The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-10-08
GOV. DAVIS FOR ENATOR.

The last Register has put Its editorial neck |
well out of joint In making inquiries about
Gov. Davis. Ii wants tn know who he Is
and what he has done. II says people are
making a "fuss' over him, and the Register at
tcmpts To open its blind eyes and see. SO II
says. remember that when certain men were
attempting To run for Congress I'm this District
not long since, the Register scored the Republi-
can party for sending 40 many lunk-heads and
nincompoops To Congress. The Register was I'm
favor of brainy candidates ut that time. II
seems now To have gotten well over IL, and
thinks almost anybody will do for the u. y.
Senate il he comes from the Southern Mime
| sofa How long since has the Register begun
To smell the st. Paul ring In the politics of the
| State? u seems To have swallowed II bottle of
political horse radish or some other terrible
compound, which has badly affected the nerve
centres of that rapidly increasing circulatOr"
known as the Mankato Register.
The Register scores the st. Paul Globe and
Judge Wilson for lying about MIR. Lovely ana
| i'm the same issue charges Gov. Davis with ut
tcring under the gIise of oratory "well round
ed sentences emenating from more learned
men, brains" This Is direct charge of ha-
bitual plagiarism; IL is more than an insinua-
tion that Gov. Davis is too intellectually weak
and Hat la originate his own orations, a bald,
uncondit ionai fasch ood and spoken of the most
brilliant man in the Republican party i'm this
State to-day. do you know GOV. Davis Mr. Reg
| isfrrr IL you do not let me tell you sonnet h ing
| about his qualifications In the first place. he
is very able and thoroughly successful law
ger, with IN immense practice In both this
State AMI Wisconsin. Next he is since his re-
markablc address before the Alumni of the
Michigan University credited with being the
most original, clear headed ana practical think.
or in the Northwest. He is also acknowledged
10y every man capable of Judging To he possess
eel Of far more than average ability in every
thing he undertakes, II thorough scholar, wei
read in every department of literature, an nc
compliShcd linguist in both modern and an
cicnt languages, just but severe critic in
composition AMI rhetoric, an author of no meal
rcputc, n close and indcr igable student of th,
political history of the world, In which respect
I will venture the opinion that no man of hi,
age in the West Is 81 well posted, hard work
or ut all times, an accomplished and ready de
batter, upon any question of law. politics. liter
ature or ethics, that he is called upon to dis
ciisS. Does the Register deem such things al
! these qualifications or not? Or has II subsde,
anybody for Congress? What ails the Register
ID must have swallowed some kind of poitca
ST. Jacobs oil bottle thai all its heart ache
!, over hunk head candidates should he So easil
! ana suddenly appeascd. Whcnthe whole Stat
. with unanimity almost startling dcnan
I Gov. Davis for Senator, the Register lf,s up ID
: little piping voice and wants To know "wh
\ this Davis is p IL is not true that sOlitar
e stalwart Republican in Mankato who is n0
1 stuffed with ignorance ana dynamite To hi
i chin will light Gov Davis. Another thing h.
V il be known that any Of the Republican nomi
u ncos now running for the legislature in th
$ county who will oppose Gov. Davis election
! will get beautifully slaughtered and the Rsg,sf'
y should begin now Ia write up their cpitaphs, AN
u arrange the funeral obsequies for there Will b
u II great funeral with macy bystan,fers an
, spectators, hut no mourncrs. Mr.. Register don
!; Va forget il.
by GEORGE.