The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12
,owA PREss COMMENT.

I IOWA PRESS SOW"GiNs.
/ The Boone News-RepubIican Is en-
tirelv willing that Webster City
should be the first to try out the clty
! manager plan under the new state
law.
| IF Wilbur Marsh shall be the dem
ocratic nominee for governor. ne VIII
! give Iowa the most earnest thorough
| and brilliant democratic campaign II
| has had since the days OF Horace
Boies,'' predicts the Dubuque Teie-
graph-Herald.
4with county officers behind 1t.
automobile owners boosting ana
newspapeA indorsing 1t all at one
time. the movement for road building
never appeared better" says the Des
Moines Capital.
Candidates for congress are COM
| ing out Of the earth in the Eleventh
like angleworms after a rain notes
( the Marshalltown Times-Republican
/ In the opinion Of the Burlington GA
zette, .-the consolidated country
! school, graded. well houses, wen
equipped, with adequately paid teach.
! ers and a course OF studies knit I'M
to country life, is the farms best
asset"
The woodbine Twiner would be
glad to support either Cosson or Al
len and It Is not over particular
which one.
"Membership IN the Grand Army OF
the Republic in all sense and in all
prcpriety can be held only By those
who fought to perpetuate the union. |"
insists the Burlington Hawk-Eye.
1.-The scheme to open It's membership
to the Sons OF Veterans would cheap
en- it and is absolutely improper"
whatever may be Carl Kuehnle's
chances for the governorship. the
suggestion of candidacy on his part
| is to be regarded with respect" as
serts the Iowa City Citizen.
The Waterloo Times-Tribune notes
that NO one has suggested Leslie NJ
Shaw as "the greatest living Iowan. .
| 1.-THE Iowa law school might not
/ only rank with. but above. those OF
Wisconsin. Michigan or illinois," says
| the Davenport Democrat 'Its future
| is in the hands Of the state board of
education, and It can make It orsbreak
! it. by its success or failure in get
ting the right man as dean"
"The statement that all the repub-
lIican candidates for governor are self
starters Will hardly allay the impress
/ 81 Z. r.
ed IN his clothes" remarks the Sfb-
Hey Tribune.
Pouring cold water on the discus
sion OF tht question, who is the
greatest Iowane' isn't going TO stop
! IT," saws the Council Bluffs Nonpa-
reil. 'sfen are Just about as permit
cfous gossipers as women when you
get them started OF on tits line on
the right foot"
eThe Cosson candidacy Is coming
like house afire-everybody wants
to throw water on It," remarks tho
/ Manson Democrat.
sThe Knoxville Journal thinks the
chances are betttr than ever before
for western man to be nominated
and elected president
"Our legislative bodies chosen at
random in primaries where the voters
register hardly better than guess
are not always representative bodies, y
says the Cedar Rapids Republican.
i "Towa has started out on new line
OF policy not only in one direction
but in many, declares the Des
Moines Tribune, mot only with re
!. gard to liquor selling. but with regard
to roads. prison labor. the relation oil
women to public affairs, schools. etc.
and the most important thing before
. Iowa more important even than ma
tionaI politics. is the selection Of a
leader for the next two years who
will work along the lines that have
already been laid down
Shamlng . Girl.
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