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Sf s£ 1 I? lb® $r 4 IP &» JV# i. It If Hjw. v»' b-r.^t1, Jp ,£ 1r^ A* & H* Ii ft *r V\ THE LEON REPORTER O. E. HULL,Editor. LEON, IOWA SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year $1.50 Six months .75 Thiee months 40 Altered as second class matter at the Leon, Iowa, Post office. NOW WHAT DOES TAFT THINK? It is now stated on good authority that President Taft has experienced a change in mind and that he has dis covered that insurgency is the way to perpetuate his regime. If this is the case we can not but help wonder how he will dispose of a number of questions that have not only troubled him but at the same time have wor ried the American people. We won der what he can think of some such things as these: What does he think of the cabinet he appointed, in which progressive republicanism has not a single repre sentative? What does he think of the running mate Ue chose in preference to Sena tor Dolliver—"Sunny Jim" Sherman? What does he think of the part he took to compel the house to re-elect Cannon speaker and adopt the Can non rules, when it was called to gether in special session? What does he think of the fulsome indorsement he gave Senator Aldrich as a pure and unselfish patriot and "the leader of the senate?" What does he think of the praise of the Aldrich-Cannon tariff as "the best tariff law ever passed?" what dqes he think of his official exculpation of Ballinger as fixed up by Oscar Lawler and of the anteda ting of the Wickersham opinion? What does he think of the action in discharging Pinchot and Glavis? What does he think of his action in swinging the patronage club over the heads of those same insur gents he is now anxious to placate and of the fight his administration has made, and is still making, against La Follette in Wisconsin? What does he think of the stab he administered to the income tax? What, in fact, does he think of his entire record as president, from his inauguration to the present date? How can he repudiate Aldrich and Cannon and Ballinger without re pudiating also himself? In the language of our most versa tile man. of letters, Mr. Jack London, "we are curious to know—we are curious to know."—St. Joe Observer JUST BEFORE THE BOYS! THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION. Republican spellbinders have inti mated the Democratic party stands for free trade. Absolute free trade 3s impractical with the United States. Every country in the world, includ ing Great Britain, levies some tariff, and this country must always do so. The Democratic position on the •subject is substantially as follows: First: The Government should jaever collect one penny more of reve &rue than necessary to administer its affairs with rigid economy. Second: The lowest rate that will yield the greatest amount of revenue should be imposed. Third: Luxuries should always bear the highest revenue duties. Fourth: Experience has vindi cated the wisdom of ad valorem du ties as being the correct practice. Fifth: Revenue duties should be laid so as to operate with equality throughout the union, discriminating neither for nor against any class or section. Sixth: Absolute necessities should go on the free list. Seventh: There should be im posed a revenue duty upon practically all imports, with certain exceptions. These exceptions should be deter mined by the test: Imports coming in competition with trust-controlled products should be placed on the free list, and articles of absolute necessity should be im ported free of duty. There are 803 incorporated cities and towns in Iowa according to the latest records in the municipal de partment of the offiee of Auditor of state, i" 0 BATTLE There is "bad blood" in the repub lican ranks in Iowa. A decade ago a row was started and from that day to this, if much that has been said is true, the old guard, the men who for thirty of fourty years have fought the party's battles and won its vic tories, belong to the criminal class. Not only so, but principles and pol icies for which the democrats of the country have shouted from 1856 to the present time have been indorsed and made the battle crj' of "progres sive republicans." These principles and these policies have been urged upon the party of Lincoln and Mc Kinley, and all who have opposed have been denounced as "standpat ters," accompanied "by the assur ance that "none but the dead stand pat." More than 100,000 republi ans of Iowa never have and never will indorse such a betrayal of prin ciples. If the fighting is forced along such lines the time is not distant when the column will halt at the "parting of the ways." And when that time comes the democrats will .have an easy victory. The stalwarts have not forgotten the treachery "which sent a democrat to congress in place of Maj. Lacey, a democrat in place of Col. Hepburn, and which drove Col. Henderson into retire ment and hastened his death. Their crime was in their devotion to the time honored principles of their par. ty and their loyalty to its flag. They are not unaware of the threats that have been made to defeat Kennedy and Smith, the two stalwart can didates for congress in this year's icampaign. These are not forgotten. The insurgent camps are being watched from many outposts and the sentinels are vigilant—alert. The stalwarts are not yet ready to play the role of "dumb, driven cattle."— iMarion Register (standpat). $f WELL DONE, IOWA. If the sweeping insurgent victory in the Kansas primaries did not dem onstrate to republican leaders the futility of standpat efforts to pull the wool over the eyes of the west, Iowa's repudiation of the Aldrich-Taft tariff and the Taft administration should leave no doubt. The sole issue in the Iowa conven tion was the tariff. By a majority of nearly 300 the progressives denounc ed seekers after special privilege, stamped the Aldrich-Taft tariff as not a satisfactory fulfillment of party promises, demanded a non-partisan tariff commission and real revision, and approved the amendment of house rules taking power out of the hands of the speaker. By way of rejoinder to standpat ters who have read Cummins and Dolliver out of the party, the Iowa republicans indorsed the two sena tors, and remarked that "the repub licans of Iowa are the best judges of the republicanism of the senators and representatives whom they send to congress." Resolutions approving the Taft ad ministration were defeated by a vote of 83 4 to 549, and Taft's picture was not even permitted among the pic tures of McKinley, Roosevelt, Lin coln, and other republican leaders that decorated the convention hall. The entire proceedings showed conclusively that Mr. Taft is discred ited by the republicans of Iowa, and that he is discredited because of his failure to keep the tariff reduction pledges by means of which he won Iowa votes in 1908. The west demands the reduction of the tariff burden. Mr. Taft promised to secure its reduction. His disregard of his promise has lost him and his standpat friends the confidence of the people, and will result next Novem ber in their political downfall.—Chi cago Journal. IOWA AND THE CENSUS. Nevada Representative: If Iowa finds the census going against it this year, there need riot be cha grin. Iowa's largest town is still under a hundred thousand only about so many people are required to occupy its farm land, in accord ance with present methods of agri culture the state is able to feed Cnicago, colonize southern Cali fornia, develop Oklahoma and stir up any amount of politics and be the center of much attention as well as the middle of the map, and if it does not show the average growth in population the reason is that the State is doing more for other States than is any other State in the Union. So if the census figures Iowa down to ten congressmen, Iowa need not make a fuss nor ask that the walls of the hall of respresentatives be bulged out in order to get an elev enth member there from Iowa. Ten congressmen and two senators can do enough to keep Iowa in the game alright, if they are of the right sort —and the .right sort in this case means that they shall be men of suf ficient .character and ability to speak with truth their best convictions. WHAT, A BOLT IN IOWA? That the standpat wing of the republican party in Iowa will bolt every progressive republican nomi nee wherever there is a chance to defeat them is a settled matter. Un der the above caption Dave Brant of the Iowa City Republican says: "There will be no 'bolt' in Iowa this fall. Dear no. Bolting is obso lete. It is possible that a few, quite a few, maybe, will avail themselves of the power given them to place principle before party, and decline to vote for those in whose doctrine they do not believe. Surely we have been taught that where a party goes astray, it is not required that we follow it in its me anderings. Slavishness to party is one of the besetting dangers to the American commonwealth. The Pop ular Prince has told us so. It is such a pleasant surprise to find one point of agreement with the Prince that his preaching may be given a trial in practice. IOWA AND TAFT. The republican insurgents,, im con vention assembled, in effect gave President Taft and his administra tion a sharp slap in the face in the resolutions adopted yesterday. The effect of the. discourteous treatment of the chief executive will be more detrimental to the party in Iowa than to President Taft. The resolutions presented by the regular partisans will stand as a model of true-hearted and loyal republicanism. President Taft may have reasons to rejoice that in spite of the eloquence of Senator Cummins and the steam roller meth ods utilized by the insurgents, nearly one half of the convention stood squarely out for the unqualified en dorsement of him and his administra tion. There is no reason to doubt that the resolutions presented by Colonel Hepburn voice the sentiment oi the bone and sinew of the republi can party in Iowa today.—-Burling ton Hawkeye. "The republicans or the state can not be caught by the seat of the trou sers and ruthlessly thrown into the deep sea and then conveniently gath ered up for a day to vote that the insurgents have the right of it, and that the national administration is fraudulent and the majority ef the party as represented in national councils scoundrelly," says the Sioux City Journal. "Cummins told the truth," says the Ida Grove Record-Era. "The re publican party can not survive half progressive and half standpat, but the only way to make the republican party get off the fence and plant it self squarely for one issue or the other, is for the party to be lieked and licked bad." It ia all right to give another a ljiece of the peace of your mind. MR. TAFT AND VACATION TIME. Men on small salaries, and men who cannot leave their affairs to others even for a day, highly appre ciate President Taft's assertion that every man should enjoy three months vacation each year. Unfortunately, the average citizen can not command a war ship with a $50,000 bathroom and a brass band at public expense for his vacationing. By the time he has paid for his living at the prices which the Aldrich Taft tariff permits Mr. Taft's,. New England friends to charge, the or dinary man, who depends on his earn ings, and is forced to keep his ex penditures within his income, is lucky if he has the price of a car ride to the park. Still, Mr. Taft's suggestion is worth considering. If Uncle Sam keeps on increasing his navy at the present extravagant rate, there will be war ships enough to go round by the time universal peace is declared. By way of excuse for keeping them in commission and spending tax mon ey in tens and hundreds of millions, congress can establish a legal three months' vacation for everybody, to be spent aboard a war ship at public expense. Every tax payer is just as much entitled to expensive junketing, paid for out of taxes, as is the president of the United States. By all means let us have the three months' legal holiday, and give ev erybody a chance to enjoy a brass band, $50,000 bathrooms and a healthful life on the ocean wave aboard a war ship.—Chicago Journal. "ADMITTEDLY ROTTEN." We can not refrain from quoting, while on this subject, from a frank spoken editorial in the Sioux City Journal published the day before the primaries. The Journal said: "In a nutshell the issue to be de cided is whether Iowa is still a re publican state. There has been a re volt in the party, just as there was in 1896. It is based on the theory that the leadership of the party has been rotten. The accept ance of this theory must mean the admission that the party in recent years has been against the public in terests. Iowa must choose be tween Taft and the republican party and Cummins and Dolliver and the democratic party. The country is looking to Iowa to correct the mis take of Indiana." The country has looked in vain. The question was put up to the re publicans of Iowa themselves, and the result is a hung jury—six voting "guilty" and six "not guilty." Half of the party votes that that the party leadership is "rotten," and the party record "against the public in terests half prefers "Cummins and to "Taft and the republican party." to "Taft an dthe republican party." —Omaha World-Herald. This week a reader of this paper received a document purporting to be a speech delivered by Hon. Nicholas Longworth, of Ohio, (son-in-law of Roosevelt) on the subject of the ben efits of the Payne tariff law. The speech came under the frank of "Wm. B. McKinley, M. C," At the head of the speech on the inside page was "Speech of Hon, Nicholas Longworth delivered before the league of repub lican state clubs at Washington, D. C., on Saturday, April 9, 1910." This speech was being sent out free of postage on the theory that it was a part of the Congressional Record, when it was delivered before a club. These speeches were probably sent broadcast over the country, without postage, and it is one of these straws that shows where the expense is made up in the postoffice department that makes the deficit. Probably the gov ernment was worked to print the speech. This is the way the son-in law keeps before the public. If Nick wants to send his speeches,- or if Mc Kinley wants to send them out for him, that is speeches delivered' be fore clubs, they ought to pay the postage and not work them off as= government matter, as this was ap parently done. The envelope in. which the Leon gentleman received the speech was marked "Pkrt of Cong. Record—Free." Who paid for it? The envelope says the speech was delivered on April 13, and the pamph let says it was delivered on April 9 before the clubsi Don't make much difference when or where it waB de livered it don't amount to mueh, but whatVe would like to know is how it was worked into a part of the Con^ gressional Record and sent out under' government frank. The fight between the ex-PresMemt and organization members of his party in his own state can not fail to* help on the great work of returning a Democratic House to WasMngtoa next November. New York state ought to supply at least half at daeem of the necesary gain in Democratic Congressmen. Bven the people of far-away Alaska have rebelled at Republican stand patism. James Wickersham, insur gent Republican of Juneau* has just been re-elected to Congress over Ed ward Orr, the Taft-Guggenheim can didate THE LEON REPORTER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1910. & AIR L! Of AU 4 I Agoods is invaluable on any farm. A poor set is a nuisance. 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