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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
Is STAR OF
MOVING PICTURE SHOW

again and won loud applause by say
ing: Our platform won't break
down like this one!' The hall was
crowded and fully five hundred per
sons We're unable to gain entrance.
Roosevelt got taste of real cam
paigning this afternoon when he shook
hands with nearly five thousand per-
sons. His good right arm, which in
the past has withstood greater tests
was somewhat out of practice and the
colonel finally had to call a halt. All
the way from Boston today he made
rear platform speeches and was
greeted by cheering crowds at every
stop.
The Taft men here kept close tab
on the colonel and 1t was reported to.
night that the president may be ask.
ed to come to Maine next week to at
tempt to counterfeit the possible effect
of Roosevelts visit on the state con.
vention to be held April 10.
Twenty-six arc lamps, whose heat
made the hall almost unbearable
burned all during the meeting tonight
for the benefit of motion picture men
The cameras We're focused on the
colonel and the operators were turn
ling the cranks when the stage col
tlapsed and caused rapid bit OF
scrimmage.
A second wrecking of the fiimsy
temporary stage on which Colone
Roosevelt spoke was averted at the
conclusion of his speech. A number Of
enthusiasts started to mount the stage
to shake hands with the former pres
ident, and at the same time the stage
began to sink Policemen quickly
surrounded the platform and held the
crowd back.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
FROM PURSUERS
LIKE WILD ANIMAL s

aligning themselves with the forces of
law and order The name of Allen no
longer possesses strange awe for
them. The fugitives themselves are
realizing the truth They are run
ming, lodging, fearful. no longer proud
and arrogant. They beg for food,
where they once commanded Meals
have been spread for them at places
appointed with their friends, bin they
have hesitated to go near them.
Residents have turned deaf ears to
well known signals from the mountain
side, fearing the posse while the gang
has not dared to come into the clear
inc. The most striking instance OF
this change of attitude became known
his home after the courthouse tragedy
he already realized that the end was
at hand. His wife and children were
beside him as the day died. He point
ed to a hill top and said:
Bury me there | am as good as
dead now If am caught, | will he
executed If | resist. they will shoot
me. shall not see you again, good
bye"
Then he rode off toward the south
ern mountains Sidna Edwards, who
! was captured Yesterday was taken
from the Hillville iail today and viii
/ be transferred tomorrow to Roanoke
4 with his uncle, cousin and chum
/ Floyd Allen, Victor Allen and Bird
Marion, Smiling, he slouched his wav
into a surrey. surrounded by moving
picture men and nodding to his
friends. To the railway station a,
GalaX he was accompanied by Detec.
tive Felts. Albert H. Baldwin and
Sergeant White, the latter of the
4 Roanoke militia.
Felts spent the day prior to his de
1 parture writing letters, dispatchins
messages by couriers and MAKING
plans for the final campaign against
}, the outlaw band.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
Platform Collapses While He
Was Shaking Hands With
Old Bill Sewell.

Aunited Press Leased Wire Service.
PORTLAND, Me-, March 23.-The
center of the stage collapsed, carry
ing down Colonel Roosevelt, Chair
man Enrich e. Foster and dozen
others just as the colonel appeared to
oeing his speech before 1000 persons
IN the auditorium here tonight.
ihough he had frightened appear
ahce as he was suddenly hurled off his
ieet, the former president quickly re-
canned his composure and came up
smiilng, as the crowd wildly cheered
his appearance. The stage was only
TWO feet high and no one was hurt.
me crowd surged forward, however,
ana climbed on chairs, demanding to
see the wrecked platform. Roosevelt
$1,000 out in front and notioned the
SPECTATORS back in vain until squad
VI policemen rushed in and restored
order. The colonel was in the act
Vi shaking hands with Bill Sewell,
MS Old Maine woods guide. when the
accident occurred,
Inc opening Of the meeting was de.
layed ten minutes while the stage was
patched up. Then Chairman Foster
iormaily introduced Roosevelt, who
showed some effects of ms experience
ny slight quaver in his voice. The
'siewrltten copy OF his speech shook
slightly in his hand. AS he launched
INTO his speech, he was soon himself
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
Allen Gang Has Lost It's Nerve
and Sinks and Trembles
With Fear.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
HIILSVILLE, Va. March 23.-The
reign of the Aliens is ended.
Driven from one vantage point to
another, gnawed by hunger, deserted
by former friends, hunted from crag
to crag and from valley to valley, like
beasts, the four remaining members
of the Allen gang who murdered the
court officials here on March 81, are
near capture.
Within four days they will be pris,
oners or else will be driven from the
mountain Businesses, which have been
their refuge.
AT least three of the outlaws are
positively in Carroll county. The
fourth, Sidna Allen, is in all probable
ity with them, though it is not def
nitely known. Up and down the lone
ly trail Of the Blue Ridge, Thomas l.
Felts, leading the Baldwin-Felts de
tective forces employed by the govern
ment to run down the criminals, have
been proclaiming the dawning of /;
new and brighter day for the people
of southern Carroll county.
The reign of the Aliens is ended.
Felts has said to men and women
who for decades have been terrorize,
by the band. Their prestige is gone
BY their own act they have bee,
placed where they can harm no one
None is so weak as to need to d
them reverence You are free men, .
This doctrine. as preached by Felt
I is having its effect. Gradually, lik
4 those awakening from a trance. tn
people are grasping the truth and al
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
THE NyIsA-I'Ia FIR.

Missouri-Local SHOWS or rains
Sunday; except fair in northwes,
portion; Monday fair, warmer.
Iowa-Local SHOWS Sunday; Mon
day fair and warmer.
Illinois Rain or snow Sunday;
Monday fair.
Local Observations
March %, Z a. m. 81 degrees. cloudy
March %, { p. M, SO degrees
cloudy.
Maximum temperature "a degrees
Minimum temperature 81 degrees
Stage of river at a. m,-Gallant
As; Keokuk al; Warsaw 17.7
Change in the past "a hours-Keo
kuk fall OIL; Warsaw fall 0,5
ottumwa 7s, rise o. falling Satur
urday morning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
England Looks for Either an End Of
the Great Strike or More
Trouble in Few
Days.
THE LAST CONCESSION
II is Up to the Operators Now as to
the Ending Of Long and
Bitter strus-
gle.

| United Press Leased Wire Service.
LONDON, March 23.-That settle
mont of the coal strike depends on the
operators was the outspoken declara-
ton of the union leaders after con-
ference tonight. They said either the
operators must agree to minimum
wage of five shillings daily for men
below ground or the men will remain
out and starve, if necessary.
1--WE have made the last conces-
sion," said Enoch Edwards, leader Of
the miners tonight. IF We are to
starve We might as well do so in the
knowledge that We fought for what
we knew was right If the operators
will agree to our minimum Monday
our men will go back to work on Tues
day. 1t is UP to Them
Enormous pressure from financial
and political interests is being brought
to bear to have the operators give H.
They will confer before the meeting
on Monday.
A more hopeful feeling was evident
tonight. 1t was believed the strike
would be settled Monday, although
there was nothing apparent on which
this hope was founded. Should the
two sides fail to come together Mon
day, the minimum wage bill will be
passed through the lords. But the
!, miners say it is nov, impotent and vii
!. not end the strike They say thsl
j will not go back TO work unless th,
, by agreement or by law.
the strike does not end on Tues
, day the operators will try to start III
, with strike breakers. ANTICIPATING
, such action, the government is pre-
! pared to move troops into the Goa
regions and furnish protection. This
will mean bloodshed as the temper O
, the men is very bitter. To prevent it
, Premier Asquith is aiding in the pres
sure being brought to have the opera
! tors accede to the minimum scale TIL,
, miners demand
!. The Erdman Act.
WASHINGTON, March 23-The at
tempt of the house democrats to aver
! the threatened coal strike by extend
' ing the Erdman act in disputes be
/ tween coal mine operators and thei
t employees, was today endorsed b,
) President Taft. representative Lee o
y Pennsylvania, author of the bill t
!. this end discussed the plan with Tai
9 this afternoon.
t "The president vas very interested,
e said Lee. He believes the Erdma,
5 act has been a great success in it
g operation regarding railroad labo
/ troubles and he thinks it would opel
ate as well in mining troubles
). Lee is convinced that he will hav
8 no difficulty in putting his bill throug
n the house.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
tommoner Insists That Predatory In.
terests Are Boosting the
Governor Of
Ohio.
WILSON MIGHTY BUSY
New Jersey Candidate Makes Plea for
the Polish Vote and Also Talks
About Alaskan
Coal.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
LINCOLN, Neb., March 23.-Re-
iterating his charge that Governor
Harmon is the choice of the preda-
tory interests and declaring posi-
lively that he will not support the
Ohio governor at Baltimore under
any conditions William ]. Bryan to-
night authorized advance publication
Of Commoner editorial in which he
replies to the charge of Senator Hitch
cock at Washington today that he
Bryan "is attempting to reassert
the old doctrine of the party boss"
The Bryan editorial in part, is as fol
lows.
The democrats of Nebraska will
have an opportunity to decide the is
sue raised by Mr.. Hitchcock against
Mr.. Bryan Mr.. Hitchcock announces
that his first choice for the presi-
dental nomination is Governor Har-
! mon Of Ohio, but that he will support
either Mr.. Wilson or Mr.. Clark II sc
instructed BY the democratic voters
at the primaries. Mr.. Bryan has stat.
ed that as between Mr.. Wilson and
Clark he does not care to express a
preference, regarding them both as
progressive, and that he will be glad
to vote in the convention for either ii
instructed to do SO by the democrats
at the primaries, but that, believing
Mr. Harmon is reactionary whose
nomination, if secured at all, will be
secured by Wall street Influences he
Il not willing to be party to his
nomination Mr.. Bryan announces
that II elected a delegate, he will re
sign his commission and refuse tc
serve If Mr.. Harmon receives a plur
atty at the primaries. If instructions
were determined by the election o.
delegates and determined in favor o.
Mr.. Harmon, Mr.. Bryan would not be
candidate for delegate, but he has
no way of knowing, until the delegates
are selected, what the wishes of the
Nebraska democrats may be in regart
to the candidate
Mr.. Hitchcock criticises the posi-
tion taken by Mr.. Bryan, his conclus
ion being summed up in the following
sentence: IF Mr.. Bryan is not WILLING
to promise to abide by the instruc
lions of the democrats of Nebraska
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
Keeps Climbing !!

There is sincerity about the sub
scription lists of The Gate City
that appeals to merchants. 1t is
an open circulation with value
that is getting results for those
business men who use it and the
advertising columns are conclus-
i've evidence that it is being used.
The advertising patronage in this
issue is almost double that given
in the last issues of any other
Keokuk newspaper 1t is worth
while to consider the circulation
that The Gate City now offers to
its patrons.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
The Oldest Veteran.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WHEELING w. Va, March %
Benjamin Gill, aged 104 and the old
est G. AR. man in the United States,
died at Rymer, Marion county. today
Gill served three years in Company
e, s5th Pennsylvania regulars. He
was six feet tall and weighed PAS
pounds at the time of his death.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
Wilson Pleases Poles. !.

wilson FjcdScS FOie6'
MILWAUKEE. March 23.-Gover-
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey,
brought cheers of approval from a
thousand Polish laborers here tonight
when he lauded the industrious, frugal
Immigrants who have come to this
country to escape hard conditions OF
the old world and build new homes
for themselves and families in the
land of the free.
The governor declared that he did
been lied about as having criticised
the foreigner, for he said it was his
earnest conviction that the man of
foreign birth usually becomes
worthy citizen and that oftentimes the
cause of his leaving the mother coun-
to the free institutions. of America,
and he therefore becomes most
wholesome unit of the electorate of
the United States.
| In his address here, Wilson said:
| when we see a nation in trouble,
we know there is lack of adjust
| ment; there is too much friction
somewhere
I'VE must look for new adjust
ment because the problems of 1912
have never been presented to tho
American people before, and they can,
4 not be solved by the formula that
political parties have hitherto used.
What is a standpatter? 1t is a man
who has not walked up to look at the
calendar. A standpatter is man
who declines to believe in reality
"A progressive is not man who 10
running for the fun of running. He
Is running to keep up.
/ "The tariff is making a provincial
nation of us. We are building an
enormously expensive canal, and yet
we have no ships to send through it
except warships. We want business
/ conducted out of doors, instead of in
4 doors. There is the same cure for
4 bad politics and bad business as there
is for tuberculosis in life, in the open
I'VE want the houses of big bust
ness to be made of glass SO that the
people may have a look in.
Il would rather take the judgment
on public affairs of the average thar
that of the great leaders of business
! because the latter have not taken time
to look into the matter"
4 The governor made two addresses
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
Democratic Doctrine

he ought not to be candidate Mr..
Bryan's answer is that he believes in
keeping the spirit Of the law as we'll
as the letter. No man ought to at
tempt to speak for the democracy Of
Nebraska unless he can carry out the
spirit as well as the letter Of their
instructions. II the democracy Of Ne
braska favors Mr.. Harmon, 1t ought
to be represented by delegates who
can support Mr.. Harmon not only con-
scientiously but with enthusiasm. Mr..
Bryan cannot support him in the con-
vention on any conditions or under
any circumstances and he would for
felt the confidence and respect OF the
friends with whom he has labored for
nearly two decades if, believing as he
does that Mr.. Harmon is reaction
airy and the choice of the predatory in
terests of the country for the demo
cratic nomination. believing this
he were willing to surrender his con
victions for the honor of being dele
gate to the national convention
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
Republican Repartee

convention to be held Monday. The
delegates are overwhelmingly in fa-
vor of Taft and Mondays convention
will elect solid delegation from
Denver instructed for Taft to the
state convention at Colorado Springs.
The advocates of President Taft
have elected large majority of the
delegates to the state convention
chosen so far. The Roosevelt men ex-
pect to make hard fight in the state
convention and probably will send a
contesting delegation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24

Denver All for Taft.
DENVER, Colo, March 23-The re-
publicans of Denver county at pri-
maries held this afternoon and to-
night elected delegates to the county
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Read The Daily Gate City, loc
! per week.
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Denver is Strong for Taft, Both Sides
Are Claiming Indiana But
Nobody's Elected
Vet.
THE POLITICAL NEWS
Roosevelt Makes Direct Personal At
tack on Taft In His Speech
About Men and
Dollars.

| United Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, March 23.-With
two more favorite sons in the demo-
cratic running, Senator Lafollette in
the republican list with North Dako-
ta's ten delegates and the announce
ment from Colonel Roosevelt's head
quarters that contests will be made
against 80 of the 103 delegates claim
ed for Taft, presidential politics here
tonight fairly sizzled.
Both the Roosevelt and Taft boom
ers were claiming Indiana tonight.
kilograms to the colonel's hackers
said eight out of thirteen districts
would line up for 7. r. Taft's man
ayers claimed 143 delegates; Roose-
welt 48; Lafollette 10; Cummins 2.
Among the democrats, Clark led with
claims of sc delegates. Wilson's
bureau said there were SO pledged for
the New Jersey governor. Governor
Marshall of Indiana and Governor
Burke of North Dakota, were credited
with thirty and ten respectively.
Iowa Conventions.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, March 49,
Y Caucuses and conventions were hell
by republicans in half a dozen coun
ties in Iowa today and the indica
tons tonight are that Senator Cum
Minis will carry the state convention
by 121 delegates and that five dis
tricts will be for Taft and seven fol
Cummins.
i Clark men continued to gain today
In two counties Clark got 10; Wilson
2, and Harmon 2 delegates, making
the total now stand; Clark, 145; viii
4 son 80; in doubt 5.
A dozen counties will hold conven
/ tions next week and should Clarl
continue to gain in the same ratio i
will practically give him the state.
Denver All for Taft.
DENVER, Colo March 23.-The re
4 publicans of Denver county at pr
maries held this afternoon and to
;,l,4 III RI t0 no ,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
Made Personal Attack.

PORTLAND, Maine. March ga
direct personal attack was made by
former President Roosevelt here to-
night on President Taft for having, so
Roosevelt says, advocated putting
the dollar above the man."
While giving his successor credit
for good Intentions Roosevelt In
sisted that we progressives do not
feel he can properly represent u.s.
and in critieising the chief executive
he paid his respects to Taft's "chier
supporters Senators Penrose and
Gallinger, Congressman Mckinley, for
mer Congressman Tawney and Will
liam Barnes, Jr. A large audience
greeted the colonel.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-24
Who Owns Indiana7

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March "a
The alignment of Indiana in the con-
test between President Taft and Col
Both Taft and Roosevelt managers
issued statements tonight asserting
that they would control the republican
state convention here Tuesday whic.-
will select four delegates at large to
the national convention. National
Committeeman Harry S. New, in
charge of the Taft forces. said that
the 566 of the 903 delegates thus far
reported We're pledged to the presi-
dent. Charles Campbell, Roosevelt
leader, claimed his figures show 494
delegates for the former president to
| 2S1 for Taft, with $50 delegates con
tested.
| Reports compiled from other
| sources indicated 494 votes for Roose-
/ welt to Ais for Taft from the counties
| that have thus far reported. 1t is be,
4 lieved that when the state convention
4 convenes the two clans will have al
most equal strength
i The campaign for delegates which
! closed tonight was one of the hardes
i in the states history The first anc
seventh congressional districts have
4 selected two delegates each to the ma
4 tional convention. These four have
been instructed for Taft, but the
Roosevelt supporters will file con
tests at Chicago. Three of the re
naming eleven districts will name
delegates Monday.
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THE WEATHER

Fair and Warmer TOMORROW
Local Temp a. m. 81; Up.
m. 80.
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msE,s Uniaue Home

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