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says about the republican party in these
columns to-day. v*-*
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To do the right thing by the Philip
pines the commission should be given
definite instructions as to how heavy a
tariff burden they will be required to
carry. ______.___
It matters not what you hear farmers,
stay by the grand old party and they
will soon have your money and farms
and then it will be the same old cry,
"root hog or die."
With the war scandal", imperialistic
ideas, secret treaty witti Great Britain
and the Porto Rican tariff, it would
S9em that McKinley needs a bottle of
Dr. Miles' Nervine to face the pepple
with these issues in 1900.
the
Journal
-SfeSfcv
mean to msiuuate
Eiker is a democrat?
The Leon Journal has again distin
guished itself by declaring that it is op-
on
of the
paper pulp which enables
the expense
trust to wax fat at ,„nrnHi
of .»•» country. Tta Journal
newspapers
lhe 0niy
p»iar
in the
country whichi-1 Creston.
willing-,- W double price for print
papt,. in order to show ^is loyalty to
the republican party.
A soldier of the Twenty-first United
States Volunteers writes from Camp Pa
rang, Ptiinjii'ine Islands, about one of
our offiiHitis. in that far-off country—
nearly the only one of the native class
who has submitted to our authority.
This soldier says the Sultan of Moros
has seventy-five wives, most of whom
are from fifteen to sixteen years old, and
the dato, or chief b»s five of six. When
the Sultan travels he goes in a large
canoe, with the Stars and Stripes and
many streamers attached. He is at
tended by fifty rowers, one hundred
warriors and a half dozen of his wives.
Some clergymen of good intentions have
lately been calling the Piesident of the
United States to task for sipping a little
wine at banquets. Would they not have
a broader and more dignified field for
attack in the Presidential harboring of
polygamy and slavery?—Cincinnati En
quirers.
DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS.
When the state elections were over
last Noyember, only one conclusion
could be drawn from the results
and that was that if a presidential elec
tion had been held at that time the
democratic candidate would have been
elected.
Nothing has happened since then to
turn the current of popular feeling in an
other direction. Indeed, much has
taken place which will serve to strength
en the democrats and to weaken the re'
publicans.
Among these occurrences may be
mentioned the Hays-Pauncefote treaty
which proposes to make this country
construct the Nicaragua canal for the es
pepial benefit of Europe and the weak
ung of the power of the United States
The surrender the people vigorously
oppose and they will hold McKiuley
and his administration strictly respon
sible.
Another tactical blunder on the part
of the republicans is. the tariff tax on
Porto Rico. It is a crime against the
constitution and a direct advance to
ward imperialism.
But the subserviency of the McKinley
'administration to the trustB is one of
the greatest of its crimes against the
'-•masses and it will result in a popular
devolution which will cast McKinley
and his followers down from their places
oi power which they now hold.
In addition to this, the passage of the
:gold bill perpetuating the national debt
in the interest of the banks, the present
,-of $80,000,000 to the banks as premium
on their bonds, the reduction of tax on
bank circulation and. the payiug of these
-institutions to issue circulation which
si ould be issued by the government
vHli be opposed by the masses.
"On tbe whole, the outlook of the
democrats is bright and_their prospects
of success in the coming presidential
election are growing brighter day by
—Chicago Dispatch,
ROYAL
Qecmtary '-Oi
Reading Clerk—J
ington.
dfoSGLUTEIY buBv
^BseuuTEnr^vRE
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
To Mwt May 3. At Dm Molnes-J. II
fgRllvu. oi Creston, Named tor
Si Temporary Chairman.
,!
Laborers of Porto ltico went on a
strike on Wednesday of last week. They
were netting 40 cents per day and warn
50 cents, but now congress and the pres
ident are going to help them out and
charge thrui 15 per cent, extra, merely
for their own good! if
Tbe Leo'n Journal charges the demo
cratic party with being responsible for
of the anti-pass bill in the
iie aelKinM^je. Dr. £. L. Eiker, the
I.wa tegislaT^^My^ive from Decatur
republican repre8fcifx^^MfckpB||yi, Does
county, voted against lue
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
Sul
The democracy of Iowa will meet in
state convention in Des Moines, May 3,
to name delegates to the democratic
national convention. It will be amon
the earliest state conventions in the
union. The object in holding it thus
early is that the state may go on record
f°'" Mr. Bryan for renomination early
enough to be of some advantage to him.
In the committee meeting Thursday
there was some discussion as to the
kind of platform which ought to be
adopted at the early convention. The
csnclusion was that the platform should
be sufficiently non-committal to allow
the Kansas City convention to do what
ever it might choose without embar
rassment to the Iowans. On the money
question, especially, the disposition iB
to take no position so positive as to
forestall agreement to anything which
might be thought desirable at the na
tional gathering.
The members of the state committee
who attended the meeting at Des
Moines Thursday were by districts:
Second—C. G. Hipwell, Davenport
Third—E. M. Garr, Manchester
Fourth—J. J. Dunlavy, proxy for W
O. Holman.
Fifth—A. E.
Df
JackBon,
Tama.
Sixth—S. F. McConnell, Bloom field.
Seventh—G. A. Huffman, Des Moines.
Eighth—W. R. Hart, Maloy.
Ninth—E. H. Bickford, Greenfield.
Tenth—J. B. Romans, Denison,
Eleventh—T. F. Ward, LeMars.
Col. C. H. Mackey of Sigourney, Cato
SeUffNrf.-yinton and Judge Walter I.
liays of Clinton were also in the city
iLCidentally, and conferred with the
committee nembers on some jh^
matters considered. Thej^^^
for th^onventtQPtfSgr
chairman—J. B.Sullivan,
xemporary*
Gillespie,-Burl-
Sergeant-at-arms— W.
Clinton.
Stenographer—J. B.
Moines.
M. Desmond.
Bl aiae, Des
There were four candidates for the
emporarv chairmanship: J. H. Denni
son of Clarion, Douglas Deremore of
Waukon, Horace M. Rebok of Tama,
and J. B. Sullivan of Creston. On the
informul ballot Mes-rs. ReboV, Dere
more and Dennison received one .vote
each and Mr. $ullivan the' remainder,
Mr. Sullivan was declared elected. He
has been regarded as a sound money
democrat since 1896, although he has
stood firmly by tbe regular party or
ganization.
There was considerable talk as to the
delegates at large to the national con
vention at Kansas City. It is agreed,
by common consent, that Cato Sells and
A. Walsh will be two of the four.
Mr. Walsh was not in attendance at
the conference Thursday, being out of
tbe state on business. T. L. Maxwell
of Des Moines and H. L. Williams of
Primghar are also likely to be delegates.
A committee was named to arrange
for the state convention, composed of
Chairman Huffman, Committeemen
Hart and Jackson. Another committee
was named to go to Kansas City as
soon as possible and arrange for tbe
enteitainment of the Iowans there,
during tbe national convention. Hotel
accommodations will be secured, and
everything necessary to secu.e the sat
isfactory entertainment of tbe delega
tion. This committee is composed of
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CONSUMPTION
and I am afraid I have In
herited it. I do not feel
well I have a cough my
lungs are sore am losing
flesh. What shall
I
do?
Your doctor says take care of
yourself and tatoTpl^ cod-liver
oil, but'you can't take it. Only
the strong, healtfcy person can
take it, and they can't take it
long. It is so rich it upset* tbe
stomach. But you can take
EMULSION
It is very palatable and easily
digested. If you will take plenty
of fresh air, and exercise, and
SCOTT'S EMULSION steadily,
there is very- little doubt about
$
.:S..3$.
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BAKING
Powder
Chairman Hoffman and
Carr and Hart.
General
satisfaction
by the committeemen with the polit
ical conditions of Iowa and in tbe na
tion at large. All agreed that Iowa will
be a unit in favor of the renomination
of Mr. Bryan for president but when
sounded as to the probable attitude of
the national delegation on the money
question, the committeemen were less
disposed to express themselves. It was
plain, however, that there is a willing
ness to give the Kansas City gathering
full leeway to adopt whatever platform
it may decide. Tbe Iowa delegates are
not likely to be given instructions which
will embarrass or entangle them in tm
way.
These delegates to the national con
vention were elected: 'PQ
George W.Greene, Join J. Fitzgerald,
John W. Davis, P. Henry Quinn, John
E. Conley, Mayor Boyle of Newport,
William R. Conger and Dennis J. Mc
Carthy.
PARTY SAFETY LIES IN
"PLAIN DUTY.''
Up to January 30, last the republican
position on this subject was impreg
nable. It bad behind it tbe nation's
pledges to Porto Rico and every tradi
tion of our government investing con
gress with plen'ary power to deal with
nsw territory as seemed best for it and
for the United States. There has not
been an instance in the annexation of
territory, from that of Lousiana down
to the acquisition of the Hawaiian is
lands where congress has,not disposed
of each case independently, as "the
highest considerations of justice and
good faith" demanded.
No vexatious question of constitu
tional power or of legislative authority
stood between us and the solemn pledge
that:
Porto Rico under the" American flag
will enjoy the same privileges and the
same immunities as the citizens of the
different states and territories of the
union.
To the fulfillment of this pledge the
republican party was committed not
only by every dictate of honor, human
ity and statecraft, but by the explicit ut
terances of tbe president hire self, his
representative in Porto Rico, his sec
retary of war and the original senate
and house bills, with the statements of
Senator Foraker and Congressman
Payne, who introduced them respective
ly.
There~is no 'need to'reiterate'"what
these utterances were. They were pre:
sumably based on full knowledge and in
official appreciation of what congress
could constitutionally do. The Consti
tutional question is piecisely the same
to-day £hat it was last December, when
President McKinley pointed out "our
plain duty" under it.
No, the constitution has not budged a
hair's-breadth during the paBt three
months And, what is more to the
point, popular 8entinient in full accord
witl''our plain duty" then, has not
•judged eitMr. It is irrevocably fixed to
keeping faith with Porto Rico.
What can account for the president's
change of front on this question? It is
not that Jie" feared that any principle of
a protective tariff was involved. Sena,
tor Foraker, speaking for him expressly
declared: "It's a revenue duty simply
and solely, and not in any sense pro
tective."
Now the only claim put forward for
any tariff is that it is imposed in order
to obtain a decision of the supreme
court as to the constitutional power of
congress toi discriminate in taxes laid in
different parts of our territory
If tbis is a thoroughly ingenious
claim why was it not advanced primar
ily? Why wait until the popular mind
your recovery ~1 was set on free trade wltb-POrto Rico?
There are hypophdsphites in^it Why all this mystery and shuffling
they give Strength and tooe ttp the 'ai,out responsibililjr for the tarriff bill?
ne^0t8S]7irt^w|^llMrOOd-U iwby.ifit was merely a test case that
oilieeds an4nontishet. Iwas wAiited, wasit not auffident to
we. «adti.oo.illdmotau.
SCOTT oiBOWNB,dhtmhu^VtwYack. -J-
make it out nomiuai tarifT- soffideqt I
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LEON. IOWA. THURSDAY. MAfcC tt 22. J900.
Committeemen
'ii•• (Sill
was expressed
DOING ITS
Again .we are told from Washington,
and in the words of the president him
self this time, that—
The people do not understand the
situation now,, and as soon as they do
they will be with us. This newspaper
agitation will blow over in a week or
two, and upon gaining full information
the country will.endorse our attitude.
Adoption of this policy (the 15 per
cent, tariff for Porto Rico) is now essen
tial to republican success. If we retreat
in the face of the enemy we shall be
overwhelmed next November. We can
nsither retreat nor compromise.
*^Tt?ft'trniifiin republicans in
Washington have already both retreated
and compromised. They have only to
rejoin the republican party iu the coun
try, which remains steadfast and will
notJm compromised to insure that re
publican success in November now im
periled by tbe inexplicable vacillation
of the administration in the Porto Rico
matter.
cover the cost of collection at the out
set? Or, better still, why not make the
test case oil some unimportant article,
giving free trade as "our plain duty"
on everything else, especially sugar,
tobacco and lruits?
It is amazing that l^rtisident McKinley
who has such a keen sense of the value
of keeping in touch wlfh the plain peo
ple of the nation, should not haye un
derstood that the will have nothing to
da with a constitutional problem when
American honor or duty is at stake.
They will leave the refinements and sub
tleties of the constitutional question to
the courts.
Republicans-would gather err on the
side of duty and honor than win in the
supreme court on a t&hnical point of
constitutional law.
The president-is mistaken it he thinks'
that he has more at stake than anyone
else in the matter. If he is in error the
American people will have to bear the
burden of dishonor and pay the penalty
of democratic success next November.
President McKinley should realize
that behind the constitutional question,
which it cannot conceal from the popu
lar imagination, looms what Congress
man Tawney, of Minnesota says is "the
shameless lobby maintained by the
sugar and tobacco trusts." y"
This is what tbe republicans
It is now said tliat the senate will
thrash over for the next month or six
weeks the question. Shall 'we do our
plain duly to Porto Rico, or violate our
plighted word in order to make a consti
tutional case for the supreme court?
Let this be done with the president
throwing bis shield in the scales against
good faith and the day of the republi
can party's repentance on the Porto
Rico question will be past. Tbe hateful
and fateful error of blowiag hot and
Id upon a principle of manifest jus
tice, expediency and duty will become
irretrievable.
Time is of the essence of the .republi
cin party's opportunity to undo its
false step. There is eternal truth in the
words:
.fieMgl^flonoonoetved,
Thou a happy birth
But
FuiheinH^^^^^^^Btoni8e
indeed iimpoM^^^^^^^^^Mnks of
therapubliealkvpM^PMIHI^JHPn
leaders in congress return to the solid'
rock of national duty and good faith.—
Chicago Times-Herald.
The New York World reminds its
readers that President McKinley's atti
tude on the Porto Rican tariff is aptly
described in the sinner's confession in
one of Dr. Watt's tunes:
I know the right, and I approve it. too
I know tbe wrong, and still the wronff pursue
Kohler the jeweler.
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to meet next November if it is admitted
that 15 per cent, injustice has been done
to Porto Rico to avoid a precedent for
Cuba and the Philippines obnoxious to
the sugar, tobacco and fruit Interests.
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Vegetables,
Fresh
Oysters,
Fancy
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LEON QUEENSW1RE .C0.
'Phone 59. Opera House Block.
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK.
Farcy California evaporated peaches
Fancy Californ'a prunes per pound
2 pound oan cove oysters per can
No. 1 Japan Rice per pound .1
Jam and preserves per jar or can
Fancy sorghum per gallon
Fancy Syrup per gallon
8
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Meat Department.
Spare ribs per pound
Dry, salt, meat fine pen pound'.:
Fancy smoked plates per pound
Short fat backs fine per pound........ ....
Fancy streaked sides per pound
Fancy breaklast bacon' per pnnud I:.1:
Trd82
YOUR BUSINESS! $
All wc .ask
to look at our1
S Rock Bottom Grocery Price! S
6c. buys 1 can Tomatoes two pounds.
buys I can Pumpkin two pounds.
Of 10c. buys I glass Jell, assorted fruit.
U/ 25c. buys I dozen Fancy Lemons,
IOc. buys I pound Evaporated Apples.
W 20c. buys 1 dozen Oranges.
50c. buys sk. Clark's Special Flour.
$ $I.OObuysl fuljsk. White Loaf Flour
ifeji none better.
iii 25c. buys 2 sks. Meal.
25c. buys lO bars Something Good
15c. buys I lb. Golden Rio Coffee,
ft 20c. buys I lb. Peaberry Coffee.
$ 5c. buys 5 dozen Clothes Pins.
ili 20c. buys 1 pail Jell.
REPORTER SERIES VOL. XXY. NO. 30
&
1 tifl
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of Low Prices.
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TIME TABLE.
C. B. & O.
BOOTH
NOKTH
Hus8en|{or....B:5d a.m. Passenger 2:38 p. u.
Freight lit o. m. Freight 3:00 p. m.
Passenger.. 11:57 a.m Freight 4:50 p.
Freight 12:3ft p. m. Passenger. ..8:S0 p. •.
K. & W
SOUTH. NORTH.
Passenger 11 :B3 a. m, Freight »:35 a. a
Freight 4:60 p. m. Passenger 8:46 p. a
No. 17 Stock express going, north, Sundays
only. Due 7:18 a m.
No. ID. Freight on Wednesday only 8:0Sa
m. Takes the place of No. 13.
Coupon tickets oo
Bale
natlon,
to all points. Call
for them and have baggage checked to destl-
a. S. Tharp, Agent.
Makers o|
Paint!
White lead and zinc, keep
talking about strictly pure,
no matter how bad the
stuff is, "it's strictly pure."
Homebody gets a chemical
-i^analyaiH, usually to prove
f-'that the other fellow's stuff
isn't strictly pure. What
do 3*ou care for strictly pure
paint if it doesn't do what
paint is for? Paint is good
.1 for what it does, not w|iat
it is. We sell the
Devoe Ready Paint
we don't know whether "its
strictly pure or not, apd
don't care. The mukeril
say "If anvbody has any
fault to find will it, rnnk#
it good ut our t-spensp. we
garantee results." We've
got ttie paint, and
ye'|l
make that guaranty good.
Nottcwi hereby given to all persons ioti
eat^d- ttat oa the ,6th day of Mattfek,
fA.'
IflnVtfWVUV'Jnmil'WO'v&Ui»
Iowa, administratrix of the eslAteJo:
•«v
W.E. MYERS SCO.
NoithSldeDruggists.
Mather—the30 years dentist of over
30 years txperierrce is at .eon on lhe
morning of tbe 27th and will remain
until the last of every mont|j.
ADMINlSTRATOIt'S NOTICE
Estate Of C. T. Stephens, .deceased.
Notice is hereby' given to all persons inter
ested, that on~the'7th day of March. A O.
1900, the undprsigried was appointed by
the district court of Decatur county.
Iowa, Administrator of thu estate of C. T.
Stephens deceased, late of said county. All
persons indebted to said estate will ibake pay
ment to the undersigned, and tho'sie harfnc
claims agaihHi. tn.e 'same will present thexB
legally authenticated to said court Mr alfelr
ance.
Dated March 7,1900.
88-81 J. PjsHdbw, Admioistratoi
4DM|NIf(TH^TRIX'S NO HOB,
Estate of S. Emmet Oardner, deceased.
S. KnynM
Uardner deceased, late of said county. All
parsons indebted to said estate will Bake pay
ment to tbe undersigned, and those having
claims against the same will present thefn
legally authenticated to said court for aUoyv
ance.
Dated Mavcjj B, 1900.
28-:it Sarah A. Gaiidnkk, ADMINISTRATRIX.
Don't Be Fooleoi
The market is being llowM
with worthless imitations 0
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
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To protect the public we call
especial attention to oar trad*
irinted on
emand the
mark .printed on everypaifc*
e. Demand the genuine.
For Sale by all Druggist*
•ge-
tototototototototototototototototototototototototo#
Will prove
worth of
goods and
low prices offer
here.
Bargain Center
OF
4
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If
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LOWER PRICES MADE
THAN ANV
FIRM IN THIS CITY.
THE BIG CASH STORE
Corner 8th and JVlain,
Telephone No. I.
LEON, IOWA.