Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-08-27
Mr.. KELTz GETS
BUSY At WATERLOO
Orders a Blackhawk County Ticket
in the Name Of the New
Progressive Party.

Waterloo Times-Tribune: If there
has been any question Of a Progress
sive county ticket in the minds OF
local republicans or of the local pro-
gressives it was dispelled last night
when Bert F. Keltz blew into town
with something of the briskness of
a November breeze and in addition
to clearing the atmosphere, sent the
chills Accusing down the backs OF
several county officers, who had al
ready gone to bed feeling that their
Jobs were at least secure for a few
days longer from m~olestation by the
hosts of the terrible Teddy.
Bert F. Keltz is the man who
several years ago accused Governor
Carroll of wearing rubber collars
and sleeping in his underwear and
he halls from Webster City. He is
here to see that a complete county
ticket is put in the field; to see that
candidates for state representative
either bow to the will of Roosevelt
or suffer the consequences of having
a progressive candidate on their
trail. .
Keltz said last evening that he
had been standing up to be counted
by these so-called progressives long
enough and now he was going to see
that they are stood up against the
wall to be used in the game of poll
teal arithmetic for a while.
Henry Grout has got to come
across and say where he stands or
we will put a candidate in the field
against him. said he as he called
up leader after leader in an effort to
arrange for the delivery of the ulti-
matums that are to decide "who is
who" in local politics.
1--WE have had enough of this
monkey business and they have got
to come across said the man who
at one time, as he himself expresses
it. chad the dishonor to hold office
under Governor Carroll on the Phar-
macy board" l am ready to bet a
thousand dollars that there will be
a county ticket in the field. I have
had a conference with my old friend
e. c. Litchfield, whom I have known
for years, and the result of the con-
ference will be a full county ticket"
Congressman Chas. E. Pickett,
who had just returned from Wash
ington, was included in the list Of
telephone communications and from
the tenor of the one sided CONVERSE
ton the representative of the third
district in congress will be requested
to say whether he is battling at
Armaggeddon or pulling prunes in
the gardens of Beverly Hills.
Mr.. Keltz has just arrived from
Des Moines where the sentiment is
said to be unanimously in favor Of a
complete third party ticket and he
asserts that there is no way in the
world to step any man in Iowa from
going on the ticket and the quicker
the better, for a ticket will be put
in every county in the state.
How about Senator Kenyon" he
was asked. Senator Kenyon has
made his own bed, let him lie in it,
was the reply. He isn't with us and
he will be defeated
There are a good many republic
cans about here, Mr.. KeltZ, who con-
troll things? Oh, get a bunch of new
leaders, the woods are full of them,
was his answer.
Nothing but a complete progress
sive ticket and that mighty sudden,
is the way eX-member of the phar-
macy board puts it and today sever
al leaders will be requested to say
yes or no.
John MacVicar is for a Progress
sive ticket and Carl FRANKIE is for a
complete ticket and we are going to
have it, so make up your mind that
there is to be a county ticket in
Blackhawk county"
Stands Well Financially.