The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-30
GkRsT in ATTACK
AGAINST CARROLL
HAS NO ISSUE
Opponent 20 Business Governor
Fails to Frankly Lay His Case
Case Before People
HE HIDES BEHIND SENATOR'S.
Garst Presents no Reason for His
Campaign Against the Present
Governor Save Contro-
versy is on at WASH
ington.

What issue has Warren Garst In
his efforts to overthrow the business
like and economical administration
of Governor b. F. Carroll? Not once
during the campaign has any word
been heard from him upon an sub.
ject in which the expression of opin-
ion from the Governor OF Iowa should
have any weight. His campaign
which has been run by political out
casts, deposed from Office because OF
irregularities, has been based entire
~ upon the strength and the pop
ularity of the two senators at Wash
| ington. He has not ventured an opin-
ion upon any question in which the
state administration is evolved. The
campaign which he is waging is not
based upon any state issue The
! question of the campaign then re-
solves itself into query. Is Gov
ernor Carroll's administration unas-
sailable? So far Warren Garst or
his managers, Bert Keltz, B. w. Gar
ret and others of like stripe, have
failed to make one point against an
administration which has been prom
inent for its businesslike manage
ment, its economical attention to the
affairs OF the state. and the removal
of graft and grafters from the state
departments. None know better and
none know more keenly the antag-
onism OF the Carroll administration
to graft and irregularity than do the
managers of the campaign for War
rem Garst.
Favors Extravagant Waste.
Does Warren Garst favor an ex-
traagant waste of state funds and the
decreasing of the state surplus to
minimum? IT not then why does he
not endorse the administration of
Governor Carroll Why does he not
endorse the action of Governor Car
roll and his associates on the Exc
cutive Council for being able by wise,
business application to reduce the
state tax levy thereby saving thous-
ands of dollars to the tax payers of
Iowa? Why does he not point with
pride to the fact that the nominee
of his party and the choice of the
people Of Iowa at the November
election last was able to build up
the largest treasury surplus the state
OF Iowa has known in recent years.
The people of Iowa are beginning to
ask why.
Another question which has de-
yolved itself upon the management
of the Garst campaign to answer is:
Does Warren Garst approve of the
watchfulness and the faithful per-
I Torrance of duty which character
1 lied Governor CAROLS administra-
/ ton? If so why does he not COM
pliment the present governor for his
ousting from Office men who were
taking Nancy from the Golfers of the
state treasury for work which was
unperformed and securing their sal
aries on affidavit falsely sworn? In
stead of that what has he done?
, Deposed Officials His Advisors.
He has gathered about him men
of the stripe of Bert Keltz, who was
: forced to resign from his position
as state pharmacy commissioner
J when it was made known that he had
been practicing deception and secur-
ing funds from the state for work
: which he had not performed Today
his campaign is being managed in the
field by Bert Keltz and by Harry
Barmeier another deposed Office
seeker and office holder who became
bitter against Governor Carroll be-
cause he would not GUST an old sol
: der and give him the Office Of state
game warden. And this was in face
of the fact that Barmeier had beer
: asked to resign from that department
because of irregularities relative to
: the performance of his official duties
The fact remains unanswered and
unassailabie that Governor Carroll
: administration cannot be attacked by
men who know full we'll the I'M
t swerving devotion to duty and to the
letter and spirit of the law which
t has marked the conduct of the high,
est Office in the gift of the people
: of the state during the encumbency
of Governor B. F. Carroll.
No Real Issues.
Warren Garst has presented nc
legitimate reason for the campaign
which he has inaugurated against
Governor Carroll 1t has been from
the start bolstered upon false issues
He is attempting to hide behind the
skirts of the senators at Washington
He is not standing on his own rec
ord and is not standing upon ground
upon which the campaign for the Of
! fice of governor should be waged
4 Not once has he expressed himself
upon any subject which is potent and
v a matter upon which to decide a con-
), test for the goyernorship.
\ Governor Carroll has come out
V open and fatfooted on a state
d ment Of state issues upon which he
6 is willing TO stand and upon which
o he is anxious to obligate himself
!. to the people of Iowa. He has de.
clared that there should be better
: highways and he has instituted eff
forts along that line looking toward