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THE LEON REPORTER
O. E HULL, Editor.
LEON, IOWA
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One year $1.50
Six months 75
Three months 40
Entered as second class matter at the
fieon, Iowa, Postofflce.
Xtth, NO THIRD TERM.
The Tribune is not for the renomina
tion and re-election of President Koose
velt. It does not even favor his elec
tion to what some of his admirers
choose to call a "second elective term."
There area number of reasons why
the Tribune is not in favor of Roose
velt's re-election.
One of them is that he has solemnly
declared that he will, under no circum
stances accept another term if it should
be offered to iiim—that he would not be
a candidate or permit a nomination to
be forced upon him.
In this we think the president is wise.
While he has not served two full terms,
he has had seven years of the presi
dency, and if he were to be elected for
another term, would serve more years
than Washington or any other presi
dent. He has had seven laborious and
useful years in the white house, and
has more than met the just expecta
tions of his countrymen. His fame
could not be greater than it is. He
could not at the end of another four
years' term be any more popular or
more firmly intrenched in the affections
ot his countrymen.
President Roosevelt is amazingly
popular. The railroad men do not like
him, and a great many men engaged in
finance think he might be improved
upon. Even Mr. G. B. M. Harvey has
visited upon him tokens of his disap
proval. But it is only necessary to go
about the streets, on the railroad trains
and in places of public assemblage to
discover that President Roosevelt is as
highly regarded by his countrymen at
the present moment as he ever was.
The Tribune is opposed on principle
to the third term. It risked much in
1880 when it opposed the renomination
of General Grant for a third term. It
would risk as much in 1908 if it should
become necessary to oppose the renom
ination of President Roosevelt under
simimilar conditions.
The Tribune, for one, is not willing to
admit that there is but one man in the
United States who is capable of serving
as president. There are 80,000,000 peo
ple here, and among them all there
most be more than one who is lit to
occupy the white house and discharge
the duties of the chief magistrate. We
believe that there must be more than a
dozen in the republican party alone.
Moreover, it is by no means certain
that the renomination of President
Roosevelt for a third term would be fol
lowed by an election. The Tribune may
be mistaken on this subject, but it be
lieves there is a deep, abiding feeling
among the people that two terms are
enough for any man. Part of this feel
ing may be latent. It may not have
been aroused. It would be when the
campaign came on if a popular candi
date should be opposed to Mr. Roose
velt on the other side. It would be
proclaimed that we were tending to
wards imperialism, and we would be.
If the tradition in regard to the third
term should be broken down there is no
reason why it should not be followed by
a fourth or a fifth term, and as Mr.
Roosevelt is comparatively a young
man he might continue to be elected
for several terms more.
The people are not ready for that.
They believe a change in the white
house is a good thing, as well as a
change in other political offices. In
deed, the superstition that the life ten
lire for Judges is an admirable thing is
rapidly dying out. There are objections
to itjwhich have been sufficiently demon
strated in England, and sometimes in
this country. The life tenure of feder
al judges has its drawbacks. There are
some federal judges who should not be
in office today, and who would not be if
it were a question either of re-election
or reappointment. Along term and a
large salary, as in New York, would be
preferable to the life term. A life ten
ure seems to be an invitation to the ar
bitrary use of power, and sometimes to
laziness, self-indulgence, and self-ex
ploitation, instead of devotion to busi
ness.
No man is good enough to be presi
dent forever, and the Tribune, for one,
will not admit that among the 80,000,
000 people in the United States there is
not one so good as Theodore Roosevelt
who may be chosen to succeed him in
the white house.—Chicago Tribune.
Admiral Winfield Scott Schley was in
formed the other day that he was again
being boomed for vice president. The
veteran sailor said with marked anima
tion: "My whole life's training has
tended to unfit me for civil duty and I
feel sure that if were to accept a re
sponsible office I should soon be heartily
despised. No man trained to the trade
of the soldier or sailor is fit to hold
office in a government like ours. Every
oue who has tried it has proved a fail
ure So to the duce with this talk of
me for vice president or anything else.
The Chicago Record-Herald says that
Abraham Lincoln would not feel flattered
by the claims of many people that they
look like him. But if Lincoln were
sensitive he would have been heart
broken long ago over the claims of re
publican newspapers that they thought
like him.—Omaha World-Herald.
The Philadelphia Record suggests that
President Roosevelt direct Secretary
Gortelyoa and Treasurer Bliss to publish
a detailed account of the receipts and
expenditures of the republican national
campaign committee. This is calculated
to make Mr. Cortelyou wriggle if not to
talk.
The assembly of the New York legis
lature passed, with but one dissenting
vote, the bill providing for a flat rate of
two cents a mile on all railroads in the
state. J''
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Secretary Taft is coming home in the
Mayflower. It is safe to say that with
a true Pilgrim's foresight he will be
ware of the Foraker Indians.
WHO GETS THE MONEY.
There is no news in the latest story
from Washington which says that a
powerful faction of the republican party
is preparing for a bitter and stubborn
fight to prevent control of the next
national convention by President
Roosevelt and his friends.
The Aldrich and Foraker forces have
been fighting him ever since his elec
tion, and nothing has been more certain
than that they would keep up the fight
until the nominations are made, perhaps
longer, if Roosevelt should win.
Nor is there anything surprising in
the story that the anti-Roosevelt lead
ers have already raised S5,000,000 as
the nucleus of a fund with which 1o
carry on the war. If it is not true, it
is, perhaps, only because the amount is
not given with the accuracyof a finan
cial statement.
These significant facts in the news
we are getting these days is that when
ever two or three big republicans get
together to talk high politics they talk
high finance. In their calculations the
political principles, the wishes, the will
and the power of the 15,000,000 or
18,000,000 voters in this country are
nothing, the money bags everything.
But who gets the money? The liberal
expenditures for headquarters, for spell
binders and distribution of campaign
literature, generally mendacious, hardly
accounts for '25 per cent of the vast
funds which the "interests" in control
of the republican party have poured out
in the political campaigns of the last
ten or twelve years.
Who has been getting the rest of it?
There are not enough purchasable
voters in the United States to absorb so
vast a sum in the sale of their votes at
so much a vote. If the balance was not
used to purchase coirupt officials
throughout the country or in "convert
ing" trusted leaders, it surely must
have been thrown away, or it must have
stuck tt the fingers through which it
passed.
In what honest way can the Penrose
Aldrich-Foraker republicans use §5,000,
000 in their efforts to gain control of
the next republican national conven
tion?
These are sure to become burning
questions as public attention becomes
concentrated upon them. During the
next fifteen months both President
Roosevelt and his opponents are likely
be called upon to answer.
Everybody knows in a general way
that the republican magnates have been
spending much corrupt money to gain
and keep control of the government in
Washington. It was for years known in
St. Louis, in a general way, that graft
and boodling were rampant in the city
hall. Both in city and national govern
ments the evil seemed without a
remedy..
But at last there came a day of reck
oning for the boodlers in St. Louis.
That day has come and is still coming
for corrupt legislators in Arkansas.
The big republican bosses who talk
glibly about millions with which to con
trol political conventions and elections
will do well to profit by their example.
—St. Louis Republic.
STOP AND FIGURE.
You hear so much idle talk about the
great prosperity we are enjoying and
we do not like to be a croaker but did
you ever stop to think and figure a lit
tle bit? If not, suppose you do so now.
Suppose you stop a moment and figure
up the cost of living. And this cannot
be counted as political calamity howl
ing because there is no campaign on
and we don't care whether you believe
or like what we say. The facts are just
the same. You get the same wag^s you
did ten years ago. Every lawyer and
doctor and preacher and editor in the
whole country is getting about what he
did then but we will consider the news
paper business. We get $1.50 for a
year's subscription. We get about the
same price for advertising. Job wOrk
sells for about the same. Yet paper is
a half higher, type is twice as high,
help is dearer, everything costs more
and the cost of living is far and away
higher. Where does the editor come in
on the prosperity? The lawyer gets
about the same fees and his living costs
him twice as much. The doctor charges
as much per trip and no more. His liv
ing and horse feed and his medicines
and his instruments all cost him from
25 per cent to 50 per cent more. Where
does he in get on the prosperity? May
be he is more prosperous. Maybe he is
gettijg rich. Maybe all professional
men are getting rich but we know one
profession that is decidedly not getting
rich and they won't as long as prices
remain where they are. We will say
farther that we believe more newspapers
are running at a loss in Iowa that are
getting rich. If you want to imagine
that everybody is getting rich and roll
ing in affluence you may do so. We do
not believe it. If you do not like this
you may lump it. We believe it is true,
—Washington Democrat.
According to figures compiled by the
census bureau at Washington a divorce
suit is filed every two minutes during
working hours of court officials, and a
divorce granted every three minutes in
the United States. This has been the
average for the last twenty years, and
census officials say the number is in
creasing at an alarming rate.
Senator Depew is sending out his
senatorial speeches to his constituents.
They ought to be accompanied by the
Equitable's receipt for the restitution
of that stolen money.
Mr. Roosevelt thinks that a "conspir
acy" has been formed to defeat him in
1908, whereas, Mr. Harriman asserts
that a "conspiracy" was formed to elect
him in 1904.
The continued silence of Speaker Can
non may be taken as as indication that
he would much prefer being liberally
quoted to being sadly defeated.
The paper trust which was "put out
of business by the administration'
seems to have gone right along in utter
ignorance of the fact.
It is a little short of remarkable how
many republican leaders are just now
making a noise like a man kicked on the
shins.
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V. R. McGINNIS
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In Ray block.
j. s. COONTZ M. D.
Office hours 10 a. in. to 12 in. and 2 p. m. to 4
Office in Woodland, Iowa.
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IE YOl WANT TO BUY
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THE LEON REPORTER, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1907.
OfflM
MARION F. STOOKEY,
AWYER. Practice in all courts. Office In Lttff
block. Phone 96.
W. F. WAIGHT
PHYSICIAN
AND SURGEON. Special atten­
tion given to the treatment of ohronic diseases
office hours 9 to 12 a m.—2 to 5 m. Tele phone 36
oDoe and residence
FRED A. BOWMAN, D.
PHYSICIAN
AND SURGEON, Leon, Iowa. Office
hours 11 Co 12 a. m.-l:30 to 3:30 p. m.—7:30
to 8:30 p. in. Leon Phone, Office 7—resilience 38.
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teed.
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hours 9 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 4 p.
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w.
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Successor to Dr. O. W. Fox worthy.
SURGERY
and obstetrics a specialty. Biggs
Block, Leon, Iowa. Phone 48. All calls an*
swered promptly day or night.
We Own and Control
Acres.
500.000
Canada. Dakota and Washington wheat lands.
Also R. R. timber, mineral and government lands
elsewhere. We are established nine years. We do
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methods. Tell us what you want. Agents wanted
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THE LAND MAN
415 Kansas Avenue,
TOPEKA
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one route, returning another for $12.50
extra including return via Shasta Route,
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Through standard and tourist sleeping
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and absolute satisfaction guaranteed. When you
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TERMS—i per cent.
Dates can be secured by addressing me at Leon,
Iowa, or by calling at The Reporter office.
REAL ESTATE BARGAINS.
We have lands for sale or exchange in Kansas,
Missouri, Texas, Nebraska, North and South Da
kota and Iowa, which we will sell worth the money
or exchange for Iowa lands, income, property or
merchandise.
SOME BIG SNAPS.
Call and see us and lot us show you what we
have in real estate.
C. M. KELLER & CO.,
LEON, IOWA.
E. J. WARNER
Real Estate
We buy, sell and trade all kinds of real estate and
stocks of merchandise. If fact do a general
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Office Union Block LEON. IOWA
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restores brightness to woodwork, and is unrivalled for win
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Hotel Denison
C. H. HARP, Proprietor.
MAIN STREET. LEON. IOWA
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I have again taken charge of Hotel Denison and will
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see me.
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Is important, not only for the present, but also for the years to come.
The right Bank connection will be a material help to your every day
business.
This Bank has a successful record of safe, conservative banking from
the day of its orginization.
We invite your business.
FARMERS & TRADERS STATE BANK,
8 LEON, IOWA.
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