Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

talk one nedlS among me THRU pdl
ty progressives in Hamilton county
the party in Iowa will disappear in
1916. Nne-tenths Of the moosers
| lean toward the republican party
and when their party dissolyes they
will get back into the party with
which they affiliated before the re-
volt of 1912.
The fact that a bomb was eXplOd-
ed in the front yard Of the residence
of Ex-Gov. Carroll at Des MOines a
| few nights ago is a serious matter.
MI. Carroll is a private citizen, a
gentleman whom nearly everybody
RESPECTS because of his good-citiZen-
ship. Why anybody should seek to
harm him or his family is unknown.
1t is a very deplorable thing that a
| high explosive is put in anybodys
yard in Iowa. Such things are fire.
uuent in Russian and other Euro
ipean countries where the people are
ground under the iron heel of ty-
ranny. But here, where every man
has such chance as his abilities and
industry entitle him, there should
be no resort to such methods. Des
Moines and the state ought to do
everything possible to run down the
guilty party and see that proper
punishment is meted out to him.
| The democrats are now trying to
hedge on the proposition put for
ward by them before election, name
ly, that the result would be an en-
dorsement or a reputation of the
administration. In New York state,
where the president won two years
ago by a tremendous lead, repub-
lican governor is elected by 5000
plurality, and New Jersey, the pres
ident's home state, now represent
ed in congress by ten democrats and
two republicans, elected four demo
Gratis and eight republicans. The
fight for Connolly in this state was
made with the president as the bas-
| is. Democratic newspapers and
sneakers insisted that a vote for
! Connolly was an endorsement Of the
administration, constantly paradlnS
before the people the claim that
Senator Cummins was the presi-
| dents foremost antagonist in the
United States senate. AS the demo-
Gratis themselves made the president
the issue they should not now at
tempt to hedge. The country ad-
mires the high character of Mr.. Will
son. 1t believes in his honesty and
his wish to serve the people. His
war attitude is popular and he has
the respect of everybody. But the
country does not agree with him up
on many questions of public policy,
of which the tariff is the foremost.
Then the president is very partisan.
In fact his record shows him to be
the most partisan executive who has
loccupied the white house in the past
twenty-five or thirty years.
TO have held it's own in the Sen.
ate and to have been able to organ
ize the House even by the slender
est majority under prevailing cOndl-
tons shows the confidence Of the
people in the Wilson policies. No
party before has revised tariff and
shown such a victory in an off year.
Secretary Daniels.
One thing that is admirable about
the average democratic office holder
| is his ability to see the silver lining
under any and all circumstances.
The fact that New York turned from
democratic plurality of 2OO,047 in
1912 to a republican plurality OF
1856, 900 in 1914 doesn't disturb Mr..
Daniels. He is only surprised that
he landslide was not bigger. In
1912 Illinois gave democratic
plurality of 1850 and this year it
rolled up a republican plurality OF
about that size. In 1912 Woodrow