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The Delta independent., 1904-09-30

The Democratic party is great
on promising, but about the only
thing they can point to that they
have done in the past is the panic
during Cleveland's administration.
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30

1t will be little awkward for
the Democrats to enthnse over a
campaign book prepared in the
rear Office Of a Wall street "money
shark"
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30
Delta Town Dmeers.

Mayor. W. b. Stockham.
Clerk. JAS. 4. Beckley.
Treasurer. @. c. Crabill.
Trustees: 3. b. Hours: A.. F. penley, ". 9.
Obert. r.
The Board Of Trustees meets the irst anbthrd
Thursdays Of each month.
Rollins, assistant. Meets "Wednesday evenings
preceding meetings OF trustees.
-. and a. VI.
Meeting nights, every second and fourth Mon.
days Of each month, at the Masonic Hall In The
Delta County Bank building. X. G. Edwards
w. ~. NJ. Johnson. Sec'v.
Garnet Chapter. No. ~, q. T.. n.
Meets the frs, and third Monday night. Of each
month In Masonic hall. Mrs: Bessie Kellogg
Worthy Matron: Mrs. Settie Gale. Secretary.
Grand Mesa Lodge, No. -. X. r.
Meeting nights. Tuesdays Of each week. at the
q. c.; II. II. Smith, X. of r. and 3.
Rmthbone sisterr.
Meets hrst and third Thursdays Of eacl, month
n knights Of PythiaS hall. Lucy Hlllnan. II.
Il. c.: Enie Payne. NJ. R.&C.
Delta Lodge, J. q. o. F., No. IIs.
Meeting nights. Fridays Of each week, in th,
Odd Fellows Hail. ". A. Shepherd. N. g.,
p. 4. Cooinbe. Sec'y.
Western slope EneamPaens. No. 81.
Meeting nights, nrst and third Mondays OF each
month. W. A. Shepherd c. r.; =. 4. Coombe.
Scribe.
Katherine Rcbeknh Ledge, Ne 90.
Meeting nights. second and fourth Thursdays
eacl, month. in the Odd Fellows Hall. Bessie
Allis. N. u: Ma title CLARK. secretary.
woodmen Of the World.
Delta Camp, 29.. meets Tuesday night esct
week 10 the Odd Fellows hall. A. 4. PEN
ley, G. e.. 4. NJ. Gets Clerk
Camp No. 4Is, Surface Creek. meets FIRST and
third saturiay nights at Eckert hal Elias
wenger, clerk. Fred Il. Bnrrtt consul.
women Of Wosderars.
Meets second and fourth Mondays evenings Z
eacl, month IN Odd Fellows hall. Guardian
NeighbOr Mrs. Carrie Gibbs; Clerk. Mrs, Vida
Bouldin.
Mcclellan Post. Ne. -. q. a. y.
Meets the second Thursday Of each month in
the hose house. Tl'e officers are as follows:
n. a. johnson, Commander: y. v. COmnard-
u. Tubbs Q,iHrtrrmaster, J. s. Barton Surgeon
James N. Blair; Chaplain. y. q: Marsh Q. p,
VIM. Mathrrs; g. o., J. Y. whinnery; AdIn-
tant. GeOrpe Bccklev
Delta Camp No. sl80. NJ. w. A.
Meets second and fourth Saturdays Of eaci,
month In I. .. o. Y. hall. Lee jacobs. v. G.: \
D. Simpson. Advisor; Mr. Isen,ce. banker: Sam
Wonders Clerk.
Order or Warrington.
a. J. winton Union. Meetings held
s.sci, m onil, In Odd Fepows' hall. W. j. iiannt.
PRESIDENT &C. B. Crvsl/r. Secretary.
VIM. spauldIng Union No. III meets at
Eckert second and fourth Saturday Fights on
each month. W. II. Jarvis, President, Byrun
r. Tan. Secretary.
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30
First Use Of Coal,

Although coal is generally supposed
to have been first used In New Eng
land several generations later, We
have a record under 1649 OF the ship
John and Joane. sailing for Wales ito
lade OF coale5"
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30

Judge Parker admits that he
twice voted for a dishonest dollar
but he will not say that he regrets
his action.
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30
Suicide ComparIsons.

Half century ago FIVE times as
many men committed suicide as won.
en-. Now the proportion is two and
half to one. The number of suicides
among children Il increasing rapidly.
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30
Delta Csuu,y Omeers

Sheriff. VIM. Hunt.
County Clerk aud Recorder, II X. Ferguson.
County Treasurer, n. Ernet Clack.
County Assessor, Sam Cockerhan.
County Surveyor. John A. Curtis.
County Judge. Milton X. welch.
County Snp't OF schools. Miss Alice Royce.
Caroner-DT. 4. b Houts.
George Stephan, County Attorney.
Z. n. Gets, County Coinmmi.sioner LIST district
l.. D. King, 2nd ''
John W. Finn 3rd :"
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30
Each Mans Life,

Life is the best thing we can pcssi.
bly, make Of II. 1t is dull and dismal
II a man loses his temper; 1t is glow.
ing with promise and satisfaction II
he Is not ashamed Of his emotions
George William Curtis.
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30
For Sale Cheap.

A 17-room rooming house with all
the furniture in o rooms upstairs, also
carpets and bedding, centrally locs ted.
on two good lots. Same will rent for
$50 per month. Apply at this Office.
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30
IIsA American Eaulpment,

The first electric railway In Peru
from Lima eight miles to the Pacific
and another contemplated from Lime
ten miles to the seaport. Callao. will.
have American cars and dynamos.
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30
Complete Reposs 10 Necessary.

Complete Reposs 10 Necessary.
A scientist says It Is not true that
Intellectual work is a relief from
physical work, or vice versa. Fatigue,
of whatever nature 1t is. accumulates
during any kind OF labor. and disap
pears only on complete repose.
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30
To uure q Cold a In Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tables
All druggists refund the money il il
fails to cure. E. w. Groves signature
on everybox 25c.
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30

Entered at the Delta, Colorado, pos,ofce for
transmission through the mails second class
matter.
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

iI
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For President,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
For Vice President.
CHARLES ". FAIEEANKS.
For Governor,
JAMES II. PEABODY.
For Congressman 2ud District,
II. VI. HOGG
For Cougressmau-st Large.
FRANKLIN Z BROOKS.
County Ticket.
For Representative
C. T.. LEWIS.
For Clerk
ELIAS WENGER.
For Treasurer
J. wELLAND JEFFERS.
For As eSsor
l.. D. HAUsER.
Superintendent OF schools
ALICE A. ROYCE.
For Sheriff
G. $. GIBBS.
For County Judge
MILTON K. WEIGH.
For Surveyor
J. A. CURTIS,
For Coroner
S.B. HOUTS.
For Commissioner district p
JOSEPH HOGREFE.
For Commissioner district 81
l.. o. WILMOT.
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY.
Miscellaneous Rates.

Miscellaneous Rates
Resolutions vi respect and condolence, obitu-
aries, etc, five cents per line for each add
nonsl line over one inch
Card of thankS-sl 90 for each insertion,
Display advertising rates made known on
application.
The Delta independent., 1904-09-30
REPORT OF the CONDITION OF Tue
National
--B A N k--
OF DEL ia.

At Delta, In the State Of Colorado at the
close Of business, September 6, 1904.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-15
REPUBLICAN, SUPREMACY Es
SENTIAL TO PROSPERITY.

Not far half a century during pres
idential campaign have we had an in
dustrial and financial condition such
as obtains today throughout the entire
country. Confidence in the election Of
the republican national ticket and
with it republican house of repre-
sentatives has given an impetus to
trade which could hardly be expected
even under normal conditions and is
actually surprising during president
ial campaign, when there has always
been more or less hesitancy and doubt
in business circles. The level of
stocks today is higher than it has been
for seventeen months; the railroad
earnings are improving every week;
the bank clearings are showing in
many instances record breaking fig
ures. while the postal business of the
country, which is the surest Indication
of all national prosperity, is increasing
most rapidly day by day in every por-
ton of the country The fall trade is
almost phenomenal. and the outlook
for the future is more than usually
bright.
All this is due to the confidence in
the election of a republican national
ticket at the polls next month.
The election of Judge Parker and
a democratic house of representatives
would reverse all this and plunge the
country into a condition of financial
and commercial distress, such as was
only equaled Immediately following
the election of Grover Cleveland and
with him democratic congress in
| 1892.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-15
GEN. REYES REPORT.

New York Tribune.-There is some
"uncommonly interesting reading" in
the report which Gen. Reyes has made
to the Colombian government upon his
diplomatic mission to this country.
We suppose that not even the most
rabid maligner of our governments
conduct in Panama will challenge Gen.
Reyes knowledge of the subject or his
devotion to Colombian interests What
he says about the Colombian blunder-
ing and obstruction which led to the
Panama revolution is not new 1t has
all been said before, again and again,
in these columns; but in coming from
such a source it Is invested with GER
tain novelty, and with an authority
which some might not be willing to
concede to an American newspaper
or to an American stateman.
What, then does Gen. Reyes tell his
government and his countrymen? In
brief, that what happened in Panama
was chiefly their own fault. Colom-
bia made, he says, a serious mistake
in the manner of her negotiation with
the United States for the construction
of q canal at. Panams. Instead of SO
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-15
WHAT THE SOUTH WANTS.


Senator Tillman of South Carolina,
Representative Williams of MISSISSIPPI
pi, Senator Bacon of Georgia, Senator
Bailey of Texas and other eloquent
orators from the south are now cam
paigning in the north and advising the
people how to vote in November. They
are all democrats They have plenty
of time to advise the people of the
rorth. They have no campaign at
home. Campaigns of public discussion
are unknown in the south. All these
public questions are there settled by
the democratic conventions. They do
not permit any other They do not in
yite northern men, not even northern
democrats, to make public speeches
in the south. They do not allow north
ern republicans to go down there and
make speeches for the republican tick
ct. Senator Tillman Is outspoken and
advises northern men to keep out of
southern politics. They must not in
terfere with the local affairs of the
Gouth. An Alabama congressman
makes public declaration that in his
opinion some Czolgosz should have
thrown dynamite bomb into the
White House and killed the President
when he received Booker T. Washing
ton The governor of Mississippi has
publicly offered the grossest insult to
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-15
IN rHE ERoNr RANK.

Ottumwa has again demonstrated
that she is city of the first-class, in
every sense, by the purchase of voting
machines to be used in the several
precincts of the city at future cleo
tons. Only one other city in Iowa,
Des Moines has as yet purchased the
voting machines and Ottumwa, the
second to adopt this valuable innova-
ton, may rightfully feel proud of her
spirit of progress.
The machines to be used in this city
may be finished in time for the cleo
ton of November 8, but the contract
calls for them in time for the spring
election next year. They will be de-
livered thirty days in advance of that
election day at least, and schools of
instruction will be conducted in order
to acquaint the voters with the plan
of the machines and the manner of
voting.
The use OF the machines will
open a new era for Ottumwa. Hither-
to it has required all night to arrive
at count of the ballots cast at al,
most any election. Frequently the
count has not been known until day.
light. With machines in use the total
result will be known within thirty
minutes after the polls close. But
this is not the only advantage. The
financial saving will, in few years
pay for the machines. According to
city officials the saving will be about
5000 annually, half the price of one OF
the machines. Ample time is given in
which to pay for them and the city
will not be crowded for the money
The purchase of the machines is q
move in the right direction.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-15
PARKER AND THE TRUSTS.

Ex-Attorney General Knox has
brought out the fact with startling
clearness that Parker, in his letter of
acceptance, has pledged himself, if
elected, to protect the trusts from
hostile legislation. He shows that the
supreme court decision which Parker
cited in support of his claim that "the
common law as developed, afforded a
complete legal remedy against monopo-
lies" has no such bearing as Parker
said it had. 1t applied to charges by a
telegraph company to newspapers and
had no relation to trusts or combina-
lions of trade Said Mr. Knox:
"The decision in the case to which
he refers does not mean what it is in
tended the people should think it
means-namely, that the common law
can prevent persons from making COM
binations and monopolies in restraint
of interstate commerce, and that the
United States could proceed against
them in common law. An agreement
in restraint of trade is not and never
was unlawful at common law in any
such sense as that the agreement
could be nullified by public authority,
or that persons not parties to it could
sustain an action against it for dam
ages 1t takes statute law to confer
such remedies, and the President is
clearly right in saying there is no
common law of the United States for
any such purpose"
Mr. Knox was charitable to Parker
in his comment on his misuse of this
decision, saying that in citing it as he
did he '"either intended to mislead the
people, or he does not know what the
case to which he refers decides, or
what the rule of the common law is
as to combinations in restraint OF
trade. l prefer to think the latter is
the correct explanation" That lets
Parker out on the ground of Ignorance
of the law, very curious defense to
have to make of man who has been
on the bench of the highest court of
the state of New York for many years
and who is nothing if not Judge
If he does not know how to interpret
correctly decision of the suprem e
court, what does he know?
Of course he knew what the decision
meant. Of course he knew what he
meant also when he said that the
common law affords complete rem
edy" against the trusts. He was keep
ing his compact with Belmont, Meyer
and Patrick McCarren of the sugar
trust, which he made at the time OF
the New York democratic convention
which put him forward as candidate
The platform of that convention was
submitted to him for approval before
the convention met, at luncheon in
New York City, at which only Parker
Belmont and Sheehan were present
The only plank 1t contained on the
trusts was this: Corporations charter
ed by the state must be subject to just
regulation by the state in the interests
of the people"
That meant that national control OF
the trusts was undesirable. 1t meant
that such laws as the Sherman Anti
Trust law was undesirable. 1t
meant also if Parker was elected he
would favor. the repeal of that law and
thus remove all possibility Of further
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suits like that which President Roose-
welt brought and won against the
Northern Securities company. The
New York plank was assailed so furi.
ousiy that Parker felt the need Of a
change OF front, so he took refuge be-
hind the common law When President
Roosevelt showed the trick in that,
Parker cited supreme court decision
and misrepresented its meaning.
Did he not know what he was doing
IN all these instances? Is he an able
judge or is he fool? He must be
one or the other. If he is an able Judge
and knows what he is doing, what is
the meaning of his course? Simply that
he is pledged through Belmont to pro-
tect the trusts and is keeping his COM
pact.
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that one man can offer

the President that one man can offer
to another.
And. Notwithstanding this sensitive
ness of the south regarding home af-
fairs. the southern statesmen come
north to advise us how we shall vote
in November. They regard our affairs
as national. and they are right. We
look upon them in that way. We are
glad to have the men from the south
come up here and take a hand in the
campaign of public discussion. They
may learn something about how a gov
eminent of the people is run by the
people. But when we see the insults
offered to the President and to all 9TH
er citizens who do not accept the
southern view Of public questions, we
are not persuaded that Tillman, Bal
ley. Williams, Bacon and the other
southern orators are in the north sim
ply to take part in public discussion
and advice for the welfare of the
whole country. These southern gem
tlemen have shown such a onesided-
ness in their patriotism that we are
constrained to believe that they have
some sectional purpose in view.
w HdI w IlCy WdHI. COuIIOl Lie
congress. 1t is laudable ambition
The south has ruled the democratic
party for many years If the demo-
cratic party is in control of congress
and the south in control of the demo-
cratic party, the southern men will be
satisfied. They advise northern men
to vote the democratic ticket because
by SO doing they will vote to hand the
government over to the Tillmans, the
Baileys, the Bacons and the Varde-
mans. They think they are able to
run the government and they are will
ing to try. They have been encourag-
ed by their success in controlling the
democratic party. In the present con-
gress southern man is at the head
of the democratic minority, and as the
leader he selected southern men to
head the list of democrats on every
committee of any Importance in the
house. He had sixty committees to
name the minority members and on
forty-eight of these he placed south
ern men to the front, where by the or
der of precedence. they would succeed
to chairmanships in the event of a
democratic house
More important to the south he
named none but southern democrats
as members of the most important
committees, like that on appropriations
that on rivers and harbors and with
one exception. that on ways and
means. The one exception was Bourle
Cochran of New York, an avowed free
trader. With such committees the
southern men would make the demo
cratic tariff schedules, appropriate the
public moneys, and designate the riv
er and harbors to be improved. This
is an end to be desired and fought fol-
by the southern men and it Is to be ex
pected that they would come north in
an effort to induce us to vote the dem
ocratic ticket. The important ques
ticn is, will we do it? A democratic
| house, means in fact house dominat
ed and controlled by the south whose
public men would gladly undertake tc
spend the revenues collected in the
north.
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ottumwa. Iowa.

eagerly soliciting this country to entoN
into treaty, she should have STOOD
pat" and awaited American offers.
Still more serious, he continues, was
the mistake In so loosely authorizing
the canal company to transfer Its ina
Ter 81 to the United States. colom-
pla should have kept that matter with-,
IN her own grip so as to have been
able to dictate her own terms and sol
nave got more cash out Of the bargainj
Upon those points we may have mol
hesitation in agreeing with Gens
Reyes. Colombia did not act foolish>
~. She permitted her eagerness to se.I
cure canal at Panama to run away
with her business discretion. But sure-
~ the United States was under no OBJ
l1gatlon to correct her plumbers fon
her or to tell her she was not asking
enough for the canal or sufficiently
safeguarding her own interests.
The United States did, indeed, 60 to
an uncommonly generous extreme. We
nave Gen. Reyes own testimony to
that effect. He admits that the United
States In the Hay-Herran treaty
granted to Colombia much more CONF
pensation than the Colombian governs
ment had asked; after which the
Colombian government demanded still
more, and rejected the treaty because
the United States would not grant it'll
1t is gratifying to see that Gen. Reyes
appreciates the extraordinary charac-
ter or that conduct of his government,
and does not venture to protest
against the description of 1t as unlaw-
full extortion.
Briefly stated, Colombia eagerly,
begged the United States to construct
canal on certain terms; the United
States agreed to do so on more gem
erous terms than those Colombia had
asked, and then Colombia refused to
complete the bargain unless the Unit-
ed States would give still more gener-
Gus tern2Y No wonder that this clear
sighted Colombian stateman frankly
admits. and tells his countrymen. that
the United States might well obtain
the public opinion of the world in con-
sidering as an indisputable fact that
the obstinancy of our (Colombian)
government was the only real obstacle
to the construction of canal"
No wonder that, he adds in conclu.
sion, the great majority of the nations
of the world have united without hes-
itation in sactioning what has been
done by the United States in Panama.
! Possibly there may still be some
| who, through factional spite or even
less creditable motives, will persist in
being more Colombian than the presi-
| dent of Colombia Rational men of all
parties will regard Gen. Reyes
strong and authoritative words as a,
convincing Confederation of what has
been said upon the subject by the
president of the United States and his
| advisers, and as an added vindication
of the course pursued by the American
administration towards Colombia and
toward Panamaa
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not be questioned and his election
will be an Indication of wisdom on the
part of the voters.
A. ]. Gardner, the only candidate on
the republican ticket who is not first
termer, has been member of the
board of supervisors for one term. Mr..
Gardeners splendid work on the board
speaks for itself and it is probably un-
necessary to elaborate on it at this
time. He is a representative farmer,
and as such knows the wants and
needs of the people of Wapello coun-
ty. His action as member of the
board has been highly satisfactory and
1t is safe to say that this year his ma
jority will exceed that by which he
was elected for his first term.
w. w. Epps. candidate for county
attorney. needs no introduction to the
people of Ottumwa or of Wapello
county. Mr.. Epps has been engaged
in the practice of law in Ottumwa for
several years and is in every way
qualified to serve as county attorney.
Mr.. Epps has had large experience
in criminal practice during his long
residence in ottumwa and his excel
lent knowledge of conditions and peo-
pie in Wapello county fits him for the
work Of the county attorney.
The people of Wapello county want
business administration of county
affairs. They want men Of ability, re-
sponsibility and integrity to take
charge of the duties devolving upon
officials of the county The republi-
can ticket presents just this kind of
men. Every candidate has been Sc
lected for his ability to fill the Of
flee for which he is the nominee. To
vote the republican county ticket is to
vote for business administration of
county affairs.