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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
wANAmAkER MAKES TAFT pLEi

MAKES TAFT PLEA.
In letter to his "fellow-citizens, fell
lowmerchants and other working men
given to the press as he was sailing
for Europe John Wanamaker, the not
ed merchant prince, announced that
on the request of President Taft he
had consented to stand as candidate
for delegate to the national convention
and that he hoped the people would
call for the denomination of the Presi-
dent. Mr.. Wanamaker pointed out the
obvious fact that there is now not
enough employment for all who are
willing to work" and that whatever
hinders prosperity shuts down looms
and lessons the opportunity for labor
He deems it the duty of all business
men to exert their Influence "to con-
serve the good order and prosperity
OF our country He thinks that well
fare is now threatened by strange doc
trines and that the passions and preju-
dices of the people are being appealed
to. He evidently refers to the referen-
dunn and recall ideas as subversiye OF
the constitution. He opposes the third.
term idea and defends the Taft ad.
ministration.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

Commenting on the fact that Sena-
tor Hitchcock of Nebraska is out for
Harmon for President, William j.
Bryan made it clear in a public state.
ment that if the Democrats of Nebras
la instruct for Harmon, he Bryan
will refuse to serve as a delegate, il
elected, but instead will go to Balti-
more as private individual to do what
he can to secure the nomination OF
a progressive Democrat. This, in con-
nection with recent attacks on Wilson
by George Fred Williams of Massa-
chusetts and other radical friends OF
Bryan have given some color to the
rumor that Mr.. Bryan is intending to
spring himself on the Baltimore con-
vention as dark horse. Williams
has denounced Wilson as a black tory,
who in the last decade has not writ,
ten or said anything in sympathy with
struggling humanity Williams de-
clared for Clark - his favnrifn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has ruled bv vote of 4 to 3 that
a railroad must SO adjust its rates that
justice will be done between communi
ties regardless of state lines. The de-
cision came in connection with the
dispute between the Louisiana Rail
road commission and the St. Louis
and Southwestern railroad and 9TH
er carriers into Texas The decision
means the assertion of the supremacy
of the federal authority over trans
portation. 1t was uE,eld by Commits
sioners Lane, Prouty, Clark and
Meyer. The dissenters were Commits
sioners Clements, Harlan and Nc
Chord The point OF the case was that
the carriers made rates in TEXAS low
er than from points in Louisiana into
Texas, the lower Texas rates having
been forced by the Texas Railroad
commission.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
The Recall In the Virginia Mountains.

Harper's Weekly: So tragic mat
ter as the shooting OF Judge Massie
and his court officers at Hillsville,
Virginia, makes bad setting for a
smile. but if it were not for that one
would smile at the recallers. confront
ed with this example of their theory
carried out in its simplest form.
Everybody knows about the mountain
people of Virginia and the adjoining
states, their isolated communities,
feuds, clannishness and lawlessnesses.
The ~" ~ ~" GOD irdoo'e dcoth Is
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
PosToFFIcE GAINS.

Measured by Its postoffice receipts,
acknowledged by all to be reliable
business barometer, Keokuk is doinA
by far the largest volume OF trade in
its history. During the quarter just
ended the sales of stamps and stamp
ed paper totaled s1S,7S7.42, as COM
pared with s1s,O3s.7 10 for the CORE.
spending quarter last yeara gain of
$74s. 80. These record breaking fig
ures speak for themselves. Following
is the exhibit for the quarters ending
March 81 for the eight years last
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
Five Dollars a Week.

Five Dollars Week.
Thus it is down on Beelzebub's books:
August the seyenteenth-Isabe
Brooks;
Blonde; splendid figure; big violet
eyes;
Dimples; fair coloring; feet of small
size;
Home in the county; her parents quite
poor;
Character excellent; morals still pure;
Came to the city today and found
work;
Wages five dollars: department.store
clerk"
Wages five dollars. to last seven days;
Three for "a miserable hall room she
pays;
Two nickels daily the street car re-
REEVES;
One dollar-forty for eating, that leaves.
One-forty has such long ways to
reach
Twenty-one banquets at seven cents
each.
There! Every penny OF wage has been
spent
Squandered for feasting and riding
and rest.
Spendthrift! She doesn't remember
life's ills.
How in the world will she pay doctors
bills?
What if she's furloughed there's al
ways a chance);
Isabel ought TO save up in advance.
Hold. We've not mentioned her
clothes; she must wear
Dresses, hats. shoes. stockings, rib.
bons for hair
How did she set them? Suppose that
we stop;
Perhaps it's as well If we let the thing
drop.
You good math maticians may figure il
out:
rs a matter Of figures or figure, nc
doubt.
Carry this picture,it's better, I'm sure.
Character excellent, morals still
pure?"
What else is written, we won't try tc
see;
Beelzebub thinks much the same way
as we.
Why, as live. There's tear in his
eye,
What in He'll can make Beelzebul
+ cry?
Surely the devil is feeling his age;
Look what he's writing on Isabel
page;
Virtues luxury hard to afford
When a girl hasn't money enough TO
her board
Herbert Kaufman, in Woman
World
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
oughfares. hanging posters and ex-
horting voters. The question will be
voted on next Tuesday in Chicago.
SHILOH VETERANS
TO BATTLE FIELD
About $50 Soldiers Departed on Du.
buque for Tennessee River
Trip.

Two hundred and fifty veterans of
the battle OF Shiloh, representing near
ly every state in the union, left St.
Louis on the steamboat Dubuque Of
the Streckfus line at o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. The veterans are bound for
the scene of the battle at Shiloh, Tenn.
and will celebrate the fiftieth ami
versary of the struggle. April and Z
were the dates of the battle.
The celebration is annual. This
year the plans have been carried out
on a more extensive scale than ever
before. From so to rs women will
accompany the veterans The Hor-
nets Nest Brigade and the Battlefield
of Shiloh Association will be the chief
organization present.
Gov. B. F. Carroll of Des Moines, Ia,
will make the trip. Col. ]. d. McGar-
row of Des Moines, T. W. Holman
OF Rutledge, Mo-, and Maj. D. Furrer
of Easton, H., Reception Committee
subchairman, arrived in ST. Louis yes
terday and took charge of the veterans
as they arrived. More than 100 of the
old soldiers reached st. Louis yester-
day.
The st. Louis and Tennessee River
Packet Company has leased the Du-
buque and will have charge of the
trip, which is expected to consume the
greater part OF two weeks.
Among the Keokuk people on this
trip are. Capt. B. P. Taber, Capt. T. F.
Baldwin, wife and two daughters, Mr..
and Mrs. Jos. Chenowith, James Will
son and wife.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The Iowa congressional districts
that have selected or are certain to
select Taft delegates to the national
Republican convention are the First.
Second, Third, Sixth, Eighth ana
Ninth. The Fifth district is likely to
follow their example, in which event
the President will have fourteen of
the twenty-five district delegates. II
the delegates-at-large shall be for him,
as now seems probable. he will have
eighteen of the twenty-six delegates
comprising the Iowa delegation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

There is possibility that the ma.
tional guard of Iowa and other states
will be sent to Mexico. Confidential
information has been sent from the
war department to the adjutant gem
eral and high guard officers and on
the strength of this circulars are being
sent to commands of the guard urging
particular attention to the training
most needed for campaign. Special
instruction is to be given at once in
all matters pertaining to actual field
service. 1t is to be hoped that it viii
not he necessary to call on the state
troops to help restore order in Mexi.
co. but there is every assurance that
If their services are required they will
sNr oil
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

Reading the signs of the times. Gov.
ernor W. R. Stubs OF Kansas. one
of the seven western governors who
signed manifesto asking Roosevelt
to become candidate. has followed
the example of Governor Hadley of
Missouri and withdrawn his name
from the list of candidates for the
vice presidential preference vote. The
first direct primary in Kansas, held at
Leayenworth, resulted in the election
of 10 Taft and sixteen Roosevelt
candidates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
The Veteran.

The veteran tells the thrilling tale
that oft he has told before.
The boys had formed in the shot rent
vale; the center was Shermans
corps.
And said to Grant and he said to
me- the listeners nudge with
grins
And haste away to the game at three
while the vet. his battle wins
But seem to see as the old man talks
the blue of the battle line,
Where Death in thunder and shrek
ing stalks and bodies like yours
and mine
Are rent by shells and are left to rot
and the boys who had known
them we'll
Lean forward. braced for the bullets
shock, nor finch at the breath
OF hell.
| see them-boys with boys keen
zest for life and the sweets 1t
brings,
With heart beats hidden within each
breast for home and its happen
ings.
| see them, famished and worn and
sick in sight of the homebound
train
Enlist once more with vow to stick
till the nation is whole again.
The veteran tells his timeworn tale
I've heard it hundred times.
But the sound to ME of his piping
frail is grander than organ
chimes,
And Id rather sit while he tells once
more how he fought for his
country's soul
Than to hear men fight with whoop
and roar for place on Its sal
airy roll
George Fitch in Peoria Herald
Transcript.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
spent Friday evening at the home of
o. D. Wirsig.

spent Friday evening at the home of
Q. D. Wirsig.
Edwin Reitz transacted business
in Donnellson Wednesday,.
Mr.. Geo. Meinhardt and daughter
We're callers in Donnellson Monday !.
Clara Felt and Lilly Meinhardt
called on Cordelia Wirsig Saturday
o. D. Wirsig transacted business
in Donnellson Monday.
Mrs. Geo. RUDE spent Tuesday af-
ternoon with Mrs. q. D.. Schoene.
Cordelia Wirsig and Mrs. Geo !.
Meinhardt called on Mrs. o. D. Wir.
sig Monday afternoon.
c. b. RUDE of Prairie City is Wis
iting with his brother. George and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs Geo. Meinhardt, Mr..
and Mrs. c.. D. Schoene and Mrs. d.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
Pretty Fair Argument.

[ United Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, April 3-"One million
women will vote for president of the
United States at the next election.
They will vote in California. Oregon.
Washington, Utah, Wyoming and Col
orado. Why not in Illinois," Huge
posters bearing the above inscription
were placed on sign boards, in store
windows and on station platforms by
the wealthy members of the North
Side Equal suffrage Society. Automo.
bile squads loaded with the placards
drove ihrnreh ri tn, principal thor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The people of the United States may
be riding over roads of molasses in the
near future The Bureau Of Good
Roads Is making experiments with a
very cheap grade of molasses, mixed
with limewater, as a dustlaying cover
for roads. Logan w. Page, director of
the bureau, says in the beet sugar
country. the cheap "black-strap" mo-
lasses destroyed as of no value might
be used in this road work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The Chicago Inter-Ocean thinks it
sees in the trouble at Rock IsIaLd
an argument against the commission
form of government. But the Moline
Dispatch tells it that If it had looked
into Rock Island before the commits
sion form was adopted it would have
understood the situation better. The
trouble did not occur earlier because
there was no occasion for toughs to
make trouble while they were having
their own way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The people of Rock Island are
frankly told by the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican that they will get into more
trouble IL they consent to have a
hero made of the Matchmaking editor:
HE is a dangerous man. A paper
that will print nasty stories on other
men. even II they are true, in order
to intimidate them or to get money
out of them or out of the sensational
public, Is dangerous man In any
community
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
keokuk, Iowa ........ April 8, 1912
HEYoNDq


After the story has once been told
After ones had his little fling
At the world and found the apples OF
gold
Are gilt and rapidly furnishing
After the curtain begins to fall,
Tell me, what is back of all?
Oh, life is fair at the break OF day,
AS the sun climbs up the eastern
hill.
And the flowers are sweet along the
way
We gather with lavish hands. until
We find the hills grow rugged and
steep,
And shadows across the pathway
creep.
And life at noontide is not half bad;
Sure we have learned lesson or
two,
Have bought our experience gay or
sad,
And paid our toll in passing
through
The little gate beside which stands
Old Father Time, with outstretched
hands.
But when the light begins to wane,
And shadows deepen around our
way,
What does it matter, the loss or gain?
What does it count, our work or
play?
After the curtain begins to fall,
Tell me, what is back of all?
Arthur d. F. Randolph.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

In Texas, the state which Cecil Ly-
ems processes to have In his pocket,
the first county executive committee
meeting, that Of Dallas county, result
ed in vote of Is to for President
Taft. Dallas polls more Republican
votes than any other county in the
state, and the action OF the committee
is said to foreshadow the election of
Taft delegates from that district and
reflects the general political sentiment
of the state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

President Taft is now assured sn
OF the eleven districts in Iowa with
twelve delegates to the Chicago con-
vention and lacks only sixty-five dele
gates to control the state Republican
convention at Cedar Rapids which
will elect four delegates-at-large
Reports from ell over the state indi-
cate growing Taft sentiment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

Railroad gross earnings continue to
make satisfactory comparison with
year ago, the total of all United
States roads reporting to date for the
first three weeks of March, aggregat-
ing $22,S55,34S, a gain OF So per cent
as compared with the earnings of the
same roads for the corresponding per-
iod last year. The good showing is
especially noticeable in the south.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
Exhibit A.

Marshalltown Times-Republican
Rock Island is exhibit A in the trial
between the wide open town and de-
cent government which takes notes of
statutes and moral laws. II is part
of the evidence before the voters
who are Jurors in the case. Where is
your verdict?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat
pays the following deserved compli-
ment to Engineer Hugh l.. Cooper and
his associates:
@The new dam across the Missis-
sippi at Keokuk was planned with
knowledge of how the ice in the river
breaks up. and the engineers seem to
have handled a difficult problem sue
cessfully. Z"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

DR. Woodrow Wilson has a fight on
his hands in his own district. James j.
Quigley, c. Trenton, ex-president OF
the New Jersey Bricklayers' and Plas-
terer's union, wants to go to the Balti-
more convention as Champ Clark
delegate
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

almost equaled by the pity OF his
murderers' crime. These mountain
people are like children who have
run wild, and very like the Highland
Scotch as We read of them in SCOTS
novels. 1t is an i'll task to hunt them
down and dangerous one, too. but
of course there is nothing else to do,
and it is being done apparently with
proper yigor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
WARREN.
80 $4,000

]. c. schoene spent Sunday win
Marvin Wirsig.
Harry Palmer spent Sunday with
home folks.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. o. Schoene and
Mrs. D. Bergtkold took dinner with
Mrs. Geo. Meinhardt Sunday.
Miss Rosa Richey spent Saturday
and Sunday with her mother.
j.. G.. Schoene and e. A. Gillaspey
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The Michigan Senate, with only FIVE
opposing votes, passed a resolution
providing for the submission of the
woman suffrage question to the vot-
ers. 1t requires two-thirds vote of
both house and senate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

'Keokuk is paying good money for
public notice--and getting it, observes
the Davenport Democrat. KeokuR's at
fractions and advantages have too
long remained in comparative obscuri-
ty. They are now coming into the
limelight as they deserve
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

AS between scholarship, represented
by Woodrow Wilson, and political pie.
represented by Champ Clark, Iowa
Democrats may be counted on to de
clare for the latter first, last and all
the time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The Omaha Bee also observes that
the Iowa idea is to stand by the Presi-
dent even as against favorite son
seeking complimentary votes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

It has not escaped the notice of Kin
Hubbard that some of the most ardent
advocates of municipal ownership Of
grocery stores are always in the front
seat at the theatre
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

Clinton county selected Taft dele
gates and thus assured the secont.
district for the President. They
know hawk from a handsaw up
there. {9Es
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The st, Louis Globe-Democrat calls
attention to the fact that the Great
Lakes embrace Superior, Michigan,
Huron, Erie, Ontario and Cairo.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

President Taft carried the caucuses
in Ida Grove in Ida county, a PRO
gressive" stronghold. This sort OF
thing is becoming really monotonous.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

Bergthold spent Sunday afternoon
calling on Mr.. and Mrs. P. H. VII
sig and Mr.. and Mrs. o. D. Wiz.
sig.
Mrs. Fred Felt spent Friday with
home folks.
Mrs. Philip Hohl spent Friday al.
ternoon with Mrs. H. b. Gillaspey.
Mrs. Walter Roth left Friday morn.
ing for visit with her sister Mrs.
George Drummer of Centerville who is
quite sick.
There was no preaching at
Emburg Sunday on account of the
roads being in such bad condition.
Addition to IreIand's Wealth.
A recent discovery in Ireland indi.
Gates the presence Of large area rich
in copper, sulphur and arsenic.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

Cairo also is in the swim Alexan-
dria and Gregory will have to look to
their laurels.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The Herald.Transcript tells Of a
young man in Peoria who married
recently and is already complaining
about the expense. DO you know"
he said to friend, my honeymoon
made big hole in a So BILL
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

NOT FOR WIDOW
His Girl Wife is Not to Get His
Wealth After He Has
Passed Away.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
PITTSBURG, Pa, April 3.-Real es-
tate valued at nearly two million dol
lars in Pittsburg and its suburbs, for
merly belonging to Edward B. Alsop,
the seventy year old millionaire of
Washington, today is the property of
his two sorfs, Harold P. and Edward
H. Alsop, to be held in trust for them
until their fathers death.
Twenty year old Effie Pope Hill, of
Washington, Georgia, who was mar
ried to the aged millionaire February
Is. is not mentioned in the deed filed
here yesterday, which is dated the day
before the wedding took place.
At the time Of the wedding the two
sons who are students at an eastern
university. were asked how they liked
the match and replied: Bully, we like
Pops choice"
According to the terms of the docu.
ment the father and Reese Alsop are
appointed trustees and all rents or
profits are to be paid to Alsop during
his life time.
Most of the property thus devised
to the boys was decided to Alsop by
his first wife, Emma H Alsop, or pur.
chased by him wholly or in part by
funds bequeathed to him by her
Little Lovers Quarrel.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-That Ed.
ward B. Alsop, the octogenerian mil.
| lionaire and his bride OF two months,
10 year old Mrs. Effie Pope Hill AL
| sop, have had a little lovers quarrel
| is the explanation made today by
! friends of the couple regarding the
rumor that they are estranged. They
denied that Alsop's deciding of real es.
tate to his sons means that the aged
bridegroom has decided to prevent
Mrs. Alsop from becoming heir to his
estate.
At the palatial home OF the Alsops
servant said that Alsop . left for
Litchfield, Conn, where his girl bride
is under treatment for nervous all
ment, to make up the quarrel.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

If this volume of business is main
tanned the receipts of the office for
the coming year will be over $4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

Keep as sweet as you can" advises
the Cedar Rapids Gazette. The cam
paign will soon be over and then we
will all have to live together, not mat.
ter who is elected"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The Iowa City Citizen observes that
if man begins to talk greater Iowa
now they say he is candidate for
governor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

"All is lost save honor, and, thank
goodness, that's in our wife's name"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
NOTES AND COMMENT.

"a chaperone is person who goes
along for the purpose Of being fooled
asserts the Tama News.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The Jefferson banquet will be held
in Des Moines today and W. J..
Bryan is to be chief orator.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

TITS pretty near the bandwagon
stage says the Mason City Globe.
Gazette. "At least the events OF the
past week seem to indicate that the
bandwagon Is Just coming around
the curve and will soon be In sight. :"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The Cedar Rapids Republican OBJ
serves that in Illinois the legislature
is in session most of the time. The
worse the legislature the more it is
apt to be in session" the Republican
continues. "A decent legislature gen.
orally transacts It's business and
goes home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03

The veteran tells the thrilling tale
that oft he has told before.
The boys had formed in the shot rent
vale; the center was Sherman's
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-26

FOR SALE new Cortland Cart Company
sleigh Also tenement to rent to the right
party. Inquire OF w. G. Goodwin. 7j Prospect
street, city. 2b3t6s