Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-05-19
,mcial Paper Of City and County.
ut has been rightly said that the


1T has been rightly said that the
fortunate people-the truly forum
ate-are not so much those who sue
coed in life as those who succeed in
living Right living is beautiful
art, made up of courage and kind
ness and hard work and true re-
ligion: and it is open to everybody
If the republicans of Ohio nomi.
mate J. B. Foraker for United States
senator, as is now predicted, they
will do the party an irreparable in
jury. The party can not "come
back" if it insists upon carrying
such loads. The smell of Standard
Oil can never be eliminated from the
baggage of the ex-senator.
Senator Kenyon's fight on the
garden seed graft promises to be ef-
fective. He has succeeded in get
ting a resolution through the senate
against the expenditure of funds for
the purpose of the free distribution
of the leftover stock of dealers. 1t
is possible, however, that the resolu-
ton may be upset in the conference
committee. The graft has become
so intrenched in power that its ben
eficiaries will not surrender without
desperate fight. The free distri'
button of garden seeds by the gov
eminent is a god-send to seed deal
ers, as it enables them to unload
their surplus stock at good prices.
It mounts we'll in into the millions
and they can afford to expend money
lavishly to retain the privileges they
have enjoyed for so many years. The
people who receive the seeds have
long since ceased to use them. They
are of inferior quality and usually
fail to terminate, and the result is
lot of lost labor on the part OF
those who take the trouble to plant
them. Aside from the expense OF
the government for the seeds the adj
ditional cost of their transmission
through the mails must be borne.
1t begins to look as if the Webster
City Freeman Tribune does not pro-
pose to weary the readers Of it's edi-
torial page with even a passing ref
erence to such a tri1ing matter as
an attorney generals ruling to the
effect that a district Judge cannot
legally run for Office during the term
for which he has been elected to
serve as district judge.-Sioux City
Journal.
The Freeman-Tribune had no idea
that anyone would seriously hold
that Attorney General Cosson's
opinion in the case in question had
any bearing whatever upon the
trumped up charge of the Sioux City
paper anent the eligibility of Judge
Lee for governor Of Iowa. In the
case upon which the attorney gen
eral passed the judge was candidate
for an office-member of school
board, we believe-the term begin
ming while he was yet upon the
bench. In fact he would hold both
offices at the same time. The at
torney general decided this would
never do, as he stated that the acts
of the board might at some time be
subject to review by the judge.
Judge Lee is not candidate under
any such circumstances. He will not
be called upon to fill the Office of gov
ernor until after the expiration Of
the term for which he was elected
Judge. The case in question has no
more to do with Judge Lees candid
acy than the ninth commandment
has to do with the editorial policy of
the Sioux City Journal.
LOWER TAXES.
eff you want lower taxes vote for
Judge Lee."-Hampton Chronicle.