The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-11-15
EXPOSE THEIR SORENESS.

The Duluth Herald seems to feel
very sore over the result of the Nc
Cleary-Harvey debate in that city
| last week. From all we can learn
| from different sources, and also judg-
ing from the hysterical crying of the
Herold Mr.. McCleary gave Mr.. Har-
vey the hardest twisting he ever got
upon the platform in debate. The
Herald simply gives it's case away
when it charges Mr.. McCleary with
indecent conduct and says that he
was unfair, and ungentlemanly. Here
in his home city, where he is known
by all, his fairness on every question,
and his gentlemanly bearing are lead
ing characteristics recognized by all,
and having gained for him reputa-
tion which has followed him every
where and has never before been
questioned.
Mr.. McCleary has been close
student of financial questions and
when Mr.. Harvey's book was the fad
of the day,h read it closely,as he did
his debate with Mr.. HOrr, and as
consequence he was we'll acquainted
with that gentleman's style, and
knew all of his weak points and recog-
nized right where Mr.. Harvey endeav-
ored to pull the wool over the :eyes of
the people, and as consequence
nailed him there. That the rage
should follow that has followed is
matter of course. Men of the Har-
vey stripe do not like to have the card
they have been working so success
fully pulled from behind the blinds
and exhibited to the public gaze.
The center of the whole soreness
seems to be in the fact that Mr.. Nc
Cleary produced the Congressional
Record showing that Mr.. Harvey had
misQuoted it, and upon this misquo-
tation had built the whole of his
argument. Naturally the 16 to l ad-
vocates would feel as though they
had been roughly, and perhaps in
decently used. About the only thing
the Herald can say in reply to this,
outside of abuse, is that two or three
years after the act of '73 was passed,
when silver and greenback wave was
going over the country the leading
members of both parties on the floor
of congress denounced the matter
and declared that they did not know
at that time that the silver dollar
was dropped. The records of what
men said when the act was before
congress, are much better than what
they allowed memory to guide them
to say years afterward when they
were standing before public wave,
the force Of which they were fearful
of, and we find that Judge Kelly
fully discussed the act of '73 at the
time it was before congress and on
the floor told why the silver dollar
was dropped. The Judge was one
Of the men who along in III weakened
before the greenback craze and de-
clared he knew nothing of it, Other
prominent men did the same, illus
trating again the we'll known fact
that there are but few men who do
not tremble before public storm,
though they may feel that they are
right.
The terming of Mr.. McCleary as a
gold bug and an advocate of the gold
standard, cuts little figure, as his
record is sufficiently clear to disprove
all that. He has at all times been a
consistent advocate of genuine BIZ
metallism, but positively declines to
be drawn into the Is to ratio camp
of the silver recommendation whirl-
pool. He has at all times advocated
the largest possible use of the white
metal consistent with the safety of
our financial system and on such a
stand secured the largest majority in
this district year ago, ever rolled
up in the district. And this in the
face of the open advocacy by his op-
ponent, of the theories which Mr..
Harvey breaches.