The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-01
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Perhaps the reason Des Moines
barred. 1.-THE Birth OF a Nation was
because it couldn't be counted in the
population census.
Boone News,Republican Judging
from the selection Of delegates in
Massachusetts, New Jersey. Ohio and
Nebraska, the colonel had a good
reason for refusing to allow his name
to be used In the presidential pri-
mary.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: With SEN
ator Molsberry out of the race,
Louisa county looms big in the vision
Of Messrs. Kennedy, Kopp and
Thorne.
Dubuque TimesJournal: BY wait
ing until critical period in our dip
lomatic affairs to make a protest,
Japan has lived up to her reputation
as being just as crafty, II not more
so, than any OF the other govern
tments.
Sioux City Tribune: Possibly W.
J.. Bryan is seeking a political al
lance with Henry Ford in order to
recover the lost political trenches in
Nebraska
Waterloo Times-Tribune: The
4 proof reader welcomes the dateline
Dublin in the war news. He can
spell it and he knows just where it is.
Sioux City journal: Some men
are born lucky and others luckier
| still. Exhibit A: Republican repre-
sentatfves in congress who will be
unopposed in the primary. Exhibit
B: Republican representatives who
| will be unopposed not only in the
primary, but in the election. Harry
Hull and Jim Good, please write!
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Fair
banks is going to Chicago with ten
thousand Hoosier rooters to boost
his candidacy for the republican NOM
ination for president. The indica-
lions now are that Fairbanks viii be
long on rooters but short on dele
gates.
Davenport Times: 1t would be UNI
| fortunate for the country to have the
/ freight, and passenger service Grip
pied and the business of the nation
practically brought to standstill by
drastic action. II would be unfor
tunate, also, because it would give
new foundation, on which the advo-
Gates of government ownership of
railways could build their arguments.
Government ownership is something
! that every thinking man hopes may
not be undertaken. because it would
/ produce new problems the solution
Of which none can foresee.
Dubuque Times-Journal: The whole
1 Roosevelt family, father, sons, sons.
fn-law. cousins, etc, will enlist Il we
have war, says the colonel The col
! onel missed a bet by not better ad
/ vertising the patriotism of the Roose-
| velt family by saying they would all
| go as privates.
| Burlington Hawk-Eye Candidate
Meredith is heralded as a vote-getter.
| Why this reputation? 1t is certainly
not based on past performances.
| oedar Rapids Gazette: The best
! political joke of American history is
/ presented by national leaders in Wash
fngton holding their breaths and
/ clutching the sides Of their reserved
seats while watching the Ford-Cum-
minis finish in Nebraska. 1t is equal
to a one-armed cigar sign winning
middleweight championship in a fair
light
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The Cedar
Rapids Republican thinks we should be
grateful because Wilson will write no
more notes. There is nothing certain
on this line. When schoolmaster
says he has written his last line and
spoken his last word he usually means
just for the time being
Dubuque Times-Journal: The strong
run of Henry Ford in the Nebraska
primary is attributed to the wave of
abuse directed against him because OF
his peace stand. While his plan was
generally regarded as futile his sinceri-
ty was not questioned. a sincere per
son may not always succeed. but they
always command respect
Waterloo Courier: Even If Villa IS
dead the chances are that he Is still
/ hitting hot trail.
& Cedar Rapids Republican, 1t took
great deal Of effort to get out a
minimum vote in the presidential pref
erence primary. And yet a few years
+ ago the politicians were telling US
( that the primary was absolutely nee
essary to save our free institutions
from the croachments of the bosses.
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