The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-20
MAKE CAREFUL CHOICE.

MAKE CAREFUL CHOICE.
The necessity of making careful
choice of candidates for mayor and
councilmen at the primary election
tomorrow cannot be too strongly en-
lphasized All the authority and power
in the management of city affairs
heretofore invested in thirteen men is
TO be concentrated in three men under
the new order of things, and it is
highly important that they be the very
| best men available for the purpose.
/ Neither personal friendship. neighbor
hood courtesy, party utilization nor
lany other inducement of like charac-
ter should be permitted TO have any
weight in the selection OF candidates.
/ The only consideration that should
govern is the public good.
When doctors are in doubt as to
the exact nature of an obscure case
lof disease they sometimes reach d
correct diagnosis by process of ex-
clusion. They set down the physical
StkAS anu piOLIS III llC SdS0 III liiC4l
order and compare them with the
manifestations of the several dis
eases likely to be confounded in max
ing the diagnosis. One disease after
another is excluded because of lack
of spondence in essential particu-
lars with the case under examin ation
until the right one is found It is quite
possible that the same procedure
would be found useful in selecting
candidates for mayor and councilmen.
Let the voter begin with John Jones,
for instance, Ito use a fictitious
Nance Let him ask himself Ia all
lcandor and seriousness:
Ii l were a stockholder in a large
!, corporation employing many men and
Idisbursing over 100000 annually
would / select this man as one OF
three men to manage its affairs for
me? Admitting his ,nesty, is he pos
sessed of such executive capacity and
has ne had such training and expert
ence as iustifies me in entrusting my
interests TO his care? Is my confidence
in his judgment, capability and integ
) rity such that / would have no hest
tation in employing him?
l Unless these inquiries and other;
like them can be answered prompt.
and unequivocally in the affirmative
John Jones should be eliminated from
further consideration as a candidate
This process should be pursued with
each and every candidate offering
himself for place on the official bal
t lot until only those who are best quail
fed and most worthy remain on IN,
list. and these should be voted for a
: candidates for the positions to b.
filled
1t viii be readily conceded tina
= great care should be taken in select
!. ing the managers of private corpora
u ton, yet it is vastly more importan
that wise discrimination be exercises
in making choice of managers of
s municipal corporation like the city 0
Keokuk. Property interests are no
the only interests at stake. There ar
: moral interests also to be conserve
which are of still greater magnitud
and Importance. No good citizen ca.
2 afford TO overlook or disregard thes
e in making choice of the men TO
n whom ne will vote tomorrow. "
t can have Better as well as a Create
Keokuk only by making wise choic
of the men to administer its affairs.
The commission plan OF city govern
;. ment is TO have its initial trial in Kec
i kuk coincident with the beginning c
IF new era in the industrial and con
mercial development of the city RI
sulting from the development OF tn
,f water power. 1t is therefore doubl
e important that the very best men
selected 10 transact its business an
: conserve its interests at this partict
lar time Every individual voter owe
it to himself and to the community I
n bring the best thought of which he
is capable to bear on the selection {
Ill candidates and TO make such choic
= as will harmonic with his judgmer
Y and conscience. This is an obligatio
of citizenship from which there is n
a. escape.
st
is SOME PERTINENT QUESTION;