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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
Duties of the
President Makers
Methods Followed by the Electoral College In Choosing the
Chief Executive and Vice Observation-Disclosures
Of a System That Has Been the Center of
Various M0mentous Dsagreements.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES o.o.cso.o.o

dent and vice president, with the num-
Der of the college signs and certities
the list. the governor of the state certi-
ties 1t. and the report Is transmitted to
the president of the United States sen
ate. Both houses Of congress assemble
In the chamber of the lower house on
the second Wednesday of February.
The electoral votes are then counted,
and the president of the senate then
announces the result. Ii any person
has received majority of all the votes
cast for president he Is announced to
- elected president, and candidate
for vice president must also receive a
majority of all votes cast for that Of
flee to be elected.
Should tie occur in the electoral
elects the president, voting by states.
each state having one vote
When d tie occurs for vice president
it Is the senate that has the privilege
OF deciding the question
Votes Cast at State Capitals
The successful electors Of each state
Invariably meet ut their capital to
cast their votes. Three copies of the
result are made, one being mailed to
the president of the senate (vice presi.
denD. the second being dispatched to
Washington by trusted messenger,
and the third as precautionary meas
ure is deposited in care of the fed.
eral judge of the circuit in which the
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13

fact. owing to a radical change In the
lie. Each state has as many electors
and electoral votes as 1t has members
in the senate and the house Of repre-
|sentatiyes, and these men were origi-
nally Intended to exercise their own
initiative III voting for president aud
vice president after the election Of
their ticket at the polls. When the
electors were given constitutional ex-
istence 1t was never designed that they
should ever act as unit, according to
their party affiliations. That Is exact
ly what they do today and have done
for century. Each elector Is today
in honor bound and pledged to cast
his vote In the electoral college for
the presidential candidate at the head
OF his party column.
How to Secure the Presidency.
Each state having definite number
OF electoral votes. 1t becomes the OBJ
ject of the heads Of presidential tickets
to carry larger number Of states or
the states having the largest number
Of electoral votes rather than to obtain
the votes Of the largest number of the
citizens of the country, for, as readily
seen, 1t Is possible for a presidential
candidate to receive more Individual
votes than any opponent and yet lose
the presidency. This has occurred
twice In the history of the country.
The constitution article II and
amendments and article ~ prescribes
the number of electors and the partic-
ular manner III which they shall per,
form their duties, but the states have
absolute power In designating the
method of their appointment, and con.
eress names the time when they shall
be chosen and the day on which they
shall formally meet to cast their votes.
Method of Election.
The electors are chosen the first
Tuesday after the first Monday In No
vember every four years, on presiden-
tial election day In every state in the
Union After election the electors on
the winning ticket are required to
meet at SOME place designated by the
legislature OF the state on the second
Monday in January and then and there
cast their vote ny ballot for president
| and vice president, one Of Viii b ua-
t1onui candidates AT least Shall hot be
resident OF the same state as the
| electors themselves. AS a result there
| never viii be Il national ii ket made
up VI TWO men from the same state
| for the electoral vCte II the candidates
state would be LOST 10 them At the
appointed time and Ill5e ca h body OF
ele tors makes IN li:t OF all the can
| didates its members have for Eresi-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
AGAINST WIVES DRuoeERY.
Women Vote For $4,000 Fund For q
Domestic Science Scholarship.

Women Vote For $4,000 Fund For a
Domestic Science Scholarship.
"What effect. think you. will an end
less round of cleaning and scrubbing,
washing and ironing have upon the hu-
man soul? Flow far toward the ideal
in moral and spiritual development
will such soul be able to advanced"
When Mrs. Anna c. Tillinghast of
Titusvile, Pa, recently made this re-
mark before the session Of the State
Federation OF Women's Clubs in Pitts
burg there was cheer from all the
ladies assembled. and resolution that
fund of $4,000 be created for
domestic science scholarship at State
college" went through without dis
senting vote.
There had been much discussion as
to the duties OF the wife or daughter
Ia home, and many seemed agreed
that it was all right to patch and
mend. but that "drudgery" was the
common mistake of many wives.
1t was finally decided that the schol.
arship at the State College of Penn
sylvania should be known as the Kate
Cassatt Mcknight memorial, named in
memory of Pittsburg woman who
formerly did much for the wives and
mothers of Pittsburg. The idea of the
memorial will be to teach how home
should be kept right
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
Official Paper OF City and toust,
Watch them Squirm.

When the election of Mr.. Bryan
seemed certain, republican grand dukes
promised the people of the west a
special session of congress to tighten
the burden they carry for the benefit of
eastern tariff barons. The special ses-
sion was to be held Immediately after
election.
Now watch them squirm.
Instead of revising the tariff right
now, as the west had been promised,
Judge Taft says, THE next congress
will be called in extra session by me to
carry out the party's pledge"
Here is the first squirm. 1t squirms
over into an indefinite next summer.
Again, in his statement yesterday,
Judge Taft says. The republican par
ty has pledged itself to protect every
industry"
Here is the second squirm. 1t
squirms past any pretense of reducing
the load which the west carries for
benefit of eastern tariff barons.
Republicans and democrats alike de-
mand tariff reduction. There is no di-
vision of opinion in the west. This part
of the country produces the flour and
the meat. Here is the coal. Here are
the iron and the copper. Here is where
the real wealth of the nationis wrought
from nature by the toll of man.
For years the working west has piled
up millions for the idle east to squan-
der in riotous living. The time has
come when this must stop.
The west demands the removal of
class taxation that operates through
the tariff for the benefit of the east.
The west demands a fair share of its
honest earnings.
The west is tired of endowing Euro
pean nobility, and seeing the useless
sons and daughters of tariff barons
scatter American millions to amuse
parasitic titled loafers, their chosen
companions.
When republican grand dukes feared
the election Of Bryan, they were anx-
ious to revise the tariff between now
and next March, hoping to content the
west and still protect their friends, the
trusts.
With a republican victory the grand
dukes have already changed their tune.
Roosevelt, the free trader of 1884, and
Taft revisionist on his western cam
paign, are become open standpatters.
The working west will still carry on
its tired shoulders the burden of the
idle east. Chicago Journal
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
WOULD DUST BIC CHICAGO BANK.
Suit Filed in milwaukee, Wis. by a
Bondhoider

Milwaukee. Nov, z. = Suit to GUST
the Western Trust and Savings
bank of Chicago as trustee of the
$lO,OO00O0 bond issue of the Chicago
& Milwaukee Electric Railroad Com.
pany was begun Friday by Alexander
Beaubien. bondholder. who charges
that the trustees cooperated with Of
ficers of the company In watering"
the company's bonds
Mr.. Beaubien is unable TO state the
exact amount OF the alleged illegal
bond issue. but thinks that one half
of the entire S10.000.000 worth OF
bonds We're issued to cover property
valued at less than the required rs
per cent. of the par value of the
bonds. On the petition of the plain
tiff, Court Commissioner Hugh Ryan
had issued temporary injunction re
stratning the bank from acting as
trustee of the railroad company. or at.
tempted to do so. pending the hear.
ing before Judge Turner on Novem
Der 81. on an order to show cause why
the injunction should not be made
permanent
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13

they seem is very we'll exempt
fed by the manner in which the
American people elect their
president aud vice president. II you
were TO tell the average experienced
Voter that he has never legally and
Technically voted for either Il presi
dent OF vice president he would
probably class you with the people
who still believe the earth Is HAT like
a pancake.
The fact that candidate for the
presidency Is named at a national con.
vention and that his name is placed at
the top of the ballot on election day
has no relation whatever to the con
stitulional provisions regulating the
mode Of choosing a president The
name Of the president or vice presi-
dent would be left off the ballot If the
actual intention of the trainers Of the
constitution We're followed and in
spite of the "unwritten law" which
has developed the placing OF the ma
tional candidates names on the ballot
II Is In an actual legal sense done only
as u guide to the voter to Indicate In
q simple and effective manner what
set of members of the electoral col.
lege he Is to vote for
The electoral college, composed Of
and whose names appear on ballots in
national elections. has become sort
of fifth wheel. a useless appendix. In
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
To Tax the Middle West.

Now that election is over the rail-
roads are supremely happy. To show
their faith in Taft and their contempt
for the people they propose to increase
freight rates on eighty commodities
going west from Chicago by from 8 to
10 per cent, and the rates going east
from Chicago by about the same
amount.
Fruit. canned goods, beans, hides
and leather, wool, sugar, and other
necessities are on the list. This is the
thanks the farmers and merchants of
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and the other
middle states get for voting to contin-
ue republican rule and railroad immu
nifty.
All through the campaign the New
York press agents and the railroads
sent out columns of matter about or.
ders for thousands Of cars, contingent
upon Taft's election and the conse.
quent revival of business High prices
for the farmer, big orders for factories
good wages and plenty of work in cal
shops, plenty of cars for the vast boon
in freight, all this and more they
promised.
The day after electiod the Illinoi:
Central let out 700 men in one shop
Less than week after election the
transcontinental railroad combine an
nounces tax of from to 10 per cent
on goods shipped from Chicago to
either coast.
Two years ago these lines paid divi-
dends with the present rates. What
right or justice is there in raising the
rates. now that Judge Taft has promis-
ed four years of boom business?
1t is simply one more discrimination
against the west. The railroads know
Washington will not interfere. The
industries of the west have no other
outlet than these lines.
Tariff barons of the east gloat in Sc
curity over millions filched from the
west, and the railroad barons calml,
add 10 per cent to our freight rates
Their answer to complaint is simple
1t contains eight short words:
What are you going to do about it.
Chicago Journal.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
-FOUR MINERS ENTOMBED
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION in MINE
AT REND, ILL.
Shaft Is Wrecked and Imprisoned
Men Are Found to Be Dead
Letters Mine Attire.

Rend. H., Nov 7.-Searching par.
ties of frantic miners who had been
working all night to reach four of
their comrades entombed In mine
here Friday discovered that the men
whom they sought were dead, accord
Ing to information which reached Col
| w. p. Rend. owner Of the mine, over
the long distance telephone Col
Rend was told that the would-be res.
cuers had not yet abandoned their eff
forts to reach the part of the mine
In which the men had been last seen.
but was Informed that they kept up
the search only in order that the bod
les might be recovered and carried to
the ground above, where the wives
and children of the two men were
hoping against hope
An explosion, caused by the firing
OF what is known by the miners as q
| windy shot" was responsible for the
entombment OF the men who have
been killed. These four men were
shot tirers," their duty being to de-
tach the coal from the sides of the
Shoilo ny OAplOSlNSS. w u0ll tue US-
fective shot was fired the men were
in the mine, 1900 feet from the en-
trance to the air shaft. In other
parts of the mine at the time were
200 men.
When the defective shot was fired
1t was followed by an avalanche OF
coal, and deadly gases almost imme-
diately filled the underground cham
hers. from which the coal was being
taken
There was u rush for the shaft lead
ing to the air, in which men fought
frantically for safety. and then Il
checking-up. which disclosed the fact
that four men were missing.
Meantime the noise of the explosion
had brought crowd Of frightened
| men and women to the mouth of the
| pit, among them the wives and chill
| dren of two of the buried men Their
| entreaties and the urgings of their
| own relatives soon led the miners to
form rescuing party.
-Four of them carefully re-entered
the mine. which they had every reason
to believe had now become a tomb.
and, driving out the noxious gases az
they proceeded. crept slowly toward
the spot where the shot-firers had
been,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13

Next TO the thrusting aside of the
system IN which the chosen electors
exercised their individual choice for
president and vice president the great
est change from the original constitu-
t1onal provisions is probably that
SHOWN III the latter ady mode or elect
Ing the vice president. In the first
national elections held the man re
ceiving the largest number Of votes in
the electoral college became president.
while the man who got the second lar
gest number of votes became vice pres
| ident regardless Of party. Thus in the
early days Of our country we had q
president from one party and Vice
president from another. That system
was terminated, however, at the open
ing Of the last century, and today
there Is but the remotest possibility
that the vice president will be Of
different party than the president.
There is one phase Of the electoral
system that has been attracting con-
siderable attention Of late. That is the
inequitable degree Of representation
had by various states In the electoral
college. Some states have far greater
| proportionate representation than 9th
ers In respect to population. Thus the
citizens Of those states SO favored have
larger voice In the choosing Of a
president and vice president than the
voters of less fortunate states. For in
| stance. seventeen states can be group
ed having total popular vote Of prac
| tically the same as that Of New York.
yet the electoral votes Of these seven
teen states are almost twice those Of
| New York in number. Nevada, with a
! popular rore Of 1900 in 1894, has
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
sports A DISEASE"
School Athletes. Exalted to Demisods
Says Chicago Educator.

Football and American sports in
general have become a national dis
ease. according to President o. c..
Schneider Of the Chicago board Of ed
ucation, He was led to this declara-
ton through the criticism Of Superln-
tendent Of Schools Cooley, who COM
planned Of the physical culture work
In the high schools.
"Our system Of sports In the high
schools is anything but educational"
said Mr.. Schneider. The youngsters
that do the playing are taught that
they are better than their fellows. II
they can beat some one else, they are
exalted like demigods. 1t has reached
time when 80 called sport is really a
disease"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
Aged Iowa Banker Dead.

Sioux City. Ia. Nov. George
Weare, president of the Iowa State
National bank. and one of the best
known bankers in the west. died
Thursday after an operation for intss.
final trouble six weeks ago. which dis.
closed an incurable condition. Mr.
Weare was % years old He was the
oldest resident of Sioux City, arriving
here in 1SE5
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
PLEA FOR WOMEN SOLDIERS.
French Suffrasetts Wants to Teach
Her Sex Necessity For Violence.

French Suffraeette Wants to Teach
Her Sex Necessity For Violence.
DR.. Madeline Pelletier, one Of the
leaders Of the FrenchWomens politi-
cal movement has at least the courage
to be logical, says a cable dispatch
from Paris. She is not the sort to
burst into tears and shrek "Cowardw
| when faced with the inevitable result
Of lawless acts. She is prepared to go
all the way.
Accordingly she is heading petition
to parliament to pass a law enabling
women to do military service. 1t will
teach them the necessity for violence,
IN which alone their victory lies. Gym
nastics and marching Will do them
good.
There are plenty Of men. she says, to
mend socks and cook food.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
PAPER DEVOID OF CRIME.
II Will Be Published by the Chris
tian Scientists In Boston,

II Will Be Published by the Chris
tan Scientists In Boston.
The Christian Science Sentinel OF
Boston announces the ablishment
by the church's publishing society Of
new daily paper to be known as w..
Christian Science Monitor. The an
nouncement In part is as follows:
''The current Of human thought Is
setting in the direction of that which
alone Is real-the good that men do.
not the evil. 1t will be the mission of
the Monitor to publish the real news of
the world In a clean. wholesome man
ner. devoid of all the sensational meth
DDS employed by so many papers.
There will be no exploitation of illus
tration.
1.-The aim Of the editors will be to
issue a paper which will be welcome
in every home where purity and re-
inement are cherished ideals"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
BROKERS IN ASSIGNMENT.
Announcement That surnham, Ben
nett & Co. Of Boston. in Trouble.

Boston. Nov. lO--The stock broker
age firm of Burnham. Bennett 8 Co.
made an assignment Monday
The assignment was made to Guy
w. Cox of the law firm of Butler Cox.
Murchie & Bacon.
Burnham, Bennett & Co is com
posed of Charles H Burnham. Jr., the
board member; John E Gilchrist and
Josephua Q. Bennett. The house Is
not an important one.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
Gospel Bearing GalIeon,

a sixty foot auxiliary gasoline
schooner is to spread the gospel In the
south seas, says a San Francisco dis.
patch. The vessel recently completed
and launched Is named the Hiram
Bingham and Is intended for use of the
missionaries Of the Gilbert islands,
where travel by water Is an important
essential to efficiency. At the time of
the launching she was blessed by cler-
gymen and consecrated to the work.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13

Do not let anyone tell you that some
thing else is just as goood as DeWitt's
Kidney and Bladder Pills because there
isn't anything just as good for weak
back, backache. rheumatic pains, in
flamation of the bladder. or any Kid
ney and Bladder disorder. A week 8
trial will convince you. Sold by Ed
ward r. Tomas.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13

At any time when your stomach is
not in good condition, you should take
Kodol, because Kodol dgests all
the food you eat and it supplies health
health and strength for the stomach in
that way. You take Kodol just for
little while when you have slight at
tacks of Indigestion, and you take it
just little longer in order to get re-
lief from severe attacks of Indigestion
or Nervous Dyspepsia. Try Kodol to-
day. Sold by Edward 7. Tomas.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
Louisiana at Manila,

Manila. Nov. lO.-The battleshi
Louisiana flagship of Rear Admira
w. H. Emory. commanding the sec
ond squadron of the Atlantic fleet, al
rived Monday from Annoy, China
The Wisconsin, flagship Of Rear AID
m1ral Seaton Schroeder. and the Yer
mont steamed up from Olongapo
where the other vessels will remain.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13

electors meet. The copies received by
the president of the senate are pre-
served in specially constructed safe
and additionally protected by an elab-
crate system Of burglar alarms When
the president of the senate receives
the sealed envelopes from the messen-
gers containing the certified votes he
delivers to them receipt couched In
the following guarded and noncom
initial terms:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
Mind Your Business,

If you don't nobody will 1t is your
business to keep out of all the trouble
you can and you can and will keep out
OF liver and bowel trouble if you take
Or. Kings New Life Pills. They keep
biliouness, malaria and jaundice out Of
your system. 25c at p. A. Clemmer's
drug store. y
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
RockefeIler,s Chauffeur ARRESTED.

New York. Nov John D. Rookie,
fellers chauffeur was arrested on
West End avenue Friday charged
with reckless driving AS a bicycle
policeman halted the car the occupant
leaped out and said: Il am John p.
Rockefeller. | am going to see my
physician. | wish you would let my
chauffeur take me there and then ar.
rest him. II you must The request
was granted
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
Church Built Of One Piece.

The only temple in the world whose
walls, floor and roof are of one single
piece was opened recently at Lake
street and Forest avenue, Oak Park, q
suburb Of Chicago. 1t is built Of re.
enforced concrete. on the Edison plan
OF continuous material with no seams
The temple belongs TO Unity congrega
ton. Its. completion was celebrated
with music, speeches and an address
by the pastor
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
six Killed by Blast.

Superior, Wis, Nov. Six work
men were killed one fatally injured
and four slightly hurt, in an explosion
that occurred Saturday afternoon a
the Wisconsin Central rOnnthonse. !
bojler used In veil drilling exploded
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
Night Rabbit huntinu In Auto.

Hunting rabbits by automobiles at
night is the latest diversion of sports
men at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Seated upon
the front seat Of their automobiles,
gun IN hand and with range of sew.
eral hundred yards OF road ahead illu-
minated by searchlight, they are pick
Ing or many rabbit. Automobile con-
Germs have started letting out their
automobiles for night hunting exped,-
tons
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
Dies in Hotel Fire.

Brookfield Mass, Nov 6-The body
of John Nelson. so years old. was
found Thursday in the basement of
the Hotel Metropole which was badly
damaged by fire.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-13
Novel Life Preserver.

A new Belgian life preserver In the
form of knapsack, which the inventor
claims is unsuitable, contains a small
storage battery to light an electric
lamp in headpiece which forms part
Of the apparatus