The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-11
OPINIONS OF The RESULT.

nation are quite outspoken in their
comments on the drift of political af-
fairs are revealed by the results of last
Tuesdays election Perhaps the
briefest expression on the subject was
that of the Iowa City Republican,
to-wit Whom the Lord loveth He
chasteneth." The Cedar Rapids Re-
publican declares that the general
defeat brought no sting to steadfast
Republicans They have expected it
| for months and the disconsolation
that might have been an accompani-
ment was discounted SO long ago that
no trace of disappointment is visible.
The expected has happened once
more" The same paper says that
President Taft comes out of the
maelstrom with clean hands. He has
been a wise and just man through
all the abuse that has ragged about
him in his party.
The Des Moines Capital suggests
that there ought to be little trouble
in arriving at few rational con-
! illusions. One of them is that there
is no room in this country for two
Republican parties. "One-half OF the
party cannot assail for twelve months
in the year the fundamental princi-
pies of Republicanism and then be as
sured of a Republican victory at the
polls. You cannot poison the foun-
tain and keep it pure, too. You can
not make the electorate believe that
our public officials are scoundrels
| one-half OF the time and paragons of
! political virtue the other half" The
present situation seems to the Capt.
| tai to be duplicate in large part
of the period which began along
with the second administration of
Grover Cleveland The agitators told
the voters that their prosperity was
! unreal, and that they were really
miserable when they had imagined
themselves happy. They kept up
their beating of the calamity gong
and finally won on that issue.
The conclusion drawn by the Ma
comb Journal is that you can't
SOW the wind and reap a summer
breeze" One thing is plain to the
Iowa City Citizen: No party need
expect to win in campaign in which
it assails its own record. The Demo
cratic party tried that in 1896 and
was ingloriously defeated. The Re.
publican party has attempted the
same sort of plan in 1910 and yes.
terday met the same result. The
Citizen feared this, and said so plain.
ly at the beginning of the campaign
But it is better for the Republican
party that Republicans shall
learn this lesson well now than de
fer it to the presidential year. The
Monmouth Atlas also says that Re
publican dissatisfaction and dissen.
ton We're at the bottom of the re-
suit. The people grew fat and
kicked From every source there
comes reports of prosperity as in
the days before Mckinley was de
feated, yet the great sovereign voter
has registered his ballot in favor oil
a change. This county has shown
a dissatisfaction that is not in har
mony with the conditions. Warren
is largely Republican and voted Dem
ocratic.' The Boone News Republi
can. a moderate and Thoughtful pro
gressive paper. says:
1t is useless to quarrel with the
result. There was spirit of unrest
among the Republicans of the country
: which had to find some outlet and
it could only do so by breaking ranks
and swerving to the Democrats. The
high cost of living, the accusations
against the Payne tariff and the gen
eral mixed up nature of the campaign
were the causes that brought about
: the result The people will not rear
any benefits from the course they
took but it had to come. No one ex
tpects any different conditions on &C
count OF the Democratic success. II
is simply an expression of Republican
dissatisfaction"
The Chicago Inter-Ocean speaks
of the results as the first fruits o.
nsurrection," and says they have
been made clear to everybody
, spread across the front page o
every newspaper in the United
States The long wrangle within
the Republican party has at las
brought defeat declares the Cedal
Falls Record. Tt has been apparen
. for some time that such a result
! must obtain and perhaps It could no
/. have come at a better time because
j it will be the means of uniting The
j party for a vigorous campaign II
d 1912" The Clinton Herald express
es itself thus emphatically:
We have been bringing this verl
=. thing upon ourselves for the past ter
T. or dozen years and have no one il
|. the world to blame for 1t but our
. selves. The spellbinders before cleo
ton came bravely before the peopi,
or OF the land and declared there wer,
J. no differences betwee Republican,
II on matters of princiDle that what
III ever difference existed We're only OF
m matters of detail They did not de
as ceive themselves and they did not de
IN ceive ANYBODY else. All of us knew
g that 1t was lie and that 1t wa
used for political purposes in tn,