The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-09-26
STILL IN THE SWIM.

Yesterday was blue day for the DEM
ocratic envoy sent to Mankato for the
pu pose of hiring. coaxing or driving
Senator Wilkinson off of the Congress
sional ticket to make place for Jim Bak-
err. William Pitt Murray, he of Census
fame," of ST. Paul, met by appointment
with Wilkinson at The Saulpaugh
Wednesday to Elk" matters up In the
Second district so as to give General
Jim the support of the Democratic as
we'll as the Alliance vote. But Wilk
was in no fixing" mood. 1t is given
out by those on the inside, that Mort.
gave the agent of the "Me and Mike"
dynasty to understand that he would
remain in the swim until the fall flood
should wash him eternally under the
annihilating wave of Republicanism, and
no amount of threats or bulldozing
would deter him from his purpose.
Wilkinson certainly owes General
Baker nothing, neither does he owe the
Democratic bosses. They used every
available means in the Congressional
convention to defeat his nomination,
failing in which they now endeayor to
whip the devil from behind by trying to
force him off the ticket, and it is not
done entirely In the interest of Baker.
Thomas Wilson is interested in getting
Baker onto the Democratic ticket, as
he knows the peculiar railroad methods
heretofore practiced by that gentleman
are in full accord with his own peculiar
ideas of the eternal fitness of things
A look into The Saulpaugh lobby this
morning exhibited picture not often
seen even in heated political campaign.
The local warning factions were there
with their war paint on and scalping
knife in hand. The envoy, Murray, was
reinforced by E. G. PAIL, Democratic
candidate for Lieut.. G vernon this
morning, and they had summoned
to their presence goodly COM
bination of tough-skinned Democrats,
Including Judge J. E. Porter, chairman
of the Democratic Congressional COM
mittee, Mayor Pau, the candidate Of
everything to beat Barr" for the State
Senate, w. B Davies, ex. chairman of the
Democratic county committee, several
other prominent Mankato Democrats,
ard M. S. Wilkinson, the man whose scalp
Doran has ordered tanned Gaze on
this picture, if you please! Messrs.
Porter and Davies are uncompromising
ly insistent that Wilkinson shall stand !;
that the Democratic Congressional con-
vention act in nominating him shall not
now be annulled and the party be hui
inflated before the people of the state
through the dictation of the office-brok-
erage firm of Kelly and Doran. They
claim that party organization should not
be disrupted and demoralized simply to
CRAFTY the greed and dominating spirit
of few self-constituted leaders whom
the convention so recently repudiated.
Of course Mayor Pau, whose contract
to deliver the congressional nomination
nulled by the convention, is eager to
have matters "fxed up" In order that
be may more efectually work" the
Farmers Alliance vote, and to this end
all the persuasive powers of his active
brain is put in operation.
If the Democrats of the Second Dis
trict had submitted to the bargaining and
sale under negotiation, they would have
admitted Intensely es to be mereiserfs and
forfeited every right to the claim of party
responsibility. A more open attempt
at notification of party action was never
attempted even in the southern tier.
The mission of Murray was fruitless,
and the FREE PRESS will have some rea-
sons to give why it was so, in future
issue. The local Democracy is to be
congratulated for refusing to be sold
out, body and soul.