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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13
TELLS BEST TINE
TO DRAG ROADS
Writer in Bowen Chronicle Dis.
cusses Subject, Following Ideas
Expressed in The Gate City
Interview.
GOOD TIME AFTER RAIN
Why Wet Dragging is Preferable to
Dry Drassing-~says Farmers
Should be Paid for
the Work.
GOOD TIME AFTER RAIN

Recently The Gate City printed an
interview with Dr. G. Walter Barr on
the road conditions around keokuk,
the thesis of which was that the roads
hereabouts are not dragged at ex-
actly the right time, Immediately att
err a rain. which would make them
twice as good with less work.
A writer in the Bowen Chronicle
has a long article on the best and
cheapest way to make really good
roads the year round, in which ne
demonstrates the same fact. he
gives many illustrations OF roads
familiar to Chronicle readers, some
of which are dragged at the right
hour and some dragged too late, the
former being perfect and the latter
often muddy and dusty. The fol-
lowing extracts from the article cor
roborate the ideas in the interview
in The Gate City so thoroughly that
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13
KEOyUK AUTHORS
ADD THEIR BOOKS
Miss corneIia Meiss an pr. Frank G.
BeardsIey Sem Volumes for
Placs on keokuk Authors
Shelf.
WILL SELL OLD BOOKS
board Accepts Offer Made by Col
leetor Of Some Old Hlstorles
Reports Made for The
Quarter.

Two more Keokuk authors have
added their books to the Keokuk
authors collection at the Keokuk
public library. It was reported at the
meeting Of the board last evening.
Miss Cornelia Meigs and DR.. Frank
G. Beardsley are the two donors.
Their books have been received by
the board and will be placed on the
Keokuk authors shelves.
The trustees discussed the advis-
ability OF selling some OF the old
books in the library, for which Of
fers have been made by collectors.
There were some thirty volumes
which were priced by collector re-
Gently. Some of the books which he
wanted were Of strictly local interest,
and the board felt that these should
not be sold. Some volumes of Vir.
ginia and Texas history, which are
never taken off the shelves here, and
which would have no local signific-
ance, win be sold.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13
Rental Collection.

Primary races for nominations take
considerable fairness out of ambitious
political purses. 1t is no news to
aspirants that the shakedown is ex-
pensive. In Illinois last month the
primaries are said to have cost all
round $2,000,00O. Reports Of primary
expenses now being published in New
Jersey show the vanquished spent ,
much as the winners and some ovsr.
Six aspirants for the governorship
and the United States senatorship
spent total of 100000, and there
are more to hear from. Evidently
the salaries are not the lure Honor
and power are the magnets.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13

Detroit's millionaire cop, James
Couszens. is on the job as chief Of
police, tagged with a program OF
moderate reform. Gambling must go.
Conditions which encourage crime
are booked for a long vacation. al
am not a prohibitfonist," says the
chief, with reference to the saloon
question. II do not believe in deny
ing another man the privileges you
enjoy yourself. There are wealthy
men In this city who are working for
prohibition, knowing that if it carries
they will be able to get their desires
just the same. To me that is by.
pocrisy."
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13

Highly inflammable motion picture
film has caused many destructive
theater fires A new electrical device
will automatically seal up the film
boxes on a protector and cut off the
burning film, thus preventing the
spread of the flames.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Oct. 1S.-Jud'
Thomas F. Ryan of the criminal COY
announced yesterday that Oscar
Mcdaniel, indicted on q charge
numbering his wife, will not be >,
pended as prosecuting attorney y
Buchanan county pending trial Jul
Ryan said that Mcdaniel would !
suspended il ae were convicted -
trial October il
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13

$50 secretaries Of building and loan
associations present Reports were
received from President Mark ,.
Rider, Chicago; Secretary M. e.
Vasen, QuincY; Treasurer Lake w.
Sanborne, Galesburg, and the chair
men of the finance and law commit
tees, respectively John L. Novak and
Charles Werno.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13
IOWA.

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Oct. 13.-Miss
Mabel Elwood Of Lime Springs, adj
mitted to practice law In this state,
was the only girl in a class Of
twenty-five law students who success
fully passed the state bar examfna-
ton. She Is an alumnae Of Cornell
college and took her law course ut
the state university Of Iowa and Chi
cago university.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Oct. 3D.
Judge w. II. McHenry, who has been
on the bench longer than any other
district court Judge in the history OF
Polk county, tae rendered his resig
nation to Governor Clarke, effective
January I.
GRINNELL, Iowa. Oct. 13-An
IL ~H~h ~
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13
with every rain.

with every rain.
Our roads have had quite little
work done on them, grading and
dragging this summer and fall The
work was we'll done and when fin
ished, looked good and was good.
but road freshly graded will, II the
drag is used rightly and at the right
time, be packed more by one rain and
wet dragging than by six months OF
trafic and If the proper hitch Is
used, the crown will be preserved in
stead of flattening out.
Tho Way to Get Perfect Roads.
Neglect the drag for two months
and the roads will deteriorate more
in that time than in the succeeding
two years.
Farmers living on the highway
should be paid for their work and
more than that, should be fined for
neglecting to be on the road with the
drag within one hour from the time
they are called out by the road boss.
In this day of the telephone, a
system OF. calling could easily be ar
ranged by the commissioner OF high
ways. The road should be, apportion.
ed to each, and the work done sim
ultaneously all over the township
after each rain. Ten dollars for eacL
mile would do more for permanent
Improvement of the road than twenty
five dollars spent in grading. While
we recognize the necessity OF the
grader when road gets in a certain
condition, yet road properly cared
for and dragged will never get In
that condition. 1t is, only through
neglect that it does.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13
Makes Permanent Improvement.

Now don't get into your minds
that this means after the top of the
soil begins to dry, for if you do, and
acting upon the impulse, drag then,
you will open the pores OF the top
soil and invite the next rainfall to
come in and do its worst as effectual
ly as sinner opens his heart to his
favorite devil and with much the
same results. Another evil Of dry
dragging is that 1t leaves the surface
in excellent condition to be worked
up into dust.
Any piece OF road that is dragged
wet after every rain will never de-
teriorate but will constantly improve
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13
MISSOURI.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 10
Thomas A. Skinner. % years old,
cashier and bookkeeper employed at
the Offices of the General Electric
company In the Pierce building. was
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13

arrested at MS home YESTERDAY.
Detectives Nolan and Mcdonald
a warrant alleging embezzlement
$4,000 from the company. SKIM
has wife and one child.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13

IOWA CITY, Iowa, Oct. 13.-An-
other case Of infanti1e paralysis has
been discovered in Johnson county,
the victim being Pearl Vance, 8 years
old, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
France, who reside on q farm about
four miles from Lone Tree.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13
ILLINOIS.

ILLINOIS.
CLAYTON, Ill, Oct. 13.-John Haz-
lett, q veteran horseman Of Clayton,
died suddenly of heart trouble N
Dresden, Tenn. He and Samuel NAL
comson were IN the south in the
horse racing business. He was a
brother Of James Hazlett and was So
years old.
ANNA. ILL.,, Oct. 13.-Mrs Laura
F. Stokes, aged "a, is dead. She was
sister of A. J. PickerelI, many
years postmaster here and a promi-
nent republican politician and lawyer.
BENTON. Ill, Oct. 1s.-Thomas
Crostlin, living SIX miles south OF
Benton, celebrated his cath birthday
anniversary Wednesday. He Is, per-
haps, the oldest man In Franklin
county and enjoys the best Of health.
A few days ago he purchased an
automobile and says he will spend
the remainder Of his life treating hts
friends to ride.
JOLIET, H., Oct. 13.-Miss Helen
Macumber, Is years DID, jumped to
safety yesterday from second-story
window when fire destroyed John
Bakers store and home building and
several other business houses in
Essex, ILL.,, thirty miles south OF
Joliet. The loss is more than $50, 900.
NATION, Ill, Oct 13.-The
thirty-seventh annual convention of
the Building Association League of
Illinois. opened here Thursday with
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13
Illinois Iowa Missouri

establishment Of q department Of
home economics In Grinnell II de-
velopments begun in this line can be
pushed to completion. A special COM
mittee Of the graduate council Of the
college has been appointed to con-
slider the possibilities of the PROPOSE
ton and its annual report next June
will go far toward determining the
advisability Of the course.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13

September 1916 the for

they are reprinted here in the hope
that they may make an impression on
the men in charge of the roads in
three states around Keokuk. Some of
the things the observant writer near
Bowen. Illinois, says arc as follows:
Drag Wet After Every Rain.
Now the implements used was the
common farm drag, some were split
logs and some OF bridge planks.
The process was, dragged wet and
dragged every time the roads became
wet.
Do you understand why wet? Be-
cause drag run over wet soil closes
the pores of the surface. rendering
it impervious to the next rainfall.
Men, road men in particular, no mat
ter how often or insistently this is
told them. shed the knowledge from
them like ducks back sheds water.
Never in all that has been written
about the road drag has its import
ance been overstated or sufficiently
insisted upon, il used on wet ground
and when I say wet l mean wet,
sopping wet, dragged Immediately
after a rain or during the downpour
IL you have the nerve.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-13

GRINNELL, Iowa, Oct. 13.-An
other year will probably see the
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-06-01

combined with certain Demo-
cratic State Senator'S in the last
session of the Legislature to
raise the direct state levy and
thereby Increase the tax receipt
OF the farmer and small proper.
ty owner.
AS our attorney in the fam.
Gus Virginia debt case it is
shown that he did not give it
proper attention and at the most
crucial period of the suit was
out Of the State on protracted
pleasure trip while our law suit
with old Virginia involving
more than twenty millions Of
dollars was hanging in the bal
ance and he our chief counsel.
In our mileage rate case with
the G. & 0. r. r. after his pre-
decessor had secured judy
ment In our favor against said
railroad compelling the return
of the money collected from us
unlawfully. Mr.. Lilly proceeds
while acting as our attorney to
retard the collection of our cou-
pons and had his personal
agents in the field buying them
up at fifty cents on the dollar.
AS an officer he has been ex-
travagant, the expenses of his
office being far in excess of that
of his predecessor and having
these matters in mind can we
have confidence that his promi-
SEES of good government and e.
economy will be kept should he
be chosen ?-Prest. Co. Journal.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-06-01
WHY JUDGE ROBINSON WILL BE NOMINATED
VOTE FOR ROBINSON
and CLEAN GOVERN hENT


The vote you cast for Cover
nor is one of the most impor-
tant that you will cast on June
9th.
In your own interest and in
that of your fellow citizens it
should be cast without prejudice
or malice but with the sole pur-
pose of nominating the cleanest
and most efficient man and the
one that will lead us to victory
in November.
Judge Robinson has lived and
worked among us and has been
our friend and neighbor since
his hoyhood. He has been pros
ecuting attorney of our sister
county of Taylor, State Senator
from the old Monongalia dis
trict, one of the judges and
president Of the Supreme Court
of Appeals.
His public record is without
stain or blemish, and in all these
various official positions he has
been efficient, Embossed, fear
less and unbiased and has prov
ed by his record that he will not
be controlled or influenced by
any man, clique, faction or IN
terest but will be the Governor
of all the people.
Judge Robinson is relying and
running on a record Of official
performances and not promises.
The official record Of his op-
ponent, Attorney General Lilly,
is not so clear This record
shows that Mr.. Lilly, his cam
paign managers and supporters
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-06-01
LILLY SILENT ,WHEN
ACCUSED BY GOVERNOR

Logan, w. Va, May -"The
Division of the Spells" was the
subject of the most sensational
speech of the Republican guber-
Nstorial campaign delivered at
Omar by Governor Henry D.
Hatfield. The Governor star
tied his auditors with the decla-
ration that Abe Lilly had enter
ed into a deal with the special
interests financing his campaign
whereby each would dictate the
administration of the branches
of government affecting its par
ticular welfare. The speaker
reiterated all of his previous ac-
cusations and pointed to the
fact that Lilly never has made
an attempt to deny any of them.
why does he not endeavor to
repudiate them?" the chief exc
cutive Numbered. "It is be-
cause he knows they cannot be
d9nied. He knows every charge
Chave made is true He knows
that you good people know it
is true and therefore is main
tanning discreet and guilty 81
lence.
But the whole truth has not
yet been told This man Lilly,
who sold himself and is trying
to deliver the state over to the
predatory interests that seek to
get a strange hold on the ma
tural resources Of West Virginia,
despoiling it Of its wealth and
robbing you and me of our nat
ural heritage, not satisfied with
-prestituting himself on the al
tar of political ambition would
barter your birthright and mine
to those whose only interest in
West Virginia consists of what
they can get out of it. Even
low he has agreed on a division
of the spoils with those who
have gotten together the biggest
slush fund ever raised for any
candidate in the history of the
state.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-06-01
THE REASON FOR The NOISE

he is favored as the Republican
nominee by Governor Hatfield
and the majority of other state
officials because his record, his
character and his official acts
have been above question
The tumult raised by the at
torney general and his forces on
this plea of the demagogue is
designed for the express pur-
pose Of diverting attention from
ruinous flaws in the Lilly ap-
peal.
In his personal platform the
attorney general said among
numerous other things, that he
was opposed to the Williamson
charter act of the legislature,
Soon after the publication of
that remarkable document Dele
gate James, of Mcdowell coun-
Continued on page I ]
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-06-01

Noise, the chief element in the
campaign that Attorney General
A A. Lilly is making for the Re-
publican nomination for COVER
nor of West Virginia, centers a.
bout the demagogic claim Of
himself and his supporters that
there is on foot a plan of "exe-
cutive domination for "perpet-
uation in office" This cry ig-
nores the plain fact that the off
cial carer of Judge Ira E Rob
inson proves him to be the kind
of a man who cannot be domi-
mated, and the further fact that
Judge Robinson is being oppos-
ed by the coal and other inter
ests because he does not take
dictation. 1t takes no note of
the truth that Judge Robinson
is ''his own candidate" and will
be the people'sgovernor, and that
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-06-01
DEFENSE is MADE

II do not come before you to
suggset whom you should elect
governor. But to warn you
whom you should not, under any
circumstances permit to occupy
that position of power-power
for good and power for evil. It
is my mission tonight, not only
tn defend myself from the cal
jimmy of a band of plundering
pirates, who have taken this
man Lilly to their bosom, but to
warn you against them and the
man they are spending fabu-
Alous fortune to force upon you
~ your next governor. If they
Should be successful it would be
the greatest calamity that ever
befell this great mountain state,
of which you and l and every
patriotic West Virginian are so
Justly proud.
"A slush fund, the most gil
gantic, the most shameful and
the most discriminating in the
annals of West Virginia's poll
tics, has been provided by these
buccaneers, for the purpose of
financing the Lilly campaign. l
am reliably informed that they
already have raised more than
q quarter of million dollars,
and judging by the lavish hand
with which they are disbursing
that fund, it is evident that as
much more will be supplied if
necessary.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-06-01
WHY HELP Mr.. LILLY?

w IL iAGL1 nlis. hliL
Nov then, my good fellow
citizens, why are these people
spending their money SO liberal
ly on this man Lilly, and what
is their motive for doing so? Is
it because they love him? No.
They love nobody but Mammon.
The almighty dollar is their
God. Is it because they admire
him? No. z. Taylor Vinson,
himself, the leader of their clan,
only four years ago declared
this man he is now supporting
from the stump and with all the
funds he can command, was UNI
fit for any public Office and
should be disbarred from the
practice Of his profession | re-
peat then, why are these Lord
bountifuls pouring this limitless
golden stream into the Lilly
campaign fund? What do they
expect in return? Mr.. Lilly's
supporters are the West Vir-
GINA Coal Operators Associa-
ton; the Manufacturers Heat
and Light Company, the liquor
interests. In return for their
support he has sold not only
himself to his crowd, he has
bartered away his high office
and the whole state of West Vir-
ginia.
What is the deal he has made
with these mercenaries? 1t was
this. Listen well to my words.
If by those fatal mischance, Abe
Lilly should become governor of
West Virginia., you will have bit
ter cause to remember them. If
this candidate of the interests"
should be elected, 2. Taylor Vim
son. the man who has devoted
his life to fighting constructive
legislation in West Virginia,
who has fought every tax meas
, ure that would require big in
terests to pay their proportion
ate share of the states expense,
would dictate the terms of ev-
cry law placed on the statute
books. That would mean that
you and / and every ordinary
citizen would pay all the state
taxes while the corporate inter-
ests would be given ample pro-
tection.It would mean that we
would groan under the burden
while they fattened on your toll
and grew sleek by the sweat of
your brows.
"If this Lilly-putian candidate
should be elected, the hydro
electric interests and the Manu-
facturers' Light &, Heat Co.,
would name the members of the
public service commission,and in
addition would receive conces-
sions in the way of dam privil-
edges That would place hum
dreds of thousands of lives in
| jeopardy. Naming their own
commissioners, they of course
would name their own terms in
all controversies between them
selves and the people You
would be placed at the mercy of
a small group of corporations.
And what is more, the Power
Company would have carte
blanche to build dams as high
as Hannah wherever and when
ever it pleases.
GIf this wet and dry" candi-
date, who breaches prohibition
in Webster county and promises
relief to the thirsty in Ohio and
other counties where the senti-
(COntinued on MAGE
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-06-01
Unbought, Embossed, Unafraid
ROBINsON'S PLEDGE

1.-THE only charge the OPP
position makes against me
the only imputation it en-
deavOrs to make, lis that
Governor Hatfield is support
ing me, / want to say to you
that | welcome Governor Hat
fields support just as |
would welcome yours or any
other mans. And don't be
deceived. Mr.. Lilly would
appreciate that support just
as much as l do if he could
get it. But when my adver-
sary says that | am Hatfield's
candidate he tells what .ev-
cry man knows to be untrue
| am no mans candidate for
Governor. will be the chief
executive of all the people
of the whole state and shall
make my career in that ex-
allied Office square with my
whole life's official record,
frcm prosecuting attorney of
Taylor county to Judge Of the
supreme court of the state,
which / submit for your APP
prevail and invitet the closest
scrutiny. If you can find in
that record a scintilla of evi-
dence-a word or act which
would indicate that l could
be nominated by any man, l
withdraw from the contest"
Judge Ira E. Robinson. :.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-06-01
UNBOUGHT AND UN-
AFRAID

At the coming primary ev-
cry member of the Republic
can party will have an equal
voice in selecting the candi-
lates of the party. And
great care needs to be exer-
cised by the farmers and la
boring people or they will by
unfair representations be led
to vote against their inter-
.ests.
Judge Robinson is in his
strength of character ana
soundness of ideas an exam
pie of what every farmer
wishes that his own son
might become in his matured
years. He sprang from a
plain people like ours and
has no higher ambition than
to carry the plain, honest in
tegrity of the common peo-
pie to the head of the State
Government, and give an adj
ministration of its affairs by
the common people. =.
Arrayed against him in
support Of his opponent are
every interest that wants to
rob West Virginia of her vir-
gin wealth Of timber and
mines and not contribute to
the support of its institu-
tions, leaving the burden ON
the farmer and labOrer.
Are you going to cast your
vote June 6 for Ira E. Robin
son and yourself, or for Abe
Lilly and the corporations7
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-06-01
REPUBLICAN SPEECHES

Hon. Chas j. Wheeling will address the voters of
Barbour County House. Phpp Saturday June
3rd at o'clock the day at8 o'clock
P. M
Hon. Samuel .gomery will speak at Belngton on Sat
urday June rd and will also address the
voters at Junior of Schucks address.
Both Of these for the voters
of Barbour CountyWhy Judge should be the nominee
for Governor of West Virginia"
Do not fail to hear Ladies invited