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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24
WILL THEY SCARF?

Some of the standpat Taft repub-
1icans are trying to scare some of
the old soldiers into the belief that
if Wilson is elected president that
their pensions wiIIs be reduced or
cut off, and tell them that a vote for
Roosevelt is a half vote for Wilson,
yet these "scare crows know that
it was democratic house that pass
ed the dollar a day pension bill;
that it was defeated in the republi-
can senate by entreaty and wish of
President Taft, he claiming that if
the senate passed the house bill and
sent it to him, If he vetoed it the
north would 60 back on him, and II
he approved it, the southern repub-
licans would be against him. The
democratic house pension bill with
the other bills passed by the house,
in the Baltimore national platform,
and If they elect Wilson and secure
a majority in the senate, the dollar
a day pension bill will become a
law.-Mt. Ayr Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24
CANDIDATE AND PARTY.

1t is now exactly two weeks to the
| November election. 1t is a good
| time for democrats to take account
| of the position of their party and
| it's candidate.
AS for the latter, no one can fail
| to observe the astounding disparity
between the advance notices" of
Gov. Wilson's enemies and the &C
tual events. We are told at the
beginning of the campaign that
Woodrow Wilson was man rash
and headstrong and would ALLEVIATE
all who tried to work with him. We
were also told that he was plant
and spineless and would be putty
in the hands of the ''bosses."
1t was evident then that both of
these amiable prophecies could not
be true; it is clear now that neither
was. Gov. Wilson has proven a
good campaigner, a sober counselor
and an unequaled expounder of the
fundamentals of the democratic
faith. He has worked with the ut
most good-fellowship with the lead
ers of his party, but has shown a
spirit of independence which could
be testified to by none more NOV
ingly than by certain gentleman
of the name of Smith, now very
much in eclipse.
Great defections from the demo-
cratic ranks were also prophesied
by reason of Wilson's nomination.
1t is scarcely necessary to remark
that here the wish was father to the
thought. A few protection demo-
Gratis of the Sam Randall type have
quietly announced their intention
not to support the .noimnee-quiet-
ly, for high protection is not word
to conjure with now. AS for demo-
cratic leaders. we know of not one
in political life today who is not
supporting the ticket.
There could be no finer tribute
to the solid qualities of the demo-
cratic candidate than the utter
triviality of the things alleged
against him. A few phrases from
the works of an author whose pages
are numbered by thousands have
been worn thin by the zeal of COM
mentators at their wits end for
stuff for criticism. He has been
twitted for exactly such changes of
opinion and utterance as are part
of the mental history of every man
who grows instead of stagnating
and drying up. And that is all.
What of the party? Locally, last
weeks tremendous outpouring an
swers the question. Reports from
all the states are the same. There
have been many noisier campaigns
than this, but none within the
memory of living democrats when
the party was more united, more in
interested in the issues
at stake. more confident of the out
Louis Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24
WHATS EATING US?"

Two fellows, apparently journey
men workers of some sort were in
the smoker. One fellow was walk
ing up and down the aisle nervously
while his partner watched him out
of the corner of his eye as he walk
ed or wriggled in the seat. Turning
the "bunkie" asked whats. eatin
you?" ''- if l know" replied
the other. I'm thinking about
things and it worries me-"
Something's "eatn' u.s. "eating'
the American people. We are think
ing about things and it is worrying
us. Something new has come into
American life, into politics and
church and society. Never in the
history of men have 80 many been
thinking Of the rights of other men,
of justice to all men, of equal oppor-
tunity so far as may be for all men,
of injustice in law and government
and of changes suggested and to be
made We find ourselves at sea and
nervous. Something is eating u.s.
There is ferment and the rising
of opinion. There is a separation
from old thought and old custom
and a trekking her and there, a
seeking of new places and change
of environment political, social and
intellectual. There is struggle and
the passing of men and ideas and of
old orders. We are nervous think
ing about things,
Men must be torn from the old
convictions which are more instinc-
tive than anything else. We incline
like oysters to fix ourselves to the
parental rock and stick until we are
raked off. The opinions and axioms
of our fathers are law unto us.
But in the stress and turmoil and
ferment of time the byssus loosens
and change arrives.
Politically, socially, religiously,
we are at the end Of an old order
and the beginning of new one. Not
that the reality Of things has chang
ed but that we see and know better
than we did. Higher up the slope
of progress we attain wider views
and find longer vision. Something
is "eating us. '-Marshalltown-
1imes-Republican.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24
TARIFF AND COST OF LIVING.

The tariff made trusts add insult
to injury by selling their protect.
ed goods cheaper abroad than al
home.
All classes of consumers suffer by
this practice; but particularly the
farmer is made the goat" The
following are the wholesale prices
which the same trust charges for
the same goods to American dealers
and to dealers for export:
A four-gallon cylinder churn
costs the American dealer $2.25.
dealer $1.62.
A corn shelter costs the American
dealer $3.50. The same shelter
costs the Canadian dealer $6.14.
A steel beamed pillow costs the
American dealer SO. The same plow
is sold to the Canadian dealer for
$7.2O.
A triple gang pillow costs the
American dealer $112.5O. The
same gang pillow is sold to the Cana
dian dealer for $50.
A four-shovel cultivator which
costs the American dealer $27.2O is
sold to the Canadian dealer for
$22.1O.
A hay press which costs the
American dealer $3.50 is sold to the
Canadian dealer for $20S.25.
The list can be extended much
farther, but these samples are
enough.
The American farmer who settles
in Canada can buy American maize
farm machinery cheaper there than
he could buy it at home.
This trust scheme of bilking the
farmer rests on the tariff and on
the tariff alone. 1t is ali important
factor in the increased cost of living.
Mr.. Taft is willing to let the steal
go on forever without seeming 10
notice it
Mr.. Roosevelt wants to legalize
the trust-tariff steal, as a source IF
campaign contributions, and for this
benefit of his friend, G. w. Perkins.
Gov. Wilson alone is pledged tc
stop the tariff robbery and give the
farmer aHd the consumer fair play.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24

There is not a Roosevelt candi.
date for congress in Iowa who
stands the slightest chance of cleo.
tion,' declares the Fairfield Ledger
There is such a candidate, here and
there, who may be able to draw suf-
ficient republican votes to defeat q
candidate honestly and fairly nam
ed in primary election of the
people and send democratic repre-
sentative from a republican district.
If you know Of such conditions, ask
yourself the motive behind such a
candidacy. Then, if you really want
a democrat congress, vote for it, or,
preferably, for the straightout
democratic candidate 81 ;S.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24
CONGRESSIONAL SITUATION.

Three candidates for congress
from the eighth congressional dis
trict, will come before the voters al
the election in November. Hon. V
r.. McGinnis of Leon, is the demo
/ cratic candidate, and one of tnc
strongest men of the district, when
one considers the honor, personal
integrity and real ability. Mr.. Nc
Ginnis has record for legal ability
and knowledge which places him
high in the ranks of Iowa's best
lawyers, and he is a man who is
absolutely unapproachable in the
cause of things he does not know to
be right and clean.
Judge HI. M. Towner, present
congressman from the eighth dis
trict, is Mr.. McGinnis' opponent on
the straight republican ticket;
while Mr.. Weldon Laughlin of Mt.
Ayr, is the bull moose candidate.
Mr.. Laughlin is a new conner in
political circles of the district out
side his own county; but Judge
Towner has spent two years at
Washington City as the representa-
tive of the district in congress. His
record there does not incite great
enthusiasm among people who re-
call his vote on two of the greatest
measures affecting the working man
and the poor people, which have
come up in years. Judge Towner
has the distinction, unenviable as it
must be, of being the only congress
man from Iowa who voted against
the sugar bill and the income tax
bill. Both of these measures meant
much to the common people, and
surely the gentleman who came
back to the men who sent him to
the high position he occupies, with
the stone of negative vote, instead
or the bread of the affirmative,
which they had reason to expect at
his hands; has something to explain
and that something should be con-
sidered when they come to vote on
his petition for a second term.
On the other hand, Mr.. McGinnis
is a man who has ever been allied
with the very movements for the
betterment and uplift of legislation,
and he is and always has been with
and for the people of his state in
every case where right and service
has been in the balance. If Hon. V.
r.. McGinnis goes to Washington
City as representative of the
people of Iowa, the people who send
him there will be sure that they
have man, and real man in the
position; one who will work and
who will win things for them, which
count, and which will bring pros
perity and good, honest legislation
very close to them, He is big man
with brains, red blood and ability
counting much in his make up and
vote for McGinnis in the eighth
district means vote for right,
honor and decent legislation
OSceOla Democrat.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24
THE WILSON CAMPAIGN FUND.

The talk about huge contribu-
tons to the Wilson campaign fund
fizzled to fitting end when Chair
man McCombs, of the democratic
national committee, testified before
the senate committee.
While one boss gave $4,000 to
Roosevelt's campaign fund, and an
other gave $4,000, and the contri-
buttons to Taft were seldom record
ed in less than five figures, only
three contributors to Gov. Wilson's
campaign gave over 100000.
Gov. Wilson is the peoples can
didate. He is fighting for the
peoples cause, and the people are
financing his campaign. They can
not finance it too well.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24
OLD SOLDIERS FOR WILSON.

The Journal is in receipt of let
ter from an old soldier and member
of the G. A. R. asking advice as to
how he should vote in the election
next month. This man served more
than four years in the union army,
took seven wounds in defense of his
Country: and now he asks:
Is Woodrow Wilson friend OF
the old soldier?"
Yes!
The Journal has done more for
the old soldiers than all the other
papers of Chicago put together. The
Journal appreciates the compliment
of being asked such question by
a veteran of the great war. And
The Journal has no hesitancy in CIV
ing an emphatic Affirmative reply.
Gov. Wilson is a friend of the old
soldier.
Gov. Wilson has always showed
himself friend of those who have
served their country rather than
themselves. .'
Gov. Wilson has always shown
himself friend of the weak.
Gov. Wilson has always recogniZ-
ed the obligation of the country to
those without whom the country
would have been destroyed.
Gov. Wilson ought to be in Pc
culiar sense the choice of the old
soldiers.
They fought the great war
against slave monopoly. Gov. Will
son. lis fighting this campaign
against the trust and tariff monop-
oily.
No old soldier need hesitate to
vote for Gov. Wilson Chicago
Journal
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24

Eye gods!" exclaims the Marion
Register. "The Des Moines Capital
bolts one Of the republican candi-
dates on the Polk county ticket for
the reason that it considers the
democratic candidate is "a much
better man for the place than the
republican. But, oh you Roosevelt
republicans. What t-r-a-i-t-o-r-s &?
We doubt IL there lis q Taft editor In
Iowa who will Yots the cket
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24
1.-THE Only Thing
That Will Relieve
NEURALGIA"

The piercing pains of Neuralgia,
which often follows a bad cold or
La Grippe, are frequently almost UNI
bearable and few medicines afford
any relief to the sufferer.
Il am rural mail carrier and
have been a user Of the DR.. Miles
medicines for years.
DR.. Miles Anti.PaiA Pills
can't be beaten. They are the
only thing I have found that will
relieve my neuralgia and I have tried
most everything, besides medicine
from the doctor. am willing to
tell anyone what the Anti Pain
Pills did for me-" II
CHARLES HILDERBRANDT, n
Box 2o5 Woodvill. Ohio
If you, like Mr.. Hilderbrandt.
''have tried most everything in
vain, why not do as he did, fight
your aches and pains with Dr..
Miles Anti-Pain Pills. Let the
pills bear the brunt of the battle.
No matter how stubborn the con-
test, they will come out victorious.
Dr.. Miles, Anti-Pain Pills
stand on their record, which is 4
long list of'cures extending back 1
generation.
Druggists everywhere sell them. u
first package falls to benefit, your drug.
uist will return your money.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24

The president has written an
open letter to the governors Of all
the states on the cost of living. The
president is willing to do a good
deal to reduce expenses, not STOP
piag at second promise to revise
the tariff downward.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24

The Taft papers that refuse to
put any credence in straw votes will
find it still harder to believe the
returns on November 18th.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24

The Russell Union states: We
saw another Taft man the other
day. That makes three we have.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24

STATE TICKET.
For Governor.
E. G. DUNN
.u of Cerro Gordo County.
For Lieutenant Governor
G. A. KENDERDINE
of johnson County.
e. For Secretary of State
c. B. MURTAGH
of Kossuth County.
For Auditor of State
J. A. SINCLAIR
of Wayne County.
For Treasurer Of State
G. L. CASWELL
of Crawford County.
For Attorney General
G. E. WALTERS
of Tama County.
For Supt. of Public Instruction
r. E. RIENOW
of Clayton County.
For Railroad Commissioner
S. w. MERCER
of johnson County.
DISTRICT TICKET.
For Congressman Eighth District
V. r. McGINNIS
of Decatur County.
For State Senator
H. c. BEARD
of Ringgold County.
COUNTY TICKET.
For Representative
M. F. Thompson.
For Auditor
r. E. MCLAUGHLIN.
For Treasurer
..- w. c. COZAD.
For Clerk of the District Court
E. e. BECK.
For Sheriff
CHAS. R. PERCY.
For Recorder
P. E. SHIRLEY.
For County Attorney
GEO. w. BAKER.
For County Superintendent
MABEL HORNER.
For Coroner
DR.. M. CAMP.
For Members Board of Supervisors
Term commencing Jan. l, 1913,
w. H. SNYDER.
Term commencing Jan. l, 1914,
PATRICK GRIFFIN.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24

Obstinacy may be useful hut usu-
Ally Il Ii merely disa agreeable
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-24
Uncle Sam-"Honesty What Are You Running for the Pres
dency or for Revenge?"
tho Nav York. Herald

From the New York Herald.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22
U, S. Treasurer Guest
Of Honor at Opening
Of Col. Maddox Home

Colonel Robert F. Maddoxs new
country home. Woodhaven, will be the
scene of dinner tomorrow night at
which the guests viii include Lee Nc
Chung. treasurer Of the United States,
and "a prominent bankers from cities
Of the East and South Colonel Mad
dox will give the dinner in honor of
Mr. McClung. who is a former resident
Of Knoxville. Tenn, and a boyhood
friend of the Atlanta banker.
Colonel Maddox will be host also at
luncheon at the Capital City club to-
morrow afternoon at O'Clock. at which
a number Of Atlantans viii be invited
to meet Mr.. McClung. The treasurer
and the visiting bankers will arrive in
parties tonight and tomorrow on their
way to the convention Of the Georgia
Bankers association at Atlantic Beach
Colonel Maddox is president Of the as
ISOLATION. Mr.. McClung and Bradford
Knapp, Of the national bureau Of plant
industry, are to be among the princi-
pal speakers at the convention
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22
PROHIBITION To
Be ISSUE AGAIN

MACON, GA. May 22.-To a specific
and official inquiry directed to them
by the Georgia Anti Saloon League re-
Gently, the prospective candidates for
the legislature in Bibb county have re-
piled that they do not favor the pres
ent state wide prohibition law on the
statute books of Georgia
The replies Of the candidates were
mailed to the leagues headquarters in
Atlanta today
The Bibb county sspirants for legis-
latve honors understand that the in
quiry directed to them was merely the
first Of a series of inquiries to be d.
rected to other candidates for the legis-
lature throughout the state. the entire
scope of the inquiry to cover approx
mately the whole state. from one end
to the other.
The Bibb county candidates infer
from the inquiry directed to them that
the Georgia Anti Saloon League is get
ting ready to precipitate the prohibition
question upon the state in the forth
coming campaign, particularly with re-
spect to the legislative candidates.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22
LABOR MEN
LOOM LARGE AT BIG
MEETING IN ALABAMA

\. II Kirkpatrick, former president of
the Atlanta Federation Of Trades, is in
Admission, Ala, this week attending the
annual convention Of the Alabama FEEDER
alton of Labor
Mr. Kirkpatrick is representing the
Georgia Federation of Labor as fraternal
delegate. he having been elected at the
recent meeting held in Waycross This
year marks the first in which fraternal
delegates have been elected from the
Georgia labor body TO the meetings in adj
jacent states Delegates will attend the
annual labor conventions of Florida and
Tennessee.
The Alabama Federation Of Labor is
presided over by an old Atlanta boy. Rob-
ert +. Cam. who was a member of At
lahta Typographical union and worked on
the daily papers Of this city several years
ago. Since going to Admission he has dis
played the same energy In union labor
circles there that he did here, and has
now held the presidency of the Alabama
state body three terms
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22
Caruso Has Signed
-Four Year Contract
With Metropolitan

PARIS, May 22.-Caruso has signed
a four-year contract with the Metro
politan Opera Company. Hitherto,
he said 7 was content with $4,000 per
night | was guaranteed minimum
Of 40 performances in 1--WE months. But
now I'm to receive more.
When asked whether he intended to
appear in Wagnerian tetralogy, Caruso
replied: Later, much later. When
my voice is aged l shall be able TO
shout az loud as I like. Then I shall
be able to put in my repertory Iris
tan, 'Meistersinger and 'Siegfried.
La Favorita' and II Trovatore' re-
quire a young fresh, pure voice. These
rich metallic voices are disappearing,
alas!"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22
FORCED To EJECT
WOMAN, He SAYS
Purchaser of Property Where
Mrs. YanCey Lived Denies
Responsibility for Custer.

j. n Ewing Of the Edwin P. Ans
ley Realty Company. issued q state
ment today in regard TO the disposses-
sion Of Mrs. Mary Yancey from her
home at 2S1 Decatur street in which
he said that he was forced by the
courts to take the property
Mrs. Yancey was evicted yesterday
and created quite a scene by refusing
to leave the premises.
AR Ewing said.
Some months since commission
oyas appointed by the court to sell GER
tain property belonging to Mary j.
Yancey Other gentlemen and myself
became the purchasers of one of these
several properties but when I went
down to notify the negro tenant who
occupied the house that 7 was the own
er and thereafter the rents were pay
able TO me. 7 was notified by the negro
that her husband had i've year lease
on the place. and that Mrs. Yancey had
been paid the rents in advance for the
full term whereupon ! demanded on
the commissioners that they put me
and my associates in possession Of the
property
THE commissioners, therefore, asked
and obtained an order from Judge
George l., Bell of the superior court
directing the sheriff to put us in pos
session.
Neither I nor any of my associates
were responsible for Mrs Yancey's liv-
ing in the house with these negroes
nor for her dispossession.
No doubt, you will recall that il was
Mrs Yancey who recently remained in
2 house on Edgewood avenue until it
was torn from over her head, and that
i was also she who has figured in quite
few other law suits with which the
public is already familiar
We employed attorneys to keep from
being forced to take the property re-
ferred to in your article and when we
were advised that we could be COM
neled to take it. there was no other
course for us to pursue except to take
possession of the property for which
our money had been paid"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22

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Figures below standing companies December
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22

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why Quaker Extract win not cure pei
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stomach, liver. bladder troubles. rheu-
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systemic treatment, and that is why
Quaker remedies have made such a
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Now. the Health Teacher doesn't
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anybody. It's a child's treatment. Three
bottles are considered the small treat
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22

la gra, but while in Mississippi he came
in contact with a large number of so
diagnosed cases OF pellsgra, and many
Of those people who used the Quaker
remedies were wonderfully benefited
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rhs Health Teacher says T pellazrs
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22
REALTY AUCTION OFF ON
ACCOUNT OF WEATHER

Announcement was made this morn
ing by the Holmes & Werner Realty
Company that the auction sale Of lots,
which was to have been held today att
Conway Station on the Marietta car
line. has been postponed The weather
is given as the cause
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22
FRED LEWIS C0LLIDES
WITH HORSE; DEAD HORSE

NEW YORK, May 22.-Fred Lewis
of Greenville. was flung from his bike
against a horse yesterday. Lewis was
not injured. while the horse was killed.