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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XIII, No. 21 CITY NEWS. (18) We must have relatives or friends visit us, and we must make a visit, please mention us and ask for your good hours—in A. The Engaged Girl is a musical comedy in to be presented Wednesday evening Nov 9th at Our Circle Hall under the auspices of the Cosmopolitan Art Club Admission 25 cents, reserve seats 35 cents. The girl, composing the chorus of the musical comedy An Engaged Girl are Gortereuse Caunaday, Marguerite Fields Lille Fields, Ruth Phillips, Anna Nelson, Ceil Harris, Adahy Dale Louise Clay, Addie Wilkinson and Tabitha Mash. Mrs. Amanda Jacobs of Richmond, Mo., spent a few days of this week in our city visiting her daughter, Miss Artie Man, who is attending Drake University. She returned home Wednesday morning. When in Burlington, la. stop at Mrs. A. A. Lamb for good lodging 4211 Jefferson St. New Phone 240. 3mo. Rev. H. W. Porter, pastor of Union Congregational church, was very painfully burnt last Tuesday afternoon while stirring the fire in the furnace at his home. On opening the furnace door the blaze shot out and burnt the left side of his face severely. The doctor pronounced the burn only skin deep, yet Mr. Porter suffered much that afternoon. At present he is doing as well as could be expected. EAST LYNNE A beautiful drama bearing the above name in five acts will be presented at the Corinthian Baptist church on 15th and Linden street Tuesday evening October 30th. Solas will be rendered between acts by Geo, I Holt, S. D. Miller, Oscar Watts, H. Warricks, Wm Morton and Mrs S. Bryant. Music furnished by Miss Jennie Stanton Refreshments will be served. Admission 25 cents, everybody invited. Go to Mrs. Vina Murrell for good rooms and accommodations, 186 F. 9th street, Davenport, la. Mr. Gco. I. Holt one of our great tenor saint and musical director at the A. M. E. church choir, has been invited to be one of the singers in the large musical society under the instruction of Mr. S. Colliere Taylor of London, England who will come to America this fall to render Atonement and Hiawatha his famous composition. It will be rendered in Washington. D.C. and several other large eastern cities, this is indeed an honor for Mr. Holt, he will leave Nov. 20th for the east. St. Paul's A. M. E. church choir gave its third annual in door picnic at Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. D. M. ller on Park street, after the usual evening choir rehearsal at 9:30 all the members of the choir, together with Dr. Brooks pastor of the church gathered in the large spacious dining room where two large long tables were spread and just laden down with all of the luxurious of the season, and more especially chicken, why everybody brought chicken One of the best served supper ever given by the Union Congregational church was given last Monday evening by the official church board to a few business men. Ms. G. H. Cleggman supervised the and Mrs. Wm. Eolson headwater. The waiters were all dressed in white and made a fine apparance. Every member of the Iowa Supreme Court was present and many other business and public men with their wives. Speeches were made by all present and Rev. H. W. Porter was master of ceremonies. The regular October meeting of the officers and directors of the Negro Republican Club of Polk County will be held at the office of the secretary on 807 Mulberry street on Tuesday evening October 30th. All officers and directors of said club are urgently requested to attend this meeting, as there are several matters of importance to come before the board at this time. By order of J. C. Williams, Chairman, S. Joe Brown, Secretary. Special rates from North Dak up to the boundary line 10 points on the Minneapolis & St Louis R. R. and Iowa Central in Iowa and Illinois, on sale during November 'and good to return until April 16th. Send us your frin' addresses and we will advise them fully. D. B Ransburz, C. P. A. and W. K Adams, D. P. A. 512 Walnut street, De Moines, Iowa. Iowa State Bystander on sale at Faulkner'snews stand 3104 State street Chicago, Ill. EDITORALS. Is he a loyal Resubican who will scratch his ticket this year? Is A. B. Cummins is not the Republican party, who is? Can you afford to follow those Republicans who are trying to put the Democratic party in power. A. B. Cummins says arrange the tariff so it will not shelter trusts. Every good Republican will vote and urge his neighbor to vote the straight Republican ticket on election day. Governor Cummins favors the election of the United States senators by the popular vote of the people and not by the railroad influence. What can the colored man expect of the Democratic party as long as Tillman and Vardaman are their leaders. Secretary Shaw will speak in this state the last week of the campaign for the whole republican ticket. All of the able men who were supporting Mr. Perkins are on the stump supporting the entitle ticket. They know that the people want Mr. Cummins for governor. The grand jury in Atlanta are investigating the recent riots in that place, and have come to the conclusion that the yellow journals are responsible for the acts of the mob. The extra papers that were distributed among the crowd was filed with such utterances as would incite the mob to commit such a crime on innocent and helpless people; all for a few dollars that they could make by the sale of their papers. Will the grand jury do its sworn duty, and not only those yellow journals but the leaders of that mob/also those who urged on the mob are as guilty as the mob and the good people of Atlanta should see to it that the guilty are punished and that another such disgraceful scene shall not occur on their streets again. Thousands of people all over this country will watch the course of that grand jury and the people of Atlanta. Will they permit such men to continue their course of butchery. They can stop it if they want to. TANNER WINS PRIZE. Henry C. Tanner, son of Bishop Tanner and already renowned as an artist, won the $500.00 prize for the best painting at the 19th annual Exhibition of American paintings at Art Institute in Chicago. His subject was "Two Disciples at the Tomb." The decision of the Judges was unanimous. The dispatch says: "The picture shows the faces of Peter and John before the tomb of Saviour with a fine light across their features, which are strained with expectancy while awaiting the fulfilment of the promise that had been made them. Dr. Underwood Lecture. Rev J. D. Underwood D. D. Ph. D. pastor of the Union Baptist church Springfield, Ill. and Dean of the Theological Seminary of the McKinley University at Vincennes Ind., lectured last Tuesday the 23rd at the Grind Opera House in Ft. Madison, In., subject "The Negro in America, his Past Achievements, present, Standing and Future Outlook." Rev. Underwood it will be remembered as having preached in our city several years ago also several other Iowa cities. He married a Des Moines lady Mrs. Lydia Bell. We are glad to see his rise and wish him continued success. For the Best Men and Quick Service Call at NEW ENGLAND CAFE, 2022 State street. Home! Cooking. Chicago, III. PEOPLES SHORT ORDER and LUNCH ROOM Cooking to order in home style Good rooms furnished. First-class service guaranteed. 318 W. Third St. IOWA PHONE 1816-X POLITICAL SNAP SHOTS. Remember to register; the Board is now open. When a Negro attempts to vote a Democrat ticket let him think of Atlanta, Ga. It is reported that all so called Negro Democrats are coming home. Where is their home? Answer—The Republican party. When Negroes call themselves Democrats they ought to indorse what they do. What do they do? Why, murder, bury and mob Negro men and rape defenseless Negro women, simply because these are black or they are one of Aunt Hager's family.—St. Louis Paladium. Democratic newspapers publish column upon column of matter slandering the Afro Americans. Rally on the center; touch elbows; clutch arms; charge all along the line, and victory is ours. The Democracy has stripped the Afro-American of all his rights in the South by force and trickery. Do not be overconfident. It takes votes to win an election. See that your friends and neighbors vote the straight Republican ticket. The South would be poor today without the black toilers, yet it is in the South that the Democrats have stolen the black men's rights. "I do not think that the Negro should be permitted to participate in the government of the nation." Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi. The Democrats of the South say that the Afro-American is unfit to travel in first-class cars and they have passed laws providing special "Jim Crow" cars for his accommodations. No republican legislature has ever passed a separate car law. Atlanta, Georgia, the scene of the recent reign of blood, where innocent men and women were murdered by mobs because they were colored, is a Democratic city. Every official is a Democrat, every policeman is a Democrat. Do not forget that when you are asked to vote for a Democratic Congressman. The vice president of the United States, two members of the cabinet of President Roosevelt, the speaker of the House of representatives and several senators and governors from other states have all been in Iowa, or will be in Iowa, urging the voters to give their support to the whole Republican ticket, to vote for the candidates of the Republican party and not for the candidates of the opposition, to sustain in the only way possible the cause of true republicanism by voting to have Iowa give an old time republican majority Not before in many years has there been such general interest throughout the country in the campaign in Iowa. Everywhere Republicans are looking to Iowa to give a good account of herself. Just put down on a piece of paper a list of the available Democratic timber for United States senators from Iowa, and ponder a little while over the prospect of having one or two of them representing Iowa at Washington. A poor way for Iowa to show appreciation of President Roosevelt would be to follow the lead of those who have bitterly opposed his entire rate regulation and trust control program. DUBUQUE ITEMS Rev, and Mrs. Peru have organized their Sunday school and everything is in shape for a prosperous year. Mr. Edward martin was elected a member of the trustee board, Dr. H. C. Rose resigned owing to our work. Three church clubs has been organized. Their object being to assist in raising the pastor's salary by giving entertainments, donation parties and the duties of sewardes es. The United clubs will give an entertainer out at the home of Mrs. J. C. Lawls on Thursday the 25th music and refreshments. J. L. Thompson of Des Moines spent last Tuesday in the city, conferring with a prominent attorney of this city. Benny A. Martí spent several days in Ohio attending the series of basketball games between the White Fox and Cubs for the world's championship. A surplus party was given on Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Smith several days ago and, Mrs. Smith has just returned from the hospital felt real grateful for the show of friendship and good will and this means of thanksgiving. Miss Amy gourney of Springfield, Ohio is visiting in the city and will remain two weeks longer. Wiley Johnson of St. Louis is employed at Elwangtons torsorial parlor. MT. PLEASANT NOTES. The ladies of the Trustees Aid gave a chicken pie at the A. M. E. Church Thursday night during the evening a very excellent musical programme was given by the young people. Quiet a neat son was raised for the benefit of the trustees. Miss Ruth Grandison entertained friends Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Louisa Mason. The evening was very pleasantly spent with music and games. Miss Mason left Wednesday night for Evanation to spend the winter. Saturday afternoon October 20th occurred the death of Miss Edith Berry youngest daughter of Mrs. Sarah Berry of this city. Her death was due to consumption from which disease she has been a patient sufferer for the five months. Miss Edith was born in Mt. Pleasant 1890 and lived here until the time of her death, she possessed a very sweet and lovable worker in the Sunday School. She leaves a mother one brother and two sisters. Funeral services were conducted at the Second Baptist church Monday afternoon by Rev. Q. C. Bolling. Mr. and Mrs George Berry of Davenport and Mrs. Ollie Ames of Des Moines were here last week, called by the illness of their sister Mrs. Edith Berry. Miss Idoleu Stewart of Otumwa come down Sunday night to attend the funeral of her cousin Miss Berry, Mr. and Mrs Rice and grandson of Baltimore, Md., who have been visiting here for several weeks with their daughter in-law, Mrs Dora Rice left Monday night for Omaha where they expect to make their future home. Rev. J. C. Reid. Rev J. C. Reid, the above picture, has been honored by receiving the degree* of Doctor of Divinity last Tuesday evening at Ft. Madison, Ia. The degree was conferred on him by Dr. Underwood, Dean of the McKinley Theological Seminary in Vincennes, Ind. Many of the leading clergymen of Ft. Madison were out and sat on the rostrum in the opera house while the degree was conferred. Young Reid is a self made man, having climbed from the bottom round of the ladder of fame. He has an affable and congenial lady who is assisting him. Space at this time will not permit us to give his biography as we have recently done so—Adv. IOWA CITY NEWS. Mr. Mrs. William Patterson spent a few days of last week in Rock Island and Moline, ill, with friends and relatives. Mr. Arthur Jones of Chicago arrived last week to spend the winter with her husband who is the chef at the Burkley Imperial Hotel. Eliner Brown has returned to the city. The entertainment given at the A. M. E. church last Friday night under the supervision of the McDames Patterson and Winston was a success considering the short time they had in making preparations for it, the net price cedis was a few cents over $5.00 which was given to the pastor it the intentions of the members and friends of the church to give several entertainments during the tail and winter. Mr. Mattie Dameon expects to make a visit to Indiana in the near future. Miss Mamie Patterson is now keeping house for her father W. T. Patterson since the death of his wife. The First Foot Ball game of the season will be played here on the 27th. The university of Missouri will furnish the opposing team, but most every one here Just a Minute of Your Time In Men's Women's and Children's Footwear we not only show the best—the most stylish—but the greatest values. Ours are foot-form Shoes that fit and give satisfaction from the time you put them on till they're worn out—and they won't wear out till you've more than your money's worth. You can't duplicate our prices on good Shoes in Des Moines. Sorosis Shoes Our Shoes are made by the best shoe makers in America. Trading Stamps Bring this ad and get a pair of 60c Rubbera FREE with each pair of shoes from $2 50 up. UNION STORE THE WALKER SHOE CO. 613 Walnut St. thinks that the "Valsity" will not have much to show them in the game as they say "you must show us" we are from Missouri, and we believe our team will show them. There is a source of regret here among the students that Iwae will not play Drake at Des Moines next month as a great number had begun to make arrangements to go to the Capital City to see the game. It is very evident that the Bystanner correspondent at Minnesota has been leading our notes, and I assure her that all the students appreciate her kind words. ALBIA NEWS. Mrs. Kay and family took the remains of Mr. Kay on Monday to Charlton for burial. Madam Tolson, Grayson, Favis and Miss Tena Tolson and Nellie Grayson went to Buxton Monday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Mart Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Della Martin's baby son of a week old died and was buried Wednesday. Mr. B. T. Lewis went over to Oksaka Wednesday to attend the marriage of her son Mr. Udell Lewis to Miss Willa Matt of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Burt Allen are mourning over the loss of their baby of three months of who died Saturday afternoon. Miss Rockie Jiffers of Knoxville is visiting her Aunt Mrs. Kay this week. WASHINGTON, IOWA. NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. Huckley are nicely settled in the passage now. Quarterly meeting will be held Nov. 11, the Providing Elder will be here. We have for presiding elder this year, Rev. Phillips who we hope will be with as every quarterly meeting. He is starting out right and if he fills his appointment properly there will be no question as to the "nearest" support he will receive. Leon Mots will to Rock Island, Ill., with the High School football team last Saturday to play, the team was beaten 58 to 9. Leon plays full back. Frank Hail has gone to Moline to live for the winter with his sister Wm. Wm. tholme. Mrs. Belle Taylor of Rock Island, Ill., came down Friday to attend the funeral of Chloe Ruthing and returned home Saturday night. Mr. Wesley Moore was quite sick last week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rhodes of Wellman came down Saturday to attend the funeral of Clos Ruthing. sylvia Clon-Ra-hing daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robb. Ro-hing died Wednesday evening October 17, about 7:00 o'clock, at the home of her grand-father Samuel Mall, the cause being organic heart trouble deceased was born here April 1863, and spent all her life in this community, she never joyed good health, but was always from her earliest days been weak physically. All that could be done by loving hands was done to her suffering and save her life but was destined to an early death. She is survived by the father and mother, and two brothers Philip and James. The funeral was held Saturday afternoon conducted by the Rev. Mr. Handy of the First M. E., church of this city, the pall bearers were her school girl friends. Wesley Moore continues to improve. BURLINGTON NEWS. Frank P. Chisholm the financial agent of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute is in the city in behalf of the institute. Rev. Rolling pastor of the Union Baptist church was called to Mr. Pleasant to the bedside of Mrs. Berry's daughter who is very ill. Mrs. Oryrene Trent has returned to our city. Mrs. S. L. Tigg who has been very ill is convalescing. A L. Drew has returned from St Louis after a pessant visit; his brother Ulysses accompanied him home. Price, Five Cents. Meg. Muggle Tallion died Sunday at 9:30 p. m. Mrs. Ggo. Parker who has been seriously ill is improving. P. H. Ducan has been appointed as correspondent for the Bytander. COMMENT ON RACE RIOTS. Scotch Newspaper Grows Severe in Referring to Disorder at Georgia's Capital. Glasgow, Oct. 20.—Special Cablegram to the Bee.) The Glasgow Herald, perhaps the most influential paper in Scotland, says of the recent southern parts of the United States: The news from Georgia reads like a story of Russian barbarians. If we substitute Atlanta for Odessa and we murdered negroes for tortured Jews we can draw no distinction between the victims and the shame attaching to the misdeeds of an ignorant populace and the inflamed soldiery deepens into infamy when the actors in such outbursts of savagery are men usually described as intelligent, educated and normally humane. One can forgive a Russian bureaucrat, recalling the indignity of the victims of the Kishinev States when the tragedy of Kishinev was related, looking on this picture and on this and exclaiming, "Physician heal thyself"? Or a Cuban jealous of recent events, inviting President Roosevelt to set his own house in order before venturing to dictate the laws of the city to suppose that the ancient fued between north and south regarding the negro is accountable for gross exagregation, it is difficult to conceive of anything more reubultek of American pride in America's civilization and enlightenment than the stories told of the outbursts of the Negro who wield of罪 appear to be that they have black skins and prognathous faws. The above article was sent us by H. K. Hillon of Omaha, Nebr. It is a good article and shows America what other nations think about us. MRS. MINERVA CALLENDER. "Ye Must Be Born Again." O what a grand message to husband and neighbors— (The death of a Christian's an angelic spirit) She bade all her dear one to meet her declaring The bright land of Bulah is not afar distant, And Heaven is reached through the gate of new birth— As we enter earth-life so do we the healer: It is but a step to the Heaven of love; It is but a step: for now I behold it — I greet my dear mother and sister above. "O, yes, ye are near me, dear mother, sweet sister; And onestest the door of the bea- tiful home; It is so delightful—beyond tongue to tell it— O blessed loved ones, rejoicing I come!" The words of a sanctified soul 'mild her suffering' He words as she passed to the home of the blest— Enraptured, rejoicing, believing and knowing. ANTHONY CYCLE CO ANTHONY CYCLE CO BICYCLES Sundries Repairing Tire Vulcanizing. Go-Cart Tires, Phonograph Repairing Mutual 'Phone 7221-L. 422 EIGHTH STREET. --- CLARINDA ITEMS. A grand reception given at the Second Baptist church in honor of Rev. and Mrs. Bates. While we are not able to have them go, While it is our loss it is Colafax gala. Colafax is wonderfully blessed. We have Rev. Jarmer of Mt. Pleasant, with us today. Mr. Fred Douglas is thinking of going to Creston for employment. Mrs. Anna Turner is going to Kansas City for a short visit with relatives. A festival will be given at the Second Baptist church October 27, for the remodeling of the paragonage. Percy - Sonneer is expected home from Stouw, City soon. Mrs. Geraude Carson and Mrs. A. Burlington, Omaha and Sloux City. The A. M. E. church is cementing their basement. It will be ready for the furnace shortly. Mrs. T. R. Jones, Mrs. S. Black and Mrs. King were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gertrude Carson, also Mr. and Mrs. Blythe reported a jolly good time. The church returned from anssas City, Mo. on a visit. Mrs. J. Jones expects to be in Chicago soon. Mrs. E. B. Cook is reported as better Mrs. Frank Nolin's mother was called home on account of the sickness of her daughter. Myrtle Taylor is in Omaha visiting. $29,00 To Portland And Seattle. $29,00 To Portland And Seattle. Daily to October 31st, the Minneapolis and St. Louis R. R. will sell cheap one-way tickets to points to Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and California. For further information apply to W. K. Adams, District Passenger Agent, or D. B. Ranburg, City Passenger Agent, 313 Walnut street Des Moines, Ia. DAVENPORT ITEMS Since our last writing Noah Richardson, one of our old and highly respected citizens passed away. He left to mourn his loss, a wiener and a host of friends. Mr. Richardson is very sick at St. Luke's hospital. Rev. D. A. Holmes, pastor of the Third Baptist church is reported quite sick from an operation for a tumor in his ear. We hope for his speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Cass Lambert of South Rock Island, IL., spent Sunday in the city. Englusted Sarah Wright visited over Sunday with her son, Fred and wife and affly filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. church Sunday night. The Elizabeth Lindsey Davis club celebrated its first anniversary Oct. 16 at the Odd Fellow's halls. The invitation issued and it was a success from every point of view. Miss Julia Hill is at home after a two months visit with friends in Chicago. Rumors say, wedding bells will ring soon, listen. Invitations are out for the thirteenth anniversary of the Autumn Leaf Church. Mrs. H. M. Hughes is on the sick list, threatened with apenodicitis. The men of the A. M. B. church have planned a dinner for Thanksgiving. They will do the cooking, waiting, dishwashing and everything connected with the dinner and let the men rest. "Let the men do the work." The ladies' club known as the W. L. W., are preparing to give a musical in the near future, Mrs. Ellen Moorhead is arrived home after her sisters in Indianapolis, Ind., for three weeks. Costs Little to Be Sick In Clapton, a poor quarter of London, fees of twosepent (4 cents) are said to be not unknown. One newspaper remarks: "Of the twosepent fee it might be said that it brings sickness within the reach of all. In Clapton, at any rate, there is no excuse or justification for anyone being More Courtship After Marriage. Some men seem to consider their marriage certificate as a sort of fully paid-up policy of happiness. They act as if the courtship days were those of paying premiums of compliment, cheerfulness, courtney, consideration and chivalry, and that marriage cuts off all these premiums of lower-like attention. The only way to get an absolutely guaranteed insurance on matrimony is to keep paying the premiums. Many first-class matrimonial policies lapse just because of these suspended payments. There is a tendency to assume that this love is known and recognised, so why speak of it? This is a dangerous taking for granted of what should be made real, pulsing and vital in thought, word and deed. There is little danger of overtelling this story; it is often the wine of life and inspiration to one hungering and thirsting for the little tenderness of affection. There are more people on this gret, t, big, rolling earth hunger for sweetness, tenderness, and words of appreciation, genial confidence and generous affection than are starving for bread. With husband and wife these delicate messengers of affection cost so little—sometimes only a thought but it is the thought that is all. Continued courtship after marriage, says the Dellinctor, preserves the lower in the husband and the sweetheart in the wife. But courtship is not solitairy; like a quarrel, it requires two to make it a success. It is not the wife alone who needs the gracious sweetness of concentrated comradeship, for husbands who are built on the right lines have the same hunger for loving kindness and kindly loving. Courtship is a vessel of promise that is often wrecked on the shoals of matrimony. Courtship means two mates without a captain; marriage sometimes becomes two captains without a mate. The Vice of Haste. Every virtue lies between two vices. Such is the location of the virtue of leisure. Especially in this hurrying age and country, haste becomes a habit and then a disease. If one rushes to the next mall with a letter whose reception, whether this week or next, is no matter at all; if he vaguely feels that not to have to hurry for his car is to begin the day but slackly, evidently he is in the grip of a disease. The spendthrift of his time is no worse than the miser of it, who must need have every moment at usury, remarks Arthur Colton, in Reader. If procrastination is a thief who steals from to-morrow for the benefit of to-day, he has his counter who steals from to-day for the benefit of to-morrow. Thievery is thievery, and Poor Richard, with his "Have you somewhat to do to-morrow, do it to-day," was a most immoral counselor. This encroaching future must be kept in its place, and justice and courtesy done to the hour which is our guest Scientific men have at last discovered how to catch the octopus. All you have to do is to "put salt on his tail". A very fine specimen of the octopus, or, as it is more commonly called, the devil fish," has been added to the New York aquarium. As a general thing it has been found impossible to take this creature alive and in health, because as soon as any object touches one of its tentacles, or "feelers", it fastens to the rocks to tenaciously with the other tentacles that some of the limbs may be, and generally are, torn off. Fishermen lately discovered, however, that salt sprinkled upon the gills of the creature acts as an anesthetic, and renders it temporarily powerless. The specimen in the New York aquarium is said to have been captured in this way. Mme Patti, whose approaching retirement is announced, has astonished the world almost as much by her wonderful vitality as by her vocal powers. "I will be young as long as I live," she is said to have declared as a child, and she has fulfilled the promise. Perhaps it is because of her unconquerable optimism. "If there is the tiniest speck of blue in the sky," she says, "and there nearly always is, I look for it, and that makes the whole heaven blue for me." Moreover, she knows the virtues of the open air. "I spend three hours daily in the open air, walking or driving in an open carriage; and I accustom myself to bear the extremes of summer and winter." Chicago food inspectors have discovered a "food hospital," the business of which has been the reckoning or "treatment" of food bought very cheap because the swelling of the cans which contained it showed that it was spilled. The "patients" at this hospital—some thousands of swelled cans—were promptly placed on the dangerous list. The old-fashioned, bloody kind of football is to be played at Yale this year. Yale may be cunningly scheming to have a big enrollment. When the German emperor appointed a Jewish banker as director of the colonial office the other day, much surprise was expressed in Berlin that a business man and a Jew had been called to so high an office. Such an appointment would have canned surprise neither in the United States nor in England. Now that the football season is opening the West Point cadets have no excuse to mourn because the team of hating it has been taken away from them. 1. FAVORS GRAIN AGENT ROAD PERMITS HIM TO AID IN MAKING RATES. Buys Wheat in Large Quantities When Freight is Reduced and Sells Corn on Information That Export Tariff is to Be Cut. Kansas City, Mo—Evidence of favortism shown to the manager of the Kansas City elevators of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway in the matter of granting reduced grain rates to shipers; the existence of a rule in the Kansas City board of trade threatening its members with suspension if they dealt with irregular grain men, so-called, a combine of members of that organization to fix prices, and threats by grain dealers' associations to boycott board of trade members who might buy from farmers and others against whom the assessee had ordered orders were of the things brought out here Tuesday at the grain hearing begun Monday by the interstate commerce commission. A score of grain dealers, elevator men and railway officials were examined. Commissioners Lane and Clarke will continue the hearing in Omaha. E. W. Shields, elevator agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, and active manager of the Simonds-Shields Grain company, of Kansas City, who was instructed by the commissioners Monday to return here from St. Louis proved an important witness. Mr. Shields said he was in Chicago last fall when he was called upon to advise about a special export rate on corn. He helped make a rate, effective several days later, then came home and bought corn right and left. He shipped 3,500,000 bushels of corn under the special rate. He had bought more than a million bushels before other dealers learned that the reduced rate would be made. Again this summer, he said, he happened to be waiting around the office of the vice president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway on the railways agreed on a cut of 2½ cents a hundred pounds on wheat. He went out and sold several hundred thousand bushels for delivery under the rate. BANK ROBBERS ARE CAUGHT Sheriff's Posse Arrests Bandits Who Looted North Dakota Bank. Minot, N. D. —After a chase lasting 36 hours, the hires's posse succeeded Tuesday evening in capturing the five bandits who robbed the Sawyer, N. D., bank early Monday morning when a battle ensued with citizens during which 300 shots were fired, the robbers getting away with $4,600. The men were discovered on a farm near here. Escape was attempted and in a fight which followed one robber was severely wounded in the leg. Another member of the party ran into a slough with $900 in gold and bills and dropped the money into the water. Money was also scattered on the platter by the bandits. Chief of Police Hagen secured $3,000 of the money. Four of the captured men are young and well-dressed, none being over 25 years old. The leader is a hardened looking criminal, somewhat older. The money was being carried in bags and was composed of gold and bills, all the heavy silver having been thrown away. WISCONSIN TAXES REMITTED State Treasury, Full to Overflowing, Does Not Need Cash. Madison, Wis. — All the state taxes, with the exception of the school tax, which was reduced to half of one mill, were remitted Monday by the state board of assessors. There already is so much money in the state treasury that none of the officials are needed to work with it. With prospect of more than $2,500,000 coming in from this year's taxes, State Treasurer Kemp threw up his hands in despair and said there was no way to spend it. Accordingly, Gov. David, Secretary of State Houser and Mr. Kemp met and decided to remit the taxes. Anna, Ill.—Residents of this town and of a wide surrounding stretch of country are in a state of keen alarm and anxiety over a severe earthquake shock which was felt throughout this region. The disturbance, which lasted nearly a minute and occurred Monday night, rocked all the houses in Anna, throwing dishes, clocks and ornaments from shelves and creating a panic among the residents. Indiana Bank Robbed. Goshen, Ind.—Six masked men blew open the safe of the Shiphewana bank early Wednesday, after tying and gagging three men in a livery stable next to the bank. A small amount of money was secured. Arrest Man and Wife for Murder. Fort Smith, Ark.—D. M. Twemley and wife, houseboat occupants, were arrested here charged with being implicated in the killing of the man found tied in a cotton sack at Pawpaw, I. T., recently. Five Robbers Blow Safe. Murphyborson, ill.—Five robbers blew open the safe of the Bank of Vergennes, ill., early Monday, secured $100 in cash, shot and mortally wounded Abraham Kimmel, a merchant, and escaped. Hold Court on Train. Mapleton, in—Court was held on a Northwestern Mapleton Mapleton Mon- terey Claude Flush Claude assaulting Miss Minnie Baker, was bound over in $2,000 bonds and taken to fall at Omaha. IGNITION OF GAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE FIRED BLAST. Accident in the Rolling Mill Mine of the Cambria Steel Company at Johnstown, Pa. Johnstown, Pa.-By an explosion in the mine of the Cambria Steel company on Wednesday seven men are reported to be dead and two painfully but not fatally burned. The explosion is thought to have been caused by the ignition of gas in setting off a blast. Most of the victims are foreigners. The explosion occurred in a heading three miles from the mouth of the mine shaft. Eighteen men are reported imprisoned in the heading, but no mention is made of this in an official statement given to the press by the manager of the Cambria Steel company. The statement says: "By an explosion in the Rolling Mill mine of the Cambria Steel company Wednesday evening seven men are dead and two are painfully but not fatally injured. Up to the present only one of the dead has been identified. He is an American born miner named Sampson Luther. It is believed the other dead are all foreigners, the third are American. The fourth of the latter consist of burns on the face, back, and arms, lacerated wounds of the scalp and other parts of the body. "The explosion took place in heading No. 29, a considerable distance from the ill-fated Klondike section, where 114 men lost their lives over four years ago. The exact cause is not known, but it is supposed that the gas was fired by the putting off of a firearm by the men, then fired had their safety lamps in proper trim, showing that the accident could not have been caused by neglect in that direction. No damage whatever was done to the workings, and the mine will run as usual. CUBAN INSANE ARE MISTREATED Nearly 1,700 Persons Crowded Intro Buildings Intended for 400. Havana. — Gov. Magoon visited the national insane asylum Sunday afternoon and discovered a deplorable state of affairs there. One thousand six hundred and sixty persons of both sexes are crowded into filthy and dilapidated buildings with a capacity for 400 persons only. They are sleeping on broken cota relies of the last American occupation. Congress made an appropriation to enlarge the asylum, but the money has never expended. The conditions to-day are very little better than under Spanish control. Gov. Magoon will take steps to erect additional buildings and remedy the abuses. CABINET CHANGES PUBLISHED Metcalf and Straus to Be Added to President's Advisors. Washington—The following statement regarding prospective changes in President Roosevelt's cabinet was made public at the White House Tuesday night: On the retirement of Secretary Shaw and Attorney General Moody from the cabinet the following changes will be made: Secretary of the treasury—Hon. George B. Cortelyon. Postmaster general—Hon. George Von L. Meyer. Attorney general—Hon. Charles J. Bonacarte. Secretary of the navy—Hon. Victor H. Metcalf. Secretary of commerce and labor—Hon. Oscar S. Straus. KILLS FATHER AND WOUNDS SON Quarrel Over Farm Rent Leads to Fatal Shooting of Two. Paris, Mo.—Benjamin Sager, a farmer, was shot dead and his son Claude, aged 21, fatally wounded Wednesday by John Sebastian, an aged farmer. The Sagers had rented a field from Sebastian, and were to pay Sebastian for rent half the crop of corn grown thereon. They quarreled over division of the crop and Sager and his two sons at tacked Sebastian with corn knives and shot two of his assailants, platoon and shot two of his assailants. Burton In Prison Cell. Burton in Prison Cell. Ironton, Mo.—Former United States Senator J. R. Burton, of Kansas, arrived from St. Louis Monday night, shortly after he gave his wife and infant dining with his wife and niece, our assigned himself to the jail and was assigned to a cell in the Ironton jail. Mrs. Burton accompanied her husband to the sheriff's office and then went to the cottage she rented, where she will remain until her husband served his six months' sentence imposed by the federal court in St. Louis. Canadian Engineer Dead Lansing, Mich.-William T. Jennings, aged 61, consulting engineer of the city of Toronto, died at the residence of Manager J. R. Elliott, of the Michigan United Railways, in Lansing, Wednesday. Iowa Mayor Dies. Cedar Rapids, IA. Amos H. Connor, mayor of Cedar Rapids, and one of the most prominent contractors in the middle west, died suddenly Wednesday of heart failure. He was 63 years old. To Unveil Status in May. Washington.-The McChellan statue commission, composed of Secretary Taft, Senator Wetmore and Gen. Horatio C. King, have fixed the time for the unveiling of the statue in Washington in May next. Little Boy Kills His Mother. New York-John Joseph Sacco, seven years old, son of Man and Mrs. Glovant and of Catham, N. J., shot almost instantly killed his mother. The child was playing with a target rifle. [By McCutcheon, in Chicago Daily Tribune.] URGES UNION OF FARMERS URGES UNION OF FARMERS ORGANIZATION PUT FORWARD AB PROPER PLAN. When Prices of Products Go Up They Tend to Make Agriculturists Stick Together. East. St. Louis, Ill. — The feature of the day's session of the first annual convention of the American Society of Equity, which is composed of farmers, was the address of M. F. Sharp, of Narrows, Ky. He strongly urged the farmers to perfect an organization. "The trusts and combines, which are the agencies of the internal regions, call us lays, have moss backs, and say that even if we do organize we won't stick," he said. "I tell you that when organization raises the price of products it is the best sticking plaster in' the world. I know the farmers will stick. Equity means a fair deal. All manufacturing industries fix the price of their products and know what price they are going to get from the market because of the nation and the world's greatest producer, has been going on the theory that he will take whatever he can get for his products. Equity intends that the farmer shall take his place with the world's producers and fix a profitable price for his products. That can only be done by a plan of marketing products to control and regulate the market process." Wednesday's session was devoted principally to addresses along the line of forming an agriculturists' organization to fix and maintain prices on farm products. FRATERNALS MUST PAY TAXES Illinois Supreme Court Holds Legislature Has No Power of Exemption. Springfield, Ill. — The supreme court Wednesday rendered an opinion in the case of the supreme judge of the American Protector order against the board of review of Effingham county. The supreme lodge scheduled office furniture and supplies for 'taxation amounting to $6,000. The board of review added $20,000, the amount of mortuary expense fund on hand. The lodge appealed from the action of the court to the court of appeal, and exempt under the provisions of the act of 1905. The court holds that the legislature had no power of exemption. Cranberry Trust: Prices Up. Appleton. Wits—Appleton grocers believe they have discovered a new combine. Price lists were received from three different cranberry jobbers, all quoting precisely the same figure and all demanding from 8 to 10 cents more per quart than was asked a year ago. Cranberries, it is said, will reach as high as 18 cents. Joins Joliet Bank Colony. Joliet, III—Howard S. Barker, president of a bank at Frankfort, III, which recently failed, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two indictments for embezzlement and was given concurrent sentences of one to 15 years. Barker will begin his term at once. Mother and Children Brown. Santa Fe, N. M.—Mrs. Guadalupe Vigily Bares, wife of a rancher at Round Mountain, and her two children were drowned in the Rio Grande near Santa Fe during Monday's bliss. They were fording the river. Gas Explosion Kills Two. St. Paul, Minn.—George C. Harding, white, and Fred Aldrich, colored, were killed in a tunnel leading from the St. Paul Gas Light company's plant, at Fourth and John streets, Wednesday, by an explosion of gas. Pillage Shopa; Beat Jews. Tangier, Morocco—The representative of the sultan has not sent any troops to Aralilla, which is still in possession of the Bendaros tribesmen, who are terrorizing the town, pillaging the shops and beating the Jews. Jap Resigns from Annapolis. Annapolis, Md.—At the request of the Japanese embassy at Washington, Midahiman Asahi Kitigak, of the third class at the naval academy, has submitted his resignation, which will be accepted, it is understood. Houseboat Goes to Pieces Under Pounding of the Waves. Key West, Fla.—Survivors from one of the boatboats of the Florida Coast railway extension along the keys tell a harrowing tale of death and destruction caused by the storm of Thursday. W. P. Duseberry, civil engineer I, charge of the work on Long Key, who miraculously escaped death, arrived here on the Russian steamer Jennie, among other survivors rescued. He says houseboat No. 4, on which were 150 men, was struck by the storm at five o'clock. Thundering morning, he was driven out into the rough Sawks channel. At six o'clock the houseboat began to break up, and as the great waves hit her, men, singly and in bunches of two and three, were washed into the sea and drowned. Some went below for protection, but when the top of the boat was carried away the waves rushed in and the boat soon went to pieces, 30 or 40 of the men being crushed to death in the collapse, the others grabbing timbers to save them: from drowning of timber 16 men were clinging, and nine were hanging to another. The sides of the houseboat was crowded with men. It turned over three times, each time reducing the number. FINDS FLAW IN NATIONAL LAW Judge Evans Decides Labor Clause in the Erdman Act is Void. Louisville, Ky.-In the United States district court Tuesday Judge Walter Evans, in the case of the United States vs. J. M. Scott, a train dispatcher for the Louisville & Nashville railroad, on trial for alleged violation of the Erdman act, which seeks to prevent interstate carriers from keeping their employees out of labor unions, held that section 10 of the act is void, because it does not mention the meaning of commerce within the meaning of the commerce clause of the constitution, and therefore beyond the power of congress to enact. The court sustained the demurrier to the indictment against Scott and discharged him from custody. Wickes Will is Uphield. Chicago. — The sensational contest of the will of Thomas H. Wickes, late Pullman, car magnate, ended in Judge Honore's court Tuesday when the will was sustained by verdict of a jury which declared Wickes sane when he cut off his own children and a grandchild and left the bulk of his estate to a nephew, Hugh P. Walden. A sealed verdict, which was reached after six hours' deliberation, was read before a crowd that jammed the courtroom. The jury took only four ballots in reaching its verdict. President Now a G. A. R. Man. Washington.—President Roosevelt was Wednesday mustered in as an honorary member of the Associate Society of Farnsworth post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Mount Veron, N. Y. The ceremony took place in the cabinet room of the executive offices, and was conducted by Gen. Horace Porter. The president made a few remarks of a patriotic character. Joins Joliet Bank Colony. Joliet, Ill.-Howard S. Barker, president of a bank at Frankfort, Ill., which recently failed, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two indictments for em besslement and was given concurrent sentences of one to 15 years. Judge and Jury Disagree. Carmi, Ill.-John Ritch, indicted on a charge of shooting William Newman, because the latter accused his wife on the street, was fused $25 by a jury in the circuit court. Judge Pearce commended the deed. Three Killed by Train. Cedar Rapids, Ia.-A fast Northwestern train struck a carriage near Lowden containing Mrs. Charles Luett and two children and Mrs. Luett's brother-in-law, William Luett. All were killed except a baby girl. Female Centenarian. Dead. New York—Mrs. Johanna B. Dempsey died at her home in Bayonne, in her one hundredth year. She was the first woman to die and one of the oldest in Hudson county. Her death followed an accident DEALERS DEPLORE GRAIN COMBINE Claim that Iowa Association Shuts Out Independents BY ALLEGED TRUST METHODS Charged with Compelling Firms to Boycott Them—F. M. Terry, of Little Sioux, Declares that Farmers and Shoyelers Are the Victims. Omaha, Neb., Oct. 26.—The hearing an grain trading conditions before Interstate Commerce Commissioners Clark and Lane was resumed yesterday. E Peck, an Omaha grain dealer, told of the methods of arranging prices a year or two ago during the life of the Nebraska Grain Dealer's association, but said that no agreement of that kind now exists. He says he regarded "abovel houses" as unfair competition, and used all means to drive them out of the Central Grain Company, Lincoln, Neb., said his company operated elevators on the Burlington line. They received from that road an allowance of 1.1-2c a hundred pounds to cover elevation charges until last summer. He noted no of "abovel houses," in his territory. F. M. Terry, a general merchant of Little Sioux, Iowa, who operates a shovel house," said he was formerly discriminated against by the Northwestern University he has no reason for complaint. The Missouri Valley mills at Missouri Valley, Iowa, he said refuse to buy his grain, giving as a reason that the Updike grain company, the Updike grain it did, and would bld up the price so that they could not buy from farmer. Millers at Marshalltown, Iowa, also refused to buy his grain, he said, because he had no欲. He said he would bld up the Iowa Grain Dealers association. Mr. Terry said he received a letter from President Wells of the Iowa Grain Dealers' association, some time ago, from which he earned a paycheck for耕 for grain and provides for pooling by its members. D. J. Gates of Albion, Neb., an employee of the Albion Elevator company, a farmer's organization, said that his company in the three years it had been operating, had caused an increase of 10 percent in business and still does business at a profit. The penalty clause has been abolished from the company's bylaws. At first he had much trouble in selling grain. Letters were from grain letters in Denver, Colo., Colorado and points to show that the Nebraska Grain Dealers' association then in existence tried to prevent their buying from his company. Letters were also introduced to show that the Nebraska Lumber Dealers' association objected to his company mandate. He was also introduced to the Pacific Coal company refusing to quote wholesale prices on coal. Latterly, he had had no trouble in the grain business. His company ships by the Union Pacific company. At first it was refused an elevator site and was made by a Union company blackmailing, business-destroying concerns. E. E. Huntley, now a grain dealer of Omaha, but formerly of Salix, Ia., has been a dealer there, the dealers in Salix had a price agreement and a grain pool, each dealer paying one cent a bushel into the pool for all grain bought over his S. M. McMurray, a "scoop shoveler" at Wood River and Shelton, Neb., said was formerly manager of the Omaha Elevator company's elevator at Wood River. The company also owns the three there under the name of the Conrad Grain company. The two elevators were supposed to be competitors. He had trouble with the manager of the other elevator and resigned and startled. The elevator wheat was raised 5 cents and of oats 2 cents a bushel at once. He had been unable to get a site for an elevator from the Union Pacific company, the officials giving a reason that the elevator had "nuts" their hands." Mr. McMurray said that withstanding the antipathy against "scoop shovellers," it was a fact that most of the big elevators began that way. When the commission adduced a large number of witnesses from various parts of the state were present to testify. The commissioners will begin a hearing at Des Moines, Ia., today. Washington, D. C., Oct. 26. -Visi-count Aoki, the Japanese ambassador, in an interview with Secretary Root at the state department yesterday made the request, in behalf of his government, that the United States see that the Japanese subjects in California were granted their full rights under the treaty of 1894, including the right of children to receive public schools of the San Francisco. Secretary Root will take the matter up with the president and it is likely that representations will be made to the authorities of California. The ambassador said that the exclusion of Japanese children from the California schools was the chief cause for the creation of the United States. He was inclined to discount the other causes given for the sentiment against this country. "The friendship between the United States and Japan is too genuine and of too long standing to justify any formal protest on the part of Japan because of wrongs her citizenship in the United States" said Viscount Aoki. "There is much misunderstanding in Japan concerning the true situation. Of course the Japanese government fully realizes that the action against the Japanese children is local and not general in this country, but all the Japanese do country and a local unfriendiness to Japan is regarded by many persons as a national action." 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The trainer merely raises his shoulders and the young bull strides toward the telephone box, turn the crank, ringing the bell, pick up the receiver in his long trunk and hold it to his great, flap ear. Then he hangs it up with the sudden of disgust, ringing the bell, second of disgust, holding the receiver to his car, while he listens with the sage, bland expression which only an elephant can assume. When finished, he hangs up the receiver and "rings off." For something like two minutes this performance lasts. Yet it required a month of steady, hard work to break the elephant into this simple, ludicrous trick. More than 1,000 times, actual count, Barlow had grasp Tom's trunk, apply to the bell cran and the circus bell, tighten the bell, by leading the trunk just as you might lead the hand of a young child when teaching it to wind a music box. More than 1,000 times the trainer had to lead the tip of the big receiver of the telephone to teach the beast to hold it in his ear and hang it accurately on its hook. And when these details were mastered, it took more than 500 trials to teach the succession of winding the cran and listening before the crank and knew enough to twist the crank without breaking it into halves at every contact—Apelon's Magazine. A FOOD CONVERT. The pernicious habit some persons still have of relying on nauseous dause to relieve dyspepsia, keeping the stomach empty and having been up the army of dyspeptics. Indication — dyspepsia — is caused by what is put into the stomach is the way of improper food, the kind that so takes the strength of the digestive organs they are actually crippled. When this state is reached, to resist to stimulants is like whipping a tree horse with a big load. Every additional effort he makes under the load increases his loss of power to move the load. 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It removes the cause of headache and keeps it away. Sold by all dealers at 25c, and 50c. Makes Celluloid Fireproof. M. Gavain, a French chemist, has patented a process for rendering celluloid proof against fire. This result is obtained by adding to a celluloid mass in course of preparation, when at the highest point of liquidity, a certain quantity of salts—phosphates, bicarbonate of ammonia, or magnesium. Celluloid thus prepared, when touched by fire or flame, gives forth a gas that checks combustion. Russia To-day. The Margules de Custine once defined the Russian government as "an absolute monarchy tempered by assassination." The present situation is described by Constantin Wallszewski as "an anarchy, tempered by a state of siege." A Wonderful Discovery It has been the aim of scientists for years to find some liquid preparation which would possess anodyne, astringent and antiseptic properties and yet be of such a consistency that it would penetrate, first, through the skin, then through the muscles and finally to the very bones, exerting on its way down, healing and pain destroying properties. Max R. Zaegel, a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, established at Sheboygan, Wis., as a chemist for the last 23 years, has discovered this long sought secret. It consists of a mixture of vegetable and mineral oils forming an amber colored liquid of pleasant odor and taste, which, when used as directed, restores vitality and strength and gives prompt relief to all pain. FREE SAMPLE Applied to cuts sores, burns and brushes it heals, as owing to its antiseptic properties, no pus or matter can form in any wound where this wonderful oil is used. If you have rheumatism, piles, pain in sk or catarrh, write Mr. Zeegal and he will be pleased to mail you a sample bottle free. Address your letter to M. R. Zeegel Co., 180 Main St, Shebayyan, Wis. It is free now, so do not fall to write o-day, stating the nature of your com- IOWA STATE NEWS Events of Recent Occurrence Throughout the Commonwealth. Files Petition In Suit for $450,000 Against Rock Island. Against Rock Island. Des Molines—Claiming they were forced to compete with rivals who paid no freight at all in Iowa, the Agar Packing company have filed their senatorial suit against the Rock Island railroad, claiming $450,000 damages. In the petition it is claimed that from May, 1901, to July 7, 1906, the Agars bought 7,736 cars of hogs in Iowa on the Rock Island Hne for which they paid $116,943 freight to Des Moines. During the same period it is alleged that Frank Donson, Compton & McKee and J. S. Compton were hog buyers who bought stock in competition to them and shipped it to Valley Junction. It is then allied that these men have secured agreement with the Rock Island company by which they shipped hogs to the Rock Island Valley Junction without paying one cent freight, the condition being that they should re-ship the hogs over the Rock Island lines to Chicago and Boston, etc. This secret agreement, by which the Agars claim they were compelled to sell their hogs, paid no freight competitors securing a rebate of the entire rate, damaged a rubble in the sum of $450,489. It is further claimed that Compton acted as agent for John P. Bquires & Co., which, it is alleged, is a subsidiary company of Swift & Co., of which, and the hogs brought by Compton, are to Boston over the Rock Island lines. The suit is brought under sections 2124 and 2125 of the Iowa code. GET BANDITS AFTER CHASE. Trio of Highway Robbers Caught Near Iowa City Iowa City—After an exciting chase lasting until nearly noon on the 24th, during which many shots were fired, a trio of highway robbers was captured and brought here, where they are lodged in jail. The three men blew open the safe in the general store of Fred Hirt at Hill's Sliding at 2 o'clock in the morning, then not much plumdum was secured. They probably arrived at Hill's Sliding about midnight, entered the store, knocked off the knob of the safe, and wrecked it with dynamite. Fred Hirt, owner of the store, having been out to a wedding during the evening was returning home about 2 o'clock and driving up to the score saw three men, who immediately come around to the court and are surrounded the town. The Iowa City police notified Sheriff Rowland, who in company with his son, Harry, set out for the scene. The rain of the early night had made it possible to see any new tracks and so a sharp lookout was kept for anything of this kind. Upon need the school board took tracks were noticed across the road and the men discovered in the house. They attempted to escape and a fusillade of shots were exchanged. One man got away, but the two others were captured and brought to this city. two posses were organized in the two early morning was finally captured about 0:00 o'clock. WAS SHORT IN ACCOUNTS. Bookkeeper of Iowa Drug Company Killa Himself. Des Moines.-Short in his accounts, disgraced before the eyes of his business associates, penniless and hopeless. Thomas D. Connell, the discharged bookkeeper and credit man of the Iowa Drug company, shot himself in the head with a 8-calibre revolved. Death resulted in a few hours, Connell, in an unconscious state, was found on the road along the side of the Des Moines river, between the Sixth ave- line and Highland Park bridges. Blood and brains were oozing from an ugly hole in his head, and in his right hand was clutched the revolver from which the shot was fired. Connell was discharged about a month ago when the management of the Iowa Drug company, a finger doubled that of mysterious theft which extended over a period of two years. He had covered the crimes, members of his firm state, with astounding cleverness. Suspicion turned in his direction, but there was never evidence. But the truth come out finally, and the reasons for the man's dismissal and his subsequent suicide were explained in full when George E. King, treasurer of the company stated after the tragedy came to light. The discharged because he was $1,000 short in his accounts." Further than this Mr. King said he cared to make no statement. GIRL WILL SUE FOR $20,000. Dubuque—Announcement is made that Miss Mayelle Arnold of Hanover, Ill., will teach schools at Elizabeth, Ill., will file papers he in a suit for $20,000 for alleged breach of promises against Dr. George Arnold of Staples this city, Ill., on August 2. married Miss Wadley. Miss Arnold miss that from October, 1905, to last May. Dr. Staples was a most ardent woeer. Miss Arnold came to Dubuque to see Dr. Staples on the day of his marriage and read of the event in the local papers. Flight Wreck On the Wabash. Treacy.—A north bound extra freight jumped the track on Bussey hill, a mile and a half from this place. The engine and several cars were derailed and the track torn out for some distance. No one was hurt. Traffic along the line was badly delayed. POLICE BURGAR. Iowa. City.—Michael Gannon was caught in the very act of robbing the home of former City Treasurer Dearle Maber. Police found inside the house. The police say the man is Davenport crook with a military record. HOT BATTLE WITH CONVIOTS Couple Surrounded Near Gravity And Captured. Bedford.—Fighting desperately in an effort to escape, two supposed convicts from the southern Illinois penitentiary at Menard, held at bay for two hours a police officer, who enforced them in a corral two miles northeast of Gravity. They were only captured after their ammunition had become exhausted, and even then a savage hand-to-hand conflict ensued before they were subdued. Deputy Sheriff George Irwin and Walter Mulford were shot in the leg and wounded effectively, but both wounds are slight. So intense was the feeling against the pair that when they were brought to Gravity talk of lynching was freely heard and the prisoners were hurried way and bought here by the mayor Costen of Gravity saw the men pass his place and having received a description or two escaped convicts from the Illinois prison which tallied with the men, informed Deputy Sheriff Irwin. With Mulford and some seated in the room and started after the men, who had taken the K. & W. tracks out of town. When a mite out they overtook the couple, who without warning opened fire, wounding both Irwin and Mulford. They then cut through the woods and escaped. In the meanwhile the sheriff had been notified and with a pose of 100 men started for the scene. The convicts were seen going through a cornfield and this was immediately surrounded and the battle was one man was exchanged, but no one was injured. After the men were captured they were marched into Gravity at the head of the pose. It is believed they may be implicated in the Cambria bank robber a few days ago, as nearshore in silver, was found on their clothes. TWO DIE IN WRECK. Engine on Great Western Leaves Ralla Near Marshalltown. Marshalltown. — Two engineers were killed in a wreck on the Chicago Great Western of train No. 5, south bound, three miles west of Melbourne. The dead: ENGINEER HILL, Des Moines, killed on his engine. FIREMAN MITCHELL, Oelwein, scaled; died in hospital here. The wreck was due to either a broken flange or a broken rail, causing reports that the locomotive went through a bridge which workmen had been repairing proved unfounded. None of the passengers were hurt. Later developments show that the pilot dropped and derailed the engine while the train was running fast in an attempt to make lost time. Engineer Hill was sent to Des Moines. The baggage car was thrown across the track, but the coaches remained upright. A*special train with Superintendent Nichols on board was following the wrecked train and reached the city just as it was, the accident Surgeons were menaced and the special proceeded to the scene. The passengers on No. 4 were transferred and taken north on the special while the passenger. on No. 4 were taken south on No. 4 running as No. 5. Engineer Hill of Des Moines was the locomotive driver but one in the service of the Great Western and was one of the most popular and trusted employees on the road. BRISTOW HAS A FIRE. People Believe That a Fire Flend Is Back of It. Allison.—A big fire took place at Bristow on the 22d. It is not known how it started. The losses will reach $15,000 to $20,000. The losses are: Boyland & Mosher, general stock $4,000 W. E. Boony, building.....1,500 C. T. Coonley.....1,500 E. J. Moon, building.....700 H. F. Bowers, building.....1,000 Miss Florence Shaw, millinery stock ..... 500 Cornbelt building ..... 1,000 Cornbelt Telephone Co. office ..... 1,000 furniture and fixtures ..... 500 G. W. Appleby, household goods 500 Mary E. Craig, building..... 1,000 Wm. Hamilton, stock ..... 500 B. W. Sniffon, butcher stock..... 500 J. V. Gregory, building..... 400 Citizens' bank, plate glass window 200 A fire destroyed the opera house and two other houses October 17 and it is believed that both fires are the work of some fire fend. MRS. BROWN PRESIDENT. Das Moines Lady Chosen Head of Iowa Mothers Congress. Des Moines.—At the closing session of the Iowa Congress or Mothers Mrs. Walter Brown of Des Moines was chosen state president to succeed Mrs. I. L. Hilla who has for so many years held the office for her. Mrs. Walter Brown by every member of the congress and so hearty was the sentiment in her favor that no other names were suggested. Mrs. I. L. Hilla was by unanimous vote chosen honorary president. Other officers elected were as follows: Mrs. W. Frank Watts, Audubon; second vice president, Mrs. C. R. McCandles, Davenport; third vice president, Mrs. W. W. Annis, Agona; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Edwards, Des Moines; recording secretary, Mrs. Mrs. Boardman; Marshal Johnson; Richard C. Church City; chairman extension committee, Mrs. Edith Payne Parsons, Des Moines; auditor, Mrs. John Richards, Webster City. Dringing Iowa City—One of unknown origin totally destroyed the postoffice at Tiffin. It also burned Hogan's grocery store and entire contents. The postoffice supplies were saved. The will be $1,000,000; insurance two thirds. Mr. Hogan was hurt, but not dangerously. TERRIBLE SCALP HUMOR. Body Affected with Sorees and Crusts —Extended Down Below the Ears —Another Cure by Curticaura. "About ten years ago my scalp became badly affected with sore and itching humors, etc., and extended down behind the ears. My hair came in places, also. I was greatly troubled; understood it was eczema. Tried various remedies so called, without effect. Saw your Curticaura advertisement, and got the Curticaura Remedies at once. Applied them as to directions, etc., and after two weeks I think, of use, was clear as a whistle. Have to ask for a prescription. Octor and November, 1904. I was suddenly affected with a bad eruption, painful and itching pustules over the lower part of the body. I suffered dreadfully. In two months, under the skillful treatment of my doctor, conjoined with Curticaura Soap and Curticaura Oatment, I found myself cured. H. M. F. Weiss, Rosemond, Christian Co, III, Aug. 31, 1908." A few years ago there was started in Chelsea, Mass., a semi-secret political organization, and after a few meetings it was decided that a ballot box and ballots were needed. A brother made a motion that a committee be appointed by the chair to procure the same. A brother who was always suggesting amendments moved an amendment that the committee instructed to produce a white ball and black balls. Another asked him to describe a square ball, which brought the house down and caused the mover of the amendment to ejaculate: "You think you are *d* - d smart, don't you!" Super service, Splendid Scenen en route to Niagara Falls, Muskoka and Kawartha Lakes, Georgian Bay and Temegamil Region, St. Lawrence River and Rapids, Thousand Islands, Algonquin National Park, White Mountain, Grand Trunk Railway System, double track Chicago to Montreal and Niagara Falls, N. Y. For copies of tourist publications and descriptive pamphlets apply to Geo. W. Vaux, A. G. P. & T. A., 135 Adams St., Chicago, CA Worry Postal Authorities Because the postal administration has imposed a duty of five penniuns instead of two on postal cards intended for urban delivery, the citizens of Hanover have inaugurated a singular strike against the postal authorities. Instead of writing postal cards, they all write letters, and, not satisfied with sending their effusions in an envelope, they fill it up with newspaper as to bring the weight of the letter to the maximum of 250 grams. As the envelopes they now use are of the maximum size tolerated it is easy to obstruct a letter box with only a dozen of such misives. The postal authorities are alarmed at this obstruction of the postal service, and it is probable that the former tariff of two penniuns on postal cards will have to be reestablished. HAD CONSIDERED THE POINT. Juryman's Explanation Somewhat of a Joke on judge. A lawyer in the western part of Massachusetts having a rather desperate case to defend, called the court's attention to the wording of the statute, empowering the jury to "judge of the law as well as of the facts," and requested him to instruct accordingly. The judge some reason reluctantly did so, adding however, that the jury must accept his interjection of the principles involved unless they were fully satisfied that they knew more law than he did. In spite of this, an outrageous verdict was brought in, utterly contrary to the instructions of the judge, who severely rebuked the jurors. The foreman, a horny-handed farmer, rose to reply. "Judge," said he, "weren't we to judge the law as well as the fact." "Judge" was the response, "but I told you not to judge the law unless you were satisfied that you knew the law better than I did." "Well, judge," answered the farmer, as he shifted his quid, "we considered that pik't." 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"While I was sick in bed I read of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and I stopped all other medicine and began to take the pills. Soon my improvement was very noticeable. My strength began to return, and I was soon as I began to take solid food I gained in weight. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills certainly saved my life. I am now perfectly well, have regained my normal weight of 130 pounds and I think Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a wonderful medicine. The celebrated pills are recommended for stubborn stomach trouble, for all cases of weakness and debility, such as results from fever and other acute diseases. All druggists sell Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, or they be seen at the pharmacy for $50 per盒 per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectad, N. Y. $25,000.00 FOR AGENTS. Please work with your friends, frequent sales, large commissions, and big prices for all Address Deposits. 7, 11, 12, 14, N. W. City. W. N. U., DES MOINES, NO. 43, 1906. 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"In short, it was close on to 11 o'clock when the chairman, with a pleasant smile, bowed and said: "Mrs. Craigie, the eminent author of "Some Emotions and a Moral," will now give us her address." "My Craigie, and calmly, 'My address is No. 56 Lancaster Gate, Gate Park, W, London, and I now wish you all good-night, for I am far from home.'" SHOPS FOR EVERYBODY AT ALL PRICES $25 for 100 lb. steak, $50 for 100 lb. roast, $60 to $100 lb. prime rib, $80 to $150 lb. prime rib, $100 to $200 lb. prime rib 10 $1.95. Women's Shoes, $4.00 to $1.50. Misses' & Children's Shoes, $2.95 to $1.00. Try W. L. Douglas Women's, Misses and Children's shoes; for style, fit and wear they also make other make. If I can make you large factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you how carefully W.L. Douglas shoes are made, you would then understand why they hold their shape, it better, greater value than any other make. Wherever you live, you can obtain W. L. Douglas shoes. 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It is quite true that these troubles may reach a stage where an operation is much rarer than is generally cases are much rarer than is generally cases because a great many women have been cured by Lydia E. Finkham's vegetable Compound after the doctors removed the knife formed. In fact up to the point where the knife must be used to secure instant relief, this medicine is certain to help. The strongest and most grateful women who need to make come home women who need to make come home Pham's vegetable Compound, have escaped serious operations. Margrite Ryan, Treasurer of St Andrew's Society, Indianapolis, Ind., writes of her cure as follows: "I cannot find words to express my thanks for the good Lydia E. Pinknin's Vegetable not get well unless I had an operation for the trouble from which I suffered. I knew I had to make up my mind I would be an invalid for life. Hearing how Lydia E. 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Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been curing the worst forms of female compaflins, all functional troubles, inflammation, weakness, irregularities, indigestion and nervous prostration. Any woman who could read the many grateful letters on file in Mrs. Pinkham's office would be convinced of the efficiency of her advice and Lydia E. Pinkham's The very sudden death of Mr. Andrew J. Bell, an old and highly respected citizen of St. Paul caused universal sorrow in the twin cities. Mr. Bell was brought home sick with pneumonia last Thursday night, the 19th inst., and at once taken to the hospital where he passed peacefully away Sunday morning the day before. He devout Christian and an influential citizen, loved by all who knew him, and was for years one of the best members of St. James A. M. E. church in St. Paul, having been a class leader, chair member and Sunday school superintendent for a number of years. Mr. Bell's place will not be lost. He leaves to mourn his loss, besides a host of friends, a devoted wife, three children, a mother, three sisters and one brother. Funeral was held Tuesday afternoon from St. James church St. Paul, att., was largely attended. Rev. J. 2. Anderson of Chicago, officiating, held the funeral Hesperus Church. The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. The revival services conducted by Mrs. Elizabeth Howard at the St. James church are meeting with success and are largely attended. We trust much good may be accomplished before they shall have closed. The M. I. C. club meets Wednesday with Mrs. R. S. Brown of E. 14th st. The executive board of the City Federation held an interesting meeting last Friday with Mrs. Kate Smith, 2920 Garfield avenue. After the business light refreshments were served by the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Geo. Wade. The evangelist, Mrs. Howard, is stopping with Mrs. Janet Butler, 610 tenth avenue South. At a meeting of the Pastors Ald at St. James church Friday night the following week were elected for the ensuing year. President, Mrs. Janet Butler; Vice President, Mrs. Ada White; See, Mrs. Geneva Thornton; Treaas, Mrs. D. E. Buckner; Chairman Program Committee; next meeting the following subject will be discussed: "Has President Roosevelt the Power to Stop Lynching?" Mrs. Southall of 15th avenue South entertained at dinner Sunday, Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. Wade and daughter, Oual The club ladies will all be delighted to know that Mrs. Booker T. Washington continues as the efficient editor of the "National Notes." As she she writes, every club woman should be a subscriber to the Notes as it only costs 25 cents per year and comes regularly every month. The Dorsas Society of Bethesda Baptist Church had a splendid success with their supper given at Mrs. Wheeler's. The Young Ladies' Embroidery club met with Ethel Williams of 7th avenue. Mrs. Jao. Griffin continues very ill at her home on 5th avenue. She is always glad to have her friends call and see her. The Missionary Society will meet Tuesday next with Mrs. D. Buckner of 5th Street. We have a new restaurant here known as the "Cedar Rapids House" on 3d street and 3d avenue South, Mrs. Lowe proprietress. When you are hungry give her a can of soup and clean Memorial services for the late Bishop Arnelt were held at St. Peter's church Sunday night. Mrs. Mattie Boyd contemplates a visit to Duluth in the near future. Miss May Thornton, one of our site high school graduates of '06, is attending college at Winona Minn. The next meeting of the City Fed. If You Don't CHA Wage seen buying as so noticeable faith to Chas 9x1 Body $23 To The Wag The difference between buy enormous profits is so no make you pin your faith to To The Wage Earners Of Des Moines The difference between buying here and buying at an Installment store charging enormous profits is so noticeable that only a casual glance at our prices is needed to make you pin your faith to Chase & West. 9x12 Rug Body Brussels $23.00 9x12 Rug Axminster $20.00 All Grades of Rugs Fine Davenports This Dresser $10.00 Smyrnas, velvets, Axminster in small sizes; closing out at 20 per cent discount. Steel Ranges $20 to $75 Best bakers, best steel, least fuel. A fine Malleable Range 17-21 in. oven, fine baker, full metal trimmed $35.00 --- NEW EFFECTS IN DRAFPRIES FOR ARCHWAYS, DOORS AND WINDOWS. COOKING STOVE eration will be held with Mrs. Eva Abby of 8th avenue South. mrs. Kate Smith of Smith avenue entertained the Episcopal choir Fri day evening Light refreshments were passed after the rehearsal, and again shy on up in the Great North ern coming from the coast last week he narrowly escaped having his nesc broke, and came out with a few slight bruises. mrs. Wood of Atlantic City, N. J. is living in New York with her daughter, Mrs. Ione E. Gibbs on 24th street. The Arbutus club enjoyed a meeting Monday nig. at Mrs. J. Selera, 2420 Riverside. Mr. J. L. Neal of 5th avenue is somewhat indisposed this week. KEOKUK NEWS. Mrs. Ellen Morris has arrived home from Chicago, where he spent a few days looking after business interests. Mr. John Hoskins anticipates spend in Chicago with his son, Hugh Hoskins. He will leave in two weeks. The Sunshine Waverly Club gave a tea at the Chatman Square A. M. E. Church, corner Seventh and Morgan streets, Thursday afternoon from 3 o'clock which was a decided success. J. Henderson spent a few days in Quincy last week visiting relatives and friends. A very delightful surprise party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lowe Wednesday eve, Oct. 17, being the occasion of Miss Myrle birthday. A very pleasant evening followed, yet everyone attended events were served. Those present were Misses Fry, Bröoks, Alexander, W. Eare, W. Eare, Teaabee, Fox Lowe and Lowe, Mesers S. Dalley, Jones, Fields, Brown G. Dalley, Johnson, Ware and Hathman. Mrs. E. Holmes and Mrs. Wm. Taylor attended the lecture given by her husband, underwood, an of the theological Seminary at Vincennes, Indiana, at Fort Madison Ia, Tuesday evening, October 23. FORD'S HAIR·POMADE Formally known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" You Don't Trade With Us, We Both Lose M HASE & WEST ge Earners Of buying here and buying at an I noticeable that only a casual glance o Chase & West. Fine Davenports Beautiful Solid Mahogany 3 pat- terns to clear out— $85.00 for $60.00, $60.00 for $48.00, $45.00 for $35.00 This Iron Bed $5.50 Comes in all colors, 1 1-16 posts. Fine finish. 80 STRAIGHTENS The Ozonized OX Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charlie Ford Street 78 Wakabane Ave, Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. 9x12 Rug Axminster m DISTRICT COURT OF POLK COUNTY. G. H. Messenger, va. F. D. Keenoy and Leota, Conrad Keenoy. By virtue of a special execution to me directed, issued by the Clerk of the District Court of Polk county, Iowa, in favor of G. H. Messenger and against F. D. Keeney and Leo Conrad Keeney, on a judgment renderin September A. D. 1896, wherein it was ordered, adjudged and decreed that the following described property be sold to satisfy said judgment, to wit: Lot number nine (9) in Block No. one (1) Northwestern Hofstra, situated within the City of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, the said property being otherwise described and known as Lot Nine (9) in Block One (1) of the Official Plat of the East One-third (13) of Lot One (1) of the Northeast quarter (14) of the Northeast quarter (14) of Section Five (5) Township Seventy-eigat (78) Range Twenty four (24) West of the 5th p. m. according to the plat of the County Auditor made November 4, 1944, and now recorded in County Recorder's Inflat Plat Book "E" on page 207. Sale subject to two prior mortgages favor of U. S. Mortgage and Trust Co. for $1,200 and Sarah Nykewander for 400. No therefore, public notice is hereby given that unless the said defendants appear at my office in Des Molones on or before the 21st day of November, A. D. 1906, at ten o'clock m. of said day, at which time, a below described property is hereby audited and pay off the amount of said execution with interest and costs, I will sell said property, or sufficient thereof to satisfy said election, with interest and costs, at public outcourt, at the east front door, the Corner House in Des h.olnes, Iowa, for cash in hand to pay off said execution. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS Company Ac. Anyone sending a ackee and description may quickly assemble our opinion free whether an autumn or winter patent is triumphs strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents free from clearance. Receive patent Patents taken through Manna to receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cir- cumbers. Four years. Four months. $1. Sold by newdealers. MUNN & Co. 38 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 65 F St., Washington, D.C. Homeseekers Homesekers' Homesekers Every Tuesday, October, and November, via M. & St. L. R. L. R. one fare plus $2. for the round trip to points in Minnesota, Dakota, Canada, tickets good 21 days. Also first and third Tuesdays, October and November to Montana, Washington, Oregon. The M. & St. L. is "The Road That Runs" and trains leave Union Station Des Moines at 8:15 a. m. and 9:05 p. m. New electric lighted sleepers, all nice coaches. Call at city ticket office, 512 Walnut street or address W. K. Adams D. P. A., Des Moines, Iowa. Money. ALL FINGED AND CORDED PORTIERES 25 PER CENT OFF FOR THIS WEEK Des Moines Installment store charging price at our prices is needed to 00 ```markdown ``` All Oak, every drawer will work easily. French Bevel Mirror. at last maters to $40 s. Hot Vortex Blast 1-3 of burn and s. Silver a fine week. --- Excursion Rates Via the Minnesota & St. Louis R. R Every Tuesday duralg this year we will sell Homecracker tickets to Minnesota. 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CUMMINS CLARE GOVERNOR HAS DISAPPOINTED AND OFFENDED THE RAIL- ROADS AND THAT IS WHY THEY FIGHT HIM. Reasons Why Corporations Seek to Defeat Him Asserted to be Reasons Why Veterans Should Support Him—Able Address by the Governor. Cooking to order in nome style Good rooms furnished. determined to nullify the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the an address in the town of Fayette Mon, October 17, 1966, ex-Gov. William robes said: is always a pleasure for me to meet him for the purpose of meeting with them concerning matters of amon interest to us all, and especially I pleased to accept the invitation of amon interest to us all, and especially with you on this occasion. I have sev- objects in view in accepting the one. Is to acknowledge my in- tention to you, the hope state or favors, another the hope state or four years of experience may enable to aid the people, avoiding some of the mistakes that have been made in the work of amon interest to us all, and an ideal state so that you and your children and your grandchildren mine can have the best place in the way of preface I wish to have it roughly understood by those who did the honor to invite me to address you and you have honored with your presence that I am say to you I represent one no but self. I am a charter member of the amon interest to us all, and especially to spirit and principles from the way as I have understood them. I have seen, however, a political platform I could fully indorse in all respects, at least some mental reserva- with experience and the acquirement of we knowledge upon a subject, my opinion, and my acquaintance find myself disagreeing with some publicans upon various questions. bably save 100 where we now cure one, am in favor of the election of the municipal ownership of public utilities; a progressive income tax; of protections of the railroad; as well as of capital; of a maximum in the per mile for passenger fares, and requiring our board of railroad commissionation of freight by the railroads, said Mr. HON. J. P. CONNER, For congress. Tenth district so that telegraph and express companies be placed under control of this ard, and that a maximum rate be axed of 25 cents for a telegraph, of not to exert pressure on the railroads in the state. Am in favor of revising the tariff so that it will not afford later to rusts or monopolies, and in favor of free coal and lumber. Am in favor of tariffs. Am in favor of the annexation of ba at the proper time, and of granting dependence to the Philippines, also, at proper time. Am in favor of conferring on the railroads an oppose to ship subsidies, to give encouragement to corporations to sell in foreign markets at lower prices an in home markets. Am opposed to national or political parties. Am opposed to the proposed railroads, and to railroad membership of railroads, and to railroad membership of the government. Am opposed to "tariff for revenue only," so you see, that while I am a republican, you are an Iowan and american that a merican. The Voter's Responsibility. Under our system of government our people have the power in their hands to more largely such a government as they are. They can determine what policies all be adopted, what laws shall be acted, and what persons shall be employed to carry out their views. The states of the responsibility resting on the American voter impresses me he and more deeply each year. Not useful and imparial reader of history of country can fall to observe the in-ate relations that exist and the less-than-less clearly and forcefully that the happiness and prosperity of people depend largely upon the whom of the policies adopted by the government, and the in-erxity with which he administered. Our people are regarded bountifully if they act wisely in management of our government and they surely have to suffer the penalty by unerring certainty if they act unlively. We cannot have this fact too much. I am soويلy impressed upon our minds how let me ask you will you be good to your self good to your family. I am to the people of lows, will you be away the responsibilities imposed on you as a voter, or in other words, you act wisely or will you act fool. people naturally divide themselves into political parties. Those who by their nature belong to the past and profit thereby, labor for improved conditions in the future, belong to one party, and may well called pro-preservationists. Those who belong to the past and satisfied with existing conditions, or are disposed to back to the ways of the supposed den age of the past belong to the past and are dissatisfied with every step forward along the way of human progress has been against the protest and opposition of the conservative than at other times. Emerses says that people are most conservatives when they are least vigorous or they are most radical. An extreme pro-preservative is called a radical, and an extreme conservative is called a reactionist. Go are you will you and these two people among civilized or unclevile people. Eulogizes Republican Party. the different political parties are now gesturing the morals of their claims to great jury of voters of the state, tendered with the control it has in the government and with the control of the government in the future. It stands us in hand that a wise violet is rendered. The bishop party has been held accountable as a progressive party. It was conceived under the most generous, unselfish and patriotic impulses that ever moved the human action. It was born at that period when the oligarchy of the south dominated our nation. It was baptized in blood in its infancy on the priaries of Kansas. It was with the responsibility of administering our government in its youth, and was forced to serve in military armor before it was fully in office. It was compelled to wage a war, and the war to maintain the existence of the augurated and carried through all of the great war measures, military, financial, justice, judicial and constitutional, to a succession of people. Every republican can look back upon the manaments of the party with pride. It has always had a soul and a conscience, and the war imbued with the progressive spirit of the revolution of Independence, of "John Brown's Sie is Marching On," of "I will fight it" on this line if it takes all summer," or for all, with fernness, with charm for all, with permanence, as God gives us to see the right." and it is these attributes which have endeared the people of the nation, and enabled it to be a great work for them and for mankind. Must Meet New Issues. But while that which has been accomplished by the party in the past, may commend it to the confidence of the people, no party is entitled to the control of what it has done in the past. It must meet all new questions that may arise, and it must present a better programme than any other party, and it must show its ability to honestly carry it out. A party cannot maintain the confidence of the people unless it serves their best interests. It must control the control of those who have class interests and deserve and will not long retain the respect and support of good and intelligent people. It is the duty of every person to unscrupulous men from getting control for improper purposes. When a party has not sufficient stamina to dive itself from control of designing and dishonest men, it should desire only the public welfare. The history of parties of this country in the past shows a rule conclusively. The old party was a service to the country, fell under control of improper influences and died from loss of power. The new party was for many years the most respectable party, but it courted the support of a powerful party. The old Jeffersonian party, early known as the republican party and later as the democratic party, rendered during the war the country, until it fell under the domination of the slaveocracy, when it lost its power and maintained only a few years during and after the civil war. Since that time it has gained somewhat in the confidence of the people. It is no longer dominant, but it was entirely dominated by the cotton planters of the south. The platform just adopted by the democratic party of Iowa, was over any platform ever before adopted by it. It is more progressive than usual, and contains many good recommendations chief recommendation, "a tafft for revenue only." If carried into effect, would surely bring overbearing disruption to our economy. The adoption of this policy by our nation would bring stagnation and paralysis to all industrial interests, and especially the wage earners suffer from it. History Justifica Protection. This experiment has been tried over and over again in this country. The property to the people and whenever it has been departed from disaster has always followed, and so it will be in the future, to know the extent of the property it leases, but only knowledge of the financial history of the country. The fathers understood this thoroughly and made a policy from the first organization congress under the federal constitution. The second bill passed by the first congress and slimed the protection of American industries. The country at once enjoyed prosperity. All of the presidents until Jackson's second term favored this policy, and the protection of American industries was not withstanding an expensive war was carried on prosperity continued. A reduction of duties in 1818 induced large impurities was the result. An act of 1824 increasing duties brought immediate relief to all classes. An act of 1825 increasing duties and universal tariff, providing for an ultimate reduction of duties to a uniform level of 20 per cent, caused the great financial culminating tariff for the whole country, which begged description. In 1822 an increase of tariff duties raised the country from disaster and disaster, and prosperity. In 1846 the Walker triffle again reduced duties, and it is to this low triffle that the friends and traders always refer, to show that the country was prosperous for about ten years. The property was caused by a combination of circumstances not likely to happen again. Large expenditures were made at home to carry on the Mestle. Cross folded in Europe, a terrible famine in Ireland the revolution of 1848 in various European countries, in California and between England and France and Russia. The democratic parsimony making a wrong diagnosis of the cases, that caused the masses above named in 1852 reduced the duties still lower. What in his annual message in 1853, in the manual issued plenty of national wealth we find our manufactures private enterprises of our work restored, abandoned and out of use of useful inherent part of employment and reduced to want. The stagnation of business and paralysis of trade and enterprise continued for the next twenty-five years and distress I remember at that time. I kept a record of my wheat purchases for twenty-two cents the average price paid for twenty-five cents per period; in 1808 $1.36; in 1877 $1.24; highest price paid during the twenty-seven period; in 1808 $1.36; lowest price during the period $3 cents; in 1838. For a low price paid for wheat in 1868 I lost Situation is too feeble a term to express the business situation. Bankrupts and bankrupts exceeded the exports. Money out of the country to the country annoe of trade. The country wascome empty and the government was compelled to borrow money at interest. Interest paid by lending our gold mines covered over $500,000 during the HON. B. F. CARROLL. For auditor of state. HON. W. W. MORROW. For treasurer of state. What Porter Complained Of Here are some of the items of state expense which are denounced by Porter as extravagance of republican administrations of Iowa: ter as extravagance or republican administration of low- Capital completion and repairs after fire Building school for the district Rebuildings and improvements at Glenwood New buildings at Cherokee hospital Improvements at other state hospitals Improvements at state colleges Hospital at soldiers' home Monuments to Iowa soldiers State historical building and library New buildings at state fair Louisiana. Purchase expoion. Regular annual allowance for expenses and support of the three colleges now and ten years ago: Then. Now. Increase. $27,601.35 $139,773.21 $103,711.88 Normal school 6,028.32 178,688.83 172,670.51 Agricultural college 61,757.47 218,331.00 156,673.53 State university preceding ten years. In 1891 the increased duties under the Morrill tariff brought prosperity to all industrial interests during the period. The currency produced a slight depression between 1878 and 1879, when specie payment was resumed. The country continued to enjoy remarkable prosperity, and the economy continued to recover of the McKinley law in 1890. This was reversed by the Wilson law in 1894. It is unnecessary for me to describe the disastrous period in which we remember it, and how quickly conditions changed for the better who whete Dingley law took effect in 1897. It was a sudden transmission of the law to our shine and prosperity. Such results have followed legislation in the past and we can safely expect such in the future, because we have sufficient legislation. vigence profit by its long of experiments. Experience teaches a dear school, and Iowa people should not belong to that class that learn in no other, because the country has grown to be wildering proportions. Our exports were last year over $1,740,000,000 and so far exceeded the amount of imports to be levied on the trade in our favor of over $15,000,000. This protective policy so wisely inaugurated by the fathers of the republic, McKinley and Dingley laws, has brought a measure of prosperity to the people of the United States at the present time as a result of the war. A plea of any other nation, and it has made our country so illustrious in the eyes of the world that more than 1,000,000 forfeited shores in order to share in the results of our wise and beneficent government. Whilst we would adhere firmly to the policy of protection, we realize that tariff What Porter Here are some of the items of state ter as extravagance of republican adro Capitulation and repairs after the Rebuilding school for the draft Rebuilding and improvements at Glen New buildings at Cherokee hospital. Improvements at other state hospitals. Improvements at state colleges Hospital at soldiers' home. Monuments to Iowa soldiers State historical building and library. New buildings state draft Louisiana Purchase expedition. Regular annual allowance for exp now and ten years ago: Normal school Agricultural college State university IOWA SOLDIERS WELL TREATED There never was a time in the history of laws when the judge of the civil court was in official positions. Governor Cummins signed the soldier preference law; but before that law went into effect there were more old soldiers in state positions than for many years. Here is a list of the veterans of the civil war in official positions about the state house for several offices not long ago. The inns have been from 22 to 38: Five Years Ago. Union soldiers employed in the different departments in the state house in 1901. Total 22: James H. Wilson, secretary of state's office. V. A. Jones, treasurer's office. S. V. W. attorney general's office. J. W. Gooder, superintendent of public instruction office. instructor James F. Burgess, railroad comm office sisters D. D. Pickett, clerk supreme court of office. fice H. Shaffer, executive council office J. H. Byers, adjunct general's office Thomas L. Stevens, adjunct general's office J. B. Cooper, pharmacy commission office D. McBarraugh, custodian's office Thomas Graham, custodian's office James M. Newcomb, custodian's office George G. Woolley, custodian's office Jill Burns, custodian's office. A. S. Johnson, custodian's office. Julia D. Dan (soldier's widow), custo diang Wilkinson, custodian's office. Elijah Manbock, custard's office. Elijah Wills, custard's office. H Stuart, custard's office. B P Kirk, supreme court bailiff. The Present Roll Call. Union soldiers employed in the departments in the state house in 1966. Total 33 A S Carper, governor's office. James H. Wilson, secretary of state's office. J. W. Johnson, auditor of state's office. IOWA: CONGRATULATED. Vice President Fairbanks: "The state of Iowa is to be congratulated for many things which distinguish her as a progressive commonwealth. She is especially entitled to congratulation for her high minded citizenship and for the number and worth of her statesmen. Her distinguished governor, Albert B. Cummins, is a clean, high minded, patriotic American, who believes that a public office is a public trust which should be administered with fidelity." urteenth laws must be constantly revised in order to meet the changing conditions. This should be done by friends of the policy, or by the police, to explode dynamite under his barn to rid it of its policy as it would for us to overthrow the policy of protection in order to protect his hand, it would be as reasonable to refuse to quarantine against smallpox or yellow fever because it would hurt business, as refuse to revise a wrong schedule in time. The Paramount Issue. But as important as this tariff question is, there is another question that stands vastly more in need of our attention as the railroads are more people or the corporations control our government? The United States collected for the year ending December 31, 2008, of this sum $381,788.56 was collected from customs duties. During the same year the railroads collected from them eight times as much as was collected by the United States government under the tariff laws. The total net revenues of the railroads from the year, or $107,128.24 more than the total revenues of the national government. While the mileage of the railroads is increasing, their gross earnings increased over 128 per cent, and their net earnings over 128 per cent. These statistics show that the railroads are small as compared with the taxes collected by the railroad companies. The interstate commerce law was enacted in 1913, and place restrictions upon rates of the railroads. The reasonable and conscientious railroad managers welcomed this law as a measure for the railroads. (Growned, on second page.) HON. W. W. MORROW. For treasurer of state. Complained Of the expense which are denounced by Por- ministrations of Iowa: $450,571.00 220,716.00 139,886.00 6,049.60 428,588.00 428,588.00 670,278.00 120,000.00 132,496.48 172,900.00 84,400.00 127,704.41 uses and support of the three colleges Then. Now. Increase. $27,031.85 150,772.21 $10,711.85 6,028.32 178,498.53 172,670.51 61,757.47 218,331.00 156,573.53 V. A. Jones, treasurer of state's office. I. V. Jones, superintendent of public instruction office. J. R. Shannon, railroad commissioner's office. H. L. Bousquet, clerk supreme court's office. G. D. Pickett, clerk supreme court's office. B. P. Kirk, supreme court bailiff. John R. Shaffer, executive council. L. M. Raides, historical department. J. B. Copper, historical department. J. H. Thrift, adjutant general's office. Thomas L. Stevens, adjutant general's office. J. A. Olmated, adjutant general's office. Samuel V. West, adjutant general office. An Effective Speech. Ottumwa Courier: Governor Cummanat speech in Ottumwa cannot fall to have a good influence on the campaign in the Sixth district and in Wapello county. The Courier has published a very complete and comprehensive report of this add-ons in its daily and tri-weekly editions and we hope the speech will be carefully read by every publican. It is full of the publican doctrine and of sound sense so far as harmonizing *Terrences among republicans themselves* is concerned. INDORSE RIGHT POLICIES. Secretary James Wilson: "The people have been asking for fair play for years with regard to restrain of trade by corporations. President Roosevelt and the present congress have acted with vigor along these lines. The right or the wrong of the new departure goes to the people to be passed upon at the next election. If Iowa, among the prominent position she does among the republican states, mangles the state ticket or the congressional ticket in November, the past work will be seriously discounted and future efforts paralyzed." The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a blank or heavily pixelated area with no discernible content. IOWA BACKED UP THE PRESIDENT IN RATE REGULATION PROGRAM BUT SOME IOWA POLITICIANS JOINED IN THE EFFORT TO DEFEAT AND DISCREDIT THE PRESIDENT. Reasons Why Thery is a Democratic Alliance Today With the Corporations to Effect Defeat of the Republican Candidates—History Recalled. The people of Iowa, the farmers and merchants and shippers, heartily approve of the new legislation which empowers the interstate commerce commission to regulate railroad rates. The movement grew out of the actual needs of the people. For years the interstate commerce law convention had been proclaiming on every possible occasion the weakness of the law under which the commission might determine all matters related to commerce, the remedy, for evils, but could not apply the remedy. One of the chief factors in bringing to a head the prevailing sentiment in favor of reform of the interstate commerce law was the interstate commerce law convention held in St. Louis two years ago the sentiment for reform was crystallized into a formal demand on congress for affirmative action. Ex-Gov. Larrabee's address before the convention did and did much to shape sentiment. Early Advocate of Reform. Previous to this, however, Gov. Cummins had been doing much work to further this reform and in a great speech before the Upper Mississippi River Improvement association at Dubuque he declared that "what we need now more than any other one thing is some tribunal of the general government having authority throughout the state, which shall be invested with the power to supervise and rewrite and recreate the rates established by the railways for interstate commerce." Gov. Cummins spoke before the Corn Belt Meat Producers' association and before other bodies of shippers and business men earnestly advocating the giving of power to the Interstate Commerce commission, or similar body of the power that had is great deal to do with the making of popular sentiment in Iowa to back up all who might be engaged in this laudable work. Saw the President. Such was the high standing of the governor of Iowa that he was selected as one of a committee to go to Washington just before the opening of congress in 1944 to speak for the Interstate Commerce Law. He was the shippers and farmers of the country, and to do that which seemed to be necessary to get this matter before congress. This committee called upon President Roosevelt and found that his attention and already called to the state legislature had already tentative statement for his message then nearly completed. On behalf of the Interstate Commerce Law convention Governor Cummins suggested some additions to the statement to make it stronger and expedient that he wanted was a law that would enable the Interstate Commerce compulsion to decide what is a reasonable rate and to put such a rate into force and effect without warmer or the courts to compel the additions to his message that make it more nearly meet the wishes of those interested in the Interstate Commerce Law convention. That message, which went to congress in December, 1944, was the basis of the railroad rate program of the administration, placed in the passage current law. It is in the credit of Iowa men. Iowa Penubiliana, that they stood back of the president in his demand for effective rate regulation and that they recognized the strong sentiment in Iowa and the west in real reform. Fought By the Railroads. No more bitter fight was ever put on against any legislation than was put up by the railroads against the president's rate regulation programme. The rate committee which was sent a hostile committee material with which to defeat the bill. Such was the strong fight against the bill that the railroads, under the direction of Samuel Spencer of the Southern railway, organized an organization or literary bureau of headquarters in Chicago for the purpose of offsetting the demand for some action. It was the bureau which, according to Senator Dollier, spent $2,000,000 in one year fighting the president. This bureau established a branch in Des Moines, from which place editors and this programme were sent to Iowa newspapers and articles were published widely and sold for by the railroad bureau. To Back Up the President. Buch was the perseverance of the fight that the American shippers became alarmed last year for fear the entire programme of effective rate regulation would be defeated, and another meeting of the interstate commerce law convention was called to meet in Chicago in October last dent and his friends. This conference was called by the men who represented the large shippers and most especially the live stock markets, and it had for its purpose a further expression of sentiment in regard to railroad rate regulation and mention as would do most to counter act the work being done by the railroad bureau to discredit President Roosevelt. To Defeat the President. In order that the influence of the interstate commerce law convention might be fulfilled, so far as possible, the railroad bureau with headquarters in Chicago and branches in Des Moines and elsewhere organized what is known as a "trump regulation" which was featured by the under the name of the "Federal regulation association." This was called to meet in Chicago. In fact it was planned to pack the interstate commerce law convention with men from Illinois, Illinois and or whose influence would be with the railroads, and to the interstate commerce law convention to condemn the work being done by President Rusevell. When the men sent to Chicago for this purpose admitted to the interstate convention they went to the hall and organized the final Rate Regulation association." The interstate commerce law convention took action which greatly strengthened the hands of President Roosevelt and the men in charge. It demanded that the great mass of white miners and farmers of the country are favorable to the reform. The Free Pass Contingent The "rump convention," masquerading under the name of the "Federal Rate Regulation association," condemned the whole programme. It was a matter of common knowledge that the men who extended this convention were taken to Chatham at least their hotel bills and other expenses were paid by the railroads and that the leaders in the convention represented merely the railroads and those who were wholly in the service of the railroads. One of the men who helped to organize the "rump convention" was E K. Horton of Iowa, who had given directions to the men of Chatham who read the previous year. What he did then and what he is doing now was for the railroads and for them alone. While Governor Cummins was doing everything in his power to help the interstate commerce law convention and to back up President Roosevelt in his rate regulation programme, there went free Iowa to the "rump convention," which was the first of the rate programme, a number of persons who had other views. Democratic Leaders Were There. Democratic Leaders Were Hired. One of these was Charles W. Miller of Waverly, who now, as democratic state chairman, entrusted with managing the campaign with the campaign to defeat the re-election of Governor Cummins. Mr. Miller was a delegate to the rump convention of the railroads. In the printed report of the proceedings of that convention his name is given on page 133. On the previous page appears the name of W. W. Marsh of Waterloo as a delegate. Mr. Marsh has been picked by the demoralic state committee to represent Iowa district senator and the selection will be made at an early date. Chairman Miller has stated in a letter that Mr. Marsh is one of his chief advisers in the campaign. Both were in Chicago with Ed Hunter and the railroad politicians as tempting to break up the convidation. HON. J. F. LACOT. For congress. Sixt. district. HON. J. F. IAUT. For congress, Sixth district. which backed Roosevelt and taking part in the rump convention. Condemned the President. The convention to which Miller and Marsh were delegates adopted a resolution to the effect that: "We are unalterably opposed to conferring upon the interstate commerce commission, or any other appoinitive agency, the power to prescribe rates for transportation." The Corporation Alliance. The campaign being conducted under the auspices of Miller, Marah and their associates is for the purpose of defending Governor Cummins, who did much to create sentiment in the wake of the aftermath of Dil仇, who was a powerful factor in the passage of the bill, and to cause the state of Iowa to render a political verdict of the polls such as will discourage all true friends of proper reform in rate regulation. Mr. Miller, delegate to the railroad rump convention, is making use of all possible material intended to bring into discredit and to defeat the men of Iowa who backed up President Roosevelt. At the same time the political convention directed the great railroad rate bureau is still doing business in Iowa, and is engaged today in the distribution of literature which was printed prior to the recent republican state convention, which was paid for by railroad munitions. Mr. Miller is in the state of Iowa under the auspices of the same corporation agents and hirelings. Corporation Retention This so-called democratic committee is circulating a booklet, under the guise of being a camaign handbook, which was prepared largely by the employees of the railroad political bureau against republican administration in Iowa. Some of these same employees of the railroad political bureau are at work under direction of the democratic committee. Candidate Porter is accompanied by an employee of this tour, who is also an employee of this newspaper political committee, and the newspapers of the state willing to lend their influence to the overthrow of republicanism in Iowa, receive regularly, with charges all prepared, the message against going to the meetings Candidate, Porter. In short, there is today the closest alliance between the democratic committee and the committee organized by the corporation lobbyists. The men who are backing the Porter candidacy did their part last year toward effecting defeat of the Roosevelt programme for programme reduction; this year the corporation are interested in the defeat of the law regulation are returning the compliment by helping the candidacy. Elkina in the Game. When the campaign opened for renomination of Governor Cummins last winter the railroads induced one of their trusted lieutenants at Washington, the West Virginia senator, to undertake the task of discrediting Governor Cummins. When Elkins wrote a letter which was intended to influence the Iowa situation, Governor AS PRESENTED BY IOWA'S GOVERNOR ADVANCED GROUND TAKEN BY GOVERNOR CUMMINS IN HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS ON QUESTIONS WHICH MUST BE MET. Commercial Combinations and Trusts—Curbing the Power of Monopoly—Corporations in Politics—The Menace of the Railroad Lobbyist. Gov. Albert R. Cummina in his inaugural address January M. DW: It is evidently appropriate upon this occasion to announce the duties of citizenship, to re-gramme some of the questions which engage the public mind, and to again receive to promote good government. The experience of the world establishes beyond controversy that nothing is more helpful in the solution of the constant discussion of the plans suggested for the reform and betterment of the rules of society. It is unfortunately as common as misunderstanding and to deside the reform; but the errors and decision proceed either from a corrupt heart or an unthinkable mind. Reform and the advance of the republic is the growth of its industrial life. Evil of Watered Stock: Every corporation should be required to have its capital stock paid for at par in proportion to the duties of citizenship, to re-gramme some of the questions which engage the public mind, and to again receive to promote good government. The experience of the world establishes beyond controversy that nothing is more helpful in the solution of the constant discussion of the plans suggested for the reform and betterment of the rules of society. It is unfortunately as common as misunderstanding and to deside the reform; but the errors and decision proceed either from a corrupt heart or an unthinkable mind. Reform and the advance of the republic is the growth of its industrial life. Evil of Watered Stock: Every corporation should be required to have its capital stock paid for at par in proportion to the duties of citizenship, to re-gramme some of the questions which engage the public mind, and to again receive to promote good government. The experience of the world establishes beyond controversy that nothing is more helpful in the solution of the constant discussion of the plans suggested for the reform and betterment of the rules of society. It is unfortunately as common as misunderstanding and to deside the reform; but the errors and decision proceed either from a corrupt heart or an unthinkable mind. Reform and the advance of the republic is the growth of its industrial life. The Doctrine of Reform. I therefore make no apology for the belief that many of the questions proposed to us by the evolution of the time have been answered by other hand, he who predicates his demand for change upon the hypothesis that what we have is wholly bad and proposes to change it, he who pursues toward higher efficiency in government, in a superficial agitator, who becomes himself to defeat by ignoring the friend of progress recognizes that what we have is good, but perceives that we may have better. He sees life and energy in the changing relations of men and phases; and he knows that government, to he just and effective, must adapt himself to the changing relations of men and the energy in his understanding that this generation has something more to do than to glorify the past and enjoy the fruits of its vio- Industrial Combinations The rapid accumulation of wealth and its unparalleled concentration were the distinguishing characteristics of the last decade of the nineteenth century. These characteristics led the government to pursue a query for government investigation. The subject has, by common consent, received a name which, though once appropriate, now altogether outweighs the moral responsibility and industrial trusts have provoked much thought which, as yet, has produced little result. Originally they were, as the names imply, concerts of independent companies acting in the interest of the several constituent parts. In that sense they have substantially disappeared, and there have been substituted for them incorporations that have become properly business affected by them. They shall not pause to inquire whether these vast incorporations are wise or unwise. The extinction of the independent trader, merchant and manufacturer may ultimately extend to free institutions. A Deplorable Tendency. If this shall be its effect, we may deprove the tendency; but if it be wholly overcome, it will not be through the prohibition of government, but by that imperceptible warning which changes the currents of the world and teaches humanity to avoid approaching danger. I do not believe that the government can safely deny the right of association under established forms; nor am I ready to concede that industrial organizations, however large their capital or extended their operation. If competition remains, constitute a menace to the prosperity and welfare of the people. The motive which underlies the so-called trusts and combinations is apparent: It is the ordinary selfish desire to make money, coupled with the belief that it can be more readily surely and largely made in that manner than by any other. I do not criticize the motive; for it is the mainspring of material progress, and to eliminate it would be to analyze the arm of industry that alike to ambition and improvement. Destruction of Competition. The most manifest evil of these tremendous aggregations is their effect upon competition. Competition is the paramount law of industrial life. It may and should it must exist in full vigor if we do not desire the government to assume the power of fixing the prices of industrial goods; it must clear the market; single corporation owned and controlled the transportation facilities of the United States it would be absolutely necessary for the government to prescribe and enforce such regulations; it is equally clear that if a single corporation controlled the manufacture of the important commodities required by modern industry, it would be long continued, it would be necessary for the government to fix the price at which such commodities should be sold, and to ensure that successful consolidation, though it does not draw in all the products in which it deals, harrows the field of competition. There may be sharp and effective competition with other companies, not so likely with a greater number. The Direction of Reform. I have mentioned these things, not to indicate that I think there is a perfect combination of the natural laws of individual enterprise; but rather to point out the lines along which interference is not only permissible, but demanded. First, the nature of the combination could be, and should be, limited to the natural desire to make profit from the business in which the corporation is to operate. Second, the nature of the business that many of the large industrial combinations would not have been proposed or affected had it not been for the corporation to make stupendous fortunes in the mere operation of consolidation. It HON. E. H. HUBBARD, For congress. Eleventh district. is said, and I believe it to be true, that more than 20 per cent of the stock of a company is in pure fiction, and the opportunity to gamble upon the stock exchange in worthless stock has been uppermost in the minds of many investors in learning together these organizations. Evil of Watered Stock. Every corporation should be required to have its capital stock paid for at par, in money, before it is authorized to transact business. The genius for deception is to make the corporation tender for stock, and it should be declared the counterfeit it is. The evil of over-capitalization has still another serious phase. It furnishes an illegitimate factry natural for the members of a corporation so organized to endeavor to pay dividends not only upon the real capital invested in the business, but also upon baseless stock which represents nothing to the standard promoters and the weakness of the law. Need of Federal Action These suggestions would be idle if there were no practicable remedy for the obvious wrong. There is no hope of at least making the state in which the greater number of these companies is organized secures a revenue from them more than sufficient to fund their development, and seems easily convinced of the justice of its laws. I believe the question is a national one, and that the people of the United States must nisze the difficulty of amending the constitution of the United States; but I know that whenever the people are sufficiently well organized, the forms corporation which are to do business throughout the country, and in which the people of one state are quite different from the people of another are permitted to organize, they should be compelled to show that their capital stock has been paid for in money, that the real value of the property they own is great as the stock which represents it. Positive Remedies Needed. I am unable to agree that we can cure whatever evils may exist in these organizations, by publicity. Their affairs are already sufficiently public so that every [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. HON, JOHN C. CROCKETT, For clerk of supreme court intelligent man understands in a general way of what they are composed, what they are doing, and what they are earning. It is well enough to require them to make an examination, but if we are to limit our regulation to mere publicity, the outcome will not justify the attention we are bestowing upon the subject. In an explanation of a moment ago, that competition is the force upon which we must rely to regulate the prices of the products of industry, for most companies with explicit incentive to which we would be driven if competition were eliminated. I sincerely hope that we will find sufficient protection against the efforts to monopolize competition, in the natural impulse to enter a profitable business; and if these corporations, however large, can be put and maintained upon a lawful basis, I confidently believe that industrial monopolies cannot endure. Corporations There is another thought which is reflected more to the creation of a whole-some sentiment than to the enactment of laws, to which I must draw your attention. He who honestly makes, has the right to safely keep, whether it be one or two or three years or less, yet the result of certain incidents of wealth may be especially associated wealth, which ought to receive the serious consideration of those who have the welfare of their country at heart. Weath gives to him who owns or controls the power for great good and for good well; gives to him the power for good schools, found libraries and relieve want, but it also gives him power to seduce and coerce his fellow men, and this power should be most jealousy scrutinized. Weath, and especially in Incorporation, has many right but, if it should always be remembered that among it is not the right to vote. Corporations have, and ought to have, many privileges; but among them is not the privilege to sit in political conventions or occupy seats in less relative chambers. Corporations are as such as could be rigorously excluded in every form from participation in political affairs. Here at least the rich and the poor, as individuals, should meet upon a plane of absolute equality. The conscience and intelligence cannot be so general as must be the sole factors in determining what our laws shall be and who shall execute them. The Lobbyist an Evil. At this point I must be permitted to refer specifically to one phase of corporate interference that ought speedily to disapparate the light of the foreign hones, men. The professional, lobbyist, has, I regret to say, become one of the features of legislative assemblies; he has become a little more는 the most of a de-cent, community; and I ought to be driven with the lash of scorn, pursued by the penalties of the law from the practice of the office of a firm, and from the interests of every legislation, body of the public. Do not understand how to suggest that the halls of legislation should be inaccessible to either the individual or the other, and to the extent of any access to it is venerable; and through it, the wants, objections, or complaints of all who are interested in public affairs, be more or less of the absolute freedom, not only so, but the first fair and impartial hearing before appropriate committees should be sedulously preserved, the lobbyist, however, who may have to be more or less of the other, whose mission it is to promote one measure or defeat another, who haunts the shambers of legislation and taints its character, which is the right to be signed, who sends for members for interview in the cloak room, who carries a tallly-seer and wavches the roll call, who shadows the clowness of the clown and a hotel injecting at all hours and all so much no-police in the public service, is a criminal whose approach is an insult, and to whom the clown of the capital should never Pointers on the Iowa Campaign Iowa democratic platform adopted at Waterloo: "We believe in tariff for revenue only." PLATFORM: THE POLE GUIDE. Claude R. Porter in Ottumwa speech: "Whether it shall be my lot to lead the hosts of democracy to victory or defeat, before and after the election I shall be found expounding the principles of democracy as set forth in that document, and assure you that I shall at no time deem it within my province to set up standards different from that promulgated by the authorized representatives of the democracy of this state." QUOTES HIS PARTY LEADER. Porter in Ottumwa speech: "The thoroughly democratic statement of the great leader of the minority in the house of representatives, John Sharp Williams, when he said, 'The thing down to the heart and bottom of which you have got to go, and that you have to plant in the hearts of the people, is the fact that this thing is wrong—that is, it is all wrong, if the American system of government and the American institutions are right.' And further on in the same speech says, 'I do not believe in toppling over a whole system even, all at once, because a great many of the people who would be buried under the debris are people who are not to be blamed for the system under which they live. We must go gradually toward, this TARIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY GOAL. We must leave object lessons behind us which will encourage our successors to go further and further." Porter in Ottumwa speech: "The of the great leader of the minority in the Sharp Williams, when he said, 'The of which you have got to go, and that of the people, is the fact that this thing is the American system of government at right.' And further on in the same speepling over a whole system even, all at of people who would be buried under the be blamed for the system under which toward, this TARIF FOR REVENUE object lessons behind us which will encore and further." PORTER FOLLOWS BRYAN. Porter in Ottumwa speech: "In the detected or misled by preconvention as on the part of my distinguished oppo party, but let us all enter this contest great fundamental principles of democracy statesman and democracy's high-minded Jennings Bryan." a speech: "The thoroughness of the minority in the house is the said, 'The thing down to go, and that you have it that this thing is wrong—the government and the Air in the same speech says, 'The same even all at once, because buried under the debris are them under which they live. FOR REVENUE ONLY OUR which will encourage our BRYAN. a speech: "In this camp, preconvention assumption is singled out with this contest' united, exciples of democracy' high-minded and coiff. a floor of congress: "The difficulty is simply a difference of land in the other it is secure, bounty and a protective state of the 'destruction that was in darkness.' It is the difference highway, knocks you into steals into your house in your treasures; and if I be consider the highway robbed does openly and before closely for protection, is, as visible as a tariff of a thousand WAY. a: "One way to revise it by its abolition save for when it was first enacted." a: "But the protective state never can be anything more static scale. And there is just good as there is in giving home at Centerville when intending your infernal Yankee naked in South Carolina, in spirit." PORTER FOLLOWS BRYAN. Porter in Ottumwa speech: "In this campaign let no democrat be detected or misled by preconvention assumption of democratic tendencies on the part of my distinguished opponent wherein he differs from his party, but let us all enter this contest united, earnest, and loyal to the great fundamental principles of democracy as expounded by that peerless statesman and democracy's high-minded and conceded leader, William Jennings Bryan." BRYAN ON THE TARIFF. W. J. Bryan on the floor of congress: "The difference between a protective tariff and a bounty is simply a difference of form. In the one case it is open and visible, and in the other it is secret and hidden. There is a difference between a bounty and a protective tariff that the Bible describes when it speaks of the 'destruction that wasteth at noonday and the pestilence that walketh in darkness.' It is the difference between the man who meets you upon the highway, knocks you down and takes what you have, and the man who steals into your house in the night while you are asleep and robs you of your treasures; and if I had to make a choice between the two I should consider the highway robber the more honorable, because he does what he does openly and before the world. A tariff of 10 per cent levied purposely for protection, is, as far as principle is concerned, just as indefensible as a tariff of a thousand per cent." W. J. Bryan on the floor of congress: "The difference between a protective tariff and a bounty is simply a difference of form. In the one case it is open and visible, and in the other it is secret and hidden. There is a difference between a bounty and a protective tariff that the Bible describes when it speaks of the 'destruction that wasteth at noonday and the pestilence that walketh in darkness.' It is the difference between the man who meets you upon the highway, knocks you down and takes what you have, and the man who steals into your house in the night while you are asleep and robs you of your treasures; and if I had to make a choice between the two I should consider the highway robber the more honorable, because he does what he does openly and before the world. A tariff of 10 per cent levied purposely for protection, is, as far as principle is concerned, just as indefensible as a tariff of a thousand per cent." THE DEMOCRATIC WAY. Newton Herald, dem.: "One way to revise the tariff is to revise it. That can only be done by its abolition save for the purpose of revenue. It was highway robbery when it was first enacted, and it has been highway robbery every since." ONLY A BONUS. Iowa City Press, dem.: "But the protective system, as applied in this country, never was and never can be anything more or less than a giving of bonuses on a gigantic scale. And there is just as much bringing of prosperity by this method as there is in giving bonuses on a smaller scale." "Pitchfork" Tillman at Centerville when introduced by Claude R. Porter: "if you will keep your infernal Yankee noses out we can keep the colored people straight in South Carolina, in spite of the fact that they greatly outnumber us." A DEMOCRAT ON THE DEMOCRATS. Charles A. Walsh of Iowa, late se- mittee: "And in every section of the secure control of party machinery is be- while loyal democrats were lately assu- nominating a ticket generally good, hear- crats as candidates for governor and li- hope of electing them, this element quiet I am informed, for the first time since 18 committee and elected nine so-called con- of that committee and have chosen a cha- of Iowa, late secretary de- puty section of the country, machinery is being eviden- tive were lately assembled in generally good, headed by two governor and lieutenant. this element quietly and as first time since 1896 secured nine so-called conservatives have chosen a chairman from Charles A. Walsh of Iowa, late secretary democratic national committee: "And in every section of the country this corporation care to secure control of party machinery is being evidenced. In my own state while loyal democrats were lately assembled in convention engaged in nominating a ticket generally good, headed by two splendid young democrats as candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, but with little hope of electing them, this element quietly and assiduously at work, have, I am informed, for the first time since 1896 secured a majority of the state committee and elected nine so-called conservatives of the eleven members of that committee and have chosen a chairman from their own number." JON W. C. HAWARD HON. W. C. HAYWARD For secretary of state. IOWA BACKED UP THE PRESIDENT (Continued from first page.) ernor Cummins replied in a letter in which he told some plain truths about the attitude of Elkins and his corporation associates in congress, and he exposed how they had tried to defeat all legislation favorable to the farmers. Stahl, president of the Farmers' National congress, in behalf of the American farmers, wrote to Governor Cummins as follows at that time: "I cannot refrain from thanking you for your open letter to Senator Elkins. You can rest assured that nine-toths of the farmers are not with you in this matter. If you are not careful they will be talking of you for president before long." Credit for the Victory. The victory of the American farmers and shippers in the matter of securing AN INSINUATION. Claude Porter: Did any of you ever hear, during his first term in office, of the discovery on the part of the governor of the fact that the railroads were in politics? A COMPLETE ANSWER. Governor A. B. Cummins in first ins Corporations have, and ought to have, n is not the privilege to sit in political co nservative chambers. Corporations, as such every form from participation in politica immins in first inaugural ad ought to have, many privat in political conventions operations, as such, should be pation in political auaira. cannot find it in your town, send your reel. Address. Governor A. B. Cummins in first inaugural address, Jan. 16, 1902: Corporations have, and ought to have, many privileges, but among them is not the privilege to sit in political conventions or occupy seats in legislative chambers. Corporations, as such, should be rigorously excluded in every form from participation in political affairs. BRYAN ON THE TABIFF. THE DEMOCRATIC WAY. ONLY A BONUS. REAL DEMOCRAT. Credit for the Victory. railroad rate regulation is one of the most notable victories achieved against corporate power. Governor Cummins and the Republicans of Iowa who are with the president deserve great credit for their part in the reform. The allied corporation and democratic forces engaged in fighting Governor Cummins and the Republican ticket did every effort to credit the president and to checkmate the movement for effective rate regulation. They are today making their fight for the same reasons that they made their fight last year. The victory for rate regulation is not wholly won; it will not be a complete victory until the people have testified to their appreciation of the work of the men who have been foremost in the movement and condemn by their votes the men who threw every possible obstacle in the way of effective rate regulation. NUATION. ever hear, during his first term in of the governor of the fact that the several years the most beautiful affairs the United States, is ill, decided that the com- mission did not have authority to fix the situation, and once took a ratings of the situation. Their increase in mileage from 128 to 140 for nine years, was 1.5 percent. Their increase in gross earnings, 16.5 per cent. Their increase in net earnings, 12.5 per cent. cent. Their increase in mileage from 1897 to 1906, for eight years, was 16.2 per cent. Their increase in gross earnings, 84.7 per cent. Their increase in net earnings, $1.1 per cent. cent. will be noticed that after the decision of the supreme court in 1897 that the interstate commerce commission did not have the power to make rates; that the railroads advanced their income by the railroads following years. Until the enactment of the law approved June 20, 1906, and which took effect the 8th of August last, there was no law whatever upon books of the railroads to limit the railroads as to what they might charge. Seek Complete Control. It will be seen from this that the railroads have had the unlimited power of taxation on the commerce of the country, and that they have had the free hand, especially since the year 1871. Were this their only offense it might have been tolerated. But the state governments than complete control of national and state governments would satisfy them. They made large contributions to the campaign funds of both of the states, and they mandated obedience from them in return. The condition was becoming intolerable, when President Roosevelt asked that reasonable restriction be placed upon all houses of both houses of congress were opposed to the measure, but under the strenuous demands of the president a law was passed, embracing perhaps the minimum resi- tion required, accepted by the people upon the subject. Railroad Dialike Roosevelt. The men who have got control by hook or crook of the great corporations of the country, are bitter in their opposition to the government, and troublesome man to trust monopolists. They were not content to let him remain as governor of New York, and they situate themselves in the vice president of the United States, but in this efforts were thwarted by his providential elevation to the presidency, by the nomination in 1804, the only man in whom they had hopes of succeeding with was providentially removed. They are deservedly the most important man not go to the White house. The content is now on between the people under the lead of President Roosevelt on one side, and the people under the unscrupulous men, on the other side. Other questions should be subordinated to this until it is settled whether we are to have the people, for the people, or a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations, whether it has entered upon shall be continued and carried out to a successful termination or not. This is the paramount issue now. The people are only just commenced. The rate bill passed by the last session of congress is only one small step forward. The work of the corporations are under complete control. How Roads Tax Iowa The subject of corporation control is of such vast magnitude when considered from a national point of view that we have no control over it from the Iowa standpoint. We have 9,807 miles of railroad in this state and their gross receipts last year were $23.4 billion, preceding year. Their net earnings were $19,201,809, an increase of $3,912,255 over 1903. Gross receipts have increased $23.4 billion, preceding year, while mileage increased only 15 per cent. Took $10,000,000 Too Much. Dividends are paid by the railroads on at least twice as much capital as was stockholders. More than one-half of the stockholders. More than one-half of the issued by them is water, for which no legitimate payment was ever made. The dividends loans are capitalized and dividends are paid twice as much as was ever invested in them by the stockholders. We have heard great complains about the evils of absentee taxes and that the taxes taken from Ireland by the English, and from Cuba by the Spanish, yet we are suffering from the same thing right here. Wall Street has many things from the railroads in this state last year, after paying all expenses of operation, all taxes and large amounts for the stockholders more than it was legitimately entitled to. Disappoints Corporation Manager. When we fully realize the situation, we understand why the railroad corporations are the most important of the nominations on our state ticket this year. And this is the most important of the nominations at the coming election. I hope the voters will permit themselves to be misled. In my diagonis of the case I find this to be the situation here. Governor Cummins has proved a disappointment to corporation managers. Notwithstanding the that he had wealthy expatriate clients at the time, the firm once once organized to give him private barbed wire trust that he would be able to export and not take prices. Government officials have to be employed to present their case with good presentation and ability to a successful client. The private estate per瓦德斯 will period well remember them. I built about that time for them. Upon which the savvy man was about to I cannot forget the usable service rendered to the firm this state. In 1857 he was elected to the Iowa independant republican. I was then imprisoned with him. I must confess that I much against him. The tempestuous prominent at that time was who did confess upon it. I knew that he had been imprisoned by railroads as a civil engineer, a time of his election, was employed as a professor and unscrupulous legislator, classed him with other prominent torreys who had I known before my half over, when I did confess to my and found that I had made theimate of the man; I found that we clients as a torreer, he also was loathed in Iowa as a legislator. I soon that he was a fair man and emulated appeared to him to be right. He was in helping to free railroad legislator, and had the honour to vocate the adoption of such laws, upon my recommendation, as a member of the conference over the printing touches on law, and he was pleased, and thanks to his wife carefully passed by the last leader the law of 1858 stands today as it was. He was a legislator, a justice, an assever as men as ever meet in a legislator railroad lobbybills were much disliked him as a legislator. They were disliked by authority by stooping to co-operate with their disreputable methods. After he had taken the oath as a governor, he fully amored his ability upon him. He realized that the people of Iowa denying upon him had never before such a clientele he has performed his official duties. Those which were pleasant, his ability and fairness, no one can Further Offends Ballreade He found that the assessment of the road property had not kept pace with road property had not kept pace with increase in value, and it has been increased in value. This increases the taxes of the road about $400.00 per annum and raiseser taxpayers to that amount. This increases the disparity of the railway, but he further offense by vexing a bill, which it had become a law would have disgrace upon the state by making it rendezvous for legalising corporate he. He again provoked their wrath by ing the legislature to abolish the law which it did to a certain extent. It was also the case that the institution a year was distributed in the for the purpose of influencing public iniment in favor of railroads. He also visited President Roosevelt to emphasize his recommendations giving the interstate commerce concession increased powers and he also appeared before the United States Senate to emphasize his recommendations in favor of such legislation. Efforts To Defeat Him. Many a man has been defeated for public office by railroad influence for less offense than the smallest of the men. We have never wondered that orders went out on Wall street to their political heathen Iowa that this man must be defeated for the means or foul. We have never seen in Iowa anything to be conceived with the deprived, corrupt and shame methods resorted to by them in the past. For lack of legitimate grounds for posing him, stores are told of him as a traygain expenditures of the public funds, both of which disappear the snowlake in June when truth is told. Government officials have traygain blindly or willfully. He realized that all of the railroad poration influences of the state, with its funds, be brought into requisition in an attempt to defeat him. He did not desire and term, feeling that he could not afford make the sacrificial cost of the war been declared against him by the corruption managers, the general voice of people from the parts of the country he must lead the forces continue the worries that he had begun. One of less courage would shrunk from the task, but due to his desire to be a leader in my opinion it is the duty of every of us, who desires to have the state arned by the people instead of the state, to support Cummins hearty support regardless of party nations. Unless we stand by a public foe who is faithful in the performance of duties, how can we exercise officer to stand by our interests in future? Danger in the Future If we encourage such methods as we resorted to by the corporation forcing the recent campaign to impose the same political conditions here that now exist Cuba. If these men are to control government with unrestricted power they go on increasing the power of the country as we have during the last ten years, how will it be before we are left with per cent of our earnings as a result of the wars before the revolution of its? You may not be clined to heed this warning for you are not apt to learn wisdom joying great prosperity when we have no will ofills to be more to profit by the lessons of history. Governor Cummins recommended last general assembly to enact election law for the country that does not permit a 10th year conviction for every one of the wisdom of the recommendation? Ticket a Strong One. The republican ticket is an extra good one. Senator Garrison self-ish to be well fitted and wise led the well-fitted for the office of tenant governor, or any other that he may be called upon to do. His other name on the ticket is morality of the people, and the ticket is elected by a large majority, and it is elected by such an overwhelming that the corporation will must stand that the corporation they must vote on politics his state, and to their legitimate business. The democrats have nominated a ticket of most excellent men, and if corporation is bounded a quarter of dollars to defeat any one of them I would be in favor of his republicans join with the corporation elect him. We are all members of Iowa family and our interests are In other states the people are are their independence and are are corporation rule. They must possess the pie election governor Johnson. a state the same election gave Press Rosevelt over 160,000 plus pilgrimage consin Governor LaFollette by a large majority of the corporation holds the office him. In another Governor Deneen and in Governor Folk were elected with the forces against him. let let he be found taking a secondary place in movement should always be the governor rank of every good man. ALL REPUBLICANS ARE UNITED FOR BEST POLICIES OF GOVERNMENT CONGRESSMAN HAUGEN ON THE ISSUES OF THE PENDING CAMPAIGN IN IOWA. The True Principle Regarding the Protective Tariff From a Congressman's View-Point—Work That Has Been Done for the Farmers by the Present Administration. Bun. Gilbert N. Haugen, member of time, but we have, and have had, other important measures to deal with. leading the campaign at Mason City, 2014. It is in its course impossible at this time to take details, or cover all of the important questions that might be outlined by the history of the republican party. Well, the history of the Republican Party is well known. It is history from its birth to the present time. It is the history of progress and prosperity. It has been the supporting and most of the most important government. It has stood for the maintenance of the population, the declaration of America's independence, for internal improvements of the unbuilding of our navy, for the loss of the US and other airst事情 of all the American people. It has been and has the welfare of this country at heart. It has never taken a backward step; it march has ever been onward and upward. It has been the integrity of the livelihoods, equal statuses, in other words a square deal for all. It has stood for an honest medium of exchange, a common standard of value and an elasticity of value. It has stood for a tariff on the country. The American capital; for a tariff to pay government expenses, and that would result in the common good of all the people. It has been the world of the world of the world's books, such as rate legislation, rural free delivery, meat inspection, olemargarine, pure food, anti-trust and other important measures stand there to the credit of the public. It has been the people of the public's history, both these and the complex, and under these laws, the advanced along the lines of the accum C. H. HON. J. A. T. HULL, For congress, Seventh district, station of wealth, furnishing employment to labor, and everything that makes op- possibilities available to the unemployed and employers for the American people. The Tariff Question. Our democratic friends take much conglomeration in their claim that republicans are a general sentiment among the people favoring a change in our present tariff laws. There always was, and there always will be, a series of questions of such great importance; but there never was, nor is here law, so far as I know, any difference in republicanism, as to the principle tariff system, to the protective tariff system. All republicans stand united, and believe in this great and important party has fought and battled for its acceptance to this say. All republicans stand for a protective tariff and encourage their friends. All republicans believe in the upbringing and encouragement of American industries. We believe in tariff legislation, in the common good of all. In our state platform this year we declared that "we are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system or process, nor are we uncompromisingly not be levied for revenue only, but should be so adjusted as to promote our domestic interests, enlarge our foreign markets, secure remunerative prices for the products we produce, maintain a superior scale of wages and standard of living for American labor, wise and unalienal tariff laws maintained in the interest of general we are, equally oppose monopoly, are essential to our commercial and industrial prosperity. We believe that all inequalities in the tariff schedules, which inevitably arise from changing interest rates, must be adjusted from time to time, and condemning without reserve all assists upon the protective system, we favor such reasonable and timely changes as will be necessary and commercial progress." Not a Sacred Schedule. But the fact that we believe in a protective tariff does not imply that we are weeded, hide-bound, or committed to any tariff schemes; it does not imply that we are pleasing government the construction or an tariff schemes. No republican so far as I know, contends that there are any things they cannot be changed. Nobody contends that all the schemes in the Dungay estuary are or were perfect. There are no admissible and scientific measure at the time it was enforced, into law, but conditions have changed, and possibly a new tariff law has been enacted. The present conditions, but before we undertake to frame a new tariff law it is wise to bear in mind that we never had to change the details, and that we never will have. We have a great country with varied interests; these varied interests must be regulated by a tariff legislation. On interest, for instance agriculture, is compelled to yield to other interests in order to secure protection for us; tariff legislation for us; can interest driving the best bargain it can. Laws To Fit Conditions. Tariff laws are made to meet existing conditions. Hence republicans believe where a tariff no longer needs to be readjusted, even events should be readjusted. The party legislator has in the past revised tariff laws. It revised its own laws in 1883 and 1890 as cheerfully as possible, but the tariff laws in 1861 and 1867. It will revise the present one whenever conditions demand; whenever it becomes certain that tariff rates are not the best interests of this country, in our state platforms we declared that tariff rates should be just, fair and imminent. We are committed to domestic monopolies, and must from time to time be changed to meet various conditions. In our state platform this year, tariff rates will be small these changes as soon as possible and timely changes as will keep the tariff in harmony with the industrial and commercial progress. "You ask me to make these changes as soon as possible, and timely that I believe you with safety be undertaken at any time, but we have, and have had, other important measures to deal with. One Thing at a Time. I agree with the president that we should do something at a time. Who will say that the annual legislation should have been趾tracked for years? Were not these of equal importance. We are also aware of the fact that whenever an attorney has been made to break down our tariff laws, we trade in view, it has sent a thrill into every business and industry. And if an effort is made now to do that, it will have the same effect as it did during Cleveland's administration, the panic, the same condition which existed then under the Wilson-Gorman bill is sure to return, so if changes are to be made they should be made by republicans. They will first let it be known to the people who are building, or contemplating new factories, members who have caping on the investment, and men who are expanding operations, that all tariff legislation will be conducted along the lines of the�tection, and all will be well. If I have anything to do with it I shall insist that no duty is placed below a protective point. As stated by our worthy president, "This tariff system which has produced these magnificent, marvelous and substantial results should not be apptive tariff on the theory that the protective tariff should be abandoned, and that no violent change should be made in such a tariff touching to vitally the interest of all of us, including the agriculture, labor, manufacture and maintenance. Such a change would prove a sasterous and fatal to our present well-helter." W. H. H. HON, W. L. EATON, For railroad commissioner. Let us give careful and thoughtful consideration to all questions in order to secure the full benefit for our natural resources, our developed mechanical appliances, the skill and genius of our wage workers. Let us see to it that the American farmer, the shipper, the jobber, the merchant, the manufacturer and his workmen, are not discriminated against, and imposed upon; but that they are given adequate protection, in order that we may have the fullest development of all worthy and legitimate business enterprises, and promote commerce, farming, justice and the comforts, prosperity and happiness of all our people and all communities. NO QUARREL POSSIBLE OVER TARIFF SCHEDULES First Thing Is To Secure Election of the Republican Ticket in Iowa. Congresman J. A. T. Hull: "You can't get up a controversy with me about tariff schedules—there is nothing in it. "If you stand for the principle of protection you are a republican. "Some have urged changes of schedules in congress during the last three or four years, but some of us, a majority, have opposed it, but those men are republicans for they believe in the protective principle, and we must effect changes, when made, under the leadership of the leader of the party, Theodore Roosevelt. "Are you for the principle of protection? If so, it is your duty to vote for every candidate on the republican ticket, for they are all protectionists, from top to bottom. I have been told some of my comrades over here are age not the head of the ticket. Can you afford to support the emmy? The head of the republican ticket in Iowa represents republicanism in the nation. The people of the nation look to Iowa as steadfast, a state where the banner of republicanism has never been lowered. Shall the people of the nation now see the flag come down in this state, the Vermont of the west? "I think we cannot afford it and we will not permit it, but in November the wires will carry to Theodore Roosevelt at Washington the glad tidings of a republican victory in Iowa." M. HON. W. W. CORNWALL, for reporter supreme court The Iowa legislature: The republican central committee responds invitely to the Republican in the present campaign. The republican party goes to the return issue in its record of honesty, efficiency and business of state government, and pledges to police that will protect the individual man in his industrial and political rights and confronting this party we menenacreed for office and corporation greed for power. With this clear alignment of political forces no republican can afford to be found wavering. By the aggressive uncourage stand of state and federal officials in support of the aggressive reform policies of President Roosevelt and congress and of Gov. Warren G. Brown, the political corporations have resisted the campaign funds of the allied opposition in extraordinary manner. The Republican state central committee has resisted from seeking, either directly or indirectly, the contributions of corporations. The demand for speakers and campaign FACTS FRCM THE RECORDS WHAT the P Candidate Porter: While the creased in the last four years, for a value of the railways for taxation tha has been increased over eight million of the farmers of Iowa eight times as FACTS FROM THE RECORDS VS. CORPORATION MOONSHINE. What the Politicians Say. Candidate Porter: While the assessments of railroads has been increased in the last four years, for every one million dollars of increased value of the railways for taxation the value of other property of this state has been increased over eight million dollars, thus increasing the burdens of the farmers of Iowa eight times as much as the burdens of the railroads. Facts From the Records. The increased assessment of pro the period mentioned was less than $ way assessment, and not $8 as stated The actual value of all other pro beginning of the period than the act to maintain the same proportion the The state executive council did assessments during this period, but t The increased burden we not a all the property in the state other th The increased assessment of property other than railroad property in the period mentioned was less than $4.60 for each dollar of increase in railway assessment, and not $8 as stated by Porter. The actual value of all other property was ten times as great at the beginning of the period than the actual value of railroad property, so that to maintain the same proportion the increase should have been $10. The state executive council did not in fact increase the real estate assessments during this period, but reduced the assessment as reported. The increased burden we not all on the farmers, for they do not own all the property in the state other than railroad property. [Picture of a man with dark hair and a suit] Vinton Eagle: the republican party has in the field this year as a ficket, from top to bottom, as it ever put in the field. The old nominees are tried and true in the interests of the state. Government for four and a half years, and it can be said the state never had better service. He has been true to the state never had better service. He has been true to the state and every piece of business passing his office receives the closest governor for four and a half years, and it has been renominated. Of the new nominees Warren Garst has been a member of the state senate for the past twelve years, a major portion of the time being chairman of the senate committee on approving an enviable reputation, the conduct of the important affairs coming before that committee being such that it brought him into prominent notice in the state. W. C. Hayward was also a member of the senate committee, and means committees, a committee, prominent as the one in charge of Senator Garst. What can be said of Garst can be said of Hayward. W. W. Morrow is president of the state agricultural society, and that capacity has won a double plaque of the public officer. Mr. Byers is one of the leading lawyers of the western part of the state. He was at one time a member of the legislature and speaker of the house. W. L. Eaton was also a member of the legislature and speaker of the house. Each and every one of them has been tried and has proven true to the interests placed in his hands. What They Are Alming At Greenfield Transcript: The chief fight of the Iowa campaign is on the legislature. The democrats are aiming direct at the United States senate for one, and possibly two, democrats in the upper branch of congress from Iowa. RAILROAD LOBBYISTS Governor Larrabee; the railroar in him (Governor Cummins) as a leag would not stultify himself by stoopin reputable methods. After he had tafully appreciated the magnitude of He realized that with all the people never before such a clientage. That both those which were unpleasant a with signal ability and fairness, no RAILROAD LOBBYISTS WERE TURNED DOWN. Governor Larrabe; The railroad lobbyists were much disappointed in him (Governor Cummins) as a legislator. They were surprised that he would not stultify himself by stooping to co-operate with them in their disreputable methods. After he had taken the oath of office as governor, he fully appreciated the magnitude of the responsibility resting upon him. He realized that with all the people of Iowa depending upon him, he had never before such a clientage. That he has performed his official duties, both those which were unpleasant as well as those which were pleasant, with signal ability and fairness, no one can deny. HON. J. F. RIGGS, For superintendent of public instruction are seventh of the literature is longer than usual, to supplement in the general interest of all Republicans of the state and the, and to meet the demands of the two invite contributions from all who have faith in the republican party, who support its principles and abide by the Constitution of Bi or more are invited from individuals direct to the state committee. All money received will be received by the state committee, and have the right to know that his contribution is rightly accounted for and properly used. Every dollar will go to promote the success of the republican party as a wolf and impartially every candidate of the party. Send all funds to the republican state committee. Observatory building. Send Michel. Marriage Herald: Free silver and government ownership aside, the vital test of democracy is devotion to free trade, tariff ripping and hard times, none of which Cummins has ever favored. S. CORPORATION MOONSHINE. Liticians Say. Accessions of railroads has been in every one million dollars of increased value of other property of this state dollars, thus increasing the burdens much as the burdens of the railroads. Property other than railroad property in 160 for each dollar of increase in rail- by Porter. Property was ten times as great at the real value of railroad property, so that increase should have been $10. not in fact increase the real estate reduced the assessment as reported. on the farmers, for they do not own in railroad property. P. HON. W. P. HEPBURN. For congress, Eighth district. THE REPUBLICAN RECORD A Party That Has Done Things and Which Has a Definite Programme for Success. Gems from recent speech by Congressman Albert F. Dawson: Republicanism stands for honesty in public life. The fifty-ninth congress will go down in history as the "Congress of Achievement." The republican party has established the standard of the square deal. The past ten years will be known in history as the era of prosperity and happiness. The republican party is not living in the past; it has its face set toward the future. The present administration has handled the business of the government wisely and well. William McKinley was elected in 1836 as the "Advance Agent of Prosperity," and he delivered the goods. He played the party in this campaign will appeal to the judgment of men, and not to their passions. The national credit was never so high; our prestige was never so great among the nations of the earth. The national ten years have stamped the republican party as the progressive party of the nation. Bryan welcomes the conservative element of his party into the fold by declaring for government ownership of railroads. Today we are in the midst of the most splendid era of prosperity and happiness ever enjoyed by any people since the colonial era. The ceaseless activity of President Roosevelt against lawbreakers has reswaked he good old fashioned sense of honesty in public and private life. The election of a democratic house would be like throwing a monkey wrench in the cylinder of a thrashing machine which is smoothly separating the golden grain from the straw and chaff. WERE TURNED DOWN. Ad lobbyists were much dissappointed solicitor. They were surprised that he to co-operate with them in their disenchantment of office as governor, he the responsibility resting upon him. of Iowa depending upon him, he had he has performed his official duties, well as those which were pleasant, he can deny. HON. D. J. PALMER, For railroad commissioner. ```markdown ``` VICE-PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS SPEAKS IN INTEREST OF TICKET IN IOWA PATRIOTIC WORDS OF THE VICE PRESIDENT IN GREAT RALLY HELD AT WATERLOO. Congratulations to the People of Iowa—Some Sound Advice as to the Duty of Republicans—issues involved Are All Important. Vice President Fairbanks spoke to a large audience in Waterloo, Oct. 13, formally opening the republican campaign in the Third district. He spoke along general lines and in detail about his Declaration a democratic majority in the house this fall would mean disaster to he country. He endorsed Governor Cummins and recommended his re-election. Fairbanks said: "The state of Iowa is to be congratulated for her progressive commonwealth. She is especially entitled to congratulation for her high-minded citizenship and her as a progressive commonwealth." She is especially entitled to congratulation for her high-minded citizenship and her as a progressive commonwealth. Her distinguished governor, Albert B. Cummins, is a clean, high-minded, patriotic American, who believes that a public office should be administered with dignity. Her splendid senators, William B. Allison and Jonathan F. Dolliver, are among the very foremost in that great tribunal, the most distinguished distinction of having two members of the President's cabinet. Secretary Leslie M. Shaw has administered the treasury and has presided over the department of agriculture, with unsurpassed ability. Your members of congress are men of force, and your president has presided over the department of representatives. Judge B'rdsall, who honors this district, serves in full degree the public confidence. Such men are the count of national and state nation in honor to any commonwealth. They are an assurance to the country that public af- JOHN H. HARRIS HON. WALTER I. SMITH, For congress, Ninth district, fairs are to be administered with, them being open while we are engaged to an important one. It has more than a purely local significance, for both state and national issues are involved, and state and national officers are to be chosen. The result will, therefore, have either an influence upon public thought and upon the welfare, not only of Iowa, but of the entire country. Selection of Congressmen Important The selection of United States senators and members of congress is one of the most important functions we have to ensure that the policies we write States in the body which writes our great national policies into the public law, and without the co-operation of a congress in sympathy with the national administration, we have made most of us a people whose wholesome policies are embarrassed in carrying out policies to which it stands pledged. We have made our largest advance and prospered most as a people by making our government, and we shall make our greatest progress in the future by holding fast to lose measures and upholding new laws and untied policies, or policies which which have been tried and found wanting, substituted for them. There is nothing so disturbing to business, so pressing to address as uncertainty and shifting policies. It is of the utmost importance if we would attain to our highest development, and that they are longer reasonably suited to our needs. The business affairs of a great people must rest upon stability. The people must be able to respond if that they sow today, they may resp tomorrow; that if they plan for the enlargement of their industrial activities, there must be reasonable certainty that their relations in which they build are not to be swept away. House in Danger. If a change is made in the control of the house of representatives, and if the strength of the opposition is increased in the senate, as a result of the pending election, a step will be taken towards a change in national policies. This is the inexorable logic of the contest in which the people are now engaged. The republican majority in the senate is so large that it is not at all probable that the complexion of the senate could be changed as a result of the pending campaign, but it is possible, though not now probable, for a republican majority in the house to be converted into a majority for the opposition and thereby render it impossible for the national administration to receive that support which is necessary to enable it to carry out the important policies to which it stands committed. An hostile house of representatives HON. EMLIN M'CLAIN, For supreme court justice. could result in no possible good and judging from past experience, the presidents of the congress against the president, and thereby effectually check any constructive legislation. it would be to conceive and both branches of congress should be into a body of obstruction. it is of the utmost importance that the chief executive and both branches of congress should be into a body of sympathetic harmony of purpose should exist between them, for neither can accomplish the best result and the sympathetic co-operation of the other. Defeat of the republican party in the present exigency would be in effect, a reversal of the verdict rendered by the people of the country, and protrated as a vote of want of confidence in the national administration. We conclude submits the admirers of President Roosevelt to the highest degree entitled to the favorable judgment of the American people; that it has been sincerely wise, high minded and copious, and is redeeming as fast as possible every pledge made to the country. In short, it characterized by sincere devotion to the people, it is a pledge-deserving administration. Party Should Be Upheld. The party in power should be, upheld unless it has been false to its high trust, unless some other party can better administer the affairs of the government. The record is that the party in power it must, of course, stand or fall by the record is a part of the irreversible his- M. HON G. N. HAUGEN, For congress, Fourth district tory of the republic. We may confidently invite the judgment of the American people upon what the party has achieved since it returned to power in 1871. For the first time, the party has taken the tremendous responsibility of administering the great affairs of the republic. They have been years of growth and expansion in all of the avenues of political activity, after massive deliberation and as a history of mankind. We have operated under policies which have been fixed, which were written into the public law, and carried into the public administration, and rule, after their efficiency had been demonstrated by the one conclusive test, and that is, the test of practical experience. The mighty affair of this course subject to the hazard of mere experiment. NOTICE TO MEDDLERS. Governor Larrabe: "I expect the ticket to be elected by a large majority, and it should be elected by such an overwhelming majority that the corporations will understand that it means that they must keep out of politics in this state, and attend to their legitimate business." STAND BY THE PARTY · WHICH HAS DONE SO MUCH Judge Conner Tells Why Republicans Should This Year Remain Steadfast and True. Congressman J. P. Conner, of the Tenth district, in an address in the campaign said: Among the things accomplished recently by the republican party is the railroad rate bill, which the people demanded and which congress was asked to pass in the message to congress by President Roosevelt, and among the pieces of legislation ever enacted. The pure food and meat inspection law were also passed by the last congress which insure the people throughout the world and pure whitened food and meat. We passed the denaturalized alcohol bill, which will create a better market for your corn potatoes, etc., and give to our manufacturers a cheaper fuel and to us all a cheaper fuel. The building of the Panama canal was undertaken by a republican president and congress and its construction is the greatest engineering act known to history and congress who worked for these officials will be proud of it. This country was having good times under Harrison's administration, but as soon as Cleveland was inaugurated a change took place; our people wanted a change, they got it and brought onto themselves, them to the end of the time they were. Coxey's armies were marching across the country; values on everything went down; corn sold at from 10 to 15 cents horses and all live stock were extremely low in price and business generally was at a standstill. Now everybody is prosperous; prices of the country and stock are good; there is plenty of money and things generally are in a prosperous condition; how will you fare if you put the republicans out. Bryan says he will curb the trusts with free trade, but the cure in this way would be worse than the disease as it would make international trusts out of them. He on-way was also the cause of the crisis with direct laws as advocated by Roosevelt which will put stripes on violators. Your fearless leader, Governor Cumming should be sustained in his fight on the railroads and corporations. He is the people's champion and can be relied upon to fight your battles along the right line. Ex-Governors of the country told us that when always found Governor Cumming's rights for the people's interests. Stand by your ticket and vote it straight. We may have two United States senators to elect candidates to the party for what you have for you? You an acre for land, good prices for stock and grain, plenty of money. Don't sacrifice your vote. Don't be the party that has done so much for you. TRUE AND COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE EFFORT TO JERSEYIZE IOWA FOR THE CORPORATIONS. Generative Assertions shown to be Without Foundation—One Great Reason Why the Corporations are interested—Leaves From the Record. The history of the effort which was made some years ago by the representatives of the Wall Street speculators in Iowa, which they could consummate their plans for the consolidation of American railroads, is an essential part of the story of the present campaign in Iowa. Upon the generality, ninety-ninth congress of Iowa in January, 1891, Governor Cummins was inaugurated, and in his inaugural address he tried to make it very plain that his policy was for all people among other things, he said: "Corporations have, and ought to have, many privileges, but among them, one privilege is to occupy seats in legislative chambers. Corporations, as such, should be vigorous, and should participate in political affairs. Here at least the rich and the poor, as individuals, should meet upon a plane of absurdity of the state. I cannot resist the beaten and the unprotected amendment would not enable the two or three railway companies to which they apported their own profit and for the advantage of the people, but that its only substantial effect would be to overthrow the current company, and out of the purchase of the stock of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Northern rachel Railroad company. Prior to October last, the Chicago company owned and operated a vast railway line, a part of which was in the state of Iowa. The company itself of Illinois and under such laws it had built up one of the largest as well as the United States. It had, in large measure, constructed a double truck from Chicago to New York, should meet upon a plane of absurdity of the state. It had been in the enjoyment of all the privileges which a foreign corporation Then turning to one of the features of legislative assemblies with which Iowa has been too much infested, he said: The corporation lobbyist has, I regret to say, become one, the first to recognize that he has become a stench in the nostrils of a decent community, and he ought to be pursued by the penalties of the law from the presence of every member of the legislative body in the country. The Lobby at Work. This was fair warning to the corporation lobbyists, but they were even then preparing to secure concessions from the Iowa legislature through introduction of two bills intended to be for the especial benefit of speculative railroad corporations, which bills were backed solely the unscrupulous corporation would be. The first of these bills will be introduced was known to Hollandan bill, and the other of the Molesherry bill. For some reason the Molesherry bill was taken up and passed first in the senate, then quickly rushed through the house and sent to Governor Cummins. There had not been a word said in the legislature in opposition to either one of these bills, nor anything made public to indicate that the bills were of special importance, but the palms leased in the Indoor Governor Cummins had done upon the Molesherry bill lying upon the table awaiting his signature, and he saw that behind this bill was a purpose, which if made known to members of the legislature, would render it unsatisfactory to a great majority of the Iowa legislators. Governor Cummins therefore vetoed the bill, and as soon as his income had been made public, the legislators aimed with unguildy jolied in denomination of the men who had induced them by fraud and grossest deception to pass such a nefarious measure. Changed Hubbard Bill. In the meantime, the first bill introduced, the Hubbard bill, was pending before a senate committee. Its author had not realized that this bill would change the laws of the railroad lobby, to make the most remarkable change in laws laws relating to railroads ever known. This bill was taken to Governor Cummins by interested persons, and to its becoming a law of Iowa. Governor Cummins indicated that he would never approve such a bill, but he did state that if the bill was modified in certain important particulars, it would be approved. A few days later in the senate there was added to this bill a clause which absolutely destroyed its character in relation to railroad mergers and rendered it harmless. In this clause the statute and is signed by the governor. The two bills were in fact two important parts of the programme of the railroad lobby at that time. In brief, the two bills were: the landlord bond incorporated under Iowa laws might issue bonds to any desired amount without reference to the amount of capital stock outstanding, the Iowa law now requiring the landlord to finance the amount of two-thirds the capital stock unless the total issue of bonds be less than $150 per mile. The Moleherry bill removed this limitation, so that an Iowa railroad corporation might buy or control a railroad in any other state of the union. Two Bills for One Purpose. If these two bills had become a part of the Iowa law, the famous Northern Securities merger which the federal courts condemned and which President Obama made its domicile in Iowa. It will be recalled that the Northern Securities company was organized under New Jersey laws and the acquired the Great Northern Securities about this time the same financiers acquired control of the Burlington road. It was found impossible under the laws as they existed for the Northern Securities the two Northern railroads and the Burlington. If the Moleshery and Hubbard bills as they were introduced had become the Iowa law, it would then have been enacted, under the Burlington Railway company, which had but recently been organized in Iowa as a holding company. The Moleshery bill might have accompanied the most glorious and most infamous railroad merger ever planned in this country. Reasons for the Vrtc. In his veto of the Molesherry bill in March, 1992, Governor Cummins reviewed at some length the history of Iowa legislation respecting the formation of railway companies. He noted that while the Molesherry bill purported to be a measure to permit railroad companies to be a measure to betteriment of their systems it in fact did nothing of the sort. And he said, in view of these conditions which are well known, and are a part of the blue FARMERS AND THEIR FRIEND Secretary James Wilson; The farmers of owe a lot to Governor Robertson, who appointed a committee of their numbers—Pather Clarkson, Wallace, then against the bankers who defend them against the bankers who oppose him. Mr Cummins was retained as their advocate. They won the fight, and they thank their attorney for much of it. tory of the state. I cannot resist the belief that the real application of the proposed amendment would not enable the state to impose such a requirement it would apply to improve their properties for their own profit and for the advantage of the people, but that its effect would be to come real or imaginary difficulties growing out of the purchase of the stock of the Chicago, Burling, on & Quincy Hall, and Northern Illinois Railroad company. Prior to October last, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway company built a railway line in a part of which was in the state of Iowa. The company itself was organized under the name of the state railway company, built up one of the largest as well as one of the best railway systems in the country, and constructed a double truck from Chicago to the Missouri river. For many years and been in the enjoyment of all the privileges of the exercises in our state, and in so far as the mere operation of its lines of railway service is necessary any reason that would lead its managers to abandon the old corporation and organize a new one in our state, day of October 1917, day of October 1918, but, there was filed in the recorder a office of Des Moines county, Burlington & Quincy railway, with an authorized capital stock of $100,000, and the right to begin business when scribed. It took to itself practically all the powers which can be acquired by the company, especially the power to purchase and become the owner of the system of railway lines which had therefore been owned by Burlington & Quincy Railroad company. Motive for the merger. It is not difficult, if inquiry be made, to and a motive for the organization of this company, to have been so prosperous could not, either by reason of the laws of Illinois or by reason of the laws of Wisconsin or of its stocks by the two Minnesota companies, create a volume of indebtedness that those two companies would create to add another corporal lion, and Iowa was therefore necessary to create a common knowledge that the new company, with an insignificant amount of capital stock actually taken, had leased the land, and that it must be true that it is without substantial asses save the lease, and with such asses it must be true that if anything is purely speculative. In this NOT WANTED. Governor Cummins: "In what I shall have to say, there shall be neither hope not expectation of bringing to the support of the republican party what is ordinarily known as corporate influence." situation it seeks to incur indebtedness without limit. It is one thing to grant to railway companies the right to borrow the money needed to aid in the construction of a railway; it is quite another way; it is quite another way to authorize a class of railway companies to incur unlimited obligations without respect to the rights of their property. I cannot bring myself to believe that this species of special legislation consistent with our welfare, successor to the legitimate development of railway property; on the contrary, it is my firm belief that corporal liability consists of stocks, and to incur indebtedness, needs regulation rather than expansion. The Hubbard bill as amended was passed in 1911, and the law of lutes. That law provides: That any railroad corporation organized that any railroad corporation may operate a railroad therein, may lease, purchase or otherwise acquire, own, contract or otherwise own, or compete with, of this said railroad, not parallel or competing therewith. In any other state or country, that any railroad may own, or compete with, that and may purchase and control the stock, bonds or securities of any such exchanger, or any other state or territory of such other state or territory. Destroyed Effect of BILL. The Molesberry bill was intended to permit the issuing of bonds to an unlimited amount by the Iowa railroad corporation. The Hubbard bill was intended to permit the use of the money realized upon these bonds and the purchase of the new revenue, and in the course of the phase which was put into the Hubbard bill at the suggestion of Governor Cummins was "NOT PARALLEL OR COMPETING THEREWITH," which phrase was not in the bill as prepared by the railroad lobby. The bill is then in the class of the same form as the bill in the state at railroad lobby ceased to take further interest in the measure. That clause completely destroyed the secret purpose for which the bill had been introduced. There was never been a doubt in the mind of any one familiar with the fact that Senator Phelan did not fulfil the agreement of variance or character of this bill when he introduced it in the legislature, and as soon as he discovered that it was a dangerous measure he joined heartily with the governor in rendering it harmless. The bill has sometimes been used to make the bill but the fact that no merger has ever been attempted or accomplished under the law indicates that in the form that it was finally passed it had no force with relation to mergers. As the federal courts had just declared that the two railroads which it was not a part of the fact that all and competing, the bill with that added clause was of no use. No Mergers Under Iowa Law. It has been represented by the democrats and their allies in this campaign in Iowa this year that as a matter of fact, the Rock Island railroad the Hubbard bill, there have been railroad mergers effected; that, in short, it was under this bill that the Rock Island railroad organized a new company and ordered certain railroad properties in Texas and Oklahoma. The statement is absolutely false. The Rock Island did increase its railroad merger from 1990 to 1991 in Iowa, under the Iowa laws, and paid into the state fee aggregating about $25,000 for this privilege, but such action was not made. The filings were under the old law and might have been made ten years ago as well as four years ago. There was nothing in the old law to prevent a company from merging with another. And there was never at any time any limit on the size of a corporation under the Iowa law. The Rock Island railroad would have saved about $250,000 if it had merged with another company before it did. This is the only difference between the new and the old law. As a matter of fact the Rock Island company has never been engaged in the merger of any other state lines with which to make exten- clean. It is a matter of profit to laws and of advantage to the state to have these companies organised under laws law and with the restriction that the lines acquired are "not parallel" to the lines are no real objection to such extensions. Why Was Porter Silent? Mr. Porter in his various speeches in the state has stated that if Governor Cummins deserves credit for the veto of the Molaberry bill, he I. Porter, also deserves credit for the Molaberry bill in the first place. The fact is that only five or six senators voted against the bill and Mr. Porter does deserve credit for having voted against it, but he would have deserved more credit. Mr. Porter has pointed out upon the floor of the senate, the essential evil, of the bill, for if he had done that, the bill never would have got beyond the senate. It only required that Governor Cummins point out the error in the bill, or almost every senator to be against it. Mr. Porter also takes credit to himself for having voted against the Hubbard bill. He has been quoted as saying "that Governor Cummins signed the bill without mentioning the Hubbard bill and not the Molaberry bill that the railroads desired. Mr. Porter knows that Governor Cummins did protest against the Hubbard bill as it was introduced and that the Hubbard bill was common sense to a final vote in the senate and he knows perfectly well that the rail- WHERE I am For many years the state of Iowa advance payments of drafts and war lying idle in the same banks. Now its in these banks. he gain is show Interest paid Iowa by Des Moines bank Interest paid by state to banks under Net gain to state..... In addition there has been turned nation fees under the administrat $30,000.00. WHERE IOWA GAINS. For many years the state of iowa paid Des Moines banks interest on advance payments of drafts and warrants while the state had large sums lying idle in the same banks. Now the state gets interest on all its deposits in these banks. he gain is shown as follows: Interest paid iowa by Des Moines banks under Cummins..... $ 46,877.09 Interest paid by state to banks under previous system..... $ 77,786.57 Net gain to state..... $103,663.66 In addition there has been turned into the state treasury bank examination fees under the administration of Auditor Carroll amounting to $30,000.00. STAND BY THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND. Governor Larrabee; In my opi who desire to have the state governor porations, to give Governor Cumm party affiliations. Unless we stand the performance of his official duties to stand by our Interests in the future A COM Increase in assessment of real estate Increase in assessment of railway p Governor Larrabes: In my opinion, it is the duty of every one of us, who desire to have the state governed by the people, instead of by the corporations, to give Governor Cummins our hearty support regardless of party affiliations. Unless we stand by a public officer who is faithful in the performance of his official duties, how can we expect a public officer to stand by our interests in the future? A COMPARISON. Increase in assessment of real estate in Iowa in five years.....12.5% Increase in assessment of railway property in Iowa in five years.....32.0% THE COMMON A NATION S STRENGTH Congressman Cousins On the Future of Our Nation and the Policies That Make It Great. In a recent speech opening the campaign Congressman Robert G. Cousins said: "Any body should ask me tonight what is the crux and the crown of the whole financial, social and economic attack should tell him in a very few words what I believe to be the truth. For almost a decade our government has favored—for all American enterprises, in every pursuit involving labor and capital, in every effort to unusually well in whatever line it has been invested. In all times have been subserved by evil doers, and the larger the volume of business the larger the number of businesses, both for good and evil transactions. And so it happens that during the past year our corporations have conspired to satisfy their贪欲 and evil purposes. But never in our history have so many of them been so successful. The conscience of a nation has put in operation laws that were already in effect. But our government has enacted more potent and far reaching laws, as testified by President Roosevelt, than any congress In my judgment the sordid greed for gold in this American nation will be the greatest and most worthy people. The middle class—the average man—John Jones and William Smith—will save this nation even if it is not the kind of men. It will not be given over either to the corruptions or to populists or socialists or to the extreme element. It will be ruled by intelligence. It will not be surrendered to greed nor sacrificed to ignorance. It will talk and dread about exalting the condition of the country is better than it has even been. It will not return for his toil and greater comforts than ever before. The administrations of President Kkkk and President Roosevelt, with witnessed the greatest improvements and accomplishments that the nation has achieved with the tremendous commercial and industrial achievements which we have already discussed, vast good has been wrought in other I have dwelt thus at length on national issues, or the reason that we are now virtually at the beginning of an important national campaign. So far as state issues are concerned, it can hardly be said that any of importance now exist, and indeed if these be any at all, our distinguished governor will treat them ably and exhaustively. Upon "the platform re-agents at six cents a box. If you cannot find it --- ronds lost interest; in the Hubbard bill as soon as the changes were made in it. Cummins Relies an Incident. In an address in which he referred to the veto of the Mollsbury bill, Governor Cummins I was first inaugurated in January, it 2, inside of a month, a law passed that allowed the railroad to stain the fair name of the commonwealth of Iowa. It was known as the Mollsbury bill, it was intended to stain Iowa, and Iowa, and shame, or that state to our own. I believed it was intended to make Iowa the railroad to issue unlimited evidences of debt and the railway men asked me to sign. I knew then that I was at the parting of the ways, and that I must choose the railroad by their assistance, or the thorny path accompanied by my conscience alone. Personal friend in the employ of a railroad, whose position I had been instrumental in securing, and said, the bill meant a great deal for his railroad. I said it was a vicious measure. He said to me and wanted me to sign it. I said, "Do you think I ought to sign this bill, help the railroad to secure it, because it is a vicious and harmful measure." "That is just what I mean," he said. bluntly. "This is a large room, but it is not big enough to hold us both, and by and; not enough to hold us both, and by not the Eternal I am going to remain. And yet, that the railroads have not pursued me with every giant they employ, and that I have no employ, and a paid Des Moines banks interest on grants while the state had large sums the state gets interest on all its depos- as follows: kers under Cummins.....$ 45,877.09 previous system.....87,786.57 into the state treasury bank exami- on of Auditor Carroll amounting to PEOPLE'S FRIEND. ation, it is the duty of every one of us, by the people, instead of by the cor- mons our hearty support regardless of by a public officer who is faithful in it, how can we expect a public officer me? VARISON. in Iowa in five years.....12.5% property in Iowa in five years.....32.0% cently adopted by the republican state convention, you must have been agreed upon under the circumstances, there is little room for a convention to be held that convention will easily be elected, as will also your county ticket, as must go to the polls. Whatever is worth achieving is worth preserving. Go to the polls and vote for the candidate you member, under the new plan of voting, you must put a cross in the square before you vote for a candidate you wish to vote for. A DEMOCRATIC VIEW OF DEMOCRATIC MANAGERS Leading Democratic Newspaper On the Record of Those Who Essay To Control Iowa Affairs. In the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, the leading and most consistent democratic daily paper of Iowa, edited by Louis Murphy, the quarrel in the democratic democracy on the national committee was discussed at length and the paper said: the newspaper purposes to discuss, for the information of the members of the democratic national committee, the recount of who is asking the committee to elect him instead of Mr. Cato Sells of Vinton to the state legislature. It has been charged against Mr. Marsh that he boiled the ticket in 1884, that he was a member of the committee and that he is not in sympathy with the progressive tendencies of the party. What proof is there to sustain these The truth of the first charade Mr. Marsh admits it therefore stands in the record unchallenged, and not palliated by a single circumstance, that he refused to submit his will to the party's will, and that he allied himself with the opposition to defeat the candidates in the past and the principles for which it stood. It is for the members of the national committee to say if in their opinion it would be fair to the party to follow the rules of the party in their leader and their representative in the national councils of the party an individual who in 1896 refused to consent with them and went over to the enemy. The attention of the members of the committee is directed to the published (public) procedure of the interstate commerce law conventions in Chicago. One of these conventions was "regular" and the other "rump". The regular convention as the committee doubles know, was in sympathy with effective legislated the number of conventions were increased by the railroads solely to embarrass legislation, and to cause it to appear that the country was not in favor of regulation. On page 138 of the pamphlet, in the list of delegates present at the "rump" or "rump.con" convention, is the number of members of the Washington State. Representation The names of several other Waterloo men, including those of them democrats and conspicuous supporters of Mr. Marsh—Messas, J. T. Sullivan, and Robert Boltger in 1898. There appear also the name of W. Smith of Waverly, the democratic minister, mitten, the leader of the Marsh campaign, may not be amiss to say for the benefit of the members of the national railroad company, every shipper who had in the past, or hoped to in the future, receive favors at the railroad support, and shipped him into Chicago as a delegate to the "rump" Mr. Marsh's presence at the "trump" convention in opposition to rate regulation, he is not and never has been in sympathy with the progressive tendency of the state in 1994. In 1996 did he count himself with those who have been in the past and now are in the minority. He is not the truth, that Bryan came after an interview with National Chairman Tarkart, and he gives that interview to Mr. Tarkart is the guardian of interests. We can not think that Mr. Marsh is the guardian of the other side of the town situations that und-rendicts Mr. Marsh's relations to those who have the real difference of town—the 200,000 of the faith in 1996 and who have kept up the fight in the interests of democratic state convention held in this state since Mr. Marsh's return to the party fold, he has against those who were for Bryan until the last state convention, when nobody against those who were for Bryan until the last state convention, when nobody against conservative radicalism. in your town, send us 30 cents 1st stamps iff. Address. ANALYSIS OF THE QUESTION OF STATE EXPENDITURES AND AFF PROPRIATIONS. Wherein Iowa Has Been the Gainer by Reason of Liberal Treatment of State Institutions—iowa Policies Are Good For All Time. IOWA A GROWING STATE: The expenditures of the United States government under the administration of President Roosevelt have increased many fold. The nation is expanding. It is rich. Its greatness is recognized. A Republican congress and a Republican president but do that which is necessary in keeping pace with the times. The expenditures of every state of the union have been increasing, just as there is increase in the expenditures of every county and every city. In like manner the expenses of every prosperous business man, or merchant, or farmer, are the increase. The county of Iowa is a bigger and better state today than it ever was before. It cares for the thousands of dependents and unfortunates better than ever before. It does more for the veterinary profession than it ever did before. It is doing more for agriculture, for manufactures, for all industries, than ever before. Above all else it is doing better for education than any other state of the union. Some criticism has been made of the fact that the state of Iowa is thus expanding in every direction. The expenditures have been denounced by the democratic candidate for governor as extravagance and wasteful spending, which purport to show how greatly have the actual expenses of the state increased. These statistics are incorrect, and the conclusions which it is expected the people will draw from them are wholly wrong. In the first place the figures which he gives take no account of the fact that the biennial fiscal periods do not correspond to the calendar periods of those years. But Mr. Porter undertakes to lead his hearers to believe that Gov. Cummins is wholly responsible for the millions which are being spent under appropriations of the state, and that he knows that this is not true. The expenditures which a governor may directly control are few indeed. But even granting that Governor Cummins is responsible for the increased expenditures of the state, or that the executive council has full control, which it has not, the statement and argument of Mr. Porter are about one side of the ledger and does not explain wherein NEAR TO THEIR HEARTS Governor Cummins: "The principle that the government of the United States and the government of the men, and not by its corporations, is nearer to the hearts of the people than any article of partisan faith." the increase shown is, in many respects, apparent and not real. For instance, the books of the state show that in the year just ended the examination of banks, insurance companies and loan and trust companies in the office of the state auditor was $19.722.02. These same books show that previous examination of the state funds for this purpose. Wherein is the difference? The examinations were made previously and they were paid for. But in other cases, the state put them in their pockets and the state's books showed nothing in regard to the same. It was under this old system that insurance examinations were made. The fees and brought scandal upon the state. Under the Cummins administration every cent received for fees of every sort goes into the state treasury and the examiners and brought scandal upon the state. Under the Cummins administration every cent received for fees of every sort goes into the state treasury and the examiners and brought scandal upon the state. Hence the appearance on the ledger of new accounts. But Porter shows only the expense side and conceals the column which shows receipts from the same source. If he gave both sides to the judge the charge by the change. By showing only one side he makes it appear as an added expense to the state. The same condition of affairs exists regards the oil inspection service. Formerly the judge is the state to the state; as a profit. Yet the figures Porter gives shows it now to be an expense. And so it is with many other departments. The books of the state of Iowa are open so that every person may have wherein this increase has been. Here are some items which go to make up the Ten years ago the three state educational institutions were receiving an annual allowance for support and the expenses of $77,041.88; now the allowance is $202.32. In the past five years there has been expended in permanent improvements on the three educational institutions a total of $670,278. In the past five years there has been expended for new buildings at the uncompleted insane hospital at Cherokee, $500- In the same period there was expended for permanent improvements at the other state inane hospitals, $423,688. Ten years ago the cost of the soldiers in the state was $313,469 in two years. Last year the same institution, more a great hospital than merely a resting place for the veterans, cost the state $150,678. More than $121,000 has been spent on the home improvement improvements in the few years. The main building of the school for the deaf at Council Bluffs burned, since which time the state has spent in replacing the same $20,718. The main buildings at Glenwood burned and others were to torn by storms. The state has put $139,968 into permanent improvements there. Aside from the great work being done for the solder in the Marshalltown the state has included in the past three years $132,496.46 on monuments on the southern battlefields. An item of expense to the state under the administration which did not come to any other effect, that of completion of the capitol including repair after the great fire. This cost the state $60,671. Another item of extraordinary pride coming under the state's name was the state historical building, which more than $172,900 has been paid. The state contributed for the building of magnificent live stock pavilion and the building for agriculture, horticulture and dairy departments at the state fair $84,000. It is to the state of paying the salaries of the district and supreme judges of the state is annually more than $19,100. Good deal has been said about the alleged extravagance of the departments directly under control of the governor. Here are the facts: The expense of governor's office is, in fact, to some degree the direct control, and the expense under the administrative buildings, who is appointed by governor. For the period ended July 1, 1877, the expense of these two days was $41,613. For the period ended July 1, 1876, the expense of these same partments was $41,613. Where is the extravagance? THE STATE AUDITOR ON STATE EXPENSE Mr. Carroll Tells the Facts About the expenditures and Defends the Record of the Republican Party. State Auditor B. F. Carroll: The impression seems to prevail that the executive council is responsible for the amount of money raised and expended for state purposes. The council should effect the express will of the legislature. The duty of the council is to see that expenditures have been authorized and are made in compliance with law. That should be borne in mind, however, that a large per cent of the state's funds are not used for expenditures the council either directly or indirectly. The expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, were in round number $35,650,000. More than 80 per cent of the entire amount, or $23,825,000, was expended for the benefit of the state institutions, including the proval of the council. Of the last amount named about $18,300,000 went to institute the three educational institutions, remaining $10,675,000 was expended as lowes: For the general assembly, $12,800,000 for the departments of the state, $18,000,000 for the state militia, $70,000 for miscellaneous municipal matters, historical building, museums, southern battlefields etc. $10,000,000 for the purchase of supplies, fuel, furniture and fixtures, postage, and other expenses. 100 The increase, however, is more than that set by the annual budget for the last year was round numbers $122,000, so that, as a matter of fact, the increase was a product of these sources. Deflecting the items of increase in the salaries of the examiners, boards, et al., under the changed provisions of the law from the departmental departments of state, and withstanding the vast increase in the state expenditure for the last year over the five years ago of less than 5 per cent, which is the state for the state as above shown. That there has been an increase in the expenses of our schools, but that the purpose of which the expenses have been incurred are generally commensal to our education, has been for the maintenance and support of our educational institutions. The legislature may have been liberal in its appropriations for these purposes, but the constitutions, will say that it has been liberal. He who objects should be subject, and which institutes should not have received its aid. Iowa's pride is the richness of its her majesty, and the pride of her citizenship. Nature nurture on the soil, we build our own charm, but our state institutions are our liberality in providing for them. ACT WISELY AS TO THE TARIFF Senator Beveridge: "There has got to be some tariff chances. We are protectionists, we republicans, and not we would be likens alone but practically to American people. Protection of America is industry has become the law of American people, so it's under could destroy it. It would. Our expenses are so immense that the revenue drawn from our country could not possible be reduced, and that bankrupting the treasury will find the law to be so inflexible, absolutely necessary to the world of the government, ought to be so adjusted as to protect American labor and courage American industry. But so far we can't schedule is immortal. When condition is change the tariff schedule that was also is justified to that condition can't be so much change. General revision is foolish and possible. Even a bad tariff was not the issue, but is better than a general change will be the best adjustment of tariff schemes. In the best adjustment of tariff schemes is ever, devices have been of the most significant. SOME OF THE SIGHT, LFS SHOULD BE REVISIONS AND THEY SHOULD BE CHANGING IN THE HIGH TIDE OF OUTPERITY WHEN BUSINESS CAN NOT ADJUST ITSSELF TO THE CHANGING AND NOT IN THE HIGH TIDE OF APPROACH. In the middle of the situation, the change would disturb all business. In the case of the change should be made by the first of the first made the law and by first of the first effective principles. Not by the present that respective law and are as follows: SETTLE IT NOW. Governor Larrabe: "Ober- tions should be submitted to until we have a government of the people by the people and for the people a government of the corporations or for the corporations."