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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20

he had acquired by his own efforts,
a good college education, although
not a graduate of any. He began
reading law with the Hon. M. l..
Temple at Osceola, Iowa in the year
1888 and spent 6 months of that
year in Mr.. Temples Office, and
thereafter during vacations from
the years 1889 to 1894 he read law
under the direction and in the office
of Hon E. w. Curry, late of De-
catur county, Iowa, and in May
1894 was admitted to practice by
the supreme court of Iowa. He en-
tered into the practice of law August
l, 1894, at which time he formed a
partnership with E. w. Curry which
continued to the date of Mr.. Currys
death, November IS, 1895, and
thereafter has continued in the
practice alone.
His practice has grown and ex-
tends over Ringgold, Decatur, Wayne
and Clarke counties, and reaches at
times into other counties of the Dis
trict, and other districts.
AS practitioner, he has strictly
adhered to the habit and custom of
not soliciting business, nor in any
manner indulging in other than
straightforward, fair practice, and
has at all times, extended to the op-
position, both clients and attorneys,
fair and courteous treatment. That
by Industry, punctuality and honest
dealings he has built up and main
tains one of the largest, if not in
deed the largest practice of any in
dividual lawyer in the district, and
is widely known throughout the dis
trict and this section of the state as
trial lawyer, and one thoroughly
acquainted with the practice in all
OF its details. He is firm believer
in non-partisan judiciary, and hav-
ing consented to be candidate, sub
mits his cause as such to the voters
| OF the district and asks that the
same be carefully considered solely
upon its merit giving to, the other
candidates the same measure.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20
our $3.50 serge sells in England at

our $3.50 serge sells in England at
rs cents!
And it isn't done for the protect
ion of American labor" either
For the writer cites the statistics
that show that, in the wooden mills
of Massachusetts, the average wages
of male spinners is $13.16 week;
of weavers SLIGO week, ana of
dyers $S.5S week.
The wooden mill employees, in
other words, are already ground
down to wage basis on which they
are barely able to live and rear other
mill hands to take their places when
they are gone. They couldn't be
paid less, for they couldn't live and
bring up children on less!
Protected labor" therefore, gets
merely a living wage; life spent
in what is little better than slavery,
The American consumer gets shod-
dy and high prices-prices two and
three times higher than the foreign
err pays.
But the wool trust revels in the
full benefit of protection! The wool
en- trust mills, as Senator Gore show
ed in his speech in the senate when
the tariff bill was under considera-
ton, are able, some of them, to pay
annual dividends of 81 per cent,
with an occasional extra dividend
of 100 per cent.
When you go to the clothier, Mr.
Iowa voter, and pay $50 for suit
of clothes you could have bought a
few years ago for $12 or SIS, Or
when YOU buy a cheaper "all wool"
suit only to find, the first time you
get it wet, that it is cheap cotton
and shoddy imitation, kindly remem-
Der that it isn't the clothier who is
robbing you; that it isn't protected
American labor" that is getting the
money that is .filched from your
pockets-but that it is the high
tariff fetish, and the millionaire
beneficiaries of the high tariff that
you are paying tribute to!
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20
The situation looks blue

The situation looks blue for the
republican party. The Kansas City
Star, a republican newspaper, says:
Representative Murdock's predict
ion that the next congress will be
progressive is borne out by the poll
tical events of the summer. 1t may
even be democratic, if the revolt
proves as far reaching as the out
come in Maine indicates. In the
house the republicans started with
a majority of forty-seven. With a
loss of two votes-in the Cape Cod
district in Massachusetts and the
Rochester district in New York
this was reduced to majority OF
forty-three. The loss of two more
in Maine reduces it now to thirty
nine. But with the further losses in
the general elections that are thus
foreshadowed-incl five seats
in Missouri-there is hardly re-
publican leader who fails to admit
privately that the house is gone
Of the thirty retiring senators, nine
are removed from the possibility OF
succeeding themselves. These, are
Aldrich, Burrows, Flint, Hale, Piles
and Warner, regular republicans;
and Daniel, Money and Taliaferro,
democrats. Burrows probably will
be succeeded by Townsend, progress
i've; Warner by a democrat; Flint
ano Piles by either progressive or
democrats, and Hale presumably by
democrat. Aldrich successors pre-
sumably will be a regular. A demo-
crat, temporarily appointed from
North Dakota, is likely to be sue
ceeded by A. j. Gronna, progress
i've republican. 1t is believed that
nine of the thirty members who ask
for reelection are leading forlorn
hopes. These are Beveridge of In
diana, progressive; Burkett OF Ne
braska, near-progressive; Buckley
of Connecticut, Carter of Montana,
Depew Of New York, Dick of Ohio,
Kean of New Jersey, Dixon of Neva-
da, and Scott of West Virginia, all
regulars. In the event of a land
slide year, Clark of Wyoming, Du-
Pont of Delaware and, perhaps
Sutherland of Utah might go. If
Maine forecasts a general landslide
there is possible loss of sixteen
republican votes in the senate and
a gain of one-a net loss of fifteen
The republican majority of twenty
six would then be transformed into
a minority of four. A republican
loss even of six-which is regarded
as practically nevitable-would give
the balance of power to the progress
i've republicans. Evidently it is dis
tinctly within the range of possible
ties that President Taft may have tc
work with democratic house and
senate for the last two years of his
administration
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20
INJUSTICE AND BURDEN OF THE
TARIFF.

A leading political writer in speak
ing of the injustice and the burden
imposed on the American people by
the tariff says in the October number
of an American magazine:
1T would be wrong to leave the
Impression that their cause found no
spokesman. Probably the most tell
ing speech made in the whole course
of the debate on the Payne-Aldrich
bill was that of Senator Dolliver,
dealing largely with the absurdities
of the wool schedule. But all that
speech brought from the Master of
the Situation, Senator Aldrich, was
the taunt that it was Democratic
talk"
The writer tells how one of the
men who was in Washington plead
ing for lower duties on wool and
woolens went to Senator Smoot, that
splendid savior from the state of
Utah and is a pillar at once of the
Mormon church and the Republican
party. He writes:
Later in the day, Mr.. Hamill, in
censed by the action of the senator,
exclaimed.
"Well, Mr.. smoot, if you senators
don't revise the tariff in the inter
est of the people the country will
go Democratic"
To which Senator Smoot replied:
Let the country go Democratic!
What the hell do / care if it does?"
The Observes wishes that ev-
cry voter in the land could read this
article before he goes to deposit his
ballot this fall.
1t is the tariff on wool and woolens
that is robbing the poor of wooden
clothing and forcing them to be con-
tent with shoddies and substitutes.
To such lengths" says the writer,
has the adulteration gone that it
may be laid down as a fact that
people on small incomes rarely if
ever wear anything but cotton and
'shoddy mixtures" The cloth in
suits that now sell at SIS to $50 is
the same cloth that used to be offer
ed AT So and $40. Even those who
can afford to pay the greatly in
creased price of genuine woolens
find a weight deterioration of 80
l-3 per cent in standard winter
worsteds, in addition to the estab-
lishment of a much higher range of
prices"
Some figures are presented to show
the difference in price of wooden
goods at home and abroad.
Serge that sells at "a cents in The
United States sells in Holland at IL
cents. A little better grade sells
here for 45 cents and in Holland
for 261s cents. Mohair that sells
here for S i sells in England at 27A
cents. Our $1.37 serge sells in Eng
land at CT cents our $3.50 serge
sells in England at 7S cents, and
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20

The best claim made for the new
tariff law is that it's average tax is
but 41.26 per cent. The history of
the measure shows that it's princi-
pal schedules were written by the
manufacturers and they certainly
made the rate of taxation high
enough to suit themselves. Mr..
Bryan, in a speech made at his home
coming at New York in 1906, sue
cinctly put the attitude of the re-
publican party towards the laborer
in these words: In this country
if a man dies he divides his proper
ty and gives each heir share. Why
doesn't he do as the republican par
ty does in treating the relation of
employer and employe and give his
estate to an uncle, ordering him to
give to the children what he thinks
they need? The republican party
has thrown millions into the laps of
employers and has said that thus
they have helped the employees.
What sublime trust in the employ
ers!'
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20
v. n. Mc6INNIS

1 AWYER Successor toCurry 8 McGinnis. o.
sAAces In Ray block.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20

"Yet l doubt not through the ages
one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are
widened with the process of the
GUN -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20
DEMOCRATIC JUDICIAL TICKET.
For Ind pac Ord Indinial District

T. L. MAXWELL,
of Creston, Union county,
V. R. McGINNIS,
of Leon, Decatur county.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20
School Report.

Report of East Elk school for the
month ending October 7th: No
enrolled, 13; No. days attended, 251;
average daily attendance, 121a No
OF tardies, 2. Names of those neither
absent nor tardy during the month:
Amos and Raymond Naylor, Forrest
and Florence Rauch, Leone Bryan
Blanche, Clarence and Earl Shambo
Wages per month, $45.
Agnes Shell, Teacher.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20

eve see no occasion to change
our prediction that the next house of
the American congress will have
seventy-fve democratic majority"
says the Des, Moines Capital. "No
one expects New York to go repub-
lican this year. Ohio will &c demo-
cratic. Indiana will do the same
And no one knows what will hap
pen in the west"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20
FRED a. BOWMAN. n. D.

nHYsICNAN AND SURGEON Leon, Iowa. Ofaos
= hours II to IL .. m.-1:a0 to $3.50 p. m.-79o
to $50 p. m. Leon Phone Once 7-residenoe So
Barmers' Mutual, Office 8-residence II. Special
study and attention given to Rectal Diseases.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20

Some folks do enjoy a sermon that
hits the other fellow. My, but how
they will shout 'tAmen."
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20

A man thinks he is helping the
world when he tries to get it to sup
port him.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20
DIR. c. H. MITCHELL.
ounnnr,,, 1. n. :" n Tar.,,

CURGERY and obstetrics speciality. Bige,
= Block, Leon, Iowa. Phone 48. Ali calls An.
swered promptlyday night.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-10-20
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET

For Governor,
CLAUDE R. PORTER,
OF Centerville, Appanoose County,
For Lieutenant Governor,
FARLEY SHELDON,
of Ames, Story County.
For Secretary of State,
A. j. ANDERS,
of Olewein, Fayette County.
For Auditor of State,
JOHN w. BLAKE,
of Atlantic, Cass County.
For Treasurer of State,
JAMES V. CURRAN,
of Ottumwa, Wapello County.
orSuperintendent Public Instruction
H. A. MITCHELL,
of Carroll, Carroll County.
For Clerk of Supreme Court,
ROBERT VAN BOSKIRK,
of Marengo, Iowa County.
For Reporter Supreme Court,
GEORGE HARNAGEL,
of Des Moines, Polk County.
For Railroad Commissioners,
NIXON P. JONES,
of Des Moines, Polk County.
WALTER H. DEWEY,
of Charlton, Lucas County.
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL
TICKET.
For Representative in Congress,
Eighth District,
FRANK @. STUART,
of Lucas County.
DEMOCRATIC JUDICIAL TICKET.
For Judges 3rd Judicial District,
T. L. MAXWELL,
of Creston, Union county,
V. r. McGINNIS,
of Leon, Decatur county
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
For Representative,
HEMAN c. SMITH,
of Fayette.
For County Auditor,
REUBEN E. MCLAUGHLIN,
of Decatur.
For County Treasurer,
w. c. COZAD,
of Morgan.
For Clerk of District Court,
j. l.. MENDENHALL,
of High Point
For Sheriff,
CHAS. R. PERCY,
of Bloomington
For County Recorder,
ROLLIN I. BENEFITED,
of Leon.
For County Attorney,
GEO. w. BAKER,
of Leon.
For County Superintendent,
ELI HUTCHINSON,
of Woodland.
For Coroner,
DIR. FRED A. BOWMAN,
of Leon
For Surveyor,
O. L. CRAIG,
of New Buda.
For Member of Board of Supervisors,
Term beginning Jan. 1, 1911,
PATRICK GRIFFIN,
of Richland.
For Member of Board of Supervisors,
Term beginning jan 1, 1912,
FRANK A. GARDNER,
of Leon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-30
Crop Outlook to Date

The recent cold wather did no damage to winter wheat or to spring wheat for that matter. The latter Is still in good part unsown, and there Is no reason to anticipate small crop of wheat. The acreage is large and a big yield Is looked for. So too as to oats and corn. Some corr will have to be replanted. but the amount of replanting needed in the sur plus corn states is not large. Some cot ton will also have to be replanted, but each days report cuts down the per centage. Fortunately, good deal of tho crop had not been planted. and a good deal of the seed in the ground had not pushed growth to the surface when the heavy frosts came Time permits seed at hand for all of 1t that will be necessary.
 The value of farm products in 1909 is put by the department of agriculture at sS, ,76O, ,O00,0Oo an increase of $Sss 100000 over the value of the productions of the pre- vious year. A like gain is looked for this year. The country needs large crops in order to restore the balance of trade. Our exports have of late been light, and the balance of trade is wavering. In some months 1t has actually been against us. Our farm products are outranked by our manufacturing output, 1t is true, but we need this year both in large meas ure. We need farm products that will cross the nine bilhon-dollar line, and we need, too, an output of manufac- lures that will go to an aggregate of s15, 900, 900 900 this year. These are big figures, but this is a big country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-30
The People Can Be Trusted

In Alabama election majorities are ps- ually decisive when vital issues are pre- sented. The proposed amendment was such an issue and a majority of more than 27.0o0 was cast against it. Vital is sues are involved in the contests to be decided next Monday. A governor and legislature are to be chosen, and as im- portant as the governorship is, the matter of selecting candidates for the legislature is equally important.
 This state has been 8 victim of radical administration and radical legislation dur ing the past three years, but the people have it in their power to replace unhappy conditions by voting for Emmet O'Neal for governor and for legislative candidates who are known to hold. like o'Neal, broad and sane views.
 Emmet o'Neal. while standing squarely on a law-enforcement platform, believes in the sound democratic doctrine of local option. He is in favor of giving the pres ent prohibition laws fair trial, but he is too good a democrat and too much of statesman to think for moment that statewide prohibition is either just or that |. -.o.,o4o- +I,a aovse of raaI temnerance He is an able exponent of conservatism and will make one of the best governors Alabama has ever had.
 His opponent, Colonel Mallory, is per- sonally as clean and upright as any man in Alabama; but he has represented radical issues and he still stands for rad realism. He used his influence to bring on the bitter amendment campaign of last fall, and he has no regrets about it. He still maintains that the principle of the amendment is right. He has been for some time champion of the statewide prohi- bition policy and he stands firmly today by the intolerable Carmichael and Fuller enacements. So there we have it.
 Democratic voters who believe in demo- cratic doctrines cannot logically or con sistently cast their ballots for a state wide prohibition leader, nor for candi- dates for the legislature pledged to vote against repeating or materially modifying the drastic sumptuary laws that now ap- pear on the statute books.
 There are other important issues besides statewide prohibition, as a matter of course, but until the present severe laws are changed Alabama will continue to be advertised the wrong way. Intelligent voters in every county in the state will be as careful in marking their choice for the legislature as for the high office of governor They understand the situa- tion. Their vision is clear and they will not allow fanatics or professional prohi- bitionists to throw dust in their eyes. The people can be trusted to vote right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-30

trolled by the democrats MT. Kern will succeed MT. Beveridge in the Senate on March next.
 The race between Mr. Kern and MT. Beverideg will be hotly contested. If MT. Kern had standpatter as an op- ponent he would have a walkover Mir. Beveridge is however an insurgent and his proudest vote is the one he cast against the Aldrich tariff. But in the Beveridge convention held few weeks ago President Taft was commended and indorsed. although he had declared that the new tariff is the best ever devised. He stands ready to repeat that declaration.
 The platform condemns the coward ice of the republican party in indors- ing the tariff views of both President Taft and Senator Beveridge. "Presi- dent Taft" says the democratic plat form, 'has indorsed Cannon and Al drich We submit to the people wheth- CT relief may be expected from the party standing for Taft, Cannon, AL drich and Beveridge all at the same time" MT. Beveridge will certainly have his hands full in defending his indorsement of Mir. Taft while he de- nounces in the next breath the Aldrich tariff.
 The standpatters of Indiana are no doubt tariff benefciaries and they are orphaned, for they have no candidate for the United States Senate, a body that has long been their mainstay and stronghold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-30
Triumph of the Turbine

The success of the turbine is no longer confined to ocean greyhounds and scout crpisers where speed Is the first object, and speed is disregarded- It has been nroven that the turbine is useful in freight carrying steamers where expense of operation is kept down to the lowest possible sum.
 The freight of the world is carried by tbe 1e-knot tramp. and recently typical boat of this class was selected to test the matter. Her engines were put in .ood repair and careful records were kept on a voyage of the amount of water and coal consumed.
 On her return the engines were taken out. but the boilers and screw left as +hev were; a turbine engine was installed and connected with the shaft by gearing that would reduce the speed to the old figure. On the first trip with this make shift arrangement there was a saving of one-sixth the fuel used, while the re- duction by 9 per cent in the weight of engines gave that much more cargo-ear- rying capacity.
 This experiment is regarded as deter mining the usefulness and economy of the turbine in all vessels. and no doubt the new form of engines will be installed as rapidly at least as the old form wears out, and perhaps the saving in fuel and weight may call for more rapid substi- tution The turbine is now fully estab- 1ished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-30
Democratic Harmony In Indiana

democratic convention by the candi- dacy of Tom Taggert for United States senator was followed by harmony and cided to present a candidate for that office. Indiana does not elect this year governor, but she does elect other state officers and also legislature.
 The convention selected John w. Kern as the democratic nominee for United States senator and if the legislature to be elected in November is con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Charlie Greer


 If ever a man deserved well of the people of Alabama that man is Charles H. Greer, candidate for secretary of state,' said a prominent democrat yes terday.
 MT. Greer is veteran newspaper man., with 25 years experience on the Alabama press. In that time no issue has ever arisen but that he took a posi- tive stand upon it. No question has ever come before the people but what his pen was busy, advancing and de- lending his views. He has ever been d foe of extremism and radicalism, and he had ever contended the government of Alabama should be maintained upon the simple, fundamental principles of | the democratic party. It would seem, at this juncture, when the people of Ala bama are weared with strife and are determined to restore political and gov ernmental tranquility, they would SUD- port for public office a man who has been a lifelong advocate of order, jus tiee and equality. MT. Greer is not run ming for office because he needs the salary. He is a success in private life
 
 fession and who can support his fam fly well without a salaried office. IL would be a fitting reward, though, for an Alabamian who has labored faithfully for the upbuilding of his state and who has been identified with those mova ments inaugurated in Alabama which make for the progress and prosperity Of the people.
 When MT Greer is not running for office his paper, the Marion Standard, is probably the most quoted weekly newspaper in the state. The editors of Alabama regret, as one of the unfortu- nate features of the campaign, the idle ness of his pen while he is out on the courses"
 MT. Greer was in Birmingham yester- day. He has made the most spectacular and perhaps the most effective campaign of any candidate in the field. He went into the contest with the energy and optimism that have always characterized him and he has now canvassed 61 of the 67 Alabama counties. The work he has done, the results he has achieved, are the wonder and envy of other candidates, Nlit hnoW tHe uiiLicuitieS ol d pIlfIldiy campaign.
 Some one has had a ballot printed which is calculated to misead the un- wary. It is headed a Guide Ticket" and on it is this sentence: If you desire to vote the anti-amendment ticket make aD mark before the name just like this" Then follow the names of Emmet O'Neal and others, with the x mark. MT. Greers name was not marked, al- though he was one of the first men in the fight against the amendment, and he was recognized as one of the most im- portant factors in defeating the amend ment Who originated the Guide Tick et' fake it has not yet been discovered. It is being denounced as a mean trick by MT. Greer's friend and others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-30
OLD MEETING HOUSES

John Russell Hayes, in Book News. love old meeting houses-how remote From all the worlds loud tumult do they
 geem!- ~ Islands of blissful peace to Hull tired souls Tossed on the seas of daily circumstance And seeking friendly haven after storm, Seouestered bowers sweet with holy balm To shelter and to shield No words may
 tell The pathos of their centuried peaceful
 ness. .t ra Tranquil and holy--here have women
 wept
 Above their loved ones; strong men were
 bowed
 By piteous grief in those gray ruthless
 hours When in the silent earth they laid to
 rest
 Their precious dear ones-whlle the old
 house gloomed In silent sympathy, and all its trees. Its dropping roses and it's ancient shrubs And clinging ives sighed in unison A requiem for vanished loveliness, Or worth and noble charm too early
 gone es Or goodly veterans called to their long
 home, The memories are sacred that enshine Those sweet-sad, tragic, gray and mour-
 full hours; s94 But with each mellowing year that mel-
 lows grief And reconciles us to the Fathers will. The dear old meeting hCuse grows moro
 endeared ,.t s f,a And gathers sentiment unto itself. { Deep sentiment and reverence and love