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DECORAH, WINNESHEIK COUNTY, IOWA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1896.
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Official Paper of the City of Decorah.
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TELEPHONE NO. 15.
Republican National Ticket.
For President
WILLIAM McKINLEY
of Ohio.
For Vice President
GARRETT A. HOBART
of New Jersey.
Republican State Ticket.
For Secretary of State
G. L. DOBSON
For Auditor of State
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AMOS BABCOCK
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION.
A delegate Republican convention la hereby
called to be bela at the Court House In Decor
ah, on
THURSDAY, SEPrF.MBER 24th, 1896,
at the hour of 1:00 o’clock p. m., for the pur
pose of nominating candidates for county
officers to be elected this year, viz:
County Attorney,
Clerk of Courts,
County Auditor,
Recorder of Deeds.
Also by the delegates from the Ist and 3d Su
pervisor Districts, a candidate for County Su
pervisor from each of said Ist and Sd districts.
Under the usual apportionment such con
vention will be constituted as follows:
Bloom field 6 Canoe 4
Military :. 6 Bluflton .8
Washington 3 Orleans 4
Jackson 3 Highland 7
Frankvllle 6 Hesper 6
Springfield 8 Burr Oak .5
fulmar 8 Freemont 4
Sumner 3 Decorah—lst ward.... 5
Glenwood _.7 “ —2d ‘ ....3
Madison 6 “ —3d “ 4
Lincoln .8 “ —4th “ .....8
Pleasant 5 “ —outside 9
By order of Republican Co. Central Com.
W. R. TOYE, Chairman.
L. B. WHlTNEY,Secretary.
SOME SIXTEEN TO ONE LOGIC.
Mexico has free silver. The Mexican
people are very poor. Therefore, we
want free sUver.
Wages in this country are too low.
Wages are higher here ami in all the
gold standard countries than in China,
India and other silver using nations.
Therefore, we want free silver.
We believe in the double standard
under which both metals will be used
to measure values. Free coinage at 16
to 1 will drive out all our gold aud put
our currency ou the silver basis. There
fore, we want free silver.
We favoran honest dollar which shall
lie just to all the people. The adoption
of the silver standard will enable debt
ors to repudiate one-half of their obliga
tions. Therefore, we want free silver.
Gold dollars are too scarce and dear to
serve as money of the people. Under
free coinage a silver dollar will always
be worth just as much as a gold dollar.
Therefore we want free silver.
The goverment can make 50 cents
worth of metal worth 100 cents in gold
by stamping it “one dollar.” Under
free coinage such a dollar would buy
only half as much goods as a gold dol
lar—that is, it would be worth only
half as much. Therefore, we want frte
silver.
The pros|>erity of the American peo
ple depends on the amount of wealth
produced and the fairness with which
it is distributed among the producers.
Measuring product*} in silver instead of
gold would neither create any more
wealth nor distribute it more justly.
Therefore we want f ree silver.
The country is suffering because there
is not half enough money to do business
with. As soon as a free coinage law is
passed our $600,000,IKK) in gold will all
he withdrawn, and we shall lose all
that amount from circulation. There
fore we want free silver.
There is something wroug with the
country somehow, though we don’t
know what It is uor how to cure it.
But everything will come all right if a
lot of cheap mouey agitators are elected
to congress, so uow and everlastingly
we want free silver.
A GRAND RALLY.
THE CAMPAIGN FORMALLY OPENED
IN THIS CITY FRIDAY NIGHT.
Rousing Republican Speeches Were
Given by Nels j. Gron, E. S. Janies
and Paul B. Du Chaillu.
The Grand opera house was packed
to the brim last Friday night with re
sidents of the city and county, who
had assembled to participate in the
opening of the campaign in Winne
shiek county. Every seat was oc
cupied before eight o’clock, and by the
time the curtain was raised, the aisles,
stairs and entrances were crowded full
of men, women and children. It has
been very seldom that an audience of
this size has come together in Decorah
and the quietness and close attention
of everyone was Indeed characteristic
of the interest being taken In the
issues of the day by the common peo
ple, and the sentiment prevailing for
McKinley, Hobart and sound money.
After music by the Decorah City
Band, and a rousing song by the Mc-
Kinley Club quartette, Hon. A. K.
Bailey introduced Mr. Nels J. Gron,
who happened to be the guest of B.
Anundseu, and who had kindly con
sented to make a few remarks. He has
l>een an extensive traveler in foreign
countries, in fact having recently re
turned, and the comparisons which he
drew between our present money and
that of silver countries were to the
point, and being the result of personal
experience, were listened to with con
siderable interest by the audience.
Many were sorry that he could not
have more time to speak, as his argu
ments were terse, impressive and con
vincing. Following his speech the
quartette sang another appropriate
campaign soug, and Mr. E. 8. James,
republican candidate for elector-at
large was introduced. After compli
menting the preceding speaker, and
congratulating the people of Decorah
upon their beautiful city and surround
ing country, he entered at once upon
a discussion of the money question,
which was intensely interesting and
instructive. Mr. James is a young
man of ability, as was evinced by his
method of speaking. He had chosen a
train of arguments ttiat was in refuta
tion of thestockargumentsof the follow
ers of the “gentlemen who recently met
in Chicago,” and his mode of expression
was especially pleasing to the listeners.
We would have been pleased to have
iteen able to present his speech to our
readers, but were unable to procure a
full text of it.
Mr. Paul B. Du Chaillu, the noted
French traveler, explorer, author and
lecturer, was then introduced, and gave
the people a careful aud concise dis
cussion, touching upon ground
not covered by the preceding speakers.
His address was based upon the per
sonal experiences of his travels, and
was, as that of the first speaker, strik
ing and impressive. His contact with
the people of almost every nation has
given him an excellent opportunity for
political research, aud his statements
were received with enthuiasm.
The people all seemed well pleased
with the meeting, which closed with
deafening cheers for McKinley and
Hobart. We hope that we may be
able to listen to several such speeches
before election, aud feel surethat if any
of these gentlemen should again ad
dress the people of Winneshiek county,
the house would not contain those who
would wish to listen.
Won His Case.
The many friends of C. B. Lennon
will be pleased to hear that he won his
case against the C. & N. W. R. R., for
injuries received while going to a Ma
sonic meeting at Marshalltown last
year. He went to sleep and did not
get off the train where he intended to,
and the |brakemau stopped the train
west of the city and made him get off.
He was injured iu alighting. The case
was warmly contested by first class
lawyers, but at two o’clock a. m., after
a three days’ trial, the jury returned a
verdict of $1,500 damages for Mr. Len
non. Dan Shea was his attorney from
this city.
Base Ball.
The base ball team played the last
game of the season at Ossian with
Lawler Saturday, Lawler winning by
a score of 6 to 4. The team has dis
banded and some of the players have
gone home. We wish Decorah might
organize a good team next year and
maintain it throughout the season, as a
bull team is a first class advertisement
for a town, besides furnishing consid
erable sport for lovers of the game.
The Democratic County Convention
will be held Sept 20th.
A CARD.
Decorah, lowa, Sept. 11, 1896.
Editors of Public Opinion:
In a card published by myself in the
last issue of the Decorah Republican I
stated that I had been told that Mr. E.
P. Johnson had been making certain
statements around the county concern
ing my connection with the tirst school
house bond election held in Decorah
some weeks ago. The following affi
davit is a part of what I have been
told in that connection:
STATE OF IOWA, 1
Winneshiek Co. j BB
I, Andrew Knutson, of Military
township, Winneshiek county, lowa,
being first duly sworn, depose and say,
that E. P. Johnson called at my house
in said township Sept. 6, 1896, and re
auested me to support him in his can
idacy for the nomination as County
Attorney; that among the statements
he made against Mr. N. Willett was
that he, Willett, was the City At
torney of Decorah, and while acting in
that capacity advised the Board of Di
rectors of the Independent District
of Decorah in the matter of calling an
election for the issuing of bonds by said
District for the building of a new school
house, that a mistake was made in the
matter of such election and that Mr.
N. Willett was to blame for the error,
having advised the Board in the mat
ter; that if Mr. N. Willett was not
capable of drawing up as ordinary le
gal notice as that connected with school
affairs that he, the said Willett, was
not fit for the office of County At
torney and Mr. E. P. Johnson further
stated to me in that conversation that
Mr. N. Willett would not serve out his
term as City Attorney; that Mr. E. P.
Johnson further stated in that conver
sation that he was among the first to
discover the error and that Mr. N.
Willett was unfitted for the office of
County Attoruey. All of which is
true as I verily believe.
(signed) Andrew Knutson.
Subscribed and sworn before me this
10th day of Sept. 1896.
, ,—*—~ W. M. Anderson
*! seal > Notary Public.
For the purpose of showing Mr. A.
Kuutson’s standing in Military town
ship to those unacquainted with him,
the following certificate of well known
parties is attached.
Ossian, lowa, Sept. 10,1896.
We hereby certify that Andrew
Knutson is a highly respected resident
of Military township, Winneshiek
county, lowa, and a man of truth and
veracity.
(signed) C. J. Mills,
P. M. Jewell.
As disproving the statements of Mr.
Johnson set forth in the above affi
davit I annex the certificate of the
Board of Directors of the Independent
School District of Decorah.
Decorah, lowa, Sept. 9, 1896.
We hereby certify that in the mat
ter of the first Decorali Independent
School District Election for the issue
of bonds, that neither Norman Willett
or Willett & Willett were consulted iu
regard to the notice or iu any way
about it, and they had nothing what
ever to do with it.
As a matter of fact, the first notice
was drawn up bv Mr. Hopperstad with
the assistance of E. P. Johnson, but as
Mr. Hopperstad failed to consult him
fully about the matter, we cousider
that Mr. Johnsou is iu no way to'
blame. Mr. Hopperstad did not ask
Mr. Johnson to look up the matter
fully, and the defect—if there was one
was first discovered by the attorney
of the parties who purchased the bonds.
It is not the duty of Norman Willett,
as City Attorney, to give the Board of
directors any legal advice.
E. W. D. Holway,
Pres. Board of Directors.
Henry Elvidge,
A. F. Anundsen,
L. L. Cadwell,
A. N. Vance,
R. F. B. Portman,
Jul J. Hopferstad,
Sec. Board of Directors.
I wish to say that this certificate is
not as a matter of course an official
act of the Board, but only the indi
vidual act of the members of the
Board, and further that I publish the
above as a defense only. By way of
explanation I wish to add that Mr.
Knutson several weeks ago said that
he would support me, but after his
conversation with E. P. Johnson as re
lated in the above affidavit he told me
that I must disprove the statements of
Mr. E. P. Johnson, otherwise he would
not support me and hence the above
affidavit and certificates.
Yours itespectfully,
Nokman Willett.
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The day on which Bryan was nomi
nated would be put down in history as
another Black Friday, were it not cer
tain that the day he will be defeated
will be Red Tuesday.
FORAGING.
BY S. CREELMAN, CO. A 101, PA.
Not a shot was heard, nor the tap of a drum
As the porker we took was borrowed;
No farewell crack from the owner’s shot gun,
But a sigh and a look of deep sorrow.
We covered him over with our army blouse,
As the night cold affected his liver;
And we hastened to leave the farmer’s house,
On the banks of the Tennessee river.
We hustled him lively on that lonely night,
With his bristles for a shroud around him;
Wondering if the rest we left in the nest
Would meet his sad fate in the morning.
Little they’ll think of the risk they run
When they wake up for com the morrow,
As we meant to take them, every last one.
But we found them to heavy to carry.
We landed him safely in the dead of night.
Not a cookoo or whipporwill sinking;
And with moonshine alone for a signal light,
To the camp we determined to bring him.
Slowly and sadly we laid him down.
Waiting to quarter and scrape him;
And we slept like warriors on the campground
Until the hour of one in the morning.
Not a prayer was said at the funeral rites,
As his bones o’er the ramparts we lowered,
In the dead of night, when the mosquito bites.
And gets in full time with his borer.
We dreamed of the time when soldiering was
done,
And the pigs could eat com unmolested;
And with tearful fun about the porker's last
run,
When—the general had us arrested.
Wilkinsburg, Pa.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Editors Public Opinion:
Under the heading ‘Card’ in the
Decorah Republican , I notice a state
ment made by Norman Willett to the
effect that I should have discovered an
error in the first notice of election in
the matter of bond issue of the Inde
pendent District of Decorah, and also
that I should have stated through the
county that he (Norman Willett)
should have drawn up the first notice
of election.
There was nothing wrong with the
first notice as drawn up, but the defect
if there was any, was in the posting of
notices, of which I had nothing to do,
nor was I consulted in that matter;
nor in any other matter; except as re
lated by some members of the Board in
the Republican.
The charges, that I should have
stated through the county that he
(Norman Willett) drew up the first
notice of election and was responsible
for any error connected with the same,
and that I first detected the error, if
there was any, is false and made for
political purposes.
Yours Truly,
E. P. Johnson.
Decorah, lowa, Sept. 10th, 1896,
STATE OF IOWA,)
Winneshiek Co. i BB
I, H. H. DalaKer, being duly sworn
depose and say, that I am a citizen of
Winneshiek county, lowa, and that I
have read the statement made by Mr.
Norman Willett under the heading
‘Card’ in the Decorah Republican , in
which it is stated that E. P. Johnsou
is charged by Norman Willett in say
ing that Norman Willett drew up the
first notice of election in the matter of
bond issue of the Independent District
of Decorah, aud hence is responsible
for any error connected with the notice
and the election held thereunder, and
that Johnson detected the error, if
there w’as any.
I also had a conversation with Nor
man Willett in which he named the
time, place and party to whom John
son should have made said statements.
Will say, that I was with Johnson that
day named .by Willett and heard all
the conversations that took place that
day between Johnson and tne parties
that Willett named to me, aud no such
statements were made by said Johnson
as named by Norman Willett in the
Decorah Republican. The principal
topic in the conversations that day I
was with Johnson was that he denied
statements Willett should have made
with reference to agreeing not to be a
candidate and also that Willett should
have stated that Johnson would not
accept a renomination if tendered to
him, which statements Johnson stated
he had not made to any one.
H. H. Dalaker.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
by H, H. Dalaker this 14th day of
September 1896.
, —*—». W. M. Strand,
| seal | Notary Public.
STATE OF IOWA, \
Winneshiek Co. j BB
I, E. P. Johnson, being duly sworn
depose and say, that I nave been in
formed by reliable parties that Norman
Willett is circulating the story through
the county that I had agreed not to
be a candidate for renomination and
that I would not accept a nomination
if tendered to me.
In justice to myself and to inform the
public as to its falsity, I say, that I
have at no time stated to any one that
I would not be a candidate for renomi
nation, neither have I ever stated to
any one that 1 would not accept the
renominatiou if tendered to me.
E. P. Johnson.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
by E. P. Johnson this 14th day of
September, 1896.
R. F. Gibson,
Justice of the Peaoe.
The American Protective Tariff
League has just issued document No.
59, “The Tariff,” which gives extracts,
in parallel column, from the speeches
of Hon. W. J. Bryan and Hon. Wil
liam McKinley. This documeut
should be read by every voter.
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Ex-Gov. Boies is advertised for a
speech here next Friday, from the
free silver standpoint. The address
will be given at Steyer’s opera house.
No. 30.