Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-03

are opposed to third state and
county ticket. They believe a third
state ticket will injure Roosevelt at
the election. The Freeman Tribune
has been watching its exchanges
and up to date does not know of a
single Roosevelt paper in Iowa that
is favoring a third ticket. The only
demand for such a ticket seems to
come from those who want to defeat
Kenyon or Clarke or some other re-
publican nominee .
Senator Kenyon says nothing on
the big third term. issue, though that
issue might warrant at least passing
notice in the pronunciamentoes OF
aspiring statesmen.-Sioux City
Journal.
The third term bugaboo isn't
worth the consideration of thought
full and sincere men and Senator
Kenyon no doubt so regards it. It
is only the third consecutive term
that has any opposition in candor.
Even then, a majority of people do
not look upon it as of controlling
Importance. The people of Iowa up
set precedent in this matter when
they elected Cummins for third
time and the democrats showed they
were not opposed to it when they
supported Boise for a third term.
The Des Moines Tribune states
that the third party convention for
Iowa was ordered by Medill McCor-
mick after he returned from visit
at Oyster Bay. Judge Stevens, Carl
FRANKIE and John MacVicar must
pull in their horns and admit that
instead of being leaders they are
merely marionettes who dance when
the colonel pulls the strings.-Du-
buque Times-JoArnal.
The Des Moines Tribune and 9TH
er Des Moines papers, also Des
Moines dispatches, stated that the
committee had decided not to put a
state ticket in the field, but when
Senator Kenyon's letter came out the
following day it so incensed the
committee that they decided to go
the limit Roosevelt has said that
the matter of a state ticket was a
question for his friends to determine
for themselves in the various states.
Col. Roosevelt will come out of
the Penrose-Archbold conspiracy
stronger than ever. The fact that
Roosevelt, when president, ordered
prosecutions of Standard Oil and the
further fact that the nefareous bust
ness of rebates by the railroads was
stopped, is proof that Roosevelt did
not know of the 100000 contribu-
ton made by Standard Oil to the
campaign fund in 1904 or did not
permit that contribution to stand in
the way of law enforcement. The
action of Archbold and Penrose,
who are now supporting Taft, dem
onstrates conclusively that Roose-
welt was not satisfactory to them.
Moreover, their testimony was based
upon hearsay and that hearsay came
through men who are now dead. The
Freeman Tribune is not unmindful
of the mistakes of Roosevelt, but his
record in official position, from the
time he was police commissioner Of
New York city a quarter of CEN
fury ago, down to the close of his
presidential term, was one highly
satisfactory to the people and mark
him as a man of courage and con-
viction. Taft was elected upon the
promise to carry out the Roosevelt
policies and all the real strength the
president has comes from the fact
that he has attempted to follow
Roosevelt in the matter Of law en-
forcement. --
The letters Of John D. Archbold,
political manipulation OF Standard