Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-01-18

be seen how long it can resist travel
and the elements of Iowa winters
and summers.
Some experts who testified in the
Butler case over at Fort Dodge put
in bills. for 500 day and the
board of supervisors do not know
whether to pay them or not They
have appealed to state authorities
for instructions. The witnesses
were alienists and claim they We're
on duty in their professional capac-
ity when giving expert testimony.
Boss Barnes of New York has an
nounced that, owing to the possible
candidacy of Roosevelt for the pres
idential nomination on the republic
can ticket he will not be a delegate
to the republican national conyen-
ton. The colonel should be given
credit at least for keeping this po-
litical trickster out Of the conven-
ton. That is, if Barnes doesn't
change his mind.
1t was suggested months ago by
this journal that the possibilities OF
one George Clarke being forced into
the republican gubernatorial breach
were worth watching. The evidence
accumulates.- Dubuque Telegraph
Herald. .S
&. George has had so much expert
ence in being forced" that he rath-
Ter enjoys the isensation. In that re-
spect he resembles certain Nebras-
ka citizen blythe, name of Bryan.
How would it be as harmonizel
in Iowa to elect Cummins president,
send Cosson to the senate, put Joe
Allen in the gubernatorial chair
give Carl Kuehnle the ambassador
ship to Berlin and send Harding te
the court of st. James? We forgot
about Clarke and he has hung onto
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the public teat so long that of course
he will have to be "taken care Of
He might, be given the post Of hon
Tor at Petrograd.
. Col. Roosevelt says lot Of thing.
that ought to be said and he is thu
only politician of national reputa
ton who has the courage to sa,
them, because it is unpopular. Thu
well known characteristic Of tn
colonel to speak right out in meetin
is one of the things about him tina
the American people like, no matte
whether they agree with him or not
He, always. plays the game with tE
!. cards upon the table.
The Manchester Press has an
nounaed the candidacy OF Senator E
e., Hoyt of Manchester for stat
treasury before the republican pr
maries. Mr.. Hoyt enjoys wild
acquaintance over the state and ha
the qualifications to make a salts
factory treasurer. Thus far tn
J ipresent incumbent, W. G. Brown
Clarion, is the only other candidat
lin the field. That Senator Hoyt will
tprove formidable aspirant for til
position cannot be doubted.
i Old Huerta is dead. He died a
FL Paso, Texas, on the 18th inst.
Is customary to. speak gently Of tn
dead, but in the case Of Huerta thos
who so speak, or many of them a
least, will be hypocrites. In tn
4 Judgment of the Freeman-Tribune i
Is a good thing for humanity tina
he is dead. At would have been bet
ter had he died twenty years ago
He was a cruel, cunning, artful man
an unfair fighter and a bloodthirst.
villain. He is now at the judgmen
seat and may the good Lord hay'
mercy upon his soul.
i One thing that makes us for Cos
son is the strenuous and continuou'
effort being made to discredit him
spencer Times.
Z The F'reeman-Tribune likes Cos
son and believes he would make {
Igood governor, but if it were to sup
port man because his opponent!
]are trying to discredit him it woult
lhaye to support Harding. No candi
ID a. ,,o% v,,ontiopnd hoe honn tho oY1h.