The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-25

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4 IOWA PREas COMMENT.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye suggesti
], that if Cummins should be electet
president. his first act should be g
appoint the editor or the Knoxyiii'
4 Journal secretary OF state.
i carl Kuehnle is one OF Iowa,s
most gifted orators and q successful
4 and we'll to do business man, Du'
H there is little in the record upor
h which he can base a claim to tnt
nomination for governor, declares
the Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune.
SIN a year or two 1t will be as hard
/ to find anti-good road sentiment II
i Iowa as to find farmer who IS op
4 posed to- rural delivery and tele
4 phones" predicta the Marshalltowr
! Times Republican.
The Cherokee Times notes that
1 Senator Francis has decided to seek
reelection as state senator instead OF
becoming q candidate for congress and
REMARKS LNdI ~ ilS q Wise AAioAA y.
realizes that in politics bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush.
! "The short ballot movement is
merely applying what we have learn
led in national management to- state
management" insists the Des Moines
Tribune.
IF the bull moose party is sufi-
GENTLY strong in 1915 to force the
republican party to name progres~
sive candidate, it will be performing
a real service TO the country" asserts
the Odebolt Chronicle.
The Thompson Courier says that in
the tenth district voting for Frank p,
Woods has become habit, like vot-
ing for Cummins. It proceeds: III
you ask man for whom he intends
TO vote on the congressional ticket
he'll say, Woods If you ask him
why, he'll say, 1 don't know"
Maybe Carl Kuehnle's running for
governor will not turn out such joke
as some may think" says the Carroll
Herald. "If he does become candi-
date there will be shifting of men
on the checker board before the king
row is reached"
Most any road looks good to q
man. who has been shut up in an In
sane asylum for nine years, remarks
the Council, Bluffs Nonpareil by way
or comment on Harry Thaw's state
ment that Iowa roads were the best
reads he had struck since leaving
Pittsburgh.
The Washta Journal dominates Sen
ator Kenyon as the greatest living
Iowan.
"The time Is ripe for congress
man to be named from Lyon county.
and it is fortunate that In Sam RIM
ker Lyon county has man that is the
equal to any man in the district. and
superior to majority of the men
mentioned for the Office" declares the
hardwood Leader.
Some papers think hard road
proposition would stand no more
chance Of passage by the legislature
in special session than 1t did with the
last legislature" says the Davenport
Democrat. "But 1t should be remem-
bered that most Of the members. since
then, have had the task of navigating
the soft roads of Iowa through par
ticularly wet summer"
The Washington Democrat objects
to the issuing OF bonds to build hard
roads when so much money Is needed
for school-houses, bridges and thou.
sand and one other things with farm.
ers and others crying for reduction
in the cost OF living.
If Carl Kuehnle be worth 100000
why he should exhibit disposition
to be paved over and fawned on and
traduced and maligned by every
blackmailing politician in the state
! is more than can he figured out by
the Charles City Intelligeneer.
| THAT the outcome may be leg.sla.
ton which will bring about the build
/ ing of permanent roads rather than
the waste OF money in maintaining
dirt roads is the hope OF 1owa's most
foresighted citizens states the Sac
City Sun. noting the appointment by
4 Governor Clarke of special cmomls
| sion to investigate good roads.
what on earth can be keeping
Late Young from the Mexican Dor
der?" wonders the Waterloo Times
/ Tribune.
1--WE would like very much to see
i a receptacle filed with ointment sc
clean and fine that David Brant could
not find a fly in it, remarks the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Now shall we begin worrying
about an early frost killing the corn
or had we better cheer up and be
hopeful and confident" asks the Bur
lington Hawk-Eye.