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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-12
School Statistics.

Some Statistical and Fiscal Intorma-
ton compiled from Annual Report OF
equity superintendent to Department OF
Public Instruction.
Number Sub Districts in Couty %
Number Ungraded School in County 1877
Number Room in graded schools -. 43
Average number moths taught 7
Whole number different teachers
employed:
FemaleS ................ go
Average compensation ! Males s44.5o
per month Females S3I.oS
Number persons be- Males aSos
tyone years of age ~ "o-
Number shnnl, pc persons ons be be Males 1925
teen years of age ~
Number enrolled in Private and
Parochial Schools ...... 1886
Number enrolled in schools since
September 1908. .... 5ooI
Total average daily attendance. 5000
Total average cost of tuition per
month. ........ So. 81
Number Schoolhouses in county,. I48
Total Value of schoolhuses (estim-
ated) $Io4, 702.oo
Total Value OF Apparatus
(estimated) ............... SO, 10000
Number of volumes in libraries -. 7I72
Number trees on grounds ...... 1880
FINANCIAL REPORT.
TEAcERs' FUND.-RECEIPTs.
On hand Sept. Goth 1908 $50. s2o,o7Io7
Received from district tax. $4,000
Received from apportionnent
Ont. on per. School tund) :. o,24o.25
Received from other sources. I.428s5
Total Teachers Fund Re-
ceipts on hand. ....... s75,567.37
TEACHERS FUND.-DIsBURsEMEN
Paid teachers since Sept. 1903 $40, o25. 20
increase over previous year
(Ioo2 to 1909 $3,o7o.22)
Paid for Library books from
apportionment money. .... 8oq2I
Paid for Library books from
money raised by voluntary
Efforts 04.OO
fald LOT Otner purposes - tul-
ton etc. so So
On hand with district
treasurers Sept. Goth
1904. .................. s25,653.5S
CONTINGENT FUND.-RECEIPTs.
On hand Sept Goth, 1oo3..... s 5,2oI.o2
Received from district tax. I4,83o.I3
Received from sale of text
books and supplies ........ $40
Received by transfer from
Schoolhouse fund and other
sources. ............ I,46S 70
Total, on hand last year
and receipts this year. $2I, 5oo.24
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-12

COLUMN

Rates-One cent per woodworking
less than ten cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-12

That want column found lot OF
things last week. Ever try it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-12

Males. Females.
Number Ist class two
years certificates is
sued ........... 6 10
Number second class
certificates issued -. ID I25
Number third grade
certificates issued. 10 81
Number special certii-
Gates issued. .....
Number kindergarten
certificates issued -. 1
Total number certif-
Gates issued. ..... 30 los
Total number failures
on examination 80. IS I2I
Total number different
Number applicants
writing examination 50 3I6
Number different per-
sons receiving certif-
Gates ........... 20 I52
Average of persons to
whom certificates
were issued. ........ Is q
Number teachers hold
ing state certificates 3 s
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-10-12

Some Statistical and Fiscal Intorma-
ton compiled from Annual Report Of
equity superintendent to Department of
Public Instruction.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04
ENTITLED TO SUPPORT.

Only a few more days remain il
which the men of Yellowstone count,
may make up their minds as to how
they will vote. The men and issues
between whom they are asked to de
i have been made familiar tt
them. Both the newspapers and
speakers have told them all there is
to be told and ignorance no longer
exists On any point or individual. The
republicans on the county ticket have
made a clean, manly and honorable
campaign. They have not seen it
necessary to resort to abuse or mis-.
representation. Wherever possible
they have spoken kindly of their op-
ponents and have not sought to de-
tract from their merits as candidates
or men. None of this has been need
ed. The issues on which they stand
and the policies of the party they rep
resent commend themselves to all
who are interested in good govern
ment. Their own personality is suf-
ficient guarantee that they will per-
form their respective duties in a
manner hat will leave nothing to be
desired. They are all old citizens,
men who have resided in the commu-
nifty for years, many of them since
its infancy, and their record is an
open book, known. to all who may
have cared to make inquiries into it's
contents.
With such candidates the party is
not apprehensive of the results, but
calmly awaits the final issue, conf
dent that the good sense and wisdom
OF the people may be relied upon to
properly direct them in arriving at
a choice. With them in charge OF
the county's affairs criticism will
cease, for there will be no occasion
for it. Public business will be con-
Quoted as it should be and the in
of the county will be jealousy
guarded and conserved. From TOP
bottom the ticket is a good one and
should receive the hearty support OF
all republicans, and democrats as
well, for they are equally concerned
equally insistent upon honest and
intelligent administration of the
county's ncern
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04
GAINS STRENGTH DAILY.

instead Of growing weaker, as the
opposition would have the people be-
lleve, the candidacy of William Lind
say is developing new and %pec
strength. Realizing this, the demo-
Gratis are affecting an air of conf
dence and are attemptingf to make
it appear that Toole's election is a
foregone conclusion, thereby endeay.
oring to discourage and dishearten
the friends of the republican candi.
date. This is an old and well known
trick, blu in this instance it will de-
ceive no one. Wherever he appears
MI. Lindsay creates a most favorable
impression on the people by his sin
cerlty and straight forward, manly
talk and his manifest honesty and
n He is, as he is character
ICED by the democratic speakers.
only an honest man." just the sort
OF man the people of Montana want
and will have for their governor. He
Is beholden to no corporation and is
independent of all entanglements
likely to prove detrimental to a
faithful discharge of duty. Neither
is he a politician with a politicians,
tricks and deceits, but a plain man.
who says what he mean and will do
what he considers to be right and
just. Let all who desire an honest
Administration, one free from job
berry and chicanery, rally to his sup
port,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04
TooLE iNDIcTs HIMSELF.

Fearful vas the arraignment by
Governor Toole of his own party at
the opera house Tuesday night.
Prompted by a sense of right that
Will not be absolutely stilled, not
outstanding that he himself in the
past has been made the beneficiary
OF the conditions he SO graphically
and eloquently described, n that
ne expects to be still further bene-
hted by them, he told how the con-
ventions of his party are conducted
and how they are dominated by in
n that should have no bearing
or weight in matters pertaining to
the exercise of the will and rights
OF the people. Carried away by the
indignation that momentarily filled
MIN, he said that instead of Elm
the representatives of the masses. the
populace, the men named for office
were put upon the ticket at the COM
mand and behest of soulless CORPORA
lions, who knew they would do their
bidding in time of need.
1t makes no difference that he said
the same condition obtained as re.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04
Friday, November q, 1904.
LINDSAY THE PROSECUTOR.
from Thursdays Daily.

. Ddlly.
1t was a magnificent tribute paid
last night by the people of Billings
TO the Honorable William Lindsay.
and we'll deserved it was. AS a neigh
Dor a friend and the leader of the re.
publican party of Montana he appeared
before them. In an honest, honorable.
frank and manly way he discussed
the issues involved in the campaign
which he is leading. He did not have
to depend upon the tricks of the
trained speaker to obtain and hold the
interest of the audience, neither did
he have to resort to Misrepresentation
or the telling Of half truths.
Earnestly, yet calmly, he discussed
men and measures as they are related
70 the questions the people arc called
lpon to decide and settle for them
lelves. With the force Of all the con-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04

CARDS the republican party. BY his
W admission and charges he con-
victed himself and by them he stands
today before the state as a candidate
who but for the will of the corpora
tons would not be asking support
end inviting evidence of confidence
in him by voting to place him in the
governors chair for another term.
Care was taken by the gentleman
not to deny that to the grace OF
Heinze, w. A. Clark and the Anal
gamated he owes his position as
head of the democratic ticket. For
this much honesty he is to be given
credit, but it does not relieve him OF
the faint that attaches to him as the
candidate of those concerns.
Mr.. Toole may inveigh all his
powers of speech will permit him to
against the corporations whom he
says are undermining the rights and
liberties of the people, but self-con-
fessedly he is under obligations to
them and must be taken at his own
word as a man who will do as they
may bid in times to come,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04

victiOn an honest man is capable OF
ne OLD how the men who are opposing
him have brought about a chain OF
conditions that demand i~mperatively
that they be remedied. Speaking
with the gertrude of one who knows,
ne related the tale OF d~isgracefuI
proceedings in the legislature that
have caused shame and ignominy to
attach to the name OF the state, and laid
the responsibility where it belongs.
Forcibly he exposed the false pre-.
lenses of those who are now before
the people of Montana for ''vindica-
ton and effectually he piled evidence
upon evidence of their guilt and i'm
peached them beyond all possible de-
tense. Some of the things he told
were old and known to his hearers as
we'll as to himself, but their recital
was necessary to a complete presenta-
ton of the facts as they oncern later
days and bear upon the situation as
it now exists. In a telling manner
he exposed the deceit and u%nreliability
OF the leaders of the democratic party
who are once o pleading for a
vote of confidence, and convicted them
OF dishonesty and falsehoods. Plainly
he showed that they are not to be
trusted and clearly he placed it before
all thinking persons that their present
attitude is enforced and that should
they be entrusted once more with the
discharge Of the high and sacred du-
ties they are eager to assume no bet
ter things need not De expected OF
them in the future than stand to their
credit as regards the past. Tellingly
he arraigned them before the bar OF
public opinion and u%nrelentingly he
fastened upon them the guilt they
fain have appear is not theirs.
1t was a masterful effort of a con-
man, whose every fibre vi
'rates responsibility to the throbbings n
an honest heart, a mind free from {
'hlcanery and a soul that exults in .
righteousness and a spirit that is 8
bove the petty things which find ex-
onents in those who are actuated by I
elish and unworthy motives. !,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04

Having been n of their number
and still being a man who regards
onest toll as a badge of manhood
and honor, William Lindsay will be a
friend to the workingman when in the
governors chair and will see to it
that his interests are not overlooked.
He stands squarely on the platform
OF his party and his pledge that such
occurrences as have stained the his
tory of Colorado during the past sum-
mer will have no place in Montana
as long as he is governor. There will
be no convictions 'ithout a trial and
none OF the states citizens need fear
Imprisonment or deportation without
due process of law.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04
MAKING MUCH OF LITTLE.

Simply because he did his duty
nothing mcre-as county attorney OF
Cascade county during the few days
that the strike on the Great Narthern
was on, in 1900, the democratic state
central committee has seen fit to is
sue a special circular for circulation
among the railway employees OF the
state detailing in exaggerated form
how Mr.. Gormley proved himself to
be their friend On that occasion. At
tempt is made to show that he rem
dered them special services and that
in return he should now receive their
support.
The simple truth is that Mr.. CORN
ley told the managers of the railroad
that a law of Montana prevented the
importation of armed men into the
state, and that if effort was made to
bring in any such he would proceed
to enforce that law. Any other hon
est man in his position would have
done the same thing. His oath of
Office and regard for duty would have
prompted him. Had Mr.. Gormley
then acted differently than he did
he would have laid himself open to
deserved censure and possibly prose-
cution for non-feasance and malfea-
sance. This the railway men now
know, as well as all other intelligent.
men.
Thinking they see an opportunity
to injure Mr.. Dixon and create preju-
dice against him among the railroad
men, the leaders of the democratic
party have employed men to travel
all over the state to misrepresent the
facts and circumstances and employ
such Misrepresentation to the advan-
tage of Mr.. Gormley. One of those
paid prevaricators was in this city a
day or two ago and worked hard to
earn his wages. The fact that the
democratic state committe is paying
for this work is causing it to have
NV OppooACO CACCC lIOm LudL lUIGuO-
ed. The unprecedented, fairminded
members among the different organ
OF railway employees are con-
demning the effort making to drag
their orders into politics and are un-
sparing in their language of the men
belonging to them who are lending
themselves TO a plan having for it's
object furtherance of political and
purposes. The fact that the
committe has seen fit to
a circular purporting to ema.
nate from the Order of Railway Con-
1uctors and the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen at Great Falls does
not lessen the indignation of those
Who are opposed to such methods and
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04
CIRCULATING PROVED LIE.

Notwithstanding that it was proved
, untrue at the time it was first pub.
lished, the democrats continue to give
circulation to the story that Congress-
man Dixon was one of the guests at
the banquet rendered Governor Pea
body of Colorado at Chicago some.
time during the summer. Mr.. Dixon
was not only not at the banquet, but
was not even in Chicago at the time
it took place.
When the other democratic news
papers of the state worked over time
to give circulation to the falsehood,
the Anaconda STANDARD appealed to
them to adhere to the record, saying
that MI. Dixon was not at the ban
quet, and asked for fairness and
truthfulness on the part of its con-
temporaries who are opposing the re-
election of that gentleman. Since
then but little has been published in
the newspapers of that party nee
ing the matter, but that has not
prevented INSCRIPTIONS men in the
party from continuing to circulate the
lie and using it to the injury OF MI.
Dixon. The falsehood is being worked
for all there is in it during these clos
ing days of the campaign in the hope
that it may have it's effect on those
who may not have seen the repeated
published denials. Right here in
Billings and in other parts of the
county, where Mr.. Dixon should have
the stanchest friends, men are en-
gagged in retailing the Islander and
seeking to give it an air of truthful
ness and sincerity.
To use plain and emphatic language
If any man or men come to you and
tell you that Joseph M. Dixon was at
the Peabody banquet put it down as
a lie, u~nvarnished, malicious and
venomous. He was not there.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04

Even the most uncompromising OF
democrats will have to admit that had
it not been for the big stick" that
Great Britain carries, in other words,
had it not been for it's naval suprem-
acy, the cars government would not
have been SO prompt in expressing
regrets at the Hull incident nor so
ready with its promises to make
every possible reparation in its
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04
ADMISSION OF WEAKNESS.

Another excellent example is fur
nished of that rightly of SHINE
which, according to democratic
sources of information, is one Of the
grandest characteristics of Judge
Parker. Only a short time g a dis.
appointed nation was informed that
despite all %entreaties and appeals OF
his friends and advisers, the indge
remained firm in his decision not to
undertake a stumping tour in behalf
OF his own candidacy. The most he
would do, we were tearfully told.
would be to follow the example of
Mckinley in 1896 and make such
speeches AS he deemed desirable II
advisable from his porch at Esopus.
That decision made and announced
his heralds proclaimed, she proceeded
to work along the lines he had
marked for himself. He believed
then, as he does now, that he decided
rightly, and nc amount of entrealy
VII bulge him. His recorl during AL
his previous life proves that clamor
VIII not o him one iota. Tie in
cident is closed and tho SO In charge
OF the campaign fully approve OF the
determination of Judge Parker"
This proclamation was issued dur
ing the earlier part of October. The
warm weather prevailing since then
seems to have melted the judges spi-
column and his boosted. deter
Without notice of a renewal OF the
and ~entreaties, the news sud-
denly came from New York that Judge
Parker had concluded to take advantage
Of the remaining days before the cleo.
lion to talk to the people at a number
of places in different states. No other
is to be placed upon this
of mind than that both the
Judge and the campaign managers
who had approved of his policy OF Sc
decided upan at an earlier
late have come to realize how desper-
tie the situation has grown and that
t behooves him to do something, and
10 it soon and earnestly. But it is too
ate. All the speeches he is capable
# making between now and next
Tuesday will avail him and his party
The great masses of the
to whom he now makes a last
xpiring appeal have learned to know
i'm by the speeches and addresses he
made when the campaign was still
Young. The reckless and untrue {
narges he Illuminated then have {
larked him as a man not to be relied {
pom and not possessed of the knowl-
dye and information concerning pub t
C affairs needed in a man who would |
e president of the United States. He {
lso indicates himself as a man OF weak
ess of will, a plant subject in the S
OF men of stronger minds and l
hat if by any mischance he should 7
e elected, Hill, Belmont, McGarren
nd the others who made his candi- t
acy possible would be the real power d
the White house. This. is something L
lie people are not prepared to permit +
nd Judge Parker will have ample a
me in which to repair his fractured f
pine and lay in another supply OF S
re much Wanted "firmness and de- t
concerning which they were p
I'D SO much a few months ago. d
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04

Then, too, the governor did not ex-
plain why the Amalgamated, Heinze
and Clark are all supporting him,
while all the time pretending to be in
deadly political and personal enmity
to one another, and each being clam
orous in it's professions OF a desire to
run the other out of the state.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04

Another thing Toole did not tell
was the inside facts of his sudden
change from a pronounced opponent
of Clark and the Amalgamated to one
Of the best friends that combination
has in the state today.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04

Free as the democratic newspapers
are with their enumeration Of trusts
that President Roosevelt has not
caused to be prosecuted, they are
painfully backward in enumerating
those prosecuted under either Of the
Cleveland administrations.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04

Personal considerations and friend,
ship should not be permitted to inter.
fere with the discharge of your duty
as a citizen next Tuesday. Vote for
the republican candidates for county
offices and give emphasis to your con-
viCtions and desire for a capable.
honest administration.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04

While it is highly important that
the full republican state ticket should
he elected, it is no less important to
the people of Yellowstone that the
republican county ticket should also
triumph. Vote for it and for a pru-
dent, honest and efficient administra-
ton of the county's affairs.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04

Having heard the more snowy can
didate of the democracy and listened
to the arguments of a past master in
the art OF political trickery and de-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04

ceit, tonight the people of Billings
will have an opportunity to hear
what s'only an honest man" has to
say to them and then compare the
two.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

For Representative, ..
CHAUNCEY C. BEvER.
For Sheriff,
WILLIAM P. ADAMS.
For Treasurer,
HENRY WHITE.
For Assessor,
WARREN A. EVANS.
For County Attorney,
HARRY l.. WILSON,.
For County Clerk,
JOHN w. FISH.
For Clerk of the District Court,
CASS PRUDHOMME 0
for County Superintendent of Schools.
MRS. MARGUERITE M. STRANG.
For Public Administrator,
W. F. SYLVESTER.
For County Surveyor,
PHILIP M. GALLAHER.
For Coroner,
J. H. RINEHART.
Fol Justices of the Peace, Billings
Township,
A. FRASER,
A. P. HART.
For Constables, Billings Township,
c. E. MOWRE,
GEORGE W. STODDARD.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
For President:
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
of New York.
For Vice-President:
CHARLES w. FAIRBANKS
Of Indiana.
REPUBLICAN, STATE TICKET.

For Presidential Electors,
PAUL MCCORMICK
of Yellowstone.
THOMAS DUNCAN
of Madison.
A. W. MERRIFIELD
of Flathead.
For Member of Congress-,
JOSEPH M. DIXON
of Missoula.
For Governor,
WILLIAM LINDSAY
OF Dawson.
For lieutenant Governor,
\ a.. ERNEST W. KING
Of Gallatin.
For Chief Justice,
i. THEODORE BRANTLY
s.H of Powell.
For Clerk of the Supreme Court,
JOHN T. ATHEY
of Cascade.
For Secretary of State,
ABRAHAM N. YODER
~. Of Silver Bow.
". For Attorney General.
ALBERT j. GALEN
sof Lewis and Clarke.
Isl, For State Auditor,
HARRY r. CUNNINGHAM
of Silver Bow.
For State Treasurer, .
JAMES H. RICE
of ChOuteau.
For Superintendent of Public Instruc
ton.
WILLIAM e. HARMON
of Gallatin. ..".
REPUBLICAN, JUDICIAL TICKET.
For Judge of the Seventh Judicial
District,
CHARLES H. LOUD.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-04
REPUBLICAN, JUDICIAL TICKET.

For Judge of the Seventh Judicial
District,
CHARLES H. LOUD.