The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-24
A general public meeting Held Last
Evening in the District Court
Rooms to Discuss
Situation.
PETITIONERS ARE OUT
Thirty Of Keokuk's Representative
Business Men Are Securing
Names of Many Of
the Voters.

general public meeting was held
last evening in the district court
room at o'clock to formulate plans
for the circulation of petitions among
the voters of Keokuk to see whether
or not twenty-five per cent Of the
voters of the city would sign petit
ton for the purpose of calling another
city election and run the government
of the city on the commission plan
which has been so widely talked of
recently
Among those present at the meet
ing were representative business men
of the city who have the citys in
tere~ts at heart and the thirty-five or
more who were present last evening
agreed to take petitions among the
voters today, for signing. At nine
O'Clock this morning many of the
committee who are the solicitors had
many names signed to their lists and
by this afternoon it was thought that
more than the required twenty-five
per cent of the voters names of the
| city would have been secured.
The Meeting.
The meeting last evening was gen.
eral public meeting and those pres
ent were enthusiastic for the new
form of government which is decid-
4 ed success in the cities in which 1t
has been tried.
The meeting last evening was call
ed to order by Burton Wilkinson and
4 H. j. Bonham was chosen as cchalr-
man of the meeting and George W..
Walden acted as secretary.
There was much discussion as to
whether or not the petitions should
be started at once, and after much
consideration of the matter it was de-
cided to act Immediately and the Pc
titions were started forth this morning
in the hands of the thirty or more
4 men who form the soliciting commit
tee.
A number thought thaht the petit
tions should be withheld until after
the Des Moines and Cedar Rapids
sneakers have come to t e city and
made plain to the voting public the
plan which has worked so well in
both the cities named. There is a
movement on foot among the bust
nes5 men to have gentlemen from
these two cities come to Keokuk In
the near future for the purpose of de-
Ii ering an address at the opera mouse
or come nuhlic building
For those whom the committee dc
not reach with the petitions, the
same can be found at the following
Main street places of business: H. r
Atom livery stables, Schouten's
ba,.ery. Goodyear repair shop, F I. F
Schmidt. Joseph Sitter, George Mer
riam, Jacob Renwald.
The thirty men composing the com
; mittee were ordered to act in harmony
With g other business men in thell
afforts to Sc ure speakers from out O
town to deliver talks in this city tt
INC nphlic on the commission plan O.
government
Tho netition in the hands OF the
committeeman reads as follows;
To the Honorable Mayor OF the Cit!
of Keokuk:
The undersigned electors of The
citv Of Keoluk ask that the following
nronosition be submitted to the cleo
, tore of said city: "Shai the PROPOSE
t,on to organize the city of keokui
under chapter fourteen-c (14-c) OF tn
supplement to the code so7 as amend
: Cd nv the acts of the Thirty-third Gen
eral Assembly, be adopted?"
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