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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-01
THE 6oEsEL LAW.

Since the tragic death of Governor
Goebel numerous inquiries concerning
the provision of the election statute
which bears his name have been ad-
dressed to the Enquirer. In some in
stances the inq uiries have been couched
in language which would apparently in
dicate an anticipation that something in
the Goebel law might be found to point
to the Inspiration for the monstrous and
cowardly crime which cut short the
career Of him whose steadfast courage
and absolute. incorruptibllity made his
name terror to the political filth
dwellers Of the commonwealth. Many
persons, who, having no interest in the
igubernatorial campaign in Kentucky,
never sought to inform themselves
concerning its chief issues, now are
curious concerning the provisions Of the
act which William Goebel drew and
which his enemies denounced. Itis for
this reason that this review of the law Is
published.
WHY 1T WAS DENOUNCED.
1t is necessary to preface the review,
however, with the explanation that the
denunciation of the G6ebel law was but
feature Of q campaign Of desperate
misrepresentation and mendacity, f.
nanced and engineered by corporations
which have for years practically con.
trolled Kentucky politics.
They were fighting to retain their cor
rupt power. In a degree they succeed
ed. BY bribing in a number of counties
they defeated the purposes of the law
and cut down the Democratic vote to
suit Themselves. There was military in.
timidation elsewhere, and the grossest
frauds in the mountain districts. But
this work Of corruption, performed fre.
quently with ease and safety under the
old law, could not be concealed with the
new statute in force. Hence the effect
i've contest of the Democratic state Off
GERS. Had Governor Goebel lived, GER
tain amendments he had in view would
have perfected the Goebel law as a safe
guard against election frauds.
PROVISIONS OF THE GoEBEL LAW.
The chief provisions Of the Goebel
election law are:
l. That the General Assembly shall
elect three Commissioners, to be styled
''The State Board of Election Commis-
sioners." who shall have charge of the
conduct of elections in the common.
wealth. (The chief duties and RESPONSE
bilities devolving upon this board are in
most states fulfilled by one ofticial.e In
Ohioi is the Secretary Of State.
2. That the State Board of Election
Commissioners shall annually appoint
three Election Commissioners in each
county to haye charge Of the conduct of
elections in the county. (Under the
Old law the duties and responsibilities of
these County Commissioners were full
filled by one man, the County Judge.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-01
compA1.lsLEs.

..In God we trust. dollar motto.
-'.2O per cent. increase on price Of
Bibles. Bible trust.
81 l-et us prey. Chorus Of trusts.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-01

The Mckinley organs are working
over time trying to reconcile the abso.
lutte gold standard with,their 1896 plat
. Fnrm u
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-01
Subscription Rates:
The next democraticl national con-
vention will be held at Kansas City on
July 4th.

WASrED-A candidate for Vice. Presi
dent on the Republican ticket. Banker
or Trust lnagnate preferred.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
One of La mb,s Franks.

A pretentious poet got his verses sub
matted to Charles Lamb by a friend
just before the poet was to meet Lamb
at dinner. Lamb found the verses to
be feeble echoes of other poets, and
when the author arrived he was seen
TO be as empty as his verses, This
awakened Lambs spirit of mischie-
vous waggery. At dinner he said in
the course of conversation;
THAT reminds me of some verses
wrote when / was young" and then
he quoted a line or two which he
recollected from the poets book. to
the latter's amazement and indigna.
tion. Lamb was diverted immensely.
but kept perfectly serious and quoted
more lines in connection with another
remark. begging the company to re-
member how young he was when he
composed them. The author again
looked daggers at him.
Lamb capped all by Introducing the
first lines of Paradise Lost ("Of
mans first disobedience," etc., as also
written by himself, which brought the
poet to his feet, bursting with rage. He
said he had sat by and allowed his
own little verses" TO be appropriated
without protest, but when he saw Nil.
ton also being pilfered from he could
sit silent no longer. Lamb reveled in
telling this story.-Rev. David Macrae
in English Humor.'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
The Englsih Woman Abroad.

The English woman ds shy, diff
dent, undemonstrative, and her inclin-
ess isolaticm. How quickly one re-
alton is always 20 preserve the strict
cognizes he1, seated away from every
one, almost Always badly dressed and
generally wearing clothes that have
already done yeoman servicei English
w )men abroad make acquaintances
with great caution, and their tendency
IS always to remain unknown, or if
number are travelling together they
restrict themselves entirely to their
own circle" says Lady Jeune, who be-
ing herself and English woman, must
be unprecedented. ''It cannot be said
that the English woman, one sees on
the continent are attractive" contin-
ues Lady Jeune. Occasionally we come
across a few who at a glance proclaim
the fact that they are people of distln-
ction, but the majority of English wo-
men who 60 abroad belong mostly to
the middle class, for those of the up
per class who travel do so in a most
exclusive way, and rarely give anyone
a chance OF knowing more than their
name, and mary show a desire to re-
fuse even that An English woman
"a IISS, hOWCFCI, lHO uQSIlHCLlN6 S1Su
of her nationa ldty-her Baedeker and
her kodak; and when one sees the
welI-l1nown red cover protruding eth
er from a handbag or from under an
arm one recognizes ones countrywo-
man. Two things are to be said in
their favor-Enish women are quiet,
unobtrusive, silent and Of small ap-
petites, and they do not carry all their
luggage in their handbags and fill up
the railway carriages with their petits
paquets. An English woman goes
abroad because she enjoys the change
of life and scene, Ind because she de-
sires to return more than ever con-
vinced that there is only one place in
the world fit TO live in, and that place
is England She forsives foreigners
their faults, vanities and follies, and
smiles sublimely at their weaknesses,
conscious that even in her homely
simplicity she is their superior in all
the qualities which she values, and
which give strength and purposes in
life"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
The Burglars Terror.

A burglar, well known to the police
OF the larger cities, who was recently
taken into custody, told a reporter
that "a little dog was more terrify-
IN to the profession" than any burg.
lar alarm or detective.
Guns be blowed!" said he. "Im
dead willin' to take a chance wild q
NY cop, too, and the thinkers and stitch
amt troublin' me a little bit But
a bite OF dorg! Yessir, hates them
little 'purps' worse'n poison. The big
fellers-St Bernards and them-you
kin make FRIENDS with. Give them a
bit of meat and they're all right. But
when one of them little dorgs comes
at you, a-barkin' and yelpin', you got
to skin out quick or you finds the hull
house atop of you.
There afn't no maxim friends with
them. They know you don't b'long
there, and they're just a'goin' to pit
you out or know the reason why.
The Come, Fido, nice doggy racket
adn't a-goin to help you at all. There
is only one thing to do when them
little fellers gets to hollern' round
your heels. just git out as fast as
you KIN git! Nine times out of ten
that adn't fast enuff, neither!'-New
York Mail and Express,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10

Hcan administration would coin Sz3.-
O34,O33 in silver money denounced as
bad) IN 1898, and perhaps as much or
more In 1899; nor that the S21.1O per
capita in money said TO be in circnla-
fion July 1, 1896, would be increased
to $500 Per capita July 1, 1899. Yet
these facts are all shown (excent the
silver coinage of 1897 by the Stats.
Mcad Abstract published this year by
the Secretary of the Treasury. In
1896, is was claimed by the RepubI-
cans that We had too much money.
and that the silver money amounting
20 S8 or SO per capita ought to be
eliminated.
Neither did anybody in 1896 con-
template the alarming growth of the
strusts that supervened the Inaugural
e1on of President Mckinley. Encour-
aged by his election, and fostered by
the Dingley Tariff Act, they have
quadrupled in capitalization in the
iasG three pears; and contralling the
greater part of the manufactured pro
ducts OF the country they are now the
great disturbing element as TO prices.
Many articles have been doubled in
prices, not in pursuance of the law of
supply and demand, but by the arbi-
trary acton of the magnates who con-
troll the trusts.
But now as to false prophets. Re-
publican orators and newspapers made
strong appeals in 1896 to men who
worked On salaries and Others who
mad liked incomes, saying that if Brv-
an was elected, and the bimetallic
standard prevailed, their salries and
incomes would not be increased. while
the cost CT living would be greatly en-
hamced; but, if Mckinley was elected
their salaries and incomes would not
be diminished and their "sound
money would buy more of the ne
cess0ties and luxuries of Life; SO that
the election of Mckinley would be to
their net advantage.
The fact is, that the salries and in
comes of many such men have been
either diminished Or entirely cut off.
py the consolidation of independent n
dustries into trusts, and all consum-
ers are obliged to pay much higher
prices for goods manufactured or con-
trolled by the trusts. And so the elec-
dlon of Mckinley has not been to their
advantage. but to their detriment.
Ihe Republican orators and newspap
ers of 1896 were the false prophets
that led many men astray and induc-
ed them to vote against their own in
tereSts
DAVID MARTIN
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
and other hisn Chinese officials is de

ana otner hlSn Chinese officials is de.
creed.
The government of the United State.
is disposed to regard this measure as
proof Of the desire of the imperial chi
able demands of the foreign powers for
the injury and outrage which their lie.
cations and their nations have suffered
1t the hands of evil disposed persons in
China, although 1t has been thought
well, in view of the vagueness OF the
which some of the inculpated persons
are to receive, to signify to the Chinese
minister the presidents view that it
would be most regrettable if Prince
Iuan, who appears from the concurrine
testimony of the legations in Pekin. to
proceedings complained of. should es-
cape such full measure of exemplary
punishment as the facts warrant, or if
kang vi and Chao shu Chiao should
receive other than their just deserts.
CONGER INSTRUCTED.
With view to forming a judgment
on these points, the United States min
lster in Pekin has been instructed to
report whether the edict completely
names the persons deserving chastise-
nent, whether punishments proposed
accord with the gravity of the crimes
and in what manner the
United States and the other powers
are to be assured that satisfactory pun
shment is inflicted
1T is hoped that Mr. Congers replies
10 these interrogatories will inform the
government of the United States in the
opinion which it now shares with the
imperial German government. that the
edict in question is an important ini-
.ial step in the direction of peace and
order in China
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
PROTEST AGAINST WITHDRAWAL.
American Citizens at Tien Tsir
Want Army to Stay.

American Citizens at Tien Tsin
Want Army to Stay.
Tien l)-via Shanghai.
AT a meeting of American citizens
at Tien Tsin the following resolution
was adopted:
I'VE, citizens of the United States,
ieplore the contemplated withdrawal of
large part Of the United States troops
in North China. We feel the work Of
the allied armies is far from accom-
plished, and the refusal of the Ameri-
.an government to take part therein is
sure to be regarded by the allies as an
unworthy act. and by the Chinese as a
sign OF Indifference. We urge our gov
srnment to carry to an end the work
1t has so honorably and efficiently be-
gun and to maintain a sufficient force
here to secure the protection OF Amer
lean mcrca niile and missionary inter-
.sts until Il settlement of the present
trouble is accomplished"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
LOOK FOR EARLY PEACE IN CHINA.
OFFICIALS Think Germany's New
Terms Will Lead to Settlement.

ashington-(Special.)- ALI signs now
point to a harmonious settlement of the
Chinese trouble. The offer which the
ierman emperor makes Emperor Ku-
ing Hsii to place the troops under Field
Marshal Waldersee subject to such or
1ers as may be necessary to guarantee
aim full protection should he return to
Pekin is considered important by ad-
nlnlStratlon officials. 1t should have
he effect of sustaining the Chinese en-
9eror in his present conciliatory course
Ind assure him Of the support of al
powerful force should Prince Tuan ort
other anti-foreign leaders attempt to
Itir up revolution to protect them
selves against the recent imperial edict
ordering them before a court for pun
shment.
From an administration point of view
Few obstacles remain in the way Of a
speedy settlement. Some concessions
nay be necessary before a common pol
cy can be adopted, but all nations that
participated in the relief Of Pekin show
disposition to be reasonable nd
make them. Consideration of the new
propositions submitted by Germany and
France will be given as soon as the
president reaches Washington. The Of
icials do not conceal the fact that they
lad feared that Germany contemplated
ielaying adjustment af the entire Chi
1ese question in the hope of obtaining
.erritorial reparation for the murder of
1er minister. This apprehension has
been largely dissipated by the new
suggestions advanced. They are in line
20 a great degree with the views of
his government. It is understood to
be the purpose Of this government to
take advantage of the renewal of the
concert between the nations to formu-
late method of settlement OF the en-
tire Chinese question.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
IF Bryan is elected the factory wi

IF Bryan is elected the factory will
never start up"
A CUT THROAT GAME"
The Deering Harvester company of
this city-a member of the Harvester
trust-has reduced it's working force
from 1000 to 5000 men. The wages of
those retained have been reduced from
10 to 40 per cent. The wages of 200
finishers were reduced from $3.50 per
day to 1925 per day.
The president of the Deering COM
pany is a member of the board of
trustees of Northwestern university,
and recently took a conspicuous part
in forcing President Henry Wade Rog-
ers to retire from the institution be-
cause he declared himself opposed to
trusts and imperialism
On Saturday the plate and rail mills
of the Illinois steel plant at South Chi
cago were closed down until after
election and possibly indefinitely. /"
Eight hundred men are left idle The
mills belong to the Federal steel trust
Here are 500 men thrown out OF
employment in legs than a week at
the dictum OF three trusts, and labor.
ing men cse wondering what will next
occur. One thing is certain. They car
neither be coaxed nor bullied into vot.
ing for Mckinley.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
THOUSANDS OUT OF WORK.
The Republican Managers Facing
a Serious Situation.

Chicago (SpeciaD-Republican lead
bordering upon despair. over the re-
cent closing of mills and factories and
reduction OF wages in other manIfac-
turing establishments in and near Chi
cago,
Coming on the heels OF alarming dis
closures concerning the situation in the
Pennsylvania coal region. the Hanna
Payne syndicate Is almost ready to
throw up its job in despair. Several
leading republicans declare openly that
the events of the last week have Ut
terly lost to Mckinley the labor vote
OF the country.
THOUSANDS OUT OF EMPLOY
MENT.
Within the last four days one great
manufacturing plant in Chicago has
closed it's doors indefinitely, throwing
900 skilled mechanics out of employ
jnent. A portion of another plant has
suspended work, rendering 500 men
idle, while in a third 5000 men have
heen laid of and the wages of the
remainder reduced from Is to 40 per
cent.
Nine hundred men are made idle by
the closing OF the Siemens & Halske
electric plant in Grant. a Chicago SUI
blirb.
The men who have been thrown cut
Of employment say that the condition
has been forced through the sale of
the works to the General Electric COM
pany. Omcials assign the closing of
the factory to several causes, principal
among which is labor difficulties. They
cay they cannot pay reasonable wages
and compete with eastern facto.ies.
The plant was chartered in 1896 with
81 SOC. 900 common and 100000 preferred
stock. willard T. Black, the secretary
enA ,ssesursr ef ne semPaay, said
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
KANSAS NEWS IN BRIEF.

The trusts have not compla ned of
any bruised spots since the adjourn
ment of'the Philadelphia convention
Kansas City Times.
1t is not many weeks until election
day, bU- in the meantime individual
members of the Populist and Demo.
cratic party can do much no heip along
the cause of the people The cumu.
laitive effect of individual efforts:
therein lies the strength of the Peo.
pies party.-Russell Reformer.
y
Do you honestly believe that our
present gold standard money system
is best for our country? Do you be-
heve in a perpetual public debt? Don't
you know that we are in danger OF
that very thing? Read the act of
March IA, 1900, and see if any of the
bonds provided for in that act ever
come due, and then act according to
what you find out.-The Better Way.
The state binding twine plant has
been the means of saving the farmers
of Kansas from four ltO five cents on
every pound OF twine used in harvest
ing the immense crop this year. The
trust had to bring prices down to meet
the price of the penitentiary product,
while the farmers OF adjacen. states
were foreed to submit to extortion. 1t
is goCd thing. 1t is a move along
the line of effectually heading off the
trusts in their nefarious work of rob-
bing the people.-Goye County Advo.
cate.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
woman. Point of View.

Happy the man who is a hero of his
own family.
There are homes where hospitality
Sc ms 10 meet you on the threshold
One kind thought spoken is worth
two left unsaid.
Some women marry only to become
superior sJrt of maid-at-an-work.
Visit fam ~ here there .s a baby
If y1L want TO listen o conversation
restricted to one topic
You are nf-er sorry when you have
refrained from saying something
mean.
Judging by the old matrimonial
combinations one sees, on should say
that some men and women get mar
red on the grabbag principle.
1t was woman, of course, who said
she would be willing to wager that the
na ne of our next president viii be
Observation-Disclosures Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
MORTON ATTACKS BRYAN.
Says Democratic Leader Is Head
of Only Real Trust.

Nebraska City. Neb.-tSpecial.)-In
the number of the Conservative which
appears today. J. Sterling Morton, the
EDITOR. answers Bryans speech on the
starch trust. made in this city Septem-
Der IS.
Morton says in part: There is not
now in Nebraska City or elsewhere in
the UEited States. such a trust. either
IN starch. sugar. salt. soap, or anything
.lse, perhaps, except in free silver or
trust of candidature to prevent COM
petition in Office.
mo combine or trust in commerce
has gone so far. managed so adroitly,
and succeeded so well as the Bryan
trust in nominations. which began bus
ness at Sioux Falls. held street fair
Snvention at Kansas City and a car
rival at Topeka"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
a AlRAcHELoRs REFLEcr1oNs.

New York Press: There are some
men who would be worth lot more to
the world IL they weren't in it.
Every city man knows that q country
girl knows more than she looks like.
Every woman has certain time in
the day when she quits work and
thinks lot of fancy thoughts.
If a woman ever really did have .
neck like swans all the men would
run whenever they saw her.
When a woman starts out to "moId'.
her husband she generally makes
abcut as useless thing out of him an
a child that has got the idea that 1t Is
being educated.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
FALSE PROPHETS.
JndGe David Martin Revie Ws Re.
publican PrOphes es,

Mr.. Bryan has been much criticised
by Republican orators and newspapers
because he predicted, in 1896, that the
demonetiZa,ion Of silver would tend to
depress prizes and diminish wages.
Yet there can be no doubt that, apart
from ether considerations, this proph-
ecy is true. 1t is automatic that, in
the absence of disturbing elements,
the prices of every marketabl thing,
including the wages, of labor, are ex-
ac1y measured by the amout of stand
ard money in circulation.
Nobody anticipated in 1896 the dis
covery of gold in large quantities in
the Klondike, nor that the worlds an
nual production of chat metal would
increase from $2O2 PSI 600 in 1896, to
1921, sos, ,456 in 1899; nor that Repub-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10
a Failure.

The dream of the suffrage leader had
been realized. Women were on the
police force.
Sergeant" said the captain, make
that saloon raid next Sunday in plain
clothes',
The fair sergeant flushed
Me appear In plain clothes on
Sunday? Neverl Take my STAR"
Thus we see that many demands of
women only need test to prove that
they are impraetieabls-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10

Washington Star: mo. sir" said Mr.
Meekton warmly; mo man would dars
say am henpeckedr' why not 2,
asked a near relation with tinge q
sarcasm in his voice. ..8ecause, K h
did. I'd tell Henrietta en- him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10

A few more years and the collector
of rare birds in Kansas will be hunting
in the sandhills for specimens of the
prairie chicken, as sportsmen are com
PEELED 10 hunt for the rev antelope ana
deer remaining In the state.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10

Mr.. Bloomfield don't know amore
credulous man than Snaggs.
Mr. efeld-Neither do [: he'll
carry an umbrella if the weather man
predicts rain.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10

Macksville awoke the other morning
and found that robbers had tried ts
touch the bank and departed without
awakening the town. leaving q large
jagged hole in the building as q clue.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-10

1t is reported that II Russia a specia.
harness has been contrived with 6
wire connected with a small electric
battery, and this is put on horses diff.
cult to manage. A slight shock Is
stated to have not only the effect OF
rousing the animal to the required brisk
pace. but of generally benefiting his
health