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FOUR FAGE C. P. Sklrvln C. EL Warwick \4i Yet.it $r THE DAILY GATE GITX and Constitution-Democrat M-*:* PUBLISHED BY THE GATE CITY COMPANY 18 North sixth Street QA.TJ& OITT—Established 1854. CONSTITUTION—Established 1847. DEMOCRAT—Establish** 1*» Consolidated March 26, 1888. OBIH®*—Established In 1892. Consolidated September 22, 1898. ,1^ GATE CITY and CONSTITUTION-DEMOCRAT— fV«- Consolidated April 8. 191®. Bntered at the postoffice at itter. fv- TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE AN AUTUMN MORNING. "i 'I made haste to foe abroad in the glowing, flowing morn, jL. lien a little rimpling wind in the heart of the west was %, born &<'v -That stirred' the alfalfa bloom and the tassels upon the lLf,tVw corn. W A dragon fly went by with a shimmer of gauzy wings A swallpw mounted the sky with its graceful spiralings, It ,v ,'^.And I heard the cheery word that the minstrel cricket &?*. sings. •'"l saw the pumpkin's gold and the ore of the goldenrod ^•'-J»And the down of the milkweed danced like a white sprite over the sod jg And the blue of the aster's eyes was a lure where'er I trod. And all of the orchard boughs cried out to me in glee. And the brimming barns and byres showed me their treasury, And I knew the" mirth of earth, .its autumn ecstacy. "And this," to myself I said, "is the height whereto we climb If we strive, as the valiant should, through the season's lieat and rime, A harvest shall be ours from the open hand of time!" —Clinton Scollard. Music is a kind of inarticulate, unfathom able speech which leads us to the edge of the infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that.—Carlyle. FIVE-MINUTE SPEECHES. The automobile has made a difference in po litical campaigning in many ways. One is in the character of the modern political address. Formerly a campaign orator If you listen to a political speech and do not own an automobile, be joyful so long as the political campaign is on. Tile "machine" has, in this instance, saved you time it has reduced presentation of argument to the level where all may listen and find that valuable time has not been wasted. HOLLAND'S APPEAL. Holland has called upon the United States through her public press to take the lead in stopping the U-boat war. ''Are we to under stand,'' she asks, "that America is going to permit our ships to be torpedoed right oh her coast? Let America tell Germany that no more mistakes will be tolerated. Let America speak lost she rue in the future that she neglected the task and duty expected from the mightiest neutral.'' serins zeal for humanity a ... .General Manager ...Business Manage* Keokuk as ssooad-cli— SUBSCRIPTION RATBJS. Dally, hy mall, outside city, year Dally. In Keokuk, per week Dally, except Sunday. Keokuk. Iowa October 26, 1916 Like the kingdom of heaven and all other high and sacred things, the choicest sorts of books only reveal the perfume of their rare essence to those who love them for themselves in pure disinterestedness.—John Cowper Powys. AVUS on an innocent and unoffending audience for a full hour. Rarely did iie lack words to fill that hour. Paucity of ideas was, however, quite common. Of course the speaker could tell stories by the yard, most of which had no application to the subject. Usually they would fit one party as well as another. If he was of a serious bent, the campaign text books and speeches supplied plenty of cribbed material lo turned loose A large part of the spellbinders go out today y10 tiigtriet bench in 1886, in which position he in groups as passengers in automobiles. They make perhaps ten to twenty-five stops a day. If they give half an hour to a place, it is of un usual size. That may leave but five minutes for each one to speak, lie must be a master in the art of condensation. doubtful if onr government will |court in the regular party columns, but the iiet. Our is vocal and evaporates in words. Secretary ticket in the upper part of the extreme right! Daniels lost no time in assuring the countrv jhand side of the ballot. that commerce raider which ran amuck at our Atlantic harbor mouths had acted with per-! fo,t W,1W,. v. I not worry about is what he would do if he were feet legality and propriety and Admiral Dew ey, president of the navy general board, voices the same view. Perhaps he felt constrained to. Nevertheless the Dcwey-Manila legend seems to lose something of its luster when the admiral says that "our destroyers naturally, properly and wisely got out of the way," when told by the U-boat commander that he was about to torpedo the Dutch, neutral, grain-lad en liner freighted with American food, con- l*Y'T%vr» -1. r- signed to her own government, for "which good money had just been paid. "Kindly step aside, Mr. Officer," might be said to a policeman,'' so that I can shoot that fat, unarmed, innocent gentleman who stands behind you." The cases may not be precisely parallel, yet we cannot easily conceive the offi cer replying "with pleasure," as Admiral Dew ey would have our naval commanders reply. THE BUSY SHIPYARDS. Answering the claim that business has been aided by the government shipping bill, Mr. Hughes said in a recent speech that this was the kind of aid which it did not seem to him business could afford to have. He does not be lieve in putting the government into competi tion with private industry. That businessmen j. i- 'j. not believe in it was shown in protests sent Pigs to Washington by commercial organizations in all parts of the country while the government ownership measure was before congress. Long before congress took final action, it was appar ent that government-owned ships were not needed. What was apparent then is absolute ly clear now. That private enterprise is do ing all that can be done with our present ship building facilities is shown in a statement made public by the federal department of com merce. According to reports of the bureau of navigation, the private shipyards are making every effort to meet the demand for shipping. All are bus}'. On October first there were 417 steel merchant vessels, with an aggregate ton nage of 1,454,270, building or. under contract. It will be many months before all the ships for which orders have been placed can be com pleted. The government will have enough to do in providing for the construction of vessels required to make the navy adequate without attempting to compete with private firms and corporations in the carrying trade. The l«ss said in advocacy of the claims of the shipping bill the better. RESPONSIBILITY FOR CRIME. Crime is increasing and American prisons are overcrowded, experts of the American Pris on association assert. The great war is held responsible as the chief crime-impelling influ ence. It cheapens the estimate of human life and lowers respect for property. «But there are other contributing causes. There is the continued lack of home training and control the absence of vocational education insuffi cient facilities for recreation general unpre paredness of youth for responsibilities of life, unemployment, low wages to unskilled labor, and so on. Society, analysis shows, is responsible, in great measure, for criminality. The conditions that breed crime are tolerated by society, and society, sowing the wind, inevitably must reap the whirlwind of crime that scourges the lantE Much crime is preventable. In the golden age toward which the world is gradually moving, the stronger members of society will protect the weak against the conditions and influences that im*el to vice and crime. Hon. Horace E. Deemer date for judge of the supreme court, was ad mitted to practice in 1879, and was elected to very largelv, voter must look for the non-partisan judiciary! of Red Oak eandi- served until he was appointed 'to the supreme court by Governor Jackson in 1894. He has served continuously since that date, and his opinions appear in all of the Iowa reports from the ninety-first Iowa down. He has written more opinions than any judge who ever sat up on the supreme bench of Iowa, many of them of great importance, and only one of his opin ions wasjever reversed or modified by the su preme court of the United States. He has been president of the state bar association and is a memler of the American Bar association, be ing on some of the important committees of that body. The ''non-partisan" judiciary ticket will be printed in the upper part of the extreme right hand side of the ballot, and the voter may over look this unless his attention is called to it par ticularly. It is important that this ticket re ceive attention, as the selection of such an im portant officer as supreme judge should not be made by a minority of the voters. It is im portant to remember that there will be no names of candidates for judge of the supreme TP TTT en O a a S chosen to represent this district in the lower house of the general assembly. The American people have given more gen erously in the past three years than any peo ple at any time ever gave. Americans cannot be called sordid or heart hard. There is no real greatness that is devoid of goodness. w^m contiot m: *, -^tvc. f^f 'K#.„ .... St frr. «,p il-\ I V, "I. THE DAILY GATE CITr 1 IOWA PRESS COMMENT. Cedar Rapids Republican: That Is one hopeful sign in our politics, that the voters will not stand for abuse and misrepresentation and dirtiness of attacks on candidates. They re fuse tto be swayed iy the allegations of the badness of men, badness that is suddenly discovered for political purposes. And all the more do they resent such tactics when they spring from personal motives. Waterloo Courier: "Speak softly and carry a big stick," said Mr. Roose velt a few months ago. Evidently the colonel puts more faith in the latter part of this epigram than in the first admonition. Cedar Rapids Gazette Bearing somewhat on the worth of the events as viewed hy the promoters, the Ga zette notes a two column, six Inch advertisement exploiting a candidate for congress alongside a three column twelve inch advertisement of the sale aristocratic pigs. Official score: 36 polltlcs 12. owners. umpires, the Logan Observer: Remember the old torchlight processions of 1896, and all of the presidential campaigns before that? We often wonder why these have been abandoned, and it is a matter of some regret, too. There was lots of enthusiasm in the old 10ft effects from it. Carroll Herald: By the way, where, when and o*n what occasion has an assemblage of farmers passed reso lutions against Harding or manifest ed opposition to his candidacy? The farmers of Iowa are going to decide this contest for Harding and they are in truth "the driest of the dry." Boone News-Republican: Let 'em heckle. Candidate Hughes seems to like it, and has the right answer for every heckler. The heckler makes votes, as has been demonstrated in the present Iowa gubernatorial cam paign. EmmetS'burg Reporter: Neither Judge Deemer nor Judge EJvans has gained anything by the Register's support and its attack upon Judge Theophilus. Men who would have supported both Deemer and Evans will cut one if not both of them now. Thfiy will merely vote for the Daven port man. Before the Register made its attack upon Theophilus no one In this part of the state knew any- J1.#?"1 htim and ca it is different Estherville Vindicator and Repub lican: W. L. Harding is going to be elected governor by an overwhelming majority. It is now only a question of how large the majority will be. Humboldt Republican: This cam paign has progressed far encugh to show that the opposition to Harding has more against him than the liquor question. Temperance has nothing to do with it. The fight is on Harding —not his principles. It is a false fight and a fight that deserves to lose. messengers was to deliver the cer- tiiicates, but tliey were never deliv- ered, and now the office doesn't know which messenger took them. "They're all young men and we wouldn't have any of them arrested. Why it would ruin their the manager said today. careers. Iowa Supreme Court Decisions. fSpecial to The Gate City.] DES MOINES, Oct. 26.—Miller vs. Jones, appellant, Perry, reversed. Berry vs. Hardin, appellant, Guth rie county, affirmed. Akin vs. Madison county, appel'ate. Warren counfy, affirmed. Phlpps vs. city of Perry, appellant, Dallas county, affirmed. Real Estate Man Arrested. CHICAGO, Oct. 26.—Frank V. Wheeler. 42, real estate dealer in the Otis building here, was arrested today on complaint of Mrs. Mary .Ordway, wealthy wife of a lJenver physician and prominent in society there. She charges Wheeler with having taken $4,500 she placed with him to inveBt hete. "A SHINE IN EVERY DROP" Black Silk Stove Polish I i% different. It docs not 1 dry oat can be oscd to tho tat drop: liquid and pas' on# quality Absolutely r.w waste no aufft or dirt. Yoa (fct jroar money's worth. Black Silk Stove Polish shl ft brllll-I rithany I loet not I •rdinary I OMV. 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Gwinn and Cortes Maxwell, candidates for jus tice of the peace, and Chris Locke, candidate for constable, will not go on the democratic ticket, according torchlight parade. Some of the gang to a ruling received by A. P. Meyer, marched about mile? in 1&9fi. I county auditor, from the attorney and didn't appear to suffer any bad |general's office. The ruling holds that there were no nominations made by the county convention because that body has no etch power under f'e law.- The supreme court has hei^. that there can be no vacancy until there has been a nomination. The only proper way to do is to leave blank lir.es on the ballot and on these the voter may write in the names of the candidate. This de cision was forwarded to County Auditor Meyer from the attorney general's office and will be final un less some mandamus proceedings should be started by .any of the men whose .lames are ruled off the ballot. Following is the letter from Audi tor Meyer and the response: The Auditor's Letter. Auditor's Office, Lee County, Iowa. Ft. Madison, Iowa, Oct. 24, 1916. Hon. George Cosson, Attorney General, Des Moines, Iowa. Dear Sir: Kindly let me have your written opinion in regard to the legality of placing certain names of candidates mis part oi me suu.e »ue* placing certain names oi canaiaaies ... f°r township offices on the official ballot at the coming general elec tion. The following is a statement of the facts in a particular case, to wit At the June primary, 1916, the fol lowing persons were voted for for the office of Justice of the peace in Jackson township, inside the city of Keokuk, on the democratic ticket, none of the names voted for having been printed on the ballot, to-wlt: Cortes Maxwell, one vote. Chris Koepf, one vote. J. A. Whetstone, one vote. E. C. Dobyns, one vote. Ross Kiser, one vote. Thos. McAndrews, one vote. A. Rumbaugh, one vote. The vote oa3t for governor In thet seven precincts of Jackpon township, inside, at the last general election was 2,755 votes. Almost Something for Nothing. Boone NewB-Republican: The Cedar Rapids Gazette announces a raise In price to mail subscribers from $3.00 to $4.00 per year to take effect Oc tober 30. It le rapidly becoming im possible to publish a daily paper f0re for the office of Justice of tne the ratQ of *3.00 per year. on the democratic ticket in There was no nomination there- Jackson township, inside, because Very Small Matter. Inone of the candidates voted for re [Unlted Press Leased Wire Service.] ceived a sufficient number of votes CHICAGO, Oct. 26.—It's just iittle as required by law. matter of $25,000 in Illinois Central On July 31, 1916, a meeting of all stock certificates missed from the {the duly elec.ed and qualified demo office of Babcock and Rushton, brok- cratic committeemen representing I ers, today. One of the firm's four each of the seven precincts in the Jackson township, inside, was held, and they selected, appointed sa.id and certified the following named candidates to fill the vacancies above referred to, to-wit: For justice of the peace: W. W. Gwinn, Keouuk, Iowa Cortes Max well, Keokuk, Iowa. For constable: Chris Lock, Keo kuk, Iowa. The following resolution was pass- e(j by the democratic county conven- superior court of tion on July 1, 1916, and certified and sworn to by J. O. Boyd, presid ing officer of the convention, and E. H. Pollard, secretary of the conven tion, and filed in this office on july jl, 1916: "We also certify that the follow ing provisions were made by said qualified delegates to said conven tion /or filling vacancies in the nominations aforesaid: "Moved and seconded: That the county central committee be author- coum cenn-ii coiumin.ee 6elf." ue Please advise whether or not a vacancy existed in the nominations for justice of the peace in Jackson township, inside, on July 31 or Aug ust 6. 1916, (the date samr was filed in this office) also, whether or not the nominations certified by the com mitteemen of said Jackson township, inside, is a good, sufficient and legal nomination also, whether or not it is my duty to place the names so certified on the official ballot for said township at tbe November election, This Is the Life. Anyone can have an inexhaustible supply of hot water "for the bath In stantly. An "Ohio-M" Instantaneous Non Vent Pipe Water Heater placed over the bath tub does the trick. You can use one thirty days and if you don't like it, return It. Write for booklet and full particulars. Mention your dealer's name. The Dayton Manufacturing Company, Dayton. O. or whether or not it 1s unlawful to place sa}d names on the official bal lot. I discussed this matter with. Mr. W. S. Allen, the secretary .of state,* by telephone this morning, among, other matters, and, In his usual cour teous and considerate manner, he advised me to put the names on the ballot, the authority of the county being more ministerial than judicial in such matters. Mr. Allen's opiniotf* is concurred in by Mr. J. M. Hamilton, our deputy county attorney at Fort Madison. I understand that this question was submitted to your office by interested parties, and, I am informed that Mr., Rabbins replied that in his opinion, the names of Mr. W. W. Gwinn and Mr. Cortes Maxwell could not legal ly be placed on the ballot. I have no verbal or written official opinion from any source adverse to placing these names on the ballot, and they will be so placed unless I am convinced that it is unlawful so to do. I have no axe to grind one way or another, because I have a number of cases of the same nature, both par ties being about equally represented I am only interested in giving all parties a square deal under the law. I will be very glad if you will give this matter your early attention. Very truly yours, A. P. MjBY'BR, County Auditor. The Reply. State of Iowa, department of justice, Des Moines. October 25, 1916. Adrian P. Meyer, County Auditor, Fort Madison, Iowa. Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th in stant addressed to the attorney, gen eral has been referred to me for re ply. According to your letter, there was no nomination at the primary for the reason that neither of the candidates received as many as five: votes, the minimum required by sec tion 1087-al9, supplement to the code, 1913. The primary law provides no method for making a nomination in such cases by convention of the dele gates from that portion of the county comprising the district from which the officer Is to be elected. Hence, any action token by the county convention seek-, ing to empower the committeemen to make such nomination was of no effect. Neither has said committee the power to make such nomination because of any supposed vacancy in the nomination, for our supreme court has held that thera cannot be a vacancy in nomination until thore has been a nomination and that the no pOWer BUch nomination the Auditorium to address the big women's meeting at four o'clock. He will spend the night in Chicago. At the afternoon meeting Roose velt intends to repeat in great part the speech he delivered to the women In Denver at the Auditorium there Tuesday afternoon wBen he declared unequivocally for a federal amend ment enfranchising women and for whole-hearted allegiance to the flag auuiui-, the colonel plans to denounce the ized to fill all vacancies in the noml-1 Adamson law in much the same terms .lr..5_r,t,C^ nations, and all vacancies occurring "e used in his wilkesDarre speech In the county central committee it- two weeks ago. The colonel had an- other reminder of his old days when I was present in person at the his train stopped yesterday at Jules democratic county convention, and I burg, Colo. personally know that it was the in-1 As Roosevelt finished telling an oft tention and declaration of the con- told anecdote of his plains days when vention that all vacancies in county he was ft. sheriff, a man in the crowd offices occurring after the convention spoke up—"I'm the sheriff here, col had adjourned should be filled by the onel," and he turned back his coat to county central committee acting as a whole, and that all vacancies in township offices should be filled by the committeemen for the township or district in which the vacancy should exist. show a soup plate badge. "?m Sheriff! J01}®3' Candidate Huohe. r,„=„ tour—a THUBSD to mrte jn the first instance, See Ex rel Pratt v. Hayward, 14tj la., 196. Hence, it follows that the nomina tions certified as candidates for jus tices of the peace and for con stables are not entitled to appear on the ballot. The only proper way is to leave blank linen enabling the voters to write in the persons of their choice for each of such offices. Yours truly, C. A. ROBBINS. ROOSEVELT IN CHICAGO Made Only One Stop In Iowa, Snroute Back From His Whirlwind Tour of the We*t. ,[By J. P. Yoder, United Press Staff Correspondent.] ABOARD ROOSEVELT TRAIN,, CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Oct. 26.—This was Colonel Roosevelt's first stop to I day as he sped to Chicago for the two big speeches that will end his western speaking dates. He had only time for a platform appearance here. He, planned to say "howdydo," shake, hands and perhaps make very brief talks at all division stops today, un til he reaches Chicago at two o'clock this afternoon. These short stops in-1 elude Clinton, Iow&j Sterling, Dixon and DeKalb, 111. Upon reaching Chi-: •cago the colonel will go to the Con gress hotel where he will confer with Alvin T. Hert. Chicago middle west era manager for the repifWTcans and then rest for an hour before going to which will carry him into Connecticut, I got mj man too, he said, "be-, marriage of Miss Mattie RingHM cause I wasn too proud to fight." daughter of Mrs. August RinglinK. ol Bkraboo, Wis., and Howard W. THIRTY-FOUR MORE SPEECHES u- c, Drive of^SniDaiar? Todaw «.T OCT. 26, I9ie "krumbled" and delicately I toasted by a) special exclusive Kellogg process io lookfor thle •Isnetur* All Wheai RMdytoEct BATTERY REPAIR Sh .If 'it Ml SUPPLIES Having a eaWy oompiett •took repair parts, expert experience In repair work and a fully equipped plant, we ar* Mfe In saying that we offer PROMPT, DEPENDABLE BATTERY REfVUR SERViOG Your battery will last longer and be more dependable If you will Have us Inspect It monthly^-* free service that Is werth trying. WHY NOT TRY U«T ABELL 419 MAIN •TRECT. 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Hughes and his managers planiffed the Brooklyn address as the candidate's final "big' speech of the campaign—it will be circulated wholesale In the few days remaining before election. The portions of hlR speech evokin? the great eft enthusiasm from the Brooklyn audience were relative to v. protection of American lives and prop®rty Humberstone." ParedneM. Roosevelt just then was told the name of the town. He had been sent! down there, he said, about thirty years ago as a deputy by "Hell Roar-j Ringllna Qlrl Married Ing" Bill the at sea and abroad and pre- t*Ie colm 0(111 Correspondent.] 1 NW YORK, Oct. 36.—Charles E. Hughes began his final drive of the JJv .^r" *nd. PILES 5®°* tor men and O N campaign today. He left at 8 00 a 1^. clock this afternoon on th«r m, on his fourth and final stumping strenuous eight day season' time he predicted his sheriff, after [United Press Leased Wire Service! some horse thieves OTTUMWA. Iowa. Oct. 25,-The *eW man, of St. Paul, Minn., was quietly solemnized this morning at eleven o'clock at the home of the bride's sis ter. Mrs. H. L,. Cowgill. Rev. M»1 °a officiated. Mrs. Newman 1 a graduate Drive Today on consin school of music and a member °f the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Mr. '[By Perry Arnold, United Press Staff ^h?«.e®n of the university of Wis a 8t.ule?t of MInnesota for two w"h Swift & Co\ °J S.t 1 Mre' Newman left trip' The bride WM at th8 jT ceremony In a traveling gown- KNIFE XX