The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-09-12
WILSON NOMINATED,

The Democratic state convention did
Just what was expected of it in the mat
ter of the gubernatorial nomination. 1t
proved just what it has frequently been
charged with, that the candidate who
can show the clearest record of treach-
cry to country or party is the fittest man
for Democratic official honors. 1t car
ried this out in the selection of a can
dIdate for governor just as the alliance
tail of the party did in the selection of
state senator, where Pope, after five years
service in the grange war against the
railroads, was thrown out in the cold
and railroad lawyer substituted.
= And now the state convention having full
confidence in renegade popularity, have
z1eTT Daniel DucK' out In the cold and
'Iaken up that ex-Republican and rail-
road attorney, Thos. Wilson, as their
candidate for governor. Mr.. Buck was
not a candidate in the convention, but
the manner of his taking off was more
dastardly than to have defeated him in
4
But few weeks since, Mr.. Buck was
prominently before the people as the
Democratic candidate for the place.
The Democratic organ of this city, the
,ReVieaU, and the Democratic papers of
st. Paul favored him, and the Democrats
of Blue Earth county were sure of the
honor of furnishing the Democratic
nominee for governor. Visits for con-
sultation with the Democratic bosses in
st. Paul, in whom is lodged the central
governing power Of the party, were
made, and but a short time since, Mr..
Buck was induced to publish q letter in
the Globe declining the nomination.
This letter showed clearly that Mr..
Buck felt keenly the unpleasantness of
his situation, and in keenly ironical
manner reminded his party friends that
he had always stood firmly by the DEM
OGTatic party in its darkest hours. This,
of course, was true. Mr.. Buck has never
been known as ANYTHING but thorough
bred Democrat, brought up at the feet
of Horatio Seymour and In early life re-
ceiving his political inspiration from
that fountain, he could be nothing else
out Democrat; and he could not do
otherwise than to stand by it in dark
ness as well as III light. Even when
that most infamous of national conyen-
tions ever held in this nation resolved
the war for the Union failure, and de-
manded peace at any price, and giving
ear to the schemes of copperhead
plotters to release the rebel prisoners at
Camp Douglass, bitter, villanous and
aausious as it was to all honest Demo
Gratis, Mr.. Buck remained true to his
party and took his medicine without
sfaltering. But how was it with the
present nominee? While Mr.. Buck was
standing firmly by the party Wilson was
arrayed on the Republican side and was
pouring hot shot into Buck and his
party, All his Irish wit and sarcasm
was brought into play to cast odium upon
the Democracy and keep it before
the world as disloyal. He was honored
and respected by the Republican party,
till his ambition for office outgrew his
capacity, and when he found the Repub-
lican appreciation of his abilities less
than his own, he became disgruntled
with them, and having seen the parti-
atty of the party for traitors to country
and party, he fops over to the Demo-
Gratis, that he has spent years in abus-
ing, and they reward his treachery |
with the highest honor of the party. |
And the party now outrages decency in
politics by honoring to renegade and
RELOCATING to innocuous desuetude a
life long Democrat, superior to Wilson