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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-05-05
TOO LATE.

Frantic appeals are made to the
republican congressional committee
to emphasize in the coming cam
paign other Taft administration pol
icies, and subordinate the tariff is
sue.
The standpat leaders have heard
a rumbling sound from Massachus-
etts and New York
If thunderbolts like the election
of Foss and Ravens develop in heav-
lily republicans districts what means
the gathering clouds throughout the
middle west?
Republican standpatters know,
and seek to shove the tariff issue to
the rear.
Republican orators will hammer
on the railroad rate issue, on anti
trust prosecutions, on the commerce
court, on conservation policies, on
postal savings banks.
1t is too late to dodge the supreme
issue.
The American people have made
up their minds that there is just one
overshadowing issue in this cam
paign They can not be diverted
from it.
Not one of the other pet policies
of the Taft administration strike.
home with immediate effect, in com
parison with, the tariff issue.
The cost of living is a persona
matter to the American voters. /
effects the pocket book of ever.
toiler with brains or hands.
The battle for subsistence ha
| i
additional handicap of the Aldrich
Taft tariff.
The republican party is convicted
in the peoples minds, of deliberate
ly violating it's pledge to make tn
cost of living lower by tariff redut
tions.
1t is too late to shift the issue
Chicago Journal
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-05-05
THE REPUBLICANPARTYD WlND'
LING.

A year ago the great republican
party had more than million votes
to it's credit over what the demo-
cratic party could show. The past
year has shown over a million votes
has fallen away from the republican
party and come over to the party of
sanity and decency-the democratic
party. The fact is now that many
people are wondering if the g. o. p.
has million votes all told.
The results in the Sixth Missouri,
the Fourteenth Massachusetts and
the Thirty New York districts
disclose the handwriting on the wall.
ALI of these districts held special
elections and the results were more
than surpriSing-to the standpat-
tiers. In the case of the two eastern
districts they were the strongest re-
publican precincts in the United
States. The Massachusetts, district
was never represented by democrat
ic congressman. The New York dis
trict has not been so represented in
twenty years. Yet they have each
elected democrats this spring by ma
jorities running into a good many
thousands-and with the tariff, the
trusts, the cost of living, and the
record of the Taft administration
squarely in issue.
These results are just as signifi-
cant as if two of the heaviest demo-
cratic districts in Texas or MISSISSIPPI
pi should elect republican congress
men by majorities ranging from
5000 to 10000. They show
that the republican party is
losing most frightfully in the
section of the country where it
has been strongest. They indicate
that it has suddenly become a weak
tricts, where the protected interests
and protected labor" are most mum
erous and most powerful.
If national election were to be
held tomorrow, and the returns
should be similar to those from these
two districts, Mr.. Taft would not
carry single state in the union, nor
would he poll a single vote in the
electoral college. For these dis
tricts that have gone overwhelming
ly democratic are republican strong
holds-republican Gibralters. There
are no more safely republican dis
tricts than these.
fall LuS olSlS 1IiulCdlo ludC we are
witnessing, these days, the disin-
tegration of great political party;
that the republican party is going to
pieces just as the Wing party which
preceded it went to pieces, and for a
like reason-it no longer stands
squarely for anything. 1t has become
a party OF weak compromise, of
fraud, humbug and pretense, and
millions of its own members are dis
gusted with it. Its present condition
has been accurately and feelingly
described by that eminent and long
popular authority, Mother Goose, in
these familiar words
Humpety Dumpety sat on wall,
Humpety Dumpety had a. great fall;
Not all The Kings soldiers and all
the Kings men
Could put Humpety Dumpety togeth-
er again.
St Joe Observer.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-05-05
Stomach Misery for Over Six Years.

Read what Mr.. Hoffman, landlord
of the Webster Hotel writes:
Il suffered misery and intense
pains from stomach trouble for over
six years, and all the doctoring that
did or medicine ! used were of no
avail until about two years ago,
when / used a treatment of Mi-o-na.
The first few days treatment helped
me greatly and upon using it for
a while l was made entirely free
from any stomach trouble or com
plant whatever. Since the cure by
Mi-o-na l have regained my weight
/ eat and sleep well, am never nerv-
Gus, and my entire general health is
much better. Max M. Hoffman
Webster, N. Y, August 2, 1910.
Mi-o-na stomach tablets relieve
distress in five minutes. They act
like magic. They are guaranteed tt
cure sour stomach, gas eructations
heartburn, dizziness biliousness ant
nervousness, or money back. Fol
sale by druggists everywhere and by
Van Werden & Kopp for SO cents {
large box.
Try Booths Pills for constipation
they never disappoint, 25c.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-05-05
WELL DONE, ROCHESTER,.

The Thirty-second district of New
York, as protest against the Aid
rich-Taft tariff and republican graft
ers, yesterday converted a republic
can surplus of 10, 167 votes into a
democratic majority Of $500.
The republican candidate, George
w. Aldridge, is the party boss of
Rochester, and was supported by a
powerful local organization and the
utmost endeavors of the Taft admin
istration. His opponent, James S.
Ravens. is an old-line democrat, and
made rousing single-handed cam
paign, attacking the Aldrich-Taft
tariff
Mr.. Hayens' victory is due to the
desire of Rochester workingmen to
repudiate the tariff and rebuke the
roe county has suffered for years.
1t marks the downfall of Aldridge
and the disruption of the republican
organization he has controlled
The specious oratory of republi-
can spellbinders could not explain
the high cost of living, or excuse the
grafters at Albany. Rochester vot-
ers thought for themselves, and vot-
ed TOT honest Cafl II revision as
against the Aldrich--Taft trickery,
and for decent democracy instead OF
grating republican bossism.
Massachusetts, has spoken. The
republican stronghold of New York
has spoken. The thunder of theil
protest against tariff iniquity rolls
out across the west, where the whole
populace cries out in indignation.
Hale and Aldrich have read arigh
the signs of storm. Others of theil
gilded circle will also hear and heed
fleeing from the wrath to come.
No man who voted for the Aid
rich-Taft tariff can honestly CLAIM
to be sure of reelection. The Roches
ter vote shows how the public il
aroused, and indicates what may b.
expected by every congressman VIII
betrayed the people into the hand
of the tariff barons at the behest o
Aldrich
Well done, Havens. Well done
Rochester.-Chicago Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-05-05
THOUGHT is SUPREME.
We can he Whatever Our Thoughts
Make Us.

Whenever you go out of doors fill
the lungs to the utmost; drink in the
sunshine. Do not fear being misun-
derstood, and never waste minute
thinking about your enemies. Try
to fix firmly in your mind what you
would like to do, and then without
violence of direction you will move
straight to the goal Fear is the
rock on which we split, and hate is
the shoal on which many barque is
stranded. When we are fearful, the
judgment is unreliable as the COM
pass of ship whose hold is full of
iron ore; when we hate, we have
unshipped the rudder; and if we stop
to mediate on what the gossips say,
we have allowed hawser to befoul
the crew Keep your mind on the
great and splendid things you would
like to do, and then, as the days go
gliding by, you will find yourself
unconsciously selling upon the OPP
portunities that are required for the
fulfillment of your desires, just as
the coral insect takes from the run
ming tide the elements that it needs.
Picture in your minds the able, earn
est, useful person you desire to be,
and the thought you hold is hourly
Transforming you into that particu-
lar individual. Thought is supreme,
and to think is often better than to
do. To think rightly is to create.
Darwin and Spencer have told us
that this is the method of creation.
Each animal has evolved the parts it
needed and desired. The horse is
| fleet because he wishes to be; the
| IA irI 6ncircc tho
duck has a web foot because it de-
| through desire, and every sincere
that on which our hearts are fixed.
Many people know this, but they do
not know it thoroughly enough so
that it shapes their lives. We want
| friends, so we scheme and chase
cross lots after strong people, and
lie in wait for good folks-or alleged
good folks-hoping to attach our
selves to them. The only way to Sc
cure friends is to be one. And before
you are fit for friendship you must
be able to do without it. That is to
say, you must have sufficient self re-
lance to take care of yourself and
then out of the surplus of your en-
ergy you can do for others. The
man who Graves friendship, and yet
desires self-centered spirit more
will never lack for friends. If you
would have friends cultivate solitude
Unsteady of society. Drink in the ozone
battle in the sunshine, and out in
the silent night, under the stars say
to yourself again and yet again, 81
am a part of all l behold" And the
feeling will surely come to you that
you are no mere interloper between
earth and sky, but that you are a
necessary particle of the whole. No
harm can come to you that does not
come to all, and if you shall go down
it can only be wreck of worlds.
Thus by laying hold on the f,rces
of the universe you are strong with
them. And when you realize this all
else is easy for in your arteries course
red corpuscles, and in your heart
there is the will to do and be =
| Ebert Hubbard.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-05-05

The Ottumwa Saturday Herald
has become so disguised with the
insurgent movement that it is de-
sirous of seeing democratic victory
all along the line in Iowa this fall
And there are hundreds of other
good republicans in the state who
feel as we do" continued the Her
aid. "The democrats have the best
opportunity to elect their candidae
for governor this fall than they have
had since 1889.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-05-05

The democracy of Indiana unani-
mously endorsed John Kerns, late
candidate for vice president on the
democratic ticket for United States
senator 1t is a compliment worthily
bestowed.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-05-05

If Mr.. Roosevelt does only half the
things people want him to do when
he gets home he will think he was
never busy man before.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10
Letter to Governor Higgins.

Your EXceilenCy
Dear Governor -.
Please pardon me the liberty | take IN
writing to you but as 1t is, the laws OF OF
the Civil Service is being violated Win
the greatest of impunity n the DOCK De
partment and their is no redress from the
local Sivil Service Board. In fact the are
worse since the Investigation II you can
call it so $500. ,,,.t,,
erson is all the time Appointing men as
Laborers then putting them to WORE as
Clerks Watchmen, Telephone Men, Mes
scngers. Former Of Laborers and ASSIST Edr
ant Former and General Former over
sivel Service men all this being dore IN
violation of the law. the lab9rers o IT inc
Dock Masters Offices are getting 2lS per
week and two weeks vacation In the sumer
time that is getting forty tow ~ Ioa
STAYING away for two weeks while the
men who are entitled to those places are
kept out in the cold. Now Dear Governor
hope you vii put stop 20 this great IN
Justice to many for The benent OF rev
as we want TO elect Il Republican mayor
this is a bad state of affairs for the men
and the party Your humble Servant
JAMES J. GALLAGHER
19io n Y. G.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10

Beverly. Mass. Aug S--The repor',
of the attempted assassination of Mayo,
Gaynor aroused the deepest interest ana
sympathy In the summer capital I'm.
media teiy after the first bulletin was 70.
ceiyed the secretary to the Presideu.
Mr.. Norton. got in touch with Bosto-
and New York to secure all available in.
formation
The subsequent bulletins. indicatn,
that the wound was not go serious as a,
first reported. were received with muc5
qualification President Taft was ken,
Informed during the day.
In response to his telegram 10 Mayo-
Gaynor the President tonight receives
the following message from Acting May
or Mitchell OF New York:
II thank you for your kind message
Surgeons report condition verv hopetul
after examination Mayor is conscious
and resting quietly"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10
r? q? &m~<k,
Most Comprehensive Showing
Of BEDROOM FURNITURE
Of Any August Sale

Of the total purchase of than
FURNITURE COMPANY of Grand Rapids by far the largest
percentage the furniture for the bedroomevery piece selected
wood the finest workmanship after wel-known periods
For instance. a Circassan walnut consisting of
bureau, chltonler, dressing table fullsze
double bedstead, after the Louis XVI Period wood
of figure beautifully matched exquisiteIy
ished $685. instead of it's regular throughout
the year of S4o6.
AND so WE MIGHT DESCRIBE DOZENS OF OTHER
SUITES complete the you will find
selection of matched bedroom country
Odd pieces Of every description mems chifon
wardobes and dressing tables
bureau for the maids nothing trousseau chests
and other dainty that much bedroom
like and charming.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10
GOVERNOR HUGHES'SREGRET
Telegraphs Mrs. Gaynor SYM
pathy of Himself and His Wife.

Albany, Aug Ex-Governor Hughes this
afternoon sent the following kilograms:
Mrs. William z. Gaynor. St James, Long
Island.
Mrs. Hughes and ! extend TO you our
deepest sympathy. We trust that there
IS every reason to hope for Mayor Gay
nor's complete recovery
CHARLES z. HUGHES.
John Purroy Mitchell, Acting Mayor,
New York City.
I am fnexpressibly shocked to learn oi
the dastardly attack upon Mayor GAY
nor. Please keep me informed Of the
Mayors condition I most earnestY
hope that a complete recovery may ba
expected CHARLES E. HUGHES
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10

s2es5o, regularly S431-Six-piece
bedroom suite. consisting OF dresser.
chiffonier, dressing table, cheval mir
ror. somnoe and fun-size bedstead.
rich dark mahogany brass trimmings.
S472. regularly $7o5 - Bedroom
suite of seven pieces, consisting of
dresser, chiffonier. cheval mirror.
writing table, soulnoe and twin bed
stead. This suite is of Colonial de-
sign with deni-poster bedsteads in
Circassian walnut.
1888, regularly 1898 - Bedroom
suite of eight pieces, consisting of
dresser, chiffonier, cheval mirror.
somnoe, twin bedsteads. chair and
rocker. An exceptionally fine suite
in Circassian walnut. STYLE of Louis
XIV; trimmings are of dull brass and
bright high-hghts, Innings arc of
quartered sycamore.
$3.50, regularly S5OO-Twin bed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10
NEWS STOPS COURT PROCEEDINGS

Judge Warren W. Foster stopped the pro-
ceedings in General Sessions as soon as the
news of the assault on Mayor Gaynor
reached him. "A rurnor has tust reached
me that our beloved Mayor. who was about
to take needed rest abroad. has been shot
down on board the steamer he said to the
tWOsCOre of business men summoned as
talesmen IN the courtroom The news spread
rapidly through the Criminal Courts Build
ms and expressions Of sympathy We're
heard on every side.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10
Mr.. ROOSEVELT H0RRIFIED
Asks Mr.. Mitchell to Keep Him
Informed About Mayor.

Oyster Bay, Aug. 9.-Theodore Roose-
Welt sent the following telegram 20 Act
ing Mayor Mitchell as soon as he heard
the report of the shooting:
I am shocked and Mortified beyond
measure Please send me information
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10
TAFT EXPRESSES S0RRDa
TeIegraphs Mayor That He
Hopes for Rapid Recovery.
KEPT INFORMED ALL DAY
Deepest Interest and Sympatb,
Expressed When Summer
Capital Hears News.

The following telegram was re.
ceived at the City Hall yesterday from
President Taft at Beverly:
"Hon. w. J. Gaynor.
81 am greatly shocked to hear Of shs
OUTRAGEOUS assault upon you. an
very glad to hear that the wound Ia.
ficted upon you is not serious. 1
earnestly hope and pray your rscoy.
cry may be rapid.
civilian ~. TAFT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10

stead with large dresser to match,
extra selected mahogany veneers for
panels and drawer fronts. Solid ma
hogany frames. dresser top richly
carved; dull brass handles. style OF
Louis XIV.
sl2S- regularly $50 Four-pos
oedstead. with a dresser to match.
mahogany; posts are handsomely
carved. The head-board has one
panel, the foot board is open-very
attractive two pieces.
$500, regularly .50-Bedroom
suite of eight pieces. Ehzabethar, IN
hight Phoenix oak. wax finish. II
consists OF dresser. chiffonier.
dressing table, cheval mirror. full
size bedstsad. rocker and chair.
writing table; dull brass drop han
dies are used. The suite is very at
tractive and of the finest construc-
ton and finish.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10
Gallo6 ber. Man Of Complaints
Wrote to Governors Higgins and nusnes
Grunbling Over Job.

James J. Gallagher, the assallanl VI
Mavor Gaynor, has long been chrohic
grumbIer over the manner of appolntiis
men to office In crudely written iet''"
he made appeals to Governor higgins 10
Governor Hughes and to the STATE CtFh
Service Commission
His record shows that he was appointed
p pier attendant in 1900 from an ellslple
LIST and was dismissed on November O.
1901. for lack Of work. He was relnsta'eo
on May 81, 1902, at a salary OF $40
month. and was again dismissed on oc''-
her Is Of that year for lack OF WORK.
According to a letter written by liialiI
7. Baker then president Of the Munlcipa'
Civil Service Commission, in 1907, IN ,ile
course of the investigation of one OF oI''-
laghers complaints, latter each or lile us
,nissaIs his name was returned 10 the pre-
ferred list On April 7, 1905 he accepteu aH
annointment as Waterman from the pre-
ferred list of pier attendant and on NO
yember 4. 1903 he was certified and resu-
1arly appointed from the open competitive
eligible list of watchmen, having obtalneo
q Mace on that list after examination.
One of the earliest of his complaints
If not the first was that addressed to Gov
ernor Higgins from New York on octoper
@ 1905. This, of course, was long before
Judge Gayner was even considered as a
candidate for Mayor.
II read as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10
Next Tried Governor Hughes.

The letter was referred to tho state
| Civil Service Commission for investiga-
/ ton. No earthquake occurred, so he took
his pen in hand again on October 10 1907,
almost exactly two years later, and lndlt-
| ed a letter to Governor Hughes 1t read:
Your Excellency
pleese pardon me the liberty take in
writing to you. But as 1t Is 70 flsht "a q
some time, and also great NIolatlon OF
| law. The facts are. in the DOCK Depart,
ment men are appointed as i-anorerS ana
are Immediately detailed as clerks: W atch~
men and assigned to other positions for
which the never took any CiV1l service
Examination of too the positions % h o hf,,
| sruged his Shoulders and SAID he had not
men enough to see after II =, ,
! every man cleark to the Dock masters
is ONLY a laborer getting 81 per week,
| While the men who took the examination
for Watchmfa are ono makne their
wages s14 per week working every day;
so YOU can sec how the law Is violated
civil Service and the Dock Department.
| | pray YOU Governor that YOU Will stop
| this, If there is a Department in the sity
government that is rotten II is this same
| Department Now Dear Governor there
is no use of referring this TO MI Baker
as he came down TO \. \. at one time.
| whitewash, and when he left he made all
as white as angles, but nothing done III
the matter hoping this viii meet with
| your very kind approval | am your humble
Scrvent
JAMES i. GALLAGHER
SIS West I45 ST y. Y. c.
p S. If your EXcellency would only
order an investigation, as YOU are aware
of what the bring out, then the whole
seen and how the Civil Service laws are
Violate
More Details Requested.
This letter was referred to the State Civil
Service Commission by the Governor, and
on October %, 1907 r. c. e. Brown, men,
Der of the commission. sent Gallagher the
following:
New York, October D. 1907.
James J. Gallagher. ESQ. No. SIS West 10th
street New York city.
Dear Sir: Your letter of October 10 to
Governor Hughes respecting the employ
Docks in the city OF New York has been
referred to me. If You Will Send a
statement in detail of the persons appointed
laborers who are performing the duties of
clerks or watchmen. giving their names,
places of employment and the particular
work which you object to as illegal, ! shall
look into the matter.
This is a subject which has been brought
before the Civil Service Commission before
but the request TO the complainants for de
tailed statements of three or four of the
alleged violations on which 1t could make a
test without going to the unwacranted ex-
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-03-25
LOUTRB.

EP Thompson and family visit
ed Ed McCuin and family of near
New Florence Sunday.
L F Clark and family Visited s
s. Mcoarty and family of Pririe
Fork Saturday night and Sunday.
g A Brookshier and family and
@ E Brookshier and family spent
Sunday with r. L Nc carty and
wife.
August Stiegman & Co. taken
their engine to McKittrick Tues
day for repairs.
Miss Agnes Thompson Is spend
ing this week with her sister Mrs
Ed McCuin.
Robt. Willis and family spent
Sunday with his brother Bud Will
1tis of Galloway Co.
Mrs. G.. A. Norman is spending
1this week with her daughter Mrs.
IF. Stiegman. The Mule.
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-03-25
LOCUST GROVE.

Mrs. Cornelius Mabry is on the
sick list.
Mrs. John Spears of Wellsville
is the guest of her daughter Mrs.
Charles Holcomb.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H White have
returned to their home in Mont
gomery after spending the winter
with their daughters.
Mrs. Frank Rector who has been
sick for several weeks is thought
to be some better.
Eugene Mabry who has been in
Colorado for sometime is the
guest of homefolks and friends for
q few weeks.
Chas. White and family OF
Montgomery spent Sunday at Dan
Hensley's.
S. H Cobb and wife were the
guests of Will Farnens Sunday.
Mrs. Overstreet who has been
real sick is thought to be some
better.
Christopher Parsons is visiting
relatives in Pike and Lincoln
County. News. Girl.
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-03-25
NEW PROVIDENCE.

Mrs. P. S. Clement of Wells
vile spent Saturday and Sunday
with her sister Mrs. s. G. Bishop.
Edward Peveler and family of
Montgomery spent Sunday as the
guest of E G Poindexter and
family.
Frank Harrison who was stricken
with paralysis few days ago is
improving very slowly, his two
brothers Geo. from Arizonia, and
John from Colorado, are with him
at present.
Mrs. j. P. Deerdorf and two
children of near Bachelor visited
her uncle and family Milton Sailor
one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earnest Kettle of
Minneola visited home folks last
week.
There will be preaching at New
Providence Sunday March 27.
s. B Ham has sold his farm con
sisting of 2t0 acres to his brother
Carter for $500.
R. w. Hunley who, some tim'
ago sold his place to Geo. Franl
for $2100. has lately bought i
back from Mr.. Frank paying
S2400.