The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-04-06


so ago, seven tenths of one cent per |
mile, and for what Simply because
st. Paul and the Northern Pacific
country could not get a chance to pick |
the pockets of the people who are
rushing into Central and Southern
Dakota. Ii there is any discrimina
ton in favor of any point i'll the
Northwest, that point must be Saint
Paul, otherwise there is music all
along the lines.
EVEN United States Senator's are
susceptible to swindling schemes, but
Senator Vest is not one of 'em. The
Washington Post tells the following
Senator Vest of Missouri was re-
Gently selected by certain New York
sharpers as the intended victim of a
swindling game, which it is whisper
ed has been successfully practiced
upon several members of congress.
About week ago that senator receiv-
ed letter in which romantic story
was told of schooner which had
been lifted out for the life-Saving SER
vice. In casting about for Il name for
the new craft. the five owners had
agreed upon Senator Vest rs a man
whose name, owing to his being a
/ Christian statesman, would lend char
acter to the new craft. Would Sen
ator Vest allow his name to go upon
the stern and streamer of the noble
craft Down toward the end the
senator was told it was usual in such
cases for the individual who was to
to be honored 10 present the vessel
with her virgin colors complete out
fit to cost not over S75. The writer
added that he was Kentuckian. but
! that his wife was a Baltimore woman
and knew some of Mrs. Vests rela.
tions. He hoped that the senator
would call personally at in address
which he gave. The senator's wife
wanted to remit the SIS at once, but
i Senator Vest gave the letter to IL
/ friend whose first move was to call
on the captain and his Baltimore bride.
/ He found Il howell Inhabited by wash.
erwoman and her progeny, and mar
rowiy escaped il volley of unfragrant
eggs as an eXcisemau. The question
/ is, how many members of the late
congress nave bitten at the same
bait
FOR hypocrisy, deception and I'M.
mitigated classifying, the renegade
editor of the Rerier wears the belt.
Without one iota of evidence or scin.
tilla of truth. he accuses the editor
of THE FREE PRESS with completely
in manipulating the Democ:at cau-
Gus in behalf of Messrs. James and
Flachsenhar, and simply because we
took occasion in our last issue TO speak
kindly of these gentlemen, the rene
gade pours out his vial of wrath up
VII llt,tu uuollHlSu
We have kept entirely clear from the
school board fight in the second ward,
or any other ward for that matter,
and the hypocrite who manipulates
the beslimed pencil of the Reeie~ is
only wroth because we have not STIR.
red the community up OH the ques.
ton. He measures everybody else
by the small rule which marks his
own standing, and can only see in
others what he is himself. Since his
importation into, and infection upon,
this community, his course has been
one series of political deception. He
is traitor to his party or individual
members, whenever he can thereby
gain point of interest to himself.
lie is an accomplished liar, and
through his well.known infamy he is
held in high contempt by the better
portion OF the community. and, figu-
ratively speaking, there is no one that
places any confidence in what he may
say-either through his paper or 9TH
erwise. His every act is guided by
jealousy, and it pains him to the core
to feel that the city should prosper
or that her citizens should succeed in
business unless thereby he can see
gain for himself.
Wise's profound dislike for THE
FREE PRESS is on a parallel with eve
rything else that he cannot run. He
hates us most royalty, land we might
say there is no love lost on our sidel,
simply because we dare become cit
iZen of MankatO and interest Ourself
in her prosperity Because he was
imported from the Lake Superior re-
gion on Breckenridge money and for
the sole purpose of upholding secess-
ism, he has an idea that every other
newspaper man must secure start
through the charity of others, and be
as rotten at heart rs himself. He has
played fast and loose with men and
measures so long without being sum.
marily dropped, that now the crisis
: has come, he begins to feel his inse.
curity, and hopes for deliverance
through a vain endeayOr to defame
the character Of others. But his pc.
sition is Il delusion. Wise may put
himself down rs others do, and con
slider his palmy days among the past.
\ man who will act the hypOcrite as
he has for SO many years. cannot hope
to have the respect Of the decent por-
tion of the community. The veil
has been lifted and his real character
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