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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19
THEY ADMIT HIS STRENGTH.

For several weeks the Democrats
have been discussing the character
and qualifications of the Republican
candidate for the governorship, Hon.
Knute Nelson. Mr.. Nelson has stood
the fire of criticism finely, for in all
that time they have only been able to
find one alleged flaw, and that is that
four years ago he voted for the Mills
bill, and now accepts the protective
policy as presented by the Minneapo-
lis platform. 1t is admitted that he
will make an excellent governor; that
he is strong man before the people,
and it is evident that they are at
tempting to try and break the force
of his popularity by representing him
as playing double upon the tariff
question. But they will not succeed
in this. His honesty of purpose is too
well known by the people OF Mime
sofa. His explanation of his course
is full, complete and manly. AS he
says, there was no way for the Repub-
lican Senate to frame it's ideas upon
the tariff into a bill until the House
gave it chance to do so. He had
certain ideas that he wanted to see
carried out, and framed them into a
bill, but finally concluded the best
way to get them acted upon, was to
get some measure before the Senate,
and as there were some things about
the Mills bill that suited him, he
voted for it, so as to aid in bringing
about the end he desired. The Nc.
Kinley law embraced many Of the
fea lures which he wished to see in
corporated in tariff measure, espe
cially in it's treatment of the free list
and it's successful working so pleased
him, that when the tariff plank Of
the Republican national platform
was adopted he stated that it repre-
scented his views entirely.
In the face of all this there is NJ
chance for misunderstanding as tt
Mr.. Nelson's tariff views, and the Op
position really acknowledge his grea
strength as a candidate when the.
are reduced to this one point in thei
fight against him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19
THOSE SOUVENIR COINS.

Immediately after the passage of
the bill appropriating s., 800, 900 to the
Columbian Exposition, the Chicago
Inter Ocean suggested that as the sum
was to consist of 100000 souvenir
coins, they be disposed of at 81. 90 each,
and in this way the full sum asked
for could be obtained, while the peo-
pie would secure much desired souve-
mir. The suggestion met with a
hearty approval, not only from the
Exposition managers, but from the
public, and the opinion seemed to be
general that there would be no diff
Guilty in disposing of them in this
way, as most everyone who can get
hold of coin would like one. Many
were the replies the Inter Ocean re-
ceived favoring the plan, and nearly
all of them favored a distribution so
that the people and not the specula-
tors will get them. Now comes a
proposition from Chicago business
man, offering S4,000,00 for the entire
issue This offer should not be &C
cepted, and probably will not be. If
there is any way by which the specu-
lator can be eluded and the people
reached directly, it should be adopted.
The gift to the exposition comes from
the people, through the general gov
eminent, and if the people wish TO
double the gift by giving one dollar
for each coin, they should have the
first opportunity. The suggestion
that they be distributed among the
banks in small lots, with instructions
to put them out among the people
who want them, is the best one yet
made. II this plan is adopted the
people will have the first chance, as
they should. In this way the exposi-
tion will realize the premium offered
upon. the coin, accommodate the peo-
pie in distinction to the speculatOr,
and the management will escape the
storm of criticism that would other
wise be showered upon it. Let the
people have the coins!
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19
HAVE WANDERED FROM GRACE

The Democrats are fond of parad-
ing before The public as descendants
of the party If Jefferson. The FREE
PRESS won't say that they are not
descendants bf the party which that
great statesman aided in founding,
but in the YEARS that have elapsed
they have wandered far from grace.
Jefferson was an American in the full
sense of the word, and believed in
American Institutions. He was more
over 'patrpt and favored his own
country and his own fellow citizens
first, in preference to the outside
world. In plain English, Thomas
Jefferson was a protectionist, and be-
lieved in thu levying of protective
tariff so as TO promote the building
up of home Industries, in order that
the farmer might have the consumer
in his midst This was one of the
principles that Jefferson contended
for, put the latter day followers of
the STUFFED prophet" have repudi-
ated Jefferspn's principles, and gone
across the sea to adopt those of Cob
den. The great writer of the Decla-
ration of Independence believed in
America against the world, his pre-
tended followers of to-day seem to
take pleasure in pitting the world
against America.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19
SALISBURY STEPS OUT.

The English House of Commons has
finally voted "no confidence" in the
Salisbury government, and it has bid
adteu to power and taken its place
among the things that were, but now
are not, while Mr.. Gladstone has re-
ceived orders from the Queen to form
a new ministry and will proceed at
once to do so. The Conservatives
have endeavored in every way possible
to get Gladstone to outline the course
he intends to pursue in regard to Irish
home rule, but SO far success has not
attended his efforts. The full details
of the measure will probably not be
made public until it is presented to
parliament sometime next February.
In the meantime Mr.. Gladstone's
health is the subject of much atten.
tion, and while his son and other i'm
mediate members of his family say
that it is as good as ever, it is said the
weight of years is telling upon him
and that the exciting events of the
last few months have proved a heavy
drain upon his energies. AS upon
him rests the chances of success OF
the home rule measure before the
present parliament, he will undoubt'
edly be the object of great deal OF
attention so far as his health is con-
cerned, from now until parliament
meets next winter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19
WHO HOLMAN is.

Commenting upon the session of
congress just adjourned, and compar-
ing it's shortcomings with it's promises,
the St. Paul Neaos asks who Congress-
man Holman is, who has posed as the
great economist of the day and made a
failure of it, and answers it's question
as follows:
He is an antediluvian remnant OF
the Democratic party of the days be-
fore the war. He reaches back almost
to the days of Jackson, Calhoun and
Crawford, and was contemporary with
Toombs, and Bright, and Breeken-
ridge, and Vallandingham. MI. Hol-
man grew UP with the stage coach as
means of travel, and the semi-week-
ly mail, carried by a small boy on
horseback, as the perfection of speed
in accommodation. In his intel.
lecJ he still rides in the stage coach
and to receive an unpaid message by
telegraph from Paris would drive him
insane, because OF the unparalleled ex
pense of the thing. At his desk in
the center of the Democratic side OF
the honse, Mr.. Holman drOwSeS anC
dreams or two genera tfons of demo
Gratis dead and buried. He pictures
to himself those gorgeous times in
1857, when he and the world were
young; when expenditures were light
because the stronghold of the people
was empty. He remembers that mag
nificent epoch in our history when the
nation paid and 10 per cent per an
mum for it's loans; when state and pri
vate banks all over the country ISSUED
wildcat currency that turned tt
waste paper in the pockets of the
people; when it cost three cents tt
carry letter a thousand miles, sil
cents for two thousand, and II cent:
to Europe.
And in sizing up Holman, the Neac
has pretty accurately described gooC
many followers of the British FREE
trade theory, who howled and blub
bered like school boy, over the bill
lion-dollar congress, forgetting thai
since "those palmy low tariff days" O
the sos, we have, as a nation, takel
great strides forward under the guild
ance of a protective policy, and tina
our expenses have increased according
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

BLUE EARTH CITY Post: The first
five months of this years trade, which
England has enjoyed with Brazil,
shows falling off when compared
with the corresponding months of
last year, in the sum of over 1900, 600,
This trade has come to the United
States under the operations of the
Republican policy of reciprocity.
Democratic conventions and Demo
cratic candidates call this policy a
"humbug," and are crying themselves
hoarse with their lamentations for
England's loss. On the other hand
the Republican party continues, un-
der the wise leadership of General
Harrison, to extend this sort of "hum.
bug" thus giving our producers the
advantage of increasing demands.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19
Superintendent Porter Gives
Out Some Interesting Pre-
linninary Figures.
Comparative Growth Of the Diff
ferent Sects During the Past
Forty Years.
Congressman Warwick, of Ohio,
McKinley's Successor, Dies
at Washington.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-Superinten-
dent Porter, in an address he prepared
for delivery at Asbury Park, makes pub
lie the preliminary figures of church
statistics of the eleventh census, which
are both curious and interesting. There
are shown to be in the United States
nearly $50 separate and distinct church
organizations holding widely different
creeds. They vary greatly in practice
and represent all possible variations of
church policy. Some of the denomina-
tons were never numbered before and it
required the utmost powers of persua-
sion to induce them to submit to the
process. Sects have been found and
enumerated who claim less than 100
communicates. The following table
shows the number of churches in the
United States today as compared with
e
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

Col. G.. D. ROGERS, of the Mime
apolis Market Record, after making a
thorough canvass of the situation,
places the wheat crop of Minnesota
and the Dakotas this year at 100000
900 bushels, or 100000 bushels less
than last year. The shrinkage is
principally in North Dakota. For
the country north of the Northern Pa
cific railroad he puts the yield at 60
per cent. of last years, while in all
the great wheat belt south of it the
yield will be larger by considerable
ratio. Taking the southern section
as a whole, the acreage is 10 per cent.
greater than last year, and yield per
acre, he computes will be somewhat
larger. The hot weather of the past
week has done the growing grain of
the State no good, and if continued
over the coming seven days the
prophets will have to lower their es-
innate of a week ago by good many
bushels. At that time the most con-
sentative among them were estimat-
ing crop of not less than 60 pei
cent of last years phenomenal yield.
To-day the same men were estimat-
ing it at anywhere from 30 to 20 pei
cent, according to the reports receiv'
ed from their respective sections. Ii
is the hot weather that is doing the
mischief. Late sown and backward
grain is particularly sensitive to the
effects of hot weather.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

Gov. JONES, of Alabama, who has
had much to say about the maintain
ing of white supremacy in the south.
ought to have less to say upon
that subject in the future, as he will
be governor in his state for the next
two years by virtue Of the negro vote
In other words, to use.the language OF
southern Democratic politicians, he
stands as representative of ''negrC
domination" and yet the world moves
on as smoothly as ever.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

Gov. BUCHANAN, of Tennessee, is
not occupying very enviable posi-
tion just at present, as the result of
his action in committing the sentence
of Col. III. Clay King to life imprison-
ment. Kings murder of Lawyer Pos
ten was deliberately planned, and as
deliberately carried out. and II eyer a
murderer deserved the extreme pen
atty of the law, King did. The indig-
nation that has followed the Govern
or's action notes the gradual change
that is coming over portions of the
South. So far as the FREE PRESS can
recall, no man in the South, Of late
years, of as high social standing as
Col. King, has ever had the arm of
the law laid heavily upon him for
such a crime, and of so cold blOoded a
nature was it, that Southern senti-
ment, blunted as it has been by years
of crime, gone UNPUBLISHED, was strong
in it's demand that in this case an
example should be made that would
serve as a warning for the future.
Every effort of his friends to save him
through the courts failed, when at
the last moment justice was thwart-
ed by the Governor. If the storm of
public disapproval is as honest as it
seems to be, it means that the Gov
ernor has clouded his future political
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

w. S. HAMMOND, candidate for con-
gress in this district, has gone east to
get married. He starts out right,
surely. We commend him to his un.
dertaking. st. Peter Herald.
All right, Johnson, you have right
to commend Hammond in his under
taking" 1t is always commendable
in any man to commend a commenda-
BILE undertaking" and if you would
follow Hammond's example, the FREE
PRESS would be glad to commend you
for the undertaking"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

For the fiscal year ending in 1861
the Welsh tin plate makers sold 1858
225 tons of tin plate to America. This
last year they sold 143,021 tons. AS
there has been no decrease in the con-
sumption of tin in this country, the
story of the Democratic free trader
that toere is none manufactured in
this country, must be of the tissue
paper variety.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

THE arrival of number of Russians
in Kansas has caused considerable ex-
citement in that state, as they came
FROM the cholera-affected district it is
feared they may have cholera germs
in their household goods, though the
danger is considered slight. 1t will
pay Uncle Sans officials to keep a
sharp eye out for immigrants from
the cholera districts. 1t may be easier
to shut it out. than to stamp it out.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

THE placing of Don M. Dickinson at
the head of the Democratic campaign
committee indicates that that party
intends to indulge in rainbow chas-
ing in the northwest again this fall.
But rainbows are poor things to chase,
especially when tied as tail to free
trade kite, aud Dickinson will have
chance to console with Senator Brice
after the 8th of November next.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

ADLAI STEVENSON, the Democratic
vice-presidential candidate, will make
four speeches in North Carolina this
month, and the Chicago Inter Ocean
thinks it will be a splendid opportu-
nifty for him to speak frankly about
his war record, as the North Carolina
Democrats have no prejudices against
Knights of the Golden Circle. Per-
haps he will if his friends down there
will consent to cut the telegraph
lines
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

OHIO ought to be proud of her two
great champions of honest money
Senator Sherman and Secretary Eos
ter. In his great speech at 'Vermil-
lion, o., the other day, Senator Foster
proved himself to be a worthy sue
cessor to those two great financiers-
Sherman and Window.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

IT is said that Grover Cleveland
will attempt to modify the tariff
plank of the Chicago platform. Gro
yer is waking up too late. The OBJ.
iect of Democracy has been exposed
to the people, and it will do no good
to replace the curtain.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

THE leaders OF the Peoples party are
again trying to gain notoriety by cir
culating the report that Judge Gresh-
am will make several speeches during
the present campaign in their behalf.
The trouble they will have in bring
ing this report to realization is, that
the Judge is not calamity shrieker.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

Iris said that Minnesota labor or
CARNATIONS will raise $500 to defray
the expenses of W. W. Erwin, to de-
fend the Homestead strikers who are
charged with murder and rioting.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

MARTIN COUNTY Sentinel:
McCleary will have to enla
band.wagon in order to accc
all who are scrambling for
popular vehicle.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

JUDGE GRESHAM has denied the
statement that he will make one or
more speeches for the Peoples ticket.
The Judge need not have put himself
to such trouble, for the Ameri-
can people have always regard
ed him as man of superior commH
sense
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

The communicates of the Baptist and
Episcopal with those of the others will
bring the total up to about &c. 600, 600 in
all. The statistics of the colored de-
nominations likewise show great pro-
gress. They have total membership
of 1873, 100, and own church property
valued at Sl3. 403 n-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
when she had Children, she gave them Castoria
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19

If you wish to file a claim for Pension, either
under the old or new law, call on or correspond
with the undersigned, having had twelve years
practice before the Department at Washington.
Your claims will have the beneneft Of this ex-
perience if intrusted to my care.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19
anne period is as follows
otal. ................ ss7,446,S71 s6sl %, 300

lOtdl. SOtsffoso'A SooAi~~>foNo
In point Of numbers the Methodlsts
stood first in 1850 and still retain the po-
-sitien. Nearly one-third of all the
church edifces belong to them, while
Baptists can lay claim to more than one
quarter. Relatively speaking, the Epis-
copal church retaines the same position to
the other denominations as it did in 1850.
On the other hand the Roman Catholic
church has advanced considerably, from
trife over per cent. of the total num-
Der to over per cent. In point of value,
however, the Catholic church has made
still greater strides-from an ownership
of 10 1-2 per cent. of all the church
property to an ownership of 10 "a per
cent. In this respect the Catholic
church now ranks second in Importance,
being exceeded only by the Methodists.
According to the returns of the eleventh
census the number of communicates In
five principal religious denominations,
for which the statistics have been COM
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-09-03
Mckinley Declines Joint Discus
sion.

Some weeks ago Col. \. X. Mcclure,
ofthe Philadelphia Times, challenged Mayor
Mckinley, the great apostle of Protection
ia a Joint discussion of the tariff in the city
of Philadelphia Col. Mcclure a few days
aOo received letter from Chairman Car
ter, of the Republican National Committee
declining the challenge, on the ground that
Major Mckinley could not be spared from
more important fields of usefulness. Col
Mcclure desired to have him face an au-
dience of mechanics employed in protected
industries, but the Republican party and
Major Mckinley would rather labor among
the farmers of the West and get away from
the practical side of Protection. However,
there are tariff for revenue champions in
the West. and Congressman Bynum has
asked a division of time with Major Me
KinIey at one of his Mckinley s. appoint
ments in Indiana. This b a challenge for
a discussion in one Of Major Mckinley 5
chosen fields of usefulness, where he has
already an appointment to speak. a dec
lination to divide time with Mr.. Bynum
will be taken as IA square back down OF the
Protectionists and fear of the results of
theory being combatted by facts.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-09-03
The Cholera.

Cholera appears to be making regular
advance from east to west as it did IN Its
first visitation to this country in lS32. 1t
has crossed the water from the continent
of Europe and is now spreading throughout
England. The announcements are daily
made in the press of quarantine regulations
and other prudential and precautionary
measures being made These are proper
and necessary, but there is great probabll-
ity that the epidemic will reach this coun-
try, unless arrested by early frost. Quar-
antine cannot keep it out. The best safe
guard is sanitation, thorough cleanliness oil
person and premises, prudence IN diet
avoidance of exposure and all excuses oil
eating and drinking. Cheerfulness of spirit
is a great health-preserver, as the magma
ton is a powerful cholera incentive IL un-
duly exercised. Incorporate drinking and
gluttony are almostl sure to excite the DIS
ease wherever it is present Filthy sinks
stables and hog pens and unventilateC
apartments, invite its attacks. Let every
one who would escape the cholera act upon
these hints. Our town should be thorough
" cleansed. Not only should the stable:
and hog pens be cleansed, but all noxious
weeds and all other impurities should be
attended to at once. Fresh lime should be
sprinkled in all cellars, cutters and back
yards and in all damp places near the
dwelling. These precautions may ward of
tbn disease
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-09-03
Investigation of County Officials.

The recent grand jury in Frederick
county created considerable stir by its re-
port. The report states that the condition
of Frederick city is very bad, hog pens and
other nuisances being maintained to the
peril of the health of the citizens; that city
ordinances are violated and many are prac-
tieally dead letter; that the city authorl-
ties have been shamefully and criminally
neglectful of their duties; that some Of the
county constables have been unwarrantably
arresting supposed tramps, charging ezces-
sive fees, have at times been neglectful OF
their duties. at other times showing COW
ardice, and sometimes create rather than
duell disturbances. Judge McSherry COM
pliBented the jury upon its Investigations
and report, and said If the proper steps
were not at once taken to remedy the
wrongs, he would reconveue the jury, with
a view to having the authorities indicted
for malfeasance in Office.
In Baltimore county steps are being
taken to decrease public expenses, and the
Commissioners have determined to look
4. more closely into the charges of magistrates
and eonstables, and have passed an order
requiring magistrates to make monthly re-
turns of their dockets to the Commissioner.