The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-22


TIE editor of the St. Paul
Dispatch gives the true animus
that prompts his opposition to Mr..
Window. Every issue which de.
nounces him sells WE'LL" and this ap.
pears as the only grounds upon which
a characterless journalist. presumes
to traduce one of the leading states
men of the Nation, and gentleman
against whom not single charge of
corruption during twenty years of
public service can be substantiated.
1t is "deuced incOnsistently 'hod'
what knaves some individuals will
make of themselves for the sake of a
nickel, and the Dispatch man is iiv-
ing monument of this grasping greed.
THE damnable methods and detest-
able means that have been resorted
to and employed by the opposition of
Mr.. Window has finally been met and
exposed by the Senator, the full text
of which will be found in this issue.
Every one Of the leading traducers
who have, by their unmitigated
fabrications and inexcusable denunci-
ations, brought down upon them the
execration of all mankind and the
condemnation of every honest man,
are found to be nothing less than a
set of libelers, blackmailers, Office
brokers and thieves, who are dis
grace to the race and who, if the
whole truth were known, and their
just deserts melted out to them in
conformity to the sins committed,
would to-day languish behind the
bars of a prison pen. This is the
class of so-called men who would |
make the people Of Minnesota be-
lieve that the man they have trusted |
so long. and who has never i'm a single \
instance given the slightest pretext
whereupOn to base mere presump.
ton OF Inconsistency, is only thief in
high place, and wicked, unscrupul.
Gus demagogue, deep.dyed villain,
as it were. These are the class of
men who are to-day lauding Dunnell,
and doing all that is possible to place
him in the United States Senate.
That there are good and honorable |
men enlisted in Mr.. Dunnell's behalf
is not questioned or disputed ; but not
so the traducers of Mr.. Window. A
man may oppose another in manly
manner, and he may have personal
reasons for so doing which entirely |
Justify such course, but when We
notice such vile attacks against the
character of such man as Mr.. Win.
dom coming from the disreputable
sources from which these scurrilous
articles originate, they Immediately
bring active support to him whom the
slanderers would depose, and Opposi.
ton to him whom they would crown.
The Grand Army Journal, spoken of
by Mr.. Window is, TO our personal
knowledge, being circulated through
Minnesota-or at least portions of the
State-and i'm the interest of whom
Its bitter hostility toward Mr.. Win.
dom and its equally hearty support of
Mr.. Dunnell Is sufficient answer to
this query. And what interest, we
would ask, can this paper and the
Washington Free Press possibly have
i'll the United States Senatorship of
Minnesota that prompt a gratuitous
distribution of papers, unless it be
for gain and the promise of reward
in the event Of Dunnell's success
Reasoning men will ponder well this
question, and before the people of
Minnesota will place their Senator in
the hands of a syndicate of such
high handed rascals it will be after
there is no God In Israel. |