The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-11-16
HOW HE RAVES.

1t was to be expected that the editor
of the Reriea0 would not be in happy
frame of mind so soon after the defeat of
his ambitious office-seeking canvass, and
the FREE Press fully anticipated the full
measure of Wise's wrath, if for no other
reason, because we had taken an active
part in acquainting the people with the
ignoble purposes animatIng this appli
cant for public position, and assisting
thereby in making his rout and repudia
ton sure and overwhelming. But We
were not entirely prepared, nor has
there been in the conduct of the FREE
PRESS the semblance of an excuse for
such a wholesale onslaught of personal
abuse of Mr.. Hunt as disgraces several
columns of the ReuieW this week. The
fact that an editor of Wise's exper ence
should pass over all the important
events of the past week with hardly a
comment, and dismiss the subject of the
elections national, state and county, with
less than half column of space, and de
vote almost the entire editorial portion of
his paper to abusing one whomhe blames
for the defeat of his personal ambitions
all this very clearly shows how deeply
disturbed Wise feels The FREE Press
does not propose to adopt the ReUieU's
methods, and will pass unnoticed the
major part of the doubly distilled malice,
venom and faisehood which it pours out
upon the head of Mr.. Hunt. The latter
feels that he is sufficiently well-known
in Mankato to make it impossible that
anybody will give more heed to Wise's
outpourings than they would to the raw
ings of any other mendicant crazed by
defeat and disappointment.
The FREE PRESS early i'm the last cam
paign resolved that there were other
matters of more importance and inter
est than the personal differences of edi-
tors, and it has abstained almost entirely
from reflections upon Wise, and what
few references have been made have
brought into question his political, not
his personal peculiarities. Not so with
the Reriew. Every issue of that sheet
has been filled with the most uncalled
for, untruthful and malignant ISLANDERS of
the editor of the FREE PRESS, who is not
and has not been a candidate or in any
way legitimate target for the personal
tiles of political campaign. We most
particularly call the attention of those
who are in the habit of blaming the FREE
PREss for the Hunt-Wlse imbroglios to
these facts.
So far as this latest onslaught is con-
cerned we simply say it is parcel of
dirty lies and malicious falsehoods in all
particulars and specifications 1t is the
result of malicious imagination disor-
dered by seeing its cherished hopes and
ambitions dashed to the ground through
the will of an indignant public which it
hoped to deceive.
So far as the Sabin question is con-
cerned, nothing new is brought out.
The FREE PRESS has not disguised its ia
vor to Sabin, and it holds that the defeat
of Wise ct al, who brought the issue into
the campaign is complete endorsement
of Sabin, especially so far as to the
charge that the Republicans of Blue
Earth county are unanimously opposed
to the Senator's reelection. In the flu
ture consideration of that matter we
shall only stop to notice the rawlings of
the RerieW when necessary. Let him
know that we consider HIM dead duck
and not worthy further attention. His
efforts to boss the Republican party
when his own had repudiated him, has
ANONYMOUSLY failed. If he has good
sense, he will drop his present methods,
but 80 far as we are concerned we ex-
press the utmost unconcern of what he
dnaa