The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-17

ance elements and minimizes the evils
that inhere in the liquor business
''If Theodore Roosevelt should put
on his fighting clothes and take lead
ership against the Barnes machine in
New York, what would be the duty of
decent Republicans everywhere"
tasks the Des Moines Tribune.
The Des Moines Register and Lead
er says that in this age Of football
mania the day after Thanksgiving is
another thanksgiving day for the pa
rents of the boys who finished the
season with unfractured bones.
The Davenport Democrat says that
while Mr.. Roosevelt does not discuss
Mr.. Taft as a second term desirable
ity, he does use the heaviest weapons
in his armory to shoot the favorite
policies of the President full of holes.
i There will have to be some hurry
ing around if all the broken places in
the fences of both political parties
are to be mended in the brief time al
lowed" says the Charles City Intel
ligencer, commenting on the close
ness of the presidential election.
1.-THE P. G. Holden gubernatorial
4 BOOM says the Sioux Rapids Republi-
lcan-Press, sis not flourishing as we'll
as it might, and it is not because Mr.
Holden is not a good man for go-er-
nor but because he is better man IN
the position he now occupies at Ames
you would scarcely say that Presi-
dent Taft, Governor Harmon and ex-
/ Senator Foraker were three Of a kind,
says the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
But they are of the kind that is big
enough to subordinate political diff
ferences and fraternize in social az
fairs"
"A few years ago. says the Hamp-
ten Chronicle, the politician who
used an automobile to carry him on
his rural fence repairing trips leopard
lied his chances. Today automobiles
are so common on the farms that the
willy candidate gives away spark plugs
instead of CIGARS
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says that
the conditions which produce social
ism are the conditions which stand
. patism has been excusing and even
defending, and the conditions which
: insurgency has been attacking. "In-
surgency has been fighting monopoly
the Gazette adds. "And monopoly is
, the creator of socialism
'Tf Senator Kenyon is to be lead
er in Iowa, it is time for him to begin
! to lead something" says the Iowa City
Republican. ut is repeatedly said that
Kenyon is for Tnft but if he expects
to be for Taft in a practical way he
I should be doing something. We are
all ready to follow whenever Kenyon
:, will say, come on, boys''
"a number of farm papers," notes
: the Cedar Rapids Gazette, "are urging
P. G. Holden to Lecome q candidate
: for governor If Holden is worth any
thing to the state at all it is in his
present capacity in teaching agricul-
ture. He probably would be no great
success as a governor. We don't be-
lieve he is much of a business man.
or that he makes much pretension in
that direction
The Iowa City Citizen approves OF
the new movement in Iowa for the
nomination of Mr.. Bryan for Presi
dent IF the Democrats want. to put
up their best timber they should nom
mate Bryan OR Wilson," the Citizen
continues. "Of course, Taft can beat
either one of them, but probably mo-
by so large majority as he would
get over Clark or harmon
After all, the test is in the mel
and not in the party" says the Cas-
tana Times. While it Is impossible
TO have party without men, once il
while you can find a mighty goo
man who is not plugging very hard TO
any party. 1t isn't often that he |
nominated for anything and when h
is he is usually defeated, but whe
elected politics and the country ar
that much better off"
The Charles City Intelligencer col
cludes that all the hubbub with regar
to who will be the next governor 9
Iowa is merely SO much dust raise
to blind the eyes of the people. 9Th
caEdidates-so far as such thing
possible the Inte!ligencer continue
have already been selected and, whe
the time is ripe. will be announce
with a fnality that will leave littl
room for popular selection
The Waterloo Courier observes tina
the candidacy of Colonel Palmer fc
oovarnor &c haIoey ,,ryod ~, ~ nj,