The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-30

as good as the question prOpOunQeu py
badgered witness 20 the bullyragging
attorney: Have you quqit beating
your wife? Answer yes or no."
Marshalltown Times Republican,:
That amazing Mr.. Roosevelt brought
a cheer out of Chicago that could be
they think they have Teddy buried he
bobs up as lively as cricket and
starts the whole country hollering its
head Oft
Burlington Hawk-Eye: What
grand thing l. would be, If the con-
sumer could settle down to a period of
watchfnl waiting-waiting for the cost
of the necessaries Of life to descend.
Unfortunately, he cannot wait.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: 1t can hard
ly be claimed that the Iowa campaign
has been a great and successful move
ment for the Improvement 81 the mind.
Boone News-Republican: Il IS pos
sible to prove anything by the straw
vote.
Iowa City Citizen: Granting that
Mr.. Meredith did not intend that any
one should lose money in his Idaho
land company, and that he induced
people from all over the state to invest
100000 in lands on the report Of the
state engineer that there was water
enough to irrigate them, what is to be
thought of the business foresight of
the man who would induce those who
trusted his judgment to go into wild
or fhox hn "a al Of
report of only one man on the supply
of the element which was vital to the
success Of the company?
Waterloo Times-Tribune: I. is not
of great moment if Meredith took a
glass of champagne or other beverage
occasionally 1t is not of moment If
Harding took his glass occasionally.
Neither one allows liquor to interfere
with his work. But it is of moment
and it is vital, in this matter of hiring
a man to run the affairs of the execu
tive Office of Iowa, il one man is
straightforward and true and the other
man is shtfty and smooth; one man
is honest and square. tells you jus.
where "he is at" the other is evasiye
and shunling; one man tells you what
you can depend upon; the other man
tries to fool you and -ells you anything
that he thinks will make him votes.
Between these two men, there is little
question about which one the average
man would hire to run his individual
business.
Ottumwa Courier: Certain agita-
tors have charged that the government
is swtndled every time private cor
&c or{r no onf e. a
building of battleship. Bids opened
yesterday in Washington included an
offer to take the contract at actual
cost plus constructors profit Of ten
per cent. Other bids were equally
fair. But the agitators will ignore
that and keep on bowling.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Frank Gotch
is making phenomenal progress as a
politician. He is already able to call
another man a liar-by mail.
Knoxville Journal: Every voter in
Iowa, whatever his political afiliation
may be, cannot help but admire the
poise and dignity that has so far
marked Mr.. Harding's campaign. He
has gone on in the even tenor of his
way without any exhibition of temper
and with nothing but kind words for
those who oppose him. Such an atti-
tude on the stump is bound to win.
Marshalltown Times-Republican
While some taxpayers are for Harding
on the road question, the funny part
OF 1t is that so many men who never
paid tax Of any kind except a poll
tax, and ducked that If they could, are
wild with fear that the farms are to be
confiscated for road taxes
Marcus News. The importance of
electing a republican congress is just
as great as the election Of Chas. e.
Hughes as president.