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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
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Mr.. John Lively, one Of Elvaston's
highly respected citizens, died at his
residence in Elvaston Wednesday
afternoon at FIVE O'Clock. Mr..
Lively had been in poor health for
several years, but for three months
he has been a patient sufferer. Mr..
Lively owns a furm just inside the
corporate limits of Elvaston but has
been living for few years in the VII
lage, retired from the farm. He was a
member Of the Baptist church and as
long as he was able was a jealous
worker for the church. The funeral
was held at his home residence at 2
o'clock, Friday p. m, Rev. Foley, OF
st Mary's Baptist church officiating
Burial in Elvaston cemetery.
Martin Freeland is In South Dako-
ia on business where he owns farm
Tholly Wallace and Russell Duncan
are confined to their homes with
mumps.
The school board have had walks
laid in the school yard.
The T. p. & w. railroad engine set
fire to George Newman's meadow
and burned all his hay and some
hedge fence
Hay pressers are busy and more is
needed. Hay is being shipped out very
fast.
Martin Freeland's new barn is near.
! ing completion.
Mrs. Joseph Phipps and son Walla,
visited with Quincy friends last
week.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Murtland visited rela,
tives in Fountain Green all this week.
returning home Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Gable are re-
joicing over the arrival of a boy ba-
by on the It'll. All we'll.
O. J. Loring is visiting his son
George, northwest OF town.
Miss yirdie Ebert OF Quincy is at
home on vacation for ten days.
Mrs. Fannie Mills of La Harpe, is
visiting her parents and other rela-
tives here, principally to see her lit.
tie nephew at her sisters, Mrs.
Gable.
Miss Pearl Garvey came home for a
two weeks vacation but her firm wir-
ed to her to return at the end OF the
first week and she was obliged to re-
turn to her work in Chicago.
Mrs. Ray Campbell and children of
Kansas City, are visiting relatives
here.
Rev. ]. A Miller and wife and chill
dren have departed for China as mis-
sionaries on the Presbyterian board.
They sail from San Francisco, Calf,
and will be nearly one month on the
way. They intend to remain seven
years in China. This is their third
trip across the waters and have serv-
ed seven years as Missionaries at Pou-
taugfar.
I Mr.. Grant McManus, of Keokuk,
who had the contract for laying the
concrete walks in our village has just
completed his work and has laid 10
blocks OF walk. Mr.. McManus has
been with us now for several weeks
and has the respect Of our people
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
TELLS STORY OF STEAMBOAT,
Captain Washington Galland, Fort
Madison, Iowa, Said to Have
Originated the Phrase.

Fort Madison, Ia. Aug. 9, 1910.-Edi-
tor Record Herald: The word stand
pat as now used in our politics was
first uttered by Captain Washington
Galland, a resident of Fort Madison,
Iowa. Marcus A. Hanna was simply
the man higher up
The late United States senator,
John H. Gear, of Iowa was a life
long friend Of Captain Galland. At
the time when Marcus A. Hanna
was manager of national Republican
politics, the senator was at home in
Iowa and sounding his constituents
on the tariff question. The late Col.
Richard Root, of Keokuk. Iowa, who
stood in the relation of "fidus Acha-
ties" to Senator Gear, was present
and when the question was put to
Captain Galland, he promptly replied:
Stand pat This answer made such
an impression on Gear and Root that
upon their return TO national head
quarters, they related it to Mark A
Hanna, who at once adopted 1t as q
campaign shibboleth. To Captain Gal
land. of this city belongs the credit
or discredit of the introduction OF
this gamblers term into politics. o.
the quartette, only Captain Galland
survives. This is authentic, and you
can stand pat on the assertion.
Keep history straight.
Yours respectfully,
DR.. GEORGE P. NEAL.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
Returning to Iowa.

Davenport Times: From Monmouth,
Iowa, comes the story of former low
ans returning to this state to live.
From Monmouth number OF people
went to Oklahoma a few years ago,
when the. general rush to the new
country was begun Those who went
to the southwest did fairly well, but
after casting up balances at the end OF
eaca year for several years they found
that for sure crops and pleasant con-
ditions Oklahoma could not possibly
measure up to Iowa. And go they
have been coming back one by one
to purchase farms and to make their
homes in the Hawkeye state. IL their
experience is worth anything 1t means
that the man who owns Iowa land VIII
do well to keep it and stay here.
There is no place like the Mississippi
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

Englishmen have heretofore allow
ed the suffragists to do all the work
and have simply been on the defen-
siye. Now an antisuffrage party mas
come into existence that will inaug-
urate an aggressive campaign. 1t is
said that the sum of s5O0,O0o will be
collected. to fight the women in their
work for votes. Lord Landsdowne,
Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Cruzon.
Lord Roberts, Rudyard Kipling,
dukes OF Argyll and Norfolk are some
of those who have signed the mem
bership list 1t is called the National
Anti-woman's Suffrage League, and
it hopes to crush the women's move
ment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
Dry Earminu in Iowa.

Charter Oak Times: Farmers all
over the state are expressing their
surprise at the crops they have har-
vested. Where they expected to get
a bare eight or ten bushels OF wheat
they are getting from twenty to TWEEN
ty-flve;. and oats never were OF bet
ter quality, with reasonable bushel-
age. Corn never looked better, except
in few places where the stand is
not good. Every prospect now is for
a good yield of grain. Probably never
before in the history OF the state has
SO good a crop been made with so
small an amount of rainfall. There
has been no rain this season when
the water ran in the fields, and there
has been no mud in the roads.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
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Senator Abe Funk comes to the sup
port of Governor Carroll in a spirit
and after fashion that other Iowa
"progressives,' so-called, would DO
well to emulate. In the latest issue
of his Spirit Lake Beacon he says:
..As the fairly nominated RepuDii-
can candidate Governor Carroll is en-
titled to the support of the party, and
the progressive faction is not dis
posed to withhold from him any votes
that 1t controls. He is man of high
character and intensely loyal to the
performance of every public duty as
he sees 1t. He may err In Judgment
all governors have upon occasion
but affairs of state are safe In MS
hands and he is entitled to credit for
his share of the generous Republican
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
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DR.. F. A. Johnston Of Sheffield,
Ala, and Miss Katherine Horsey
spent a very pleasant afternoon and
evening with Mr. and Mrs John
Hayes. The doctor has been visiting
for the past week at the home OF
Mrs. s. J. Horsey.
Mr.. Lester Duminel, John Young
and number of young folks attend
ed the chautauqua from these parts
Sunday.
Misses Rose and Anna Bannon are
visiting home folks while Miss Mayme
Is visiting in st. Paul, MINI.
1t is with regret that we hear OF
the sad news of w. s. Batten's death.
He was one OF our best citizens ana
business men Of this section.
A large number from Donnellson
and vicinity attended chautauqua
at Pennington and all report spler
did program.
Threshing is the order of the day
here. The weather is ideal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

Strickland Gillian, the popular HUI.
morist, remarked recently that 1t is
strange how our language can be
twisted up and made to mean things
altogether different from what one
would think it should. AS an In
stance he cited the fact that when
two engines come together we call
it collision; on the other hand. when
two babies come together we call
them twins.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
All Signs Favored Il.

1t was the first anniversary of their
matrimonial career.
Henry" said Mrs. Peckem, did
you really expect me to accept you
the night you proposed?"
II had every reason to believe you
would, my dear" replied Henry. ION
my way to your house walked under
a ladder, saw the new moon over my
left shoulder. black cat crossed my
path, and heard dog howl three
times" Chicago News.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
IL 10 Quite Evident.

Galesburg Repubiican-Register: 1t
is quite evident that Cummins sees
Taft in his path to the presidential
nomination and it Is evidently his de-
termination to get Taft out of the
way IL he can.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

A Philadelphia doctor announces
that more illness results from over
eating than from any other cause.
There doesn't seem to be any alter
native but to boost the cost of living
still higher.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
II Il 10 LAUGH.

The Iowa Republican platform was
built to accommodate all Republi-
cans.--Council Bluffs Nonpareil
If the Nonpareil is bidding for a
laugh here goes: Tee hee!-Sioux
City Journal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

Gallagher's parents neglected to
christen him Dennis" but the New
York courts will correct the omission
with promptness and dispatch.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
The pes MONIES River.

Sioux City Journal: The Des
Moines river entertains the engineers
/ by singing, very softly, How dry I
ami"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
Diplomatic Gossip.

An English diplomat, at dinner IN
Lennox, said Of Mrs. Langtry:
When she was at the summit OF
her beauty and her fame-when
crowds followed her In Bond street
and the Row--she met, at semiroyal
dinner, an African king.
Mrs. Langtry. dazzling In her
beauty, sat beside this king. She was
IN good spirits. and she did her very
best to amuse and please him. And
Che must have succeeded, for, at the
ainner's close, he heaved deep sigh
and said to her:
An, madam. II heaven had only
made you black and fat you would D.
frresistible!'"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

istration. AS senator, auditor and
governor. he has done much that enti-
ties him to consideration and conf
|dence."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
COST OF INSURANCE.

Statistics show that the people OF
Iowa are paying annually nearly $25,-
100000 for insurance. Very few peo-
pie realize the enormity of the bust
ness done and how steadily the stream
of money flows into the Offices of the
companies. The following table
shows the cost last year divided as
TO classes of insurance:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

Read The Daily Gate CITY.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-13

beer and whiskey bottles that had
been accommodating on the streets of
Willmar during the winter. They
look very bad Let's have a crusade
and bury the bottles.''
The Cold Springs brewer omitted
to state, however, that when the
mayor of Willmar called down this
lying editor he absolutely refused
to attempt to point out where the
city authorities might find these
"heaps of bottles." This and SINH
lar lying ISLANDERS of Wil|mar have
been reproduced from the paper
mentioned by the liquor men in
nearly all the towns where there
was fight on the license question
and the people not knowing what
a contemplate creature Willmar is
nursing in it's bosom naturally
place some credence to his published
statements. The shame Of Willmar
is not that it's mayor called down
this editor, but that such SANDER.
ing and mud-slinging sheet car
find sufficient encouragement in the
city to enable it to continue publ.
cation.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-13

clause in the so-called option laws,
for without it the law would not be
a prohibition measure. We doubt,
however, if the situation in Stearns
would be so hopeless as the Times
makes it out to be. You can't tell
what the farmers might take a no.
tion to do if they were given their
rights. For instance, one has seen
townships of just such population
as dominates Stearns county return
majorities for the prohibitionist
Lobeck in the neighboring county
of Douglas. But one feature of
the argument used by the brewer
in this controversy ought to open
the eyes of the people of Willmar
to their folly in maintaining a
weekly newspaper which grossly
misrepresents conditions at WILL
mar to the outside world. Here is
a quotation from one of Mr.. Peters,
articles:
"Willmar is one Of the towns to
which the prohibitionists have
pointed with pride as a model pro-
hibition city. The following edi-
torial comment in the official PAPER
Of Willmar, the Willmar Journal of
March 10th, speaks volumes for the
moral results Of prohibition pol
i:y: Now that the snow is gone
the street force should be supplied
with teams and sent out to pick up
and bury the wagonloads of empty
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-13
How the System Controls.

Five days ago the Washington
press dispatches were heralding the
noisy parliamentary skirmish as a
great decisive battle. The public
was rejoicing over the downfall of
Cannonism and the overthrow of
system control in the house.
The downfall of Cannonism
The overthrow Of the interests?
Mark what really happened IN the
caucuses IF both parties when they
come to select the members of the
new committee on rules.
LaFol(ette's pointed out the
course which would be pursued by
the sutservient representatives OF
Big Business in the House of Rep
resentatives.
The System asserted it's power
boldly. It threw diplomacy to the
winds, denied the progressives any
representation and named all the
Republican members Of the com
mittee, then, to show its contempt
for the public, made a coarse exhi
bition of it's power by also electina
Fitzgerald, Tammany democrat. {
member of the committee on rules
The lesson is obvious. The pub
lie must understand that, whenever
necessary, System control is a bi
party control. When Aldrich wa!
pressed for votes last session tt
maintain high tariff rates, he ha(
but to cross the aisle to the Demo
cratic side of the Senate, lay hi:
compelling hand upon the required
number of Democratic senators an(
swing them into line.
When Cannon needed the votes O;
Democrats to retain power to ap
point all the standing COMMITTEES
on legislation in the House in the
contest Of March, 1909, he sum
moned Fitzgerald and % Of hi!
Democratic colleagues to save the
day for System control of thu
House.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-13
WIILMAR MlSREPRESENTED.

The dry villages Of Belgrade and
Brooten are thorns in the flesh of
the liquorites Of Stearns county.
Doctor Stuart Leech of Brooten has
become involved in a newspaper
controversy with one Mr.. Peters of
Cold Springs, who is the secretary
of brewing company, and to judge
by the editorials Of the St. Cloud
Times in which the articles appear,
the editor sympathizes with the
brewer. Here is brief quotation
from one such editorial:
''None doubts that this county
would vote overwhelmingly for H.
cense if a county option proposition
were submitted. At present two Of
our villages-Brooten and Belgrade
have a no-license policy. If
county option was the law, and
Stearns voted license las it certain
ly would) Belgrade and Brooten
would be wet" villages against
the wishes of their inhabitants. !"
The Times editor shows here his
supreme ignorance of the provisions
Of the county option laws, at least
every such law as has been serious
ly discussed in the Minnesota legis-
lature. The local option would
still remain in force in such coun-
ties that did not adopt the prohibit
tive policy. That is the saving
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-13
HIDDEN DANGERS
Nature Gives Timely Warnings
THAT No Willmar Citizen Can
Afford 10 lahore.

DANGER SIGNAL NO. l comes
from the kidney secretions. They
will warn you when the kidneys are
sick. Well kidneys excrete clear,
amber fluid. Sick kidneys send out
a thin, pale and foamy, or a thick,
red, i'll smelling urine, full of sedi-
ment and irregular of passage.
DANGER SIGNAL NO. 2 comes
from the back. Back pains, dull
and heavy, or sharp and acute, tell
you of sick kidneys and warn you
Of the approach of dropsy, diabetes
and Bright's disease. Doan's Kid
ney Pills cure sick kidneys and cure
them permanently. Here is a proof
in the statement of a near by resi-
dent.
Mrs. Sophia Koerner, 319 S.
Ninth Ave-, St. Cloud, Mimi. says:
II recently began using Doan's
Kidney Pills and the results already
obtained fully warrant me in re-
commencing them. | was led to
procure this remedy through the
advice Of a relative who was cured
Of a distressing attack of kidney
complaint by its use. l believe
there is no need Of anyone suffering
from kidney trouble when Doan's
Kidney Pills can be obtained.
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffa-
10, New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name -Doan's-
and take no other. :E Il
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-13

grain in the hollows where before
nothing had been realized was
substantial vindication of the ex-
penditure for the drs ms. Mr.. P.
J. Haley has tried it to his full
satisfaction.
Mr.. Gesch invites anybody and
everybody who is interested in
learning what thing will do for the
flat and fertile lands of this county
to come and inspect the improve
ment that subdrainage has accom-
plished at his place. Of course the
work must be done in the proper
manner. The tile must be laid &C.
curately so that they will carry off
the water. It is necessary that
care be taken to do thorough work
and avoid carelessness, which may
easily render the drain useless.
Some farm ers with no experience
have laid some experimental lines
of tile and because they did not
seem to work right, they have con-
demned thing entirely. whereas the
fault lay in the incorrect manner
in which the tile was laid.
1t is best to get an experienced
tile-man to boss the job or at least
be sure to get full information and
instructions before attempting to
do the work.
The Tribune knows of no one
thing at the present time that
promises so much for the develop
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-13

The Gazette assumes that because /
we found fault with the posing OF
Congressman Volstead as an insur-
gent that we really had an inten-
tion of becoming a candidate for
congress-, and therefore dutifully
takes up the cudgel in his defense.
No, we cannot become candidate
nor have we thought of such thing.
We are nevertheless thankful for
the many kind things said about
US in connection with this sugges-
ton emanating we believe from the
state democratic committee and ex-
tensively noticed in the press. But
while we have no candidate in mind,
we do believe that there is the
greatest possible opportunity for a
man who is true insurgent to get
into the field and set the district
afire against the would-be insurgent,
who whenever the interests are
really menaced can he counted on
as stand patter, and all the cold
water and back fires furnished by
postmaster-editors in the district
would not be able to quench it.
The Republican party was pledg-
ed to down ward revision of the
tariff, at least President Taft gave
his personal Interpretation to that
effect in the campaign. The Presi-
dent called special session of Con-
gress purposely to redeem this
pledge. The result was a revision
upwards of the already outrageously
high schedules of which the people
complained and which caused the
pledge to be made for the republican
party. Congressman Volstead evil
IDENTIFY feared that public sentiment
of his district would not stand fol-
this perfidious breach Of party faith
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-13

set of light harness, 3 set of f1ynets,
128-gal]on creamery cans, $50 hu-
shells of oats, 200 bushels of corn.
$50 bushels of barley, l 2000-lb
scale, l cook stove. some household
goods and other articles too numer-
GUS to mention.
Terms: All sums of $500 and
under, cash; on sums over that
amount time will be given until
Nov. l, 1910, Oh bankable papers
bearing z per cent interest. No
property to be removed until settled
for.
Free Lunch at Noon.
ED. R. RASMUSSEN. Owner.
W. N. Davis, Auctioneer.
F. G. Handy, clerk.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-13

grades, 2 yearling heifers; l 2-yr
old Ayrshire bull; l vearllng bull !;
8 calves, Ayershires; S brood sows;
IL shoats; / Registered Poland
China boar; about 80 Wyandotte
chickens; l self binder, corn bln-
de, l 16-shoe drill; SIT cut mower,
l corn planter with 100 rods check
wire, hay rake, 2 2-horse cult
vators, / disc harrow, l 4-horse
drag, sulky plow. / walking plow.
l Hallock weeder, scraper, / land
roller, / Parsons Stroll corn husker.
l tanning mill, / top buggy, 8 wa
gons, 2 hay racks, l manure
spreader, One manure carrier,
2 pair bob sleighs. l pair light
hobs. 2 set of working harness, /
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-13
Beware of OintmentS for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reputable physi-
clans, as the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive from
them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
no mercury, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
Of the system. In buying Halls Catarrh
internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by FL
Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price, Toe. per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-13

T. The citizen is sovereign. The bal.
lot is all powerful. When Senators
and Representatives will join with
those of opposite politics to serve
the system, the voter should not
hesitate to support the candidate of
some other party whenever neces-
sary to elect men who will faithful
ly serve him and his country. La
Follette's Weekly Magazine.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-13
VOLSTEAD WAS A GUTTER.

and so thought best to vote against
the bill on its final passage. By doing
So he admitted that the bill was not
what it ought to have been. Public
indignation kept getting more
fierce all the time, and the oppor-
tunity came when the opposition to
the Cannon-Aldrich combination
found that they had the balance Of
power in congress. Then came the
real test Of the insurgents. They
then had in their power to come to
the relief of the people. They could
by a simple resolution have repeal
ed the measure that has provoked
the public Indignation and dishon-
ored the Republican party. Did
they do it? No. Did they insist
that they be given some voice in the
reformation of the rules of the
house? No. There were enough
Volstead insurgents to fizzle out and
permit the standpatters tc again
dominate the situation. So while
he can point to his vote against the
tariff bill and to his vote; of lack of
confidence of Cannon to all insur-
gents and independent thinking
voters of the district, Volstead can
also point to his original vote for
Cannon as speaker and his vote
against deposlng him to all the old
hardshell standpatters and corpor-
alton supporters in his district and
claim their support. This kind of
craftsmanship may be pleasing to
the Gazette, but for our part we
} would much sooner see an open
, faced stand-patter like Jim Tawney
or James Watson represent the dis
trict than a man who pretends to
; serve the interests Of the people
while he knifes them when the real
! test comes.