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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

The women not only gave three
cheers, but kept up their cheering
until Mr.. Sunday requested the choir
to sing the "Star Spangled Banner
to restore order. People climbed
over seats to get to each other. and
some threw hats and handkerchiefs
into the air, never to see them again.
The audience was scene of one of
the widest demonstration witnessed
since the meeting began.
1T was possibly the greatest of the
night meetings. The tabernacle was
crowded to the walls and hundreds,
unable to get even standing room.
were turned away. The crowd began
gathering before o'clock, and by I
every seat was occupied with the ex.
ception OF those reserved for the 300
business girls who were late on ac.
count of a spread rendered to them
by Mrs. Muirhead. They marched
from the banquet hall to the taber-
nacle and as they entered they sang
We're Marching Upward to Zion"
The audience arose to their feet and
gave them cheer after cheer.
REV. Mr.. Sunday seemed to re.
ceive an inspiration from the great
crowd and one of his party said to
him: I never heard the boss get it
off just that way before.'"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
THE PRICE OF FooDsTuFFs.

The department of agriculture has
agents in every state and every coun-
t. who have been ordered to report on
the cost of production and the returns
on sales of food products. These
figures will be compared with the
prices the same products bring in the
cities where they are consumed. The
purpose of the investigation is to de-
termine, If possible, who is respon-
sible for the prevailing high prices.
Secretary Wilson says it has already
been discovered that the farmer is
not getting the exhorbitant profits out
o. the beef he raises, and he has no
doubt that the same conditions pre-
vail in most other lines of farm pro-
ducts. Mr.. Wilson is convinced that
the public is compelled to pay great
deal more for nearly everything it
eats than it should. and he intends to
bring out the truth, irrespective of
whom it hurts or whom it benefits.
In this good work consumers of food
products everywhere will bid him
godspeed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS.

One of number of suggestions in
Postmaster General Hitchcocks an
nual report worthy of especial notice
and endorsement is that residents in
free delivery cities provide themselves
more generally with mail boxes to re-
lieve carriers of the necessity of ring
ing door bells and waiting for them
to be answered. This might well be
made subject for legislation. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars would
be the resultant saving. Another is
that the thousands of local postoffices
ali over the country be organized into
districts for the better direction OF the
postal business. He suggests giving
city postmasters authority over the
postmasters in the country towns. The
latter would report to and get author
ity from the city postmaster and he
would be responsible to the central Of
fee at Washington This would assure
more direct, and, it is believed, better
supervision.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
than they ought y for their produce,
no matter what may happen to it
after It is out of their hands.
FRAILEY is A CANDIDATE.
Popular Fort Madison Attorney viii
Enter the Lists for Attorney
Gnnoraf


Davenport Times: Announcement
was made In Davenport this morning
that Joe r. Frailey of TT. Madison
Iowa. has announced himself as a
candidate for the nomination for at
torney general of Iowa on the Repub-
lican ticket.
The announcement comes to Dav-
export with much interest, as Mr..
Frailey has host of personal friends
In this city. He is a graduate of
Iowa University. and was classmate
Of many Davenport people while in
college.
Mr.. Frailey is also former district
deputy of the Elks OF Iowa, and In
this capacity has visited In Davenport
many times.
Mr.. Frailey is now city attorney Of
Ft. Madison. and is considered an at
torney of unusual ability. He gradu-
ated from Iowa University with the
highest honors, and has made for him
self state wide reputation as an at
torney.
Mr.. Frailey has been urged by his
friends to get into the fight fol some
time, and now that H. w Byers has
announced that he wound run for con-
gress, Mr.. Frailey has decided to be a
candidate for the Office
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
THE COMMISSION Plan.

j. w. Duggan. resident Of Los An
geles, Cal, now at Cairo, Ill.,, on a
| visit to relatives, is quoted in the
Cairo Bulletin as saying that Los An
geles has been benefited greatly by
the commission plan of city govern
ment. The new plan has eliminated
all the evils of the old form of gov
eminent and is giving general salts
/ faction. The referendum. and recall
were invoked against the mayor some
months ago, because OF some evils
against which the people protested and
which he refused to correct. An cleo
ton was called and the mayor, see
ing that the people were largely against
him, resigned ten days before the
election
Under such circumstances the gov
eminent of a city is more directly
in the hands of the people and under
their control, and it is proper to hold
them to stricter responsibility for
any evils that may exist in commune
ity. Under the plan OF two-year cleo
tons with no referendum ana recall,
their direct responsibility is very
much minimized and falls upon the Of
ficials during the time for which they
are elected.
The commission form also concen-
trates the responsibility under q few
heads. The mayor can not say then
that he is in the hands of the city
council, composed of fourteen or more
men and must yield to their wishes.
when these are bad, in order to gain
concessions for something that is good
doubtless is true at times.
The Illinois legislature will be asked
at it's coming session to enact law
which will permit cities in that state
to adopt the commission plan if they
choose. 1t is to be hoped it will ac'
cede to the request.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
The Fight on Walter i. smith.

Cedar Rapids Republican: We are
not intimately acquainted with the po-
litical conditions ii. the Ninth district
Of Iowa. the head city of which is Coun-
ell Bluffs, but It would appear as
though foolish political fight is to
be waged in that district. The pres
emf congressman Is Walter I. Smith,
who was district court Judge before
| he was called to congress. He is a
man OF great talents. We would say
that he Is at the present time easily
the ablest man that Iowa has in con
gress. His qualifications are OF the
highest kind and he has had ample
experience. So high is his standing
that he is likely to be the next speak
er of the house in Washington, if he
Is reelected. He is virile and vigor.
GUS and fair and there is at the
present time no one in congress who
! Is better qualified for the speakership.
OF course the speakership would be
a high honor for Iowa and would give
back to the state some OF the prom
fnence and power In national affairs
that 1T has lacked at least in the low
err house of congress. The speaker
ship Is a great Office and 1t will be
such even after 1t has been shorn OF
some Of the present rules, as. UNI
doubtedly, it will be.
There Is not thing that can be
said against Walter /. Smith. He has
been faithful and diligent an upright
; man in public life and a good Repub.
lican, il that is any Recommendation
/ nowadays Those who want to depose
him admit all this, but they say. that
he does not belong to their faction
and because he does not so belong
they are willing to rob the state Of
the possible and probable speakership,
and to put in the place of Mr.. Smith
Mr.. Byers who has been attorney
general of the state. good man in.
many ways, but one who can hardly
be said to be equal to Mr.. Smith.
If the Ninth district at this time
! should make such an exchange II
! would be almost political crime.
! Those who had hoped that there might
| be period OF rest from factional pol
/ itics in Iowa are beginning to see that
1 their hopes are not to be realized.
Iowa, apparently is to continue to
devote more time to politics, to see
| ing who gets the offices than it is to
business. The politicians are to con.
tinue the top-liners in the newspapers
| instead Of the men who build factories
and develop the agricultural resources
Of the state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
REVIVAL OF cAR.eulLplNe.

1t is an encouraging sign of the
times that during the last year fifty
three car building companies in the
United states and Canada (output of
one small plant estimated) built 96,419
cars, which is % per cent more than
the number built in 1908. These fig
ures include subway and elevated cars,
but not street railway and interurban
cars. 1t must be remembered, also.
that the output OF railway companies
shops is not included. OF the cars
built in the United States, 84,41s were
freight cars for domestic service, 2,435
freight for export, 2,509 passenger
cars for domestic service and $50 pas
senger for export OF the freight cars,
63,763 We're OF steel or had steel un.
derframes; Of the passenger cars,
$50. Canada built 6,661 freight cars
for domestic service, ffty-eight for ex.
port, ninety-nine passenger cars for
domestic and one passenger car for
export. In 1908 Canada built 1888
freight cars and seventy-nine passen.
ger cars.
The number Of cars and locomotives
built during the year is but little
4 greater than the 1908 figures, in
spite of the Improvement in genera
business conditions, but it really has
been only few months since the
railways came into the market witt
substantial inquiries, and deliveries
on orders placed at the beginning Of
this movement did not begin until il
the fall.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
SUNDAY sTIRs JOPLIN.
Missouri Town Gets Touch Of Moral
Reform.

Billy Sunday Is stirring up the
stirred before. Up to date the re-
suits of his meetings are as follows
A raid on the Conner Hotel, a $780,
600 structure which is said to have
harbored gamblers and still more I'M
desirable characters.
Conversions number 1905.
Council unanimously passes an or
dinance ordering the pool halls to
close on Sunday.
Council of Joplin passes an ordin.
ance for the holding Of local option
election January 27.
Webb City council are petitioned to
order similar local option election.
In Joplin the Sunday School super
intendent Of the Congregational
church is fined $500 for having rented
his property for immoral purposes.
And the end is not yet.
One Of the newspapers has fam
ing editorial set in bold faced type
two columns wide. criticising evangel-
\ iSLS WllO WDlh LOT TeCOTO-UT6dRlUH
free will offerings and contrasting
them with GYPSY Smith who works on
a salary
! The same paper-which has been
only moderately friendly to the Sun.
day movement. points out that the
Sunday School superintendent who
/ was fined $500 for renting his prop
/ erty to be used as a red-light dive. is
one of the signers OF the local option
/ petition.
! It's fight to finish down in Jop.
lin and Sunday seems to be enjoying
it. Here Is what the Joplin News
Herald the paper which has been
friendly to him since the beginning
has to say about IT.
When word reached the tabernacle
last night that the city council had
passed the ordinance granting ydte
on the local option question Rev
Billy Sunday mounted cnalr on
the platform and requested the audi
ence to stand with the 172 converts
who were already on their feet. ant
j give three cheers for the councilmen
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
represent the district whose interests
he serves so worthily and well.

An exchange remarks that Doctor
Cook, the explorer, is a great man.
however his North Pole trip pans out
If he reached the pole he outdiid Sill
John Franklin, Melville, Greeley, Peary
Nansen, Andre and all the rest of the
bunch. If he didn't get there he
clearly outclassed Baron Munchausen
Marco Polo, Gullivg, Cagliostre. Ana
Mas and P. T. Barn1m. 1t will have to
be admitted that whichever way YOU
look at it Cook is a great man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
JOKE ON THE JOKER.
Iowa city Business Man Kept In Hot
Water Through Advertise


IOWA CITY, Jan. 5.--A local grocer
who recently advertised that he would
pay so cents for 1909 pennies is
wondering If 1t is worth while to try tc
play joke on the public. On going
to the store the next morning he was
met by more than score OF persons
with from one to fifty pennies OF the
coinage OF 1909. He explained that
his terms were not to pay 50 cents
each, but that he meant he would pay
so cents for 1909 different pennies.
However. the store continued to be
visited and the telephone continued to
ring. The last man to respond Is a
Californian who sent along thirty pen
ries and respectfully asked that he be
paid SIS.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
ventilate.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The sug-
gestion now and here, in the midst Of
this severe winter in Iowa, that we
don't get enough fresh air may seem
ironical. Nevertheless, 1t Is the truth,
To be sure, We get sufficient fresh air
while out of doors, but in our houses
how Is 1t there? Too often the house
In which We live is as nearly .lermeti-
cally sealed all winter as we can pos
sibly make it. We do this to be COM
Portable. 1t Is mistaken plan. Com
fort, lasting comfort, doesn't lie, along
that line That Is the route to disease,
bad health, suffering, Iisery. Too
much emphasis can not be laid on the
need for ventilation In our houses In
the winter season. To breathe vitiat.
ed, dead air is to court sickness
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
FRAlLEy FOR ATTORNEY GEN.
ERAL.

Mr. Joseph R. Frailey, the brilliant
| young Fort Madison attorney, will be
i a candidate before the statewide pr
maries next spring for the Republican
nomination for attorney general o.
Iowa He is assured strong and en-
thusiastic support in this part of the
state where he is best known and II
is confidently anticipated that his can
didacy win rapidly gain popularity
and strength as his merits and claims
come to the knowledge of the rank
and file of voters elsewhere.
Mr.. Frailey is Lee county product
and one in which it takes pardonable
pride. He was born and reared in
Fort Madison and has lived in that
city all his life. He graduated from
the State University of Iowa, collegi-
ate department, in 1898, and from the
law department in 1900. Since the lat.
ter date he has been engaged in the
practice of the law at Fort Madison
and has forged to the front as one Of
the leaders of the Lee county bar.
During the Spanish-American war he
was second lieutenant of Company F,
Fiftieth Iowa Regiment, U. S. Volun-
teers, and made for himself a fine rec
ord as a soldier. He is now serving
his third term as city attorney of Fort
Madison, long a Democratic strong
hold. The last two terms he was
elected without opposition. These
facts attest his standing where his
life from the first has been an open
book and known to all
1t is not too much to anticipate that
Mr.. Frailey's candidacy will be a popu-
lar one, with excellent prospects of
success. He is widely known through
out the state by university graduates
who will take pleasure in promoting
his interests by all proper means in
their power. He is also widely known
as one of the most eloquent and en-
gaging orators of the day. His serv-
ices are in constant demand in this
capacity and he is everywhere heard
with interest and profit. In a polit-
zeal way, he has served the Repub-
lican party as speaker in every cam
paign since 1896. In addition to these
things, he is thoroughly verssd in the
law and an honor to his profession.
Native ability. careful study, perfect
training and valuable experience COM
bine to qualify him for satisfactory
discharge OF tho duties of the positiOn
70 which he aspires.
Southeastern Iowa has not been rep
resented at the state capital by an at
torney general, as recollection runs,
for half a century or more In ask
ing for the nomination and election
of Mr.. Frailey this section of the
state is simply asking for what is just
ly its due. Its claims to recognition
are the more pronounced and the less
to be denied because Of the merits of
the candidate it presents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

The announcement has been yir-
tlaoy made that Smith w Brookhart
Of Washington will be a candidate for
congress- in this district in opposition
to Hon. G A. Kennedy It is any.
ones privilege, of course, to make a
contest but it isn't at all likely that
First district Republican voters will
set aside so capable and efficient and
acceptable a representative as Mr..
Kennedy has shown himself to be in
order to crafty The personal ambition
OF new, untried ard inexperienced
man. There would be neither good
business nor political sense in such
a move. II may be safely assumed
that Mr. Kennedy will continue to
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

President James of the University
OF Illinois is out in a letter opposing a
federal appropriation for the benefit
of the George Washington university
in the District Of Columbia. 1t is
proposed that the appropriation be
made pnder the guise of establishing
an agricultural college there. Presi
dent James declares the college is q
private one and in a bad way financial
II. and that in case it is given federal
aid there are others just as worth,
that viii ask the same. Senator Dol
liver is chairman of the senate com
',fttee heving the matter in charge
leree Iowa influence will be strons
in TIE mat, er.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

& recent paragraph in The Gate City
~ reference to Col. Lafe Young
prompts the unregenerate editor of
e1e Cedar Rapids Gazette to say.
s~The Keokuk Gate city thinks Col.
Lafayette Young would make first
rate secretary of war. Indeed he
would. In addition to having a fine
Spanish war record, the colonel has
q fierce look and a firm belief that
he can't be licked"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

The Des Moines Capital believes
this is the first time in the history OF
Iowa that one-half of the Republican
party has ever felt called upon to
make formal declaration of war
upon the other half It is to be hoped
it is also the last time
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

just as he was putting the finishing
touches on the Harvesting arrange
ments he says to himself, This horse
has horns" He brought out his Ian
tern and found he had harnessed a
,ow to the wagon. He muttered, I'm
drunk enough now unhitched the
beast and went to bed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

There were more than 5000 births
in MINNEAPOLIS during the past year.
This is at rate of 500 month.
The conclusion is warranted that the
stork was a very busy bird in that
community in 1909.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

After weeks deliberation, Govern
or Carroll has appointed County At
torney Lawrence DeGraff of Des
Moines as the successor of Judge
Jesse A. Miller, resigned. The ap-
pointee will enter upon his duties as
district Judge at once.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
Amendment Proposed.

st. Paul Pioneer Press: Anyway,
Dr. Cook lied like a gentleman says
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat Move
to amend by striking out the words
like g gentleman"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil has
promised to remain neutral In the con-
gressional campaign in the Ninth dis
.trict. 1t is possible. of course, for it
to adhere to this program. but if it
does it will miss lot of fun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

The much-advertised January
thaw" fails to materialize with as
much persistency as insurgent votes
In southeastern Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

Mr.. Morse says he is the victim of
the most brutal sentence ever pro
nounced against citizen of a civil
lzed country" Mr.. Morse is evidently
feeling the halter draw
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

A writer in the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat complains that these fire.
uuent sleet storms make him tired
rubber tired. His experience is not
exceptional.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

A Chicago concern advertises "An
easy way to wash" 1t is suggested by
Bert Lester Taylor in the Tribune that
the easiest way is to omit the ears
and back of the neck.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

The Springfield Register after scan
ming the horizon tells Speaker Can
hon that he will have to look to Iowa
for his short Cummins.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

1t has been remarked that lots of
people are just idiotic enough 10
think they aren't This is the most
discouraging feature of the situation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
Look for the Trouble Else.yre r..

st. Louis Republic: In his inquiry
into food prices Secretary Wilson of
the department IF agriculture will find
that the farmers are getting no more
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

Authorities are divided as to which
is the more difficult to keep-a good
resolution or the new diary COM
menced at the beginning of the year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

The consumption of corn by Peoria
distilleries fell off 100000 bushels
last year as compared with 1908. 1t
doesn't follow, however. that the out
put of spirits was lessened CORE
spondingly. AS the price of & IN goes
up the spiritual possibilities OF the
golden grain increase.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

The Kewanee Star-Courier suggests
that il you want to see Halley's comet
without the air of telescope just
walk downtown without wearing rub
bers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05

1t is the observation of the Sioux
City Tribune that what a man does
when man calls him a liar, is apt to
depend upon the size of the man who
does the calling.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-05
Advertising to Bear ToIis7

large part of the publications distrib-
uted at second class rates, it is urged
that by following this plan sufficient
increase in revenue can be effected
without any additional postage charge
on the legitimate reading matter in
periodicals.
No matter which OF these plans
shall be adopted or whether the sim
pier method now in force of charging
fiat rate on all second class mail
shall be continued, some substantial
advance in postage rate on such mail
should be made in order to reduce the
tremendous losses the GOV eminent
revenues now are suffering from this
source"
Mr.. Hitchcock concludes with fig
ures showing that the rural delivery
service Is another expensive feature
the annual loss from this source being
$2s0DO,000 a year. Although the IA
cilities for circulation Of newspapers
and magazines and for the delivery of
mail on rural routes have conferred
vast benefits on the public, Mr.. Hitch
cock believes that the present state
Of our national finances is such as to
render desirable an earnest considera-
ton of their cost"