The Mankato free press., 1893-03-31
WORKING UP A CASE.

Rumor was rife on the streets
Saturday that Ed.'Weaver would run
as non partisan candidate for mayor,
and this rumor was verified by the
eXhit ition of a petition or two ready
to be circulated for signatures.
Several futile attempts were made
| by the instigators of the movement to
secure some suitable persons to circu-
late the petitions, but up to the mid
die of the afternoon no one was found
willing to undertake the job. Under
all the attending circumstances it is
not such an undertaking as any man
who favors honesty in politics would
take hold of.
Whether it is expected that Mr..
| Weaver's candidacy would enure most
to the disadvantage of DR.. Andrews
or Mr.. Patterson is not generally
known. Mr.. Weaver's friends went
into the Republican convention and
made fight for the nomination-with
| what result is we'll known. He was
squarely beaten in an honest contest
by an overwhelming majority. 1t is
not claimed that any of the delegates
participating in that convention have
any hand whatever in this latter
movement, and for their credit as rep
resentatives of the Republican party
of the city it is hoped that they are
and will remain free from participa-
| tion in it.
1t is an ungrateful position for a
son-in-law to bear toward his father
in-law, this candidacy of Mr.. Weaver.
| 1t places the editor of the Reuieoo in a
decidedly embarrassing position, for
it kills his influence (if he has any in
| the support of Mr.. PatterSon's candi-
dacy, and holds him open to public
condemnation in secretly consorting
| to aid his on-in-law's success whether
wholly alliance. And, again, some
: people will be uncharitable enough to
insist that Mr.. Wise could, had he
tried, .dissuaded Mr.. Weaver from
seeking to get his name on the ticket.
And we are not prepared to deny but
that the ground is well taken. And,
too, there are goodly number of peo-
pie who will be so inquisitive as to
ask why tits Mr.. Weaver is SO anxious
to become mayor of Mankato!
| He surely cannot be so vain as tC
think he is better qualified to con.
duct city affairs than is Dr.. Andrews
or Mr.. Patterson. Two conventions
have passed judgment on this feature
of the case-one where his name was
not mentioned and the other by de.
feating his candidacy by most EN-
phatic vote.
1t is not because Mr.. Weaver lays
claim to being heavy tax payer, be.
cause we are informed that he does
not own a dollars worth of real estate
in the city.
he feels that he can give more
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the office than either of the other gen
tlemen, inasmuch as his time belong:
to a foreign corporation and he is. in
the city only occasionally as is any
other travelling man making his
home or headquarters in Mankato.
, 1t cannot be because Mr.. Weaver
considers himself a better Republican
than DR.. Andrews His mastery ef-
| forts put forth in ST. Paul last winter
} to defeat Senator Davis and thus dis
: Iupt the Republican party disprove!
anything of this kind. and renders
him unworthy the support of any Re
publican voter.
, Without, therefore, possessing an,
/ virtues or merits over the regular
; nominees of the two parties, why thi
"howling" desire for Mr.. Weaver
: candidacy? Is it to humiliate th'
editor of the ReUieaD, whose sole objec
: tion to Mayor Willard was the fac
t that he was absent from the city to,
much to do the Office justice, that hi
+ sOn-in-law, whose absence will b.
more frequent than Mayor Willard
f. seeks to become mayor?
r There doesn't seem to be much en-
couragement for men to lay out none,
: in improving property and building u
| industries in Mankatn, 1t is sucl
: actions as this that discourage AM
E disgust men who would like to d.
something for the advancement of tn
city.