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Eli Cherry. Up.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
DENIS MEET.
Sound Money Men Are HowIed
Down.
Pops Crack the Lash Over Them for
Office.

MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. 1.-The Demo
cratic state convention is in session
today, but it has done nothing yet
except the work of organization.
Among the st. Paul delegates were
Messrs. Lawler, Cutcheon and Nc
Cathady, but the convention refused
to recognize them as delegates al.
though no contest for their seats was
made. Lawler and Cutcheon at
tempted to address the convention
but were howled down and great con-
fusion followed.
The Populists are swinging the
lash over the convention and declare
that unless they are given the Lieut..
governor they will put up man OF
their own.
No nominations have yet been
made but John Lind will be nominal
ed for governor with little or nc
opposition.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
BOURKE COCKRAN'S IDEA.

Bourke Cochran advises against the
nomination of third ticket by the
sound money Democrats. He says
they should define the true principles
of Democracy in platform and then
endorse Mckinley and Hobart as the
opponents of sound money and vote
for them, and be in shape
to oppose them on other
points upon which they may
disagree during the administration.
But he believes that the supreme
duty of the hour is the triumph of
sound money, the preservation of the
national credit, and the maintenance
of the honor of the nation, and that
this can be best secured by the cleo
tion of Mckinley. The sound money
vote, he says, should not be divided,
the people should rise above partisans
and be patriots. Mr.. Cochran is of
the opinion that with a platform
enunciating correct Democratic prin-
clples, with sound money as it's CEN
trail idea, that more can be accom-
plished for the continuation of good
government than could be by the
placing of another ticket in the field.
The matter has been receiving the
close attention of leading sound money
Democrats throughout the country,
and while few have advocated a
third ticket simply for party reasons,
the general disposition has been to do
what will be best for the cause Of
sound finance and good government.
1t would seem that Mr.. Cockran's
idea is finding much favor among the
leaders, as the Washington cores
pendent of the Minneapolis Journal
states that Don Dickinson, who is
now in Washington, intimates that
there will be no third ticket, but Nc
Kinley and Hobart will be endorsed,
and that this will have the approval
of President Cleveland and the leaders
of the sound money wing of De-
mocracy, who have been his close ad-
visors. 1t is safe to say that what
ever is done, will only be entered up
on after a careful canvas of the situa-
tiOp
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
A WARNING.
Chicken Shooting During the Closed
Season Must Stop.

Some of the farmers are complain
ing of the fact that hunters are tres
passing on their fields and shooting
prairie chickens. The law is not up
on prairie chickens, quail or ducks
until Sept 1st, and in any event hunt
ers have no right to go onto peoples
fields without permission. Sheriff
Bowen states that the law shall be
enforced, and is going out through
the country in a few days, and says
that he will bring in any violators OF
the law without respect of persons
and have them fined.
Those who do this illegal hunting
are not people from this city, as the
local sportsmen are waiting for the
open season and are anxious for the
enforcement of theulaw. If some go
out before the legal time it is unfair
to the rest, who are law abiding.
Then, again, the young chickens are
not more than half grown and have
no show for life. 1t is merely a
slaughter now, and the fellow who
would do it ought to be prosecuted to
the extent of the law.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
No ENTHUSIASM.
The Democrats Are not Perfectly
Happy Over Days Nomination.

The nomination of Frank A. Day
for congress Monday is not setting
the prairies of the Second district on
fire. at least, there are no signs OF
any serious confiagratiOn, unless TO-
days heat can be ascribed to it. AS
rule, the rank and file of the Demo
cracy is not over much ,pleased with
the nomination. The hope of office
can make the leaders swallow as rank
dose as yesterdays Populist dicta-
tion was, but this is a consolation
that is not shared by the men who
do the voting. Days ideas are all
Republican except on the one issue OF
silver, and were he to be elected he
would probably vote with the Repub-
lican representatives on all other
questions.
Day would not have been nominat-
ed had it not been that the POpulists
refused to endorse any Democrat who
had been named. The Populists
would have preferred that the Demo
Gratis had nominated L. G. Long, and
some of the delegates were willing to
60 even that far. Day was compro-
mise, and the Populists held the whip
over their allies until all were finally
gotten into line. To prevent "scene"
and an open revolt on the floor, sever
al long conferences were necessary,
but finally everything was fixed salts
factorily.
The honest money Democrats will
bolt the ticket to man, and Day
will prove the weakest man that
could have been named, so far as re-
ceiving Democratic votes is concern
ed. Talk of knitting the ticket can be
heard in all parts of the city, and
Congressman McCleary will receive
the largest majority in Mankato ever
given TO Congressman.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
DIDN'T WANT 1T.

Frank Day, when interviewed by a
Minneapolis Times reporter Monday,
said: 81 have repeatedly said to my
friends this summer that | did not
want the bimelal!ic nomination for
congress from the Second district.
My belief WAS, and is, that Gen. Pope,
of Mankato, would be the strongest
candidate against Mr.. McCleary. This
is year when no man should allow
his personal ambition to stand in the
way of the great popular movement
for bimetallism which is forcing it's
way to the 'front.'"
Mr. Days efforts to keep the nomi-
nation from coming to him were truly
heroic.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
THE nATTER OF WHEAT PRICES.

One of the principal themes of the
silver monometallists in their at
temptto capture the farmer is the
assertion that the price of wheat has
been cut in two by the refusal to coin
silver free. They never go any far
ther than this mere assertion. They
offer no proof of their assertion, nor
do they ever mention the fact that a
bushel of wheat even in these depres-
sed times will purchase as much of
the comforts of life as when it was
selling at the higher price. But it is
not true that up to the date of the
present hard times wheat has
followed silver in it's decline. Some
years wheat has dropped down to a
low price, and other years it has
ranged higher, but it wi found on
investigation that whe he price
dropped low it was be of the
large supply and small demand for it.
Mr.. Geo. B. Roberts, editor of the
Fort Dodge, Iowa, Messenger, has
been looking up the price of wheat
since 1861, and gives a table showing
its price on the first day of January of
each year from 1861 to 1892 as shown
by the reports of the secretary of the
Chicago board of trade. He also gives
in the table the gold value of the
currency for each year, and also the
amount of gold necessary each year to
purchase a bushel of wheat. The
table is as follows:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

The st. Cloud Times says that the
difference in the parties is that the
Democrats declared for free coinage
OF gold and silver, while the Republi-
cans declared for gold alone. Well,
to the average person that is enough.
But the evident intention of the
Times is to carry the idea that the Re-
publicans have pronounced against
silver when such is not the case, but
simply against it's free coinage. 1t
stands for as large a use of silver as
possible, and maintain it's parity with
gold.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

Mr.. Roberts shows from the above
tables that from 1861 to 1872 it re-
quired an average of SO to 97t cents
of gold to buy a hushel of wheat and
from the latter year to 1892 an aver
age of 81 81 cents to SO 81 cents in
gold to purchase bushel, showing
an average decline of about cents
during the 81 years. Somewhat diff
ferent from the cutting in two process
which the silver people are SO fond
of telling about.
There are several Things in connec-
tion with this which should be called
to mind. The first period covered
three great wars, the American rebel
lion, the Austro-German war, and the
war between France and Germany. 1t
also covered time of crude harvest
ing machinery, when it took five or
six men to do what one man with an
improved binder will do now. The
second period is wholly covered by
that of improved farm machinery
when the cost of wheat production
has been materially reduced. 1t also
covers a period when the wheat pro-
ducing territory of the world has been
greatly expanded, not only here at
home but in all parts of the world.
During the last half of this whole
period, inventive genius and the ag-
gregation of capital has caused a tire
mendous reduction in the price OF all
that the farmer buys and in 1892 a
bushel of wheat would buy more OF
what the farmer needs, than at any
previous time during the period, and
silver has not had anything to do
with it one way or the other.
There is another thing that should
not be overlooked, and that is that
from 1879, when specie.payments were
resumed and the greenbacks were
brought to par with gold, down to
1892 the Chicago price of wheat rang
ed higher than it did back in 1861 and
'62 when both silver and gold were
admitted to the mint free. Curious
isn't it that the alleged crime of 1873
did not disastrously effect the prices
of wheat until twenty years later, and
that it did not do it then until a
step toward free trade brought on an
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
SLIGHTLY WAR7.
Old Sol Pours Down His Hottest Rays
Tuesday.

The hot wave which has been send
ing the mercury in Texas and Indian
Territory from 107 to liz degrees In
the shade has evidently reached Man
kato. The mercury got up to 81 de-
grees Monday afternoon, and the
lowest point reached at night was
IA degrees. 1t was the warmest night
of the summer. Shortly after six
O'Clock Tuesday a sudden and
drenching shower fell, but lasted less
than five minutes. The day opened
with higher temperature than Mon
day did, and with more moisture
in the air, which made the suffering
greater. Two or three persons were
slightly overcome by the heat Mon
day.
Chas. Dixon, a driver of one of W..
r. Hammett's drays, was overcome
by the heat Monday afternoon and
was in a bad way that night, but is
much better today.
A ward man at the Omaha depot
was overcome with the heat Mon
day, but with no serious results.
The Omaha right of way is about as
hot place as workmen are employed
in.
The temperature mounted steadily
Tuesday until at 1:3O O'Clock reliable
thermometers indicated SO degrees.
A hot south wind set in, but the
moisture of the morning hours dis
appeared from the air, and people did
not suffer as they did a few hours be-
fore. The day has been three or four
degrees hotter than any of the sum-
mer thus far.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
THE POPULlST CONVENTION.
1t is Called to fleet at Window
Aug. 25th.

Chairman A. D. Ferris, of the Popu-
list congressional committee, has
called the congressional convention
OF his party to meet at Windon, Aug.
18th. Some of the Populist papers
have printed an erroneous call for
Aug. 18th, not made by Mr.. Ferris.
The latter has called the convention
since the Blue Earth county Populist
convention, and it meets on the day
before the state convention.
The program of the Populists is to
endorse the nomination of Frank Day
for congress. This they are likely to
do, unless the unforeseen occurs. L.
G. Long is quoted as favoring Day, and
that will go long ways, as his wishes
are now law with his adherents.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
MINNESOTA
State Normal Schools
AT
WinOna, MankatO, St. Cloud,
And MOOrhead.

These schools are organized for the
training OF teachers for the public
schools of the state.
ORGANIZATION. = Each school
comprises two Departmental
Normal Department and the Train
ing Department or Model School.
The Normal Department embraces:
TAI An Elementary Course of two
years for teachers of rural districts
and elementary grades.
10 An Advanced Course of FIVE
years for teachers of advanced
grades.
(c) A Professional Course of one
year and two years for graduates
of high schools.
(d) A kindergarten Training
Course lat Winona, St. Cloud and
Mankato.)
ADMISSION. = Graduates of high
schools and colleges, and teachers
holding county superintendent.
first and second grade certificates are
admitted without examination. All
others are required to pass an en-
trance examination.
EXPENSES Tuition is free to all
who pledge themselves to teach in
Minnesota. Text books are furnish
ed at rental of three dollars per
year. Provision is made in each
school for economical living. The
average cost of furnished rooms With
board is about So per week. The
Ladies' Home at st. Cloud, the new
Dormitory at Moorhead, and theLa-
dies'Home at Winona offer board,
furnished room, heat. and light at
from $500 to $3.50 per week.
BY a recent act ofthe
legislature, a diploma becomts a
state teachers certificate of the irst
grade.
The next school year opens at allthe
schools, September 4. 1896.
For free catalogues and circulars, Civ
ing full information, address the
presidents as follows:
IRWIN SHEPARD, Winona.
EDWARD Soaring, Mankato.
q. r. KLEEBERGER, ST. Cloud.
LIVINGSTON @. LORD, Moorhead.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
rlcCLEARY'S SPEECH.
IL is in Great Demand--Silver Craze
is Abating.

We are in redeipt of letter from
J. e. Hall, Washington, D. c., in
which he says that he may return to
Mankato in September to spend his
vacation and do little hustling for
Congressman McCleary. He has been
promoted to the chief clerkship in
the postoffice. Speaking of politics,
he says:
members of congress drop in here
occasionally in their journeying from
state to state. The fight is hot and
the silver craze is strong in some Sec
tions, but within the past week there
has been a noticeable improvement in
the feeling of the Republicans who
have been out in the field. 1t is
wonderful to see the demand for Nc
Cleary's speech. The Republican
League at Chicago, the Sound Money
League at New York, and the Repub-
lican congressional committee here
have been sending them out by the
thousands and still the cry is more.
If we win this fight, the party will
owe it's largest debt of gratitude to a
Minnesota congressman, and a Man.
kato congressman at that"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

IT has been a noticeable fact that
few outside of the bosses have at
tended the Democratic primaries for
the congressional conventions, and
the state convention which meets to-
day. From many precincts have
come the reports that hardly enough
were present to organize and conduct
the business. The rank and file have
taken no interest in the cut and dried
schemes of the bosses to force an ex-
Republican upon them, while the
sound money wing ignored them
almost entirely.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

in taking up his abode with the
Popocrats. On every question before
the American people today Mr.. Nc
Cleary stands sound, and that is the
reason the people will stand by him
on election day, in preference to Mr..
Day, who must stand upon. the Chi
cago platform which he has accepted
with all it's dangerous "isms.n
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

BOTH the county convention and
the gathering of the Second district
Democracy yesterday overlooked the
matter of endorsing the present
Democratic national administration
and yet it was but a short time that
none of them were so mean but that
they could do it reverence, but now
they pass by with averted look. Its
merging into Popocracy is having a
bad effect upon it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
THE CONGRESSIONAL FIGHT.

In the nomination of Frank A.
Day for congress the expected has
happened. A few leaders of Popo-
cracy said it must be done no matter
what the rank and file wanted, as
their cut and dried scheme was forced
through under the lash. And later
in the.month the same thing will be
gone through with in the other wing
of the Popocrats. 1t is a matter
with which the people had nothing
to do, but is simply the arrangement
of few self-styled leaders. It must
be supremely CALLING to the Democra-
cy of the district to be told that they
have no man who is capable of
leading them in good fight. But
this is the song which has been con-
stantly sung to them of late years,
and some are beginning to believe it,
but there is every evidence that a
great many are getting tired of it and
will this fall exercise their own indie
pendent judgment if they are OBJ
liged to go outside Of their party, as
they must, to vote for candidate for
congressman.
But the FREE PRESS does not be-
lieve that the people of this district
are ready to discard all the sound
principles of finance and embrace the
wild schemes of imitation which are
invited by the free silver ideas. We
do not believe that after the verdict
which they rendered two years ago in
which they so emphatically endorsed
the position of Mr.. McCleary toward
practical bimetallism that they will
reverse that verdict and float out up
on the dark sea OF theory with all the
untried experiments which are at
tendant with it, We are rather of
the belief that possessed Lincoln in
1864, when asked if he had felt there
was any danger that his party would
drop him for some one else replied
that he had not, as he had been firm
ly of the belief that the people would
not "swap horses in the middle of the
stream"
Mr.. McCleary has been tried, and
the people know right where to find
him, and they know that at all times
they can trust him to act for their
best interests. He stands for that
policy which will guarantee to the
country most stable finance, best
suited to all our interests. And above
all he stands opposed to all the wild
theories put forth at Chicago, which
are blow at good government, and
theories which Mr.. Day must defend
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

JOHN X. CowAN, the Democratic
member of congress from Baltimore,
who lately declared his intention of
voting for Mckinley, has sent in an
order to the Republican national
committee for 100000 documents on
the sound money question. He pro-
poses that his constituents shall know
how to vote right.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

industrial paralysis throwing thou
sands of wage-earners out of employ
ment, thus reducing their ability to
purchase as largely as usual of the
necessities of life and thereby
causing our consumption of wheat to
fall from 5.91 bushels per capita in
1892 to 3.41 bushels in 1894?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
Indians at the State Fair.

An interesting feature of the State
Fair this year, especially to visitors
from Eastern, Southern and Middle
States, will be an Indian exhibition,
which will include an Indian village,
Indian dances, races, gameof Lacrosse,
bow and arrow contests and EXPOSE
tions of Indian marriage and burial
ceremonies. 1t is intended to have
collection of Indians which will rep
resent the best specimens of the sur
viving Red Men with squaWs and
papooses obtai nable.
For fOur-hOrSe equalizer for har-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
was unexpected.

The Winona Morning Press has
suspended publication. Morning pa
pers in the small cities are not paying
ventures, as the evening papers sup
ply every want of the people by giving
all of the news, and some twelve or
fifteen hours earlier when it is fresh.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

Mr.. BRYAN is said to have the
spectacular features of his New York
speech completed, and is now wonder
ing if they will prove as sensational
as his remarks at Chicago. But he
should remember that the affair at
Chicago was unexpected.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
A. w. GLEASON,

Mr.. j. G. Hanson, of Mankato,
was in town Saturday, looking over
the prospects of locating here in the
tailor business. He was we'll pleased
with the outlook, and may decide to
start in business here.-Mapleton
Enterprise.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

SECOND district Democrats ought
to be good judges of crow. In six
years they have nominated one
Democrat for congress.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

Stop at Chris Danielson's opposite
tie Clifton House, and get four-horse
equalizer to put on your harvester and
drive four horses abreast.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

AND now will Frank Day use his
shotgun on his opponents in this dis
trict?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

kg The WEEKLY FREE PRESS is the
best paper in the county.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

IF the Popocrats will garble dead
mans speech, what won't they do?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
HIGHLAND PARK HERD Pc
LAND CHINAS.

The best and most fashionable
families. A few choice male
pigs for sale.
&. w. MONKS.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

For four-horse equalizer for har-
vesters go to Chris. Danielson.