The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-03-27
SECOND DISTRICT REPUBLICANS.

The outcome of the second district con-
gressional convention this forenoon was
most harmonious, and bodies we'll for the
party of the district. The selection of
Messrs. Edwards and Rowe was most
happy one. The different portions of the
district are well recognized and they are
men we'll known, strong in their Republic
anism and will add strength to the Mime
sofa delegation at ST. Louis.
That the convention would instruct for
Major Mckinley was foregone conclusion
to any one who has kept we'll informed as
to the trend of events for the past two or
three weeks 1t was the outcome pure and
simple of the great Mckinley tidal wave
which has been sweeping over the country
with irresistible force for the past twenty
days. After the experience of the past
three years with free trade Democracy
during which the great prosperity under
the Mckinley law has been entirely shat
tered, the law wiped from the statute
books, and the reciprocity treaties nego-
tiated under it, and which were turning
millions of trade toward this country, abro
gated, it is hardly to be wondered at that
the party turns almost with one accord to
the man who stood as chief sponsor for
that law, and who, when defeat came, and
the courage of others weakened somewhat
and they thought possibly the party might
have gone too far stood unfinchingly for
the principles he had advocated, and de-
clared that out of the darkness of disaster
would come a great victory for the cause
the party battled for.
And because the second district Repub
licans turned so to him, and those of the
state are likely too tomorrow, is not be-
cause they fail to recognize the great abil
tiles which Senator Davis possesses for the
position his many brilliant qualities, his
culture, and his sound Republicanism.
They would like to do him honor but the
trend of the times has served to make the
current too strong, and except for the un-
forseen. nothing of the kind is possible.
Under any other conditions than those
which now confront the country Mime
sofa Republicans would present solid
and united front for her brilliant son.
With Minnesota and the Dakotas turning
to Mckinley, the whole north and west,
with the exception of Iowa, stands for him,
and removes all doubt of his nomination as
the next president of the United States.
There is one matter for which the Re-
publicans of the second district are to be
congratulated, and that is the adoption of
the resolution regarding the financial ques-
tons. The convention adopted without
change the plank of the Wisconsin Repub-
licans about which there can be no ques-
ton as to its meaning nor no accusation of
a straddler. 1t stands square for honest
money and the Republicans at St. Louis
could not do better than adopt it without
additions. Its adoption by vote of 1877
to II disposes of all question as to where
the second district Republicans stand upon
proval of the course of Congressman Nc
Cleary and he could not ask for better
endorsement, and it makes him as much
the logical candidate for denomination, as
Mckinley is for the presidency In it the
second district has declared against
flatlsm of any kind, whether it be of cheap
silver or of paper. At the same time there
is no hostility in it to silver, which it will
accept to the largest extent possible in our
currency, but not to point which will
break its parity with gold and lead to sill
yer monometallism.
Taken all in all it was good day for the
Republicans of this district and will bear
good fruit through the months to come.