Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-10

fore Kenyon and Cummins will have
no authority after the fourth of next
March to interfere.
Speaking about the hunger for
office, is anything more pitiable
than the spectacle presented by the
who are stampeding for
the jobs that can last only until
next spring.-Waterloo Times-Trib-
une.
Yes, the stampede of the demo-
Gratis who are trampling each other
to death crowding about the pie
counter for months before the chief
cook who is to supply them even
gets onto the job.
If the republican party, or what
there is left of it, takes the right
course during the next four years
and at the next national convention
it will be in position to give the
democratic party a fight for power.
Roosevelt cannot repeat the perfor-
nance of this year unless republic
cans make it possible. Republican
leaders have the key. Will they
have the sagacity to use it? Time
will tell.
The Sioux City Journal says that
while it was Roosevelt who beat
Taft it was Roosevelt who beat
Roosevelt mason City Times.
Then Teddy was the whole show,
was he? Didn't Taft or Wilson have
the least bit of influence in the con-
test or in the result? And how
about Bryan? The peerless one has
been throwing bouquets at himself
ever since the election, apparently
laboring under the hallucination
that he did it.
Prof. Wilson, it is reported, is in
favor of postponing the inaugural
ceremonies until the latter part of
April OF course the professor knows
his term of Office cannot be delayed,
hence little grandstanding on his
part will cost nothing. However,
congress might arrange to have the
president take charge during the
latter part of April, but the profess
sor did not ask for that. He merely
wants the Ceremony" not the sub
stance, postponed.
Judge Charles Bradshaw prompt
ly knocked the bottom out of the
democratic attempt to steal Polk
county. The judge holds that a
county cannot be disfranchised
merely because of Irregularities and
merely because some candidate did
not get as many votes as he needed
to land him. There is nothing in
the returns from Polk county that
indicate the voters did not have OPP
portunity to express themselves and
there is no reason to disfranchise
them
There has been considerable talk
of late of one party or the other
stealing the principles of it's oppon-
ents and so President Taft has con-
cluded to try his hand at the game.
he has stolen bodily the
principle of Roosevelt to fix the Mis-
sissippi river to prevent such disas-
trous floods in the valley as those OF
this year. The president has set his
face against river and harbor APP
in general and declares
that the Mississippi river situation
must receive first consideration.
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President Taft has been browsing
around in the political cemetery
since the fifth of November and has
lug up that old relic of Grover
Cleveland known as 'pernicious po-
itical activity" "Pernicious politi-
al activity" consists in political ac-
ivity for some one other than the
liscoverer or the resurrector. Cleve-
and discovered it and Taft resur-
'ected it. 1t has been used to effect
within the past few days upon a
ouple of United States district mar
halls in Texas who We're "pernic-
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