The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-08
Lafayette Young for u. S. Senator

c.. A. Weaver in Des Moines Capt.
tai: Lafayette Young, publisher OF
the Des Moines Capital, is candi-
fdate for United States senator from
Iowa, subject to the will OF the Re-.
publican voters Of the state as ex-
pressed at the primaries Of Monday,
June Sd, and as the successor of Hon.
| William S. Kenyon.
The Capital is keenly appreciative
of the fact that 1t is somewhat deli
cate task to construct an announce
ment for its own editorial columns
concerning the ambitions OF Mr..
Young which would not violate the
canons OF good taste and at the same
time invite the charge of a false mod
esty in defining platform and out
lining the general grounds upon which
this candidacy will be based.
The phrasing of this announcement
is the result of extended consultation
among the heads Of the editorial de-
partments of the paper. 1t Is publish
ed without the advice of Mr.. Young. 1t
Is given W lu0 PuUliC uuliA6 LILO az
sence from the city. 1t is the charter
of purpose and the declaration of
principle upon which both the candi-
date and his friends in ninety-nine
counties of Iowa will press vigorous
and. what they confidently expect,
will be winning campaign.
In presenting the senatorial candi-
dacy of Lafayette Young his friends
invite a respectful consideration of
the following:
Born and raised on Iowa soil. life
long student of her resources, an in
cessant champion of her possibilities.
he is exceptionally well qualified to
look after her interests from the ma
tional viewpoint in the United States
senate.
For quarter of a century with his
pen and on the public platform he
has been preaching the gospel of a
Greater Iowa.
He began the advocacy of improv-
ed highways when the proposal was
looked upon as the fad of dreamer,
hut kept at it until the River-to- River
road was established and Good
Roads association organized in nearly
every community in the state. He
spent 81 900 of his own money In help.
ling to promote the enterprise. and is
/ today the active president of the Iowa
| Good Roads Association.
/ His loyalty to the educational in.
| terests of the state has been untiring
and while defending the claims of the
university and the college upon the
public, he has given special attention
to the rights and the needs OF the
country school both In the way OF
well paid teachers and wholesome and
attractive surroundings for the
country boys and girls.
Since the day when as a boy he
saw three older brothers march away
4 to the civil war the cause of the union
4 soldier has been his cause. His news
4 paper has advocated liberal pensions
for Grand Army veterans and their
widows. More than dozen years ago
he declared in a letter to the Wo-
mems Relief Corps at Marion, Iowa,
that the federal government might
give the civil war veterans half in
terest in the republic which their
4 heroic valor had saved without over
payment of the nations debt.
Since his first vote was cast he has
) been a Republican from conviction
! He has believed that the party which
successfully conducted the war for
the preservation of the union, resror
ed the national credit, devised the
most successful currency system the
civilized world has ever known, secur
, ed liberty for Cuba. brought order out
! of chaos in the Philippine Islands
| an archipelago laid at our govern
, mental doors by the fortunes of war
/ developed and maintained a tariff
. system which has provided nationa
, revenue, rewarded industry and ele
: waited and prospered labor, made pos
sible the building of the Panama can
, al and taken the initiative toward in
t ternational arbitration and universe
) peace, is party more deserving o
praise than apology and that the pos