Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-07-16

characteristic of Roosevelt to do un-
precedented things when occasion
demands. The unfriendly legisla-
ton that was proposed was fore
stalled and the results sought by the
people of California were effected
by diplomacy without endangering
the peace of the two countries most
vitality interested.
| Gov. Carroll knew before he sub
mitted the resolution to endorse
Taft in the state convention that it
would be voted down, but he per-
sisted. Progressive republicans who
did not want the convention to go
on record against the president told
the governor not to press his reso-
luton as they were powerless to
stem the tide against it. But Mr..
Carroll would not listen. He
thought, no doubt, that the dele
gates would be afraid to vote
against Taft when 1t was put
squarely up to them.
| Any time you elect Clark for gov
ernor of Iowa and defeat Taft for
president, you don't. That's boys
play. It's like bunch Of kids get
ting sore at each other and one set
i climbing the fence, going to another
field and trying to defeat the crowd
that refuses to go. The Times says
let 'er go. Whole hog or none. Let
the tail go with the hide.-Ames
Times.
Then Geo. w. Clarke, who early
announced his determination to sup
/ p.
port Taft and the entire ticket, is
to be knitted merely because some
other republicans in Iowa will not
vote for the presidents reelection.
This is a sample of the kind Of
principle that controls the cbn-
duct of some standpatters.
In four years the republican party
will have been able to clean up and
give its voters primaries in every
state. 1t will be impossible to again
have mixup such as was had at
Chicago. 1t would seem to be bet
ter to take defeat this time and ac-
complish a great deal Of good inside
the party and be ready to meet the.
enemy with a clean slate in four
years.-Des Moines Capital.
But the national committee is
still in the hands of the reactionar-
les and will be four years hence. The
reasonable thing to expect from the
committee is that it will override
state laws, as it did this year in the
California contest, if such a course
becomes necessary to perpetuate it
self in power.
When some of the Iowa delegates
to the national convention plead
with Gov. Carroll, who was also a
delegate, not to insist upon forcing
Taft upon the party. as he could
not be elected, the governor said he
had heard the wind blow before, and
he turned a deaf ear to all entrea-
ties for harmony. Now, however,
the governor is in different mood. He
thinks the republicans of Iowa
ought to bury their differences and
SuppOIL lie ucdu vi Lie IAShcL. ~
was in the power of the Taft con-
tingent at Chicago to nominate a
man upon whom the party could
unite, but Taft would not consent
and he and his friends seemed to
think he was the only man in the
republican party worthy of being
its standard bearer. The Chicago
convention, and not the Iowa con-
vention, is responsible for the pres
emit deplorable condition of the re-
publican party in this state.
The people of the country stood
for the nomination of w. H. Taft
four years ago. obtained by Presi-
dent Roosevelt in exactly the same