The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
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haokuS Standard TIE biennial
racket osar no shall represent the
FS-ss go#a district In congress has
ssIriy bsggl.
TIE eloquent Mr. BrookharI o.
Washington. and the Uoss eloquent
M Pollard OF Forg Madison are Try
ing 70 talk me fzesaqueHr Mr. Kennedy
OF TIE tie perch Ny ksanedy IS aoz
szoensng z the rhetorical sense, but
vhsz Il gets down 10 business and re-
suits. Ne Is IS eloquent as big corn
crop IL his p-oseasialiIy. II results
talk, IS hey are said 10 Go. Mr., Ken
nedy has the oraEorEeal duet talked
10 : stancs-Ia and CIT Of the ring
For willie others eare been writing
speeches that are more sounding than
anything Patrick Henry or Cicero
eTe- accomplished IL crstory-and
This s said seriously for some
noderEs are far better rhetoricians
lhsa the famous old orators OF tie
school -ezders-whiia RTookhars aid
PolEard have been accommodating ora
rovscal ammunition. kennedy has been
doing things.
What kenne'5y has been doing Is
ThaEevs- a1ybodF IN lis district want
e1 done He has the correct concep-
r4cu. that congress is not merely
place 70 make speeches 10 be Sent our
al oFer The country 10 Increase both
The 2osoristE OF ras speaker and the
size OF sae postal deficit He cor
ceIves that running the government OF
the United States Is 2 business quite
as concrete as running the Sidewalk
department % z ctr. or running the
various institutions Of q state. Hence.
he does 1ct make speeches, but does
attend 10 business
He attends 70 the business especial
~ o. his constituents Which is another
eoncspti0s q his duty that he has.
i farmer writes 70 ask something
about alfalfa. Z merchant writes to
ask something about statistics for
APRIL doctor writes 10 ask for the
gDvernms1r reports On 5ook worus or
mechanic writes 70 ask whether
patent vas ever issued on device
foF making soap out OF seEase-vho-
eFeE s-lres ID Congressman Kennedy
gets 1y return mail z reply saying the
matter viii De attended 10 ar once.
aid he Is tickled 10 death for an op-
FozEE1lty 10 be o. assistance 10 such
me 1aH as the farmer, merchant doc
tor or mechanic and WHAT is more i'm
porTaHr. Eithin week all the informa-
lon asked IS dug out OF some depart-
nent and sent 10 the constituent In
Short. Kennedy has been working on
TIE principle that whatever anv con-
sE1fzsat desires should be furnished
hin promUsly-sEd be acoomplishes
wonders u furnishing things, from
Ea-sisy seed to postofice buildings.
Tie entire combat this year is
contest between That kind os work and
excellent oratory. Brookhart viii
speak II every county several times
before tie primaries. after Kensedv is
nominated Pollard viii speak all over
the district; each in turn win roasr
Kennedy in sounding periods and
alfitsraElve rynthm. KENNEDY wiz
probably not make single sDseeh.
He VIII lei his results salg for hin
Tis true. lis pity. and pity ,ti= lis
true, bur all Students agree that the
old rhetorical oratory with It's
pics and It's rounded periods is reIegat-
q 20 nnocuoUs desuetude Ike the
horse car and the taIioE candle Am
ozssadoE Byce emphasized this re-
Gently II the Iowa state university
Iae csEnpsign in the First Iowa dis
Egict viii give 9 concrete test OF this
Proposition Il is rhetoric against re-
saiiss al the way through. and IL either
trookhart or Pollard win over Ken
nedy i VII be great victory for old
AcsiuHey's sixth reader over the mod
ern correspondence school. The cam
paig1 here this year Is far awav more
Ian political one; it IL one wbfc5
scholars and scientists OF all kinds the
world over viii watch with interest," -
a laboratory test Of the relative va,ua
q words and work as vote producers