Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-04
THE DEMOCRATIC
COUNTY CONVENTION
Elect Delegates to the State CONVEX
ton and Pass Some Rousing
Resolutions. i

The democratic county convention
at the city hall in this city Saturday
was an enthusiastic gathering. Carl
Benson was named chairman and
Lacey Darnell secretary. The fol-
lowing delegates were elected to the
state convention at Des Moines on
July IL: Lawrence Reilly, Carl Ben
son, John Sloan, j. H. Sparboe, Geo.
Wyckoff, J. Z. Adams. Alternates-
Geo. Groves, T. Baldus, John Wha-
land, w. j. Foran, d. H. Bauman. Oh
lie Thornhill Officers of the county
central committee were elected as
follows: Lawrence Reilly, chairman;
A. M. Porter, secretary; C. w. Mar
vel, treasurer. The following resolu-
tons were adopted:
ilton county, in convention assem-
bled at Webster City, Iowa, this list
day of July, 1916, unreservedly en-
dorse the administration of President
Woodrow Wilson. We thank God for
la President long suffering and pa
|tient, whose every attempt has been
to preserve peace and prosperity.
and only when patience and fore
bearance has ceased to be virtue,
has he resorted to seemingly the i'm
perative alternative. Let our pray
ers for a Divine Guidance be freely
offered. Confronted with problems
innumerable, he has brought to the,
solution the wisdom of a ripe schol-
arship and experience; an enduring
patience, and vision that compre-
hends not only the welfare Of today,
but the tomorrows of our place in
the world.
We point with qualification to the
glorious service performed by the
Federal Reserve Act. No piece of
Legislation passed within the past
fifty years has served the country to
better purpose. Time was when a
small group of Wall street manipu-
lators controlled financial situations
to their own desires. Sore distress
resulted to satisfy their greed. To-
day, with over billion of dollars of
money in the New York reserve
alone, and eleven other reserve banks
with comparative amounts, controll-
ed by the government, the Inter
ests" find themselves shorn of. their
ola time power, and the business hor
rizon is freed from the hampering
chains and demoralizing spectre of
financial "tie-up' and panic.
More than this, the party in con-
troll of government affairs. can point
to a long list of brilliant achieves
ments. among which are the Income
Tax, which has shifted taxation from
the shoulders of poverty to the shoul-
ders of -wealth: the extension of gov
eminent activities to include the
manufacture of powder, armour
plate and nitrates. 1t has met the
national need with measures for pre-
paredness contemplating ample se-s
curity and defense; it is now in the
way of providing a widows pension
law which will pay her $40 per
month. 1t is doing for the farmer 4
in the rural credits legislation, what
it has done for the merchant and
and what the republi-
can party, despite so years of agita
ton, persistently refused to do. 1t
is restoring the American Flag to
the high seas. These large achieve
among many others, the DEM
ocratic Administration has accomp-
lished. without disturbance to the
nation. but in fact stimulating BUSH
ness affairs all along the line.
We declare greater faith in Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson and his adj
firmly believing that as
has been demonstrated in the past.
every attempt will be made to zeal
ously maintain our present prosper
ity. Knowing his great desire and
inclination for peace with all ma
tons. we look forward to a not far
distant day. when the choatic con-
iition prevailing at our south border
will he healed, and our neighbour
country cemented in bond of friend
ship and brotherly consideration. We
believe that the splendid plan. now
under consideration by the Wilson
and South American
for an international police
force. and the formation of stable
government, will in time bring about
peace and order.
Laurence Reilly.
John II. Sparboe.
Fl. l.. Remington
Com. on Resolutions.