The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-15
Everybody Here Praises Every Ac-
ton Tending to Hunt the Hun
Off the Earth and Can
the Kaiser.
THE GATE CITY EXTRA
It Was Appreciated by All keokuk,
for Everybody in Town Was
on Tension to Know What
President Would Do.

/; Everybody in Keokuk expressed
keen pleasure at the answer of Pres
ident Wilson to the German govern
ment, when they read it in The Gate
! Cay extra last evening.
I'VE don't want any draw. We
can't let that gang start this and
carry it on for four years and then
get away" said one close student of
the war.
/ IF we stop now, it means another
war in a comparatively short time, y
said another man.
! IF Wilson had done anything else.
the people would have been ready
to impeach him." opined a prominent
citizen of Keokuk.
Its fine; it puts Wilson in the
clear and the kaiser in a box" re-
marked a democratic, leader, appar-
emily with some thought of the criti-
cism evoked the other day by Will
sons questions to the Germans.
His Estimate Of the Hun.
You can't make peace with wild
animal. or brutes Of any kind, you
know" was the way one man ex-
pressed his underlying thought.
| "Of course. / smile; everybody in
America is smiling at the answer Of
| Wilson," said man at the Hotel
Iowa.
There were many travelling men
in the lobby of the Hotel Iowa when
The Gate City extra arrived there at
the news stand. One word of an
nouncement, and there was a rush
on the news counter like flying
wedge at football game. A minute
later a score and more of men were
seated all over the lobby immersed
in The Gate City.
Their expressions were in parallel
with those Of Keokuk residents, and
seemed to indicate that ali parts of
the country are in line with the
middle west in demanding an uncon-
Iditional surrender.
Ringing Message by Mayor Lotion.
The Des Moines News telegraphed
Mayor Lotion asking for twenty-five
words of opinion whether we should
demand unconditional surrender, Or
negotiate a peace Keokuk's mayor
replied as follows:
Emphatically. unconditional sur
render. Peace should be die
tated in Berlin-not negotiated.
Allies should formulate peace
terms irrespective of the kaiser.
ED. S. LOTION, Mayor.
If there was anybody in Keokuk
who is not in entire harmony with
that statement of opinion, he was
keeping very quiet and could not be
found.
Keokuk People Heard 1t First.
The Gate City sent it's delivery
boys all over their routes second
time last evening, and all it's sub,
scribers got the full text of Wilson's
answer to the kaiser early in the
evening.
The telegraph instrument began
about 6 o'clock to tell the tale in
dots and dashes. An hour later, it
was all in the forms and the press
was running. The paper was all
over Keokuk by $50 o'clock in the
outlying residence districts and much
earlier closer In.
Twice in thirty-six hours The Gate
City gave It's subscribers extra edi.
tons at the crisis of the world war
And this was all expense and not
dollar of income in the extras. The
expense was incurred simply in order
that patrons of The Gate City might
have important news twelve hours
ahead of the metropolitan papers
coming to Keokuk.
The appreciation of Keokuk people,
literally expressed, paid for the cost
of the extras.