The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20

sad ~ increase az tes republican
vose N tbs Second district o. lcEA .
desire Of The people u rs1uD % re-
Pa5sscz1 rzzs. TIE democratic vose II
the district fen o. - per cent ana
the progressive vote oFer 81 per cent
The Republican alone showed Eain
0ysr ne presidential figures Of lsls-
TIC Years hsacss Mr. Wilcox
said. The long suffering Pablo. in
ciadzns democrats and progrsxstrss,
VII csn upon the republicans Of me
1rae brand 10 nominate leader Eho
VII eondl1 them % the sid OF pros
gsrfry again know What the 2or-
s-tF makers during the last demo-
cratic administration ccss1 ne and nv
SO snployees and their tEs1lile IS
wASgESGroS. y. c.. Feb, 20
The solacFsng addstic1sl foaTth class
postmasssrs IN Iowa hare oeen com
nissioned-
Arnold -Cnresssne Peterson
A-nosds Park Edward r. McGor-
risk
Bonneville George Srslsor
Leonard s. Knudson
Dixie Robert y. Baxa.. II.
Hale-Leoca Clay.
Esli- George c. Warner.
Lznby BENJAMIN E. Clark
Torah-Otto ". Anderson.
Lnyene-EArie B. LoreN
Aescher- hestE A. HoilinssEc-tn-
Rogers Stella A. Sawyer
WASHINGTON, D. c.. Feb. 20
Michael 2. C-unin OF Muscatine who
was the secretary OF the late Repre-
sentative Irwin S. Pepper. has return
&c to Washington TO be secretary TO
Representative-elect Henry voiimes.
and this is pleasing TO many Iowsns
In Washin gton who know how inter
estsd Mr.. Pepper was in this young
mans future. si-. Cronin probably
could have been nominated instead Of
Mr.. yoImsr to serve the remainder
OF sir. Peppers term /; jugs Wade
and other state leaders had not 40
yiEed him to be patient and wait until
he should be out OF law school. al
+ least, before being a candidate for
I congress. He accepted this advice
! and thereby made many friends among
! Voilmers supporters. He now has
t returned to Washington and willy pu!
the new congressman from the Second
district onto the ropes. Mr. Cronm
Is president of the junior law class
! at Georgetown university.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Feb. 20.-
4 The democratic congressional com
mittee is gratified at the news which
comes from democrats OF 'Doliiver'.
old district" that they are going t.
put UP stiff fight to elect democra
this year to represent them In con
gress. They think they see their op
portunity with bull moose candidat,
in the race. Inasmuch as the 3ul
. moosers confidently expect to cleo
their man and as Representative,
Frank r. Woods is certain he has tn,
job nailed down, the outlook is for al
interesting contest in the ''bi
!, Tenth"
u o. VI. Olson OF Fort Dodge, tn
prospective nominee OF the Democrat
I is declared to be wonderfully popy
\ lar man in Webster and Calhou
8 counties, which constitute senato
: ial district that hi once repres enta
4 WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 20
William Finn OF Ptttsburg, Ion
; known in the politics OF Pennsyivanl
= as "old BIZ Finn, has been in Wasl
I ington the last few days conferrir
with the officers OF the progressiI
national committee. Finn Is this Pen
sylvania member OF this organdzatio
: His principal object In life right no
a is to defeat Senator Penrose tn
year Finn charges Penrose Wi
having thrown out the SCORES OF co
testing Roosevelt delegates wink
Ornsby McHaTg took to the repub
q can national convention Of 1912, thel
by defeating Roosevelt for tbs non
y nation, and he proposes to get Il
81 big fellow" from Philadelphia I
G that. Finn has brought out Giffo
Psncfiot as the bull moose candida
"a and during his stay In Washington
n- said to friends that the coione
q would Jump into tlrs fight and eta
~ his head off for Giff'
The Wilson administration is g
~ ing its moral support to Represen
tive A. Mitchell Palmer for the de
n ocrattc nomination and so, with
or "progresaiye' republicans centeri
upon q candidate to run against p
40 rose in the primary, Penrose Is
~ surrounded. For the first time In
10 political career, he Is up agains
tight. And he's lighting, too. He
'us speaking every night befors the
NJ publican club OF some Pennsylva,
od town. Last Sunday night he spoke
az a flag presentation IN the Grace u
H. ed Evangelical church Of Philadelp
ny and during the days hs is busy
I'm dressing school children and shak
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