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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-09
rAIRMosT HIGH SCHOOL
OVERWHELMED GRAFTON.

Playing great football with Hart
lry tearing through the line for gains
Of 40 yards. and Hamilton playing
great ball. Fairmont high defeated
Grafton High so TO at Grafton Sat
urday. The lineup:
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-09

at the yarious eating houses III the
cffy Tlre Officers Of tie cub ~
bernard Afnett, president; Resell
AIeredi It'll. vice prestd emit; Gliarlesi
JeHries. secretary; clyde Baker.
streatrer; George AIccrCry business
manager. Tie club IS yet without a
name. There are 20 members.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-09
PREACHED AT CHRIST CHURCH

The Rev. Morton a. Barnes, rector
ii St. James church, Long Branch. \.
Y. preached yesterday morning at
Christ Protestant Episcopal church.
Rev. Barnes was formerly rector here.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-09

Tile Circuit Judge this AFTERNOON
called the civil docket for the pres
snt term OF Court. a number OF
cases or long standing on the docket
wore dismissed. while the others
we're set for trial. The first civil
rasc will be tried on Monday, Nov.
on
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-09
FA1RMoNT PICTURES.

Tile city of Falrmont will he.
shown on the screen of the Opera
House Thursday and Friday night
Of this week. The schools of Fair.
mont will be the feature. Tho gym
nasium and manual training depart
,ment in the Miller building willAhc
shown. as we'll as the domestic sci
ence department of tho high scl,oof.
Altogether there will be between t%"
md tire hundrd local views, agl
mCarly everybody In Fairmont VIII
be- able to sec themselves.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-09
Joe Diggs Cuts Hand.

Me- Joe Digs, proprietor of Il
balbes shopson Main street received
. ver Painful cut en- his left hand
Saturday tght, when q razor which
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-09

Tie City Beard Of Affairs held its
regular weekly meeting today, but
mo busincSs of Importance was TRIMS
rrtpd
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-09
ity Briefs

The was stroppirg slipped, and strils-
ing tho. back Of tho hand, made y
ycry deep wound, scvcTlng one ar
cry
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-09

FOR RENr-A modern five room
apartment in new Kelley building
Water St.. LIST ward. Inquire .
=. Kelley Lumber Co.. both
phones. 14-9't S
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15

Senator Cummins' name has been
time and again associated with deceit
but he was never more deceitful than
in his studied reference to Presi-
dent Wilson in his campaign speech
es. ''The President Cummins is
saying, is strong, determined man,
intellectually and morally, who COM
mands unqualified and unbOunded re-
spect,' and, "a patriot" That he
does not mean this, that he intends 1T
to be merely sop to democrats he
seeks to beguil, is made unmistaka-
bly, evident by his further reference
to Mr.. Wilson as tyrant who is
striving to uproot the constitution,
as one loving his power as Profound
ly as did Alexander, Caesar or Ma
poleon," and as one who drives with
the "goad of master, instead of lead
ing with the intelligence Of a leader.
That Cummins' compliments are sop
is further proved by his comparison
of Mr.. Wilson to Huerta in his New
Jersey speeches and by his denuncia-
ton of the president in and out OF
congress. The president can't be
moral and be tyrant, he can't be
uprooting the constitution and be a
good American, he can't love power
as did the monarchs of the old world
and be patriot. Cummins gives the
lie to himself, which is precisely what
Iowa is trained to expect from him.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15
CAPITOL EXTENSION TAXES ARE
TO RUN UNTIL 1928.

Some of our republican brethren
are telling their farmer friends
through the columns of their news
papers that the capitol extension tax
will be paid this year and that will
end the matter, but such is not the
case. If any former in Iowa is green
enough to believe such statement
he ought to have 4 guardian appoint
ed for him. The capitol extension
law passed by the last legislature
provides that the tax shall be levied
each year until 1928. Mr.. Farmer,
before you vote for q member OF the
legislature or state senator, you
should insist on knowing whether he
will vote to repeal this law. Why
should the farmers of Decatur coun-
ty pay for park for the benefit OF
the city of Des Moines. Elect men
TO the legislature who will vote to
repeal this law The matter should
have been submitted to the voters in
the first place, and they never would
have voted for such an extensive ad-
dition to the capitol grounds as the
republican legislature provided for.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15
THE ACCOUNT AGAINST COVER
NOR CLARKE,

Every Grundy county land owner
who paid his taxes last spring will
remember that his taxes this year
were from 80 to SO per cent higher
than what he had to pay on the
same property last year. Those land
owners who have forgotten about the
advance taxes Oh land has taken will
be reminded of it again when they
pay their taxes this month.
Every taxpayer who has looked for
this unusual and uncallcd for raise in
their taxes has traced it to the ex-
ecutive council ct Des Moines OF
which Governor Clarke is the head.
After local boards had made their
levies for the year the state council
advanced land assessments in this
county &c per cent above the advance
of 20 per cent that had previously
been made by the county assessors
carly in the year, making 2 total in
crease of 46 per cont in lend assess
ments in one year. Sixty per cent
of this raise can and is being charged
against Governor Clarke who was
responsible for it.--Grundy Demo-
crat,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15

1t is not possible, of course, in an
intelligent community, to deceive
public opinion on any great question.
Senator Cummins says he opposed
the currency reserve act because no.
body wanted it except the New York
bankers. Now the New York bank
ers opposed the measure as long as
they dared and did so on the ground
that they feared the act would even
tually result in too great expan-
sion of the currency. There will be
some difficulty in reconciling these
two statements should the Senator
wish to appear consistent. Let us
place Maurice Connolly in the senate
and have done once for all with eva
sions and explanations. Iowa must
not be called upon to apologize for
the double dealing of it's public men.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15
CONSISTENCY, THOU ART A
JEWEL.

Senator Cummins is quoted as say
ing that if Iowa wants man to vote
his own convictions, it wants him;
If it wants a man to vote some one
else's (the presidents presumably
it wants Connolly. What are Sen
ator Cummins convictions? Does
anybody know? And if anybody
saws this or that is his conviction to-
day, can he say it was his convic-
ton yesterday or that it will be. to-
morrow? Everybody thought the
Senator was dead against the Payne
Aldrich tariff, under which, he said
the consumer was robbed of more in
single year than all the insurance
graft of all time" Yet the Senator
voted to continue that robbery when
ne voted against the Underwood-Sim-
nons bill. The Senator is consistent
IN only one thing and that Is incon-
tsastency Oxford Mirror.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15
SUPPORT THE ADMINISTRATION

All that is necessary to insure the
election of man to represent the
eighth district in Congress who will
be in accord with the highest aspira-
tions, as we'll as the most practical
actions of an administration which in
the opinion of the majority of the
people in this district is the
most patriotic and efficient since
the administration of Abraham
Luncoln, is for those broad-minded
men, in the district, who are willing
to grant the great success of the ad-
ministration of Woodrow Wilson and
who have no doubt thanked their
Maker many times during the last
two or three months that a cool
headed man was at the head of af-
fairs at Washington, and who may
have heretofore affiliated with other
political parties than the Democratic
to at least for this particular election
vote for, the man who most COM
pletely represents the things for
which the administration stands.
That man, is of course Hon. H. ~.
Valentine the democratic nominee.
Judge Towner has not voted in Con-
gress for any of the important meas
ures which were pressed by the adj
ministra ton, and which the country
in general has approved. Mr.. VAL
entine has favored them all. In Con-
gress he will be most loyal sup
porter of the administration, and will
at no time allow any imagined ad-
vantage to prevent him from doing
the thing which he believes the peo-
pie of his, district would approve.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15

Polls received by John DeMar,
Maurice Connolly's campaign mana
ger, indicate Connollys election by
5000 plurality Anti-Cummins re-
publicans are going over to Connolly
in body. Sioux City dispatches an
nounce that the republican friends
of the late Geo. D. Perkins met there
and laid plans to organize Eleventh
district anti-Cummins republicans
for Connolly. Friends of the late
Major Lacey, the late Senator ALI
son, and of Col. Pete. Hepburn are
similarly active in other districts.
1t is estimated that Connolly will get
the votes of $4,000 anti-Cummins re-
publicans and that Casper Schenck,
progressive candidate will take 49,
900 votes from Cummins.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15
Notice Of Probating Will.

To All Whom 1t May Concern:
You are hereby notified that there
is now on file in the Office of the
Clerk of the District Court of Iowa,
in and for Decatur county, an instru-
ment in writing, purporting to be
the last Will and Testament of Mary
J. Carter late of said county, de-
ceased, and that 10 o'clock a. m. of
the 9th day of October 1914, has
been fixed for the probate of said
will, at which time you can appear
at the Court House in said county
and show cause, If any there be,
why said Will should not be adj
mitted to probate.
In Witness Whereof, ] have here
unto set my hand and afiixed the
seal Of said court 1t Leon, lows, this
2Sth day Of September. 1914. d
u. n. Beck
7-st C1erk % DiStfict Court
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15

Senator Cummins once likened
President Wilson to Huerta and call
ed him traitor. Now he says Will
son is more or less of a tyrant and is
usurping the functions of Congress-
Good for Wilson. Congress has done
nothing for years except when some
one like Roosevelt or Wilson poked
the members up with a sharp and a
big stick Senator Cummins is so
much like weather vane that he
quite naturally dislikes consistent
patriotism, such as President Wilson
has displayed. If we like Wilson We
shall hesitate about sending Cum
minis back to the senate where he has
done his level best to oppose the
President.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15

The republican press bureau is at
tempting to arouse the old sectional
prejudice with the cry that democrat
ic success means the annexation OF
Iowa to- the South. The South Is
democratic, to be sure, but there is
absolutely nothing proving that the
southern states have unduly profit
ted in legislation. In the matter of
the tariff, for instance, the very pro-
ducts in which the south is most in
terested-sugar, RICE, lumber and BIZ
luminous coal-wereN all slapped on
the free list, even in the face of
Louisiana's threat to secede from the
party.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15

Maurice Connolly is declaring
himself on the religious matter in all
his speeches, asserting that he not
only is against union of church and
state, for the maintenance of the free
public school system, believer in
fullest religious freedom and in all
American institutions, but that if
hidden Gas he never expected to bel
by pope, cardinal, bishop or priest, to
pull down the flag, or to do anything
else to the prejudice of American In
stituti0ns, he would hoist up the nag
and strike the hand that sought to
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL.
For U. S. Senator
Maurice Connolly, Dubuque.
For Congressman Eighth District
H. E. Valentine, Centerville.
STATE.
For Governor
John T. Hamilton, Cedar Rapid:
For Lieut.. Governor
o. P. Myers, Newton.
For Secretary of State
John D. DenisOn, Dubuque.
For Auditor of State
George Phillips, Ottumwa.
For Treasurer of State
John F. McAuley, Osceola.
For Attorney General
E. NJ. Carr, Manchester.
For Railroad Commissioners
w. B. Martin, Dubuque.
S. W. Mercer, Iowa City.
LEGISLATIVE.
For State Representative
NJ. F. Thompson, Long Creek.
COUNTY.
For Auditor
Walter Osborn, Burrell.
For Treasurer
John w. WATSON, Center.
For Clerk of District Court
E. E. Beck, Leon.
For Sheriff.
John Fulton, Leon.
For Recorder
We're Roberts, Center.
For County Attorney
Geo. w. Baker, Leon.
For Coroner
DR.. ]. B. Horner, Fayette.
For Member Board (1015 term)-
H. T. Rauch, Fayette.
For Member Board 1916 term)-
L. P. Hastings. Franklin.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15

The republicans contend that it is
unfair to charge them with being
responsible for the present excessive
taxation in Iowa. This is answered
by the Indianola Advocate-Tribune
which pertinently inquiresI What
would you say if the legislature was
democratic, the state officials demo-
cratic, and your taxes had been re-
peatedly increased-would you hold
the democrats responsible?" Sure
you would.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15

1t cannot be disputed that Iowa
Democrats are Justly hopeful and
confident this fall. The error and
extravaganza of the past Republican
administration has put the latter on
the defensive, and it will take much
explaining and greater argument to
make the voters of this state stand
for a continuance of the high taxes
and needless expenditures that have
been the rule latcly.-Denison Bel-
letin.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15

The Adair News thinks: 1T is a
safe bet that President Wilson is not
being done any very great injury by
the knocks Senator Cummins of
Iowa is attempting to hand him
these days. Every knock means add
ed votes for Mr.. Connolly for United
States senator" (
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15

Nobody appears to know exactly
where Mr.. Cummins stands upon any
Of the questions before Congress. He
is quite evidently for Cummins and
quite positively against Wilson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15

After preaching tariff reform for
dozen years Mr. Cummins is ready
to slip back into the ranks of the
standpatters in order to become reg
ular.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15
REFERENCE II
CUMMINS AT DES MOINES.

Theodore Roosevelt at Des Moines)
My main plea to you here in Iowa
is that you vote as you really think
and do not permit ourselves to let
loyalty to names make you disloyal
to principles.
AS at present controlled and man
aged, the democratic and republican
parties are as poor instruments with
which to work out the welfare of the
country as We're the democratic and
whig parties sixty years ago when
the republican party was first found
ed. Abraham Lincoln then was a
man of middle age, and all his life
had been whig He found that he
could be true to the principles which
had made him a Henry Clay whig only
by refusing longer to be fettered by
allegiance to a party name. He left
the party with which for quarter OF
century he had been identified and
which had elected him to the office,
and joined the new party-the pro-
gressive party of that day.
Abraham LiDcoln's first notable
appearance in public life and his first
great public service occurred in the
great contest he waged for the sem
atorship in Illinois against near
progressive of that day, Stephen A.
DOupl1S
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15

1.-THE poorest republican is bet
ter than the best demOcrat."-
Senator Cummins in a speech
at Chicago.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15
Cummins Like Douglas.

The situation in Illinois in 1858 is
fundamentally like that in your own
state of Iowa now in 1914. A great
many good people who were devoted
to the essential principles of the then
progressive party advocated that
party's supporting Stephen A. Doug
las, on the ground that he was
near-progressive- he was pro-
gressive enough-and that one or the
other old parties could, by means OF
such support, be renovated and put
in position to do the forward work
that had to be done.
Cummins Near-PrOgressive.
Here in Iowa the republicans who
ask you to support them on the
ground that they are near-progres-
sives, occupy precisely the position
which the supporters of Stephen A.
Douglas occupied when he ran
against Abraham Lincoln. Their
candidates and principles do not
represent real progressivism any
more than Mr.. Douglas and his asso-
ciates in 1858 represented real pro
gressives. The progressives OF 1893
had to make the fight in Illinois II
they were true to their principles;
and just the same thing is true with
the progressives in Iowa today. IN
1858 it would have been good
thing if the progressives could have
won, but the next best thing was to
make the fight even though they lost;
and Just the same thing is true in
Iowa today. hope that the progress
sives will win, but win or lose, they
are entitled to the gratitude of the
country for making the fight that
they are making. The lines have
been drawn so definitely that those
who are not outright and openly for
us must be counted against us.
Loyalty to Principle, Not to Name.
Senator Cummins and those who
train with him are on the wrong
track. They cannot be true to the
old-time principles of Lincoln and
Lincoln's day as long as they con-
unue their association with the ut
terly reactionary republican machine
as now controlled in the nation and
in the largest and most populous
states. We must not let our loyalty
to a name blind us to existing facts
and neither must we let our kindly
feelings toward a preat public leader
blind us to the facts of the case when
that public leader follows the wrong
course and takes a position which in
evitably must line him up with the
reactionaries of the old parties. The
Iowa progressives when in 1914 they
oppose Mr. Cummins stand exactly
w horo tho roDuh1icanS StOO6 in 1893
when they opposed Mr.. Douglas.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15
Hamilteo az a Banker.

Hamilt0D az Banker.
Not only was Mr.. Hamilton instru-
mental in promoting and developing
the extensive commercial enterprise
OF Hamilton Bros, wholesalers and
retailers of farm implements, buggies.
wagons, coal and seeds, but has also
been one, of the active promoters Of
financial interests in the city. In
May, 1883, on the organization Of the
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank, the first
institution Of it's kind in Cedar Rap
ids, Mr.. Hamilton was chosen its
president and has remained its chief
executive all through the years to the
present day. This is the largest say.
ings bank in Cedar Rapids, with de.
posits OF more than $2,500,000.
He IL now and has been for four.
teen years past, the president and d.
recting head Of the Merchants Ma
tional bank, the strongest institution
Of its kind in Cedar Rapids, whose
resources total above 100000; and
besides his activities in these lines
he Is interested in various other en-.
terprises, in all of which he has kept
abreast with rapid development, yet
tempering the progressive spirit with
that conservatism that assured safety
as well as success.
Mr.. Hamilton az a Builder.
Mr.. Hamilton has been builder"
in the truest sense and Cedar Rapids
has profited largely from his being
connected with institutions which have
become big and substantial. AS con.
crete examples: The great Cedar
Rapids Savings Bank and office build
ing-the greatest office building in
Cedar Rapids today, was the first six
story building erected in this city.
This is the bank of which Mr.. Hamil-
ton has been president thirty-one
years. The great wholesale building
of Hamilton Bros. is another evidence
of his being builder" and there are
others Of less Importance now but
considered structures Of the best at
earlier periods. Mr.. Hamilton was one
of the promoters and builders of the
Montrose Hotel, the finest hosiery
in Central Iowa; for years he was
president of the Cedar Rapids Elec-
trio Light and Power company, carry
ing it through the Improbable years,
and developing its power and steam
heating business and succeeding in
placing it upon sound financial basis
before retiring as its chief executive
officer. The plant was the basis for
the Iowa Railway and Light Company,
now operating electric railways from
Cedar Rapids to Iowa City and to Mt.
Vernon, at Marshalltown, Tama and
elsewhere in Iowa. In fact no enter
prise of moment in Cedar Rapids has
been promoted for many years that
Mr.. Hamilton did not assist with
means as well as good counsel.
Mr.. Hamilton's ability, counsel and
service was sought along other lines
also wholly honorary-to which he
gave the same splendid service with
out hope OF reward. He was chair
man Of the building committee which
erected the Free Public Library,
which, including site, cost $4,000; the
entire appropriation was expended,
but NO MORE, and the building was
complete and every dollar paid. Mr.
Hamilton, with MessrA. C. B. soutters
and Z. y PAldd constituted the fifsts
sity water works board. "a which she.
ssulsox16 moet able Inembof And Al1s
- M ~
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-15
JN0. I. HAMILTON
CIVIC BUU[OERANO
TRUE PROGRESSIVE.
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY CANDl.
DATE FOR GOVERNOR IS FORE
MOST CITIZEN AND LEADING
BUILDER OF CEDAR RAPIDS. Is
ASSISTED IN ENTERPRISES
Record Of Democratic Nominee Is Such
az to Stamp Him az One Of the Most
Progressive Citizens Of the State.

John T. Hamilton, democratic NOM
inee for governor, was born in ILL
nois, acquiring high school and
seminary education in his native state.
He went to Cedar Rapids as travel.
ing representative for the Z. II. NC
Cormick Reaper Company. Anxious
to engage i'm business on his own &C
count, he formed partnership, under
the firm style of Averill g. Hamilton.
and on the LIST CT October, 1868, en-
tered the agricultural implement bust.
ness, thus laying foundation for the
extensive enterprise of Hamilton
Bros, which was one of the largest
houses of it's Kind in Iowa. In the
fall Of 1873 Mr.. Averill sold his inter-
ests to the late John R. Amidon,
banker from Blairstown, and the style
OF the firm became Hamilton Amid.
on. In 1891, Mr.. Hamilton's brothers,
W. w. and Porter Hamilton, acquired
Mr.. Amidon's interest in the business
which was conducted under the firm
name of Hamilton Bros, until few
years since, when after the death OF
both brothers, the Hamilton Seed and
Coal Company was formed, of which
the subject of this sketch is now
president The Hamilton Bros. was
one OF the most widely known i'm
plement firms in the west. They built
and occupied commodious brick
block 12Ox12O feet, four stories and
basement splendid structure In
which they handled farm machinery,
wagons, buggies, binder twine, seeds
and coal, doing an extensive business
throughout the west and northwest.