The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-30
The lnsursent West.

The lnsursent West.
Washington Democrat. Magazine
writer's, muck rakers, yellow journal
and other carnivorous animals have
been saying a great deal about the
"Insurgent West Notably, William
Allen White has stood for insurgency
in Kansas and writes pieces about
how the proletariat is about to rise
up some morning before breakfast and
smite the Philistines of the fair SUM-
flower state. hip and thigh
In Iowa, It is the Cummins crowd
that is doing things to the old moss
back standpatters and in Wisconsin
it is Bob La Toilette and in Mime
sofa it was the Clapp crowd and so on
and so forth, ad infinitum or words to
that effect.
In Iowa, it seems that the "Insur-
gent West got something of a back
set. In Minnesota the Republican state
convention endorsed Taft and we
don't believe Taft is a progressive.
We will ask Ed Carris about it and
find out. Wisconsin sat down upon
Bob La Toilette and in Iowa we be.
lieve the old guard is in the saddle.
Anyhow, the newspapers in general
regard the Iowa primary as the turn
ing point against insurgency.
We see very little hope for any
thing but straight old line Republi-
can ticket to clean the platter this
fall, except locally and here and there.
The old way to run politics was to
claim the earth with barbed wire.
horse high, hog tight and bull strong
fence around it, but that sort of figur.
ing does not appeal to us and there
fore, we believe in telling the truth
and shaming the devil.
So we are free to admit that we do
not see anything in it for us this fall
except locally and here and there a
Democrat who will win out for con-
gress. But the winning will be done in
the east and south and not in the in
surgent west. Iowa will go Republican
about as usual. We see no chance for
Claude Porter because as we have Of
ten suggested, the progressives will
vote for Carroll although the stand
patters would not have voted for
Garst. We would like to elect Claude
Porter because no ADLER, cleaner
more worthy man ever ran for office,
but what is the use when the die is
cast against us? With hogs ten cents
corn 30 cents, wheat one dollar, how
are you going to reach the voters with
any reason for this is strictly a farm.
ing country?
What will we say to the farmers Is
any reason for their voting the Demo
cratic ticket? We would like to be Civ.
en- argument that would fetch the far
mers as we know none now.
Maybe we ought not to give the
snap away but who thinks the Demo
Gratis will elect a governor in Iowa
this fall? We do not think we will
elect many congressman In Iowa, eth.
er. What is the use In going on wild
goose chase when the weather is bad
and the sign wrong?
Everybody seems to think the next
congress will be Democratic. We
would not be surprised If it were, but
it will not be from the insurgent
west because the west does not act
much as if 1t were very insurgent.
The west looks very standpat to US
Where the gains must be made is in
the east and there is where we will
make them. too. Ohio is starting In
mighty well and the Democrats under
Harmon's wise guidance are showing
some signs of returning sanity They
have stood their ground and they did
not go chasing after strange gods but
stood for Democracy without any
frills and furbelows. They did not GO
chasing after insurgent Republicanism
but stood for Democracy
Iowa Democrats will not win any.
thing as long as they take their Dem.
ocracy from Cummins and his hungry
followers. We mean hungry for office
There is not one ounce of reformer
blood in a single office seeker in the
entire Cummins gang, no more than
there is in the standpat crowd of poll
ticians.
We know that here and there is a
deluded Cummins follower who is a
real reformer, but he simply doesn't
know any better. He has not found
out yet that Cummins is merely max.
ing game of him for his own selfish
ends and as long as we Democrats
follow any such half baked policies as
is advocated by Cummins Democrats
we will indeed, wander around
through the Slough Of Despond and in
the end we will arrive nowhere.
The "Insurgent West is on the
bum.