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instance tried the same case 8,
and that in no instance bas 'F'
versed or modified decision
made. 'a onc
In still another circular tho
superintendent is referred to :. sa
unspeakable Riggs" and be - q
clared to be an aristocrat who'll, y
Of sympathy with the CONNIE 0a
pie. Here again Mr.. Miller l. ps|
peculiar position to know the -,
for it has been within his n,. 10y
observation that the state suuerint.u
ent was born and reared on an loS
farm. that he worked his W.
through college while supnort,, W
widowed mother, that t1us hs,,
capped he Won the honors Of his a,.
by sheer force of energy and dos. ~
perseverance, and that no man %, :
Iowa today enters more symnatboa
ally into the life and struggles Of \
common people than he does
1t must be admitted by Demo,..
as we'll as Republicans that these :
very unfair tactics in any camn,i.
and especially in a campaign bav,'
to do with the education and tho i
waiting of standards. Superintenao
Riggs has spent four strenuous vo,
in his office working faithfully ,
better schools and better teach,
for Iowa, and he is entitled to 7,
sort OF consideration faithful serv,
everywhere receives.
Mr.. Miller and his friends sho,
be in better business than attem
ing to build themselves up by pullj
faithful publisc officia! do
through Misrepresentation and h
truths.
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The Campaign Against Riggs.

Des Moines Register and Leader:
One of the surprises Of the cam
paign is the expensive and in many
respects unfair fight that is being
made to defeat State Superintendent
Riggs. The policies of the depart
ment are not being criticised so much
as he personally is being presented
in an unfavorable light before the
voters.
As an illustration of the methods
of Mr. Miller's friends-and it may
be said that no Republican has at
tempted to discredit Mr.. Miller per
sonally or as an educator-it is be-
ing industriously peddled about that
tae state superintendent has made a
ruling with reference to the rights
of country students in town schools
that is entirely without warrant. This
report has been sent by Mr.. Miller's
friends to the school boards of the
state weeks after Mr.. Miller has had
the real decision, and has known
that the exact opposite was what has
been decided.
1t is also being industriously circu-
lated, On the strength of a state
ment made by Superintendent Backus
of Kossuth county, in the heat off the
primary campaign, that the state SUI
perintendent is an aggressive and
partisan standpatter. Although, at tae
time, Mr. Riggs published statement
to the effect that he was not fac
ZIONIST and had never been one, and
that it was absolutely without foun.
dation that he had been fighting
Governor Cummins, Mr.. Miller's
friends now say that the statement
has never been denied" and is
clearly established"
Another statement sent out in one
of these campaign folders at consid-
cradle expense for postage is to the
effect taat Mr.. Riggs, having rendered
a decision in certain case, after.
ward took 1t back and reversed him
self, the intention being evidently to
picture the state superintendent as
vacillating-a very amusing charge
to those who know him. The rec.
ords of his office, with which Mr..
Miller should be familiar, will show
that Superintendent Riggs has in nc
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16
Why.

Des Moines Capital: 1t is generally
stated and believed that consider
able number of workingnen residing
in Iowa, who have heretofore been
voting for Roosevelt and in the main
the Republican ticket are intending to
vote for BRYAN and in the main for
the Democratic ticket. 1t is presumed
they base their change of faith on the
promises the Democrats have made to
the working men.
IT is A serious thing for the working
men to be talking about turning the
country over to the Democrats. The
Democrats are practical free traders.
ured terms
The working men should know that
the tariff is the only thing which
keeps wages up in the United States.
1t is the tariff and the good wages
that cause 100000 men and women
each year to come to the United
States.
1t is the tariff which gives Ameri-
can men employment. u is the tariff
that is making the public demain so
valuable that 100000 men are in South
Dakota attempting to secure farms
from the government
1t is the tariff which makes the
United States different from any other
country in the world
1t is mistake to suppose that ev-
erything would go along just as well
with Democratic President and Dem.
ocratic house Every business man
knows differently.
Business would be at a standstil
under Bryan. The election of BRYAN
wou.d be a much more severe shock
to the business interests of the coun.
try than was the panic of October a
year ago. Tho country is recovering
from the panic. 1t would not recover
from Bryan's election until Bryan's
term should be out. Colorel Bryan
is too uncertain. He is a poet, an
orator, dreamer. He is not practi.
cal man.
| 1t is not surprising. however, that
men are disposed to think that they
! can have good times In this country
/ under a tariff that would food the
/ country with imported goods. There
has been no rational discussion Of the
tariff since 1895. There are millions
of voters today who have never read
any of the literature of the tariff ant
have never heard anything but de
nunciation of its so-called iniquities
They have heard the tariff denounced
as something corrupt which has bull
up trust and caused high prices. The
! trusts have been built up because
business has been booming. You car
destroy the trusts Unfortunately b,
! DESTROYING business Unfortunately
President Roosevelt has advocated the
control of trusts and combinations ii
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

With pardonable pride Mr. Ballard
calls attention to the fact that except
In the last item-the shrinkage in
American commerce carried in Amer
lean vessels-the whole of the fore
going, as record of progress under
protection appeals favorably to each
of us personally. AS he points out,
the record shows more duties collect
ed per capita and lower per capita
per cent cost of collection; an in
crease of s4.05 per capita In public
school expenditure, in spite of the
more than 90 per cent increase in pop
ulation; an increase of 1890 per cap
ita in the money in circulation; de-
crease of 1886 per capita in the pub
lie debt; per capita increase Of
1.22 in government revenue after de-
Quoting the s1.63 per capita increase
II government expenditure; per
capita increase of s71S, in our exports,
or gain of about one-third, even
though our population increased over
one-ffth an increase of nearly one
fourth in the percentage which the
products of our factories form of our
total exports; an increase of 1916
pounds per capita in the consumption
of American raw cotton by American
mills; increase of POI bushels per
capita in our consumption of wheat
and -four, and of nearly thirteen
pounds per capita in sugar consump-
ton. even with the 25 per cent In
crease in our population,
The wise suggestion is volunteered
that in the coming work of tariff adj
justment in necessary details, great
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The Daily Gate City

a way to keep business going on.
Colonel Bryan has advocated doctrines
for the destruction of trusts which
would destroy everything else.
If the working men want business
to continue they ought to vote for
Taft and the Republican nominees for
congress. Taft is pledged to carry on
the work which has been so gloriously
carried on by President Roosevelt.
For twelve years the Republican party
has been doing everything for the
United States which intelligence and
courage could suggest. Why make "a
change now?
Why not vote the Republican ticket
in order that we may have four years
of prosperity?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

According to one Democratic news
paper Congressman Kennedy should
be defeated because he will vote for
Cannon for speaker of the house, while
another First district Democratic
newspaper of equal standing and au
thority tells its readers to vote against
him because he will not support Mr..
Cannon for speaker of the house while
will be excused from answering their
impertinent inquiries until they set
tie this important preliminary be-
tween themselves.
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The Democratic Burlington Ga
zette's reasons why Congressman Ken
nedy should support Cannon for speak.
er should commend themselves to
keokuk Democrats, whose organ in
sists he will support Uncle joe for
that office. Vice versa. the Demo-
cratic Keokuk Constitution Demo
Gratis reasons why Congressman Ken
nedy should not support Cannon for
speaker should be appreciated by Bur
lington Democrats, whose organ de-
clares he will not support the present
speaker for another term. We sug.
gest that the two Democratic papers
swap their arguments on the subject
for the delectation of their respective
readers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16
THE SAME OLD BRYAN.

William Allen White sees in the
Democratic candidate for the Presl'
dency the same old Bryan and says
so in language that is plain in the cur
rent issue of Golfers Weekly. Though
condemning the Nebrask.-n as pollt'
ically untrustworthy, Mr. White gives
him credit for honesty of Purpose ana
forcefulness. despite all the talk
of new Bryan" Mr.. White says that
whenever Bryan himself joins the con-
versation it becomes obvious that ne
is the same old Bryan. There is no
new Bryan. He has not gone forward,
Mr.. White adds:
Much of the spirit of the Omaha
platform, or the Ocala platform, was
embodied in the platform adopted by
the Denver convention, and the crown
of thorns and cross of gold speech
might just as we'll have been delivered
in support of the Denver platform as
dozen years ago.
Bryan could have taken his party
with him farther than he took it in
Denver. and If the country would fol
low as far as the Denver platform, it
would be willing, as the saying is, to
have at least look in upon other
vistas of reform. And surely the
Populists of 80 were not the people
and wisdom did not perish with them !!
.'Of course-and this beautifully IL
Illustrates the point-Mr. Bryan will re-
ply that the Denver platform is half
league ahead of the Republican plat
form of this year. Which may be
true, but it does not satisfy the charge
that Mr.. Bryan is the same old Bryan
of the COS. And the fact that he has
sterilized the Omaha and Ocala plat
forms of the Populists, and is serving
them today in reasonably perfect
state of preservation to the militant
Democracy is evidence of his ability
as a scientific politician. but it is not
evidence of his intellectual capacity.
Practically the only thing ahead of
Mr.. Bryan If he lives to rim again and
again is the advocacy of the initiative
and referendum, for that is the onlv
reasonable proposition left III .ne old
Populist platforms not advocated at
Denver
''In a dozen years he has lived to
see his protest AGAINST the inequa lities
of the distribution of the wealth of
the people become eminently respect
able. In another dozen years, when
he il still hale young man of sixty
he may see many demands of this
Denver platform enacted into the law
of his land Rut his temperament is
not the stuff from which Americans
usually take their administrative SCR
wants. Moses give tho law b,,t he did
not enter the promised land
Mr.. White gives Bryan credit for
being real force in American affairs
Whatever material rewards may pass
him, his place in the history OF these
times may not be gainsaid." But he
is not trustworthy because his life's
business has been to protest. to pro
nounce. to proclaim, to cry out, but not
to adiudge, He was as useful as the
judge of his day, but this is not his
day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

The Minneapolis Journ foresees
that If Mr.. Bryan is defeated again
they will begin to tell the story of the
widow on him. This young and attrac.
tive helpmate had lost hree husbands,
and the clergyman, who was some
thing of stranger, when he came to
mention the widow in his prayer, be-
came confused. He said: And now
we commend to thy care this widowed
handmade, who has been Der oaved
again and again and again. Then, hes
itating an instant, he added, And per
haps again"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16
The Observation-Disclosures

The observation-disclosures, the
Democratic paper in this city, de-
mands the defeat of Congressman
Kennedy On the ground that If elected
he will vote for Uncle Joe" Cannon
for speaker of the house. On the 9th
er hand, the Burlington Gazette, also
a Democratic paper, insists that Ken
nedy shall be defeated on the ground
that he wouldn't vote for Cannon.
The opposition to Congressman Ken
nedy is evidently in need of manag-
ing editor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

Recurring to unfinished business"
the esteemed Chicago Tribune invites
the attention of the congregation to
the fact that an election of unusual
and commanding Importance is to be
decided two weeks from next Tues
day. Now that baseball no longer
holds the center of the stage it will
perhaps be possible to give some at
tention to the choice of chief mag
istrate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16
Murmurs Of the Doueh-Bag.

l am the Dough-Bag.
l am that
Without which politics
Is mighty flat,
Stale and Improbable.
I'm the 1t
Which makes the campaigns
Get up and git.
l recognize no party; l
Am broader in my scope, and try
To reach all parties, great and small
AS benefactor of them all.
That's me,
See?
And when I put my contents where
The needy ones can get their share,
BY heck! the way they crowd around,
And push and shove and crowd the
ground,
To get whack at what's inside,
Stirs up my patriotic pride
And makes me glad that | can be
An agent of prosperity.
Oh, say,
No narrow way
For me, nor party lines;
My benefaction shines
For all who need the stuff
To make their paths less rough,
To make it easier to save ~
The nation from a pauper's grave.
Breathes there man with soul SO
dear
Who never to himself hath said:
Strike, till the last armed foe ex
pires!
Strike, for your affairs and .-our fires
Strike, for the country of your s:res!
But, men and brethren, strike darn
slow,
Unless you've got bag of dough?"
If there is,
He'll be all to the pazziz
In the final round up and he'll find
His band wagon away behind
That's what, gents.
And you'll never be
Short on patriots
While you're long on me-
w. j. Hampton in New York World
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keokuk Iowa. -. October IS, 1908

do not at all advocate that a man
should adhere to party against high
principle and conviction, but this life
Is all series of compromises by
which little by little, and step by
step, progress toward better things is
made. We must achieve what we can
at the time we can, and must let 9TH
er aims and objects Of the highest
good abide different opportunity
for their William H.
Taft.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16
OUR DEBT TO THE TARIFF.

In an interesting and informing ar
.icle in the American Economist Mr..
Waiter ]. Ballard the well-known sta
tistician and authority on economic
subjects, tells of our personal debt to
the tariff and makes it clear that If 1t
had not been for the Accommodations
We were able to make as nation and
as individuals, since the Dingley
tariff was enacted on July "a, 1897,
the recent financial disturbance would
have left us in state of complete in
dustrial, commercial and financial
prostration. Instead of that, however,
we suffered only a temporary setback,
and are now gradually but surely re-
turning to normal conditions, with a
sound basis for progression upward
again. The progress we made be-
tween July, 1897, and October, 1907
ten years and quarter-was unpre-
cedented in this or any other coun-
try. AS Colonel Albert Clarke says
in the just published Encyclopedia of
Social Reform:
Lands have been drained, irrigated
and fortified, buildings and machin-
cry improved and increased. many
of miles of permanent roads
built, most of the older cities ex-
tensively rebuilt, railroads and rail-
ways extended, double tracked and
electrified as never before, motor
boats and motor carriages introduced,
mines and quarries and factories en-
larged and increased in number,
schools and religious and charitable
erected (and endowed),
islands acquired and helped with
generous hand, powerful navy and
hundreds of public buildings con
structed, municipal and national debts
reduced, and the total wealth in
creased from seventy-seven billions of
dollars in 1895 to one hundred and
eight billions in 1906"
In further proof of his statements
Mr.. Ballard presents the following
partial record of our progress under
the present Dingley protective tariff.
The figures were obtained from the
bureau of statistics and are, there
fore, official and trustworthy:
FISCAL WEARS
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

Nothing lies worse than facts ex-
cept figures" When Canning said
this he had not seen any of the
American postal card canvasses. The
New York World has just made
postal card canvass of part of New
York, etc.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Globe-Democrat should know
that the only reliable postal card can
vases are those which show a large
preponderance of votes in favor of
Taft.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

Hon. James Mckinney, representa-
tive in congress from the Fourteenth
Illinois district and candidate for re-
election, has been honored with the
presidency of the Illinois Bankers
Association. He has been a banker
at Aledo, H., all his life since gradu-
ating from Monmouth College. His
many friends will rejoice because of
this additional honor that has come
to him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

Candidate Tracy distinctly antagon-
lied the local Representatives of organ
lied labor in his speech in this city on
Wednesday evening. Both what he
said and his manner of saving it were
highly offensive. Organized labor in
Keokuk will register its opinion of
Mr.. Tracy at the polls two weeks from
next Tuesday
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

cared for as 1t should be. Messrs.
Trump and Wilson constitute IN es-
pecially strong team, both at the polls
and as public officials. The majority
In their favor should Re handsome
one in keeping with their merits.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

Raymond" says in the Chicago Tri-
bune that unless all signs fail the
growth of Socialism will prove harm
full to Bryan's chances. This with the
detection of the independence party
vote, which is largely Democratic, will
contribute to his defeat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

A sociologist who has made study
of the wages paid the 100000 of
women working for a living says
that the low standard is due to a great
extent to the fact that many women
who live at home and have no need
to work are occupied simply for the
sake of making pin money and conse-
quently cut down the wages of those
needing the money.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

What Cheer Chronicles: Major Lacey
says it will be a great pleasure
for him to come out and fight for the
entire Republican ticket and do all in
his power to elect every candidate on
the ticket. No man in the state stands
higher in the estimation OF his friends
than does Major Lacey. and ne Is
brilliant statesman as well as thor
ough man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

The baseball writer's on the leading
daily papers in the country have or
ganized themselves into an associa-
ton. Happily they can not do any,
thing worse to the language than they
nave done without org. Liked effort.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16
Boys Ambitions,

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Now all
then you see a boy who would like 1
be President of the United Stats
some day. The woods are full of litti
fellows who would like to be Han
Wagner, or a ry Cobb or a Mordec,
Brown.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

The old soldiers of Keokuk, in com
mon with the veterans of the civil war
Ill over the staate, are in line for
Major Lacey. 1t is the first time they
have had chance to vote for one of
their own number for United States
senator and they will improve it glad
lv
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

Editor Rinelart of the Des Moines
Tribune has challenged Lafe Young
to meet him in joint debate. Political
life must have lost all its attractions for
Editor Rinehart.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

John T. McCutcheon in the latest
issue Of his Daily Tattletale" in the
Chicago Tribune hits off the Ne,
York situation about right He says
Governor Hughes is running on a
moral issue in an immoral commu-
nifty.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

care must be exercised SO that not
one Of the conditions which have re-
suited in our large and beneficial debt
to it as it now stands, is eliminated
emasculated, or rendered of no future
value to each of us personally.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16
The 8. M. Clark schoo,

To the Editor of The Gate City:
Keokuk's new school building shoul
be named the S. M. Clark, in honor
the worthy editor, as we'll as an HON
to the city. JASPER BLINES
Alexandria, Mo.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

Candidate Tracy is not without his
uses. In his speech in Leiderkranz
hall in this city Wednesday evening
he gave very good illustration of
how not to capture the labor vote.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-16

California may safely BIZ challenged
to equal the weather this section has
been enjoying Of late. Iowa falls are
rroverbially fine and this is one of the
best