Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-17
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The result of the election in
Maine seems to portend that Wilson
will carry the state in November un-
less Roosevelt develops unexpected
there. The republican ma
jority was only 5000 and the pro-
gressiyes had no ticket in the field,
nine-tenths of them voting the re-
publican ticket. Roosevelt is strong
in Maine, and if he fail to carry the
state he will surely take enough
votes from Taft to elect Wilson cleo
tors.
The progressive party of Iowa is
getting a lot of just criticism for
permitting Medill Mccormick to
come to the state convention and
have more influence in promoting a
state ticket than the. majority OF
voters who attended the county mass
meetings had in preventing it. 1t Is
the deliberate judgment of the Free
man-Tribune that the third party
ticket in Iowa will cost Roosevelt at
least $4,000 votes. That may be suf-
ficient to give the state to Wilson. \
Iowa democrats pretend to think
that a republican who votes for
Roosevelt must also vote for Judge
Stevens in order to be consistent. OF
coufse he can vote for Wilson and
the balance Of the republican state
ticket without being inconsistent.
But the average republican of Iowa
will feel that he is under some OBJ
legations to support the republican
state ticket he helped nominate in
the June primary, whether he sup
ports the republican national ticket
or not.
Senator Penrose has not yet de-
MED William Randolph Hearst's
charge that the $4,000 paid him by
Standard Oil Archbold in 1904 was
for the senator's own use unstead
of for the use of the presidential
campaign fund. And Penrose will
not deny it, because Mr.. Hearst has
the papers to prove 1t. In the face
of this fact Penrose tried to conceal
his own perfidy and dishoner by
trumping up a lot of falsehoods
about Roosevelt's connection with
the transaction.
Banker Morse, formerly of New
York, later of the Atlanta federal
prison, is back in New York after
an absence of some eight months In
Europe. Mr.. Morse was pardoned
by President Taft last January, the
president extending executive Glenn
ency because Of the alleged poor
health of the prisoner. Eminent
doctors represented that he could
not live to exceed thirty days if kept
in confinement and that freedom
would not prolong his life more than
several months. Now Mr.. Morse is
we'll and hearty and has recently
made business trip to Canada. His
restoration to health is puZZling
doctors generally, but the ones who
testified to his physical condition
while in prison know there is moth
ing strange about his recovery.
The Marshalltown Times-Republi-
can, which has been fighting for
progressive principles the past ten
years, and fighting hard, is provok-
ed at the action of the new pro-
gressive party in putting candidates
up against genuine progressive re-
publicans who have made good rec
ords in congress or elsewhere. Evi-
dence is accommodating to demon
strate that the ill-advised and in
defensible action of the third party
in putting candidates in the field
against the men whom they them
selves helped nominate at the June
primaries will cost Roosevelt dearly
in the election The idea of Medill
Mccormick coming here from Chi
cago to run Iowa politics is enough
to make honest reformers stop and