The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-17
Coy. Carroll shousd Veto the Oregon

Bill.
Des Moines Capital. The passage
OF the bill for the election Of Unites
i States senators under the Oregon
plan By the ThirtFfonrsh general as
ssmbiy yesterday was fling climal
TO decade OF insurgency in Iowa
! Democrats Joined hands with insur
gents 10 accomplish the job and te
this unhoiy alliance tee standpss Re
pubIlcans can ungrndsngly conceds
the glory OF the achievement
II 8 conspiracy bad been deliberate
u planned to gre the death blow 70
the Republican party Of Iowa the
purpose conld not be more effectively
consumnaated than through Tie ne
dunn Of this measure which lacks
only the snbernatnriai signature and
the act of publication 10 become 3
Law
There IS bit one hope left for Iowa
RepublicaHism for years 10 come, and
that is that The stalwart figure Of the
man in The chief executives offsx
will return the asIi from the source
from which il emanated with a veto
message which VIII quicken The pulse
and Ere the hearts OF the more than
two hundred rhousand Republicans
Fno cheerfuily followed MS banner
in the last state election The Moines
Capital believes that Governor Car
roll IS confronted with q grea. op-
portrnisy and tina. he is eminently
capable of rot only stepping into the
breach and saFing his party from the
calamity Iovard which it is headed.
but that in so doing he would assume
. place Of national leadership in
which he would be inrincible through
out the years OF his public life.
The Democrats of Iowa have not
been SO happy since the days OF
Grover Cleveland and Horace Boies.
The leaders look and act though
they had been born again. Why.
They know that in every state in
which the Oregon plan has been
adopted it has resulted in Republican
diElntegrafion and Democratic rehabil-
itation- They know that the first re-
suit in Oregon, state naturally Re-
was the election OF Demo
crat to the United States senate.
They accomplished the same result In
Nebraska, and now they are trying 10
work the same kind of bunco game
in Maine and New Jersey, SO as to be
ready for business when those states
shall again fall back into the Repub-
Iican column.
And who ever heard of the Demo
cratic party trying TO secure the adop-
ton of the Oregon plan in a nominal
y Democratic state7 1t is in Republi-
.an states only that the scheme can
be made to operate so charmingly and
where the accommodating insurgents
make specially OF pulling Demo
cratic chestnuts out Oh the fire.
Must Iowa, grand old Iowa, be
,orced into that column What has
become of the virile Republicanism
which. when practically every sur.
rounding commonwealth had wander
ed after the false gods of popuiism
and all the other isms of shifting ex-
pediency, rejoiced in telegranhing
across the continent on election night
hat Iowa had given her 10000 and
Ter 100000 and her 100. 1000 majority
or the Garfields. the Ben Harrisons,
he Mckinleys and the great leaders
II other days2
Read the answer in the record
which insurgency has made.
Is not the Republican party worth
saving? Is there no longer pride in its
past?
When the national statesmen were
assembling at Washington last De-
sember to take up the concluding
work of the present session of CON
sress the correspondent of the Chi
sago Tribune telegraphed that paper
that among the early arrivals were
senators Cummins OF Iowa and Bris-
low of Kansas, who Immediately con
graduated each other upon the out
come OF the November election And
what was there In the result OF that
election that should cause.-the eye to
sparkle and give to the handcIasp an
fervor? Why, insurgency had
succeeded in putting the knife into
he yitals OF Republication so com
oletely and thoroughly that Republl.
ian majority in the national house of
70 had been transformed into Demo
;ratic majority Of So. Hence the felici-
ations,
The Republican party is facing a
critical situation. In Iowa and in the
lation conditions are developing
shich are fraugflt with grave concern.
There are few men who will even
hazard a guess as to what is going to
happen in 1912. 1t Is within the power
u Governor Carroll to render HIS par
y service, such as has come to few
men in the history Of this state.
Surrendered to the Democrats.
Clinton Herald: Insurgent Repub-
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