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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19
Observation-Disclosures

make the stronger argument in fav-
or of the new organization. It's can
'didate at the recent trial of strength
polled the larger vote, and majori-
ties are accustomed to ask minori-
ties to come to them. 1t has in
many respects more attractive
name, a name that arouses no an
cient prejudices. Throughout the
south, still dominated by sentiment
al thought concerning the civil war,
the Republican name is stumbling
block. 1t is associated with sec
tional victory and with the mis-
government of carpetbag days. II
the Republican party as such should
go out of existence it is highly prob
able thats the Progressive party
would from the beginning attract
active support IN the south, and
that southern voters something to
be greatly desired) would divide
more with respect to present day is
sues and less with respect to tradi-
lions.
The new party is more fortunate
than the old in being less infested
with self-appointed cliques not dis
tinguished for patriotism. Bosses.
Of course, will develop in time in
any POLITICAL organization, but they
will be new ones seem better than
old discredited ones. President Taft
would have polled more votes than
he did If certain gentlemen had
been less conspicuous in securing
his nomination and in urging his
election.
Finally. the new party has a
great advantage over the old in the
fact that it has great leader, able
to inspire it and unity it. On the
other hand, the Republican party
as at present organized, is leaderless
and candidateless.
On the other side of the account
is to be set down the fact that par
ties are exceedingly hard to kill
They accumulate traditions and
arouse affection. No party has had
more honorable record than the
Republican party. Its name is i'm
perishably associated with the most
glorious annals OF the republic. II
has done we'll, and with the party
itself, as projected and as major
ity of its rank and file have wanted
it to be. few progressiyes find fault
Hard, very hard, will it be to induce
many gray-haired Republicans. the
flower of the country's citizenship,
to cease calling themselves Republi-
cans.
Another practical advantage Is
possessed by the old organization
over the new. Political issues take
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19
LOOKING AHEAD.

Allan Dawson in New York
Globe: All suggestions looking to a
possible union between Progressives
and Republicans are, OF course, in
dignantly rejected by the spokesman
of both parties. Each proposes to
keep squarely in the middle Of the
road and not defect a hairbreadth
President Taft, who has worked
himself into real belief that consti-
tutional government Is menaced
couples the Socialists and the Pro-
gressives in his condemnation as
equally dangerous. Senator Dixon
calling attention to the fact that
the new party is either first or Sec
ond in every state except five, as
sumes that the Republican party
will dwindle into nothingness. and
doubts whether the party will mus
ter strength enough In four years
to nominate a presidential candi'
date.
Over no considerable period have
the masses of the American people
divided among more than two par
ties. From its beginning the gov
eminent has been carried on under
two party system. The probable
tiles are that there has been no ma
terial change in this respect, and
that in four years there will not
again be three-cornered fight. The
Democratic party is, of course, te
keep on, and 1t will have single
opponent. But it is not clear wheth-
er this opponent will march under
the old Republican or the new Pro-
gressiye banner.
We may dismiss as yalueless the
heated extreme statements of both
the president and Senator Dixon
Neither is yet in mental condition
to Judge coolly. Let us consider as
candidly as possible what may be
said in favor Of the old party.
Specifically 1t seems possible to
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

form principally at Washington in
the debates that occur in congress.
Now in congress, in both Houses, the
opposition will be chiefly composed
of men calling themselves Republt-
cans. To the house but twelve out
and out Progressives have been
elected, while the Republicans num-
Der 11S. The Republicans thus
have an opportunity to mature al
tentative legislation and to drive
their criticism of the administers
tion home in a way that the Pro-
gressives have not.
What the outcome will be cannot
now be foreseen. 1t probably de-
Ponds on events that have not yet
happened. The period is one of rap.
i'd change, and no one is able to pre-
dict what the American people will
be talking about at this time next
year. Much depends on the course
of the Wilson administration
much depends on whether prosperity
continues or not. But without pre-
dieting it may be asserted that it is
highly improbable that the two-par-
ty system will be abandoned.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19
A Rare Clubbing Offer.

We have made arrangements
whereby we shall give the Iowa
Homestead free for one year to all
our subscribers who pay in advance
for the Freeman and Tribune. The
Homestead is weekly journal, IL
conceded to be one Of the best ag-
ricultural newspapers in this section
of country, and every up-to-date
farmer wants first-class paper Of
this kind. The regular price Of this
paper and the Homestead is $3.50 a
year. Both for one year for $3.50
to all subscribers who pay in adj
vance. f-t-tf
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

of the administrative Of the estate.
A second trial was finished and the
jury gave the estate a verdict for
$1O.196.5O. Of course the railroad
company again appealed and for a
second time the case is sent back for
re-trial. This time the learned
judges found that the administrators
had sued for the benefit of the es-
tate, that is for herself and chill
dren, but it could not be found that
she had mentioned the creditors Of
the deceased. Now the widow will
have to go through another trial
and when that is finished the high
er court will find some way to
thwart justice.
1t is such instances as these that
have undermined the courts in the
confidence of the people and when
one reads the letters Of John D.
Archbold, president of the Standard
Oil company, to men in high places
in such states as Pennsylvania, rec
ommending certain liable and emf
nent" lawyers as candidates for
judges, adding, the appointment
would be "a personal favor which
would be appreciated, that conf
dence is in nowise strengthened.
There ought to be some mode OF
legal procedure to ascertain the
facts and mete out Justice. A widow
with dependent children should not
be denied for years her just rights
simply because some technicahty
can be found by high priced attor-
neys, to ward off pay day.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19
LET'S.

mes-Republican Let's rest a
little while. Let's wait time be-
fore beginning the political contest
of 1916. Let's forget for few days
that there are to be elections in
1920 and 1924. Let's husk the corn
and finish the buildings under con-
struction first. And then let's plant
corn and build more houses and
blocks before developing that mild
insanity sometimes characterized
as political excitement
Let's do as we did throughout
this past campaign, refuse to get
excited and leave our work to talk
politics. Let's go right on raising
corn and buying automobiles and
getting and paying good' wages.
Ever stand close to high build
ing looking up? The wall seems to
incline outward. The more you look
the farther out they seem to lean.
"A nervous person can scare himself
to the other side of the street If he
stares up the wall hard enough. But
people pass and the activities
of life go on under the shadow OF
the walls and there is no disaster.
Let's not scare ourselves. The
wall of American prosperity is solid.
1t actually isn't held together by
the mortar of any political party.
The cattle are in the fields, the hogs
in the yards, the money in the
banks. All that is necessary to do
is to go on using them Why scare
ourselves with shadows and strain
our eyes for occasion Of nervous re-
fraction?
Let's get busy and forget politics
for a time. Let's make things hum.
Let's not "stand it If they can" but
lets make the best OF 1t.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

The Des Moines Tribune says the
republican party must be re-organ-
lied by its friends. Jess so. But
who are it's friends? Are the men
who insisted upon the party commit
ting suicide at Chicago the ones who
can be depended upon to rejuvenate
the organization OF are those who
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

If the democratic party is true to
its record it can be depended upon
to blunder at just the right time to
turn the country against it.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

There will not be much difference
hereafter in the representation of
states in republican national con-
ventions. Georgia is not so far be-
hind Iowa in the total of republican
votes cast.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

Wise men are instructed by rea-
son: men of less understanding by
experience; the most ignorant by
necessity
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

President Taft has not lost popu-
larity among certain federal en-
ployes and candidates for federal
Jobs by declaring that he will make
appointments to all vacancies that
are now untitled or that may occur
before the fourth of March.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

Senator Kenyon gives Chairman
Rawson credit for what success the
republican party achieved in Iowa.
There are many people, however,
who will believe that the senator
himself is entitled to large share
OF the glory.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

After the newspaper reporters and
the down-and-out politicians get
through building Prof. Wilson's cab
met the president elect may take a
hand at it. But II he doesn't hurry
there will be nothing left for him to
do.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

When the democratic party faces
the tariff revision proposition it will
be confronted by a condition and
not q theory. 1t will be recalled
that the party found itself in that
position in 1898 and the way it act
ed then didn't increase its popular
fly.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

President Taft wants to entertain
President Elect Wilson at the white
house before the fourth of next
March. It is not reported that the
president also wants to entertain the
former president.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

delivered the deserved chastisement
the ones better fitted to otticiate at
the resurrection? There will be
some difference of opinion in this
matter.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

The republican party is not short
on officers, if privates in it's ranks
are comparatively few. After March
fourth the officers will begin to
evaporate.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

The republican national commit
tee can repeat the dose in 1915 it
gave the rank and file this year, but
it will have some hesitancy in doing
it.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

The only "claim" upon which the
republican or any other party can
insist upon popular support is a rec
ord of public service in the interest
of the people.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

The Roosevelt party is now din
ing on bull moose meat, observes
an exchange. Well, that is a blam-
ed sight better than crow.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

Barring the votes in the southern
states, where there are really no
elections, Roosevelt polled nearly as
many votes as Wilson.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

II Senator Cullum is right when
he says Taft would rather be chief
Justice of the United States than
president, it is creditable to the
Judgment of Mr.. Taft. He is GER
tainly better adapted to judgeship
than to the presidency. His record
as Judge and as governor of the
Philippines is very good.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

1t is remarkable that man could
pull out of the convention of the
dominant party, organize new par
ty and get more votes, both popular
and electoral, than the nominee of
the party that has been in power
twenty years and that won the cleo
tion four years ago by an over
whelming majority. No man in the
history of American politics except
Roosevelt could do such a thing as
that.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

right to use his personal ballet as
he saw fit, just as every citizen does.
it is hardly worth while for senator's
to try to serve the people. It may
be that time will demonstrate that
the only way to succeed politically
is to stifie conscience and follow the
orders of few party bosses. But the
Freeman Tribune, doesn't believe it.
It doesn't believe the people of Iowa
will be so short-sighted that they
will refuse to endorse the record of
one of the best and most capable
men in the United States senate
merely because they may not like
the course he takes as private cit
izen in the exercise of the duties OF
a private citizen.
If Chairman Rawson, of the re-
publican state central committee.
had made vigorous fight for Taft
the chances are the entire republi'
can state ticket would have been de.
feated. The returns show that moth
ing could have saved the head of the
ticket. Mr.. Rawson evidently knew
his business. OF course he wanted
to see Taft elected, but he did not
deem it prudent to sacrifice the state
ticket in futile efforts to get votes
for the president. From the minute
Taft was nominated on that fatefu
Saturday night careful students Of
political events knew the republi
can party, nationally speaking, was
doomed to a most ignominious de-
feat. Mr.. Rawson was confronted
by a condition and not a theory ant
he made the most of his opportuni
ties.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

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Omcial Paper of City and County.
Wise men are instructed by rea-
son: men of less understanding by
experience; the most ignorant by
necessity.-Cicero.
Barring the votes in the southern
states, where there are really no
elections, Roosevelt polled nearly as
many votes as Wilson.
The Roosevelt party is now din
ing on bull moose meat, observes
an exchange. Well, that is a blam-
ed sight better than crow.
If the democratic party is true to
its record it can be depended upon
to blunder at just the right time to
turn the country against it.
The republican national commit
tee can repeat the dose in 1916 it
gave the rank and file this year, but
it will have some hesitancy in doing
it.
The republican party is not short
on officers, if privates in it's ranks
are comparatively few. After March
fourth the officers will begin to
evaporate.
The only "claim" upon which the
republican or any other party can
insist upon popular support is a rec
ord of public service in the interest
of the people.
President Taft wants to entertain
President Elect Wilson at the white
house before the fourth of next
March. 1t is not reported that the
. president also wants to entertain the
former president.
There will not be much difference
hereafter in the representation of
states in republican national con-
ventions. Georgia is not so far be-
hind Iowa in the total of republican
votes cast.
After the newspaper reporters and
the down-and-out politicians get
through building Prof. Wilson's cab
met the president elect may take a
hand at it. But If he doesn't hurry
there will be nothing left for him to
do.
Senator Kenyon gives Chairman
Rawson credit for what success the
republican party achieved in Iowa.
There are many people, however,
who will believe that the senator
himself is entitled to large share
OF the glory.
President Taft has not lost popu-
larity among certain federal en-
ployes and candidates for federal
Jobs by declaring that he will make
appointments to all vacancies that
are now untitled or that may occur
before the fourth of March.
When the democratic party faces
the tariff revision proposition it will
be confronted by a condition and
not a theory. 1t will be recalled
that the party found itself in that
position in 1898 and the way it act
ed then didn't increase it's popular
ity.
II Senator Cullum is right when
he says Taft would rather be chief
Justice of the United States than
president, it is creditable to the
Judgment of Mr. Taft He is GER
tainly better adapted to judgeship
than to the presidency. His record
as judge and as governor of the
Philippines is very good.
1t is remarkable that man could
pull out of the convention of the
dominant party, organize new par
ty and get more votes, both popular
and electoral, than the nominee of
the party that has been in power
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

The Burlington Gazette predicts
that Senator Cummins will face the
greatest fight in his career when he
comes up for the senate two years
hence. His conduct during the
present campaign" the Gazette
adds, has been such as to anger
both progressives and regulars. -
The Burlington paper takes mar
row view. What the people of Iowa
should be interested in is the gener-
al record OF Senator Cummins in the
senate. 1t may be that he did not
please many people by his course in
the campaign just closed, but he did
his duty. as he saw it. If the great
fight Senator Cummins made to have
inserted in the rate bill an amend
ment that secured to the people of
his state a square deal in the mat
ter OF increasing rates on the part
of the railroads is to be overshadow-
ed because he chose to exercise his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.1
An opera singer should never let note
go to protest
If a man is smart he never has occasion
to mention 1t.
But more good things come to those WHO
go after them.
Unhappiness seldom abides with man
who loves his home.
A small boy tries to practice economy
in the use of toilet soap.
A woman who narries for spite has to
take it out on her husband.
Some people act foolish and then get
sore because others notice it.
1t wouldn't take long for most people to
tell what they think of you.
Don't wait for things to come to you
until you are too old to enjoy them.
Many mans good disposition is due to
the fact that he is afraid of his wife.
The things a man is going to do are
usually synonymous with the things he
will never accomplish.
If woman's husband always let's her
have her own way she'll give him credit
for having poor judgment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09

is the most satisfactory shot I ever
fired"
Milicent sat up very suddenly and
very straight. In the bottom of the
canoe lay her letter sheet-her own
letter, wind borne to this man of all
men.
|, Frank Register saw her flush GRIM
son, thereby he knew she had seen.
For a minute he was silent, rowing
hard toward the Ashton shore-the
miilpond set bounds betwixt Ashton
land and that of the De1aneys, which
would some day be his own. Sud
denly he dropped his paddle to reach
for Milicent's hands, and holding
them close in his own, said tenderly,
There was fate in it, Milly; 1 read
your letter unwittingly when it
dropped out of heaven. Otherwise
should lack courage-those others
can give you so much more
Courage? For what?" Milicent in
terrupted.
He smiled at her and put an
audacious arm about her dripping
shoulders, as he said, "Oi Just to
tell you that rather than see you
Stubs or a Bugg, I'm willing to
sacrifice myself and make you a
Register"
And Milicent, the wilful, only
blushed and nurmured, nesting to
him, You were always so kind
Copyrighted 1912 by Associated Lit
erary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
ARIZONA HOOUENCE

Oratory, they say, of the old, flow
cry, perfervid kind, is dead. 1t has
been killed, the scoffers affirm. by the
cold common sense of a business age.
1t has fallen before the rush of life
in a time of the telephone, the tele-
graph and the condensed newspaper
paragraph. This age, the world is
told, has neither time nor taste for
pretty word pictures acclaimed with
the arts of the stage, or for the roar
ing defamation of sonor ous phrases
bombarding Indifferent minds.
1t isn't so, at least in Arizona. There,
under the bright, far sky of the desert,
in region where miles are many and
men are few. even United States sem
ator may still tear the language to
shreds and let his imagination raid the
dictionary to the limit of it's bent If
you don't believe it you don't know
Ashurst, Henry F. Ashurst, one of the
two new senators from that new state.
The other day he talked to the SEN
ate about his own state. He let Ari-
iona inspire him and fire him and
urge him to his most glorious flights.
He gave himself to his own and mis-
own repaid him by furnishing him
with these day-and-night pictures of
Arizona out of doors:
Some years ago camped one
summers night high upon the south
ern slopes of the great San Francisco
peaks. I awoke early. just as the blue
lance heads of dawn were shooting up
from the eastern horizon Here and
there other mountain peaks soon be-
gan to break through the vapory seas
that filled the gorges. like an island
whose jutting and COMPOUNDED base
was swelled by the wild and wasteful
ocean. 1 saw the unnumbered stars
and their shining trains recede before
lambent pillars of fire that pierced
the zenith; and the moon, refulgent
lamp of night, paled her silve-y
brightness as the curtain of day still
further lifted, and over heavens clear
azure the sun began to spread its golden
CLEAN. 1 once climbed to the top of
Mount Agassiz, the monarch of Ari-
zona's mountains; from the top of the
mountin 1 looked toward the east
across a silent forest of vivid green
a wilderness of verdure-to the far
famed painted desert, which, with har-
monious confusion, lay spread 100
miles away, sea of Jasper with beach
of sulphur empurpled with celestial
fire.
Can you beat it? Can anyone beat
it? Did anybody ever Guido it in the