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

Democratic Cand
The people of the Eighth District
are to be heartily congratulated up
on having man like F. @. Stuart
as candidate for congress. 1t is
seldom indeed that man can be
found whose heart is so near to the
whole people, and who has given
evidence of that fact in his every act
and utterance. No one can question
what Mr.. Stuarts position is He
has been with the people and against
the interests, and has been so his
whole life long.
At this time Mr.. Stuart is making
two speeches a day and in all of
them he is telling the people what
The stands for. There is no hedging,
no side stepping. His language is
clear, open and bold and no one can
listen to him and not know just
what his position is. He says that
he would not go to congress without
first letting the people know just
what they could expect of him; that
| if the people believe in the things
he advocates he is entitled to their
| vote as a matter of right, and if
they do not believe in them he does
not want it. He is not only against
Cannon and Aldrich, but says that
he is against the entire system and
the interests which are behind them.
He points to the fact that it will not
avail anything to cast out Cannon and
Aldrich and put another man in their
place to obey the mandates of the
same interests which are today COM
| mo Il limo
goes to the bottom of the issue.
On the tariff issue he is going into
detail and showing the amount of
money the consumer pays to the
trusts of the country because of it,
He takes wooden blankets as an ex-
ample and shows how when mother
goes into dry goods store to pur-
chase $1,000 worth of blankets to
wrap her babies in she pays some
thing like $500 of that $1,000 to
the interests, and the other goes to
pay for the blanket and the retail
er's profit on it. He takes up sugar
and shows how something like fifty
cents of each dollars worth of sugar
we buy goes to the sugar trust.
Shows how rubber is made cheaper
now than ever before and reminds
the people of the time a man paid
40 cents for pair of rubbers that
he now spends dollar for and tells
where his money goes. Then he
takes the merchants side of it and
shows how the people would buy
more goods and consume more of
them than they do at the present
time if these things did not exist, and
how he would make more money. He
tells the carpenter how he would
have more work building houses
and barns if lumber was in reach
of the people, how much better
homes we could all have, ETC. He
explains the tariff in a way that we
have seldom if ever had it explain
ed before and in way that only
a man like Stuart can.
He shows a long record of fight
ing for conservation.
ANY man who believes in a reduc-
ton of tariff, in conservation of our
natural resources, in the control OF
public service corporations, and in
the destruction Of the thieving inter
ests, who places his country above
his party, and votes as his mind
and conscience dictates, must sup
port Frank @. Stuart for congress
Mr.. Stuart is self made man ii
there ever was one He was born al
most on the line between Lucas and
Monroe counties. His parents were
farmers and among the earliest set
tiers of Iowa. When boy he learn
ed telegraphy, and the older residents
OF Page county may remember the
boy was acting as the operator in
the little shanty which stood at the
side of the track on the stub run.
ming from Villisca to Clarinda, and
who had as almost his sole compan-
ions fishing pole, single barrel
muzzle loading shotgun and Black
!stone's Commentaries on Law. Mr.
Stuart was early admitted to the ban
and was very successful in the prac-
tice; but afterwards got into the
newspaper and magazine work very
i largely. He has devoted much OF
his time to writing of political econ
omy and the science of government
Like all writer's on this subject he
| has practiced an ideal condition OF
j government for the people to live
under, one which might come to
pass in the century to come. Yet
lat no time has he advocated the
passage of any drastic laws, and has
always realized and maintained thai
Ithese things must come about in the
IsioW and steady process of evolution