The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-16
Take what's comm and get out quick

lake WHAT COmlu duQ get out QUICK.
Peelor will save you what he can. I'll
send Murphy in the car to bring you
IN. I'll go and get things goin' our
way.
Tank turned swiftly to the back In.
tending to leave as he had entered the
building, quietly, but sudden impulse
seized him. He walked instead to the
front of the building. toward the fiery
voice of Dunno, toward the vast, muir
muring, and at times wildly clamoring
crowd. The crowd filed the courtyard
and surged into the street. Fully two
thousand people were packed into the
space and hanging on the words of
Dunno.
Tank shouldered his way to the very
edge of the circle behind the little open
space on the broad marble step on
which Dunno was pacing back and
forth Here the Boss waited. DUNES
speech was review of conditions as
they had been found to exist in the
municipality in the past six months.
He told of the things which everybody
knew, Of the indictments which had
not been Forthcoming, and finally OF
the trapping of Halloran.
Was this" he went on. ask you.
merely an isolated case of poor and
ignorant man, elevated by chance to a
position of trust and civic opportunity,
yielding to the Establishments Of some
soft-tongued tempter? No. 1t was the
Chairman of your Board of Police Com
missioners. and trusted lieutenant OF
the man who has made his boast that
he, himself. Is the city government.
What we see. my friends, in the guilt
of Halloran as he barriers at private
sale right which 1t was not his to
convey, is not an isolated instance; 1t
is. believe, the established order I'M
der the present political regime JUS
tice, immunity, license, privilege, the
sacred rights and functions of the city
and the state have been bought and
sold over the counter Of the Boss like
merchandise
Cries of That's So" and You're
right"
With the Chairman of the Police
Board selling licenses, what do you ex,
pect from the man on the beat?"
Sure! What can you?" answered
voices in the crowd.
Dunno went on: Our peace officers
have failed, our courts have been de-
bauched. our legislative chambers have
become a counting-room where every
man has his price. l want to say to
you that this must stop. The evidence
will be provided. The police must ar
rest. The City Attorney and the Dis
trict Attorney must prosecute. The
Courts must try, and where the evil
dence warrants. the juries must con-
Wet. The power of the machine must
be broken The collar of the Boss must
be unclasped. The corruptionist must
be sent to jail"
Dunno ceased to speak. The crowd
cheered wildly. The reformer. ex-
hausted with his great effort, mopped
his brow.
Suddenly he found himself over.
Swallowed and thrust aside by the
great figure of a man whose frame
lowered above him. To his amaze
| ment, he saw that it was Tank.
! He had appeared from nowhere, II
/ seemed to Dunno, and was actually
standing where he had stood and pre-
| pairing to address the crowd
Tank planted himself solidly an6
/ looked round on the great mass OF hu
mainly, slowly, searching them. weigh
/ ing and sitting them in his mind, unit
| he knew them, and he was swiftly
I planning his speech, too To appeal Il
| the prejudices, the selfshness. the
/ weaknesses and the passions of his au
diences-to--talk to them. Dunno hat
/ spread-eagled them. Tank would tall
| to this crowd as man to his neigh
! bors. He would win one part OF then
/ II
4 the end he would have them with him
His appearance was greeted with
] shout. He could not have done NOR
polite thing had it been premeditatet
/ for a week. 1t struck the crowd a.
clever that he had calmly listened til
Dunne's heated Grafton was finished
and then himself quietly stepped up Z
answer The situation struck one hal
humorously and the other half wa
filed with admiration for the courag
of It.
So he had a favorable hearing from
the moment he began to speak. CieV
erly he played upon the prejudices
the audience
al believe Mr.. Dunno is a good cit
zen he began in a great, roaring voice
and a good man. | believe he love
his own Town, anu lie Heduo " w
good. but he's takin' poor way to d
it in my opinion" The crowd was list
ening breathlessly. When / was
boy and went to school-it was som
years ago and not very much of it
amt had the chance that my frien
here has in some ways (sadly, an
an appeal to sympathy which neye
misses in an American crowd)-
never liked to see some little Teller ge
bawled out before the whole school.
always liked the teacher better whe
he took him off quiet and told hiI
where he was wrong. Now, | don
like to see my own town bawled GU
before the eyes of the world like thli
If there's anything wrong why can
we get together quiet and REASONABLE
and talk it over. without all this hui
hub and hue and cry. Things like thi
don't do the town any good do they
They don't make business any better
IN IL continued
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