The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-04-01
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Republican Conni9tess.
Appointed in pursuance of : resolution o.
the Republican City Nominating Convention.
These Committees ara al requested g mees
1t the Recorders Office Monday evenase' =
half past seven o'clock promptly md vi'nou'
fail.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
.Jobn q. Waterman, r. q. Vandergrift, q.
W. Sample, Il. W. Rothert, .. :. Conkiin,
= Davis, A. ). Wilkinson, B. S. Merriam
Il. G. Landes.
CHALLENGING coxNYrTEEs.
First Ward-H. w. Sample, A. Hagny, j.,
W Rodifer, John 8 Mccoy, GeorgeR Smith,
Wilson Barrett.
Second Ward-Thos Berry, 8 McEyany,
+ C Wilson, Thos Conn, c & Walsworth,
Albert Gillespie.
TAird Ward-Sam S Sample, A Highau,
G Hutbell, JB Paul, George Hagney, : a
Samuels.
Fourth Tard-R P Creel, Chas Schulz,
r C Booth. L Hesse, VIM Blom, VIM Woolly.
C~AsyAssING COMMITTEES.
First Ward-D B Hills, a Bridgman, W
T Adair, H a Ayres, Howard Tucker, G
Comstock, Herman Swartz, ! Haines, ) U
Bridges.
Second Tard-AJ Meford, Fl D Bartlett,
Fl Wyand, CE Walswor,h, J c Hughes, Vim
Bunyan, John Bruce, Jas Trimble, John Fox
Third Ward-H Knowles, D Buss, Ed r
B~rownell, ] T GriTey, G 7 Montague, 5
Klein, N McCrea, R D Pipkin, W Collins.
Fourth Ward-H Fulton, CP Birge, NJ
Kenderdiue. Jas Linch, Vim Horn, Peter
Sauer, + II Wickersham, VIM Graham, F
Kepple.
The Cry TREASURY AND THE RISG.-1he
interests OF the City of Keokuk should be
the consideration with all oar
citizens in determining their votes for Mayor
and Aldermen, at the approaching election.
An economical administration of City affairs.
and a reduction Of the present enormous
rate of city taxation, simply to meet the cur-
rent expenses of the City Government, Is not
only essential to our prosperity, but to our
very existence.
During the past two years the city has been
under the control of q Democratic Council
and Democratic policy. Its business and Pc
cuniary affairs seem to have been controlled
By a Ring whose chief aims have been TO
keep up q Democratic majority in the city BY
causing much unnecessary work and enor-
nous and wasteful expenditures on the
streets, 10 give Democratic voters employ
ment. This is a notorious fact, and tits only
less notorious, that individuals, lrishmen at
that, who were known ss Republicans, we're
refused work on the streets for the expressed
reason that their g politics didn't suit But
the controlling motive and purpose, to which
this was but the stepping stone, was to abb
sorb and concentrate the entire proceeds OF
the city taxation into the hands OF the
"Ring,' through and by means OF " Love
Bank and the City Treasurer, d., h. Love-.
In pursuance of that policy, in addition TO
the SIC, 900 which was acknowledged to be
on hand in the City Treasury last year at this
time, S45, 900 more have been levied and coli
lected of the citizens during the currentyear,
making the total sum of $50, 900 to be ac-
counted for by the present Democratic
Council.
This is an enormous sun. to be expended
for ordinary purposes, in a town like this,
where no pablo improvements have been car
ried on. no public buildings erected, and only
the ordinary expenses met.
But we shall be told that this sum has not
all been expended for these purposes. True
enough; the Treasurer Of the city, the Presi-
dent of the Bank mainly run by the public
aud private funds deposited in it, is q default
er for the sum Of twenty thousand dollars.
| And this ring have manipulated the wires
10 secure the nomination for Mayor to one of
the bondsmen Of the detaultirg City Treasu-
| rer. Thus; with a brazen kind Of efrontery
rarely tqualled, the "Ring'' have succeeded
in giving the control of this important mat.
ter of the suit on the Treasurer bond to one
of the bondsmen.
Now, the Democratic citizens of keokuk,
under the lash Of party drill m asters appoint
ed by the Ring may do that, by their votes
on Monday next, but we assert boldly and
without equivocation, that no mar who is fit
to be outside Of q Lnnatic Asylum, would
employ one Of the ~sureties on a bond due
him, to attend to the collection Of il against
The principal and his securities.
viii the citizens of keokuk be guilty Of
such a piece of arrant folly and knayery in
the affairs Of the city, in whose reputation
and pecuniary condition they have so deep q
personal interest MS citizens and taxpayers.
YESTERDAY evening about s o'clock two
African citizens Of American descent-one