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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-11-17
SCRATCHING POPULAR.
Secret Ballot has Resulted in Much |
Independent Voting.

The enormous increase in indie
pendent voting is given credit for
the fact that it is not easier now to
get and tabulated election returns
than in the days before rural phones
and automobiles. 1t is fact that
will hardly be disputed in any news
election returns is more difficult
matter, and less satisfactory, now
than twenty-five years ago.
Where the voting machines are in
use there is no way Of knowing how
many persons voted straight
ticket" except by having the machine
watched, and this is not absolutely
accurate Some men will spend as
much time voting a straight ticket
as others voting for individual candi-
dates.
But where ballots are used, the
reports indicate that a very much
larger number of the voters may be
classed as Independent voters than
ever before. 1t used to be, prior
to the secret ballot system, that any
where from 80 to IS per cent of the
ballots were straight for one party
VI dAOIuCl V1OlC lCSCAtlyS uANCA
the secret ballot system, the pro-
portion of scratched ballots has
gradually grown to from 20 to Is
per cent
But this year in many places more
than half the ballots were scratched.
The Independent voter is becoming
frequent.
A great deal OF misapprehension
exists as to the completeness of the
machinery for getting returns. AS
a matter of fact neither the repub-
lican nor democratic state head
quarters had, at midnight Tuesday
night, actual reports from to exceed
100 precincts. BY noon Wednesday
they could not have got together
and figured up on more than twenty
counties, giving majorities on. the
head of the ticket. This was in part
due to the mixed character Of the
result and in part to the fact that
those who did not much care how
the election went didn't care very
much whether anybody found 1t
out, hence there was surprising in
Inference as to sending in reports
rom the counties.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-11-17
NEW DEMOCRACY AS WE'LL Al
EFFETE REPUBLICANISM.

When it is considered, as now
seems to be the fact, that barely two
thirds of the Republican vote in the
middle western states came to the
polls, and the further fact that fac
tional differences had aroused unusu-
al bitterness among the Republicans,
the result of today's election Is net
at all surprising.
Every effort to promote harmony
was made by the committee, in many
instances with success.
The revision Of the tariff always
has proved a disturbing element in
American politics, and this year has
been no exception.
Fact and sophistry are interest
ingly mingled in the foregoing words
of the chairman of the Republican
National Congressional Committee
w. B. McKinley-after the deluge
of Tuesday. That fractional differ
ence had aroused unusual bitterness
among the Republicans" Is too patent
to need comment land we pass over
likewise the pathetic declaration
that every effort to promote har-
mony was made by the committee
In noting, as one of the causes of the
great Republican defeat, the fact
that in the Middle West barely two
thirds of the vote came to the polls,
Chairman Mckinley but follows the
logic which accounts for business
failure by the magnitude of liabili-
ties and the lack of assets. It's
trifle incomplete.
AS for the inevitable disturbance
incident to tariff revision. we do Mr..
Mckinley the credit of believing that
he understands that it was not re-
vision that has arisen to trouble the
revisers, but the direction in which
they revised. Nor do we conceive
him to be blind to the fact of the
vital Importance of other issues than
the tariff as producer of that in
difference which kept Republican
voters at home in the middle west.
The important question, from the
Democratic point of view, is whether
the gains of the Democracy are posi-
tive or negative. In the political
tennis game, has Democracy made
a good return" or has Republican,
ism simply served all Its balls into
luc A0I. 40 H. PO0IIAtc "CAAS SAOs
is winning, or simply fatuous folly
which is reaping as it sowed?
On this point we believe, there is
light out of the east" The most
significant events of Tuesday are
chronicled in the reports from New
York, Massachusetts, Connecticut
New Jersey and Ohio. And in
scrutinizing them we are impressed
by fact Of capital Importance:
There Is neither consolation mol
humiliation in the returns from these
states, for either of the two camps
into which the Democratic party Of
half a dozen years ago was divided
Neither Judge Parker nor William
Jennings Bryan has been "rebuked' u
or "vindicated' by, anything which
has taken place in the past three
months in eastern Democratic poll
tics The stain has come upon the
new wood"
The several members of the new
est group of political leaders in the
United States have conducted their
armies to the present victory
Where were Wilson, Baldwin, Foss,
Gaynor, Dix, just two short years
ago? There is more in the present
situation than an effete Republican
ism; there is a rejuvenanted Demo-
cracy, youthful, virgile, militant
St. Louis Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-11-17

seven years Montgomery county
elected democrat to the legislature,
Gordon Hayes, who had majority
over his republican opponent, not
withstanding that Carroll carried the
county by 1925.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-11-17

Down in Missouri there was q
hard fight between the "wets' and
'drys," but the state continued
wet by about 100000. In the
rural counties big majorities were
piled up by the "drys" but this was
more than overcome by, the tremead-.
GUS wet" majority In the large
titles. ~...
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-11-17

The democrats over in Wayne
county captured most of the county
Offices, electing treasurer, clerk,
county attorney, superintendent and
two members of the board of super
visitors
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-11-17

In Lucas county Gov. Carroll had
a majority of 494, but the demo-
Gratis elected the auditor, clerk, treas
urer and county attorney.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-11-17

The voters at large seem to have
grasped with some alacrity the op-
portunity to convey the idea that
they do not believe the Aldrich tariff
to be the best that ever was en-
acted
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-11-17

Four women were elected to seal
in the Colorado legislature.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-11-17

Mr.. Pepper, democratic candi-
late for congress in the Second,
seems to have had plenty of ginger.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-11-17
CAUSES SICKNESS.

1t still looketh like landslide.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-11-17
Great FREE Trial
Flour Offer!

Get sack of Zephyr Flour today-use halt OF
t doesn't make the greats>t rulnLer OF leaves OF
Of any sack of Sour you ever had or if it doesn't
fy you, what you have used is REE to you!
1t doesn't cost yen penny! Just return the
and the remaining -four TO your grocer ard al
money for the entire sack will promptly be refund
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
Bankers THINK NATION
CRAZY ABOUT AUTOS

White Plains, N. r, July 2s.-The
Westchester County Bankers Associa-
ton believes that the people Of the
United States are automobile crazy"
and that the bankers OF the country
ought to intervene to save their clients
from this madness. At their annual
convention held here this week the
association passed resolutions asking
its members to scrutinize carefully the
application Of those who want to bor-
TOW money on notes for the purchase
Of automobiles. The banks are to use
extreme caution in discounting such
paper.
The bankers declare that hundreds
OF persons have put themselves in
peril OF bankruptcy during the last
six months by mortgaging their homes
or hypothecating valuable securities to
buy machines.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
PATTEN AGAIN DECLARES
AGAINST SPECULATION

New York, July 25.-Reiterating his
declaration that he never would again
re-enter the speculative arena and de-
claring that in his opinion the crux Of
the financial situation lay with the
grain crops, particularly corn, James
A. Patten, the erstwhile cotton king"
sailed Saturday for Europe on the
steamer Kroonland. He was accom-
panied by his partner, William H. Bart
lett, of Chicago, and William S. Clough,
of Boston.
Tt seems the crux of the financial
situation this fall depends on good
crops" said Mr.. Patten. 'sThe oat crop
is short, wheat is short and hay is
short. Now, if corn fails, the country
might have period of dull times. A
great deal depends on the drought The
entire corn belt has had serious de-
ficiency of moisture since March 22.''
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
GOVERNOR PLEASED
WITH THE RESULTS

. .
Il am very much pleased with the
attitude which the delegates to the
Commercial Club conference maintain
ed toward the important matter of en-
ployes' compensation for INJURIES y
said Governor NJ. E. Hay to The Led
Great good can not
help but result in the gathering.
Both employees and employers rec
ognize the reasonableness of the cause
and will get together to frame bill
which will at least remedy many of
the glazing defects Of the present
statue, and be of benefit to both.
II do not hope that the bill which
the committee appointed will frame
will be the best possible. That has
not been the case in any matter Of
legislation concerning SO vital a mat
ter. The steps taken are, however, in
the right direction and the results will
finally come.
The manifest injustice which the
present law makes possible, it seems
to me. calls for immediate action and
the coming legislature will have the
Of acting upon bill pre-
scented by men who have given the
matter particular study"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
SPOKANE WANTS PLACE
ON COMMERCE COURT

Spokane, July 23.-To procure the
appointment of Spokane man as one
of the five members of the new United
States court of commerce is the OBJ
ject of a movement started among
Spokane business men.
A large element will favor the Sc
lection of H. M. Stephens, attorney
for Spokane in the historic rate case.
Others mentioned are Federal Judge
Edward Whitson and Frank T. Post.
No two of the five members of the
court are to be selected from any one
of the nine United States court cir
cults. The ninth circuit includes
Washington, Oregon, California, Ida
no, Alaska, Arizona, Montana. Nevada
and Hawaii.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
GOVERNMENT BUREAU
TO PROTECT INDIANS

i = ~
Washington. July 23.-Regulations
designed to protect the Indians whose
trust periods have not expired, in dis
posing of their allotments by will, are
being compiled by the bureau of In
dian affairs.
Congress at its last session author
ICED Indians who have reached the age
of 81 and whose lands are still under
the control of the government, to will
their allotments. The bureau will
throw all the safeguards possible
around the red men in order that they
may not be the victims of fraud.
Previously the Indians whose trust
periods had not expired were not able
to execute Wills, their property de-
scending in accordance with the laws
Of the state In which it was located.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
LOOKS TO WEST TO
SAVE THE COUNTRY

New York, July 25.-Ru Rudolph Spreck-
els, son Of Claus Spreckels, OF San
Francisco. and CRATER hunter" came
back Saturday from Europe and spoke
gloomily Of the business outlook, say
Ing he believed the interests" were
preparing some move to injure bust
ness temporarily for the benefit OF the
ssstandpatterss who want reelection to
seeousFess this fall. ss
4fIoWever," said Mr.. Spreckels. s
think the insurgents win be returned
% congress In larger numbers and will
Indirectly control national legislation.
Ultimately. think, the great West Will
prove to be the savior 0f this country
from the corporation interests q
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
NEW SOUND STEAMER n
LAUNCHED FROM MohA'|

Seattle, July 23.-The s'ea Son,
Kulshan, built for the Puget , NV
Navigation Company at the w. :,
yards for the Seattle-Belllngn ..a,|
was launched at high water mus :,
Afternoon. It was one OF inc II
successful events of it's kind tna, ~
occurred in the history OF snlpsa''
this coast. ...l II
The Kulshan is the largest s'ee pne1
|senger vessel ever built Oh nm
Sauna. and the officials OF the 80
comnany and President J. v Pal ~ !,
81 the Moran company, were e ~ h
cipients Of congratulations ilou -
host of local steamship men WV
present at the launching. ,.,n uap
The Kulshan is the old lnolsn n I
for Mount Baker, which looms s. ~
hind rockingham. It was orig ~ ID
tended d call the steamship INC
Anche. no,linghs|
MISS Irene Yarrow OF Beinr no.
who christened the ship, wac .o # b
for that honor by popular so''
bingham and Anacortes.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
Washington State
News Items

Tacoma.-Polk & Co.'S 1910 direc-
tory will show an estimate Of Tacoma S
present population OF 10000.
Washington. The Chehalis County
bank, of Aberdeen, and the Monfesano
State bank, Of Montesano, have made
applications to be named as deposit
taries for postal savings banks.
Minneapolis Minnesota may not be
called upon to pay taxes next year.
The state treasury is groaning under
the burden OF surplus never equaled.
There is nearly 100000 in the treas
|ury.
oIympia.-Certifying on honor that
he is member of the Republican
party, Thomas Burke, of Seattle, has
filed with the secretary Of state de-
claration of candidacy for United
States senator.
OIympia.-The state highway COM
mission has opened bids and awarded
the contract for improving the Lang
ley state aid road, in Island county, to
the county commissioners of that
county at the board bid of $1,6S6.
Washington.-Civi1 service examina-
tions for appointments as railway mail
clerks will be held on November IL at
the following places: Bellingham,
North Yakima, Seattle, Spokane, Ta-
coma, Walla Walla and Wenatchee.
Rr;e%o1 fory,,orC, o<, rrovo W.,
sawmill is the latest industry proposed
for this place. 1t is proposed to pur-
chase portable mill or induce some
present mill owner to locate here on
a liberal stock subscription. This will
give Bristol two sawmills.
Kettle FalIs.-The Stevens County
Federation of Commercial Clubs met
here with M. w. Teeple, the president,
presiding, and with w. H. Brooks as
secretary. It win have $4,000 booklets
OF about sixty pages each, with infor-
nation concerning each section of
Stevens county.
Steilacoom.-Royal A. Cove. past
grand master of the Washington Ma
aons, laid the corner stone of the new
temple in this place Friday evening.
The local lodge is the second oldest in
the state, having received its charter
June IL, 1854. It numbers Is mem
bers. The new temple is to be a two
story brick, costing $4,000.
Bellingham.-The contract for the
construction of the new Bellingham
armory, for which the legislature APP
propriated $4,000, has been let to
George Mckenzie, of Everett, at a
tri1e over $56,60O. The contract for
the plumbing and heating was given
to H. B. King, of Seattle. for $4,S5S.
The building must be finished before
March i.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
Minor Happenings
of the Week

London.-London floated $18O, 0O0,-
600 new American securities during
the last six months, against only $11.-
OOO, 900 year ago.
Washington.-Natio banks are
very generally making application for
designation as depositary banks under
the postal savings bank law.
BaItimore.-Cardinal Gibbons was
7e years old July %. On that date so
wears ago he was ordained a priest
He was made cardinal June 80, 1886.
Newcastle, England.-The strike of
$4,000 employees of the Northeastern
railroad has been settled. The men
accepted the terms offered by the COM
pany.
Honqkong. = Chinese authorities
have sent 10 gunboats and 1900 sol
diers to Colowan to assist the Portu-s
guese soldiers, if necessary, in exter-
minating the pirates there.
chcago.-Leading state banks here
report that savings deposits are still
increasing gradually and generally,
while many new accounts are start
ing. The public has been recently
neither buyer nor seller of securities.
Rio Janeiro.-Sir William D. Hag-A
gard, British minister to Brazil, will
be asked to act as arbitrator in the
long standing boundary dispute be-
twee Peru and Colombia in place of
Baron de Branco, the Brazilian foreign
minister, who had declined to act.
chicago.-President Taft will be in
vited to open the National Conserva-
ton Congress at st. Paul on Septem-
Der 3, according to decision reached
at the conference between the execu-
tive committee of the congress and
representatives of the Twin Cities
board of managers.
Victoria, B. CA splendid hotel,
which will cost approximately $4,000
600, is to be constructed by the Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway Company in
Victoria. The site was purchased for
$4,000. 1t is situated on Govern
ment street, the city's main thorough
fare, and is within a stones throw of
the Empress, owned by the Canadian
Pacific railroad.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
|Rl1 INCREASE IS
sUsP N)ED
RAILRoApa ANNOUNCE ISTEs.
T.oN TO HOLD scHEDuLE
IN ABEYANcE.
Filed With Interstate Com
merce Commission Not Is Bscoms
Effective Until November 1-Rea-
sonabIeness Of TarifFs TO BE De-
termined BY commission.

Washington, July 23It was an
nounced after conference between
Chairman Knapp Of the interstate
commerce commission and commit
tee Of the traffic officfals OF Western
trunk lines, that the advanced rates
fled by the carriers would be suspend
ed voluntarily until November I.
The agreement effected is the same,
substantially, as that made between
the commission and the Eastern lines.
1t means that all important and gem
eral increases in freight rates that
were to have become effective on Au-
gust / will be postponed until the
commission shall have had opportun-
ity to determine whether they are rea-
sOnable or not. It does not follow
that the suspensions will be made per-
manent.
The action of the railroads in yolun-
tarily suspending the advances was
taken with a view of simplifying q
complex situation and avoiding embar-
rassment.
Permission is given by the commits
sion to the roads to file on one days
notice the suspended tariffs to become
effective November /.
By the terms Of the agreement, ex-
listing rates will continue in effect un-
til that date. Meantime, the commits
sion proposes to undertake the hear
ing of the companies involved in the
proposed increased rates. Already it
has been decided that the testimony
in the Eastern cases will be heard in
New York beginning on August Is.
The taking of testimony in the West
ern cases will be begun in Chicago on
August %.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
oHEGoNIANs TO VOTE ON
SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT

Portland, Ore, Friday, July 23.-
Perhaps the women will vote in Oregon
after November 8. At least, that is the
purpose of an equal suffrage amend
ment offered under the initiative, for
enactment next November. Woman
suffrage has been rejected in Oregon
four times-in 1884, 1900, 1906 and
1908.
Thirty-two initiative and referendum
measures will be voted on at the cleo
ton next November. The attorney
general and the office of secretary OF
state have completed the ballot titles
for the measures, which indicate how
the measures originated and contain a
brief synopsis of their contents.
Following are some of the measures
that will appear on the ballot:
Women's taxpaying suffrage amend
ment, granting to all taxpayers, regard
less of sex, the right of suffrage.
"A law for the division of several of
the larger counties in the eastern part
of the state, thus creating three new
counties.
Constitutional amendments are pro
posed to abolish the poll or head tax
and to give cities and towns exclusive
power to regulate or suppress the sale
of intoxicants.
Another amendment will be voted on
for preventing tariff in liquor within
the state. The liquor law bill will be
framed to prevent the manufacture OF
beer and whisky and the giving away
OF the same in Oregon.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
CASE REFUSES HIGH
PLACE IN coNrr,.

Tacoma. July 25.--c >
Gent Of the State Federation a :. pred
Saturday morning declined Ia :. q Aha,
ment as chairman Of tha an appohf
permanent ORGANIZATION Of afy tha !
ers liability law confar :, me enpbs
&c gig not consider that laSs.. 0ecaa,
Lad been properly represen. Dl,ns nal
conference. esented IL M
You are assembled bero
70 consider the subject !, ne ssit
pensation for the WORKING !, Just cau
this meeting are represents,,n men.
roads g and timber industries v Ss, ny
one representative Of the w.. out only
IS among you. 'orklngna
Representation pisprooo,.,..
They have a representation :,
one IN 100. yet in the actus MAUI Of oal|
q ana n they outnumber You Ju %aa ]
one. You would honor that t' oad i'Voe .
sentative II who is with you, BY sr1 n' lss's
nm at the head Of your co !, p,aeas|
ana then you would expect tho uass
lngmen to abide by your actio @0' ;
working for the enactment of 1a y
nuencing legislation in which t lass u
vitality concerned. 'ney are
You may be sincere in Won,
to better the workingman bv i, oeslls
Ing his wages, but they know tb bsts 4
majority of the interests reuras as as
mere have opposed every effort r. y
tain liability legislation, better W WY, W
ing conditions, protection from ' Wy
gerous machinery, shorter hour. 1sa]
labor and sanitation"
Tells Of Grievances.
MT. Case recited other grievance.
such as the corporations faihro !.
keep political promises, and based NJ
refusal of the appointment mada !
Gov. M. E. Hay upon his argums,.|
Clarence Parker, member Of M
Typographical Union, publicly Il
nounced his sympathy with Mr. c,..']
position.
q. F. Cosper, secretary of the Com
mercial Club, under whose ausnie.
the conference was called, said afta|
the meeting that all Representatives }
labor had been invited to attend I'M
that their failure to do so was not IN
fault of the club nor of the other rea
resentatives who were present.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-29
BATTLEsHIPs TO GO
ON ANOTHER cRUIs1

Washington, July 25.-There is d
ing to be another big battleship cruisl
next fall, although it will not equs
the worlds girding tour of three yesr
ago. Sixteen battleships will eros
the Atlantic in November and make
cruise to European ports. The fleet
detailed itinerary has already bee
made public by the navy department
and has been approved by Acting Sci
rotary of the Navy Beekman Winthro1
HuuH al Dcucon oCnr0eQer
commanding officer of the feet
Divides Fleet.
The present policy of the navy d
partment is to divide the fleet nt
divisions in order to afford diviso
commanders as much latitude as pa
sible in handling their vessels. AM
visiting the various ports the Shl
will mobilize at Gibraltar on Deca
Der %. and Christmas day will
spent there.
On December 81 the feet will les
for Guantanamo, where it will arm
January 16. The cruise of the torps
division will be independent OF =
battleship cruise. The destroyers v
leave New York on November y
win visit Ponta Del Gada, Lesna1
Algiers and Madeira, returning 70 y
Juan on January II. The battlesnlg
will visit Mediterranean ports aceo
ing to the following schedules:
Some Assignments. II
Connecticut and Michigan, to w
Francho and Naples; Delaware
North Dakota, to Toulon and denu
Louisiana and South Carolina
Phaleru Bay; Georgia and Neola.
to Barcelona and Lisbon; Rnoos
and and Virginia, to Marsellles
Lisbon; Minnesota and Vernon =,
Naples and Villa Francho, anu ~
sissippt and Idaho, to Genoa anu =
lon.