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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
THOSE CONVENTION CONVERTS.

William J. Bryan was in the ma
tional Republican convention at Chi
cago as a newspaper reporter, so that
as matter of business, as well as OF
politics, he followed closely the evil
dence and the argument in the case
OF all the contested delegates.
Mr. Bryan is on the stump earnest
ly supporting Professor Wilson and
earnestly opposing President Taft
If Bryan, the reporter, had learned
anything that would help Bryan, the
orator, to make stronger case
against President Taft don't you sup
pose that he would have told it? To
put it another way, don't you sup
pose that if Mr.. Bryan believed the
nomination for President Taft had
been stolen he would be saying so to
every audience he addresses? He Is
not saying so, and is not that fac'
about as strong evidence as any one
should need that the Taft nomination
was not stolen?
In point of fact, those who have
taken the trouble to study the eVi'
dence in the contest cases, no matter
how strong had been their convic-
tions before doing so that the cases
had not been fairly decided. have
been forced to the conclusion that
there is no ground whatever for the
attacks that have been made upon
the integrity of the national commit
tee and the convention. If any reader
of this is among those who are stiil
under the impression that the contests
were not honestly decided he should
write to the Republican national
committee, Chicago, ILL.,, and ask for
copy of Congressman's Bartholdts
speech on that subject. 1t is candid
statement of an honorable man who
heard the testimony in every case
and ii is absolutely convincing.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
SOME SUGGESTED REFORMS.
Iowa Legislature Will BE Asked L,
Make Several Radical Changes
I'm Laws.

Already there is sufficient agita-
tion for radical reforms along many
lines to make business enough FOR
the coming session of the legislature.
In many and various ways the Iowa
lawmakers will be urged, at their
next session, to change existing con-
ditions. A list or few of the
reforms proposed follows:
.Readjustment and change OF ex-
isting scnool laws.
Entire new system of taxation and
raising revenue.
Changing of present Mulct saloon
petition law to voting by secret bal
lot instead of by petition.
State raformatory for women.
suppression Of black plague.
Pensions for widows with children.
Constitutional suffrage amend
ment.
Juvenile court jurisdiction in ru-
raj districts.
Separate detention building for
children.
State registration bureau for vital
statistics.
State inspection of county poor
farms.
County hospitals for tubercular
Patients.
Entire change of penal system of
the state.
State institution for epileptic pa
tients.
Constitutional prohibitory amend
ment.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
CEREAL CROP IMMENSE.
1912 Crop Will Weigh Enormous
Sum of 133, ,OOO, 900 Tons.
20 PER CENT MORE THAN 1911.
Government Reports Show Some In
teresting Facts Concerning En-.
OrmOus Crop Harvested
This Year.

Cereal crops of the country from
present indications will reach the
unprecedented total production OF
1873, 1000 tons. according to Victor
II. Olmsted, chief of the department
.of agricultures' bureau Of statistics.
With record-breaking crops of corn,
spring wheat. oats, barley, rye and
buckwheat, the years harvests will
be 20.3 per cent greater in weight
than last years production, G.1 per
cent greater than the big year of
1910 and 1872 per cent greater than
that of 1909.
Prospects for record-breaking
potato crop indicate it will be 80
per cent more than last year when
the crop was very short, / / per cent
more than in 1910 and per cent
more than in 1909 when the pre-
vious record production was mar
vested. The hay yield estimated at
about Is per cent more than last
year and per cent more than in
1910 and 1911. August like July
was decided favorable for crop de-
velopment throughout the ccuntIF,
department of agricultural officials
declare. They figure the composite
condition of all crops on September
1st as being about l 6.5 per cent bet
ter than at that time year ago and
Al per cent better than the average
condition on September 1st in recent
years.
The conditions Cor production if
harvested of various crops on Sep
tember 1st compared with their aver
age (not normaD condition on that
date of recent years. follows:
Peaches 130., apples 1862, spring
wheat 1881, oats fs1z.f, pears HOS.
hemp 1899, barley 109.5, potatoes
1895, cabbage 1884, flax seed 1913,
clover seed 1863. tomatoes 1865,
onions 1864, millet 1862, buck
wheat 106., grapes 1854, kafir corn
1862, alfalfa 1851, watermelons
104.7, cantaloupes 1888, oranges
1898, broom corn 1882, hops 1924,
sorghum 102., cotton 1915, corn
1912, sugar beets 101., rice 101.,
lima beans 1905. dry beans 1901,
tobacco 99.4, cranberries 99.1, pea
nuts 9S6, sweet potatoes 9S.4,
onions 97.S and sugar cane 93.2.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
RAILROAD SCHEME BLOCKED.
Promoters of Railroad 'DOped" to
Run Near Here Indicted by
Federal Grand Jury.

There has been much talk in this
Railroad, whose promoters declared
that they were going to build a rail-
road from Winnipeg to the Gulf of
Mexico under the above name, and
raised large sums of money by sub
scriptions of stock from persons
along the proposed line. 1t was
stated that the line would run close
to the western side of Winneshiek
county, and would go through Pro-
from Minneapolis. The promoters
We're arrested Saturday, charged with
'get-rich-quick' scheme, and have
been indicted by the federal grand
jury on the charge of using the mails
to defraud. The headquarters were
located in small hall room at the
Fairmont hotel, and those arrested
are John NJ. Wiley, president and
treasurer; Fred Breckley, secretary
and chief engineer; and A. 1. Buell.,
an associate. The company was cap
italized for s2,5O0,000. and it is
alleged that they have collected at
least 100000 in subscriptions at
$40 per share. A postoffice Inspector
arrested Wiley near New Hampton
and Beall near Lawler, while Breck-
ley was arrested near Ansel, MINI.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
WHAT'S THE MATTERo

Whats the matter with the Unit
ed States under Taft's administra.
tion anyhow" That is the question
put to the Abilene (Kan.) Reflector
And it is a very pertinent inquiry
There are loud and vehement vail
ings about evils" and wrongs
and slavery" and the people are
being told that conditions are so bad
that nothing less than a complete
reversal of present policies, a prac-
tical revolution in our system of
government, can cure them. But is
that true? Or is it mere hysteria,
the vain imaginings of men who are
out and want to get ''in?1 If you
can't answer these questions, sup
pose you ask few of the people you
meet.
Ask the farmer. He will tell you
that the crops this year are worth
$4,000, 100000. That is at least
$500, 100000 more than any farm
yield in any other year and in any
other land
Ask the iron and steel makers.
They will answer that more tons of
coal, coke and iron are being con-
verted into finished steel than in
any previous year in this or any
other country.
Ask the railroad president. He
will tell you that traffic is almost at
the record-breaking point for all
time.
Ask the car and locomotive build
ers. They will answer that they are
employing three times as many la
borers as they were year ago.
Ask the shipbuilders. They will
answer by pointing out the number
of vessels on the ways-a sale for
every berth, some of them to foreign
owners.
Ask the laborer himself. He will
answer that his avarage wage is now
greater than ever before and that
his hours of work are shorter.
Ask the banker. He will point to
clearances that mount higher and
higher week by week. sure barom-
eter for the swelling tide in all kinds
of business.
Ask any one except the profess
siOnal agitator, and the answer in
evitably must be: The country is
richer and bigger and happier and
healthier than it has ever been be-
fore.
So, then. what's the matter with
the United States under Taft any
how?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
NATE KENDALL SICK MAN.
Has Heart Trouble and Will Rest for
Two Years.

Des Moines, Ia, Oct Tt is very
doubtful if Nate +. Kendall will re-
turn to Washington in December for
the next session OF congress. and cer-
tain he will take no further active
part in congressional life unless his
health is very much improved over
what it is at present. He is suffering
from heart trouble and is absolutely
doing nothing beyond caring for him
self. and he stated a few days ago to
a friend that he has no expectation
of doing anything for the next two
years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
want VI word to the young
men whose ~ al life is just be-
-

want word to the young
ginning a
Anyone enterhS ness would be
glad of the chance 1me one of
an established firm wie.s Jears of sue
cess behind it.
Everything great done by this
country in the last so years has been
done under the auspices of the Re-
publican party. Is not this price
less asset?
Lincoln and Grant Hayes and Gar
field, Harrison and Mckinley
names secure in the haven of fame
they are all gone, leaving small
estates in worldly goods, but what
vast possessions in principles, memo
ries, sacred associations, 1t is a
start in life to share that wealth.
Eut what young man would not
rather belong TO the party that does
things, instead of one that opposes
them; to the party that looks up,
rather than down; to the party of the
dawn, rather than of the sunset?
For so years the Republican party
has believed in the country and labor
ed for it in hope and joy;
Has reverenced the flag and fol-
lowed it,
Has carried it under strange skies,
and planted it on far receding hori-
IONS
Has seen the nation grow greater
every year and more respected;
Has seen the country extend its in
tercourse and its influence to regions
unknown to our fathers;
Yet it has never abated one jot
or title of the ancient law imposed
ON us by God-fearing ancestors. The
Constitution of our fathers has been
the light of our feet. Our path is,
and will ever remain, that of ordered
progress, of liberty under the law.
But we are not daunted by prog
ress. We are not afraid Of the light
The fabric our fathers builded will
stand all shocks of fate or fortune.
While there will always be a proud
pleasure in looking back on the his
tory they made, the coming genera
tion has. the right TO anticipate work
not less important.
We who are passing off the stage
bid you, as the children of Israel en-
camping by the sea were hidden, toI
go forward. We whose hands can
no longer hold the flaming torch pass
it on to you that its clear light may
show the truth to the ages that are
TO come.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
MOOSE TICKET FOR IOWA
List of Candidates Filed by Petition
as Required by Law.
ARE MOSTLY UNKNOWN MEN,
Candidates of New Party for State
and District Offices Which
VIII Appear on Ballot.


Gates of nomination by petition of
the progressive state and presidential
eIector candidates were filed at the
secretary of states Office yesterday
afternoon by Carl FRANKIE, chairman
OF the state central committee. He
also filed several Legislative and con-
gressional candidates petitions.
The state ticket as filed follows:
Governor-John l.. Stevens, Boone.
Lieutenant William S.
Bemis, Spencer.
Secretary of state Harry A. Nor
ey, Waverly.
Auditor of state Christian F,
Meier Elkader.
Treasurer Norman F. Baker,
Lucas.
Railroad commissioner-John H.
Stevens, Mason City
Judges of the supreme court
Henry Michel, Dubuque, and Edwin
j. Stason, Sioux City.
The law requires that at least 500
signatures be attached to each of the
names on the ticket. Several hun
dred more names than were needed
were signed to the petitions.
Following is the electoral ticket
filed:
First district-Solomon Stephen
son of Olds.
Second Everett F. Richmond of
Muscatine.
Third Emmons Johnson of Wat
erloo.
Fourth-Robt Thomson of Cresco.
Fifth Henry Rickel of Cedar Rap
ids.
sixth-Clyde G. Sparks of OF
tumwa
Seventh-W A. Graham of Des
Moines.
Eighth Thomas G. Fee of Cen
teryille.
William H. Kilpack of
Council Bluffs.
Tenth james NJ. Blake of Web
ster City
Eleyenth-Simon Fisher of Rock
Rapids
At large-Joseph A. Dyer of Des
AIoines, James r. Steele of Winter
set
The district electors were required
TO get twenty-five signatures to their
petitions and the electors at large
the same number as candidates on
the state ticket
Other petitions filed by FRANKIE
were: Joe s. Grail of Fairfield, can
didate for congress from the FIRST
district; Lawrence W. Laughlin of
Mount Ayr, for congress from the
Eighth district; Joseph w. Hallan of
Sioux City, for congress from the
Eleventh district; and A. d. Pagh,
candidate for judge from the Ninth
judicial district.
The time for filing expired Satur-
day evening, twenty-three candidates
in all filing for the house of repre-
sentatives and three for the senate.
The Progressive party state ticket
will not be third state ticket butt
in reality a fifth state ticket ac-l
cording to the official arrangement
on the ballots. In other words thereI
will be four state tickets on the bal
lot ahead of the bull moosers, as theI
four legal parties will take preced-
ence over the candidates placed onl
the ballot by petition. The order will
be republican, democratic. prohibi-I
tion, socialist and progressive. Thus
the progressive party ticket and the
republican tickets will be at opposite
sides of the ba lot as pointed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
WILSON ON FREE TRADE.

This is quotation from his His
tory of the American People" and il
is the truth. Not until republican
administration came into power did
prosperity exist. Do you want to
change now this administration and
this prosperity?
"A great poverty and depression
had come upon the western mining
regions and upon the agricultural
regions OF the west and south. Prices
had fallen. Men of the poorer sort
We're idle everywhere, and filled with
sort of despair. All of the larger
cities and manufacturing towns
teemed with unemployed working
men. who were with the utmost diff
ficulty kept from starvation by the
systematic efforts of organized char
ity, Not until the year 1897, when
the republican administration came
in, did the crisis seem past.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09

Morgan swore, before the senate
investigating committee last week
that he gave $150,000.00 to Roose-
velt's campaign in 1904. Roosevelt
on the witness stand the next day
swore that he did not know of il. The
testimony before the senate investi-
eating committee last winter showed
that large sums OF money were spent
TO elect LOrimer senator in Illinois.
Lorimer swore that the did not know
of il. Roosevelt refused To sit at a
banquet in Chicago because Lori
mer sat at the table. Nice, pleasant
fall weather we're having, isn't it?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
Maud Muller.

Maud Muller on summer morn,
Heard the toot of an auto horn,
She saw the Judge go whirling past,
Gee said Maud. ain he going
fast"
And then she thought of the sighs
and tears
The Judge had caused her all these
years,
So she set her teeth and never finch
ed
But took his number and had him
pinched.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09

Roosevelt, when president. gave
Morgan the right in violation OF law
to amalgamate the Tennessee Coal q
Iron Co. The deal netted Morgan
$50, 900. 900. Morgan gave Roose-
velt's campaign fund sl5O,oOo.o0
Roosevelt swors last Friday before
the senate investigating committee
that he didn't know Morgan gave the
$3.50, 100000. Hope 1t doesn't snow
before Thanksgiving.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09

No wonder straw is Sc a ton,
Uncle Sam is using it in forty-eight
states and in the islands of the sea
to take straw votes. Hope there'll
be enough clean straw saved so we
can bed our cows well during the
coming winter. With good dairy
cows in the procession headed by
the elephant we are always safe.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
Steel Trust Behind Third Party.

Pueblo. Colo, Oct. THAT the
United States Steel Corporation is
Behind the third party program in
regard to the regulation of trusts, -
was the charge made by Gov. Wilson
in a speech today. Corroborative
evidence of that assertion. the gov
ernor said, was coming to him every
day.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09

Senator Stephenson spent 500, 900
in the Wisconsin primary and Col
Roosevelt spent 100000 in the
Pennsylvania primary. but there are
those who make crime of one and
a virtue OF the other.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09

An exchange suggests that mas
much as the Republicans have adop-
ted the elephant, the Democrats the
donkey, and the Bull Moosers the
Moose il is up to the Prohibition
party to adopt the camel as ii can
go long ways between drinks.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN.
By John Hay.

Notc-This Republican clas-
sic, VII ten by the late John
Hay, a.. ,hor, poet, diplomat,
statesman and lover of human
ity, has an especial value in this
campaign, whcn millions of our
roung men voters will cast their
q. : vote. It's words of wisdom
% be read and needed by
e. b.. >ung man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
Swing of the Tide 20 Taft.

New York, Oct. S.-No less an in
fuential paper than The New York
Times, which is fighting for the cleo
tion Of Woodrow Wilson for presi-
dent, says that the support of old
and young Republicans is swinging
to President Taft. Here is the
Times statement:
The vitality of the Republican
party is reasserting itself in the re-
turn to the support of Mr.. Taft of
many old and young Republicans,
who have for a time been victimized
by the third-term imposture. They
have been admirers of Mr. Roosevelt;
for one reason or another they were
dissatisfied with Mr.. Taft. But the
course of the Progressive campaign,
the stiffness, the violence, the eX-
treme radicalism of Mr.. Roosevelt,
have opened their eyes. They see
that the path they have taken in fol-
lowing him leads nowhere. They
have examined with growing incredu-
lity, and with disfavor that has be-
come Indignation, his assertion that
the Republican party is dead. They
recognize their mistake, and all over
the country they are Fastening to re-
cover their standing as Republicans.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09

When a mans popularity begins
TO wane his neighbors usually get
busy and assist.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09
Oleaginous.
forty

Morgiana had slain the forty
thieves.
But where did you get all that
boiling oil?" inquired the reporters.
II fried it out of Mr.. Archbold,'
she said. pledging them to secrecy.
Amply substantiated by documents
in the exclusive possession of the his
torian hereof, this incident is given
to the public now for the first time.
Chicago Tribune.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09

Five days before election in 1904,
Theodore Roosevelt branded as lie
Judge Parker's charge that Wall
street had contributed to his cam
paign fund. The country believed
Roosevelt. The senate investigating
committee now in session in Wash
ington is finding out the truth. j.
Pierpont Morgan, high priest of Wall
street and emperor of finance, swears
that he gave to the Roosevelt cam
paign $3.50, 100000. In the insurance
investigation it came out that George
w. Perkins, Roosevelt's present cam
paign hacker, took $50 200 of the
New York Life's money and gave it
to the Roosevelt campaign. Harri-
man testified that he raised $3.50, ,00o
in Wall street for Roosevelt's cam
paign. Somebody lied Fishin's fine
this fall.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-09

Time gets away from an old man
almost as quickly as money gets
away from a young one.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-24
ELECTRICITY

TELEGRAPH lines have revealed pc
L crljarCOnditiOn OF affairs underground
nothing more nor less than independent cur
rents Of electricity in the earth. Sometimes
these are of such magnitude as to put tele-
graph lines temporarily out OF business by
causing a current counter TO the desired one,
due to the counter clectrOmOtlVe force OF
that particular part of the earth. a queer
thing noticed in this connection IS that lines
running north and south are hardly ever diS-
turbed: only those going east and west seem
TO be affected TO any great extent. he
earth current as a general thing runs from
east to west, thus following the sun and
helping along currents in that direction ana
retarding them in the opposite direction.
1t has been asCcrtaincd that one general
cause produces these currents and that
cause is no doubt the sun itself. The earth
has been known as a magnet for long time,
and the possibility Of its being an electro
magnet, or one caused by electric currents,
was broached some years ago. There IS no
doubt as 10 the nature of its magnetism IN
the light of the discovery of these currents,
as currents flowing round a body from east
oWest tend TO omakeit an eleCtromagnet, with
the two poles situated as are the earth poles.
The electromOtive force corresponding to
the currents is usually only about three
hundredths of a volt TO the mile, which IS
50 small that ordinarily no variation IS OBJ
served. In 1881, however there was gen
eral disturbance on the face of the sun, and
this in some unaccOuntable manner raised
this force on the earth to half volt a mile,
or sixteen times its ordinary value. ! he
higheSt il has ever been observed was SIX
volts a mile. This was during big mag
netic storm when the sun was full OF spots.
This effect is not noticed in cables under
the sea, due no doubt TO the wonderful con-
ductinp power OF sea water which offers
nracticalivno resistance toan electric current,
while the earth material does. The greatest
effects are noticed to take place at ten o'clock
A. NJ. and four p NJ; the smallest at sunrise.
There is no doubt that the position OF the
moon relative to the earth has an important
bearing on these earth currents also, as
shown bv Adams some years ago.
Now, besides this terrestrial electricity,
there exists what is known as atmospheric
electricity. 1t is a well known fact that the
rapid evaporation of water produces cleo
tricitv. also the friction of air and water par
ticles blown about in the atmosphere pro-
duces it. Another effect is what is known
as induced" electricity, on account OF the
earths charge. As air in its general state is
a nonconductor, the electricity has 70 re-
main in these sundry parts of the atmos-
phere until it either gets strong enough to
discharge itself to the earth or TO another
part of the atmosphere, or else be blown
away with the wind.
OF course we are all familiar with how
Franklin proved that electricity existed in
the atmosphere by showing lightning to be
electricity; but most of us are prone to
think that this effect is confined to the
higher regions. Some experiments con-
oI,,dad NOT lono ooos Disclose otiite a charge