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LEON REPORTER
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LEON, IOWA
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en Empire payer.*'
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•nd inseparable. Now and Forever."
PpjflppRATtp NATjpNA^ TICKET.
For President,
WM. JENNINGS BRYAN.
For Vice President,
AULAI E. STEVENSON.
m.
•SpijiK
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.
For Member of Congress JSigbtte-JMstrlct
y. R- M'GlNNJS,
Decatur Cgn nt^m
^p®gp
STATE TICKET.
For Secretary of State,
2, of Polk County.
-, S. B. CJLANE,
For Auditor efftate,
I. M. GIBSON, of Delaware County
a For Treasurer,
B. L. WILLIAMS,of O'Brien Couoty.
For Attorney General,
C. J. HARPER, of Lies Moines County.
For Judge of Supreme Couit,
J. W.KUEELAND, of Wayne County,
For Kaiiroad Commissioner,
J. E. ANDERSON, of Wlnuebago, County.
For Elpctorsat large,
JOSEPH EIBOECK, of Polk County.
Os H. MA KEV, of Wapello, county.
PPC l)(stript Elpctprs.
F|rst-p. R. MILLER, WasUtpftop.
nd=F. I KE.PIiS. aPH?«'P.
PH, Dtl
TWrd-JOBN ELWANGPK, Dubuque.
Kouptli^-MAJ.CARTBR, Winneshiek.
Ar RKBOK. Tama,
~"K. )CrHBEv«M «•»—J
Bl*lb—C, WILLIAMS. Mabiiska.S^ *.
Sever.tb—O. G. LOOMI8, Polk.
Klubtb-M. B. MARINO. Appanoose,
Nintb-J. J.8HAV, Pottawalumt 'X
Tentb-L. J. ANDERSON, 'arroll.
KieVentb—W. W.8TOWE, Dickinson.
COUNTY TICKET,
For Auditor
GEO. CA KI'W RIGHT
of High Point.
For Clerk of District Court,
ARTHUR E. MOORE.
of Decatur.
For County Attorney,
MARION WOODAKD,
-T of Leon,
For Recorder.
CHAS. H. BROWN
z1 of Uloomington.
For Member Board of Supervisors,
VV^f.H. PAZfalM't
ofCepter- s.
''Settle the coal strike" shouts Mark
Jlanna to the big bosH operators of the
east. "Settle it somehow until after
election' and do as you please after
that."
3 14 5*
The youth of the land have begun to
raaliae that the trusts haye closed the
door of opportunity in industry against
them and are demanding that the trusts
be suppressed and the door re-opened
'It*only to "buy
cost 120,000,000 to "buy the
war with the Philippines from Spain
bat it has cost 1200,000,000 more up
to. this time to carry it on and the
fnd is not afty nearer in sight than at
|be beginning,
LookVver the names of the men" on
ap
All
tbe democratic county ticket which
pears at the head of this column,
of them are worthy citizens, amply
qualified to fill the positions for .which
they have been nominated. They are
entitled to all the aid possible and should
be given tbe endorsement at the polls
f-'U
Kzisenator Quay is now on the stump
pleading for tbe election ofWcKintey
|nd for pity for himself,. Be is one of
-tooae tljorougblybad men, whose idea
'^q| statesmanship ia to bave a machine
jwd to make ali government minister to
mafi{ilne and. all ppbdc revenues
suppoHit He is so CQnstijtuted that
be is the enemy of good, eleao, .pure
elect{AB*''#p4,Rflif^r ^eant jioneat gov
efnpi^nt Tlt atogurs well for ^ennsyl
bM got Jiim dov|).
s^^«sr»s, sv
iiHSlSt
The Uanna "dinner pail'
be full of ''hot air."
appears to
All those who favor those *'twin relics
of barbarism, polygamy and slavery,"
will vote for McKinley. All opposed
will vote for Bryan.
A Columbus, O., special to the Chi
cago Record says that former Atlorney
Ueneral Frank 8. Monnett has joined
the Bryan column. Trusts are respon
sible for the new alleeiance. Mr. Mon
nett for many years held office as a re
publican, and during its administration
as the state's legal representative he
brought many suits to dissolve what he
judged to be illegal combinations of caj
ital. In none of these actions- was he
successful, and he was much piqued
over his numerous failures, lie has
concluded to openly join the Bryan
men at a mass meeting of workingmn
to be held here next week. He is pre
paring a long statement explanatory of
his action, and this will be read at the
meeting. .t»
Evidences of McKinley prosperity
constantly multiply. Not only hun
dreds of thousands of dinner pails are
empty and the wife who would cook
the dinner to fill the pail if she had the
wherewith and her children, starving
but mercantile failures were never be*
fore more plenty for a long term and
they are constantly increasing in num
ber.
This is what Dun Sf Co. (rep, goldite
and imperial) say for last week about
the failures:
"Failures for the week were 200 in the
United States, against 134 last year, and
twenty-three in Canada, against twenty
last year."
This is what the gold standard and an
unjust and unlawful war does for us.
If the republican party is given four
y«ara more of power the trusts will be
come so strongly intrenched that it will
require almost a revolution at the polls
to dislodge them, i?oqr years more of
republican rule will make imperialism
ihe established policy of this country
and may lead to disastrous wars with
European powers. Four years more of
republican administration will make the
party of McKinley and Hanna believe
tjhaUthaf|^
^tfiattheplainpe6p&of ibis couhtry^bave
ilAjrif^ *hieb^
'Iptoi.' l?ottr more years of McKinleyism
will makelt difficult for any young man
to make a living except by the grace of
the trusts. It is high time, therefore,
for young men to enlist with their fath
ers in the fight against the forces which
now dominate this government—against
the forces of plutocracy, corruption and
imperialism.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
That tbe republicans ape afraid tha
Corporation Pete will not be able to
longer work his confidence game on the
voters of this district is evident by the
big guns they are sending into the dis
trict to help enthuse, tbe yoters and
keep tbe republicans in line tor him if
possible. Lieut. Governor MiUiman has
bsen here, Dolliver spoke in several
places in the district, Shaw and Baldwin
are billed, and now it is given out that
Allison will speak at Shenandoah Thurs
day evening of this week. If democrats
do tbeir duty and get out to the polls
on election day, even the big guns they
are sending into the district will avail
them nothing. Hepburn has sat in con
gress as tbe pliant tool of the corpora
tions and money power for twelve
years. He has done simply uothing to
advance the interests of the farmers,
laborers and producing classes although
he made sacred promises to them for his
re-election after they so umnerpifqlly sat
down on him in These glasses are
getting tbeir eyes open to Hepburn's
real position in oongress, and there is
all probability tbat they will turn the
gentlemen down again this fall,—Cres
ton Advertiser,
The question of the workingman who
is to vote in November in this: If Mc
Kinley prosperity has increased tbe
cost of everything he eats, drinks or
wears, as well as the shelter tbat covers
him, 25 per cent., while his wages bave
not increased at all, or at least not e^
ceeding 10 per cent., taking a general
average, what will become of hitf family
at the end. of four years more of such
grinding by the trusts? Where has
McKinley prosperity increased tbe con-,
dition of the 16^,00^ anthracite tyunerg
now on a strike for living wanes and
pdlieffrom extortion? The trusts are
grinding down tbe workingmen of Amer
ica, both in advanced prices and low
wages, in order to pay dividends on
watered capital. The trust doubles tbe
stock of the factories or companies it
absorbs. In order to sell this stock tbe
trust must double its earnings. With
practical monopoly of the market it ad
vances the prices of its products, cuts
dowty expenses by discharging clerkg
»ud trftvplius salustpen^ tind plows pomp
of. its fatitqrieg to make itq oqtpt|t scarce
Tbe same process is followed as to coal
provipions And everything wbloh enters
Into Consumption, Thus profits a rerun
up until dividends can be/wade alike
upon the watered stock and the actual
capital. This continues until the inevi
table crush coiqes, tbat ipllowp aU at-?
tempts to make sometbibg out of noth
ing. A good proporifoii ef Ibe .'wateiisd
stock it nothing. Labor bfs to bsar the
Hon'* sbafe of ftaqltine
eventually froths'tn^Tway of doing
Win. J, Bryan has excited the con
tempt and stirred the indignation of
the editor of the Leon Journal, because
he quotes from Abe Lincoln and Thomas
Jeflerson. Stookey's indignation and
contempt will cause Bryan to lose lots
of sleep. S
The -farmers of Decatur county are
given a splendid example of how the
trusts benefit them and reduces prices
when they purchase a barrel of salt.
In 1896 Hie two grades of barrel salt
sold at 80 and 90 cents a barrel. To-day
when the farmer ouya a barrel of salt
he has to pay $100 an I $1.75 for the
same grade. The suit irust is one of the
products of lite republican party.
Mr. Bryan, in answer to a false charge
that was exploded four years ago that
he had written an editorial opposing
old soldiers and pensions, said in a
speech in Illinois, "tbe false story is
again issued by the republicans and ail
I need say iq reply is that if am elect,
ed 1 will not have to search very long
or to'search very far to find a commis
sioner of pensions who will be more
satisfactory to the old soldiers than
the present commissioner."
The Leon Journal says the farmers
now buy 14 and 15 pounds of gran
ulated sugar for $1.00 and in 1890 they
bought 16 to 17 pounds. How many
farmers will be fooled by such misrep
resentation? If he steps into every
grocery store in Leon he will learn that
be can buy exactly 1S| pounds of sugar
for $1.00, and he Imqwa that before the
sugar trust got complete control of the
sugar interests he bought 20 to 22 pounds
for $1,00. Oh! yes, the trusts cheapen
prices for the consumer. The price of
.sugar is proof of it.
Tbe Leon
lecture last week to, the*«epublican
voters O^ Decatur ^U"nt^ wtfo^^w
manifested their Independence and
rights as American-citizens to scratch
their tickets in previous elections and
wfuSA-to vnta for nnnoo of tbe tools of
the Leon ring. It is a well known fact
that many good republicans have re
fused to be bossed the last few years
*nd they do not propose to allow the
editor of the Journal to dictate just bow
they shall yote. They are sick and
tired at Dictator Stookey, and do not
care for his advice.
Hon. V. McGinnja, democratic
candidate for congress was in Corning,
yesterday, shaking hands with the
many friends and forming new^-eflesT
Mr. McGinnis is -a-'velfy"~'plea8ant and
agreeable gentleman, easily approached,
does not think he has the people of the
8th district in his vest pocket, is not an
old worn but spayined politician, but a
young man full of vim, energy and
without a blemish. He would make
the people ot this district an ideal con
gressman and a few more like him in
the place of some who ought to be laid
on tbe shelf would place Iowa at the
head of the congres«onal delegation,
the place she held a few year ago. Vote
for the man.—Corning Free Press.
PENSIONERS to pay piper.
Henry Clay Evans is still Mr. Mc
Kinley's commissioner of pennons. He
is still administering the laws of con
gress according to bis own sweet will.
Over400,000claimsare pigeon-holed' in
the pension office
The Grand Army of the Republic has
appealed in vain to president McKinley
for fair treatment .and. a'- fair interpre
tation of the law. But the president has
refused to listen to the appeals. He has
told tbe Grand Army men who wailed
upon bim that tbe money power was
opposed to «nlarging tbe pension roll.
This accounts for Comrade McKin
ley's otherwise inexplicable attitude.
The money power has 'teen him. It
has told bim that the peh$jo,q roll could|
not be syndicated an^ th^t therefore
it tty^st be Tednced. it pould not' be
monopolized and formed into a trust
and therefore it must be treated with
auspioion.
The money power knows "where it is
at." It is just now engaged in a war
of conquest for syndicate purposes in
the far east and it is costing a good deal
of money, which the people are. paying
every time tbejk lick a stamp or buy a
pound of sugar. They can't even dip
without contributing to the wat fund oi'
tbe imperial pow?F(
Rnt the money power understands
(bat this sort of thing oan't go on
forever. Borne day tbe taxpayers will
begin to kick. They have stood the
pension taxes without a murmur. But
will they stand pension taxes, and war
taxes, too?
Tbe money power thinks not, There
it tells the major to out down the
pension roll so that the war fund may
not be Imperiled. The soldiers v^bo
fought to pretpr^ tt^e ^qion are to pay
the poet of iloKiniey's mtr in the Pbil
ippines, The money po£er has decreed
LEON. IOWA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1900.
.Crawford of
republican
Ex-Governor Samuel J.
Kansas has deserted the
party and come out for Bryan and anti
imperialism. Governor Crawford ran
on the Bame ticket with Abraham Lin
coln. He states that the ''republican
party has broken away from its safe
moorings and is in the whirl of a mid
summer madness."
STUDY.
The Trust Question as It Applies
To Every Alan's Home.
This is a good time to study the trust
question and understand it. While the
ordinary citizen is pitying the brave
mine workers of Pennsylvania he must
not forget himself. The cruel system
that is blighting their lives is silently at
work in his own hom^
It is in the pbwer of every man who
has a home to turn bis back on the po
litical economists and And out for him
self in a single day just ?what the trust
question amounts to. He-does not need
to be a college-bred man, It matters
little whether he can read or write. The
man who really wants to know what the
trust question amounts to can make a
Complete investigation of the facts
without going outside of his own house
hold.
Let him ask his wife, or mother, or
sister, or housekeeper the price of meat,
flour, sugar, oil, canned goods, coal,
sh oes, clothing, household, utensils and
Qther things that make up the bulk of a
man's living expenses, compared .with
prices a year and a half ago.
Then let bim ask himself whether his
wages have increased in tbat time.
He will find tbat the trusts have rais
ed the cost of living more than 25 per
cent, while his wages hfeve remained at a
fixed point or.ha^e advanced something
like 5 per cent.
I challenge any (nan it the United
States to make an investigation into
this question for himself. It is a big
question. It involves millions of .his
fellow men. It involves his own fam
ily. He may read and read until his
eyes fail him and may yet remain in
doubt and be unable to yote intelligent
ly on the matter. But his home is an
open book in which he can find the
trust question written clearly and un
mistakably.
Last week I went to the anthracite
coal fields to search for the causes of the
pending strike. I did not rely on tbe
organized labor leaders I did not rely
on the mine ownen or superintendents.
went to the sbjinties of the miners
themselves. Then I fouiid the .naked,
ti&<pr~down by the'tioal Trust.
Let the citizen who would know the
truth examine bis own case. Then it
will be time for himjo study bw neigh
bor.
Why have wages stood still white the
cost of living has advanced? Is the con
dition an accidental one?
The explanation iB this: In the state
of New Jersey, for instance, in the year
189*9, therp 'were incorporated trusts
with an aggregate capitalisation of about
two and a half billion dollars.
This was in one state in-nti« year,
About half qLttfs enormous sum of
trustjjtoekfepresents what Wall street
men call "water." A trust buys out 10
factories worth $5,000,000 in actual
value. It then issues $10,000,000 of
stock. Before this happened the 10
factories simply had to earn reasonable
profit on the actual capital invested in
the business. But the trust has $5,000,
000 of stock representing absolutely
nothing but the paper it is printed on.
In order to sell this watered stock to
the public tbe trust must earn dividends
on it. "It* must double the profits of the
factories. Having practically secured a
monopoly of the tparket, tbe trust at
once raises the prices' of its products.
Jt discbarges clerks and traveling sales'
men and closes some of the mills in
order to make the product scarce. It
tramples down all attempts at competi
tion which might reduces prices.
Neither the workingmen in the mill
nor the public which buys tbe product
of the mills gets the benefij of the trust.
Profits sufficient to declare dividends on
the watered stock are earned, and the
stock is "worked ott" on innocent and
gullible outsiders. The makers of the
trusts have gathered in millions of dol
lars.
That is the explanation of the- extra
ordinary facts which an investigation of
your household expenses will disclose
That is also the explanation of the
semi-starvation in the anthraciie coal
fields which has driven 140.QQQ men in'
to open reyoU
Senator Hanna«aid not long ago: "So
long as trusts have not proved a menace
to business nor to the laboring interests
of the country, so long as all that is
said about them is merely talk and
nothing but talk, so loug as they bave
not proved a curse tp the country, I be
lieve they should be let alone.
Mr. Hanna is the absolute master of
tbe republican party. The Prebident
and the Attorney-Qeneral have followed
his advipe, and, notwithstanding the
federal AntUTrust law, whiob the Su
preme Court of the United States has
declared to be both constitutional and
necessary, the trusts have been "let
alone," and Attorney-General Monnett,
of Obio, who attempted to prosecute the
Standard Oil Company, was driven out
of his party In disgrace by Mr. Hanna.
But what do you tbink about it?
Should the trusts be "let alone?" If
not, what is the best way of restraining
them? Wbieh is Inore likely to try to
gni~s remedy—William McKinley. or
William^JenmngsBryan?
This is a question personal to your
•elf.' Ittrmhai! op,wiUt every, uiouib
•to -'mi
tit
^w5
AKMOTEiyPURE .•
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
cloth you wear and with every ton of
coal you burn. You cannot put the
burden of Investigation upon your
neighbor. The facts are present in your
own house.
And when the trust system is perfect
ed and the small manufacturers and
business men are all converted into
clerks or agents, what chance will there
be for your son to go into business for
himself? jjJrL r^sj
Dare you' vote to take away hope
from the youth of America.—New York
Journal.
REPUBLICAN BLUFF CALLED.
Chairman Hutiman of the democratic
state committee is receiving congratula
tions for the effective manner in which
he called the bluff of a firm of local shoe
manufacturers and dealers, who an
nounced that if Bryan was elected they
would close their business on the morn
ing of Nov. 7. The firm is Bentley &
Olmstead, and its members are uncom
promising republicans. Mr. Olmstead,
after consultation with officials of the
republican state committee, reached the
conclusion that he could aid the cause
of McKinley by expressing lack ot con
fidence in Bryan. He said that in the
event of Bryan's election he would feel
compelled to close the store rather than
pass through an ordeal of commercial
depression such as followed the second
election of President Cleveland.
The bluff was called in a most unex
pected manner. The day it was pub
lished a rerired capitalist of Des Moines,
J, K, Laycock, who was formerly a boot
and shoe man in the city of Detroit,
came forward with the statement that
he had organized a corporation of Iowa
capitalists who stood ready to engage in
the wholesale boot and .shoe businsss.
ley A Olmstead, ^anteed
?,~.i*l8a'
of the firm of
Bentley & Olmstead at an advance of io
per cent, over the wages they now re
ceive.
Mr. Laycock let it be known that as-
sociated with him in the proposed busi
ness venture were J. B.
BOYAL BAKINO POWDER OO.. NEW YORK.
Romans, a
corporatiafrfsjrjfoooooo
rich
resident of Dennisonj Mayor J. J.
Hartenbower, of Des Moines, and J.
Carroll of Newton. These f9ftP""igen sig
nified their readiness4»f{^itaiize
their
if nece88ary.
names were enough to guarantee
their sincerity. They are men who
would not indulge in a senseless blufl
for the mere sake of calling the blufi of
a republican merchant.
It can be stated on excellent author
ity that these men did not enter into
the controversy impulsively, but first
took care to ma"ke a careful survey of
field for the purpose of determining its
business possibilities, and after they
had satisfied themselves that they were
all right, that Bentley & Olmstead could
afford to pay their employes 10 pet
cent, increase in wages and that they
were protected in subscribing a large
capital for a shoe business they caused
the announcement of their purpose to
be made. Mr. Olmstead has said noth
ing since, and he is not likely to re-open
the question for along lime.
THE INDICATIONS.
Mr. Johnson, whose position on ihe
Democratic National Committee enables
him to figure as intelligently op the re
suit of the election as any other man
living has issued a statement accomp
anying his table, which certainly sug
gests sincerity. His figures elect Bryan
by a large majority. He says:
"The figures \yhich I have suggested
are based not only upon oorrect and
reliable information which our commit
tee has received from every state in the
qnion, but upon these further remark
abie facts.
"Every one knows that the gold dem
ocratic vote of the country elected Mc
Kinley in 1896, and it is well known
that 90 per cent, of that vote will be for
Bryan this year.
"Every one knows that the German
vote was unanimously against Bryan
four years ago. We have reliable in
formation that 80 per cent, of tbat vote
will be cast for Mr. Bryan in many of
tbe pivotal states. This latter state
ment is true also with respect to more
than one of the other, distinctively
foreign classes of voters.
"In the states of Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and
Maryland, tbe negro vote holds tbe
balance of power. The outspoken and
vigorous reyolt of Bishop Turner and
many other men high in the negro
Methodist and Baptist churches will
carry an avalanohe of votes in those
states from McKinley to BiyanJJ.:i
The Sultan of the Sulu Inlands and
favorite wives are in Hong Kong^Cbioa,
spending tbe Balary teingp«dd him and
hi»,haramMrvant^byilcJ^n|eJyoUtef
pur people'a bard earnings. Mr McKi
ley sanctioned: that viefced trtwly jrh
iiiM 11 dt 1 •filrt#r»rtfiSi^artfr7i -rJMhiJmh'i
REPORTER SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 8
POWDER
THEY ARE BADLY, SCARED.
I
That the republicans are badly scared
in this district is evidenced by the force
of outside speakers they are bringing in
to the district. Dolliver acknowledged
to be one of their biggest guns, ma^e
several speeches outside of Creston, and
Lieutenant Milliinan has also made sev
eral speeches throughout the district.
Now Gov. Shaw, the boldest goldite and
imperialist of the lot, is billed to speak
at Creston on tbe 24tb, and John N.
Baldwin, the famous and eloquent cor
poration lawyer of Council Bluffs, is "bil
led to speak at Afton on. the 16tb:
Hepburn is at Hot Springs, trying to
get relief from an attack of rheumatism,
but hopes to be back in the district in
time to speak at Creston in the after
noon of the 12th.
Hepburn has become a. greats leader
among the corporation element in' con
gress, and it is earnestly desired that he
be returned. -It is known that his rec
ord so unsatisfactory to the agricultur
alists of the district he is supposed to
represent is being given to his constitu
ents, and great fears are entertained for
his ability to longer fo.ol the people of
this district, hence the efforts put forth
in his behalf.
In the campaign of 1886, when Hep
burn was defeated on the interstate
commerce issue, he went before the peo
ple of this district on his dignity, not
feeling obliged to explain the rates of
freight which railroads were permitted
to charge for shipment of grain and live
stock to Chicago markets. When ar
raigned by his opponent, Hepburn de
fiantly asked, "What are you going to
do about it?" The vot^ra of the district
showed him by their votes what they
gfe going to do about it. They en
the. Keagan bill for maximum
The Culipm bill was passed, howevei
and the commission established. For a
time things were better in the way of
rates, but we have seen the comm^^Q
gradually shorn of its
When Hepburn next came before the
people for election, it was pitiable to
see how he humiliated himself, and told
the people he knew he had, not beeii in
close touch with the masses and their
interests but that if they returned him,
he had learned a lesson he would profit
by and tbat in the future tbeiit interest
would be his sole aim. Has he kept
his pledge to those people? Let us see.
He had been in congress but a short
time when he was made chairman of the
interstate commerce committee, and
why was this? Because he was the
representative of the corporations and
not the people, and tbe corporations
wanted him in that position to guard
their interest, and the republican party
which has been the servant of the cor
porations, trusts-and combines for years
placed bim there. The interstate com
merce commission has -repeatedly com
plained of its inability to enforce its
rulings as to interstate rates, and asked
for remedial legislation, but Mr. Hep
burn as chaiiman of that committee,
has turned a deaf ear to its demands..
He has never attempted to make the
law of benefit to the constituents he
represents but has looked after the in
terests of the corporations all the time.
He has voted taxes on the farmer in
the way of tariff taxes on lumber, wire,
nails and everything he has to buy, and
has nerer attempted to keep his pledges
to them. Well may he and his corpora
tion backers feel Beared, if the people
of his district are only aroused to his
utter worthlessness and treachery to
their interests in congress, for he will be
as surely defeated as be was by Maj
Anderson in 1886.
Mr. Hepburn's opponent is a man of
the people and not of the corporation?*
He is one of the masses, and will look
after the real interests of the whole peo
ple, it elected, and not of the corpor
ations. From present^ appearances he
is going to be elected.. The republican
bosses see it in the coming election, and
$re using herculean efiorts to' avert the
disaster to their brilliant corporation
server. Mr. Hepburn.—Creston Adver
lieer
No one can observe any disposition
on the part of republican orators to
take issue with Mr. Bryan and Mr,
Hill-on the questiou of government by
injunction. Mr. Hanna does not want
it mentionpd~on his aide. The truth is
that the United Statea senate went on
tecord in favor of curtailing the im
mense powers,how Assumed by courts
to punish for contempt The bill was
then strangled in -committee in the re
.iiUicap,. house. Go*«rnme^. by ,,i»
&itiHsiy
the
Action 'Bt£ii retaafii#lLnd thi
r. Banna. The leas
Satisfies
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HOW TO MARK
Attorney General
BALLOTS.
Remley Gives
an Opinion on Subject.
Attorney General Remley, iri answer
to an inquiry as to how to mark ballots
in the coming election, issued the fol
lowing yesterday.
"If a ballot obviously intended to te
marked as a straight ticket have the
point at which the lines cross inside the
circle, the ticket must be counted
whether any or all of the arms of the'
cross extend beyond the line of the
circle. If the point where the lines'
cross is on the circle, or inside, it
must be counted. If they cross each
other outside the circle the ticket is to
be thrown out.
"If a voter cannot mark his ballot,
and so states to the board, it is for the
board to decide whether he is telling
the truth or not. In ordinary cases an
affidavit is unnecessary. If, however,
the board believes that the voter is tell
ing an untruth, they have an undoubt
ed right to ask for his affidavit, so that
if he' has told a falsehood he may be
prosecuted for perjury."
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DEPEW ON IMPERIALISM,
Senator Depew said in his speech in
Chicago last Monday evening:
"The terror of imperialism is a ghost.'
I mean American imperialism. It has
been tried for 100 years. It was prac
ticed by Washington, it was tested up
on an enormous scale by Jefferson, it _•
was put in operation by Monroe, Jack
son, Polk and Pierce. All gave it their
sanction, all of them, to the great
glory and power of our country, pur
sued th$ same path of imperialism
which is now being tried by president
McKinley."
19 Senator Depew quite sure about
thi^?
1^ the Chicago Times-Herald of May
22, 1(898, appears an interview with Sen
atorVDepew, from which the Record pre
sents a few extracts:
'rf^we should keep the Philippine
Islands/-said Mr. Depew, 'we would re
vers^the traditions of ibis government
frongr its foundation^ We would open
utka new line jji^BiPy-/ Let^ us
see
tertW.t
overnment over possibly, ^,
people 6,000 miles away
it would mean the increase
6f our navy to the proportion of' the
navies ot Europe. What else
does a world wide-policy mean to us?
It means the centralization which
would change materially the relations
of the United States to the federal
government. The control of these pop
ular colonies would be centered at
Washington, and we should haye a
centralisation cf power far beyond
what the old federalists ever dreamed
of. You cannot have empire without
all its attributes, and that means a
practical revolution of our form of
government and an abandonment of
the beliefs which the fathers held when
they established this government in,
1776.'
Senator Depew also points out in
this interview tbat territory previous
ly annexed waB contiguous to the Unit
ed States and sparsely settled, so that
it was practically virgin soil from which
to carve out new states inhabited by
Americans. Is Senator Depew right in
saying that president McKinley is
treading the path that was tiodden by
his predecessors or is there truth and
wisdom in the words spoken by bim
more than two years ago which are
quoted above?
The distinguished senator from New
York ought to have more respect for
his own reputation as a statesman than
to declare that there is no difference
between holding as a colony certain is
lands, densely inhabited by Malays and
situated 6,000 miles from the coast of
the United States and annexing virgin
soil lying on this nation's borders set
tling it with our own people and trans
forming it into sovereign states of the
American union.—Chicago Record.
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