The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03
COMMUNICATED.
To THE EDITOR:

lO The EDlIOR.i
AS the time for holding our county
convention approaches, it is natural
that public interest in it's outcome
should be awakened, Believing the
present crises in public affairs the
most important since 1861, and i'm
peratively demands the most careful
attention of the people in the selec-
tion of not only delegates to their con-
ventions but nominees or candidates
of the convention, make these sug-
gestions, hoping they may be read in
the spirit in which they are written.
| think in the selection of candidates
for all the nominees of the county, the
nominees of the Republican conven-
tiOn should be men of the most ire
prOachable character and intieXible
devotion to principles; men of I'M
questioned honesty, sound judgment
and ability to fill the positions fol
which they are nominated, with credit
to themselves and their constituents.
This is particularly true of the mem
bers of the legislature from this
county. They have not only the in
terest of the people in state legisla-
tion to guard, but they will have the
important duty of aiding in the selec-
tion of United States senator to sue
coed w. D. Washburn, an important
duty in which Blue Earth county
should have deep interest in and
bear an honorable part. Hon. George
L. Barr has had experience in
both branches of our state
legislature. He is the best equipped
man in Blue Earth county to fill the
responsible position of senator. And
Blue Earth county should be repres-
ented in the House by men of similar
and. equally incorruptible integrity.
Blue Earth county should honor itself
with an unpurchasable delegation to
support Senator Washburn as his own
successor. His personal purity no one
has ever questioned. His record in
congress and in the senate has been
eminently satisfactory to his con-
stituents, and no one can object to his
experience who notes the fact that in
our past history those states which
have had most influence in shaping
our national legislation, have been
those that paid most attention to eX-
perienced men. Let me cite you to a
few instances. Massachusetts never
complained of John Quincy Adams,
who after a generation in congress
died in his seat. Vermont never Suf-
fered from forty years experience in
congress by Morrill,. No one doubts
but that Maine gained influence in the
national councils from Blaine's twenty
years experience, and Missouri was
never more influential than during
Benton's thirty years in the United
States senate. MinneSOtaS influence
in the national councils from Senator
Ramsey'S second term was never
greater than during Senator Win
dom's last term; and no sane man can
doubt but what Senator Washburn is
the better fitted by his experience
for a second term. And, besides this,
Mr.. Washburn's voluntary efforts to
secure for Blue Earth county's capital
city the beautiful court house and
postotfice building now in process of
erection, deserves the grateful
acknowledgment of the county in the
way of an incorruptible and instructed
delegation in our next legislature, in
support of his reelection to the sem
ate. There is no question about our
Indebtedness to Senator Washburn'S
influence in congress and the senate
for the passage Of the appropriation,
and Secretary Window for it's approval.
Yours truly,
0. BROWN.
SPEAKING of the work of the LeXow