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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
aft the Man.

In column, Affairs at Washing
ton ia the National magazine for
February, Joe Mitchell Chapple, the
editor, says: They say that Mr.. Taft
is not sagacious and is not politi-
clan: that he is not diplomatic. all of
which is true; and all of which are
strong reasons why he is likely TO be
reelected. He has kept free of all
patronage entanglements, and thus
has saved many thousands of en-
mites that have in times past pune
tured residential possibilities. The
people are now thinking sanely over
what William Howard Taft has done
since he took the executive chair.
Voters are no longer led bv mag
netic AID impulsive enthusiasm, as in
the early days. The system Of the
Australian ballot has made. voting
more deliberative: It is more matter
of business; the question is, who is
the best man to serve The people as
President OF the United States. And
when this is done The old political
prophet rises in his corner and sars
10 the newspaper men gathered about
him, Taft is the man
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
keokuk, Iowa ..... Feb. u. 1919
LINCOLN.

LINCOLN.
New heroes rise above the toiling
throng,
And daily come respondent into
view,
To pass again. remembered by a
few,
And leave one form in bold relief and
strong
That higher looms as ages march
along
One name that fingers in the mem
DRY, too
And singers through all times shall
raise the song
And keep it swelling loud and ring,
ing truel
10, where the feet of Lincoln passed,
the earth
Is sacred where he sleeps we set
a shrine,
Q, to have pressed his hand.
That had sufficed
TO make my children wonder at my
worth
Yet, let them glory, since their land
and mine
Hath reared the greatest martyr
after Christ.
$ T. kiser in Chicago Record
Herald.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

SEVEN big industrial establishments
will be visited including the U. S.
arsenal at Rock Island. On Saturday
the society will go down to Keokuk to
inspect the 100000 horse power hy>
droelectric plant now in process or
construction there.
Prominent engineers from all over
the state are expected to attend. The
engineering department of the Uni
versity of Iowa will be represented
by Dean Raymond head of the depart
ment; Professor A. II. Ford, head or
the electrical engineering depart.
ment. who is to read paper on
Street Lightning Professor J. r.
Hill, who will place before the society
some valuable statistics dealing with
Electric Motors for Use in Pumping;
Professor S. M. Woodward, secretary
and treasurer Of the society, and
other members of the engineering
faculty, most of whom are members OF
the society.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14


Miss Lulu Ayres of Carthage was
visitor at the home of Mrs. o. C..
Mccartney last Saturday and Sunday.
Air. and Mrs. George Reeves OF
Memphis, No. have been visiting
relatives at Hamilton and Elyaston
Mrs. Hurley Berry who was called
to Oklahoma returned home Saturday
accompanied by his daughter Goldie.
Eho has made an extended visit in
Kansas and Oklahoma.
Miss Florence Ayres of Warsaw
was weekend visitor with Mr.. and
Mrs. Hurley Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Fl. Hardy are ex.
pected home from Arkansas this week.
Word comes that their daughter, Mrs
Pearl Grindle. is much better.
Mrs. James Allen is a Quincy visit
or this week.
7 F Woodside was called TO La
Harpe this week by the illness of 4
sister.
Miss May Smith of Basco was the
guest Of Mrs. William Powers FRIDAY
Mrs. Milton Root returned Thurs.
day from an extended visit With rela.
tiNes in Kansas City.
Mrs = =. Macarthur is with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. YIN. Griffin OF
Carthage this week.
Mrs VIM. Powers entertained the
missionary society of The Christian
church on Friday afternoon. An inter
esflps program was given. followed
ef q tasty lunch. At this meeting. def.
mic Plans wcrc made for Inc snn.a,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

fore, have decided to give such time
and money as can spare to those
causes that will bring about the polit-
zeal freedom OF women
1t is believed these replies, given
out in large numbers by the prominent
women in the movement, will have a
deep moral effect in forcing consider
alton. of their political demands.
Besides this the association is cir
culating a lot OF printed pledges for
women TO sign. promising they will
not give ito any other cause until
women are enfranchised. The wom-
en- opposed TO suffrage say these
methods are disgusting and unwom-
anly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
Lieht BEGINNING to Dawn.

Cedar Rapids Republican: The
Washington County Press accepts the
suggestion that complimentary
vote 10 be given 10 Mr.. Cummins. by
the Iowa delegates, and then to lei
them 30 to Taft The Washington
paper is an out and out cummins
paper. under its new editorship. and
It's acceptance of such suggestion
puts q different light on some mat
ters Heretofore It has been insisted
that there should be no second choice
allowed that II Was to be Cammins
without alternatives; that the sena-
tors hatred Of Taft should he graft.
fled 10 the full and should be made
the animus Of the Whole action or
The Iowa delegation Tho Register
and Louder has been saving that to
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
TIE DAILY GATE CITY

even think Of Taft as a second choice
would be disioyalty to Cummins, for
whom Iowa is supposed to exist, pri-
marily. But the suggestion of the
Washington Press shows a changed
attitude. There are others who are
thinking i'll that direction and there
are some insurgents who are express
ing a doubt, already, as to the wis
dom of trying to take Iowa away at
all. that it will be Taft or Roosevelt
in any event and that Iowa has moth
ing to gain by the fight that has been
participated by the desire to humili-
ate Taft and to control the state or
ganization Light is beginning to
dawn.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

The only word that was spelled cor,
rectly by the entire li2 was measure.
Examples of This sort are cropping up
all over the United States continually;
and not in spelling alone is there an
evidence Of wrong system Of train.
ing or of singular inadyertence
among pupils. Il is very evident that
some Of our educational methods arc
in urgent need OF radical reform. No
enc is property educated vino cannot
srell the words in every day use.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

To group of reporters who called
upon him in his sanctum Colonel
Roosevelt refused TO be quoted re.
gardins the nomination, but sought
to convey his attitude toward the
public by reading to them several
quotations from Lincoln. One was
Lincoln's letter in reply to friend
who urged him TO answer some pub
lished accusation.sIt was to urge that
no explanation should be made to
our enemies, as that would only
give them 'squabble and fuss
Again Lincoln said it should appear
that he was paving no attention to
the charge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

Information wired from Washington
to the New York World is 10 the eff
feet that Senator Cummins will with
draw from the race for the Republi-
can nomination Cor President if it is
found that Colonel Roosevelt is as
good an insursent MS the senior Iowa
senator The New York Worlds cor
respondent says that Senator Cum
Minis and his cohorts are to sit in
Judgment upon Rooseyelts brand of
insurgency and If it is found TO be O.
H.. then Senator Cunmins is to write
letter of withdrawal. They are do
ing this because LaFollette has brok.
en- down and Senator Cummins is NOT
commanding the following which they
expected he would Senator Cum.
Minis, however is quoted as saying
that he has no intention of writing
such a letter, and has heard nothing
Of his withdrawal as a candidate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

The Sherwood so-called 'dollar.a.
day pension bin rejected by the sen.
etc committee on pensions would have
involved an annual expenditure of
about S15,o00o00 In its stead the
committee endorsed measure intro.
duced by Senator smoot, which. &C.
eording to the pension bureaus com.
putation OF age and length OF service
Of the veterans. will call for about
s24,00o,ooo annually The Smoot
bill embodics provisions 10 pension
civil war veterans sixty.two years old
who served ninety DAYS or more aud
any Mexican war veteran who served
sixty DAYS or more. The civil war
veterans would be put on a graduated
scale from SIS a month for ninety days
veterans sixty-two years old. TO $50 a
month for veterans seyentv-fve wears
old, who served three years or more.
MEXICAN war veterans will receive
thirty dollars month if the bill he
comes law
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

Jerry Sullivan. Earl Bronson, Judge
Carr, Judge Van Wagenen, Thos. Ill
DUFFY and others OF the most pro.
nounced progressive Democrats of the
state are for Wilson as the candidate
OF their party for President and will
do all in their power to secure a dele
cation in his interest. Governor Will
son is TO be in Des Moines March j
TO meet Iowa Democrats personally
and speak to them on the issues of
the day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
In his signed editorial for the out

In his signed editorial for the Out
look Colonel Roosevelt has declared
his belief in womens rights to the
ballot, or, in the equality of rights
as between man and woman, but in
sistins on the performance OF duties
by both, AZ the same time, he makes
1t clear there must always be com.
plcte dissimilarity of function. He
SAYS that where the women want the
ballot they should have it, and sus-
Sests special election in which only
women take part to determine wheth-
or they do want it in any particular
section.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
vIncENNEs.
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The Vincennes school will give So
cial Feb. a. s,
Mrs. Norman Cruze entertained Mr..
and Miss Tell of Hinsdale, Sunday.
Jack Chronicle. Henry Pence and
Lawrence Cruze spent Sunday at Don.
nelson.
Mrs. L. w. shaefer etertained the
Willing Workers Thursday.
Jack Chronicle returned to Keokuk
Monday after short visit with home
folks.
Geneyieye Deere and Mayme Bur.
nett spent Wednesday with Mrs. Free
man of Gonzales.
Robert Cruze is helping his uncle
in the store this week.
David Teel of Hinsdale was in town
Wednesday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
IOWA ENGINEERS
MEET THIS MONTH
Part Of Convention Program viii be
Trip to Keokuk to See Water
Power Dam.
Especial to The Gate City.

IIPCDTdI 70 0dtE WY j ~
IOWA CITY, Feb. III Programs
were sent out today for the oath an
nual meeting of the Iowa Engineering
society which is to be held at Daven-
port on February 21-23 The meet
ing will be opened on Wednesday,
February p with an address of well
come by Mayor Mueller On Thursday
a series of papers dealing with the
use of concrete for payemcnts and
roadways will be read. On Friday
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

An attack of the grip is often fol-
lowed by persistent cough, which to
many proves a great annoyance. Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy has been ex-
tersively used and with good success
for the relief and cure of this cough.
Many cases have been cured after all
other remedies had failed. Sold by
Wilkinson & Co. Pharmacy and j. F.
kiedaisch c Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
BAD SPELLING COMMON.

Professor Beall of the Kansas State
Agricultural college got the idea in
his head that ordinary photography
was not receiving the attention that
L deserved in the nigh schools and col
leges. He therefore prepared list OF
simple words, such as are used every
day in common. writing and conyersa-
ton and had them given out to the
students. The result was sad There
We're H. high school and college stu
dents with education practically fin
ished, ready to so out in the world.
In the list there were no catch words,
or stickers, such as are used at
spelling bees to floor the unwary-
Just common. ordinary, everyday
words. Here is the list and number
of misses opposite. each word
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
The Final Verdict.

Omaha Bee: We have great respect
for President Taft. He is one of the
sanest and best Presidents We have
ever had.-New York Herald.
1t viii be case of so say we all. !"
practically speaking, when the final
verdict is rendered.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

Hon. Mary Godat Bellamy. who is a
mmber of the Legislature of Wyoming,
thinks that President Taft should ap-
point a woman to the supreme court.
he now having the opportunity, she
says Personally, she says, she likes
to be spoken OF as the woman who
does her own work, cooks three meals
a day for her husband and boys, and
has always made a home for them.
She does not stay in to wash dishes,
she says, when the circus is passing
and likes to read the Congressional
Record.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
NAV suFERAelsT poLlcY

The National Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION has issued printed Sins as
forms for its members TO use in re.
sponse 10 appeals for help for char
lies thai seem TO be part of the
responsibtiity CT The community. They
read as follows.
Until women are enfTanchised. ef-
forts 10 ameliprate social conditions
cap be at best enls crippled. There.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
His Chance Remote.

''tS SildiiCc hSnCIe.
The Hopkinton Leader notes that
the Cummins announcement has not
met with very enthusiastic recep.
ton outside of Iowa, and even in this
state there is not the unanimous an.
proval that his promoters had hoped
for. There does not seem to be even
a remote chance for the national con.
yention 10 select Cummins for the
head of the ticket There is no on.
thusiasm anywhere back of the move
ment to bring him into the field. The
feeling that Senator Cummins desert.
ed La Toilette. 10 whom he was
pledged. and his personal antagon-
ism 10 President Taft, often expressed
leads naturally to the assumption that
the Cummins candidacy is promoted
for the sole purpose of controlling tie
Iowa delegation against the President
and for the personal advantage of the
senior senator
The Leader believes the renomina-
ton and reelection of President TAFT
is being more certainly forecast as
the convention time approaches. and
that the country IS beginning 10 look
TO Taft to save j, from disastrous
political upheayal.
Paul s Iunkin, editor of the Ores
ton Advertiser and Gazette. says that
mary Republicans OF Iowa who have
made sacrifices Tor Cummins in the
past and Who fully realize the sell
fish and inherently dishonest object
OF ms csndidarf and msnY Others WHO
believe that Taft is entitled 10 70
nomination viii moi 10 dgn.iug Cum
Minis battles this year.
Ar Junkin SAYS aome 81 tne sepHb
lican newspapers I'll ~. interes, of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

Joseph Folk has taken himself from
the list of possible candidates for the
presidency. 1t was a brief trip-both
coming and going.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
The IRONY OF FATE

a newspaper poet recently empha
sized in verse the saying OF The
French that it is the unexpected tha,
happens One stanza was as follows.
he had nrophy-lactic bent
And led sterile life.
Had hygienic children and
A sanitary wife.
Lived in fumigated house
And wore aseptic suits,
ate germicidal foods and smoked
Denicotined cheroots.
Ills plan was admirable. no doubt,
But darn the measly luck.
he went and got run over by
a ten-ton motor truck.
". j, Barnes. as occasional con
tributor to the Springfield REGISTER.
declares there are whole lot OF fell
lows Just like hinn--men who 30 crazy
on germ food. The Illinois humorist
in question cites this additional case:
"A man was so strict that ne would
not allow his wife to kiss her baby and
still he Went out one night and was
run ever by swill cart. His oldest
daughter eloped with the garbage
man and his son is getting fat in a
glue factory. while the rest of the fam
lily since his death are kissing one
another and having a bully time on
the proceeds of his life insurance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
Within the State.

Here in Iowa newspapers in all
parts OF the state continue TO make
protest against the fight which Cum.
minis and his Fleming building cabi.
net are putting up against President
Taft.
THE Cummins campaign is not get
ting on very 'swimmingly' in Iowa.
comments the Coon Rapids Enterprise
There is strong disposition in some
districts to disregard the fayorite
SON sentiment. There is too much
buncombe generally mixed up with
this favorite son business
The Palo Alto Reporter also oh.
serves that Senator Cummins' cam.
paign is not making headway outside
Of Iowa. The Reporter notes that the
First, Sixth and Eighth districts have
been organized for Taft and that the
Fifth and Ninth are TO follow suit,
The opinion OF the Reporter is that
the candidacy of Senator Cummins
was announced too late; that it
should have been got under way be.
fore La Toilette came out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

chicken pie supper to be held on
March 18th.
Miss Goldie Davis OF Lima, ILL.,, is
visiting in Hamilton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
SLIM CHANCE FOR cuMMlNs.
Press Outside Of Iowa Reviews His
candidacy-Not Regarded as
Serious.

Sioux City Journal: The candidacy
OF United States Senator Albert b.
Gummins for the Republican nomina.
ton for the presidency is not regard
ed seriously by the press outside of
Iowa. No favorable reference to his
candidacy has appeared in any of the
metropolitan newspapers which have
been friendly to the insurgent cause.
Outside of Iowa. says the ST
Louis Globe-Democrat, "Cummin's as
pirations seem to be taken as rather
unpromising, assuming that he has
any real aspirations for the candi-
dacy. The general feeling is that
the opposition TO Taft. if it lasts to
the convention day. will concentrate
on Roosevelt
The Kansas City Journal thinks
that one OF the amusing drolleries of
the present political situation is the
announcement from Senator Cummins
OF Iowa. that because SO much has
been published in the newspapers, so
much written and said to me concern
ing the presidential matter etc, he
will be a candidate for the presiden.
Cyl
In a careful review of the newspa-
pers during tie last six months an
anxious searcher would be impressed
with the total absence of anything
said about Cummins being candi-
date, and much less are there indica-
tons OF anybody urging him to make
a personal sacrifice in order to ap-
pease this wholly fictitious popular
demand, continues the Journal.
which. after indulging the speculation
that the Iowa senator is merely a
stalking horse for some other candi-
date, adds:
But Whatever may have actuated
Cummius to announce his candidacy
for the Republican nomination. the
fact remains that he is a dead one in
national politics, and outside of Iowa
MS name is rarely mentioned. Ii in
surgent 'progrcssiyeness' had any
merit for getting office, the outlook for
Cummins might be encouraging. But
as the days so by the progressive
sentiment wanes on all sides, It's
sham. hypocrisy and utter futIlity can
not endure against an awakening pat.
lrotism among the American people.
They have seen what ridiculous antics
the 'progressives' cut in their over
weening ambition for political jobs,
and, therefore, Cummins might better
have saved his present energies and
escaped later humiliation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
THOUGHT FOR The DAY.

When you are right you can afford
to keep Your temper. and when you
are wrong YOU can't afford to lose it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

Anyway these recurring elections
have the effect of promoting sociabill.
tN-on the part OF the candidates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

The Arlington News is for the re.
nomination of President Taft with
out qualification or apology"
The News likes Taft because he has
served the country well; because he
has never showed himself to the
front: because he has always been
true to the best interests of the coun-
try whether by so doing he has in
jured his own political fortunes or
not; because he is not trimmer, and
because he has stood for the common
people as against the trusts.
In the opinion of the News, Cum
minis stands no show of being nomi-
mated in the Chicago convention, and
his candidacy is for the sole purpose
of keeping the Iowa delegation away
from President Taft
The Britt Tribune feels certain that
Cummins stands no show of the nomi-
nation and it does not want to see
Iowa allow him to make stool
pigeon of the state and let it stand
and peep through its fingers as the
Taft bandwagon rolls by.
The Tribune wants 1t understood
that it is not in accord with Senator
Kenyon in his support of Senator
Cummins in his desire for the Iowa
delegation to the Chicago convention
IF Cummins stood any show of sue,
cess or If the Tribune believed that
Mr.. Cummins himself thought that he
did it would not oppose delegation
from Iowa supporting him, but we
don't believe ANYTHING of the kind.
the Tribune adds. We believe that A.
3. Cummins is the same demagogue
that he always has been. and that his
only. hope or aim is to control the
Chicago delegation. and we arc not in
favor of letting him do it. The subter-
fuge of saying that we are in favor of
an Iowa delegation that is for him for
first choice and for Taft for second
choice is too thin
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
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harmony, would not have objected to
solid Crmmins delegation from this
state provided there were some as
surances that it would not be an anti.
Taft delegation.
However, mo such assurances have
been made, and the newspapers that
have opposed Cummins in the past
will now oppose his plan to deprive
the Taft Republicans of this state of
representation in the national conven-
ton. The Cummins idolators who,
from the fact that many of the news.
papers were willing to treat Cummins
with courtesy and consideration,
judge that they will meekly accept
whatever dose may be handed them
are very much mistaken"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14

"A big noise is bound to create
some excitement for SPELL says the
Hopkinton Leader, but a continued
big noise soon becomes as common
place as the days. People decline to
be stampeded like cattle"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
NOTES AND COMMENT.

IF Colonel Barkis isn't careful he
will strain his ear drum listening for
the call of the nation" says the Bur
lington Gazette
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-14
HAMILTON. IL.

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