The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-21

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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
The Ottumwa Courier suggests that
Champ Clark should not be in too
much of a hurry to buy those mules.
Who got President Taft's letter
relative to federal patronage in
Iowa?', asks the Des Moines Tribune.
"As Maine goes so goes the union
and we might as well get ready for
the landslide" says the Castana
Times.
The Charles City Press suspects
that the colonel would rather be
spoken i'll of than not to be spoken
of at ALL
For the result in Maine the demo-
cratic party is under the greatest OBJ
legations to ex-President Roosevelt"
says the Burlington Gazette.
The Winterset Reporter says it
now looks as if there will be enough
insurgents in the next congress to
keep the welkin ringing twelve hours
a day.
The Emmetsburg Reporter says
that things have got to take decid-
ed change politically if the republi-
cans hold their own in the coming
election.
the way that Iowa elections will go
this fall, the Maine elections have
furnished the cue,'' says the Daven-
port Democrat.
The Iowa City Republican says the
only way the Roosevelt nationalism
can be realized is to have either a
monarchy or a permanent president
after the Mexican plan.
IL YOU SEC dAS clOi LII SClioic OpOh,
suggests the Mason City Globe-Ga
zette, better walk in and get &C
quainted with the premises. They
may be greatly needed later on
The Charter Oak Times predicts
that the republican ticket in 1912
will be headed by Roosevelt and Dol
liver. and the platform will have just
eleven letters-a Square deal.
The Harlan Republican says it be
gins to look as though the republican
party may be beginning to get the
thrashing that will teach it the horse
sense it has been lacking the las
several years.
Are we to have struggle be
tween the Roosevelt and Dollivel
forces on the one hand and the Cum
minis forces on the other hand fol
the control of the delegation from
Iowa to the next national convention
of the Republican party?" asks thu
Dubuque Times-Journal.
For the time being it can hardl.
be said that there is a Repul iical
party left in this country" says tn
Cedar Rapids Republican. There ar
remnants of it staggering around il
hysteria and delrum, bat the part,
as such has practically ceased t
exist as potent force"
Should Iowa follow the pace o
Maine" says the Marion Register, :"
democrat will be the successor 0
I Senator Deliver and seven to nin
/ republicans will give UP their seats t
| democrats when the new congress
meets. Ten long years have beel
spent sowing the wind and the .whirl
wind harvest is here"
"The insurgents of the house ant
senate" says the Monticello EXPIRES
4 spent last winter in the manufac
ture of democrats and those newl,
made democrats are getting in thei
work. Maine is the first natural re
suit but it is not the last. 1t fore
tells the election of democratic
house of representatives"
The Des Moines Capital says /
will be interesting to watch the effec
of President Taft's action in openinl
the pie counter to the insurgents
"Phe insurgents declare they neve
did care anything about political pie,
the Capital continues They asser
they have been concerned only in re
gard to great moral ideas and politi
cal uplift. Now that the president ha'
invited them to step up and get thei
pie we shall watch with great care
and count those who decline honors.
What are the insurgents going t.
do with the boom that Teddy has Civ
en- Dolliver for the presidency or vict
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