The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-22
Called "sIoppino over

Called stopping Over"
Burlington Gazette: The platform
adopted by the democratic state con-
vention is admirable in many re-
spects and decidedly maudlin in
others. It's treatment of national
issues, including it's commentator
of President Wilson, will meet the
approval of every democrat and in
fact every right thinking American.
his abuse of President Wilson was
merited. Its approval of the candI-
dacy Of Hon. Claude Porter for gov
ernor will find full favor
Then for heavens sake they should
have stopped. They should have set
the brakes hard in the full realiza-
ton they did their full duty as demo
Gratis and citizens. They could have
transacted all the business in half
day and let it go at that.
But the valiant resolutions COM
mitee stopped over. They travelled
far afield and disinterred another
resolution endorsing national prohi-
bition. They did not endorse it out
right, but tried to make 1t fifty
fifty proposition; weak and driv-
cling concession to the prohibition
party and to the people who decided
ly do not want prohibition.
Flushed with the success Of thus
emulating one plank of the repub-
lican platform, they negotiated an
other fit and framed a paragraph
putting the stamp of their limited
approval on woman's suffrage.
Then they got decidedly weepy
and endorsed the candidacy of Sena-
tor Kenyon. Why the democrats of
Iowa or the 100 per cent American
republicans should go to the front
for Senator Kenyon is quite beyond
the ken of the Gazette. 1t certainly
does not take more than one mem
DRY lesson to recall that Senator
Kenyon could not see the war at all,
when President Wilson decided it
was necessary for us to enter the
world conflict. So apparent was his
opposition that it exhausted the well
known and long tried patience of
President Wilson, impelling him to
administer public and singing re-
Duke to Senator Kenyon and other
pacifist senator's, and some of them
were democrats, characterizing them
as "a little group of wilful men"
Senator Kenyon afterwards made a
trip to Europe to see with his own
eyes if war existed He saw plenty
to convince him and came home ram
PANTY anti-kaiser, good second
thought American. It's as plain as
the moustache on the kaiser's face
that had congress turned down the
president in the start as did Mr.. Ken
yon the Huns would now be over
runniny the world like predatory
rats.
The people of Iowa, in fair open
and above board, well advertised and
well exploited election. registered
their disapproval of prohibition by
substantial majority of votes. why
either the democratic or republican
politicians should go back of the
verdict, is hard to comprehend.
Likewise the voters of Iowa de-
cided at the polls by an absolutely
honest and fair process that they did
not want woman suffrage The Ga
zette does not believe that the demo-
cratic party in Iowa is obligated to
extend sop to any misfit organic
cation for its doubtful support. It
can go before the people on its
merits and win or lose on these
merits.
Prohibition and woman's suffrag e
are not issues before the American
people. They occupy the same DO.
sition as something the cat brought
In The Gazette is disappointed at
the lack of gumption on the part of
the gentlemen who have failed to
represent Iowa democracy.