The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-30

| ME SHOULD OF BE PERMITTED
/ TO REMAIN IN OFFICE ANOTHER
DAY, NOR ANOTHER HOUR; THAT
4 GOVERNOR CARROLL SHOULD DE-
i MAND HIS ESIGNATION AT ONCE,
+ IMMEDIATELY, AND THAT IF THE
RESIGNATION WAS NOT AT ONCE
4 FORTHCOMING, COWNIE SHOULD
+ BE REMOVED. My information is,
also. that you, Mr.. Ingham. did not dis
sent from the view expressed by the
publisher of the paper which you edit,
! THUS GIVING TACIT AGREEMENT
TO THE. VERDICT REACHED BY
MIR. COWLES UPON THE EVIL
DENCE AS PRESENTED.
! My information is, also, that when
in response to Mr.. Cowles' emphatic
statement as to what he would do in
the matter. Governor Carroll asked
him he did not believe the affidavits
worthy of belief. Mr.. Cowles said
that re did so believe that the gov
ernor should act at once.
Now, Mr.. Ingham, the people of this
state are interested in knowing w-eth-
er these things as set forth above are
true or false. They want to know
LIST. If Governor Carroll did or did
not invite you and Mr.. Cowles to his
office
End. If Governor Carroll did or did
not present to you and Mr.. Cowles
the affidavits upon which he based
and bases his action in demanding
John Cowrie's resignation?
3rd II Gardner Cowles did, or did
not, use tie language, in substance,
attributed to him above
4th If Gardner Cowles did or did
not say in your presence that If one
half the statements contained in the
affidavits were true, he, the governor,
should not wait day, nor an hour,
in demanding Cownie's resignation;
and if he did, or did not say, that If
the resignation was not at once forth
coming, he, Cownie, should be immedi-
ately removed?
9Th. Whether, when this converse
ton occurred, if 1t did occur, you Of
iStSA dtlA opPOSltioA W tEC tOuC US
ions reached by Gardner Cowles; or
whether you did not tacitIy agree
with such conclusions; and whether
you did not by your silence, if you
We're silent, practically endorse the
advice given the governor by Gardner
Cowles, viz, that Cownie should be
taken off tie board at once because
of tile things alleged to have been
done by him?
Another unpublished chapter of this
controversy had reference to Fitzger-
aid. who had been superintendent of
the Mitchellyille school and lad been
removed for cause You know that
Cownie was the friend of Fitzgerald,
both before and after his removal
from the superintendcy of the Mitch
ellville institution.
Don't you know, also, that Governor
Carroll had affidavits to the effect
that Fitzgerald and another man had
taken girls from the school and to an
other house and there subjected them
to every indignity imaginable and
made them prey to their lust?
Don't you know that Cownie, when
Governor Carroll demanded his resig-
nation, did not. as he says, consult
with his wife concerning the course to
be pursued, but that he did go to How
ard Clark, his legal adviser. and that
Clark, having become advised as to
the evidence in the possession of tire
governor, advised Cownie to resign at
once?
Don't you know that Cownie, acting
upon that advice, returned to Cover.
/ or CARROTS office and stated that he
would hand in his resignation before
the first OF the following month; that
| Governor Carroll told him that would
not do; that he must have it at once;
and that, thereupon, Cownie wrote out
/ and handed In his resignation. thus
ending his connection with the public
affairs of the state?
! You, Mr.. Ingham, are the professed
/ advocate OF square DEAL in public
matters. You belong to the reform
brigade in Iowa politics. You boast
OF your insurgency and condemn AMI
villify every man from the President
down, who refuses to eat out of tie
hand of the junior senator, or to fetch
and carry at his command.
You write of the eternal verities,'
/ ana undertake to make the public be.
lieve that you and yours o5cupv a
higher moral plane in politics than
tGose who do not find it necegsary to
stand in the market places and beat
their breasts while loudly thanking
their God that they are not like other
men, You are continually looking for
''jokers" in legislation and the day il
not complete If you do not find some
peg upon which to hang the charge
that President Taft is a double-dealer
that he is dishonest, that he is owned
by the interests and that tho old
leaders OF the Republican party arc
daily betraying the people into the
hands OF the Phiistines. Reform with
you has grown to be mania. Insurs