The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-23
Had to Decline.

Had to Decline.
Alex Miller In Washington Demo
crat: Every upstart politician has
notion in his noodle that he is big
gun and that he has been invited by
Roosevelt to meet him to discuss
| politics No man who is running for
road supervisor on the progressive
Republican ticket but what thinks he
ought to hasten to discuss the situa-
ton with Teddy.
1 We also got an invitation to meet
| him in mid ocean but our automobile
/ known as Carrie Nation is out OF
commission this week. The differ
entail is slipping cogs and the car
buretor is full of cinders and the
CRATES in the fire box are clogged up
with clinKers.
Roosevelt was very anxious to
meet us and talk over the situation,
! but Carrie cannot swim anyhow. We
got wireless message from Teddy
to meet him off Sandy Hook and we
started and landed over east OF
Brighton at the place we call Sandy
Hook, only to discover when we got
there that this was not the place.
Carrie made the trip to Sandy Hook
all right. but when we found that he
meant Sandy Hook, off New York
harbor. we gave it up. Although
Carrie Nation is on the water wagon.
she cannot swim and besides, her
bathing suit is too old fashioned to
go ont among all them reformers
who went to meet Teddy as he lanoed
Saturday.
Roosevelt seemed to be very anx
ious to know how politics was pros
hpering, or were which ever vert
you prefer to use. Teddy is such {
jollier that we hardly know how tc
talk to nim
If we were talking about the stand
patters, we would likely say polite:
are since the standpatters are de
cidedly plural down this way, but i
!, speaking of progressives, especially II
the First Iowa district, we would sa,
politics is" since they seem to b.
rather singular. Ask any progressive
who has been running for congress
recently on the progressive ticket :
), that is not true.
We sent Teddy wireless messag
assuring him that we were runnin
9 for dog pelter on Roosevelt platform
We stand for the Roosevelt policie
i as interpreted by him and not b
9 Cannon and Aldrich and Charley Ker
nedy, by thunder.
He asked us to bring all the info
nation about Editor Carr of tn
5. Pennington News as he says he ha
heard some of the standpatters refe
e to Carr in that short and ugly wore
and also as an undesirable citizen.
Teddy seems very much intereste
u in our race for dog peter and W
e think If we can get his endorsemeI
2 we can pull through
r We are not working for the jc
II cause we want to reform the job al
IL also the people We do not real
e need the money and we may turn
IS over into the Ananias club for the bu
ie ing of some more suitable notices
IS This seems to us to be a great hon
in this manner and we regret our
e. ability to go, but as already state
IN Carrie Nation although fond of W
ne ter, cannot swim. and we have
"a other mode of transportation.
Ic- We fear our town has not SUI
an cient appreciation of our importan
st or maybe they would raise the mon
is to send us to meet Teddy since
is seems so anxious to get our viev
ns but be that as it may, we shall fig
ST. the battles of the Common Peep,
ST. as long as "the breath remains
mt this body and as long as red bio
flows through our veins
lat The last sentence is borrowed fro
one of Senator Cummins' speech
and we use it by special permissi,
1t is the most Rooseveltian thing
lei can think of at this time.
Elk Meantime, we can see the coun
ng going to the devil in nandbasi
Is unless we are elected to this off
ny for which we are SO honorably stl
TN ing The vile wretch who is rum
ne against us for dog peter is sta
aa- patter and he ought to be boiled
"o oil. Meantime. hurrah for Roc
on welt and all Of US reformers. But
en- had to decline the invitation.
es, ----
ne The Purpose Of the Campaign.
the Burlington Hawk-Eye: Refer
pun to the Republican state convent