The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-11-02
THIS IS THE LIE.
Read the Latest Democratic Roor-
back and see the MolehIll Result
Of the Monumental Liars.

The ssroorback" has been sprung.
The preserve ammunition" which we
have been hearing of, and which we
have been warned was to be fired off
in the days just before election to
blast the Republican prospects, has
been flashed, and a veritable flash in
the pan it is. The nature of the roer-
back is best shown by the following,
which is dispatch published in last
evenings St. Paul Meas:
New YORK, Oct. 3O.-A Washington
correspondent writes to the Democratic
national campaign headquarters, charg-
ing Levi P. Morton, the Republican
nominee for vice president, " being
engaged during the war in ship dry
goods from New York to q and
New Providence, in the Bahamas, and
reshipping them from there to Southern
ports through blockade runners. He
claims that proofs are on file in the war
department office in Washington. Nor
ton was seen this morning and absolute
ly refused to say anything about it.
These charges have caused Intense ex-
element here In political circles. Some
thing sensational has been expected,
but it was not supposed for one momen..
that it would be such an expose. This
is only secondary in its significance to
the recent expose of Morton's connec-
ton with the London banking firm,
which owns an immense block of con-
federate bonds. The question is now
being seriously raised by candid men of
both parties whether or not Mr.. Morton
VIC mot q roha1 fhi1ar
Now, this is pretty sort of charge
for the Democracy to bring against
Republican candidate, isn't itp The
idea of that perry charging anybody
with disloyalty! But, it is the same
old Democratic game of charging their
own crimes upon their innocent rivals.
1t is seen that Mr.. Morton refuses
to deny the charges-we hope he will
continue to do so. There is no neces-
sity for it, and that would give Democ-
racy too much satisfaction. 1t is not
a question of the loyalty of the Repub-
lican party or its candidates which
should be raised-that would suit De-
mocracy no doubt, as it would in
some degree detract attention from
that partv's own despicable record of
disloyalty. But that won't be allowed.
The time is short before election, but
there is time enough to meet this
roorback and thoroughly remind the
people of the country who are the
traitors and which is the disloyal
party.
The people will be reminded that
every man who raised his hand in
1861 against this nation was Demo-
crat. That every man who starved
Union prisoners at Libby and Ander-
sonville was a Democrat. That the
Democratic candidate for vice presi-
dent sent supplies and delicacies to
the rebel prisoners at Camp Chase,
that he is credited with being the
author of the manifesto that "the war
is failure" and that he showed him
self, by every act during the great
struggle to be on the side of the enc
mics of the old flag. That Grover
Cleveland had so little interest in the
assault upon his country that he hired
substitute to take his place in the
ranks. These and other pages In the
history of the Democratic party which
show it and its candidates to have
been thoroughly saturated with dis
loyalty and treas :, will all be shown
up now that the Democracy has seen
fit to raise that issue.
Does any Republican fear the re-
suit? Which candidates and which
party stand the best show of coming
out of such test with honor nd rec
ord untarnished1