Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-06-20

President Wilson is displeased with
that form of campaigning and may
take occasion to reprove it.
There is some speculation in Iowa
as to the size of the majority Hughes
will get in this state. Some place
it at 100000, while the more con-
sentative give him $4,000. For it.
self the Freeman Tribune will make
guess of $4,000, which is the size
of the majority given to Garfield
thirty-six years ago.
We take off our hat to Senator
Kern. He is certainly the past mas
ter of his day and generation in the
art of speech-making. 1t fell to his
lot to make the address nominating
Vice President Marshall and accord
ing to report succeeded in keeping
some of the delegates awake to the
end of his talk. That is what we
call real art.
Story county may well be proud
of the vote given for woman suf-
lfrage. And the precincts where the
Norwegian voters predominant, and
which were counted by some as be-
ling against suffrage, fell into line in
fine shape; all but one of the Nor
wegian precincts gave majority in
favor of giving the ballot to women,
says the Story City Herald.
Thorough tests of devices to pre-
vent fish from entering irrigation
bitches are to be made by Forest
Service officers, who say that thous-
ands of the trout placed in western
streams by the government are kill
ed through being carried into the
bitches and washed out on the fields.
There are not less than 1900 irriga-
|tion projects on or near the nation
al forests, and in many places the
loss of trout is very heavy.
Just what did the president mean
in saying that he had never been
afraid of the noisy man, but always
had been afraid of the still man
Was he trying to knock someone, or
was he merely trying to convey a
delicate compliment to Mr.. Hughes?
Sioux City Journal.
The president was probably taking
a dig at Mr.. Bryan, whom he proved
he did not fear when he let Mr.. Bry.
an leave his cabinet rather thar
bend to Mr.. Bryan's desires.
The ,colonels actions were not .
great disappointment to his friends
but they were and are great dis
appointment to the democrats, wht
are now vieing with each other tt
see who can say the meanest ant
dirtiest things of him. We believe
lin this unholy contest that Louis
Murphy, democratic officeholder, j!
entitled to the championship belt
Really, Mr.. Murphy ought to be run
ming a manure spreader instead o.
writing editorials for the Register
land Leader.
Gum Shoe Bill Stone of Missouri
who has represented that state il
the United States senate many years
lsays "it is dangerous experiment
to invade the supreme court and take
from the bench one of it's justices tt
make him candidate for politica
Office" G. M. B. is one of the as
tute politicians of the day ant
knows what he is talking about. HI
fails to finish, however, in the fore
going observation. We know Bill
had in mind to say that the expert
ment is very dangerous to the demo
cratic administration.
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Our pacifist friends rely on two
1 points: the first that other nation!
will not attack us if we do no
attack them; and, second, that il
they do attack us we must follow thu
scriptural injunction not to strik,
back.-College President James IL
the Democratic National Convention
So far as the Freeman-Tribune ha:
observed only one public man ha!
given any reason for Mr.. James