The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
Choose ONLY Americans.

Choose Only Americans.
The democratic convention wa
,alled to order by H. G. Kirchner, G
Oonnellson, chairman of the count
central committee. E P. Armknech
II Donnellson, served as chairman Q
he convention. Preston E. Robert
vas made secretary.
The republican convention resolI
ion as it affects the candidacy O
congressman Kennedy is as follows
AT this crucial period in the
nations history, when the fate of
the civilized world hangs in the
balance, it behooves us, as men
worthy of the glorious traditions
OF our ancestors, to exemplify the
words of the immortal Washing
ton and place none but Americans
on guard at our nations capital.
By Americans we mean men Of
whatever race or creed, wherever
born, who with uplifted hand have
pledged their lives, their fortune
and their sacred honor to the de-
Tense of freedoms flag where'er
unfurled
scarce out of it's swaddling clothes
ere its ear was attuned to the
shock of universal battle. A muir
derous mania has evidently seized
upon the minds of men. The pulse
of the race is beating the reveille;
the soul of the world is sounding
boots and saddles; savagery, in
some parts of the globe, is re-
asserting itself, and the So-called
Christian nations of those lands
are further than ever before from
that age of gold.
"'When the war-drum throbs no
longer,
And the battle-flags are furled
In the parliament of man,
The federation of the world
"In this terrible conflict, in
which the fertile fields of France
now run red with blood, the
awful responsibility Of leadership
is more and more being shifted
upon this great nation. And by
the grace of God we, will sweep
clean the blood-stained fields of
France, and bring order out of
chaos on the anarchy torn plains
of Russia, before we lie down
on the Job.
''It is an important role which
God hath assigned to US in the
great drama of life-a work to
which we believe this nation OF
ours is divinely called by the
sounding bell of destiny-and this
great mission can only be accom-
til WI o. nIIr
capital who will stand back OF
our president in everything need
ed for the successful prosecution
of this war; men who, by long
experience, are cool, calm and
calculating: men who have been
tried and not found wanting;
men who, like Caesars wife, are
above sus~icion.
Such a man we have in our
present congressman. Charles A;
Kennedy. Laying no claims TO
brilliant oratory, he nevertheless
ranks high in the councils of our
nation-he has the reputation OF
a worker, not a talker, and can
be depended upon to give his
voice and vote to the measures
victories on the field, and thereby
bring this war to a successful
termination, but in the recon
structive period, after the mad
ness of men shall have passed,
he will work and vote for the en-
actment of such tariff laws as
are needed to protect the Amer1-
can farmer, the American laborer,
the American craftsman. and all
the people of this land from the
cheap labor and products or
Europe. The history of this
country for the past half century
demonstrates without doubt
that without such adequate tariff
laws this land could never nave
achieved to its present grandeur
and greatness.
wherefore, we, the republicans
of Lee county, in convention as
sembled. not only pledge to him
our support at the November
election, but call upon all patrl-
otto people of the First congress
sional district of Iowa to cast
their vote for a man who mas
been answering in his loyalty 10
his country in her hour of need
Congressman Charles A. Kennedy.
"Be it further resolved, That to
attain the sacred ends to which
this government is dedicated, IL
is the sense of this commlttee'
as Americans and repuDilcans,
that there be no peace declared
in this war that is not peace