The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-10-26

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We have in course at preparation
u list of the different improvements
made in Mankato during the present
season, and shall publish it AS soon a,
perfected. The number is SD large tina,
to aid us i'm our work of preparing it,
we ask those who have expended money
on new work OF Improvements to re-
port the fact and amount to us next
week.
A special meeting of the City Coun.
Gil was held last Monday evening to
consider the question of water works.
The special committee appointed to act
in making the present system more ef-
ticient, will put in an eight inch pipe
from Hubbard l. Co.'S mill to the river.
A proposition has been received from
outside parties to supply the city with
water at reasonable terms.
sheriff Monks has stainless rep
utation. He has made as good sheriff
as Blue Earth County ever had, and
much better and more economical than
most of his predecessors. He will re-
ceive the hearty support of all men,
irrespective of party, who favor eco.
nomical administration ofpublic affairs,
and who appreciate the qualifications
necessary to the make up of Il first
class officer and business man.
When We say that Ben. Bangerter,
Jr. is as well qualified for the position
Of Register of Deeds as any man who
ever filled that position IN the county,
We believe no one stands ready to sue
cessfully deny the assertion. He is Il
young man against whose character not
one word can be uttered, and there is
not more moral or strictly honorable
gentleman in the county. Let him re-
ceive the undivided support of the Re.
puDllcanS. rs ne deserves.
-Manderfeld s. Payne, of tins CITY
have been awarded the contract for
painting the new addition to the Insane
Asylum at st. Peter, which has just been
completed. This firm is also painting,
granting and otherwise decorating the
elegant new residence of Mr.. A. p.
Jamison, banker at Waseca. Mander-
field Il Payne are doing extensive work
outside Of Mankato. They have men
in Slayton, Avoca, Pipestone and other
towns in Southern Minnesota, cOmplet-
ing contracts made in the early part of
the scaSOr..
In another column will he found
notice regarding the sale at public auc-
ton of fifty head OF thoroughbred and
high grade cattle, to occur in MsnkatO
on the 14th of November. Mcssrs. An
derson Il Elliott. of West Liberty, Iowa,
are not strangers 10 stock men of
Southern Minnesota. They have sold
hundreds of head of cattle i'm this Vi
cinity, and are thoroughly reliable in
all their dealings. Messrs. Il. ID. Hub.
bard, j. A. Willard, c. II. Piper, c. NJ.
Green, Shaubut Bros. and others in
Blue Earth county have purchased
thoroughbreds from them, and we be.
lleve stand ready to testify to their hon
esty. The sale will be largely attended.
Since the editor of THE FREE
PRESS was appointed postmaster of
MankatO, the editor of the Reoieo has
lost no opportunity to lay his bleeding
heart open to the public. He feels
panied to the core, and his weekly wall
ings are pititul to read. His latest
grievance is that we were once employ
ed upon Democratic paper, and hav.
ing just discovered this fact he proceeds
to lay great stress upon the fact that
we dare ask Republicans to stand by
their ticket. The Recie,c is cOurteOusly
but hrmly informed that we are Repub
lican, conducting Republican paper,
pure and unadulterated,a and also that we
never edited Il paper of our own in be-
half ofthe Democratic party. Unlike the
renegade of the ReoieW who sells his
party out whenever his personal inter,
ests can be enhanced, THE FREE
PRESS persists in asking Republicans
to stand firmly by the men they have
placed in nomination, and invites all
patriotic Democrats to come over and
do likewise, under the recommend of
the editor of the Reciep, who tins week
proclaims that "therc is some reason
able excuse for those Democrats who
lett their party and joined the Republic
cans IN the heat and excitement Incl.
dent to the Southern rebellion" and
thus showed that they could not resist
the temptations Of patriotism offered
by that bloody encounter. The editor
of the Reoie~ during those trying years
was engaged, not in the patriotic duty
of assisting IN freeing this country from
the curse of slavery, but rather employ.
ed himself in toasting his shins with
money drawn from the instigators and
defenders of secessism. He seemed to
have experienced no difficulty in resist
ing ''the temptations of patriotism Of
fered by the Southern rebellion" and
has never since lost an opportunity to
malign the party to whom the credit of
making this free and united govern
ment is due. But periodically, and
those periods catch him at every local
election, he says there are no party lines
to divide issues, and asks Republicans
to support Democratic candidates.
When Republicans vote for Democrats
to any considerable extent, It will be
when they are solicited by more patriotic
and consistent adherance to that party
than the editor of the Reuieao gives evi.
dence.
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