The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-08-30
SENATOR DAVIS PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDACY.

The Saturday evening twin city pa
pers contained an interview with
Capt H. A. Castle, regarding the
presidential candidacy of Senator G..
X. Davis, which is looked upon as the
formal announcement of MinnesOta's
brilliant senator of his entry in the
presidential nomination ring. There
is no question but that the state of
Minnesota will stand solid for Senator
Davis and there should be none The
delegation should be a strong and able
one and it ought to contain some ora
tors who can eIectrify an audience, as
we'll as men who are leaders as organ
izers, and the Republican party of
Minnesota contains both. 1t would,
in fact, be a most graceful compliment
to Senator Davis to allow him to name
the delegation.
1t has been charged that his candi-
dacy was simply for the purpose of
getting a delegation that would be
used for trading purposes, to the end
sibility. Capt. Castle puts this idle
story at rest by the statement that
Senator Davis prefers his position as
senator to cabinet position, and that
the delegation would be used simply
in his interest for the presidential
nomination, and this accords with the
man as his most intimate friends
know him.
Reviewing the stand which the SEN
ator took toward the great strikes a
year ago, Capt. Castle truly says that
no true labor organization, nor intelli-
gent laboring man can oppose him on
that score. He stands in full sympa-
thy with the laboring men, and for
law and order. Nothing in his posi-
tiOn can be tortured against the true
interests of labor, but he did oppose
the demagOgic leaders who would
could they have their own way had
the wage-earners into troublous paths.
1t has been urged against Senator
Davis that his candidacy would avail
him nothing because the state he
halls from is strongly Republican. If
this is bar to candidate, then there
are several candidates who have been
mentioned, who will have to fall out.
ThOs. B. Reed comes from state the
Republicanism of which cannot be
questioned, and it stands no danger
whatever of drifting away from it. At
present Ohio is strong Republican
state and will 60 Republican in 1896
as surely as an election is held, but no
one has thought of trying to crowd
Gov. Mckinley off the track because
of this. If anything of this kind
is to be urged, it might be said that
while Minnesota is all right and al
ways has been that Wisconsin to the
east and Iowa to the south have wan
dered away in times past from the
party fold, while the Dakotas have at
times been very uncertain, and to a
partial extent have gone over to the
enemy politically, and the nomination
of Cush Davis would be a power of
strength in all of them.
The attention he has attracted and
the many notices he has received from
all parts of the country since he was
first spoken of for the presidency
shows conclusively that he has grown
beyond the favorite son bounds, and
there is now no question but what he
will have quite number of delegates
in the northwest outside of Minneso-
ia, which will make him candidate
worthy Of notice in any event, and
very important one in case Of a dead
lock among the older candidates. The
growing west has claims that cannot
be well overlooked, and now that it
can back up these claims with a man
who stands the peer of any in the
field, it ought to command some at
tentiOn and receive some recognition
from the nation. With Senator
Davis in the presidential chair the ma
tion would be sure of strong, patri-
otto administration, thoroughly Amer
lean in every respect, and there would
be no hesitating manner about it, and
our foreign policy would be such that
other nations of the world would be
careful how they tread upon Uncle
Sans toes, and the rights of Ameri-
can citizens would everywhere within
the bounds of civilization be re-
spected, or the reason why would be
known at once.
THE STRIDES OF SCIENCE.