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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14
CHAMP CLARK AT HIS POST.

Champ Clark has an alert con-
science and a sense Of humor. They
cooperate to keep him at his post in
these days of candidates pilgrimages
to everywhere under the sun where
male American citizens of voting age
are gathered together in numbers.
Says the speaker: THE vice of
Congress is absenteeism. | am try
ing my everlasting best to keep a
quorum here for the transaction OF
public business, and l cannot, with a
straight face and clear conscience,
insist upon other members staying
here unless l set them a good ex-
ample by staying here myself
This has the right ring. The
American people appreciate both Of
tiicial dignity and official industry.
They will not forget the man who
takes the work of the speakership
seriously enough to stay with it when
desertion of his post might conceiv-
ably be to his personal advantage,
who reckons his claims to higher
|preferment not by what he says but
by what he accomplishes.
But there are duties resting upon
public men which are none the less
real because unofficial, and The Re-
public hopes that, as the sun rises
higher and the crocus buds swell on
the hillsides, the speaker will yield
to the demands of his fellow-citizens.
He is rare campaigner, and as a
speaker knows when to put up the
homespun of common speech and
when to don the purple of eloquence.
His fellow-citizens will give him no
rest until he relaxes little from the
rule he has adopted.
Champ Clark must be heard for
his cause and for his party's cause.
st. Louis Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14
FREE TO THE SICK.
The Great Specialist, DR.. Franklin
Miles, Will Send His Book and
$3.50 Worth of Improved
Treatment Free.

All sick persons, especially those
whom physicians have failed to cure,
should not fail to write for DR.. Miles
free Book on Neuropathy-curing
through the Brain Centers and Nerv-
Gus System. 1t describes a great dis
covery by which many wonderful
cures have been made after able
physicians had failed. y,
If you have any of the following
ailments you should send postal card
for DR.. Miles New Book and Free
Treatment: Weak nerves, heart,
liver, stomach or kidneys; pain in
the left side or shoulder, short
breath, palpitation, irregular heart
beats, swelling of the ankles or drop
sy; headache, dullness, dizziness or
drowsiness; nervous dyspepsia, the
blues, cold hands and feet, backache
or rheumatism, nervousness, sleep
lessness or trembling. -,
His Neuropathic Treatments for
these diseases are the result of i'm
mense experience for 25 years and
are thoroughly scientific and re-
markedly successful, so much SO
that we do not hesitate to offer free
treatments to the sick that they may
test them at our expense. Few phys
icians have such confidence in their
remdies. -
His book contains many remarks
BILE cures from nearly every state
and territory in the U. S. after many
local physicians and specialists fail
ed. 1t also contains endorsements
from Bishops, Clergymen, Statesmen,
Editors Business men, Farmers and
others.
Send for list of remarkable
cures in your state. d
Write at once Describe your
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14
Democratic State Convention.
Pursuant to call of the Nation

Pursuant to call of the National
Democratic Committee, delegate
convention of the democratic party
of Iowa is hereby called to meet in
the city of Burlington, on Thursday,
May IS, at the hour of ten o'clock,
a.. M, the purpose of said assembly
being to provide representation from
this state to the Democratic National
Convention to be held at Baltimore
on June 25th, 1912, by the election
of four delegates and four alternates-
at-large and two delegates and two
alternates from each of the eleven
congressional districts of the state,
also for the transaction of such other
business as the convention may
deem necessary and proper.
The ratio Of representation will be
one delegate from each county and
one additional delegate for each 200
votes and fraction thereof above 100
votes cast for Hon. Claude R. Porter
for governor at the general election
of 1910. Upon such basis the coun-
ties of the Eighth Congressional Dis
trict are entitled to the number of
delegates as set forth below:
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14

It is Recommended that the toWn-
ship and ward caucuses be held on
Saturday, March 9th, 1912.
All voters subscribing to the fun
damehtal principles of democracy
are invited to participate in the
selecting of delegates to this conven-
ton.
! Township committeeman are re-
quested to- give due notice of the
hour and place of holding such eau
Gus.
Dated this 9th day of February,
1912. 's
E, S. SHULTZ, Chairman, "
Of Democratic Central Committee.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14
Call For Democratic County Conven-
ton.

Pursuant to a call of the State
Democratic Committee of Iowa a del
egate convention of the Democratic
Party of Decatur county, is hereby
called to meet at the court house in
Leon, Iowa, on the 18th day of
March, 1912, at the hour of 10
O'clock a. m. The purpose of said
assembly being to select nine dele
gates from Decatur County to the
state democratic convention to be
held at Burlington, Iowa, on Thurs
day, May 18th, 1912, to select dele
gates to the National democratic con-
vention to be held at Baltimore, Md,
June 25th, 1912.
t2G The basis of representation in
this convention will be one delegate
from each voting precinct and one
additional delegate for each twenty
votes or fraction of ten or more cast
for the Hon. Claude r. Porter for
Governor at the general election Of
1910.
Each voting precinct will be en-
titled to representation as follows:
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14

Inasmuch as there is no provision
of law for holding a primary election
for selection of delegates to the state
convention, it is ordered that there
shall be held in each county con-
vention for selection of such dele
gates. The time and place of hold
ing said conventions and the manner
of selecting delegates to such coun-
ty convention, whether by primary
or caucus, shall be determined by the
county committees of the respective
counties.
All voters subscribing to the fund
amental principles of democracy are
invited to participate in the selection
of delegates to this convention.
BY order of the Democratic State
Central Committee of Iowa. Done at
Des Moines, January 20, 1912.
Jno. F. Dalton, N. F. Reed,
Secretary. Chairman.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14
Brother Theodore Wall, of the

Brother Theodore Wall, of the
Dsceola Democrat, has announced
his candidacy for the democratic
nomination for Congress in the
eighth district, It is expected that
brother Bill Jameson, if he can take
the time off from present duties, will
throw his that into the ring" also.
Well, there is one thing. sure, if no.
body else gets in, newspaper man
will be misunderstanding
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14

Colonel Roosevelt is making it
clear enough that he cares nothing
about the traditions or the future of
the republican party" says the Sioux
City Journal. "He is retroactive,
for he started out that way in his
political career"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14

'.Who is this man, Proudfoot, any
way?" asks the Grundy Republican
What are his politics? No need to
inquire friend, for he halls from the
country tributary to the burlington
railroad. His politics are SO patent
that he who runs may read-stand-
patter."
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14

Looking back, one can never be-
lieve that it has been out of Roose-
velt's mind to try again for the pres
idency," says the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14

A 5 per cent increase in wages in
the tariff-protected mills at Law
renee, Mass, will mean about so
cents a week more. for most of the
employees. How the. fine old monop-
olists who are hidden behind Sched-
ule K of the Payne-Aldrich bill would
laugh at a tariff revision upward
that gave themsonly SO cents week!
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14

'No one except a person wilfully
blind or maliciously blind can fail to
see that William Howard Taft is a;
dead duck" says the Odebolt Chron-
icle. IF the people don't get him
before the nomination they will af-'
terward."
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14

The man who carried the message
Ito Garcia gives way to the hero:
George w. Perkins who carried the
message from Wall street to Por-
sfiriO at Oyster Bay.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14

. Nowadays, it seems, the republi-
cans can't make move that isn't
regarded by the democrats as good
omen for Them" observes the Des
Moines Tribune. -.- -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14

Baltimore evidently doesn't ex-
pect another democratic National
Convention in the lifetime of hotel
keepers now living.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14

This trouble between Taft and
Roosevelt must be extremely embar-
RAISING to their intimate friend" in
Iowa. .-.... l. ...-..5, d.. s.err
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-03-14

The winter passes, the snow goes,
men fade like the leaf. but not the
Lorimer investigation. Nay, M 5s
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-01

Travels of Two Casks Of Wine.-If
wine could talk there are two casks OF
it which passed through Houston re-
Gently which would tell an interesting
story.
This wine, consigned to a firm in
Baltimore, was aboard the Ell Sud
when that boat sank just out of Gal
weston sometime ago. Three days ago
the casks were picked up by lifesav-
ers Of the United States lifesaving
station at Point Isabel near Browns
vile.
They were brought to Brownsville
and turned over to the ST. Louis,
Brownsville and Mexico railroad. j. A.
Brown, general freight agent OF the
line ordered the goods shipped on to
the firm to whom they were originally
consigned. The address Of this firm
was still visible on the casks and there
was no mistaking to whom thcv should
be sent.
There is some doubt existing in the
minds of railroad officials as to whom
the liquor should be checked. 1t Is the
first case on record of goods being
driven up by the sea to railroad COM
pany and there Is no book in the office
for keeping track Of this class OF
freight. The wine was originally sent
by the Italian colony of southern Call
fornia.-Houston Post.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-01
DIDN'T WANT PICTURE TAKEN.
Mother Bear Adds Excitement to q
Camera Hunting Trip.

Camera Hunting Trip.
The Rev. DR.. Chauncey ]. Hawkins,
pastor Of the Central Congregational
church, Jamaica Plains, has just had
an adventure with big black bear
that would delight the heart Of any
small boy-to read about-and which.
now that It is over the doctor does not
regret, although 1t nearly put an end to
his adventurous camping trip
DR.. Hawkins has been in New Bruns-
wick for several weeks hunting wild
animals with a camera. News Of his
adventure was brought out to civiliza-
ton by his guide, who came out the
first of the week to meet Mrs. Hawkins
and George B. Clark Of Boston, who
were joining the doctor.
The story Is that DR.. Hawkins and
his guide were waiting In a blind for
bears to come to bait Of meat and
molasses which had been put out to
tempt old bruins palate. But the bear
was wary and they had been waiting
several days, when at last they saw
big bear and two cubs approaching the
bait When the bear was within about
fifty feet Mr.. Hawkins snapped his
camera, expecting to see the bears run
when they heard the shutter Of the
camera fall.
But this was a mother with her lit
tie ones to protect, and without wait
ing to see what would follow the un-
known noise she lunged straight for
the harmless hunter. She came 80
quickly and 80 straight that the doctor
could not move and his camera was
knocked out Of his hands and part OF
his clothing was torn away by huge
claws.
The guide, who had an ak in his
hands, sprang to the rescue and swung
for a mighty blow, but the old animal
brushed it aside easily, just getting
wound on her paw. However, 1t d.
verted her attention from the doctor
and gave him time to draw his pistol.
a 22-caliber pistol with a twelve-inch
barrel. AS the bear turned on the
guide the doctor fired, the balllpierced
her brain and she fell dead at their
feet.-Boston Globe.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-01

fourteen in number, rushed to the rail-
road yards, where 100 freight cars
were standing. In few minutes arm
ed citizens, deputy sheriffs and peni-
tentiary guards came up and attacked
them. They shot to kill, and Pascu-
ale, the blood not yet dried on his knife,
was killed with the first volley. Other
convicts were wounded, and the little
band numbered only eleven when II
made a break from the box cars and
rushed to the rocky hills to the south
Of town. There they separated, striv-
ing to escape into the almost impas-
sable stretch Of country toward the
Colorado line. Then one of the most
desperate man hunts in the history of
the west was on.
All this outside the prison walls took
in its happening but little more min
utes than 1t does to read 1t here. When
1t was over, the people Of Rawlins were
terror stricken. They knew the des-
perate character Of the men who had
house to house. People were afraid to
stay indoors and equally afraid to go
out. Imagination peopled every cellar
and every closed room with outlaws
armed to the teeth. So 1t was all that
night. It was as II man-eating tigers
were loose. The governor was tele-
graphed to and asked to order out the
state troops. He was away ON an elec-
tioneering tour and the message did
not reach him for two hours
He hurried back to Cheyenne. tele-
phoning in advance to have the troops
assembled under arms against his ar
rival. BY the time he reached the cap
Sital the later reports indicated that the
escaped convicts appeared to be all in
the hills and that the town had little
or nothing further 10 fear.
BY nightfall the more courageous
citizens had got over their panic.
Posses of armed men were formed to
ride in all directions. Throughout the
night a rattle of shots in the distance
told Of the progress Of the man hunt.
About sunset four convicts were To-
Gated in a canyon about mile from
Rawlins. They had barricaded the
narrow cut in the mountains and were
ready for battle. The officers decided
1t would be too dangerous to attempt
their capture in the dark and sur
rounded their stronghold. At dawn
they were surprised and overpowered
without shot being fred.
All that night couriers kept riding
into Rawlins telling Of the state Of ter
ror that existed in all the country
round there. Every lonely ranch house
was barred and barricaded as 1t used
to be half a century ago when the In
dians were on the warpath.
In the next few days all but seven Of
the forty that had escaped were either
recaptured or killed. The orders given
to the deputies were to bring them
back dead or alive, It didn't matter
much which. The seven that are still
at large probably never will be caught
by the hand of man. No doubt most Of
them will perish in the wilderness. The
cold and snow come early in high al
titudes, and men who have been long
in prison are not likely to be able to
withstand the rigors Of winter. There
fore after the first blizzard the ranch
ers will rest easy.-New York Press.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-01

Collar Buttons as Tacks.-Consider-
ing mans present advanced stage Of
culture, and how the torch Of science
has been brandished and borne about
with more or less effect these 5000
years, the light of which, in these mod
ern days, may be augmented by any
thing from electrical lamps to sulphur
matches and cigar lighters, it is ap-
palling to the reflective mind to con-
slider how unequal has been the distri-
button Of this Improvement.
Women's hats and motor carriages
have taxed the arm Of progress until
the member frequently shows signs Of
cramp and rheumatism, while other
articles quite as necessary to complex
tiles of society under which we now
live are yet as crude as in the ancient
days when the recorded deeds Of man
grow dim in the gathering mists Of an
tiquity.
For instance, consider the collar but
ton. The indispensable requisite to
any mans toilet in this enlightened
day Is still the crude, inefficient imple-
ment 1t was when man faxed the first
of it's kind from a bone. There have
been many suggested improvements,
but the most political remedy for this
great and universal deficiency seems
to lie in a suggestion from our friend,
Red" Martin. Red" is a true Demo-
crat, but as a friend of humanity, with
reluctance has made the details of his
plan for the non-losable collar button
public.
The plan is simply this: To construct
button which, when dropping from
the dressers hands to the floor, imme-
diately transfers itself into a car
pet tack, point up. To find 1t, all that
is necessary is for one to remove his
shoes, turn out the light and start
| across the room. In the simplicity OF
the scheme lies assurance Of its sue
cess.-St. Louis Republic.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-01
BEARD ARRAIGNS TILLMAN
Secretary Of the Bull Moose Rubs II In
to Senior Senator.

ScCTotdTy OF THO Dull mooSC hupe " III
to Senior Senator.
Spartanburg Journal.
Columbia, Oct. 29.-Bristling with
vitriolic statements, Secretary w. p,
Beard of the state Bull Moose party,
today issued a reply to Senator B. r.
Tillman in answer to the recent open
letter Of Senator Tillman, in which
persons who voted in the Democratic
state primary and who intend to vote
for the national Bull Moose ticket were
arraigned. The reply Of Secretary
Beard is a scathing arraignment OF
Senator Tillman's public record and a
bitter attack on him for his attitude
toward the Bull Moose, especially the
senator's references to Colonel Roose-
welt.
The reply reviews the senator's re-
cord and pitilessly heaps charge after
charge upon him and denounces him
in bitter terms. The reply says in full:
Statement in Full.
Because of fierce and unreason-
able attack upon myself and thoSe as
sociated with me in this new white
mans party, made by B. r. Tillman in
his characteristic style, offer this
statement in rebuttal:
"As the Democratic senatorial NOM
inee and standard bearer, so to speak
it is to be expected that the senator
should call upon the people to support
the ticket at the general election, but
that does not give him license to pour
out the walls of his wrath upon the
heads Of honorable white men in an
attempt to strike the only man that
has been able to catch the esteemed
senator with the goods on.
Il do not stress the senator's lack
Of consistency in his ambiguous claim
Of honest government following sc
quickly his recent attack upon Gov
ernor Blease and his administration
1t Is but waste of time for the sena-
tors whole political course is living
proof of the statement contained ir
the we'll known quotation, Consist
ency, thou are a jewel most rare
"If Senator Tillman will read the
declaration Of the Progressive party Of
South Carolina, he will no doubt be
surprised to learn that we do what
neither old line party dares to do al
this time: put the negro on notice that
he is not wanted at all.
Carroll a Speaker.
After kindly recommending his goo(
mulatto friend. the eminent (?) negro
preacher, Richard Carroll, as a suitable
campaign speaker in the middle wes
for DR.. Woodrow Wilson, the senator.
| reference to mixing negroes in oul
politics sounds ludicrous in the ex
treme, relieved only by the later ref
| erence to Cuffey's liability as a voter
to get a finger in the public pie Th'
senator having had a monopoly on tn,
| pie proposition for so many years anC
| having grown gray in the enjoymen
| thereof 1t is no wonder he hates t.
| divide, except perhaps with Richard
| Carroll and others of the better clas!
| of negroes
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-01

Couldn't Fool Her.-"Is that really
the Rock of Gibraltar" inquired the
lady tourist of the captain as the ship
from New York was entering the Medi-
terranean.
1T is, madam" said the captain.
"Then where is the insurance sign?'
she demanded.-Exchang
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-01

cept in the way Of distant firing later
in the day, when they attacked a ranch
and stole some horses.
The second score that broke out the
day following, led by the Mexican out
law, were bolder and better armed. To-
gether they dashed down the main
street brandishing their guns and
knives. They knew exactly where
they were going. A few citizens tried
half -heartedly to stop them, as men on
the sidewalk rush out and wave their
arms at a runaway horse. The con-
victs did not deign to pay attention to
these but made straight for the larg-
est livery stable in the place. west
ern livery stable runs more to saddle
| horses than to docile carriage animals.
| The convicts left a huge negro on
guard outside. They rushed In ana
overpowered the owner Of the barn. A
| barber, Charles Stressner by name,
heard the commotion. Though his oc-
cupation was peaceful to degree, he
had a heart that was big with courage.
He came running down the street,
shotgun in hand. He saw the negro,
but before he could fire the negro shot
him through the head and he fell head
| long, dead.
Inside the barn the convicts had
been busy grabbing up saddles and
cinching them on the horses that were
nearest at hand At the sound Of the
| negro's shot they swarmed outside
some leading horses and some afoot.
The owner of the stable, followed them
out, and Pascuale, the Mexican, turn
ed and stabbed him.
The mounted men fled toward the
| hills. but those who had been left afoot
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-01

A Curious Word.-There is a word In
the English language the first two let
ters of which signify male. the first
three a female, the first four great
man and the whole a great woman. The
word Is heroine"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-04
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balance to be paid in three equal installmsass
day Of sale. to be secured by q deed ef trust o
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