Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-07-14
because a few designing politicians
are trying to dictate it's policies.

| were a democrat ne cOulQn get
look-in at the party councils for a
generation, at least. But the repub.
licans have never been so particu'
lar. They look upon vote as an
asset. Waterloo Times-Tribune.
The Times-Tribune means that
when a democrat is not regular he is
not permitted to have influence in
the democratic party, and it is a mat
ter of history that the Times-Trib-
une is right about it.. The demo
Gratis of Iowa defeated E. T.. Mere
dith for nomination as United States
senator merely because he had said
some good things about republicans
in his paper, Successful Farming. Yet
the democrats will be around this
fall buttonholing republicans to vote
for this or that democratic candi-
date, adding, patronizingly, che has
no chance to win, but we want to
give him a good VOTE" And lot of
republicans will do it, too, and then
the democrats will laugh at them
and tell each other what fools the
republicans are.
Uncle Al Adams of the Humboldt
Independent, unreconstructed stand
patter and all-round back number,
just can't get over his political
crouch. For years Uncle Al was a
democrat and early in life acquired
the habit of being against the repub-
lican party. He remained demo-
crat until Grover Cleveland was
elected president and commenced the
slashing of pensions. Uncle Al felt
the keen edge of the administration s
knife and straightway renowned
the party and cast his fortunes with
the party of progress end has been
republican ever since. However,
he cannot become reconciled to pro-
gressive republicanism and while
nearly every republican in the state
of Iowa is anxious for party harmony
and is boosting the get-together
spirit, Uncle Al is sour and refuses
to support the primary nominees.
Better wipe the slate clean, Al, get
into the game and be happy at the
ratification next November.
Another evidence that the present
democratic reign proposes to slaugh-
ter Jeffersonian simplicity is the
purchase of automobiles, at public
expense, for Vice President Marshall
and Speaker Clark. A few years ago,
we believe it was in 1910, the demo-
Gratis in congress made a terrific hol-
Ter because it was proposed to buy
an auto for Speaker Joe Cannon. So
vociferous was the yelling for econ
omy at that time that poor old
Uncle Joe failed to get the chug car
and the democratic spellbinders used
the incident upon the stump in the
succeeding campaign to demonstrate
anew the economical propensities of
the democratic party. But alas,
since the party gained control,
Jeffersonian simplicity has received
number of wounds that would
cause it's death were it not for the
well known hypocrisy of democratic
pTeCenSlOnS III general anu InaL IOr
economy in particular. Nobody ex-
poets sincerity from the democratic
party and of course it will shout
just as loudly for economy in the flu
ture as it has in the past.
In the recent republican conven-
ton Of Story county change in the
primary law was suggested. The
suggestion was to nominate candi-
dates for county offices by primary,
as at present, and nominate candi-
dates for state offices by conven-
tions, the delegates to the state con-
vention to be chosen as now. The
better way to select delegates to the
state convention, if we are to over
throw present methods, would be by