Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-19
MR.. WILSON'S CANDIDACY.

is never a need of announcement by
man filling a first term in the
presidential Office that he would be
glad to get, from his party, and
from the people, that Endorsement
of his administration which can on
ly be made in reelection. This
feeling may we'll be called newt
able because natural, springing out
of the natural desire of man who
has been honored in being charged
with the highest responsibilities to
have his performances Of such
trust approved. 1t is safe to assume
that if any president has ever turn
ed into the last half of his first term
without intention of asking a Sec
ond, it was because of conditions al
ready making it plain that a cam
paign for Endorsement could result
only in defeat and humiliation.
Their number is so small in our his
tory that it is impossible even to
begin counting them. OF the four OF
our ex-presidents who lived through
first term and made no organized
effort at denomination, it is safe TO
conclude that none made his default
willingly. Conditions may arise be-
fore the beginning of the ante-con-
vention campaign in the democratic
party which will move Mr.. Wilson
out of the running, but as they have
not yet arisen it is not at all neces-s
sary to wait for him to say, either
directly or by implication, that he is
candidate for denomination.
That part of the Baltimore plat
form declaring it to be the sense Of
the national democratic convention
which nominated Mr.. Wilson that a
president should not hold for more
than one term, urging a const1tu-
tional amendment to that end, AMI
pledging the nominee Of that con-
vention to that principle, cannos
materially affect the situation from
the presidents point of view. If Mr..
Wilson is disposed to feel a con-
tempt of any restraint that docu-
ment may put upon him, either as
to his official acts or his political
acts, he can we'll be pardoned, and
be assured that the feeling is gem
I,@ OF
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
The Castana Times feels that
with the Iowa legislature in session
1915 has great possibilities either
way"
"The gloss with which Woodrow
Wilson was covered when he went
| to the White House and which de-
ceived a good many people for a
time is about worn off," declares the
Nevada Representative.
! "Mr. Trewin at least got out from
under load of worry" remarks
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
That big Bill' Atkinson. the
! new speaker of the house at DeS
Moines, is man with plenty of gray
matter and plenty of initiative is
the opinion of the Mason City Globe
Gazette.
"The Iowa legislature is as good
as any other legislature in most re-
spects and better than most in
many respects" says the Fort Dodge
Chronicle.
Noting the charge that Cosson
has appropriated all the planks OF
Thornes prospective gubernatorial
platform, the Iowa City Republican
remarks that there is nothing SER
ious about such an action-that the
theft of anything worth less than
$40 is only a misdemeanor, unless
taken from building in the night
time.
The Glenview Opinion thinks the
salaries of postmasters could be cut
from 10 to 35 per cent without pre-
cipitating a dearth of competent ap-
plicants.
The restoration of the circle at
the top of the party ticket on the
Australian ballot is preferred by the
Anamosa Eureka to shortening the
ballot as a remedy for the ills aris-
ing out of the multiplicity Of names
on the ballot as it now is placed In
the hands of voters.
The Des Moines Capital indorses
the movement for the. establishment
at the state university Of child
welfare station on the ground that,