The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-01-23
A BIaoTHp pART1zAN.

II is, to the honor of our common hui.
manity be 1t said, seldom indeed that
so small, 30 narrow minded, and 30 fool
ish an exhibition of partizan bigotry
needs to be recorded "a that made by
Foster In the House of Representatives
on the occasion of the death Of ex-yice
President Colfax, by refusing to vote for
resolutions of sympathy with the he.
reaved family, or respect to the memory
of the departed statesman, because, says
Foster, che was not my style of man. "
We thank God, Foster, he was not. The
difference was more than continental
width.
While your constituents, Republicans
and Democrats alike, were gathered
around the suddenly stricken statesman
vieing with each other in their kindly
ministrations TO the honored dead, and
without dissenting voice, passing reso-
buttons OF respect To his memory and
sympathy with the bereaved family,
while n committee of one Of the prom
tent societies vi this city, without re-
'pect to party affiliations, was prompt.
~ sent to escort his renails 10 his lam.
ny and friends, and while the newly
elected Democratic Vice President from
The same state, and who had been u per-
sonal friend Tor thirty years, and always
ais political opponent, WAS Drawing the
,ury of winter blizzard to reach the
home of the grief stricken family, that
ne might show his sympathyswlth the
mourning friends and his respect for the
honored dead by officiating as one OF the
pail bearers, you, like an over'gruwu
ladder blown up with sell-conceil, and
I "holier than thou" air, decline 10 join
| with your constituents at home or your
fellow rcpres enlatives from Blue Eartl
county because me (Cullax) was not NY
style of a man." Alas, poor Eos, er! The
Republicans who voteu tor you should
clolhe themselves in sickclulh, and The
Democrats blush with shame that they
ever nominated u partizan bigot vi YOU
| caiibre, whose mind FULLY expanded
would have plenty vi room for niarglI.a
| references ON each side OF u single IRA,
railway. No truer patriot nor more con
| sCientious statesman ever lived III oul
country than Schuyler Coltax. No mai
vas ever more ready 10 drop the tear o
| sympathy with the afflicted or award tn,
IA 0 Of praise to u fallen opponent; ,
| Klnuer heart never beat in human breas
than was so suddenly stilled OH the 18Th
INST. in this city. And, Foster, unborn
generation will honor and revere hi,
memory long after your ashes have been
scattered to the four winds Of the heav
ems.
Were you half as good and exquisitely
perfect as you think you are, You wouii
nave been translated long ago, ant
would need no refrigerator car to take yo,
over the Styx. But We greatly fear vol
will never find your proper level, OF
men of your style, in this world, thu
next world, or the world after the next
unless they are constructed on dowl
grade and narrow-guage; while We thinl
Darwin would be delighted in his search
tor the missing link, " should he enteI
the Minnesota legislature and find Their,
the representation from Mankato.
anything on earth could shake the con
ridence in the Christians mind in God
authorship Of the human race, it mus
Dc meeting such lnhnitessimal speci
mems Of partizan bigotry i'll Legislative
body.