The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-08-19
A BAD BREAK.
EDITOR FREE PRESS:

That was an awful bad break OF the
brilliant young genius nominated py
the miscegenation Democracy as their
candidate for governor, when he held
up Chas. Sumner and Salmon 7. Chase
in the 1S5Os, as typical Democrats OF
the present or any other age. There's
scarcely room between the poles OF
our earth for the wide difference be-
tween the political principles OF Sum-
ner and Chase and the democratic
party Of that period, and the present
mixture called Democracy have GER
tainly done nothing to shorten it. On
the contrary they in all their conven-
tions from ward caucus to State and
Nation, swore new fealty and allie
glance to all the dogmas and tradl-
lions handed down by party leaders
from Jefferson to Grover. Why, the
young man must have been wild or
much nomination made him drunken,
to think for a moment of such fool
ishness. He may be a perfect diarrhea
of words-a volume of gilt edge oratory
and rhetoric, bound in calf and gold
but the young man will find an up
hill business to convince the public
that the victim of Bully Brooks, who
was one of the prominent.Democratic
tradition makers of that time to
which he has just sworn fealty, as.
sault with intent to kill, could by any
flight of fancy be regarded as typi-
Cal believer in the tradition of the
Bully Brooks Democracy. If in his
educational pilgrimage he should find
himself holding an audience spell
bound under his eloquent commenda-
tion of Summers Civil rights bill just
where he meant to utter his bitterest
maledictionagainst the election bill of
the Senate which wouldgive the color
ed citizen in Alabama the right to
vote just as he did the other day and
elect the Democratic candidate for
Governor, though the white majority
was against him, it would be embar-
RAISING to say the least of it. Then,
again, he might unwittingly fly off on
a tangent and indulge in lofty flight
of eulogistic eloquence on Chase for
the prominent part he took in estab-
fishing the almost universally admit
ted best system of banking in the
Il n 1, nt TO l.
late and secure the votes of that fac
tion of the miscegenation party whose
battle cry is "down with the National
Bank and up with the pawn shop;
let the U. S. Treasury be the distrib-
uting point for the free distribution
of all money the U. S. minis and en-
craving and printing bureaus can
turn out. Uncle Sam is rich
enough to give US all mil
lion, no matter about it's
value only let US have it free.
No Chase for u.s." He's no typical
Democrat for this or any other time.
The great prince of that wing of the
amalgamated works believes as
religiously as satan did, that rule in
hell is preferable to service in heaven
would be Mortified at such break.
But there is certainly danger of it,
and his friends should coach him care
fully before he starts out on his mis-
sionary travels. AS Republican l
would advise him to study carefully
the history of his native land since it
fell under British rule and see how he
likes it. Read the speech of Thos.
Frances Meagher country man made
at Dublin, July 4, 1S4S, and which con-
tributes much to his exile to penal
colony, from which he was rescued and
brought to this country by an Ameri-
can vessel. 1t would be good thing
for the young orator to air his mind
as he evidently needs discipline and
training down to sensible level. B..