The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-10-29
TWENTY GOOD REASONS
A Voter of this County Sends Us
the Following Reasons for the
Benefit of the Leon Journal.

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the Following Reasons for the
Benefit of the Leon Journal.
I'VE know of reasons why single republican
ticket should be scratched this fall.-Leon Journal
Oct. 8, l903.'
For the information of the Rings
hired man we will endeavor to offer a
few reasons which may have escaped
him and which he would not dare to
publish if they occurred to him:
First-Because three men on the
ticket Stookey and the two Browns
are boilers and not willing that ma
jority shall rule.
Second two of them were
delegates to the Cedar Rapids conven-
minis, and, nnder the lead of Blythe re-
fused to make the nomination unani-
nous.
Third Because Capt. Brown swore he
would not vote for Cummins two years
ago and another man on the ticket has
since boasted that he did not vote for
him and will not this year.
Fourth-Because Stookey said in his
paper two years ago that the Cummins
men all belonged to the whiskey ele-
ment.
Fifth-Because Capt. Brown, acting
for himself and others, insisted that a
we'll known young republican must be
retired from the deputy-ship in the
county treasurers office and for no
other reason than that he presumed to
think for himself.
SiXth-Because the Ring opposes the
increase in railroad taxes which the
present state administration has brought
about.
Seventh-Because the Rings hired
man said in the Ring Organ that When
ever they got ready to nominate man
they just nominated him." which is true
of each of the candidates on the county
ticket.
Eighth Because several of the can
didates ride on railroad passes.
Ninth-Because several Of the federal
ofiice-holders put i'll more time serving
the interests of the Ring than they do
in the discharge of the duties of the
offices to which they have been appoint
ed.
Tenth because the Ring tried to de-
feat the present auditor OF the county
because he insisted that the railroad
taxes were not high enough, and would
not accept the dictation OF the members
of the Ring, thirty-two of them voting
against him in Leon.
Eleventh the members of
the Ring refused to contribute to the
county campaign fund in 1902 because
the ticket did not have their tab on.
Twelfth-Because the ring set the
example of scratching in the cam
paigns of 1901-02, and if it was advis-
able then it ought to be proper now
Thirteenth Because Capt. Brown,
acting on instructions from Burlington,
gave up the ambition Of his life and
published a notice in the Ring Organ to
the effect that 81 am for Marion f..
Stookey for our senator"
Fourteenth Stookey sent a
bogus telegram to Des Moines during
and Gear, in which he said representa-
tive Eiker had agreed to vote for
Bowen for speaker and Gear for senator.
A statement which he knew was abso-
lutely false when he sent it.
Fifteenth-Because Stookey tried to
influence, the friends Of Eiker in behalf
Of Gear, expecting to receive as his re-
ward the local attorneyship of the G. b.
and Q railroad.
. SiXteenth-Because the same Ring
that is now trying to dictate the poll
tics OF Decatur county, defeated Bryson
Bruce, father of their present hired
man, for the reason that he refused to
surrender the principles of life time
and vote for local option.
Seventeenth Capt. Brown is
frequently selected by the 20" railroad
to represent it as arbitrator in matters
in which the corporation is interested
with citizens of this county.
Observation-Disclosures Capt. Brown is
the only farmer known in Decatur coun-
ty who has sufficient influence with the
90 officials to enable him to get a tun-
mel cut under the track to connect two
pastures. Or who has influence enough
to have special train run to enable
him to reach a Chicago market at an
opportune time.
Observation-Disclosures the people of
Decatur county do not want two men
elected to the legislature who will vote
for j. w. Blythe, General Solicitor of
the G. B. 6, Q. railroad, for United States
senator.
Twentieth To sum it all up it is not
a question of politics which confronts
the voters of the county but it is
whether or not the most unscrupulous
Ring ever organized in any county shall
prepare slate weeks before the con-
vention is held and farm out the differ
ent Offices to it's henchmen.
Ii the above reasons are not sufficient
for the hired man who five years ago
was holding office in the courthouse as
a democrat, there are several others we
might give. ~
Saturday night is Halloween.
Services will be held by the Christian
congregation at the Advent church
next Sunday, as usual.