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THE LEON REPORTER
O. E. HULL, Publisher.
LEON,
Bntered a* second
The ralio of representation by counties is as
follows:
Adams
Appanoose
Clarke
lieoatur .*g
Fremont
Xuoas
Page
Klnggold
Taylor ,,
Dnton
Wayne
When Rbtaevfelt was dominated for
Vice-president he was delegated to the
sweet Bubaequently. His aute-nomin*'
tion attitude would seem to prove that
he knew what was going to happen to
teM
1 Of the 700 trusts organized since
McKinley's incumbency only one is
•objected to by the republican bosses
and
'that iB the ice trust of New York which
•went to pieces long ago and which had
two directors of its fifteen who were
•democrats(Y), of the Cleveland kind, all
•the others republicans.
The New York Press continues to
'warn republicans not to be too confident
about New York. It says: "New York
is not what it was in 1896, in 1895 and
1894. It is an open battle ground. It
must be fought for, and hard! And the
'candidate or partv fortunate enough to
win it must do so in a terrific, if not a
•desperate struggle."
Mark Hanna i« going to recuperate
'from the strain of the Philadelphia
convention by a trip on his palatial
yacht on board of which he will have
-as his guests a number of millionaire
.•ii' ^monopolists. The result of the cruise
'will be
a
large amount of "fat" in
iHanna'8 band to use in subverting the
will of the people. Every precaution
should b«. taken by the democrats to
prevent corruption of tbe ballot box by
xthe Ohio boss.
The Pittsburg Post says: "If every
-city of the country received the nomi
-nations of McKinley and Roosevelt
with the same Btolid indiflerence as did
Pittsburg, we fail to see where the en
thusiasm is to come from. Never in
our recollection was there the same lack
'of interest or anything remotely ap
iproaching enthusiasm as was noticeable
-.about the newspaper bulletins. McKin
iley was excepted, because there was no
'recourse. It appears to haye been the
safne everywhere. All the correspond
entB unite in picturing the dull and spir
-titless character of the convention, on
which thousands of dollars had been
'lavished with the intent to make it a
•'corker.'"
PUTS IT PRETTY HIGH.
Ejc-Senator Quay of Pennsylvania is
•quoted as saying that "the' election or
defeat of President McKinley is a ques
tion of 9500,000,000 to Pennsylvania.
That is a pretty high estimate of the
value of a protective tariff to a single
-state, and we aBk every western farmer,
•every
coal consumer, every patron of
the Standard Oil Co. every man who
ruses iron or steel in any form who is
expected to pay this vast sum to the
industries of Pennsylvania? Are yon
'willing to vote such' a bonus from jour
pockets, from your children, to enrich
'the monopolie of the groat state of
"Pennsylvania? That is a question the
consumer as well as the otber fellow
v* «hontd consider »t the coming election.
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Leon,Iowa,Pottofflce.
Congresslonal Convention. C,'
The Democrats of the Eighth Congressional
nislrict will meet In delegate convention at
Corning, Il/wa, on Wednesday, July 18th. at
10:30 tor the purpose of nominating a candi
date for congress and for the tarnsactlon of
such other business as may properly come be
fore the convention. All voters In sympathy
-with the democratic platform and In favor of
Wm. J. Bryan for president are cordially In
vited to take part in the county conventions
tor the selection of delegates:
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J. P. MCGIOTT.
Chairman Congressional committee.
\V. MAXWKMii Secretary.
Tbe Kansas City convention will not
Tail to nominate.a strong candidate for
vice-president on the ticket with Colonel
Bryan.
The Chicago Times-Herald isindulg.
ioa in some mighty honest talk for a re
publican paper now days. Another xf
its editorals is furnished our reader* to
•d»y.
The republican platform's handling
•of the Philippine question aud the ship
subsidy job shows that the bosses of
that bossyridden party are afraid to
«how their hands upon either.-
The St. Louis Republic says: If
Thomas B. Keed, of Maine, isn't careful
he'll be arrested on a charge of lese
uiajeste for sneering at the imperial
iticketlof McKinley and Roosevelt.
It is evidently hard for McKinley to
•say no. His record in presidential vetoes
was just four. Harrison sent in 19,
•Cleveland 343 (in two terms), Hays 8
and Grant 46.—Des Moines leader,-
Tbe Kepublican National Convention
has adopted a platform of excuses, ex
pedients and apologies rather than of
principles. It audaciously seeks,
through the instrumentality of rhetoric,
to convert the sins of the party leaders
into virtues, and claims all the works of
Providence to be the especial beneficence
to the people of William McKinley and
bis associates in the Government
The resolutions represent that the
g{.country has been restored to prosperity
by the redemption of two promises
made in the Republican campaign of
1896—first to revise the tariff so as to
produce the necessary public revenue
and betfer. the condition of the people
*nd second, to avert financial disaster
and revise the money system with par
ticular reference to the establishment by
law of the gold stancbmi. Such declara
tions must be intended to influence
those who have taken no puns to study
the great economic question and who
will be satisfied in the future with dem
agogue (esolutions as their only text
book.
All intelligent men know that the
tarifl legislation under the present Ad
ministration has not oniy failed to raise
the necessary revenue, but has been-the
primary means of establisnment of the
trusts which are now burdensome to the
people. The surplus in the revenues
has been obtained through the imposi
tion of odious internal taxes, tolerable
in war times, but obstinately maintain
ed after the necessity for them has pass
ed.
The currency law is a delivery to the
banks and capitalists of the control over
the value ot money. It grants to the
few the privilege of issuing paper prom
ises that they do not have to redeem
Over their counters in gold. This dis
crimination between bank inoney
and the money issued directly by tbe
United States is favoritism that must
arouse the indignation of those who are
not among Ibefavomd.cliiMe^ them
selves. 'The question of Jreei «iyet is
said tiihave been eliminated from pol
itics for the presett. Whether it has
been or not tbe general question of fi
nance is a warmer issue than it was even
4 years ago. Congress and the President
have not taken a step on the money
question that has not been covertly or
overtly in the interests of the capitalists
and money monopolists, and against
the people.
The boast that ten millions of the
human race bave been given a new
birth of freedom through the war with
Spain is idle and impudent. It is a
falsehood of the most glaring descrip
tion when considered in the light of the
obstinate holding onto Cuba in contra
vention of the solemn promise in our
declaration of war of our treatment of
the people of Porto Rico as subjects and
mendicants rather than as citizens, and
of our adoption of the British policy of
conquest over colonies in our relations
to the Philippine Islands
The praises bestowed on President
McKinley are fulsome and nauseating
to the last degree, and would be repu
diated by any President who bad a be
coming sense of the dignity of the office
and who did not regard tbe Chief Mag
istracy simple as an instrumentality to
confer spectacular honor to him.
The cheap talk of cross roads dough
faces about menace to prosperity hav
ing always resided in Democratic prin
ciples, and about the incapacity of the
Democratic party to conduct public
affairs, is contemptible and unfit to be
introduced in a national declaration of
principles of a great party. It is the
blatherskite performance of politicians
who are driven to artificiality by their
own abominable record. It hurts the
Administration more than it does the
Democrats.
Tbe paragraph on trusts is a straddle.
It "favors" legislation in restraint of
abuses, thuB acknowledging that the
correction of the trust evil is within the
scope oi legislation, but neglecting to
refer to the fact that no honest and
candid movement was made against the
trusts during the long session of Con
gress just closed.
ESTABLISHED 1854. LEON. IOWA, THURSDAY. JULY o. 1900.
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THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
novai »wma wwotn oo«. new town.
office
Under the pretense of protecting labor
there is warm commendation of the
tariff policy which now, as In the past,
is chiefly, notable for the enrichment of
the tariff barons and the' establishment:
of trusty
There, is a lot of stock phraseology
about merchant marine, pensions for
this summer? Then add a
little
soorrs mmnMut
to his milk tlvee times a day.
It astonishing how f|st
he will Improve. If he nurses,
let the mother take the
Emulsion.
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BAKING
POWDER
soldiers, roads and highways and pub
lic domain, and to hoodwink the work
ing people there is a paragraph favoring
establishment of a new Cabinet
that of Commerce and Industry.
There is no thought of taking any such
step. This is only a campaign sop.
It may be said of this proposition, as of
many others in the resolutions, that
the whole machinery of legislation haB
been in tbe hands of the Administration
party for manv months and not a wheel
has been turned L'l'
The declaration on the Civil Service
is cowardly and evasive. "We com
mend the policy of the Republican party
in maintaining the efficitncy of the
Civil Service." That's all. Not a word
about Beyeral thousand offices having
been taken out of tbe classified list so
that Mr. Hanna might use them in his
work of political degradation. Not a
syllable to the wholesale blackmailing
of Federal officeholders and employes
last year to produce a party corruption
fund for use in Ohio. The declaration
that the Administration has acted wise-'
ly in its effort to secure for public ser
vice in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii* and
the Philippine IslandB "only those
whose fitness has been determined by
training and experience" is enough to
set tbe picture? of departed statesmen
which embellish the hall to "making
faces" at the delegates. "We bfelieve
that employment in the public service,"
says the platform writer, "should be
confined as far as practicable to their
inhabitants." He is an ignoramus, in
deed, who does not know that the po
sitions in the islands bave been looked
upon as money-making enterprises for
party servants. The carpet-bag syBtem
prevails, and it is as hoggish and dia
honest aa it was in ithe south just after
the Civil War.
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The paragraph on the South African
war is timid and meaningless. It is
without meaning save as it betrays a
fear of offending the British Govern
ment. Itreasserts the Mo^qe^octri^..jj4.sedr^Uli-:r^.
afteiLAlmoet having destfoyml it. '~*iL"
The promises that the war taxes will
be removed and that Cuba will be de
livered over to its right owners are
worthless. Why were these things not
done, while Congress was in session?
Tbe manifest purpose is to continue the
war taxes and add more to them to pay
the enormous expense of establishing a
standing army and. maintaining an im
perialistic policy. It is also the Ad
ministrations design to rob theiCubans
of their money and their island, and the
adoption of two columns of insincere
resolutions will mislead only the ig
norant.
Tbe Administrationistsit Philadelphia
haye encouraged the democrats' at
Kansas City to "make no mistake."—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
While it will not instruct for Bryan, it
will recognize him
as
Bryan's
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THE DRIFT TO BRYAN.
The Indianapolis News is confronted
with a problem. The News cannot ex
plain satisfactorily to itself, what, it
calls "The Drift to Bryau." The News
says:
The unaimity with which the demo
crats of the eastern states are falling in
line for Bryan is one of the remarkable
political phenomena o( tbe times.
Every one knows that there is almost
no sentiment in the east in favor of 16
to lor of the more populistic features
of the Chicago platform. The vote of
four years ago abundantly demonstrat
ed this.
In these four years the current hats
been against Bryanism general pros
perity and the progress of legislation
have strengthened and deepened men's
confidence in' the gold standard and
shown the weakneBs and failacy of tbe
arguments of those who desire to de
base Our money. And yet in spite otall
this, the eastern democrats, who, four
years ago were opposed to the surrender
of populism, are in, «tate after state,
expressing their allegiance, to the Chi
cago platform, and instructing their
delegates to vole for the nomination 'of
Bryan. Even New York istate is in line
tbe party leader,
and will promise to be regular in its
democracy this year.
The question1 invariably arises: Are
the Deiaaorats of the east sincerely con
verted. to Bryanism, or bave they seen
the futility of opposition i6 the face of
the sehtiment of the west and the south,
and 86 decided not only to make no
effort but actually to fall in line? We
are inclined to think that
the
theory is the correct one. But what
ever the explanation, it is apparent that
Bryan will bave no opposition at Kansas
City. It will not be surprising if faje is
nominated by acclamation. Probably he
is the choice of the great mass of dem
ocrats of the west and south. In the
populous states of tbe east neither he
nor
MB
doctrine has say greiter bold
on tbe people tb»n four yean agar.
And this leads tbe Omaha World
Herald to comment7 as follows:
Tbe New* ia in the. habit of saying
I.-,
that the money question I* no longer
an issue. Does it not that even
if the money question were an issue,
there are other issues at this time
pressing for BohitioiT. ft the News
would take an impartial glance at the
administration's record it" would read
ily discover the solution for its prob
lem. Men are tufriing in deep disgust
from tiie McKinley administration be
cause of its favoritism' for trusts, its
adherence to imperialism, itsvturibusi
nesslike and dmhonest methods and
its general un-American policy.
Men are turning.from McKinley to
Bryan because they know that where
one is weak the other is strong. They
believe Mr. Bryan to be' ar sincere and
honest man, and they think that a
strong will and determination accom
panies his sincerity and honesty.
Therefore, tbey are willing to trust
him, many of them in spite of the fact
that on one question they disagree
with him. They have been told by re
publican organs that the money, ques
tion is not one of principle, but rather
one of policy. Long ago they learned
that our institutions, our form" of gov
ernment are based upon well-defined
principles, and they know that the de
struction of these principles means
the ultimate destruction of our gov
ernment.
It remains to be seen whether Bryan
has "no greater hold" on the people
of the west than he hj}d four years ago.
Even the Indianapolis News does not
contend that he is any weaker in this,
section. It is admitted that in the east
and in the middle states Bryan is much
stronger, than he was four years ago. It
will probably develop that likewise
in the west he is much stronger than he
was four years ago.
Is it not strange that some republican
newspapers Bhould be ao thoroughly
blinded by their partisan prejudices as
to fail to recognize in. the events of the
day certain unmistakable signs? These
sigus point to Mr. Bryan's election and
yet, instead of recognizing their import,
these orggpjgoste their time in the en
deavor to fina some explanation that
will be more satisfactory to the republi
'ean cause.
The "drift to Bryan" has set in. It
will continue until the polls close in
November. No man can take an intel
ligent observation of the political situ
ation to-day without being impressed
with the thought that all the recog
When Teddy Roosevelt announced
that McKinley was possessed of a choc
olate ec|aire backbone, he didn't ^sup
pose thjiU he would play second fiddle
on the national ticket.
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pills to cure a pint of disease when
a dose of Morley'a Little Liver Pills for
Bilious Faople will cure you while you
deep. Sugar-coated. One a dose. Sold bj
L. Van Werden.
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Queen of Iowa QQq
per sack
California Evaporated
Peaches, pound
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2 pounds good bulk Coffee.....
1 pound Powdered Sugar
vV 1 pound Colored Sugar
3 packages Quail Rolled Oats
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Cannons
Small California IQp
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Fisli-Same Price.
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California Evaporated
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Leaders of Best Goods at low^
est prices.
Notice a few of the many bargains:
10 bars Dandy laundry soap.
4 bars toilet soap
3 cans Lewis Lye
Flour is rapidly advancing. Give us
call before our price advances.
Butter and Eggs as good
as Cash.-
FULTON & MANNING.
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We intend to have a little "roaring" at home, so to start the thing off, we
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Salt and Smoked Meat—Fish!
Breakfast Bacon 1QI
pound *"2^
Heavy Fat Bacon Qi
pound
FLOUR. FLOUR. FLOUR.
To close out what Flour we now have on hand, we will offer. $
f-ft Clark's Special Qf|p
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CORNER 8TH AND
mm
'FANCY DRIED FRUITS.
California Evaporated
Prunes, large, pound
California Raisins new 1
and fine, pound- Ojv*
'Come in and get our prices on goods and see the difference. We buy in large quan
ties for cash and give our customers the benefit
WE PAY CASH FOR BUTTER, EGGS AND POULTRY!
and pay you just what we get for them in CASH or MERCHANDISE.
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with which we come in con
tact helps to refine and
strengthen our finer nature.
Contact with beautiful furn
iture and beautiful sur
roundings subdues the
coarser and sharpens the
finer nature as a grindstone
sharpens a knife, little
children take in impressions
as a sponge takes in water.
Thev should have a cosy,
pretty home to live in. We
keep everything to furnish
homes cosily and reason
ably.
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We oitt^ a magnificent line of
uaents. The workmanship is unexcelled
atid pnaterial used first-class.
^e buy our stock in car load lots
direct from the quaries in the east,
therebyrenabling us to make
BETTER.
thph firms buying in small quantities
Our business is run strictly on a first
class basis and we
all our work to give perfect satisfaction.
J. A. HARRIS & BROS.
Fancy Streaked lOP"
Bacon, Pound
Most Close Out
Clark Bros. Sue-
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Passenger....5:83 a.m. Passenger3..9:88p.ni.-: Vi'l
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Freight 11:50 p. m. Passenger.
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No. 11—9:35 a. m.—Dally except Sunday aiw
Wednesday.
No. 1—2:40 m.—Passenger
Sunday.
Daily except^
No. 17—7:00
Sunday only.
TIo. i»—8:05 a. m,—Freight Stock express
Wednesday only.
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Sunday
a. m. Freight—stock express
m'—Passen8or—Dally
except
m'—freight—Daily
except
No. li—11:45 a. m.—Freight—Sunday only
all points west and northwest, our
tralnJNo.,1 makes direct connection at Oseeola
No lay over there at all, making the best con
nections for points in that territory.
A. a. Thabp, Agent.
Oils That
Wear. :l
Judge machine oils by the^
wear they give. It is
wear you want and judged
by this standard many an
oil costs double its worth.
We sell wearing oils, the
oils that go farthest, lub
ricate best and last longest
We know all about every
oil we handle, they have
been thoroughly tested and
the quality proved.
We have a large variety of
grades and prices, and
every oil is the best possi
ble value for the price.
W. E. MYERS & CO.
Druggists.
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Manufacturers of and ..
Manufacturers of and
Dealers in-
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cess, sack
[C3,. Evaporated Apples 01
special price, pound 4
[C3,. Evaporated Apples 01
special price, pound 4
Laundry Soap several
brands, 10 bars
Laundry Soap several
brands, 10 bars
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