The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-04
Stand by TAFT.

Mason City Gi0Oe-Ga1ette. mere
is report that LaFollette is coming
to Iowa to campaign for the insur-
gents, especially in the Seventh and
Ninth districts. 1t is to be hoped that
it is not true that the Iowa Repub-
licans will be allowed to make their
own selection of candidates without
dictation from Wisconsin. If the Re
publicans of Iowa want TO get into
row stirred UP by LaFollette and 9TH
ers coming To this state to tell Repub-
licans whom to nominate there will be
danger along the whole line and state
ticket, congressional ticket, legislative
ticket and the county ticket in close
counties will all be involved.
There is neither sense nor reason for
Iowa Republicans to get excited at the
June primaries. The position of the
lGlobe-Gazette might just as well be
understood now as at any time. It
has no fight to make on Senators
Cummins and Dolliver On the other
hand, it proposes without hysteria or
animosity to the insurgents to uphold
! Taft and his policies as long AS the
President endeavors to carry out the
/ Roosevelt policies and this journal of
civilization will leave it for Roosevelt
to say when he comes home, how well
/ Taft is endeavoring to do this.
II the standpatters attempt to dis
credit Cummins and Dolliver there
| will be trouble. and if the insurgents
endeavor in the state convention to
discredit President Taft Iowa might
as well be written in the Democratic
column right now. What Republicans
ought to do is to stand by Taft and
his policies, stand by the tariff bill
enacted by the Republican congress
and give both senators and The Iowa
delegation the usual commentator
they receive for the work they have
done in congress for there is honor
enough for all This has been the Gus
tom in all state conventions when
Cummins was in the saddle and when
he was not
The tariff bill has been passed and
is Republican law. 1t is not exactly
the bill that the Globe-Gazette wanted
but when Senator Cummins says it is
better than the Dingley bill 1t cughi
to be good enough for any Republican
and there ought to be no hesitancy in
endorsing it. One Democrat in con
gress, in order to give the bill joli
: because of the high prices of farm
products, injected the attack in
speech on some other subject few
days ago and it is more than likely
that other Democrats will follow
i When the farmers of Iowa discover
themselves attacked by Democrats be
: cause the assertion is made that the
? Payne tariff has caused ten-cent hogs
: they will not be tumbling over them
selves to have the bill repealed or ap
, plaud the attacks on it. If the farmer
9 in the Tenth and Eleventh districts IL
a Iowa want this bill repealed, If the,
S think as all Democrats and some Re
: publicans that free trade with Canad
t in wheat, oats, corn, rye, barley, but
ter, eggs, horses, sheep, cows, hay an
d hogs, will not affect tDem let thei
J. congressman introduce bill RICH
# now in this session Of congress an
t. have it passed, for the Democrats wi
l. vote for it, and with the insurgenti
: vote, it ought to pass But with Tai
4 endeavoring to get additional railroa
: legislation, trying to get postal saving
e banks. trying TO get speedier trial
d the courts for the man without none
q. to pay big law fees. trying 70 carr
out the pledges of the Republica
Il platform, Republicans in Iowa VII
= want to see these things done and nj
e hold the President would better q
e busy in conciliatory mood and pl
II their hatchets in TIER scabbards an
give their harpoons to the Iowa farr
ii er to beat into riding corn cultivate