Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-31
for reelection. Yours Sincerely,
John D. Archbold."

Tor reelection. Yours sincerely
John D. Archbold.'
Rather than sell at reduced
price, the owners of more than one
hundred car loads of cabbages per-
mitted them to rot at Pittsburgh a
few weeks ago. 1t is such conduct
on the part of "bige business that
disgusts the public.
Mason City is hustling town OF
nearly $1,000 people and it is grow
ing marvelously fast. Here is an OBJ
ject lesson for people who think a
saloon is necessary to make city.
Mason City has been saloonless for
many years, and it is a manufactur-
ing and railroad town at that.
"Oh, no. am not large stock
holder. I have only million dol
lars worth quoth j. P. Morgan
when the attorney asked if he was
large stakeholder in the concern
under investigation. Evidently Mr.
Morgan thinks million a mighty
small matter to make a fuss about
We do wish some of the newspa
pers would get over the election
Columbus Safeguard.
Bless your soul, brother, don't ge
in a hurry. Up here in the Tent
district lot of the newspaper boy
are still defeating Judge Conner fo
congress.
President Taft has visited ever!
state in the union since his inaugur
alton, except Oklahoma and Nortl
Dakota. But as those two state
went against him with the res
it cannot be successfully charged
that his visits to the others is re
sponsible for his defeat.
Democrats generally are gettini
tired of Prof. Wilson's dissertation
upon good government, proper oh
servance of party pledges, etc. VIVA
they want first Is to know what |
going to be done with the Offices.
lis time enough to preach reform at
ter the goods have been delivered.
| President Taft points to the fac
that he placed fourth class postmas
tiers in the classified service befor
the election as sufficient REPUTATION
OF the charge that he was playin
politics. If the president didn'
know a year ago that he could not b
reelected he is even a poorer poll
tician than anybody thought.
| There are lot of editors in tn
country who think they know NOR
about farming than the farmer
themselves. And it might be OBJ
served that there are some farmer
who think they know more abou
editing a paper than editors d
themselves. Possibly they are RICH
about it, too.
They have some American way
in Paris, after all. Recently bank
er who embezzled several million
OF dollars was put under $4,000
bonds. OF course he skipped, ant
he can repay his bondsmen from ;
few months interest on his, stolel
possessions. The administration o
the law sometimes looks queer.
If President Wilson maintains thu
open door for ali callers at the whit
house he will not have much TIM
for anything else. 1t is likely thu
president-elect will change his views
upon this matter before his term Il
three months old. He will want t.
do some thinking and thinking ant
the open door do not harmonic.
Some of the papers in the north
part of the state are agreed thai
poker games are demoralizing. But
how did they learn so much?-
Iowa City Republican.
The Freeman-Tribune cannot
speak with authority in this matter
but it suspects they learned it while
attending state conventions where
they met SO many editors from the
southeastern part of the state.