The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-06
Editor Free Press

Editor Free Press:
Now that the Republican convention
has finished its work and given us gem
uine live oak platform perfect in all its
parts without knot hole or shaky spot
in the whole structure and upon which
every patriotic voter in our broad land
can proudly stand squarely on his feet,
and nominees as pure, sound and free
from moral or political, private or pub
lie blemish as the platform they stand
upon, men who have won their way to
their present proud position in public
estimation by their integrity and fidelity
in the discharge of their every duty in
public and private life, who having the
courage oftheir convictions dared be true
to the right in the most trying circumstan-
ces, the Republican masses will see to it
that they are triumphantly elected in
November. The contrast between the
Republican and Democratic candidates
is as distinct and noteworthy as that be-
tween the frank, manly and plainly ex-
pressed principles of the solid structure
of the Republican and the double mean
ing expressions and falsehoods of
the straddle, as Watterson properly cali
ed the rickety three-legged British stool
which, Cleveland dictated andupon which
he is dragging his party. Leaving Mr..
CleVeland's private career before the
war which devotees of the White Cross
may not care to NEEDLE with, contrast
the character of the two men during the
time when the solid Democracy of Cleve-
lands solid South were in armed rebel
lion against the Union, straining every
nerve to carry out the schemes of dis
union planned under the lastDemocrat-
ic administration, in which most of his
cabinet were engaged. Then while the Re-
publican nominee was calamity perillIng
his life on the battlefields of the South,
at Peach Orchard, Corinth, Atlanta, ana
| following Sherman in his toilsome march
to the sea, Grover Cleveland was hiding
his worthless carcass behind substitute
| mostly at the expense of Buffalo and
Erie county.
While Morton was doing everything
| in his power in New York to aid Presi-
dent Lincoln in raising the slnews of war,
undaunted by the fury of Governor Sey-
mour's friends, the draft rioters of that
city, Thurman the tail that Grover die
tated should wag the dog end of the
| ticket, was spouting Vallandigham trea-
son in Columbus, declaring the war a
| failure in Chicago, aiding and supporting
rebel prisoners in the prison camp and
communicating information to their
rebel friends to which the people in
southern Ohio are more indebted than
| to any other cause or any other living
man for the ravages of Morgan's land
pirates in their raid. While Cleveland
and Thurman are just the men best fit
| ted to lead the rebel and Golden club
Democracy on their rickety three-legged
| free trade platform under the old red
bandana, the anarchists flag, in their
fruitless effort to perpetuate indefinitely
the Cleveland dynasty, destroy our man.
ufactures and bring labor down to the
British standard, Harrison and Morton,
on the grandest platform framed for sew
eral years, platform American in ev-
cry sense of the term, protecting every
interest of the American people under
the stars and stripes the flag of our
country, glorious emblem of freedom
and union, lone and inseparable now
and forever" will lead the loyal hosts
who love their country, glory inlts pros
perity and are bound to maintain it, will
march to glorious victory aud plant
our starry banner, which was never trail
ed in the dust by domestic or foreign
foes, upon the dome of the National Cap
ital. The red flag of anarchy and Brit
ish Democracy will be crushed out of
existence by the righteous of the loyal
and patriotic people of the land who
look with utter detestation upon this last
expiring effort of Cleveland and Thur
man to accomplish the double purpose
of placing the government in the hands
of those who sought its destruction by
force, and the industrial and labor inter-
ests to the tender mercies of England
and our old and inveterate enemy.