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The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
CAMPAIGN LYING.

In these days there Is Just naturally
got to be lot of lying. Some men
can't fight political fighter any other
KIND for that matter, without lying. 1t
is temperamental. They can't help it.
They are good fellows. But they are
constitutional liars. Men of that kind
are found in both camps. So that each
side properly claims that the other is
lying about it. And each side is right.
But why worry about it. Lying never
hurts anyone. Most lies-whether
about politics or business or love af-
alrs-are so absurd on the face of them.
They fool no one. Political lies.
whether "our outfit" or "your gang"
tells them, don't change votes; living
can't be stopped, it's in some men like
bile of freckles and it can be removed
only by killing the patient; but lying
should be discouraged and the best way
to discourage it is to laugh at it. When
a man comes at you with horribl.
story, grin st him. Remember the
average man wants to do about the
right thing. He would do few. THINGS
that you wouldn't. The more awful a
story is the more likely it is to be lie.
Now the man doesn't mean to lie. He
just naturally can't help it. He thinks
he is telling the truth. But he is such a
poor judge of human nature that he
doesn't know how absurd he makes him
self by reciting A~ful Things on people.
Put this down AID 60 by it. About all
the nice things said about candidate
ere true; the stories ''on'' the candi.
dates are lies.-Bill White.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03

"The people will rejoice, as usual,
when congress adjourns, but the present
congress has not been bad one by any
means. 1t has passed several important
bills that meet general approval, its sin
being chiefly those of omission. Its
most glaring ofense has been that it
has taken no measure against the trusts,
though it could haye deprived them Of
tariff support fit could not have done
anything else." The republican Phila-
delphia Public Ledger can find no
stronger terms than these in which to
phrase its approval Of the dying nation
al legislature. However, its concluding
remarks as to trusts shows the way the
wind is blowing and indicates the settle.
ment that the republican majority
must make with the people at the polls
next fall.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
WILL MEET AT oscEoLA.
Democrats of Eighth District Will
Caucus There July llth.


An important caucus of the leaders of
the democratic party in the Eighth
district is announced to be held at
Osceola July IL. The purpose of the
caucus is conference on congressional
matters and the selection of suitable
man to be nominated against Congress
man Hepburn.
On account of the declaration of
Hepburn at the republican convention
at Creston, in which he stood up for the
trusts and opposed any modification of
the tariff, the congressional campaign
in the Eighth district this fall will be
made unusually entertaining. The dem
ocrats plan to put up strong nominee.
Senator Claude Porter of Centerville,
j. b. Sullivan of Creston and V. K. Nc.
Ginnis of Leon have been freely men
toned in connection with the nomina
ton. A. w. Maxwell of Seymour,
member of the state central committee
FROM the Eighth district, has been men
toned. Mr.lMaxwell has declared, how.
ever, he will not permit his name to be
used. He will be candidate for re-
election as member of the democratic
state central committee.-Des Moines
Daily Leader.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
J. B. CURRIE TO BE APPOINTED
OIL INSPECTOR BY Gov
ERNOR A. B. CUMMINS.

1t has been currently reported here
and seems to be we'll understood by
those in position to know that Mr.. j i.
B. Currie will receive the appointment
OF Oil inspector soon to be made by Gov
A. B. Cummins. The place is now filled
by COL John O'Keefe of Creston, and he
was appointed to the position by Gov
ernor Shaw.
A large number of the governors
friends in this county have asked Mr..
Cummins to appoint Mr.. Currie to the
position and there is little doubt but
that the governor will comply with the
wishes of his personal representatives
in this county. There have been four
candidates for the place. Among them
were Col. John O'Keefe of Creston, who
asked reappointment, also G. G. Beck of
Decatur county, and Mr.. Buckmaster of
Lenox. Col. O'Keefe did not support
Mr.. Cummins for governor and it has
seemed certain all along that the gov
ernor could not we'll afford to give him
the appointment at the sacrifice of some
OF his political friends in the pre.con.
ventlon campaign. Two good positions
have already been given to Decatur
county and it will also be remembered
that Taylor county did not give Mr..
Cummins any votes in the convention
which nominated him for governor.
In view of the fact that this county
was carried for Mr.. Cummins it is but
reasonable to surmise that Mr.. Currie
Will receive the appointment of oil in.
spector, which is to be made in a few
days. Mr.. Currie was quite active in
his support of MIR. Cummins and he is
IN every way qualified to fill the position.
MT. Ayr Record.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
THE DINNER PAIL VOTER.

The congressional elections this year
are likely to be largely affected by
the attitude Of the dinner pail voter in
the eastern and northern districts. In
the presidential elections of 1896 and 1900
these men were coddled and deceived
into the support of "the advanced
agents of prosperity" and promised
their reward in ''the full dinner pail!'
A sudden and expensive war came
along opportunely to boom agricultural
products and manufactures, and the
effects of it were quite filling for awhile
to the dinner pail. But now the re.
duction. of war demands, the effects
of overproduction in many lines of
factoring, the peace in South Africa and
in Europe at large, and the growing de-
mands of the trusts, led by the beef
trust notably, is causing the dinner
pail to feel goneness that excites the
study and indignation of the working
man.
Also, there are strikes developing all
along the line of the American indus
trieslandithese are helping the dinner
pail to reduce its former fatness and
simultaneously causing the carrier OF it
to realize that much of his prosperity,
like the gamester's winnings, has gone
back over the layout into the dealer's g
bank roll. He now suspects that he
was ceverly baited for season only to
be robbed the easier of his earnings and
made more gullible to the future bunco
devices of the trusts and monopolies.
1t is being shown by the statistics of
the labor bureau of the government
that $4,000, 900 wage earners in America
average only about $400 each per year
and have two dependents to provide for
out of that sum. That gives SILL per
month to each beneficiary and half of
that only is available for food-a sum
that allows but cents per meal to each
person! That is prosperity with a
vengeance! Imagine the fullness of the
dinner pail that has only cents with
which to purchase the flling-and beef
at 80 cents pound!
No wonder republican campaign man
ayers are beginning to tremble. at the
coming ides of November, and less
wonder that they are warning the trusts
that it will cost more cash to carry the
country this fall than it has eyer cost
before. The empty dinner pail is pre-
pairing to 90 on the warpath.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
THE LIMITATIONS OF RELIGION.

Religion like everything else has its
own limitations. One cannot force
every absurdity upon the public in the
sacred name of conscience. For rexsmple
polygamy is vice and by no stretch Of
the imagination can it be regarded as
religion. And the same thing is true in
lesser degree, of much less. No one
has right toltransform his religion into
a system of pathology. Pain may be
relieved and suffering mitigated, but not
by distractions. One might as we'll at
tempt to tinker clock or watch bv
faith as to set broken bones or to allay
fever by such processes. Natural laws
are just as real, as spiritual laws, but
each one of them have their own sphere
and limitations. Religion should never
be run as business nor should it ever
be put upon the market. 1t is too per.
sonal and sacred for anything of that
klnd.-Mt Ayr Record.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
GETTING READY TO QUIT.

The expectation at Washington is
that Congress will adjoun early in July
perhaps by the first. Everybody is
tired. The hot weather is sure to come
very soon. Many representatives. need
to go home "to look after their fences" :"
some of the Senators want to go fishing.
So far as doing anything more for
the benefit of their country is concerned
there is little reason to prolong the ses.
sion. But the idea that by "scuttling"
without doing anything for the relief of
Cuba, or to promote that reciprocity
with other nations for which President
Mckinley argued so convincingly in his
last speech, the Republicans can "avoid
the tariff issue" is an absurdly childish
one. This is the surest way to intensity
the issue and make it paramount.
The Democrats could ask nothing bet
ter OF their opponents on party grounds,
than to have them adjourn Congress
leaving these questions in allegiance.
President Roosevelt's notion that reso-
lutions by Republican State Conven.
tions will pacify the people is illusory.
His party has been resolving" in favor
of reciprocity for years-and then kill
ing all reciprocity treaties in the Senate.
1t has boasted of giving freedom to
Cuba''-and nov gives the young re-
public freedom to starve! Congress is
to adjourn without even an effort to
repeal or to modify the tariff exactions
by which the trusts charge extortionate
prices in monopolized home market
while underselling their competitors in
all other markets of the world.
Well did Grover Cleveland say that
"the times point to another Democratic
opportunity as near at hand. New
York World.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
GOING OUT in THE WORLD.

Now are the college commandments
at hand, and fair young things, mascu-
line and feminine, will ego out into the
WORLD" which they are given the i'm.
preston is waiting for them with un-
sheathed claws and gllttering teeth,
and that the first thing on their memor.
andum books is a "battle" with this ter
rifying behem 9th, ''the world" Why
human society should be held up to the
youth fresh out of college as something
hostile, hideous and Tartartean, and
that upon entering it he must take the
same view of it that white man would
take on entering the Apache country,
when there was an Apache country, has
never been made clear. Perhaps the
object was to scare some of the college
conceit out of him, though contrary to
such an implication, the college gradu-
ate has too little confidence rather than
too much, and the post ogres and scare.
crows in his path makes him the more
timorous. The world is not waiting for
him with pitchfork; it has nothing
more serious or dangerous in hand for
him than about So week. He will be
welcome to clothe and feed himself on
that as long as he insists on having no
more, and will be treated kindly. The
world is always kind to those who are
contented. There is "battle'' only for
those who want to fight, and "fghting"
in the worldly-accepted sense means
making continuous and troublesome eff.
forts to get more money. If the college
graduate doesn't want more money,
"going forth into the world" is not such
serious thing. But if he does, he will
find general consensus of opinion
against his getting cent more than ne
earns, and, in special instances, against
his getting all that he does earn.-Globe
Democrat.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03

New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma
will have to remain in territorial bondage
another year, but the promise is held
out that it will be positively the last, and
that their stars will be set in the blue of
the flag by July a, 1908. This will be
the last job Of state-making for many
years to come, the only remaining terri
tories being Alaska and Hawaii. To be
sure, in the opinion Of the optimistic
Mr.. Elkins, Cuba may take notion to
throw herself into our arms in short
time, butt is not very probable. Then
ne have Guam, the Philippines and
Porto Ricoto do as we pease. What
their ultimate fate is to be is one of the
mysteries of the future. Major Waller
vaunts that he has made par t Of one of
them "howling wilderness.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
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The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
NOT so HARMONIOUS AFTER ALL

The Centerville Iowegian, one of the
most influential republican papers of
the Eighth District, speaks thus about
the denomination of Hepburn:
The congressional convention for the
Eighth District is held at Creston Today
and there being but one candidate before
the convention, the nominee is not in
doubt. There are several men in the
Eighth district who would like to repre-
sent the district in congress but the
smothering process has been effective in
keeping them cut and none of them had
the necessary nerve to put up fight
against one of the most perfect political
machines in this or any other state.
We are inclined to believe that the re-
suit of to-day's convention is serious
political mistake and that the re-nomin-
alton of MIR. Hepburn for the eighth or
ninth time should not be made. For
the good of the party and the good OF
the country there should be a limit to
the terms of Office. On the face of the
matter it looks as if all was harmonious
but there is deep undercurrent that
bodies no good to the party harmony.
Already the indiscreet friends of Mr..
Hepburn are advocating life tenure for
him and that alone will cost many votes
this fall from class of men who from
principle oppose any such tendency in
political affairs. 1t will not cost enough
votes to anywhere near defeat him but
it is very bad policy to ALLEVIATE any
part of our best party men; men who
say that they are serving their party
best when they serve their country best
and who will not countenance life ten
ures or anything that looks like leading
to that end. To an outsider who might
attend our convention and read the res.
olutions passed it looked like harmony
but those on the inside know that Mr..
Hepburn could not secure delegation
in this county if there was any reason
!, ably good man against him, even With
the aid of the perfect organization
which he commands. What is true in
this county is no doubt true in Others
and hence the smothering process. Oul
majority in the district is too great fol
the opposition to hope to overcome il
but there are districts in the United
States that have resorted to the same
means where the majorities are no
beyond the overcoming point and i
the next congress is Democratic the
blame ought to rest where it belongs
Another point is the weakening of tn,
party organization which ought no
to be done; the party is greater thar
any one man.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03

When republican gets hold of an Of
flee he never lets go. 1t takes death to
sever him and the office, unless the
democratic voter does the job. Con-
gresham Hepburn, Of the Eighth dis
trict, has been nominated for another
term in the United States Congress, and
it is expectedithat Major Lacey, of this
district, will receive the same treatment
when the republican congressional con-
vention meets. 1t is really too bad that
the republican party of these two dis
trlcts has not two other republicans fit
to receive the nomination for congress.
What would become Of the party if
those two men should die?-Ottumwa
Democrat.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03

The republicans of the Eighth district
have again nominated w. P. Hepburn
for congress. 1t is perfectly safe to say
that three-fourths of the republicans of
the district detest Hepburn and would
like to see him retired but they openly
acknowledge that the machine he has
built cannot be overthrown. There
is way to retire him, gentlemen. You
can do it by voting for the democratic
candidate. Now will you assert your
manhood and independence and do II?
-Moulton Sun.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE.

The democrats of the Eighth Con.
gressional District will hold conference
In Osceola, Friday, July IL, 1902, to
which every democrat in the district is
not only invited, but urged to attend.
Matters pertaining to both the state and
congressional campaign will be discuss.
cd. A. w. MAXWELL,
Member Dem. State Central Com.
j. f. McG1NTY,
Chm Congressional Com.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
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The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03

Statistics more and more point to the
fact that hard workers have come near
est to solving the problem Of longevity.
The indolent rich are the shortest lived
and the farmer stands at the head OF
the list of long lived persons, while the
miner, in spite of his surroundings, is
said TO be second.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03

The Agricultural department at Wash
ington is being flooded with answers to
its inquiries for date of the first return
of the l7-year cicada in different local.
tiles. The returns already in show that
Indiana and Maryland are the states
most affected by the visitation.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
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The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03

Grover Cleveland is a true philosopher.
He would rather fish than cut political
bait.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03

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The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION

A delegate convention of the Democrats of
the state OF Iowa will be held at Des Mones
Iowa. on
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1902
to place in nomination candidates for the fol-
lowing offices. to.wit:
secretary of State.
Auditor of State.
Treasurer of State.
Attorney General.
Judge of Supreme Court.
Clerk of Supreme Court.
Reporter of Supreme Court
Railroad Commissioner.
and to transact such other business as may
properly come before said convention.
The ratio of representation will be one dele
gate at large from each county and one dele
gate for each 200 votes or fraction of loo oyer
cast for the Democratic candidate for governor
at the last general election. The Eighth dis
trict counties will be entitled to the following
delegates;
Appanoose ...........10 Ringgold -. ....... 5
Clarke 80. Taylor ..............
Decatur .......... Union ........ -, 8
Fremont . .....n Wayne. 80. -. 3
Lucas. .............
Allvoters who endorse the principles of the
Democratic party are invited to participate in
the selection of delegates to this convention.
Nv order OF the Democratic Estate Central
Committee. S. +. McCONNELL,
N c. ROBERTS, Chairman.
Secretary.
The Leon reporter., 1902-07-03

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