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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28

p. Nicholson is a man, every inch o.
him, and those who know him best
are his stanchest supporters. He nev
er was a member of the board of
supervisors.
Coming into the County contest
| the one issue has been over-worked
as to auditor and sheriff. The one
issue and argument was, Gle is en-
titled to the second term
In the sheriff contest the second
term argument is certainly very
inconsistent, for, do not voters re-
member very vividly the fierce at
tack made upon George Mizener for
his second term by Tom L. Flem-
ming, brother of the present sher-
iff? At that time the argument.
lone good term deserves another"
was pooh-poohed by Flemming and
his friends. and NOW, that alone is
the basis of a claim for Sheriff
Flemming's reelection. '
OF course the Decorah Journal re-
hashes some of it's attack On Tom
Qualley trying thereby to prejudice
voters against 0. o. Ellingson, but
it is now pretty well known that the
Journal does not represent the vot-
ers, but only small proportion of
them.
AS to County Treasurer, the at
tack and lone issue" is as to the
public service of Lloyd Christen's
father and the amount of money he
drew. The representations made by
the Journal as to the time of SER
vice of Lloyd's father are greatly
over-stated. and likewise the amount
of money drawn.
In the first place, the stewardship
at the County Farm at Freeport is
not an office at all. 1t is a contract
job, let by competitive bids, just as
is the position of janitor at the
Court House, which has been held
by Denny" Horan eight years. Is
anyone so foolish as to cry out to
have Denny" ousted because he
has been in Office too long? Yet the
Journal, to be consistent would have
to do so.
Now so far as Lloyd and his faith
er's time in public Office is concern
ed it just about balances the time
which w. r. Shea and his father
have held public Office, yet the Jour
nal is urgently asking voters to sup
port Shea and turn Lloyd down. We
would never have thought of rails
ing as an issue the time W. r. Shea
and his father have held office and
drawn public money if the Journal
had not reminded us of it, but in
reality the time they have held such
offices just about counter balances
the time of Lloyd and his father.
Now If the voters will pardon us
for taking space and time to say
these few words concerning that is
sue we will surely not again ask
such indulgence.
Lloyd needs no defense. He needs
no apologies made for him. He is
able to stand upon his merits, and
he has merits to stand upon. If he
is entrusted with your public inter-
ests you may rest assured he will
make good in every detail-in pri-
vate life and public station.
What has been said as to Lloyd
Christen applies also to Oscar Win
ger the Republican nominee for
County Auditor. Give them your
support and you will never need to
make apologies for them.A
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28
THE SUPERVISORS.

In the third district the republi-
cans have candidate for supervis-
or in Claude Morton who is every
inch a man. He is at present a
member of the board, and his homes
ty and integrity of purpose has new
er been questioned. He is a good
man for the place and the voters
will return him, for he is deserving
in every way.
o. G.. Haugen in the first, is an
other good man. and all indications
point to his election.
In o. l.. SaXvik in the fourth, the
republicans have another strong
candidate and a gentleman who is
we'll liked by all who know him. He
will give the service which his dis
trict desires. A vote for all three
means good officers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28

In the offer I made last
week there was an error, as
one of the services was made
in Decorah. SO that so cents
was the legal mileage and
$500 the charge. Mr.. Nor
rison claims to have gone
to Minnesota in search of w.
III. Sharp, and was therefore
entitled to more mileage. But
he did not go until he had
made arrangements with Mr..
Cutting, my attorney, for his
pay for going, to be paid by
me, so he could have no right
to charge mileage on it for
serving the notice. Mr..
Flemming claims he never
had the notice and knows
nothing about the service;
but as the fees belong to Mr..
Flemming, he would know
when he received his pay, and
he must have known then
that he had received $500,
the legal fees for which was
only so cents, and that is
about six months since. And
Mr.. Morrison is still his
deputy, so the voters of Win
neshiek that wish a sheriff
and deputy qualified to charge
ten times as much as their
legal fee, vote for l.. II. Flem-
ming.
WILLIAM Fl. SMITH,
East Water St., Decorah.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28
FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE

Fl. p. Nicholson Jr. candidate for
State Representative on the repub-
lican ticket is not literally speaking,
politician. but a man Of full
strength, physically and mentally,
who has spent his whole life upon
the farm, although being interested
in business enterprises that gives
him broad knowledge OF affairs in
general. He has been at all times
a progressive and public spirited
citizen and has taken an active part
in promoting and developing the
community in which he has resided,
having held numerous positions of
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28
HOW TO VOTE.

When the Judge of Election hands
you your ballot enter the booth, take
your pencil and make a cross in the
square opposite the name of each
candidate you wish to vote for. s III
you make a mistake in the marking.
do not erase, but take the ballot
back to the Judges, ask for anew
one. and mark in the square In front
OF each name you desire to vote for.
You must mark the square before
every name you wish to vote for.
Vote for Republican Candidates,
thus avoiding spelling your ballot.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28
s5.O0-REyyARD-$5.00.

AS the voters of Winnie
shiek County will want to
know the qualification of :
their choice for Sheriff here
is a sample of Sheriff Flem-
ming's. On the. 4th of April
last he was given a notice Of
final report of the estate Of
Matilda Smith, to serve. and
the return of said notice
shows 1t had been served on
A. j. Sharp. on the 7th. and
on W. H. Sharp on the 9th
of ADril 1914, and a charge
of $500 for mileage was
made. Said notice was serv-
ed in Canoe township, about
z miles from Decorah. And
as the Decorah Journal has
been comparing Mr.. Flem-
ming with ex-Sheriff Qually
/ will give the above reward
TO any person proving that
Mr.. Qually had as high a
qualification for charging
mileage or for charging high
mileage.
WILLIAM HI. SMITH,
East Water st. Decorah.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28

No candidate ever met every
charge made against him by politi-
cal and private enemies foot to foot
and face to face more boldly and
manfully than has Governor Clarke.
He hasn't ducked his head but stood
out square to every wind that blew
from the opposition. Half the dem
ocrats in Iowa ought to vote for
Clarke merely as the best man. And
every republican should be proud
of the republican candidate.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28
MISREPRESENTATION AND APPEALS TO
PREJUDICE DO NOT WIN VOTES.

The campaign Is nearing the
close. Voters will have made up
their minds relative to the merits
of the various candidates soon after
this issue reaches our readers.
Public Opinion has undertaken to
give its readers paper containing
the news. and as a Republican or
gan, it has and does espouse the
cause of the Republican nominees
from United States Senator to and
including all the county Offices
We have endeavored to support
the Republican nominees fairly, and
at the same time, in the same spirit
of fairness treat the opposing candi-
dates fairly.
We are reluctant to publish any
thing that tends to appeal only to
the baser feelings of mankind; that
appeals only to prejudice; to small
ness; to narrow w-mindedness The
most that we will do is to appeal to
partisanship, when the relative mer-
it's of candidates, and the issues,
are substantially equal.
This being our policy, we have
irefrained from saying much that
might be said, and which, without
doubt if the conditions were revers-
ed, the Decorah Journal would say
about Republican candidates.
The political policy of the Journal
seems to be to excite bitterness be-
tween the Democrats and Republi-
cans, and in the next breath appeal
to Republican voters to support the
candidates which it is pushing so
vigorously.
The Journal editor two weeks ago
stated that he had made it an iron
clad rule to state the truth as near
iy as we can learn it, and then he
goes into self lauding article of
some three hundred words in which
he proclaims his honesty.
In last weeks issue in a promin-
lent place of his editorial page ap-
pears q statement concerning the
oounty's tax for capitol extension.
In this article he says, "By
the end of ten years we will have
paid 37,S37.30, for the 80 acre
park that was voted by the last leg
islature.' 4"
| Now take this one statement and
square it alongside his article of
two weeks ago in which he stated
that 1--WE made it an iron-clad rule
to state the truth, as nearly as We
can learn it, and see how it squares
up with his self-lauding article about
his own honesty.
We are not able to pass upon his
ability to LEARN the truth, but we
do think any man of average ability
can learn the truth, and can also
see what is not the truth, in that ar
ticle about capitol extension.
Does the Journal want to state as
the truth that the last legislature
voted an 80 acre park? Now honor
bright, does he not know that the
total area purchased, leaving out
what was donated by the city-the
streets and alleys, that the total area
was not over half what he states that
1t was.
In last weeks issue he again
strains to the cracking point his iron
clad rule to state the truth as nearly
as he can learn it.
In making an attack upon Lloyd
Christen, he states that Clarence
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28

HON. G. N. HAUGEN.
GRAND REPUBLICAN RALLY!
Saturday Afternoon, at 2::3O p. m.
Grand Opera House
DEBORAH IOWA.
Addresses by
HON. G. N. HAUGEN,
Congressman from this COngression-
al District.
HON. FRANCIS A. HEALD,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
HON. CARL F.. KUEHNLE,
of Des MOines, Iowa.
Mr.. Kuehnle was formerly law
partner of Senator Cummins, is one
of Iowa's brainy men. and an excel
lent public speaker.
Come out and Hear Them. Bring
Your Friends.
ADMISSION FREE, -
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28

of the entire party.
His personal acquaintenance Is
quite extended in the county, having
eeen connected with the Winneshiek
County Short Course for two years
thereby bringing him before the
public to some extent.
Unusual circumstances have made
1t impossible for him to make a
thorough canvass of the county and
get personally acquainted with all,
but those whom he has not been for
tunate enough to meet, need have
no fear of misplaced confidence in
giving their support to Nicholson
for State Representative, at the cleo
tion next Tuesday.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28

Christen was steward at the pool
farm four and half years. Now this
is not true, and he knows it was not
true, for he took pains to hunt uu
the records of over twenty years
ago, looking for dirt to
throw. The fact is he overstates the
time in that respect just 80 per cent,
and the amount received, upon his
own basis of compensation, is also
over stated just 50 per cent. Now
taking his own statement of what
Clarence Christen received, and rec
koning on his own basis of compen-
sation he overstated the facts in re-
spect to that one item ST400.
1t must also be remembered that
Chrlsten, while steward, was requir-
ed to pay out of the moneys the
Journal states he drew, for all the
hired help at the poor farm, both
male and female and pay for all
teams and machinery required to
conduct the farm. 1t should also
be remembered that this is not an
Office at all. 1t is job, let by COM
petitive bids, and the Board of Su-
pervisors choose a steward from
among the bidders who compete for
the job.
| How does this state of facts, easily
learned by any one of average abil-
| ity square up with the editors "iron-
clad rule to state the truth as near
ly as We can learn it."
His statement, based upon ''popu-
lar report" as to fees received by
Christen in the sheriff's Office, is al
so overdrawn in about the same pro-
portion as his county poor farm esti-
mates.
Then in stating that Clarence
Christen is holding office and draw
ing county money as an appraiser of
estates for collateral inheritance
tax he willfully misstates facts, to
mislead and prejudice voters.
AS a collateral tax appraiser, ref
cree, guardian, or in any such capa-
/ icity he only receives a small fee, and
I that fee is paid out of the private
funds of the property of the estate
appraised, and not one cent is drawn
from county money.
From what we have said herein it
can be seen that the whole campaign
of the Journal is one of misrepresen2
tation of facts.
The only appeal is to prejudice,
based upon his misstated facts.
His arguments SAVIOR of the fell
llows who went fishing one day, but
caught only few fish. 1t was de-
take them all on condition
that he should tell the biggest lie in
the crowd. One of the fellows meek
ly asked to be excused from going
into the contest as he had never told
a lie in all of his life. Forthwith
little examination was made of
this mans career and it was decided
that he had earned the fish, as no.
body could beat that. .@ir
| Lloyd Christen needs no defense,
| hut tho Journal peeds Tn call q halt
upon its campaign of misrepresenta-
tion. a
VOTE FOR LLOYD OHRISTEN
FOR COUNTY TREASURER, and
elect one of the cleanest, and most
efficient officers who has presented
himself for your support in Winnie
shiek County.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28

trust and honor.
In his business dealings he has
ever been straightforward and re-
liable, enjoying the confidence of
those with whom he has been asso-
ciated, and as a trustworthy and
representative citizen of Winneshiek
county he fully deserves the supper
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28
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AS no one has come for
ward to claim my reward OF
$500, offered last week, i
now offer another reward of
$500.
Eight dollars, at FIVE cents
per mile, would pay for 100
miles of travel. l will pay
the above reward for infor-
nation as to where Sheriff
Flemming or his deputy
travelled 160 miles in serv-
ing two notices in the Matil-
da Smith estate, and why 1t
was necessary to travel 100
miles.
WILLIAM H. SMITH,
East Water St. Decorah,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28
MAKING A WINNING RUN.

II is becoming more evident as
the campaign reaches its climax that
o. o. Ellingson Republican candi-
date for Sheriff is making a winning
run. The second term argument
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28

There is one day yet for register
ing. Remember, there are now five
voting precincts in Decorah. Better
consult the registration books and
see that your name is on the list,
il inadvertently or by your careless
ness the name is left off. Next Sat
urday Ia the last chance.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28

Mr.. Smith is one of Decorah's we'll
known citizens and former resident
of Bluffton township. He is also
we'll known as contributor OF $lO.-
900 to Decorah's new hospital. He
Is a gentleman possessed of an unus-
ually keen mind, and bears the re-
spect and esteem of all who know
him, The attacks made on former
sheriffs by the democrats has inter-
.ested him and as result he has
shown up the above charges, OF the
present sheriff's office.
And when it comes to high char
Ses the above is not the only one. We
cite. for instance charge OF SIS
made by the present sheriff's office
in serving warrant on a fellow
near Ridgeway The warrant was
served Nov. II, 1913, and the fol-
lowing charges were made:
Serving warrant ....,.$ 200
Hotel ....,....... LOO
Livery $500. lO.oe
Assistance ....'..... z.Uo
Iotdi ....' :. Phc'Vo
The above charges can be seen by
any one who wish to see them in the
Inebriate Record No. 2 at the Court
House.
When 1t comes to cheap service in
the sheriff's Office, there has been a
number of burglaries i'm Decorah and
Winneshiek County during the past
two years, but the question is how
many of the offenders have been
captured or attempts made to cap
ture them. For instance the burg
larry at Otto Dahljelms ice cream
factory, about Sept. /, 1913. The
sheriff was notified Immediately af-
ter it was discovered about 700 a.
m. and agreed to be down at once
and investigate. Mr.. Dahljelm re-
manned at his place waiting for the
sheriff all morning, but he did not
show up, and as far as Mr.. Dahljelm
knows, or been able to learn, he new
er did show up. The burglars were
never apprehended. There has been
several other instances OF similar
nature, ending the same. And II
cheap service is, what is wanted isn't
this the kind that Is being had.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-28

OEE q. EIEINGSON
which Is the most prominent one
being put up for Sheriff Flemming,
loses its force when the voters re-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-05-04

Cruz under American auspices. 1t was
at this point that Sir Lionel Garden,
who had arrived from Europe on the
last regular train to enter the city,
took a hand He went to Huerta and
arranged with him to permit a train
of refugees TO depart under the Brit
ish flag. The departure of the train
was announced at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon.
The hour was set for o'clock. From
every corner of the city Americans
hurried to the station in the tarpau-
lined coaches and curtained taxis. The
platforms were filled with strolling
Mexicans, held back at last by re-
serve of soldiers AT the last hour
the word went about the American
colony that it would be unsafe to take
the train and many Americans return
ed to their homes, preferring to hide
there than 10 risk being attacked on
the train There are still hundreds Of
Americans marooned in Mexico City.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-05-04

that their ambassadors were as much
cut off from communication with the
outside world as was anyone else.
Newspaper correspondents were un-
able to get anything on to the cable
AS if to alarm them, the censor per
mitted messages from their offices,
clamoring for news, to reach the news
paper men but they were not per-
mitted to send out anything. The mes
sages which they filed were taken to
the war department in the palace
where thy were read for the informa-
tion they contained by the army Of
ficials.
Most Americans on Wednesday
staid indoors or made their way eau
tiously under the tarpaulins of coaches
and it did the extraordinary thing OF
raining again all day Wednesday,
to the embassy-where they found
O'Shaughnessy as much at sea as to
the plans of the United States for
rescuing it's citizens as they were.
Early in the afternoon O'Shaugh-
messy discovered it would be impossi-
Bile to run a refugee train to Vesa
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-05-04
THE "LINE-uP" ON TOLLS.

St Louis Republic: The weight Of
personal and professional authority
in support of the presidents position
on the canal tolls question is pro
nounced. BY eminent lawyers and
publicsts as by most of the great
newspapers OF the country. Hay
Pauncefote treaty is approved on
principle or for reasons of expediency.
To name only a few of these dis
tinguished men, there are Joseph H.
Choate. Andrew d. White. Charles w.
Eliot, Ehhu Root, Oscar S. Straus,
Henry Cabot Lodge. Henry White,
Richard Olney, Theodore l.. Burton,
George F. Edmunds. Rear Admiral
Charles H. Stockton. Col. George w.
Goethais and Prof Emery r. John
son.
Mr.. Choate as ambassador to Great
Britain assisted in the negotiation Of
the treaty. Speaking for John Hay
"hh A<Viu duhNCtolc, Dutu nON utdu
he says that there was no suggestion
at any stage OF the negotiations that
there should be exemption Of tolls for
anybody Mr.. White. who was secre-
tary of embassy at the time. corrobo.
rated him, as also does Senator Bur
ton, who had charge of the treaty when
it was introduced into the senate for
ratification.
In disagreement with the President
for various reasons we find William
H. Taft, Philander G. Knox, William
r. Hearst, Hannis Taylor, James A.
0'Gorman, John R. McLain Champ
Clark and Oscar w. Underwood.
Mr.. Taft, who has been on both
sides Of the question, would like to
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-05-04
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