
"The real objecticAi to this law its
opponents do not state that objection
is that this law insures honest elections.
This law takes the vote of Kentuck
out ot the vote market which Hann'a
established in -Kentucky in 1896. It
destroys the assumed inalienable right
of the Republican party to steal elec
tions. It is the barricade which the
Democracy of Kentuckv have erected to
repel the invasions of Hannaism, and it
will prove effective to prevent a repeti
tion of the theft of 1896."—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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Nfeats,
.Flour,
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20c.
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Forthoughtand
pocketbook. If
**yoii want good
food cheap see
us.
Fruits,
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for 1 po'ind faucy dried peaches
for 1 pound Peaberry coffee
for 1 good broom.
20c.
for 1 pail jell.
2 25c.
I pail peach butter,
1
2 15c.
55 25c.
packiyy^^h pioks.
for 2 can
for
1
ten
-'25c."' wp 6^W6kages gold dust.
for .1200 best parlor matches
£25c- for 2 sacks corw meal.
2-
25c.
for pound best Japan ten.
for 8(pounds hominy.
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A Host!
Genuine Bargains for Decatur
Couny Shoppers.
A Big Snapl s,
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TZi+yy K.
Rock Boltom Grocery Prices.
for sacks Clark's special flour.
for 1 sack gold medal flour.
•for 1 gallon pail Clover brand syrup.
for 1 gallon extra fancy sorghum,
for 3 pound can California table peaches
for 3 pound can California apricots.
for 3 pound can Blackberries.
for 3 pound can raspberries.
for 1 glass of pure honev.
10c.
10c
for 1 glass of home made jell.
for 1 glass jam, assorted flavor. &
for 10 ba.s cream filiating soap,
for 10 bars Somelhinp Good soap.
for 1 gallon pure cidar vinegar.
for 2 packages Boston rolled oats."
10
c. for I package None Such Miince moat
25c. for 3 pound package currants.
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LEON BARGAIN C0RKIR. 5
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK. &
LOW PRICED
STORE:
Farcy California evaporated ppaches....
Fanc,y Califorira prunes per pound
2 pound can cove oysters per can
No. 1 Japan Rice per pound
.Jam and preserves per jar or can
Fancy sorghum per gallon
Fency Syrup per gallon
Meat Department.
Spare ribs per pound...............
Dry salt meat fine per pound
Fancy smoked plates per pound
Short fat backs fine per pound
Fancy streaked sides per pound
Fancy breakfast bacon per pouud
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TIME TABLE.
C. B. Q.
.7":' SOUTH I NOBTH
1'usHenger....7:00a.m. Pussonger a:38 p. in.
Freight.......m•••Xl a. m. Preight 3:00 m.
Passenger.. 11:5? a.m Fre.ghi 4 li0p. m.
Prciglit 14:35p.m. Passenger. ..8:11 p. n.
K. «c W.
SOUTH. I NORTH.
1
Passenger 11:45 a. m, I Freight 9:20 a.
Freight 4:50 p. m. Passenger 2:45 p.
No. 17 Stock express going nortn, Sundays
only. Due 7:15 a.m.
Mo. 19. Freight on Wednesday only 8:05 a.
m. Takes the place of Mo. 13.
Coupon tickets on sale to all points. Call
for them and have baggage checked to desti
nation, A. s. tharp. Agent.
Makers of
in
White lead and zinc, keep:
talking about strictly pur-,
no 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
paiint is for? Paint is good
for what it does, not whats
it is. We sell the asa
Devoe Ready P&int
tit
tit
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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 tde paint, and we'll
make that guaranty good.
W. E. MYERS & CO.
NoithStdc Druggists.
NOTICE—tPROOF OF VVILh.
State of Iowa, Decatur county, ss.
Distriot court in vacation. -C
To all whom it may concern: i"'
Notice is hereby given that an Instrument
in writing purporting to be the last will unci
testament of John 3urrell, deceased, was
this day produced, opened and read by the
undersigned and that 1 have ilxed Mouday,
15th day of February, 1900, as the day for hear
ing proof in relation thereto.
Witness my official signature with the seal
of said Court hereto attixed, this 7th day of
February, 1900.
i?5t3- cierlt.
NOTICE-PROOF OF WILL.
State of Iowa, Decatnr County,-ss.
District Court in Vacation,
ill Whom it May Concern.
kilee is hereby given' that an instrument
writing purporting to be the last will and'
Bnt of Jordan Koger deceased, was this
pened and reatl by the under
(SEA I.)
TO-3t
Witness my qWajftVSlgnatu™
the seaf of
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this 10th day o! .'1900.
St- C. STOCKTON. Clfcrli 'Diste&t. "ourt,-•:.
4 BUGGY WHEELS $6^§0ii
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MAM.WOE1UOK* OQ.(1«)CHICACO. ILL.
Mather—tbe 30 years dentist of over
30 years experience is at Leon on the
morning of the 27th and will, remain,
until the last of every mor.t I. v.
Will prove
worth of
goods and
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the
low prices offer
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Bargain Center
Decatur County.
LOWER PRICES MADE
THAN ANY W
FIRM IN THIS CITY.
THE BIG CASH STORE
Corner 8th and Main.
Telephone Nov I,
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