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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
RETURNS TO REPUBLICANS.

Col. John o. Yeiser of Omaha, a
we'll known lawyer, who was the first
to file Col. Theodore Roosevelt s
name for President in 1912, has filed
MS own as candidate for governor of
Nebraska on the Republican ticket.
Nebraska is state under the primary
system, and when fling for office the
party afiiliation must be stated with
the name submitted In his petition
Colonel Yeiser returns absolutely to
the Republican party, but does not re-
nounce any of his progressive prin-
ciples. He is quoted as saying:
Republicans should fight out their
dlfferences within the party, not with
cut. There is common enemy with.
out the lines which all factions of
Republicans can join in fighting. Re-
rublicans can honestly differ on many
points, and I am convinced that the
correct thing to do is for the rank
and file to get together, fight out their
differences among themselves and set
tie upon policy which all can sup
port and then get into the campaign
against the Democrats. There is moth
ing in fighting. each other for Repub-
leans"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
SCHOOLS AS SOCIAL cENTERs.

The movement in Des Moines to
make the schools social centers win
be realized this evening with the In
auguration of series of evening en-
treatments in the West high school
building Educational moving pic
lures lectures by professors from the
Iowa state college at Ames and talks
by specialists in various kinds of ed
vocational work will be features of the
evening sessions.
An admission fee of five cents will
be charged to the moving picture ex-
ribition, which will open the course,
but all the other features will be
free of charge.
Lectures already have been arrang-
ed on poultry raising, history. print
ing and engraving and gas engines
Gardening, bacteriology and domestic
science are other themes soon to be
taken up.
1t is the intention of those backing
the social center movement to extend
the work to other schools in the city
9nd make of each one meeting place
and educational institution for the en-
tire neighborhood
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
BET TER THAN CALOMEE
Thousands Have Discovered
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets
are a Harmless Substitute.

DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the
substitute for calomel-are a mild hut
sure laxative, and their effect on the
liver Is almost instantaneous. They
are the result of DR.. Edwards deter.
mination not to treat liver and bowel
complaints with calomel. His efforts
to Danish 1t brought out these little
olive-colored tablets These pleasant
little tablets do the good that calomel
does but have no bad after effects.
They don't injure the teeth like strong
liquids Or calomel. They take hold OF
the trouble and quickly correct 1t. Why
cure the liver at the expense of the
teeth?. Calomel sometimes plays
havoc with the gums. SO do strong
liquids. 1t Is best not to take calomel.
but to let DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets
take its place.
Most headaches, "dullness" and that
lazy feeling come from constipation
and a disordered liver. Take DR.. Ed.
wards Olive Tablets when you feel
"loggy" and heavy" Note how they
clear" clouded brain and how they
"perk up the spirits. At 10c and 25o
per box. The Olive Tablet Company
Columbus, Ohio.-Advertisement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

A decision was handed down by the
United States supreme court Monday
to the effect that the utilities commits
sion of Kansas has the right to estab-
iish just rates that public utilities
companies are operating under. This
decision no doubt will have an in
fluence upon utility boards in other
states. The Galesburg Mail says of it:
It will prove severe blow to those
utility companies which have been
blessed by liberal fran
chises that were given them for long
periods of time when city. councils
were less interested in the needs OF
the coming generations than they are
today. At the same time those pub
lie utility companies, which find it
hard to operate at profit, now using
rates established years ago, may find
some relief if the ruling is applied to
other states than Kansas.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
CAPITOL GROUNDS EXTENSION.

CAPITOL GROUNDS EXTENSION.
The Cedar Rapids Republican gives
notice that it cannot have a great
deal of sympathy with the Rowley
movement, but at the same time ii
does not want to approve the methods
By which the things that Rowley COM
p]ains of were done, nor with the thing
that was done itself. The thought IL
the mind of the Republican is that
The purchase by the state of such
a vast tract of ground in the heart of
a city is useless expense and the ex-
pense of improving it and maintain
ing it will be constantly growing. into
the many millions millions that we
believe would have been better be-
slowed upon the institution at Ames
which is doing something to increase
the production of our farms, or on the
institution at Iowa City, which on ac-
count of the niggardly policies pur-
sued, in salaries for men, has never
been able to rank with the great state
of the west, to the shame
and humiliation Of Iowa be it said.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
For the New Year

For the New Year.
Now we have come to the first of the
year,
Time to start in on a record that's
clear,
Time to begin on a page that is clean,
How shall we fill it in nineteen four
teen?
What shall we make it--a year full OF
self,
Greed and Unkindness, and struggle
for pelf?
Or plan out our lives on a better de.
sign,
Up in the Office or down IN the mine !?
How shall we play in the game that
is life,
Make it a battle, war to the knife? ?
Or fill it with tenderness, honor and
truth,
With succor to age and with welcome
to youth?
Let us be true to the best that we
know,
Owner or M.ner-on top or below
Let US be brothers, whatever our
line,
Up in the Office or down In the mine.
Now we have come to the first Of the
year,
Let US start in for season Of cheer,
Let us be true to the faith and the Job,
Workmen who serve-and not bandits
who rob!
Whether we handle pick or pen
Let us be servants and comrades of
men,
Making life nearer the Masters de.
sign,
Up in the Office or down in the mine!
Berton Bailey.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
Getting Little announcement

Clinton Herald: However much
they may have been in sympathy
with Editor Rowley In the fight he
made in the courts against the capitol
extension act the Keosauqua man Is
receiving little encouragement about
the state because of his determine.
ton to be a candidate for governor
on that issue. It is being pointed out
that while Governor Clarke recon-
mended action on the matter of CAPT
tol extension, approved and signed
the bill, 1t was, after all, the mem.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
BEATING HIGH COST OF LIVING.

BEATING HIGH COST OF LIVING.
A Philadelphia woman who is a
famous culinary expert, has been at
lacking the high cost of living in a
practical way in little mining town
in West Virginia. AS starter she
announced she could prepare good
dinner for four men at a cost OF fifty
cents.
Four men were chosen having ex-
csptional appetites. The meal open
ed with & beef stew. the meat of
which cost 1Sc. AS potatoes were
expensive, Mrs. Scott replaced them
by dumplings, at 4c, including parsley
and other seasoning. soup of stock
cost &c, and can of peas &c. For
dessert. Indian pudding was served at
cost of sc, and the coffee for the
four men cost &c.
On the second day of the demon
stration larger building had to be
used to accommodate the crowd.
There is no question that con-
tributing factor to the high cost Of
living is the absence of economy In
many kitchens. Reform, to be effec
tive, must begin not only at home
but In the home
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

that he doesn't know and the minute
he leaves his work he Is out In his
car. Physically he is Of the Lincoln
type, being tall, Father stopped at the
shoulders, and With a chin which in
dicates persistence, and spells disas-
ter to the republican and democratic
politicians OF Dayton who are ex.
pecting him to fall down ON the lob
in the hope that they can return to
power. SO
Waite is forty-three years of age.
He Is to receive salary OF s12,5oo a
year, which is an advance of $4,000 a
year over his salary in Cincinnati.
Waite's selection followed the adop
ton OF new charter by the voters
OF Dayton last summer. This charter
provides for the commission plan OF
government. The people elected Ave
commissioners. one of whom is to act
as mayor. The commissioners under
The charter were charged with the
selection of business manager who
will have charge of the general ad.
ministration. The duties of the mayor
are perfunctory.
The plan is to emphasize the var
ious features of the plan Of organiza-
ton of private corporations In the
municipal government Tho citizens
are the stockholders. the commission
ers are the board of directors and
the business manager represents the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
CITY MANAGER
PLAN AT DAYTON
One Man at Head Of the city, Ap-
points all Officials and Politics
is Forgotten.

DAYTON. Ohio, Jan. 9.-It's a new
thing in American municipal govern.
ment to place at the head OF a big
city administration with a lot OF good
jobs to hand out man who doesn't
know whether he is a republican or
a democrat and doesn't care whether
any of his appointees are good poll.
ucians Or not. But that is Just what
has happened in Dayton. by the ap.
polntment of Henry M. Waite to the
position OF business manager. He will
have complete control of the mupic.
ipal government.
Waite came here from Cincinnati
where he was chief engineer of the
city under Mayor Henry T. Hunt. and
where he revolutionized the methods
OF improving the public streets and
sewers. He had previously been n
railroad engineer and superintendent
and when Hunt discovered him he
was in charge of some mining prop
erty In West Virginia. He didn't
land on bed of roses when he took
the Cincinnati job. His appointment
met with disfavor among the old time
politicians in the republican and
democratic party. who thought the
jobs In the city hall ought to 20 to
the men who delivered the votes on
election day. Waite only smiled at
this and it wasn't long until he had
convinced Cincinnati that he had the
goods
Waite Is the grandson OF the late
Chief Justice NJ. r. Waite, of tho
United States supreme court. He is
q bachelor and his only amusements
are motoring and golf There isn't Il
road within sixty miles OF Cincinnati
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

the various foreign capitals who will
report on trade conditions direct to
the department of commerce.
Besides several trade Investigations
already under way, new ones are to
be started in the fertilizer industry,
in the Oklahoma oil fields in relation
to the oil supply. as to the cotton POOL
and as to the actual cost of making
the clothing which we wear.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
HzzsI ! S ss2s sass!D
SIoKQK1h.
keokuk, Iowa .......J January 9, 1918
.sNow i LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP

NOW LAY NE DOWN 10 SLEEP.
The fire upon the hearth is low,
And there is stiffness everywhere;
Like troubled spirits here and there
The freight shadows round me creep.
a childish treble breaks The gloom,
And softly from a farther room
Comes. Now lay me down to sleep"
And. somehow with that little prayer,
And that sweet treble in my ears,
MY thoughts go back to distant years
And linger with dear one there:
And as hear the child's Amen
Crouched at her side seem to be,
My mothers faith comes back to me,
A mother holds my hands again,
Oh, for an hour in that dear place!
Oh for that childish trust sublime!
Oh, for glimpse of mothers face,
Yet, as the shadows round me creep,
! do not seem to be alone
Sweet magic of that treble tone
And Now | lay me down to Sleep"
Eugene Field.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

Hon. John. w. Rowley In Keosauqua
Republican,: Supplementing his an.
nouncem ent of two weeks ago, that
he would be candidate for Cover.
nor, Mr.. Rowley has this to say:
Had the supreme court sustained
Mr.. Rowley's contention that the ST.
100000 appropriation by the last
legislature should have been submit
ted to vote of the people, he would
not have been candidate. Mr.. Row
ley's contention was not aga nst the
right of the legislature to appropriate
$2,000,000 to purchase fifty-six acres
or more of ground, covered with
buildings, to convert into park, or
to appropriate ten times $2,O00,000,
or enough to purchase the whole city
of Des Moines, provided it was sub
mitted to the people for their ap
proval at a general election, as the
constitution directs. This wa; not
done; the people who have to pay
the bill were designedly ignored;
they were not consulted The COVER
nor and the other three members of
the executive council went into an
appeal against the people who had
voted them into Office, and the gu.
preme court sustained the contention
of these gentlemen by de ision that
holds that a legislature may, without
any consideration of the electors or
the state, appropriate fifty M lion
dollars, a hundred million, or an
amount that would bankrupt every
property holder in the state. And
already the members of this council
who usurped the rights of the people
and refused to permit them to vote
as to whether or not they be COMPEL
ed to pay the two million dollar
graft, are preparing to ask the voters
whom they scorned, to return them
to the official positions they now
hold.
Mr.. Rowley does not believe tn
fathers who voted the organic law
into being, which is the political bible
Of the state, lied, when they said to
you can obligate the peo-
Pile thus far. but If you go beyond
he limit we have fixed, the people
must be consulted.
The result of his contention against
he usurpltion Of the peoples rights |
~ the powers that be" quartered
lnder the dome of the capitol at Des
ioines, has forced Mr.. Rowley's can /
lidacy in order that the people ig-
lored may express their desires at I
he next election, and he submits the
GLOWING as suggestive OF the main
'oints on which he shall base his
ampaign:
That the capitol ground extension
ct is the product of conspiracy. /
That the extension grounds bill in +
Introduced, and passed by the legis-
AZURE, is bastard, having no known /
OF the hundreds of bills intro iucsd, I
his is the only one railroaded
through in one day.
That the gentleman credited by
)es Moines papers as largely instru-
Mental in getting passengers aboard {
10. 639 Extension Special Train" of
lpril s, was given free junket to
Europe, while the conductor, in
barge of this Legislative train during
is railroad recordtbreaking run over
he first division, calling in success
ion the stations, Take Up the Bill"
Suspend the Rules, Reconsider ana
.ay on the Table" was appointed
1smber of the board of control.
, That the act of the state executive
ouncil in stepping out of its sphere
$ an equalization board of assess-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

The Mt. Ayr Record-News in It's is
sue for the current week makes for
nal presentation of j. f. Wall, form
er auditor of Ringgold county, for the
Republican nomination for state audi
ter, to succeed John L. Bleakly, the
present incumbent Of that office. Mr..
Wall Is native Iowan. born in Wap-
clio county, and is now chief clerk in
the revenue department of the state
auditors office, to which he was ap-
pointed originally by B. F. Carroll.
He is we'll qualified for the position he
seeks and in every way deserving Of
recognition and reward
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

Governor Clarke has set February
10 as the date for the special congress
sional election in the Second Iowa
district, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Representative l. S. Pep
per Republicans, progressives and
Democrats viii start an active cam
naign at once and will hold district
conventions. A vigorous three-corner-
ed fight is in prospect.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
NEW INQUIRY INTO THE TRUSTS

NEW INQUIRY in TO The TRUSTS
Plans for a new and extensive gov
ernmental investigation Of the econ
cmic features of the trusts in relation
to the public welfare are disclosed in
the annual report of Secretary of Com
merce Redfield He says there s a
growing question In the minds Of
thoughtful men as to whether the
trust form Of business organization is
after all so efficient as some other
Gonceding that mere bigness NAV
have some elements of efficiency and
economy he doubts whether these
favorable factors are the only ones
and whether there does not come a
point of maximum efficiency at min.
imum cost beyond which an increase
of products means an increase of
cost per unit of that product
In support of this he observes that
several great trusts have ceased to
exist and that others pay but moder-
ate dividends. He suggests laws for
preventing the watering of cornor.
alton stock issues and against the in.
terlocking directorates. He wants 10
find out whether giving to manufac-
turers the right to fix the retail prices
OF their products tend toward mon.
opoly OF does not. For the aid of orr
z foreign commerce Redfield proposes to
rave regular commercial attaches ar
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

Missouri is agitating for swat the
Rooster day" 1t is demanded that
every rooster in the state be killed by
the governors decree. 1t has been
discovered in the SHOW Me" state
the rooster does not lay eggs and is
otherwise no good. Now what do
you know about that?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

Champ Clark says that If a South
American anaconda should swallow
Colonel Roosevelt, the bull moose
party would die within a week. But
no anaconda that knows the colonel
would think for a moment of tackling
the job.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
bers OF the legislature who passed
the measure
For More Fairgrounds.

Davenport Democrat: We are
spending nearly s6,OOo.ooO for play
grounds in the American cities which
have established them and placed
them under adequate paid supervis-
ion. The movement has not reached
Davenport yet to any noticeable ex-
tent, but it is hoped that start at
least may be made this year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

executive end. John H. Patterson.
president of the National Cash Regis
ter company, headed the commission
which drafted the charter and the plan
is recognized as being his. Waite
VIII make all appointments and have
charge OF all improvements made by
the city
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

The department of agriculture asks
the same protection for the skunk that
Is exercised in the prevention of
slaughter of the birds. This is clear
" a work of supererogation. The
skunk is amply able to protect itself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

of society and encouraging hasty and
ill-advised marriages. Persons who
enter into marriage contract owe
duty to society.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
You can't saw with hammer

Everything in London is proceeding
IN the regular order Of business
Sylvia is in jail again.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

When you are congratulating your
self on how the parcel post has been
putting the hook into the express
companies, do not forget to give our
cid friend Bill Taft credit for turning
the trick" says the Manson Journal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

For man who entered the White
House without any knowledge of the
game President Wilson has done pref
ty we'll says the Davenport Demo
crat
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

The Iowa City Republican concludes
that hanging is too gentle a death for
The automobile driver who runs away
after knocking person down.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

Candidate Rowley seems to be
spelling for an opportunity to live up
&c the first syllable of his name,' says
the Des Moines Capital.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

The Manchester Press says the fair
minded people of Iowa recognize that
Governor Clarke is entitled to re-eIec
ton on his record and VIII convince
Mr.. Rowley of it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09
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NOTES AND coMMENr

The Iowa City Citizen predicts that
the capitol grounds will be enlarged
before Mr.. Rowley gets his campaign
well under way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

The Des Moines Tribune says the
KEYNOTE of Senator Cummins' speech
was his confession that while he had
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

lost none of his confidence that he
himself is right, he is much less sure
as he grows older that everybody who
differs with him is wrong.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

Governor Clarke has not made a
bad governor says the Iowa Falls
Citizen, yet he has lacked that ele.
ment of leadership and aggressive ac-
lion that command the fighting sup
port OF men. With three-cornered
contest Clarke will probably be defeat
ed and Democrat elected"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-09

Mr.. Rowley is a sincere, determined
and public spirited kind of man, but
he is five years late in beginning his
hight, says the Washington Pres. "Be-
lore the law could possibly be repeal
ed the money would be nearly all
spent and the property bought and
added to the capitol grounds
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-01-08
CHECK FOR HALF MILLION
GIVEN CARDINAL GIBBONS

Baltimore, Jan. "A check for
$500,000 from the Knights of Colum-
bus of the United States for the
Catholic university at Washington,
was presented to Cardinal Gibbons
today by James A. Flaherty, of Phil
adelphia, supreme knight of the or
der. Monsignor Thomas ]. Shahan,
president of the university, and men,
bers of the faculty attended the pre-
sentation ceremony, which took place
at the cardinals residence. The large
sum has been collected by the Knights
in the last four years. 1t will be used
to establish fifty scholarships at the
university
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-01-08
GOING TO SMASH EGGS
OR RATHER, The PRICE

St Louis, Mo, Jan An egg
consumers strike, which is to last a
week was inaugurated here today by
the Peoples league, an organization
with membership Of almost 1000.
The league has urged housewives
and restaurant patrons to abstain from
use Of eggs, not so much to affect an
immediate reduction in prices, but RAJ
Their to demonstrate that the consum-
ers can exert an Influence over market
conditions.
According to leaders Of the move
ment the price Of fresh eggs has been
reduced from As cents to 40 cents a
dozen and Of storage eggs from IS to
80 cents because Of the advance an
nouncement Of t1e boycott