The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-02
THE REPUBLICAN STATE CON.
NENTION

Alex Miller of the Washington Dem
ocrat attended the Republican state
convention at Cedar Rapids last week
as spectator and reports that he has
not had as enjoyable day since Heck
was pup. Taft defeated Cummins
| by forty-one votes, but Mr.. Miller does
not believe that Cummins went into
the campaign in good faith. He be.
lieves the senior senator was merely
playing to hold his machine together,
and when anyone says Cummins has
no machine he is entitled to another
guess. AS to the convention Mr..
Miller says:
1t was a pretty convention and
believe me- as the boys say, | am
prouder than ever of old Iowa. 1t was
as pretty fight as | ever saw and be-
ing Democrat, and some say always
on the wrong side, have seen many
fight, indeed, nothing else for six
teen years, but this was as fine and
clean cut fight as ] ever saw. This
convention, by the way, was not there
for oratory, but for mathematics. This
convention knew what it wanted. 1t
was interested in arithmetic and not
in rhetoric. The scholars who go to
this school care nothing for rhetoric
or grammar or oratory, but mathemat-
les and so 1t was devoted chiefly to
counting the votes and Cummins was
beaten by forty-one votes.
1T was as fine a looking body of
gentlemen as | have seen and almost
equally as intelligent looking and as
well dressed as Democratic conven-
tons are apt to be. No, indeed, they
were splendidly dressed prosperous
looking set All stop at the best ho-
tells, farmers and town men alike The
farmers are not hunting cheap twenty
five cent rooming houses, because
most of them at home, have their
automobiles, their bath tubs, their
pianos and buggies for the boys to
take the girls riding in, their wives are
apt to dress in silk to go to parties
and use cut glass on their tables, SO
that Iowa people are the best people
and the most prosperous people on
EARTH
In view of these things Mr.. Miller
is naturally curious to know what all
this insurgency is about He inquiries,
pertinently:
When was Iowa ever more pros
porous than now and yet, they try to
tell us that we are slaves, slaves OF
the money power, slaves of the trusts,
slaves of ambitious men. do not de-
fend trusts, but ! do defend Iowa and
say that this grand old state was new
er better off than today, and if that is
treason, make the most of it, There
are not any more courteous people
anywhere than in Iowa. never enjoy
ed a day more than last Wednesday.
Maybe If there had been the old style
harmony | would not have had as good
time but when the fight got the hot
test | wished for a lot of my Demo
cratic friends to see the fun. And the
funny part of it is, the insurg
while licked. yet they do not care a
dam. That is what l said, not dam.
And that is not profanity | merely
meant the dam at Brighton, in the
river"
w. D. Masters of Fort Madison was
one of the delegates present from
Lee county. He is credited with look
ing like President Taft, and Mr.. Mil
Ter called attention to him:
Others also say he looks like Taft
and they say he stands just as pat. He
is oil inspector. He was in the Thir-
tieth Iowa and knows Captain CritZ OF
Riverside and knew Captain Gallagf-
err, also of the Thirtieth Iowa Put a
plug hat on him and put a pillow into
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