Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-01-04

ValuaDle Time lOOk1nS IOT Cue cause.
Has anyone heard of Theodore
Roosevelt forbidding his name to ap-
pear on the primary ticket as a can
didate for president ?-Waterlo
Courier. ~ &
Yes. The colonel forbid the use
of his name as a presidential can
didate on the republican ticket in
Nebraska.
Many a shaft has been broken by
coming in contact with the rhinoc-
eros hide of Postmaster General
Burleson, but if the rural route
farmers will keep up the fusillade
one of the shafts will yet penetrate,
then there will be wailing and
lgnashing of teeth, and perhaps JUS
tice will follow.
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as honorary president, the principal
Temperance society of that country,
''The Alarm" has been reorganized
on the basis of more extensive hos
tility to alcoholic drinks. 1t has as
| it's patrons many distinguished
Frenchmen, including high govern
ment officials.
The complete report Of the Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue for
the year ending June 80, 1915, is
out. 1t shows decrease in the pro-
duction of distilled spirits during
1.-THE year Of Al, 263,439 gallons. The
consumption Of distilled liquors,
however, is better indicated by the
withdrawals which showed a de-
crease of 14,771,427.6 gallons.
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/ Perhaps, after all, it is Tess essen
jtial to determine who was best man
among the governors of Iowa than
it is to determine who is the best
man among those who want to be
governor OF Iowa. Sioux City Jour
nal.
i Why, bless your soul, Mr.. Jour.
nal, that question is fully settled
and the best man lives lin, the Tenth
district, of course.
4 News from Ohio is to the effect
that Senator Cummins has many
friends in that state who would like
Ito see him nominated for president
but of course the state will be fol
Burton for first choice. However
lit is worth lot to be second choice
lIt is likely that the candidate who
lis the second choice in a number Of
Estates will win the nomination and
ELECTION. "
The primary vote on president
should count this year. The fiascos
1 OF 1912 were unpopular. Do you re-
call what the machine did in Ohio
Although Roosevelt carried the
primaries by 10000 majority the
told ringers met in convention and
elected Taft men as delegates-at-
large. That was one of the straws
that broke the back of the republi-
can party. r.
! The newspapers of the state are
finding the question propounded by
the Sioux City Journal, "Who was
the greatest governor Of Iowa." a
hard nut to crack, but they will
have no difficulty in voting who
| is the greatest judge the state ever
knew. The Freeman Tribune doesn't
know his name, but he is the great
est by all odds, head and shoulders
above all the rest. He presides at
Rock Rapids and recently handed
down an opinion to the effect that .
family newspaper is a necessity.
That judge will go down in history
lat least in newspaper history-as
second to none. A John Marshall or
old Blackstone himself couldn't do
better. ID -
At Rock Rapids, Iowa, decision
has just been handed down by a
very wise and a very just and a
very upright judge that family
newspaper, of which the Freeman
Tribune is one, is a family neces-
sity. Now do you catch that? "a
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