The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-22
AN ADDRESS TO THE VOTERS OF
THE STATE OF MIMI ESOTA.
The Republican State Central Commit

The Republican State Central Commit
tee have issued the following.
The Republican party confidently asks
for your support, appealing alike to ITS
record, to its platform, and to Its candi-
dates, in justification of your continued
favor.
The history of our State and Nation
during the past quarter OF century is
studded with its achievements, and en-
blazOned with its glory. The preserva
ton OF the Union; the emancipation of
the slaves; free homes for the people:
impartial suffrage; honest money; the
maintenance of the public credit; re-
duced taxation; the reform of civil SER
vice; the protection oflabOr and laborers;
the encouragement of u generous system
of internal improvements; the guaranty.
80 far as its power extended, of free
ballot and an honest cOunt-these are
some of the things which the Repub
lican party, in spite OF the inveterate and
INSCRIPTIONS opposition of the banded
| forces of the Democracy, rebellion rep
udiatIOn and reaction, has been able to
accomplish for the country. The mar
| velOus development of the resources of
| our own commonwealth, the unpre-
cedented increase in population and adj
| vancement in prosperity, during twenty
| five years of unbroken and unclallenged
Republican supremacy, are facts too
patent to demand more than the most
casual mention.
| This party of patriotism, of progress
and of genuine reform, presents itself
again To the voters of this State, with a
declaration of principles embodying ad-
vanced positions on all the living, vital
issues of the hour. The plea for n sound
and reliable dollar; for Justice To the vet
eran soldier; for the relief of agriculture
from the burdens of I'M INST transporta-
ton charges; for II reduction of interest ;
for free school books; for equity to the
laborer; for n reduced tariff; for real
civil service reform; for II rational reGu-
lation of the liquor traffic; and for lifting
the yoke from oppressed and bleeding
lreland-all these are the firmly held
and openly avowed demands and pledg-
es ofthe Republican party of to-day. All
the pages of its luminous history confirm
its proud assertion that all its past pledg-
es have been sacredly kept. That record
vii be maintained, and the votersof Min
ncsota may confidently rely that this plat
form expresses the highest assurance OF
its most determined endcavor.
Felicitous us il has been in. its platform,
| tIe hcpuDiitih party pl MllhtSoEt HIS
been equally fortunate i'm the candidates
now presented for popular suffrage.
With full State ticket, and five nom
inees for Congress in the field, and Il
campaign of almost unprecedented ac-
tivity now nearing lis close, We have the
noteworthy spectacle of the failure OF
even tie intense partisan malice of a
reckless opposition To, find, in the charac-
ter or the record of II single Republican
nominee, a shadow or flaw. Our can.
didates are men of ability, of integrity,
and of wide experience in public affairs,
in whose hands it is safe To entrust our
interests. In addition to this, they are
true and tried Republicans, identified
with the party's glorious past, standing
on its platform, and willingly pledged to
carry its general principles of progress
into the new issues which the unknown
future may bring. They can he safely
trusted, and that they will be elected 10y
an oldEtshioned majority is one of the
cert.linties which the bright and bright
ening prospects of the presents allow us
to confidently predict.