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ESTABLISHED 1854.^#^"
LEON REPORTER
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LEON, IOWA
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MKINLEY MAY LOSE OHIO.
Ex—Attorney General Frank S. Mon
nett of Ohio in an interview on the Rep
ublicans this fall.
"I do,not see how tht Republican par
can escape punishment this fall", said
he.
"The platform of the Republican party
iii Ohio strongly condemns the trusts
and their unlawful method. I was elect
ed as attorney g« neral of Ohio on such
a platform, and as the officer of the state
and the representative of the partv I
carried out as best I could the platform
of the party. Yet I was not supported
in this by many of the leaders, and tie
party organs criticized me for doing jufct
what the platform of my party pledged
me to do. Newspaper of the state,
"about 110 of them, printed paid art
icles criticising my actions and they, too,
party newspapers.
"This ip not all. The legislature which
has just adjourned killed the Russell bill
and the maximum freight bill, and that
too by almost a strict party yote. Will
not the people punish the party for such
actions upon the part of its servants?
The party, as such, is not in sympathy
with such methods. Although the
Ruffell bill was bill No. 10, it was side
tracked by the trust lobbyists and held
back until near the adjournment and
then over the protest of some of the best
men of
the party, and almost all of the
Democratic members, it was defeated.
This was a repudiation pf the party plat*
form" and the sentiment of the party. I
cannot believe that we will escape
punishment, and I believe it will come
this fall. Why should not the party be
punished
when the men who control its
actions disregard the will of people?"
GET IN LINE.
The Chicago Chronicle, it will be re
membered, was the organ of the gold
democrat party in the campaign of1896,
and was the staunehest supporter of
•aimer and Buckner. Under the cir
cumstance tb.e following editorial from
wljjmns. Friday will prove of eBpec-j
-ial interest:
"Those Democratic brethren from
Indiana, who still choose to call them
selves'gold' democrats should fall in
with the procession instead of standing
aloof and 'resoluting' comprehensively
a ainst everybody and everything. A
negative platform never won a battle
and the position of our Indiana friends
is one of pure negation.
"They are opposed to Mr. Bryan and
the Chicago platform. They abhor Mc
S Kinleyism because, to use their own
language, 'there is hardly a democratic
doctrine which the present republican
administration has not violated or at
tempted to violate.' But they propose
nothing.
"This to not a year for simpu opposi
tion to everything. It is a lime for
and aggressive action.
very positive
Men can not be neutral. Sooner or
later both will take sides.
"With which side will the Indiana
gold democrats align themselves?
"Tbey have had ample demonstra
tion of the treatment tbey may expect
if they cast their fortunes once more
with that McKinley administration
-which has violated every democratic
doctrine. Will they attempt fortune
again?
"The issues of the coming campaign
are already made up and the democrats
are on the right side of everyone of
them. Imperialism, trusts, maladmin
istration at home and in the islands
east and west, the protective tariff rob
bery and excessive taxation—these are
the things wbich the republican pasty
will have to defend and which the dem
ocrats will attack.
"No d' ^ocrat can afiord to sulk In
his tent te the battle is going on.
"The democrats of Indiana
should get in line. They can call them
selves 'gold'.democrats if they like, be
cause this year the term excites no
feeling one way or the other. But
democrats without the prefix their place
is in the ranks of the grand army which
is moving against McKinleyism and all
its works.
4 "No .democrat, gold or silver, or
"greenback for that matter, can be spar
ed from his place in the coming battle^
fames R. Keene, the big New York
cnlator, who supported McKinley in
[called down a republican ,blnfler the
day ottering to bet $7,500 to $10,000
Jryan would defeht McKinley.
pesky Spaniards have got the
ns just at present. No wonder
laughing at the "campaign of
in" this country is making in
ly strikes for higher Wages in|
ger tbe counti are not ex-
LRepublican
papersas
eritjr.
^BSOBUlEEirMtE
ASTOUNDING DECISION,
Judge Gumuiere—William S. Gummere,
let his name be recorded in full—the New
Jersey Supreme court jurist, who decided
that "the life of a child of five is worth
from six cents to a dollar", has rendeted
another astounding decision.
In thislearned judge,this Daniel, come
to judgment, says: "The death of a labor
ing man making$1.50a day, while worth
as much in sorrow as the death of a mil
lionaire, is not worth as much pecuniarily
as the death of a man iking $10,000 a
year."
Such decisions are joyou9 utterances for
corporations whose operations endanger
human life.
Judge Gummere should be the patron
saint of the traction companies and the
railroad managers of New Jersey. He
renders the slaughter of human beings a
light and inexpensive amusement.
Judge Gummere received such\ a
"roast" from the press on account of his
former decision as to the value of a
child's liie that he has tried to render his
later decisions a shade less brutal by
admitting that the children, the wife,the
parents and the friends of a man who
works for $1.50 a day may be susceptible
of suffering grief at the loss of life, but he
still clings to his sordid, shocking and
dreadful financial doctrine as to the
value of human existence.
This judge—this William S. Gummere
of the Supreme court of New Jersey—is
not a disgrace to his state, for nothing
could disgrace the dwarfed and deformed
mother of the trusts—but he is a dis
grace to humanity, and that nobody
can denv.—Chicago Despatch.
THE "MISSING WORD" PLATFORM
Political platform, in order to be of
value should Bay what they mean* and
mean what they say. Our Republican
friends are prone to take things for
granted. Thus the Philadelphia Pres
summarizes the Republican and Demo,
cratic platforms up to date as follows,
without due regard "to lie conseq ibices:
We
Wtrrejoice—
V.
We glory—
We are proud—
We heartily support—
We entrust—
We commend—
We repudiate—
We mourn—
We decry—
We are ashamed—
We condemn—
We denounce—
We disavow—
Whereupon the Boston Herald re
marks: "It is scarcely necessary to say
which is which."
Lest, however, there might be a citizen
whose arduous occupation in keeping him
self and family above abject want, should
not have had time to solve the "miss,
ing word" puzzle, the Los Angeles
Herald comes to the rescue with the
following solution:
We endorse—imperialism.
We rejoice—in the trusts.
We glory—in Hannaism.
We are proud—of McKinley's record
as a Hopper.
We heartily support—a banking cur
rency.
We trust—the country to boss rule
We commend—militarism.
That is the Republican platform.
We repudiate—imperialism.
We mourn—the substitution of boss
rule for popular government.
We decry—the control of our money
system by the banks.
We are ashamed—of the war in the
Philippines.
We condemn—imperialism.
We denounce—Hannaism.
We disavow—militarism.
That is the Democratic platfofm.
On which do you prefer to stand?"
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[By James Creelman, In New Yorlt Journal.
"There is something about Mr. Bryan
that makes all who associate with him
more earnest, more ready to make sac
rifices and more American!"
The moral passion which dominates
and enfolds Mr. Bryan's public life is
also the key to his private character.
When Cicero spoke the people said:
"How eloquent is ,Cicero!" but when
Demosthenes spoke the psople said
"Let us go against Philip." There is
something about Mr. Bryan that makos
all who associate with him more earnest,
more ready to make sacrifices, more
intensely and peculiarly American.
There are no secrets in hi* life.' To be
with him is like walking on the sea
shore in the sunlight. At forty he has
still the the unsullied ideals, the un
broken faith ot a boy. And any man
may be his comrade if he will nay, his
very brother.
The other night in Chicago a commit
tee of strangers called to escort Mr.
Bryan to a public banquet. Mr. Bryan
went on shaving himself before a
mirror while he talked to the committee
and presently the visitors were busy
putting the studs in his shirt bosom.
An hour or two later he soared out of
himself in a really great oration, lilting
his hearers to the supremest heights of
patriotic thought—an appeal for a re
public so just in all its ways, so majes
tic in its virtue, that all the nations of
the world would turn to it as the arbi
trator of their differences.
Mr. Bryan is temperance incarnate.
He loves literature rather than art, the
trout stream rather. than the theatre,
the farm rather than the city, the small
church rather than the cathedral. He
loves men more than books and bookc
more than money. If |||S
There was a time when Mr. Bryan felt
that some day the crimes of lawless
wealth and rapacious corporate power
against the toilers of the country would
hring on
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^pse days MrTBryau wJ^^'f)eia5\ftir
witb~J he fi«rM,rUDfo^fii*iufc spirit of a
gladiator. But a new tenderness of
spirit has come into his life. He
seems to be filled with- -the idea that
love is the only uplifting force in the
world, and that love is as necessary
and as natural in politics and states
manship as. in private affairs. I have
heard him talk of his enemies without
a word of bitterness. I have heard him
defend Mr. McKinley from unjust at
tacks. He loathes and avoids person
alities or abuse in conversation. This
is one of the noblest and most attractive
traits in his personal life. He is decent
and tolerant in his speech .fair, just,
even tempered,
Two days ago a distinguished woman
said to me: "You haye associated with
Mr. Bryan a great deal. Isn't it a fact
that he is provincial, that he has not
polish enough for the White house?"
It is true that Mr. Bryan is provincial,
but only in the sense that Abraham
Lincoln was provincial. He is careless
of his clothes but careful of his morals,
He cannot speak French or lead a cot'
illon, but he dan give you in the purest
and sweetest English the story of the
struggle of man for liberty in every age,
and is familiar with $he solid literature
of the world- He has the outwardness
of a man who is big of mind as well as
of body. There is ruggedness of truth
in all his ways. He lives simply and
sometimes frugally, not because he cares
for money or because he does not know
that there are other and more extrava
gant ways of. living, but because his
tastes are simple. The very simplic
ity of his lite and speech is a corrollary
of his native dignit y. His quaint points
are the quaintednesses of his country.
Like lincoln, his peculiarities are the
signs of his pure and undiluted Ameri
canism. Nothing can be more graceful
than his unaffected, sincere home life.
It ittay be true that many of the present
elements of social life in the White
house Would be modified if Mr. Bryan
should be elected president, but be
would bring to that place the glory of
a mpnbood that has not been known
for many years. He. will attract to the
White house scholars, statesmen and
philosophers rat'uer than money change
ers or political harlots. And tbe hum
blest man in the nation would have ac
cess to the president.
I have met almost every great man
of my own time in the principal coun
tries of the wofld, but I have never met
a greater man than Mr. Bryan. As
rule,-one finds the idealist a man of
frail body, physicially incapable of
making a continuous struggle. But
there is an incorruptible idealist with
the physical strength of an ox. No
where in the world is there to be fonnd
a more perfect combination of mind
spirit, and body. The three are evenly
balanced' in the Democratic leader
mental ..energy controlled by intelli
gence, imagination .inspired by philan
tbropjri vtrtUUy disciplined by virtue.
[riilwwi&iaBLlswfe* fed
every year. His religious convictions
are vital to him, but he avoids religious
discussions. He seems to feel that
religion is a private thing between a man
and his God. "We are all trying to
cast out devils," he says,'"and each
man works in his own way."'
Four years ago Mr. Bryan was a west
ern many To-day he is national—al
most international. Then lie was sin
agitator now he is a statesman, llis
life and conduct are based on what he
believes to be the truth, and nothing
can induce him to abandon a cause if
he believes it to be righteous.
"And yet," he said only a week ago,
"I would be a fool if I did not rejoice in
the triumph of right rather than in the
of what I believe to be right."
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PROSPERITY BOEING.
During the campaign of 1890 tlie
conntry was dazzled and bewildered-' by
the sublime spiectacle of a small regiment
of Major Generals turned loose ainbng
them, all shouting down silver, and up*
gold, which shone so resplendently in
•imagination upon their glittering un
iforms, carried in a trunk and shook out
in the rural districts for effect. The re
suit was that many unthinking and tiuiid
spirits were awed or scared into casting
'heir ballots for McKinley and the glit.
tering gold uniforms.
In the campaign of 1900, with the erf
ceptionofaseries of "rough riding" enter
tainments by the advance agents of the
grand circus of 1904, the glittering Major
Generals will be substituted by an army
of newspaper correspondents, scattered
over the west, from the Alleghanies to
the Pacific, and from Duluth to the Gulf,
as well as diagonal!v and criss-cross to
all points of the compass, who will travel
in special Pullman palace cars lgden to
overflowing with "golden seal" and
pate de foie gras, and send glowing re
ports of "prosperity" as they see it
through the rosy spectacles of coal oil,
sugar, aimor plate, and other Jiighly
nagnifying media.
The plain English of it is, the people
are to be deceived, befooled and beffud.
died with the fumes of a prosperity, the
substance of which is appropriated,
owned, controlled and exploited .by a
specially favored class of monopolies,
among which are sandwiched the
prosperous concomitants of imperialism,
with Mr. Neeley, lately connected with
the Havanapostoffice, at their head.
A Republican candidate for Congress
uiai?y a^u^jfiGiS" tb^
nginan of bi^clisfrict could make a.
respectable and filling potage out of soup
bones, and should consider themselves
well off when they had that. He was
given the soubriquet of "Beef bone
candidate" on that account.
The new scheme of prosperity boom
ing will follow in Mr. Covert's lead, with
McKinley tin palls crammed \yith plum
dutt
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