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fHE LEON REPORTER.
O. E. HULL, Publisher.
LEON, r- IOWA
Subscription Rates:
One year fl.50
Six months 76
Three months 40
Bntered at second clast matter at the
Leon,Iowa,Poftojflce.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
The Democratic National Committee, having
met in thn City ot Washington, on the tweiity
sooond day of February, 1900. has appointed
Wednesday the Fourth day of July, 1900, as
the time, and Kansas City, Missouri, the place
for holding tin Democratic National Conven
tion,
In accordance with the above and by the
dlreotlon of the Democratic State Central
Oommiitee of Iowa, there will be a delegate
convention in the City ot Des Moines at TO a.
m. Thursday May 3. for the purpose of elect
ing four delegates at large and four alternates
to represent Iowa at the Democratic National
I 'onventlon at Kansas City, Missouri, July 4th,
1900.
The Committee recommends that each Con
gressional district elect two delegates and
two alternates at the district caucus to be
held at 9 a. m. on the day of the convention.
All Democratic conservative reform citizens
of the state of Iowa. irrespective of past politi
cal associations and differences, who can
unite in the eflort for pure, economical and
constitutional government, and who favor the
republic and opposed to the empire, are cor
dially invited to join us in sending delegates
to the convention.
The basis of representation in said conven
tion will be as follows: Two votes for each
county and one iiddltloiial vote for each M00
votes or fraction of 100 or over, cast for Fred
12 White for governor at the general election
held November 7,18MU. The representation to
which the counties will le ertitlcd is as fol
lows:
... 9
....14
.. 10
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Adams
Arpanonse
Adair
Allamakee
Audubon
liehtoti
Uoone
liuchunun
Butler
BlachhawU
Bremer
Buna Vista ....
alhoun
Cass
uerro Gordo—
Chickasaw ...
flay
Clinton
Carroll
Cedar.......
Cherokee. ..
Clarice
I layton
Crawford
Dallas
Decatur.
Des Moines 19
Dubuque 38
Davis ijj
Delaware
Dickinson. 4
Kmmet 4
Payette is
Franklin 4
Floyd ..u.
Fremont 12
Greene $
Guthrie 10
Grundy 8
Hancock
Harrison i-r
Howard.-. .-J
Hamilton. 8
Jasper 17
Johnson 17
Keokuk 15
Kossuth II
Linn 22
Lucas. 81
I.ee 34
l.ouisa 7
Lyon ...
Maha'ka 18
Marshall la
Mitchell ft
Monroe 11
Muscatine.. lt
Madison 11
Marlob IS
Mills 10
Monona 10
Montgomery 8
O'Brien 9
Osceola fi
Halo Alto
Pocahontas. 8
Pottawattamie 24
Page 8
Plyuioulh 13
Polk 84
Poweshiek 10
Rinpgold 8
Scott. 93
Sioux 10
Sac 8
Shelty 12
Story 0
Tama 14
Taylor.. 10
Union 11
Van Buren II
Warren 19
Wayne 11
Winneb&go 4
Woodbury 18
Wright...,..
10
19
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13
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9
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G. A. HUFFMAN.
-.• •Mvf Chairman uem,Slate I'en. Com.
E. H.
1 K'iKKOMD. Secretary.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION.
The democrats of Decatur county will meet
at the court house in Leon, on
SATUKDAY APMIJ 14,1900,
at 11 o'clock a. m. for the purpose of selecting
ia delegaUsto the democratic state conven
tion to be held in Des Moines, May 3, for the
purpose of selecting delegates to the natiohal
democratic convention to be held at Kansas
City, July 4. And for the transaction of such
other business as may properly be brought
oeforr the convention,
1 he ratio of representation will be one dele
gate for each ten votes or fraction or five or
over cast for Hon. Fred E. White for governor
in 18119.
Tlie basis entitles the various townships and
voting precincts to the following representa
tion:
BloominRton......... 8
Davis city 10
TcrreHaute 9
Center 11
Decatur 14
Eden 35
fcayette 18
Franklin 8
Garden Urove 7
Grand River.*. ti
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Hamilton 10
High Point 11
Leon 29
Leroy 6
Long Cree'-i IS
Morgan 8
New Buda 10
Richland 19
Woodland 14
Total 210
The democrats of the 'several voting pre
cincts will hold their caucuses on Saturday,
April 7, at 4 o'clock, at the place where the
the la«t general election was held to select
the delegates to the county convention.
In the interest of the party a full attendance
is urgently requested at the township caucuses
and that delegates be selected to the county
convention who will attend, as it will be the
opening gun of the campaign of 1900.
O- E. Hut,i,, E.J. Banket.
Secretary. Chairman.
POPULIST CONVENTION."
The populis ts of Decatur County, are
eetln
called
to meet tn mass convention at the court house
in Leon, Iowa, on
SATDRDAV APRIL 14, 1900
at 11 o'clock to select delegates to attend the
state convention and to attend to such other
business as may be necessary. Every town
ship committeeman is urged to attend.
J, c. Stockton. Chairman.
The St. Louis Republic remarks: As
a preamble to the republican national
platform of 1900 these simple words
would be sufficiently comprehensive—
"Dictated by the Trusts, through Mark
Hanna, accredited agent."
There are two ways open to the Re
publican leaders in congress in which
they could effectually deal with the
more oppressive trusts with immedi
ate result: They could abolish the
tariff duties behind which many of the
trusts find shelter and the license to
plunder. They could amend the in
terstate commerce law so as to give it
effective vigor. The reduction of tar
iff duties would pull the claws of
monopoly without taking the life of
any established industry. Arming the
interstate commerce commission with
the power to compel obedience to its
recommendations, subject only to the
restraint of the courts would preyent
injustices and discriminations which
are the foundation of some of the more
offensive trade combinations.
If there were any real desire upon
the part ol Republican leaders to curb
the power of the trusts nothing would
be easier than- to pull away the un
derpinning upon which they rest. But
the trusts are the pillars of the tern?
pie when tl^y shall go d«wn the
grand old party will be crashed in the
ruins.—Philadelphia Becord.
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
HOYAL memo POWDtR CO., HEW VOUK.
"BASE DESERTION."
We quote below a couple of para
graphs of a leading editorial in the re
publican Chicago Inter Ocean which
presents its parly in its true condition
as now placed by the action of congress
and the president. It sounds as if writ
ten by a democrat and patriot, though
the paper will repudiate what it now
says as soon as the campaign conies on.
But it is worth reading and remember
ing. Head:
'For nearly two years republican
statesmen and republican editors have
told their party of the blessings which
American rule was to confer upon new
American territory. For nearly two
years the expansion policy of the ad
ministration in Washington has been ex
plained to mean the extension of Amer
ican rights, American privileges, Amer
ican institutions to the territory brought
under our sovereignty by the war with
Spain. For nearly two 'years it has been
the boast of every man speaking for the
republican majority in congress and for
the republican president in the white
house that this country has set out, hot
on a career of European imperialism, but
on a course of territorial ex pan-ion in
strict accordance with the precedents
an'1 traditions and principles which in
the past have spread the union of states
from the Atlantic seaboard to the
I'h-
cltic ocean and ihe Behring Sua.
'And now, in the turn of a hand, al
most over night, the people are asked to
forget it all. They are asked, on the
verge of a congressional and president'
ial'eleetion, to ignore these promises, to
treat them as if they had not been.
They are asked to repudiate the doc
trines and policies in which their con
gress, and to desert—basely desert—
the platform on which they have fought
and won ever since the destruction of
the Maine, and on which they were pre
pared to fight and win in the summer
and fall of the present year.
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If & a vi on
'dollars a year you do not have to pay
he go a in ax up on it
But if you have no millions to depend
upon, and you get a life insurance pol
icy for live thousand dollars to protect
your family in case of your death, you
have to pay $4 for revenue stamps And
then you have to pay two cents more
for the stamp on the check with which
you settle your premium.
You do all tbis for the alleged purpose
of meeting the cost of the-war that was
oyer a year and a half ago, and that has
iilteady baen fully paid for. You alto
pay a tax for the same purpose every
time you send a package by express, or
a telegram, or buy a bottle of patent
medicine, or a cake of toilet soap, or a
packet of court plaster, or a box of
chewing gum. You pay every time you
give a mortgage or sign "a lease.
When these taxes were proposed it
was said that they were only temporary
and would be dispensed with as soon as
the war was over. They serve no pur
pose now but to tempt subsidy grabbers
to raid the treasury.
Abolish the stamp taxes.
President McKinley said at O&Mn
Qroye, on August 25, 1899, to 20,000
Methodists there assembled, "Our flag
does not mean one thing here and an
other thing in Cuba oi Porto Rico.
He has "flopped" on the flag evidently,
unless he thinks we may here be gov
erned entirely outside the constitution
as well as in Cuba and Porto Rico. If
our flag does not mean freedom under
the constitution it is an emblem of ty
ranny, Mr. President, wherever it floats.
How To
Gain Flesh
Persons have been known to
gain a
pound day
by taking
an ounce of SCOTT'S EMUL
SION. It is strange, but it often
happens.
Somehow the ounce produces
the pound it seems to start the
digestive machinery going prop
erly, so that the patient is able
to digest and absorb his ordinary
food, which he could not do be
fore, and that is the way the gain
is made.
A certain amount of flesh is
necessary for health if you have
not got it yoik can get it by
taking
You will find it
in winter.
as useful in Htraner
ypu are thriving upon
.. Joe. «nd fc.ao, all drUcgfetKi
SGQtlTABOWNl^ChaniMa, N«w?oit.J
POWDER
Some of the members of congress
tell us that the people don't under
stand the Porto Rican tariff bill. Per'
haps they don't, but they have a pret
ty well established belief tiiat the
clause in the constitution which de
clares that "all duties, imports, and
excises shall be uniform throughout
the United States'' means precisely
what it jays.—Angola (Ind.) Magnet
(Hep. J.
It is said that President McKinley
has told republican senators that the
Porto Rican tariff bill is a great party
question, and that it would be suicidal
to abandon the party position on it.
Well it is then a mere matter of choice
as to methods of suicide, for certainly
the gigantic injustice of maltreating
our insular subjects with an offensive
tax of this character will bring self
destruction upon the party guilty of it.
If one must die, then let itim, a la
Spartacus, die like a man.
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Democrats all over the Eighth Dis
trict will be pleased, to learn that Mr.
W. It. Hart, of Malloy, member of the
State {Central Committee from this dis
trict has reconsidered his decision to
move to Louisa county and will remain
at Malloy and engage in the banking
business. Mr. Hart is one of the most
active and energetic members of the
state committee and the district could
ill afford to lose him. He will have no
opposition for jre-election asa member
of the statje committee, for from all
over the district comes reports ot the
good work he has done. Since Mr. Hart
has been our committeeman the district
has become better organized than ever
before and organization is essential to
suwes8-
The Chicago Inter Ocean (rep.) say?:
"Under the Madrid government Porto
Rico was a province of Spain. Porto Ri
cans sent to
senators and twei wdepoties,
rfrTit'Q speak and vote. Under the
Wa-hingtou go veTff«?stit^J«-*"prbps»ilrf'
that the Porto Ricans shall be no part
the United Ft tes nnl that the Porto
Ui aus shall not have even a consulting
lelegate in Washington.
Under the Madrid government the
Porto Ricans were self supporting and
fairly contented. Under the United
States government they have been im
poverished and it is proposed now in
Washington to continue to pauperize
them and to feed them, when their cries
ot distress become too loud, from the
li aited States treasurv."
WHEN THEIR EYES ABE OPENED.
Every day the republican parly is
widening tbe chasm that has been
made by tbe encroachments of the
great trusts upon the privileges of the
people. With a shameless reckless
ness, born of that feeling that makes
the millionaire give utterance to such
expressions as "the public be damned,"
they continue tbe legislation that as
sures them prosperity and permanency
so long as that party remains in power.
With protection to tbe trusts they can
afford to make enormous contributions
to the republican campaign fund, and
the managers of that party are not at
all backward in saving that this money
carries tbe day.
And the people alone are to blame
for this condition of things. There are
two classes deeply interested in the
success of the republican party. They
are the army oi office holders who are
living off the people's taxes. If the
republican party was out of power they
would be out of a job. .They ar§ vitally
interested.
Every big trust in the country is not
only vitally interested but their very
millions depend upon the high protec
tive duties inaugurated and maintained
by the republican party against the
interest of every man of the common
people of tbe land, and entirely in tbe
interest of these aggregations of
wealth. Without this protection they
couldn't. live a year and without it
they couldn't contribute a dollar to the
republican slush fund. These alone
are interested in republican success
To the other millions their defeat
means the impossibility of centraliz
ing all the money in a few bands. It
means the destruction of the great
money trust and all its followings. It
means the increase of competition in
labor, raw material and the manufac
tured product. It means increased de
mand for labor, increased demand and
open competition for raw material, and
it means a fair and reasonable profit
on the manufactured product.
How long are the masses of this
country to be deceived !by these smooth
tongued politicians who use them to
turn the grindstone?—Burlington Ga
zette. jd-i
See, young maiden, thai thou takest
the genuine Kocky Mountain Tea. made
he Madiaon medicine Go
a
fty fair face. 35£\
LEON. IOWA. THUBSDAY. AV&U, 12. 1900.
tfXhou
Ask your
More Light!
Come and Dave jour eyes per
fectly fitted with glasses. I am
prepared with ail the improved
teets._ 27 years grinding and
fitting glasses. All work guar
anteed. Childrcn'sJeyes specially,
I will be at my ho'ftie
Saturdays ang Mondays,
Of each week at rm residence. If
yon wish work Jione at home
notify me bv mpil.
P. F. BRADLEY,
Leon, Iowa.
Optician.
Money to Loan on improved farms at
6.7 and 8 per cent,
interest for 5,6 to 10
jrearstime. F. Vabga.6Son.
for active children
MlsM
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give (he longest wear for
the least money. Tripleo
knee,heel and toe.
Sold by dealers. Manufactured by
DES MOINES,HOSIERY MILLS.
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EXECUTOR'S MOTICE.
Estate of Charles ShaelTer, deceased.
Notice Is hereby glvvifi to all persons Inter
ested, that on the l#th day of March. A. D.
1900, the undersigned was appointed by
tne dfatrtct court of Dcc&tur count,v
Iowa, Aritalnlst rator of the entate of harl es
ShaelTer sr deceased, late of said county. All
persons indebted to said estate will make pay
meht to the undersigned and those having
olaims against the epme will present them
lepally aulhentrcated 70 suid court for allow
ance.
Dated March id, 1900.
30-Si hari.es Shaf.f^brjrAdministrator.
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2 Fancy Seed Potatoes, all Varieties, Early and Late, per bushel
ME/VTS r-
Fancy Breakfast bacon, pound...'...12c
Fancy streaked sides, pound 10c
Fancy fat backs, pound He
Fancy fat plates, pound 7c
Fancy dry salt plates, pound 7c
Morrell'-s pure lard1, pound 8c
Picn:c hams, pound 10c
I E I S
Fancy California peaches, pound.....10c
Fancy California prunes, pound tic
"*ancy evaporated apples, pound...luc
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LEON QUEENSWARE CO.
Phone 59.
Opera House Block.
O S I N E S S
1 All we
"ask
is to look at our
Rock BollomGrocery Prices.
6c. buys I can Tomatoes two pounds.
buys I can Pumpkin two pounds.
IOc. buys I glass Jell, assorted fruit.
25c. buys I dozen Fancy Lemons.
IOc. buys I pound Evaporated Apples.
20c. buys I dozen Oranges.
50c. buys sk. Clark's Special Flour:
$LOO buys I full sk. White Loaf Flour
ifejr none better.
ifc 25c. buys 2 sks. Meal.
25c. buys lO bars Something Good
Soap.
15c. buys 1 ib. Golden Rio Coffee.
iljr 20c. buys 1 lb. Peaberry Coffee.
iii 5c. buys 5 dozen Clothes Pins.
ijf 20c. buys I pail Jell."' L"
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OPERA HOUSE BLOCK.
LOW PRICED CASH STORE!
O N E 8 A N A I N E O N I O W A
FLOOR TOO LOT TO QUOTE PRICES- TRY OS ADD SEE!
3J Garden Seeds in Bulk or Papers. Onion Sets Red and Yellow
A LANDSLIDE-LOOK AT OUR PRICES
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Hay,forn, Oats, Straw, Chop, Bran, Shorts, Oil Heal,Chicken Feed!
Wood Delivered to all Parts of the City In Amounts of 25c and up.
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Passenger. ..\sS3 a.m.
H' ,!C-townS
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Canned Goods
Fancy Gallon Table Fruits.
Peaches per gallon... -..H3c^
Apricots per gallon 35c
Plums, pitted per gallon 35c
Raspberries per gallon 3oc
Blackberries per gallon 35c
Pumpkins per gallon 20c
Pieplant per gallon... 25c
Blackberries, 2 pound cau 5c"
California apricots 3 pound can 15c,
California peaches 3 pound can 15c
Raspberries 3 pound can, fancy 15c.
Blackberries 3 pound can, fancy 15c:'
Hargir,
Pumpkin 3 pound can, fancy IOc
Pieplant 3 pound can, fancy lOcJ
preserved strawberries 21b can ...12
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I NORTH
Passenger 2:88p. m.P
freight I":*)a. Freight 8:00'p. 111.* td
Passenger.. 11:57 am Freight 4:50p.m.
Freight 12:85p.m. Passenger. ..8:DOp. 'II.
K. «t W.
SOUTH. I NORTH.
Passenger 11:S3a.m. Freight 9:85 a.m
Freight a:50p. m. Passenger 8:45 p,
No. 17 Stock express going north, Sundays
only. Due7:15a.m.
No. 19. Freight on Wednesday only 8:05 a^
m. Takes the place of No. 13.
Coupon tickets on sale to all points. Call
for them and have baggage checked to destt
nation, a. S. Tharp, Agent.
We Open the
xt
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Wall Paper
Season!
,• Witli the finest line of
parlor, sitting room, din
ning room and kitchen
papers eversliownin I^eon
with prices ranging fro\
th» cheapest paper
tainable to liigheRt prr
on the market. Give
iih
Opportunity
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toshowyou what we have.'
Remnants one cent a bolt.
W E E S & 0 2
NotthSide Druggists.
SHEKIfr'F'S SAi.K. 2^
By virtue of an execution directed to mefrom^S
tlie Clerk of the District Court of Decatur -w
County, Iowa, oil a judgment obtained In said
(.ourt, on the 27ih day of March. 190U, in favor
of Bevls Bros, as Plaintiffs and against Alex
and Mary E.( reveling et al. hs Defendants
for the sum of Three Hundred and Sixty Thi ue
Dol'ttrsJiS.lS attorney's fees, und costs' taxed
at S18.80 and accruing costs. I have levied uu
on the following Real Estate, taken as the
property of said Defendants, to satisrv said
execution to-.wfet:
The easUW the S. E and N. W. of
E Sec/", township (18, range H7, and the
fcr- 'i Of tlie Fr. S. w.
'-4
•4 MS
4
of the ,N".„
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93
range ~J7. cont''
Ing w- W acres, mor oi less, west* P-ffl. L.
And wHl otter the same for *ale, to fhe high
est bidder for cash in hand, on thei?th dav of
April, A. D. 190J in front of the court house
doer In Leon. Iowa at the hour of 10 o'clock a
m. of said day, when and where due attend
ance will be givpn by the undersigned.
Dated at r.eon, Iowa, March 30,195).
Geo. F. Woi.bvek,
hertff of said County
feXECirrOR'S NOTtCK.
Estate of John 3urrell, deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all person^ Inter-"
ested that on the 2K.h day of .Marcli. A. I.
1900. the utidersignel was appointed by
the district court, of Decatur' ounty
Iowa, adrninistiator of the estate of Johii
Burrell deceased. lata of said county. Alt
persons indebted to said estate wil'l make
payment tn the undersigned, and those having
claims agaiUKt the same will present them
legally authenticated. to said court 1'or allow
ance.
Dated March 1»00.
33 3t wm, Huhuki.i., Executor.
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