The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-01-18
THE FREE PRESS SUSTAINED.

The FREE Press confesses to feeling |
Of pride IN publishing to-day the inter-
views on the Senatorial. question which
appear in another column. II has been
persistently represented by persons ana
newspapers at home and abroad during
the past few months that there was no
sentiment here IN favor of Senator sa-
bins reelection and that the FREE PRESS
and its editor stood alone i'll the I'M
pleasant and unloyal position of sup
porting a man whom the overwhelming
sentiment of the community denounced.
We have been quiet during the storm OF
calumy and falsehood, only presenting
the truths in the matter from time TO
time and showing as fully as possible
that Senator Sabin is as fully entitled
and qualified for reelection as was ever
a faithful public servant. To-day we
present the matter in light which not
only forcibly proves the correctness OF
the position of the FREE PRESS and vlndi-
Gates its course, but furnishes evidence
which can not possibly be disputed that
the off-reiterated claims Of the WASH
burn strikers are tissue of falsely sus-
tanned boasts.
We have little further to say regard
ing the interviews, as they carry their
own convictions.
The recently published postal card
returns of the Register have been loud
" boosted of, but any candid man COM
pairing the two showings cannot fail to
see that the one given by us to-day is far
greater in its force as showing the real
sentiment on the question. 1t appears
that the Washburn managers at st. Paul
were themselves not at all satisfied with
that alleged popular wave" for last
Wednesday the entire force of strikers
from this county were sent back will
instructions to obtain at all hazards
large number of additional signatures tc
the Washburn petitions. ltisthe meth
DDS used in securing these names whlcf
we desire here to speak of. The utmos
gall was used by the paid servants of the
railroad president, and in numbers o
cases where men expressed themselves
as non.committal they were put down
for Washburn; the inquiry of farmer
as to whether Washburn was not rail
road man invariably brought mo,
and where all inducements and exhor
tations failed to get the signature, TIT
| Announce
ment, "If you don't sign yourself w
will for you," and in plenty of cases the.
: kept their word. By these and othe
equally disreputayle methods the sigma
, lures for Washburn's petitions were sc
: cured, and the legislator who gives hee'
to them will be woefully misled as +
the real sentiment of the county.
There is no doubt that through tn
habitual misrepresentation Of the loca
Democratic organ, reinforced later b.
the Register, a misconception of Senate
. Sabin had been built up in the minds @
=, many Blue Earth county Republicans
But We are glad to say that by well-di
: rected efforts in the way of enlighten
ment this prejudice has been Target
removed, and to-day scarcely any of
EXISTS. When Washburn's name wa
first suggested and his praises so sweetl
sung, it had some effect upon our PEG
pie and many of them without invest
! CATION or forethought committed them
= selves in his favor. With the Ugh
I turned on and facts presented, larg
l number of these same men have takel
back their first expression and com
out squarely in favor of Senator Sabin a
against the railroad president who seek
seat in the U. S. Senate.
The expressions of Mankato Republl
I cans given to-day, it should be under
stood, are the casual sentiment of mel
I known by everybody as the leading ant
most influential of our city. We hav
every reason to believe, and can assur
those at st. Paul unacquainted with TIN
situation, that the same feeling exist
throughout the county and all this par
of the state. Had we time and space
large addition could be made to the in
terviews, but sufficient number ha
been gwen to convince any candid mine
where the people of Mankato and BLU
! Earth countV stand