Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-09-19
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! ANOTHER FRAUD. /


lie mind.
ANOTHER FRAUD.
The Webster City Freeman-Trib-
une, insurgent, is much perturbed
over the announcement that The Des
Moines Capital will take poll of
Iowa republican and independent
newspapers as to whether they pre-
fer Taft or LaFollette as the presi-
Dental nominee of the party in
1912. Being an Uplight Organ the
FIT. brands the proposed poll as a
fraud in advance of the completion
of the work and says the outcome
will be just as Tie Capital desires.
1t is the wounded buzzard that fut-
tiers, and our readers probably have
not forgotten what is the matter
with the Webster City paper. When
The Capital took it's reciprocity poll
among Iowa editors few months
ago the Webster City Freeman rib-.
une undertook to cast two votes in
favor of the treaty under the cover
of it's hyphenated name. The Cap
itaI detected the fraud and exposed
it's would-be perpetrators. Since
that day scarcely an issue of the
Webster City paper has been pub
rlished that did not contain from half
to full column of vituperation d.
rected toward The Capital -Des
Moines Capital
OF course the Freeman Tribune
announces in advance that the Cap
ital's poll will be fraud. The rep.
utation of that paper warrants the
announcement. When circus
hanger-on conducts she'll game, ev-
cry intelligent man knows he is a
fraud and a swindler, just as the
people of Iowa know the Capital to
be a notorious prevaricator poli.-
ically. Didn't the Capital foist up
on its readers the notorious Conger
dispatch which it later admitted was
forgery? Didn't it manufacture
last winter stupid story about Sen
ator Cummins clandestinely visiting
former Governor Larrabee to induce
Mr.. Larrabee to use his influence
against the election of Judge Ken
yon to the United States senate? In
the Capitals reciprocity poll didn't
it omit from the lists such good reci-
procity advocates as the Dubuque
Times-Journal, the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil, the Marshalltown Times
Republican, the Sioux City Tribune
and many other papers of that char
acter? Its charge that the Free
man-Tribune undertook to stuff the
ballot box is on par with the other
disgraceful things of which it has
been guilty. 1t was pretending to
take poll of the newspapers of the
state, not of the editors. The Free
man and the Freeman-Tribune are
two distinct publications with two
distinct set of subscribers and count
as such in the enumeration of the
papers of the state. If the Capital
were taking a poll of the newspa-
pers in good faith it would accord
the weekly Freeman a vote just as
readily as it would accord one to
the daily Freeman-Tribune. How.
ever, as reciprocity carried by only
four or five majority, according to
the poll it manipulated itself, 1t
sought to cut out papers favoring
reciprocity If it could trump up ev-
en- the fiimsiest kind of an excuse
for doing so, and did cut out, AS
named herein, 4 sufficient number
to give its side an apparent major
| ity.
OF course the Capitals present
poll will be fraud. Were it any
thing else it would not be of and by
the Capital.
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
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