The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-29

The Nevada Representative says tn,
curiosity grows as to what the Colone
will do with his convention when h,
gets it.
The only danger to Republicanisn
in this year 1910 is not from without
says the Iowa City Citizen. 1T l.
from WITHIN
One of the funny things about thai
Democratic victory in Maine is that
nobody seems to care" says the
! Scranton Journel
With Cummins on the back seat
and Dolliver in the limelight things
begin to look little better in Iowa,
says the Paullina Times.
1T is impossible to feed the public
mind with muckrake and tradition and
then gather a desirable harvest" says
the Burlington Hawkeye
When Sunny jim and Smiling Will
meet again we may and may not be
able to tell which one the laugh is
on" says the Waterloo Times-Trib-
une.
The Des Moines Tribune says there
is going to be decided call on Mr..
Roosevelt to show the fruits of the
winnowing after the New York con-
vention is over.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil sug-
gests that if you want to know in ad-
vance what the New York Republican
platform is likely to contain read the
Osawatomie speech.
The Ames Times says the hunters
license law was a fool law in the first
place, and double so when no povision
was made in it for the disposition of
the money received.
With all these near statesmen 60
ing to Oyster Bay each day and TAX
ing lunch with the Colonel the Burl-
ington Gazette wonders how Mrs.
Roosevelt succeeds in keeping her
cook.
The Davenport Democrat expresses
the hope that the promise of various
Smith for speaker of the next house
have raised no false hopes on Mr..
Smiths part.
THE report that the junior senator
from Iowa is about to make a rafting
address, seconding the nomination of
his colleague for the presidency, is be-
lieyed to be premature" says the Vim
ton Eagle.
The Webster City Freeman-Tribune
says that if President Taft has de
cided to retire at the end of his pres
ent term he has certainly reached one
conclusion that it is harmony with
a very large majority of the Republi-
can party.
When the Democrats voted for pri-
mary election laws they builded bet
ter than they knew" says the Fair
field Ledger. Democratic votes for
statutes of this kind in the legislature
have done more to weaken and de-
stroy the Republican party than Dem
ocratic votes at the polls ever did
"The successive Roosevelt indorse-
ment of the acts of the Taft admins
tration have given some Iowa editors
editorial paralysis" observes the Ce-
dar Rapids Republican. The Colonel
they say is now on the tobbogan, go
ing down fast What difference it
does make in measure of the man. !"
I'VE do not wonder that the work
men in 1aine voted the Democratic
ticket says the Arlington News.
And we predict that New York, Ohio
and Indiana will go Democratic. This
is time of dissatisfaction brought on
by the Republicans themselves and
tAey ohOd4u uOt " Allie when lAty reap
the results.
The meanest trick that could be
played on the insurgents" says the
Dubuque Times-Journal, would be to
give them a majority in the next con-
gress and thus put it up to them to
frame program of legislation that
would show their independence of
the interests They would have a
falling out over the tariff the very
first thing
The Iowa City Republican says that
Senator Cummins is too firmly bound
by promise to indorse anyone else
than Dolliver for senator two years
from now But there is no assurance
that he will be able to hold Clarke
and Byers in leash" the Republican
continues. IF they take q notion to
run. and won't listen to reason. how
is Mr. Cummins to help himself?"