The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-06-07
What Do You Think of This?
indianapolis, Decatur county, Iowa,
Nav u. 1906.

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Editor Davis City Lariat:
The Journal and Reporter say that
the remonstrance against the Decatur
petition is on file in auditors Office and
that 1000 citizens who have signed the
petition have since signed the remon-
STRANGE. | cannot accept that statement.
The men who have bum-foozled that
many citizens in Decatur county must
be cracker-jacks. 1t is hard to be-
lieve that that there are that many men
in this county that have delivered their
liberty into the hands of their enemies.
Just think how awful it is, that 1000
men in Decatur county have betrayed
their trust. If that is so, who can, in
the future, ever have any confidence in
such men? Can Decatur ever again
trust such men who have deceived
them?
hear that two of these men have
been promised the Offices OF county
commissioner and county treasurer if
they would sign the remonstrance.
There is not man in the county
clothed with authority to make such
ras h promises. Such man without
authority should receive coat of tar
and feathers and chrome.
Do not think for once that the people
will elect betrayer to office. Well!
Well! The idea of a deserter thinking
| that he would be boosted into office if
he would just sign the remonstrance.
Wouldn't that frost you?
| A man of old sold his birthright for
mess of pottage.
If they leave their names on the
remonstrance it will forever bar them
from Office in Decatur county. | would
not trust either one of them in county
office as far as l could sling wagon by
| the tongue. Within the next few days
they should redeem themselves and
save their honor.
The 1,600 men that are yet stanaing
as solid as rock on the petition Have
too much respect for themselves, their
wives, children, fathers and mothers,
than to betray their own trust. They
| think too much of their own liberty and
honor to be guilty of violating their
own confidence. am pleased to know
they are as strong as steel in their faith
that the county seat should be located
back to Decatur.
am surprised that the journal and
| Reporter have been as silent as an
oyster for the last seven weeks on the
county seat question. They may have
had some scouts out barking up a tree
and may think now that they can train
some of their twelve inch guns this way,
and put a quietus on us. Well, am
loaded for bear and never was so
anxious to engage in the fight as l am
atSthis present date.
Those 1000 men were spotted, and
many of them may have been Icons
hucksters. If all the 1000 were, Deca-
itur made pretty good haul out of
Leon's nest.
OF all sad words, from tongue or pen,
The saddest are these, money buys
| SOME men.
Miss BESSIE KITING.
The above abusive and insulting arti-
Gle appeared in the Decatur City de-
partment of the Davis City Lariat last
week. What do the more than thous-
and good substantial citizens Of Deca-
tur county who signed the remonstrance
after signing the petition think of it,?
On the remonstrance appears the
names of hundreds of our best and most
influential citizens of Decatur county,
who are neither idiots or traitors. In
signing the remonstrance they simply
exercised their good common sense, and
no one one, especially an anonymous
writer who is afraid to attach his sig
nature to the article, should take it on
themselves to criticise them. 1t is mere
rot and naturally will not do much to-
wards creating friendly feeling to-
wards the author, whose sole argument
in this matter has been abuse and de-
ception. The men who had the manhood
to come out and show their disapproval
of the attempt to remove the county
seat from Leon should be commended
for their action by all good citizens,
and we believe they will be.