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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26
PRESIDENTIAL, CANDIDATES.

The democrats having selected their
candidate for president, the list OF en-
tries may be considered closed. The
fact is notable that more candidates
will be presented for president at the
November election this year, should
they all remain in the field, than ever
before.
1. On January 81 the socialist labor
party Mt Rochester nominated Job
Hartman of California, for president
and Max. S. Hayes of Ohio, for vice
president
2 On March the social democrats
put up at Indianapolis Eugene V.
Debs, of Indiana. for president, and
Job Hartman for vice-president. 1t
is said that these two parties have
since united.
On May 90, at New York, the
De Leon socialists nominated Joseph +.
Maloney, of Massachusetts,, for presi-
dent, and Valentine Remmill, of Penn.
sylvania, for vice. president.
On May L, at Rock Island, H.,
the United Christian party nominated
the. Rev. sc. Swallow, of Pennsyl-
vania, for president, and John G. Wool
ley. of Illinois, for vice-presilent.
On June %, at Chicago, the pro-
hibition party nominated John 6.
Wooley, of Illinois, for president, and
Henry B. Metcalfe, of Rhode Island, for
vice-president.
1t is possible that the last two par
ties named may unite on the same
ticket.
& On May 8, the middle-o of. the-road
populists met in convention at Gin
cinnati, and proceeded to nominate
Whorton Barker, of Pennsylvania, fol
president, and Ignatius Donnelly, OF
Minnesota, for vice. president, thereby
ratifying the action of an earlier con
vention held in Cincinnati on Septem.
> Der S, 1898.
Z The same day the fusion populis
! convention met at Sioux Falls.
1 nominated William Jennings Bryan, o
Nebraska, for president, and Charlie
A. Towne, of Minneapolis, for vice
president.
On June 10, at Philadelphia, tn
I republican party met in convention an
nominated unanimously William Nc
Kinley, of Ohio, fol president, an
Theodore Roosevelt, Of New York, fo
ice.president.
4 8 On July 4, the democratic nations
!. convention at met Kansas City an
4 nominated William Jennings Bryan,
4 Nebraska, for president, and Adlai ]
= Stevenson, of Illinois, for vice. presiden
4 10 On July 8, the silver republica
4 national convention in session I
n Kansas City Endorsed the democrat
ticket.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26
Burr Oak Ridge.

Miss Maude Adams came down from
Van Vert to spend the summer at
Chas. Chastains.
Presiding Elder Thompson preached at
Scratch Eye last week.
Messrs. Comstock and McCalla at
tended services at Decatur. MIR. and
Mrs. Elder were conducting meeting
at that place.
Roland Allbaugh, of Leon, was down
to his uncle John Chastain's last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. johnson,
Mesdames. McCalla, Comstock, Horney
also Misses Lolita Vanderpool, Belle
McCalla and Dolly Johnson wers
visitors at Chas. Chastain's Thursday
MIR. and Mrs. Elder are holding meet
ing at Mt. Tabor, it will probably last {
week or ten days.
The busy house wife is now putin,
in her time gathering black berries,
Miss lola Bruner spent one day las
week with Miss Ida Hazelet.
Little Mamie Johnson burned he
feet one day last week while playin
around fire where they had been dc
ing a washing out of doors.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Adams and littl
Rox drove down from Van Vert Satur
day for few days visit with relatives
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26
Story of a Slave.

To be bound hand and foot for years
by chains of disease is the worst form
of slavery. George d. Williams, of
Manchester, Mich, tells us how such
a slave was made free. He says: "My
wife has been so helpless for five years
flSt she could not turn over in bed
alo e. After using two bottles of
Electric Bitters she is wonderfully iim'
proved and able to do her own work. y
This supreme remedy for female dis
eases quickly cures nervousness, sleep.
lessness, melancholy, headache, faint
ing and dizzy spells. This miracle
working medicine is godsend to weak
sickly, run down people. Every bot
tie guaranteed. Only SO cents. Sold
by L. Van Werden, druggist.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26
is 1T RIGHT
For an Editor to Recommend Pat
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From Sylvan Valley News, Brevard,
N. e.
1t may be question whether the ed
itor of newspaper has the right to pub
licly recommend any of the various
proprietary medicines which flood the
market,yet as preventative of suffering
we feel it duty to say good word for
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Di.
arrhoea Remedy. We have known and
used this medicine in our family for
twenty years and have always found
it reliable. In many cases dose Of
this remedy would save hours Of suffer
ing while physician is awaited. We
do not believe in depending implicitly
on any medicine for cure, but we do
believe thatif bottle of Chamberlain's
Diarrhoea Remedy were kept on hand
and administered at the inception of
an attack much suffering might be
avoided and in many cases the presence
of physician would not be required.
At least this has been our experience
during the last twenty years. For sale
|by w. A. Alexander.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26
DekaIb.4

Misses Villa Kanode and Helen FRY
visited with Miss Jennie Blackburn Sun.
day.
Mr.. Benson was in these parts last
week peddling DR.. Bakers Medicines.
w. w. Black burn will leave for
Oklahoma in few weeks where he
expects to take up clam if he likes
the country.
Miss Perry who has been visiting
relatives here for several weeks, left for
Missouri last week.
Mrs. Il. S. Kenneth called on Mrs. Fry
Wednesday.
Mrs. Cora Fry is recovering from her
recent illness.
Farmers are almost through harvest
ing in these parts.
Mrs. Rachel Fry was Van Vert cal
Ter Wednesday,.
ii. d. and d. B. Fry visited with ".
ii. Fry Sunday.
Mr.. Boyce is lying at the point of
death.
b. d. DeKaIb has returned from texas
where he has property there and his
son II. d. DeKalb is tending it.
Joe Ramsey was a Van Vert caller
Saturday.
Mrs. M. G. Fry and sons A. ID. and
NIichal were Van Vert callers Saturday.
Mr.. ID. M. Fry has finished harvest.
ing.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26
Prevented a Tragedy.

Timely information given Mrs. George
Long, of New Straitsville, Ohio, proven
ted dreadful tragedy and saved two
lives. A frightful cough had long kept
her awake every night. She had tried
many remedies and doctors but steadily
grew worse until urged to try DIR. Kings
New Discovery. One bottle wholly
cured her, and she writes this marvel
Gus medicine also cured Mr.. Long Of a
severe attack of pneumonia. Such
cures are positive proof OF the match
less merit Of this grand remedy for
curing all throat, chest and lung
troubles. Only zoe and $l.00. Every
bottle guaranteed. Trial bottles free
at l.. Van Werden's drug store.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26
How To Pronounce Chinese Names.

An acknowledged authority on the
pronunciation of Chinese names as
translated into English assures us that
there need be no serious difficulty in
sounding the names now appearing in
the newspaper if the speaker will
remember that the vowels in these
names are uniformaly those of the
Italian or continental alphabet, name.
ly: ~ always about as in far; e
always approximately ase in they or
them; very like in machine or pin; o
as either the of song or how; and u
always as the of rule. (2) Also, it
should be remembered, every syllable
has an independent value, and should
be given that value in pronunciation.
(3) AS for consonants, they are pro-
nounced exactly as written. These
three rules will secure as correct pro-
nunciation of Chinese names as can be
secured without oral instruction.
For example, under the first rule,
one would say tan-koo for Taku, not
take-you, as one may frequently hear
the word pronounced; lee.hoong.
chaung, for Li-Hung-Chaeg, not Ii
hung-chang; peh-king, for Pekin, not
peekin; shahng-hah-ee for Shanghai,
not shang high; tsoong-lee yah.men for
tsung Ii yaman, not tsung lie yaymen,
and so on. Under the second rule
Tien.Tsin is pronounced tee-yen-tsinn,
accenting the yen syllable, not teen.
tsin. General Nieh's name is Nee-yeh.
The Chinese coin tael is not tale, but
tah.ale, pronounced quickly. Yun-nan-
flu is yon.nan-foo, not yunan.fyu. In
like manner all words are pronounced
with syllable distinctness and with un-
form vowal sound. Under the third
rule the province name Szechuan is
sounded not zekuan, but nearly as
zehchooahn, touehing the choo very
lightly; Nganhwei as inggahngoowayee,
dropping the initial sound; Liantone
Peninsula is leeahoo. tong, and the Ger
man possession kiau Chau is Keeahot
Chahoo.
However, without multiplying ex
amples, the reader of news from tn,
much troubled far East will find hi
way through the many difficult names
he is to meet in his reading in the neal
future with sufficient safety if he vii
but observe the three simple rules here
given for their correct pronunciation
Boston Transcript.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26
Bismark's lrcn Nerve

Was the result Of his splendid health.
Indomitable will and tremendous energy
are not found where stomach, kidneys,
liver and bowels are out OF order. If
you want these qualities and the success
they bring. use DIR. Kings New Life
Pills. They deyelope every power of
brain or body. Only 25c at L. Van
Werden's q. drug store.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26

Don't take peck of any old kind of
pills to cure pint of disease when
a dose pf Morley's Little Liver Pills for
Bilious People will cure you while you
sleep. Sugar coated. Ones dose. Sold BY
Van Werden.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26

Buy Russ Bleaching Blue at Casters.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-26

ORIGINAL NOTICE.
In the District Court of Decatur County,
Iowa. August term A. ID, 1900.
H. R. Layton, plaiL tin,
Nancy M. Gibson and T. j Gibson.
Defendants.
To Said Defendants:
You are hereby notified that there is now on
file III the office of the Clerk OF the District
irourt OF Decatur County, Iowa, the petition Of
the plaintiff aforesaid, claiming of you the sum
OF Fourteen and 2O-lO0 dollars as money Justly
due from you, and interest thereon at six
per cent. from the 9th day Of November A. D..
1896, for money due for medical services rem
dered for you IN your family and as family
expense and at your instance and request.
You are further notified that q writ Of at
tachment was prayed for and issued against
you and your property to satisfy said claim
and your property to-wit: Lots One aud
Eight in Shaffers addition to- the Town of
Leon, Iowa, has been attached under and by
virtue OF said writ.
You are also notified that unless you appear
thereto and defend before noon of the second
day OF the term of said District Court of De-
catur County. to be held on the 9th day OF
August, A. d. 1900, o default will be entered
against you and judgment rendered thereon.
y 46i4t MARION WOJDARD.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-07
NO MCKINLEYISM FOR THEM
The Democratic Convention of the Fourth
District DenounCes Mckinley For APP
pointing Negroes to Office
in the South

The Democratic Convention of the Fourth Congressional
District in session in Raleigh yesterday UNANIMOUSLY
adopted the following resolutions
The Democrats of the Fourth Congressional District in
convention assembled congratulate the people of North Car
ona upon the splendid victory for gov
ernnent on the second day of August and invite all white
electors in the State to vote November to the
good government in the Federal Administration under Bryan
as is guaranteed in North Carolina under Aycock.
I'VE declare hearty approval and endorsement of the
Democratic State and National platforms
1--WE call the attention of the electors of the State to the
danger of losing by Federal legislation the fruits of the vic
tory tor the Constitutional Amendment evidenced by the
declaration in the Republican National platform denouncing
as revolutionary the franchise amendments recently adopt
ed in this and other Southern StaeS and by the threats Of
Republican leaders to diminish the influence of the South in
the House of Representatives and in the electoral college if
they unable to the abogaon OF the suffrage amend
mentS.
1--WE denounce Mr.. Mckinley, the Republican President
for appointing negroes to offices of trust North Carolina
and hereby appeal to all white North Carolina to
vote against party which condemns Constitutional
Amendment.
1--WE warmly approve the call of the leaders of our party
State and Federal for meeting of the Democratic voters in
every voting precinct in the State to be held the night of
September 14th the towns and cities and September
o IN the country precincts to organize Bryan and Stevenson
clubs Weurge upon all voters who believe in the decara-
onS OF the Kansas City Convention, who wish garner
the blessings that will follow in the wake of the ConSttu
tonal Amendment which goes into effect in 1902 and all
who oppose negro office holding in State Federal positions
IN the South to unite with perfect thorough organ
zatlon IN every voting precinct in the Fourth Congressional
District to the end that November this district shall regis
ter Its verdict For the Republic and against the Empire
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-07

great victory of 1900 in our State campaign
is but an earnest of the victory that
awaits us in November in the National
campaign.
1.-THE Democracy in North Carolina must
be true to themselves, their State and ma
tion and wage a successful fight for Bryan
and Stevenson and our Democratic Con-
gressmen.
''You know how to organize, you know
how to work. you know how to win a vic
tory. At the beginning of this year any
mention of a probable success of our par
ty nationally was met with a sneer from
the enemy and a laugh even from our
friends. NOT so NOW
''The people of the country are alarmed
at the conditions that confront them.
They see in the proposals of the Republi-
can party the degradation of our people,
the destruction of our government and the
upturning of our civilization and from one
end of this great country to the other, the
thinking and conservative elements of
every party are turning to Mr. Bryan for
help. Even the rockribbed Republican
stronghold of Vermont, in an election
held few days ago, has been shaken as
never before.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-07
Who was this Morning Nominated as the Democratic
Candidate for Congress in the Fourth
North Carolina District.

Edward w. Pou, who was this morning
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the Fourth Congressional district, is a
native Of Johnston county, where he now
resides. He is by profession a lawyer,
and is member of the law firm of Sim
mons, Pou & Ward.
He is one of the young party leaders
of the State. He made the race for Con-
gress in 1886, but was defeated by Fu-
sion. His campaign, however, at that
time was a most brilliant one and won
for him many friends and admirers. Not
only is he q fine speaker-eloquent and
convincing-but he is we'll grounded in
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-07

the Democratic faith, an admrer of Mr.
Bryan and a believer in the fundamental
principles of his party.
Mr.. Pou is now serving his third term
as Solicitor for the Fourth Judicial dis
trict of North Carolina. In the dis
charge of the duties of this position he
has won a reputation that places him
among the first jurists of the State.
His campaign this year, as in 1896, will
be marked by that ability and aggres-
siveRess that is characteristic of the man
and that must win for him and for the
Democracy of the Fourth district a great
victory at the polls in November.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-07
NEGRO RULE MUST END.

What say the true men of North Caro-
lima? They point to their past history,
brilliant with their achievements in war
and peace and exclaim: We know
but to do our duty and to be true to our
God, our country and our homes
Eve will meet the great issues of the
campaign and stand squarely by the cause
of the people and good government. We
will do nothing to prevent free and fair
discussion, thorough unders tanding of
the great problems of the day; but if an
attempt is made to thwart the will of the
white men of North Carolina by the use
of 900 ignorant negroes, then the negro
issue becomes great issue again. No
amount of discussion or agreement will
force the white men of North Carolina to
ever again submit to even partial negro
rule.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-07

On the fourth ballot a new candidate
f. w. Pou. of Johnston-was brought in
to the race by Wake casting ten votes for
him, putting it's vote for Smith down to
Is and increasing Atwater's vote to 40.
This made the result of this ballot as fol-
lows: Atwater 80; Spruill, 49, Shaw, As;
Hammer, 60; Smith. 80; Pou, 10.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-07
RUSSIAS' :s1,,oeA[
FAVORED BY fn'aNCE
Germany Does Not Wish to
Withdraw From Pekin.
OTHER POWERS WITH HER
England is Silent, But Her Wishes
Are Known.

FRAMING ANOTHER NOTE TO THE POWERS
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-07

Ed. G. Smith was named by A. A. Thomp-
son and John w. Atwater's nomination
was seconded by Alex Stronach, Jr.
This ended the roll call but not the
nominating speeches. r. A. P. Cooley, of
Nash, seconded the nomination of Mr..
Spruill; A. j. Harris, Of Vance, seconded
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-07

that of Mr. Shaw r. II. Hayes, of Chat
ham, seconded the nomination of Mr.. At
water; w. P Wood, of Randolph, second
ed the nomination of Mr. Hammer, and
Mr.. Zollicoffer, of Vance, seconded the
nomination of Mr.. Shaw.
Nominations were now, on motion of
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-07

On the third ballot the vote stood as
follows:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-07

The second ballot showed a slight
change in all the votes. 1t was as fol-
lows:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-07
Leads NorthC Carolina DailiesimN and Circulation

Mr.. Rush, declared closed, and the con-
vention proceeded to ballot.
THE BALLOTING BEGINS.
The first ballot resulted as follows:
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-01
Circulation Statements.
The HovyIfng Hanna.

One of the best evidences that the tide
is running against the trusts and their po-
litical agents is to be observed IN the sa-
tanic rage which Hanna has been exhibit
ing on the stump in Indiana. For exam
pie. at Fort Wayne yesterday, he not only
denounced Nj Bryan as "a hypocrite and
a demagogue. but villifed all who should
dare to vote for him, His speech was re-
plete with the choicest epithets of his
coarse vocabulary. There is nothing left
of this campaign but Bryan's mouth, he
shouted; nobody but a crank would vote
for Bryant"
At other points during the days trip OF
this master of biilingsgate across northern
Indiana, he INDUCED in similar remarks,
In the presence of crowds vociferousiy
cheering for the Democratic candidate.
When the journey ended Hanna was near
~ speeChless and quite purple win ex-
citement and congested venom.
We have never lost the sense OF gratif
cation that we felt when it was announced
that Hanna intended to make a speaking
campaign. From the day he began to car
ry this intention into effect until row. he
has been a source of joy urspeakable. We
could not ask anything better than TO see
the people of the West presented with the
contrast between his vulgar and abusive
harangues. and the clear, logical, and
courteous addresses of Mr.. Bryan from
the platform. Trusts have DEVILS souls,
We are told by no less an authority than
the venerable Bishop Spalding, of Peoria
Their chief political agent has a devil Of
tongue. and he is wagging it in a way
more destructive 10 the vicious cause he
champions, than anything that Burchard
Scott may have done or said
Hanna has asserted that the silent vote
would determine the Presidential cleo
ton. The chief purpose of his personal
canvass has been to bring himself in con-
tact with the people who will cast it. He
has had ample opportunities during the
past weeks TO meet them, and he is not
without the cunning of his kind, in reach
ing political conclusions based on extend
ed contact with the masses in many
States. II the results of his investiga-
tons had been satisfactory. it is hardly
probable that his temper would have suf-
fered so severely. Hanna is as scared as
he is mad
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-01
Mr.. Bryan in Ohio.

Another leading American city has
given the greatest political celebration in
its history in honor of the Tribune of the
People. More than one hundred thousand
people turned out in Cincinnati last night
TO welcome Mr.. Bryan, and the enthusi-
asm was as wild as that with which he
was greeted in New York. The principal
meeting Of the evening addressed by him
was presided over b. Judge Judson Har-
mon, formerly Attorney General of the
United States in Mr.. CIeveland's sec
ond Administration, who was bitterly
hostile to the Democratic candidate in
1896. He is equally opposed to Mr.. Nc
Kinley this year, for the reasons given
in letter which we published and COM
mented on recently.
At Toledo, Dayton, Hamilton, and ether
Ohio points visited by Mr.. Bryan yester-
day his reception was no less warm, and
especially so in places where the Ger
man-American element is in strong force.
AS a result of the days experience we
are informed that the Democratic State
Committee is greatly encoura ged, and
that the alarm over the local situation,
which has been evident among the Hanna
campaign managers for the past week,
has become intense
From all the indications it would now
seem possible that majority of the Ie-
gal voters of the State are with Mr..
Bryan and will cast their ballots for
him. In the event that as many fraud
ulent Republican votes should be cast next
Tuesday as were counted for Mr.. Mckinley
four years ago-conservatively estimated
at seventy thousand, on the basis OF the
ratio Of voters to population-it is plain
that tremendous landslide will be neees-
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-01

There is important news from Porto
Rico today. The carpetbag Executive
Council is reported as having granted 4
concession for the building of a network
of railways throughout the island 20 the
North American Company" This is the
first big fruit that the Administration
Iooters have SO far gathered. The grant
is of enormous value and will amply re-
pay the generous subscription to the Re
publican corruption fund, which is doubt
less one of the considerations. We are
also advised by the dispatches that the
Republican political methods resorted to
in Kentucky are being applied in Porto
Rico. Federal soldiers at the registra-
tion booths in Aguadilla, where the Porto
Ricans were qualifying themselves to
vote for members of the humbug House
of Delegates" fired upon the people and
wounded several. This, no doubt, was iii
tended to teach them the important
Trust Mckinley" lesson that they must
vote as they are shot.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-01

A characteristic and contemplate Han
matte campaign trick was exposed by Mr..
Bryan in his speech in Cincinnati last
night. He had received copies of two
circulars sent out by the Republican COM
mittee, one OF which was addressed TO
members of the "A p A. urging them to
vote for Mckinley as a protest against
the Catholics. The other was addressed
to Catholics begging them to support Nc
KinIey as a protest against the "A. P.
A" II appears that these appeals have
been thoroughly circulated throughout
the State, the first being flooded over dis
tricts where the "A. P. A" element is
strong, and the second in localities where
| there is a large Catholic vote Comment
upon such an insult to American voters
would affront the intelligence of our read
ers. The story is of the kind that tells
| itself