The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-10-10
MANKATo FREE PRESS
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1884.
POLITICAL JorTINGs.

Labor is indispensable to the crea-
ti0n and profitable use of capital, and
capital increases the efficiency and
value of labor.-JdnleS q. Blaine.
The opponents of Mr.. Blaine are
nearly all taking refuge in the waste
paper Of the Mulligan-Fisher letters.
They are i'm condition Of dilapidation
unusual in a Presidential campaign,
and they seek to hide their nakedness,
and bruises, and sores with few flimsy
old scraps Of paper.
United States Senator-elect Black
burn, of Kentucky, in recent speech
at Louisville, spoke of the freeing Of
the slave as an outrage. and gloried in
the disloyalty of the Kentucky Demo-
Gratis to the cause of the Union. He
took occasion to thank God that, amid
all her loyalty, Kentucky grew 1900
of the finest dislOydl SONS upon whom
the sun of God has ever fallen" This
is fine sample of Southern Democrat
io patriotism.
The decadence of the boiling Re-
publican movement in Boston Is be-
coming too palpable to be disguised.
A great majority Of those who went
into it and had reputation to save
have withdrawn or grown cold, Like
Col. Goldman. The last means for 70
vivifying it was the publication Of the
second batch of the Mulligan letters,
but that has proved dismal failure
that the bottom Is dropping out rapid
ly. Even the Boston Aduertiser has not
mentioned Grover Cleveland's name
editorially for six weeks. When the
campaign is over and the boilers come
to balance their accounts they will find
that they have acquired little politi-
cal experience and damaged reputa-
ton by the expenditure Of good deal
of money and energy.-Er.
The resolution of Col. w. l.. An
derson, Of Cincinnati, to support
Blaine Is attracting good deal Of at
tention in political circles because OF
the fact that Mr.. Anderson has been
regarded as strong Independent. Mr..
Anderson has explained his position in
a card to the Commercial Gazette. He
frankly admits that he was one of
Blaine's bitterest enemies ut the Chi
cago Convention four years ago, and
gives as his reason for now supporting
him the fact that three years Of inti-
mate friendship with Mr.. Blaine in
Washington dispelled all the objection
he had entertained. Col. Anderson in
speaking Of the Democratic candidate
for the Presidency says: Il can mag
inc man who does not know Mr..
Blaine voting against him. | cannot
imagine man who does know Mr.,
Cleveland voting for him."
The following significant passage oc-
ours in the speech of CaSsius NJ. Clay,
recently delivered in Louisville, KY:
-The Solid South wants remuneration
for the War. did not believe it until
it was forced upon me by experience.
My belief is, that if the sO-called Dem
Ocratis party gets possession of the
Government they will never stop until
they get pay for all the slaves liberated
by the War. Why do l say SOP Be-
cause heard avOwals from them to
this effect time and again. II
you put the Democrats in power they
will increase the army; and, with the
Solid South at their back, what would
hinder them, without the expenditure
Of a single dollar, from going into Re-
publican States and maintain their su-
premacy by force? I say above board
that the man who advocates force to
| obtain power will use force to main
| tain power"
Senator Hoar, Of Massachusetts, in
the course of speech he made last
week, made a good point In regard to
the Democratic tendency to avoid ar
guments on principles and to resort to
blackguardism of Republican candi-
dates. when" said he, ~the question
"was whether slavery should be ex-
tended into the Territories, they met
"our arguments by calling Abraham
Lincoln baboon. When we had the
| question whether the amendment to
"the Constitution should be maintain
led, they answered by saying Grant
was drunkard. We had the Ques-
"tion whether elections should be free
"in the South, and they answered us by
making all manner of charges against
Garfield. But the American people
knew better. They didn't turn their
attention from these great questions
(which are to determine the history of
"a great people for hundreds Of years,
cor permit themselves to be diverted
~by these petty personal and spiteful
ISLANDERS. Now the Democratic party
lis trying the same thing again"