The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-11-19
THE VICTORY.

we may DE paruoned Tor again REFER
ring to the election of Mr.. McGill, which
we consider II brilliant Republican vic
tory when We take into consideration
the great combination of discordant
elements arrayed in opposition to him.
1t may he possible that the Republican
party might have nominated II man more
widely known throughout the State, but
no man could have been nominated that
this same combination wound not have
been arrayed against, and the same ele-
ments conspired to defeat him with
similar results, for the Democratic party
were in the same state of desperation
and greed for office they were years ago
calico shirt civilized Il whole tribe OF
Indians and made hundreds of them
vote for Gen. Sibley, when he was elect
ed Governor, and now as then were
ready to pay court TO any faction they
could persuade, cajole or bride to help
them in this great emergency. They
have catered to all the worst elements
of the State-''the baser sort of fellows
by the nomination of the liking hummer
of the Democracy" for Governor, and il
is problematical whether any other man
could have been nominated that would
have polled larger vote than McCiill.
1t is ut least vastly 10 the credit of McGill
and the party nominating him, that his
private and official character were Sc
irreproachable that even Ames
and his toadyIng satellites could find nc
assailable point. The only thing they
could do was to SANDER and villify some
of the best men in the State. Men fol-
whom Ames was unworthy to serve ~
Il boot-black, were made the targets foi
| his shiny venom. The BLACKBOARD
the rollicking representative of all the
rowdy elements of the State, braZen
demagogue, as destitute of moral prin-
cIple as he Is of common sense or decen'
cy, defiled his own nest in his speech in
this city in his frantic efforts TO make Il
point on McIiill by the vilest ISLANDERS
upon his own neighbors, holding them
up before the world us robbers asso-
citation, banded together to rob the peo
pie of Minnesota and that McGil was
simply their tool, and if elected, would
administer the government in the inter
est of these robbers, especially Singing
out ex-Gov. Pillsbury, one of the pures
men liz the State, and whose character
both in public and private life, has eve
been held in the highest esteem by tn,
best men in Minnesota, and who's,
honesty and integrity public and private
has never been questioned by the decen
men of the Democratic party, till tn,
nomination of Ames for Governor
nominated not for the possession of any
Of the great qualities that are essentia
| in the man that is fitted to adorn the
executive chair of the great State 0
Minnesota, or that whatever decency
there may be i'm the Democratic part.
could respect, but simply and solely be
cause ne was ready to swear allegiance
| W liiC pOSStS, anu IL wac oii 81
hands that Ames, above every or an,
other man could carry, as he did, tn,
hummer and rowdy vote of the State TO
the Democracy. The Democratic rio
IN Minneapolis was legitimate result
of his teachings, his well known meth
dds and practices in the conduct of tn,
campaign led and organized by lieuten
ants, and his conduct during the strik,
were but clear indications of his sympa
thy with mob law, and his purpose t
secure the friendship Of the lawless ele
ment, in which to his own disgrace ant
of the party putting him in nomination
he was eminently successful. Deeply a
it is to be regretted, men who hav,
hitherto held respectable positions IN SO
ciety that to secure, as they perhaps be
lieved, party success, not only became
parties,to the insult of putting him befOr
the people as fit subject for the chic
magistrate of the State, but treated hin
with the most marked attention durin
his peregnations through the State an,
applauded his slanderous vituperatiOn
of men so much his superiOrs in every
thing that constitutes the gentleman o
useful citizen that he is not fit to b.
named with them in the same year
Even our neighbOr across the street O
the Rerie,C so far forgot his manhood an,
respect for decency as to swell tin
chorus for Ames. He was present at tin
accouchment of the Democratic conven
ton, which brought forth and held III
the hummer child as the Messiah of TIN
Democratic party, and under whose lea,
the copperhead banner was to be born
aloft to IL glorious victory. lie could ill
his columns with eulogies of Ames an,
his speech, especially that part of
denouncihg the millers of Minneapoli
as Il band Of robbers, for the editor O
the Re0ieW has long been sufferer iron
a mill malady; and with all the graceful
ness for which he has distinguishe,
himself during the campaign, he pal,
court TO his god-child of the convention
DUH uIO
the task of truly painting TO the farmer
and wheat growers of the State or coun
ty, TO say nothing of the cities, the efIec
of taking the millions of capital investe,
in the milling interests in Minneapoll
and Mankato and transferring it to SOM
place less hostile TO the investors an,
I their business interest. Then McGil
had the opposition of that eminentl
high moral society the Prohibitionists
nine tenths of whom are from the Re
publican party, and the only party +
which they look for future accessions
doing their best, as the Rev. Jud Jone
DID. expressed tito burst the Republic
an party wide open, and the support O
large number of the farmers alliance