Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-10-17

Cedar Rapids AepuDllcaH. ocC's
rotary Wilson has given no one the
right to suppose or believe that he
is being made catspaw or a scape-
goat That is the charge of those
who have been attempting hit at
the Taft administration through
the much advertised incident. The
secretary himself has led no one TO
believe that he owes his position to
the administration or to Secretary
Knox. Mr.. Wilson is not suffering
vicariously.
Sioux City Tribune: Senator
Crawford put the whole case plain
ly in this sentence: Eve believe
that LaFollette and Cummins are
better representatives Of our party
than Penrose and Cannon-and we
decline to follow the president when
he casts his lot with the eastern
manufactures against the western
farmer" Crawford evidently rea-
sons: Once against the farmer al
ways against him.
Alton Democrat: George p. Rob-
erts, Taft's director Of the mint,
passed through Iowa on night
train recently and now reports from
Washington that the majority OF
the Iowa farmers favored reciproc-
| ity and that Senator Cummins will
be defeated when he comes up for
reelection in 1914 and that there
was no further talk about the tar
if vetoes of the president. Roberts
certainly had dream in the Pull
man.
The Cherokee Democrat says that
while all of the 'reformers" seem
to be in favor of presidential
primary, the real taxpayers are not
throwing up their hats and shout
ing for it so far as it has observed.
eff the democrats use up all their
enthusiasm in the fight for the pres
idential nomination. says the Des
Moines Tribune, there won't be
enough left for the more serious
business of landing the job"
If the old caucus system prevails
in Des Moines and Polk county, the
Des Moines Capital fears that the
supporters of Taft will not have any
show.
"It is evident" says the Fort
Dodge Messenger, that fight for
LaFollette in Iowa or anywhere else
is a fight to disorganize the republic
can party and elect the democratic
nominee. It can have no other re-
Suits"
1.-THE threat OF reciprocity never
made dent in the steady advance
of price in Iowa dirt, notwithstand-
ing the claim to the contrary in
some quarters says the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
The Clinton Herald believes 1t is
safe to predict that no republican
presidential primary will be held in
Iowa next year. I'm theory 1t
sounds good" the Herald continues,
"but when the republican state COM
mittee makes an effort to provide q
method for holding it. there is good
reason to believe 1t will find an OBJ
stacle it will not care to try to sur
mount"
Hart Is a standpatter and the
type OF politician which primaries
were devised to get rid of" says the
Waterloo Courier, referring to the
Council Bluffs mans aspiration to
serve another term as republican ma
tional committeeman. Hart stands
for Taft, OF course, but his re-elec-
ton to the national committee
would do as much to put Taft In
bad with the popular vote In Iowa
as anything that the enemies OF the
president could devise"
The Burlington Gazette agrees
with all that President Taft said In
his defense Of the judiciary, but 1t
wonders why, with all this faith In
his profession, the president is 20
ready to suspect the motives of 9th
err business men In other lines OF
business? why is the departments
of justice anxious to make record
OF convictions" the Gazette con.
tinues; "why does Mr.. Taft permit
his attorney general to make
speeches rejecting upon the Amert-
can business man and why does he,
himself. indulge as he did at Water