Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

III 1880 IL Was D. SeAu1Ac vol 61AA'
The election of Mckinley knocked
one of the Bryan theories into a
cooked hat, as Prof. Wilson would
put it.
President Taft certainly does not
talk like a disappointed man.-Cap-
ital.
The president is not disappointed.
He knew what was coming and
when he declared upon divers occa-
sions that he expected the republic
can party to win he didn't expect
anybody with sense to believe him.
He was talking to keep his courage
up. 1.a ts
The postmaster general now says
there is a deficit in the postoffice de-
partment because too much dead
head stuff is carried through the
mails. Not long ago this same au-
thority tried to prove that it was
the cheap rate given newspapers
that caused the deficit, but he has
wisely come to the conclusion that
rate of a cent pound is better
I than no charges at all.
Talk is still cheap in spite of the
higher prices of everything else. But
talk never built good roads. Iowa
has been expatiating upon the good
roads problem a score of years, but
no state in the Union is ahead OF
her when it comes to bad roads
Let's do something practical in this
connection, and that, too, before the
present generation is added to the
silent majority.
From a large number of lowe
! towns comes the report that ne
houses can be secured by renters
there apparently being a shortage
which is growing more annoying
And the worse feature of it Is, mel
with money do not like to built
houses to rent. Returns are made
quate and much annoyance attache s
| There will be complaint OF scare
ity of houses until tenants are will.
ling to pay higher rent.
In spite of the overwhelming de-
feat he encountered at the recen,
election, Uncle George D. Perkins Of
the Sioux City Journal, is in humor
/ GUS mood. Hear him: IF popular
lily starts to come the way of Will
lam Howard Taft, William Howard
should not run away even il 1t IL
disgustingly late in arriving. II
is not unprecedented that second
term should be rendered after 8
four-year intermission.
Prof. Wilson did not conduct him
self as becomes a president-elect
when he permitted himself to lose
his temper because some kodak fient
wanted to take a photograph OF
him. And oh, horrors of horrors
| the president-elect threatened t.
give the offender licking. That's
what comes of electing schoo
master to the presidency. He is sc
accustomed to giving unruly boys 9
trimming that he forgets the dignity
of his station on the slightest prov
ocation.
The republicans spent $4,000 In
the late Iowa campaign. The pres
ent seems to be the most conserva'
tive state committee we have had In
long time.-Capital.
The republican committee expend'
| ed all it had and had all it could
get. Campaign contributions are
not numerous when it is a foregone
conclusion that the election is lost
Nobody expected the election Of
Taft and those who did contribute
did SO merely to maintain party
regularity" and have it made a mat
ter of record for future reference.
The Webster City Freeman-Trib-
une wants the high cost Of living
reduced. Sure. But 1t doesn't want
the price of corn. potatoes, ETC..
which are produced in Hamilton
county reduced. Oh no. OF course