The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-01
Next Week the Primary

CEDAR RAPIDS RepuDllcan. Inc
Iowa primary election will be held
one week from today. The day falls
in busy season for the farmers and
some politicians have suspected that
it was arranged SO as to make the
farmers lose out on their votes. But
there is probably nothing in that sur
mise. The primary had to be put
some time in the spring, far enough
ahead of the elections in the fall
But the farmers should not lose
( their votes. Incy should see to it
that they take enough time to go to
the primary polls to vote. 1t is the
one place where they can exert their
influence and unless they do exert it
on that day. they will not have much
to say about the state government,
nor about the congressional nomina
tions.
The state officers to be nominated
comprise the whole listing The most
i important contests are on governor
/ and railroad commissioner. The pres
ent governor, B. F. Carroll, is serv-
I ing his first term. He has made a
good governor. He has attended
strictly to business He has not made
mere political office of the gov
! ernorsbip
When the two United States senat-
tors turned turtle on the tariff bill
and a few congressman from Iowa
Joined them. it was demanded of the
& f1af
sition to the tariff bill. But he did
s. not do So He refused to do So Six
of the Iowa congressman. namely
Good. Pickett, Kennedy, Dawson, Hull
4 and Smith voted for the tariff bill
and four of them. and the two sena
tors voted against it. 1t was not the
province of the governor of the state
to take UP with the six men who
baked on their party's program or
the tariff The six men who voted
for the tariff bill. which had the en-
dorsement of 80 per cent of the Re
publican congressman in Washington
and also of President Taft. did no
deserve to have the governor of thu
state turn against them, even If thu
: governor had been of that frame o
mind, which he was not.
But because Governor Carroll re
fused to use his office, which is |
state office. to aid and comfort tn
six men from Iowa in congress, In
Guiding the two senator's, who balke'
2 on the Republican tariff they threat
I ened him with an opposing candl
< date They hunted long for the OF
posing candidate. They made ovei
lures to the present lieutenant GOV
ernor, Mr.. Clark, but he refused 7
: lend himself to the plot He sal
e that Mr. Carroll had made good go'
$ ernor that there ough to be no figh
t made on him for the usual renon
nation. They also approached form
err State Senator Funk, of Spirit Lake
Z but he also refused He stated i
z his paper that Governor Caro-
n clearly was entitled to second tern
e But finally they persuaded M
! Garst who had opposed Mr.. CAIRO
r in the primary two years ago an
h who had been defeated in that col
2, test BY plurality Of nearly 5000
e votes. to enter the race again. NJ
Garst did 1t reluctantly and he Wa
n forced into the fight against his ow
e. hest judgment He advised for thrt
r. months that 1t was the right thin
or TO let Carroll have his second term.
But they finally triumphed oy'
his own better judgment and he b
came candidate
VI We leave it to every fair minds
e Republican voter IL it was not rig
10 that Mr.. Carroll should have had h
~ denomination for governor
ID We also leave It to them to say
ut the polls, whether It Is right or wror
III TO make the governorship me