The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-04
Mckinisyism Us. Prosperity
Indiana.
LYONS, Ind, Sept. q, 1900

INDIANA
Lyons, Ind, Sept. p, 1900.
EDITOR LEON REPORTER, Leon, la.
Dear Sir;-I am salesman on the
road. In 1896, almost every hotel had
Mckinley portraits up, they are now
conspicuous by their total absence.
Merchants who had Mckinley portraits
up in 1896 now have organs also along
with Macks, while the merchant takes
apathetic capsuls, 60 per cent. higher in
price on many things they buy from the
trusts than they paid in 1896, while the
people are just as ragged as they were
in 1896, many of them without the cash
to pay this 80 per cent. or more, SO Mr..
Merchant must work, his goods down
again and take one more capsul. Bit
ter Pill.
Hotel porters make a snatch for my
grip, with eyes bugging out, as though
they had not seen man in six months.
Liverymen follow you all over town
asking if you can't change your route In
order to give them something to do. A
republican spellbinder had three after
him here to-day and one Of them threat.
encd to vote for Bryan if he did not
give him a part Of his business. The
spellbinder looked mortified.
Men upon dry goods boxes are in rags
and merchants stand looking over the
window sash with an inviting tstare''
mingled with nervous "chittering"
when the poor old lady comes in with
few eggs with which to barter" for
some 60 per cent. higher sugar, seeming
ly the merchant is afraid to ask, "any.
thing else?"
Really this is the most foolish evi.
dence for good times ever saw. Mer.
chants are compelled to keep their coats
on through hot days to make people
believe that their pants legs look good"
all the way to the waist band.
Women can't understand all this be.
cause they run ahead Of tine and buy
new dresses, etc, but hubby knows just
one thing for sure and that is. he has no
cash, but the aforesaid spellhinder calls
it prosperity and the voice of the jack
ass has been subdued by the yelp of
this new hipei called Republican politi.
cal prosperity spellbinder," shooting
skyrockets into the air branded ''Rough
Rider" while the g. o. p. sheets roll the
wheels Of their divinely ordained print.
ling machine, scattering seeds Of benevo-
lent assimilation, beer and Bibles clear
across the world, yea. even unto the
tent Of sulu, Philippine, Tagalog, Porto
, Rican or Cuban, yet our Christ said
follow Him.
ii How about this republican, hypo
dromatical, quadrienal, predestined
! Rooseveltical. Observation-Disclosures
thunderhead? subdivided into triuns
n monster, called Hannaism having tire,
heads, with q million horns. going IL
n aud fro, up and down, on the eartl
seeking whom Christ called 'the yer!
4 elect" the people whom they nigh
deceive.
MI If this monster runs at large fou
years more Satan will be out of a job
O hell will be between Washington Cit
and the Philippines or near China, an
70 Hanna will be general agent Will
Roosevelt will be riding the dare dew
O of hades shooting Christianity into til
'backs" Of all those people who d
NJ not tip their hats as he rides by them.
This man Hanna has already drive
N stake into Chinese sand and told Mac
not to raise hand, while Rooseve
Nl thunders away leading this nation
its doom day and the spellbinder speal
n to his foolish crowd, prolonged cheer
while England is measuring the cloi
X for this republics shroud (renewed al
plause) and the historian writes of TIN
M eastern war cloud daughter and cheer
and the Russian bear, with eyes {
IL aglare looks at the lion (renewal
cheers for Mckinley Whispering, SD
fling! Dyingl That American republ
is dying!
No Hurrah! for the flag, that old emble
Of liberty, prolonged cheers for Il
flag by the crowd) but We have II
fool Rough Rider, (dear) who if be CT
OF not get cider, dear will have plenty
IT. beer as he makes his speeches abo
rs. shooting Spaniard inthe rear. (Chse
ed by the crowd.
Die The newspapers yelp like fox houn
nd about Mack's God given prosperii
no while the crowd cheers in hilarity,
Ter the dawn of the day, when republ
lat pass away and we will have no use for b
ric such spellbinders as Mark Hanna. (P
IN. longed cheers by the crowd.)
na, Such is the innocence Of the mas
IN. while they are being foolishly led
sys such Rough Riders and such liars
di- some Of the g. %. p. newspapers,
My Away with McKinleyism. Mark HI
ug- naism, Rooseyeltism. Give us comm'
sensism without trustism or mixed "
republicanism but statesmanism such
w. J. Bryaniem for Americanism
of JAMES A. REYNOLDS
CT Altamont,
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