The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-07-19
POLITICAL PROPHECIES

! name Of VIM. H. Taft Of Connecticut,
as a presidential possibility. 1t is by
| skilful Rooseveltian manipulation that
Ohio has three republican candidates
| in Governor Willis, ex-senator Burton
and Myron T. Herrick; that Philander
C. Knox is permeating Pennsylvania
with his boom; that Senators Cum
minis Of Iowa, Borah of Idaho, Sher-
man of Illinois, and LaFollette OF Wis
consin are kept to the fore as presi-
Dental timber. 1t is Napoleontc to
keep the allies divided and raucous.
| In the statement issued about a,
week ago by Colonel Roosevelt, whilei
! promising that he will support any
decent republican as against the DEM
ocratic candidate for the presidency,
the colonel carefully omits to state
that he is stright-out republican
now, and is wholly done with the
party Of his own creation; party
named progressive" and boldly
marching under that title because the
republican party was SO full of molly
coddles that here was not man in
that party big enough to step forth
and deny the brazen assumption that
Colonel Roosevelt was in any sense
more progressive in his ideas than
other party leaders.
| No, he does not repudiate the party
of his own creation, a party which
! polled almost enough votes to beat
| Wilson, even with Taft somewhere
in the running. On the contrary Col
! onel Roosevelt still retains his hold
upon that immense following, and he
expect to multiply that following by
| a clarion cry sometime next spring,
! probably in March, 1916.
| Everybody who reads daily papers
or listens to political discussions
knows that the chief weakness of the
| present administration is and has
| been it's subserviance, not to use
| keener word, to Great Britain and
| her diplomats. School boys through
/ out the land have been taught that
the war of 1912 settled adversely Eng
/ lands claim to the right of search of
vessels sailing under the American
flag. During the present administra-
ton our ships have been halted,
searched and captured They have
1 been taken into British ports, and
there compelled to remain.
! Jot this down in your memory. Fol-
lowers of Roosevelt have been vocifer.
ant in saying that if Roosevelt were
president he would do thus and SO.
! Argal, look out for clarion cry from
Roosevelt himself, striking chord
1 which will make every red-blooded
American give him applause, when he
says, substantially: IF were presi-
! dent of the United States and Great
! Britain encroached upon the right Of
any on,s of our merchant vessels
! bound for neutral ports, and If Great
Britain did not Immediately heed a
prompt protest, the next merchant
vessel crossing the ocean under the
American flag would be accompanied
by battleship floating the stars and
| stripes, and full equipment of OFF,
!, GERS and men with splendid gunners,
j and the boys could all of them sing
to any British marauder:
ION say can you see by the dawn's
early light,
What so proudly We hailed at the twi-
lights last beaming?"
Mark the prediction! Theodore
Roosevelt is a candidate, and Just
/ that kind Of a candidate. May be
some Of you remember how the peo-
pie followed Blaine because of his red
blooded Americanism. They are ready
to follow any leader OF that character
The democrats have suitable man
for leadership under these circum-
stances; and Woodrow Wilson favors
that man. Can you name him? The
writer hereof has not permission; not
yet, but soon.