The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-11-17
IOWA pRess COMMENT.

l IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Sioux City journal. The colonel
announcement that he would not offer
ANY advice to Hughes having been
proved incompetent. Irrelevant and
immatsrial, the colonel might Try
again with sn announcement that un-
der no circumstances viii he be a
candidate for 8 third term IL 1880
/ Waterloo Courier: The Chicago
Tribune was quick TO grab the honor
foT carrying Illinois. iowa. i.sssns.
Wisconsin. Michigan and Minnesota
; for Hughes. But ii can hsrity claim
credit for the tremendous psRrait.
MIR. Harding got in Iowa Thai De-
longs 10 another newspaper
Cedar Rapids Republican, Let no
lone dream that the present high prices
are going to be continuous Il IS cniy
"a question of the time when the drop
viii come The wise msn is the man
who so lives and conducts his affairs
that he VIII be prepared to drop with
them He is a foolish MAN who goes
on thinking that prices are going to
keep on going up. They are going to
60 nothing OF the kind Some of the
increases are so ridiculous that the
wonder is that they can last over
night. Marking up prices has become
sort of a mania and it is probably
true that there are no reasons at all
for many of the advances.
| Burlington Hawk-Eye: The nation
/ al and state committees of both OF the
leading political parties must have
had sympathetic hearts for newspaper
publishers on account of the high
price of print paper; they supplied the
editors with tons of circular letters up
on whose blank sides many yards.
rods and miles of editorials will be
written for months to come for the
editication of readers.
Cedar Rapids Gazette. Next year,
about the time a few hundred thou
sands Of tillers of the soil are planning
to make fortunes out of potatoes, on
ions. wheat and corn, someone will
/ cut the Bottom out OF the market and
they will hold the sack while the rest
CT Is eat without going II deSt-n;ay-
be! Something other than car short
age, crop shortage, war in Europe
or change in the moons brand of
cheese will pop up to prevent pocket
book Invitations.
/ Dubuque Times-Jcurnal: The morn
| ing after election the Des Moines Reg
lister claimed the race for governor
was very close. The following morn
! ing a small item telling of Harding's
success was printed. And the Regis
ter has been claiming it is Iowa's lead
ling newspaper.
Davenport Democrat: The elector-
al college is a relic of TIE past that
may well be done away with. Born OF
the idea that the common people were
not capable of choosing the highest Of
ficers Of the country. 1t has been per-
petuated by the fetish of states rights.
| 1t stands in the way Of popular cleo
ton of president and vice president.
| This Injustice Must Be Corrected.
| Des Moines Capital: 1t is neces-
sary for the good of the country that
the republican party continue to
exist. There are many issues which
the republican rarty, If brave enough,
can take hand in settling. II there
had been free voting even among the
white men of the south President
Wilson would not have been re-elec-
ted. No law prevents white from
voting the republican ticket in the
! south hut nnalic nninion restraints
him. The old rebel cause has con-
siderable to do With the south as a
voting proposition But under pres
ent conditions there is no more free
dom of ballot il the south than there
was in Poland.
| President Wilson started in the
present canpaipn with the solid south
assured Il, mad 120 electoral votes.
it was scarcely necessary to count
the ballots from the south. Nobody
has been reading the returns from
the solid south. In the face of this
supporters of the president have
! coyery in high power, manhood.
| This country hac continued this in
justice for over fifty years.
| You can maze campaign in Da-
kota or Nebraska or in Montana or
| Kansas. but you cannot make cam
paign in the old south, in the con-
federate states az they were. One
of two things ought to be done.
| These southern states ought to be
! deprived Of a large number of cleo
toral votes. they have disfranchiseo
Z, the negro by one process or another !,
yet the negro is counted as voter
and a man in the distribution of
n embers Of congress and members
of the electoral college. The south
ought not to have the benefit Of the
negro in making up ;he.r representa-
| ton in congress, Ut else they ought
not have power 20 dissf ian chise him
/ The entire civilized world knows
of these conditions and knows that
the American People have not had
the courage TO straighten the matter
! out by doing justice.
II the sorth DISTINGUISHES the
negro the soI'h ought to bear the
consequence Of his loss in represen-
tation.
Every injustice which is tolerated
and not settled as soon as 1t is dis
covered becomes a danger to the re-
| public.
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