The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-10
Most of the Advance Program
is Arranged Several City
Blocks From Capitol
Building.
JOB SEEKERS NUMEROUS
Senator FraIley From Lee County, 70
One of the Most Popular and
Leading Lawmakers Of
the State
rsnacis, 20 The Gate City.l

DIES MONIES, Jan 10.-A legisla-
tyre & slwsys most interesting cot
. IL lis halls. ont in the hotel which
I tx makes its real rendezvous IN
lows. this is the Saysry. successor
=, tbs Esrsw.=oi as the locus OF his
tory. in the making in the Hawkeye
state.
Almost week before its first SEES
sion in the capitol. the Iowa leg1s-
lsrZ-sa fo-sss-hegad IN the big lobby
q ths Saye-y, with parts of II secret
80 IL the corners OF parlors, behind
the doors OF rooms. by the farther
most window Of the billiard room,
att anywhere else that two or three
rzel may get Jgether and talk with
Cu1 bzuig Overheard. Some of the
most important things of the legisla-
tive session were done in these scat
tered spots where pairs and three
had their heads together. For In
stance the selection or Pit Tor
sneaker OF the house. which the news
papers reported done at caucus II
the big assembly room upstairs, but
which really was accomplished IN
forty-odd hooks and corners days be-
fore that caucus was held. Then
there was a lot of other things &C
oomplished before the formal and
more inconsequential sessions began
in the state house.
Patriots and the Pay Roll.
For instance the selection OF
couple of hundred people to go on the
pay roll of the magnificent state OF
Iowa, first in corn and chickens ana
near the top in many other things.
Feeding from the crib seems habit
in Iowa-and SO are chickens habit.
Both were in evidence around the
Slavery for those days before the
legislative session began.
There we're frem two to twenty
applicants for every place, the two
generally being for the jobs includ-
ing hard work and the twenty being
for the positions with little work,
but such sonorous titles as assistant
doorkeeper of the house OF repre5en-
tatiyes.
Some of the places can be fllei
by feminine As well as by masculine
patriots, and there was plenty of fiho
fcmininity in evidence there in the
hotel lobby. Sincere Justice compeis
the statement that on the average tie
Young women were more competent
looking, more energetic, and alto
applicants for the payroll positions.
There was noticeable absence CT
applicants from all over the state.
ard Des Moines furnished the ma
jcrity of seekers for those pay roll
positions-so many that even Des
Moines felt embarrassed. or rather
alarmed, at the effect and each one
deprecated there being SO many from
this selfish city selfishly seek ne
positions and thus embarrassing and
endangering Ill.
Good keokuk Man Got Job.
While it is hard to keep from SUI !.
ing at the persistent and herculesn
efforts of patriots to get on the st1fe
nav roll for even a few months, and
the seriousness with which each takes
his own self and his own campaign
there is another serious side to the
thing.
TO many of the herd, even nuts
bin from the crib meant the differ
ence between reasonable comfort and
hardship. Some of them were per
sons who were i'll adapted to do the
work the world wants done; otne. s
had for a variety of reasons failed
to obtain work in commercialism o.
! iEdustrialism; some of those WON en-
need the money awfully bad to pay
the hospital bills of brother or son
! there was a real underwear OF genu
! lie tragedy in that Slavery lobby that
week before the legislative sessions
Of record began.
| Keokuk had one aspirant, and he
landed his jos easily by virtue OF
previous excellent service for some
wears in the same position. Homer
! Jones, son Of Professor Jones. came
to be attendant in cloak room bach
when Congressman Kennedy was II
I the Iowa house. He does his work
1 SO we'll and is SO popular with the
/ members that be has held the place
ever since and was reappointed as &
matter of course this time.
The InutiIity Of Freshmen.
The college alumnus saunterine
through that hotel lobby that weel
could not help "reminiscences of the
first weeks in September in his alma
mater. In the Savery lobby were ole
members. second term members ant
very new members. The last were
NEST interesting and acted for all the
world like lot of freshmen from
Bucktown and Podunk county, ter
miles north of the railroad.
Happy the freshman legislator who
had a friend among the upper class
men. Few of them had. The most
OF them felt that they must make
friends with the wise sophomores II
the legislative assembly to an extent
that would cause confidence some
where and the right to ask for a Z:
vice. There vas no difficulty apou:
finding the recipients-the trouhl9
was to pick the right man for cou1
selor and to avoid the seIf-servinE
others. Every cid man y as very Will
ing to advise me new pIen indiyidu
ally and cole :tivelv-for every Ole
man knows that on many 2 lesisla
tive day he viii want some votes fo7
lsome bill or some resolution. Hence