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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07

The action of the Western Pas
senger Association in Chicago yester-
day declining to grant thirty-day
limit to tickets to the G. A. r. Ma
tional encampment to be held in st.
Paul Tor at least voted to be held
there next September is to be regret
ted, but the determination of Gen.
Walker, commander-in-chief, to SUBJ
NIT no modification of his demands, is
really more arbitrary, and if possible
more inconsiderate, than the mex
cuSable action of the railroads. The
majority of the delegates at Louisville
voted to hold the next encampment
at st. Paul, and that city has done all
and more in the way of railroad rates
than any other city that ever enter
tanned the Grand Army, and the Cit
liens are prepared to give them such
reception as they have never hereto
fore met with. 1t is apparent, or at
least surface indications strongly
point to that conclusion, that Gen.
Walker. for some reason, does not
want to come to Minnesota. St. Paul
richly deserves the encampment, and
the railroads centering there are max
ing very grave mistake that they do
not forthwith settle the case by grant
ing the terms demanded
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07
A STRONG PROTEST.

Last evenings Minneapolis Journal
contained an open letter to the voters
of dennepin county, signed by over
one hundred prominent Republicans,
protesting against the nomination of
q. M. Clough for governor. The pro-
test reads:
Believing that the best interests of the state
of Minnesota and of the Republican party de-
mand that the governor of the state shall be the
choice of the people, and shall be selected out
side of the political ring which has controlled
our state politics for the past eight years, and
which now seek to nominate for that high office
one of its members.
We, the undersigned, hereby agree to serve as
members of committee of one hundred to con-
duct campaign in Hennepin coun to aid in
defeating such nomination, and to accomplish
that end we will favor the nomination of any
good Republican.
We invite all Republicans who are opposed
to the longer continuance of machine rule in
this state to join us, with the understanding
that this movement is not in the interest of any
candidate.
Among the signatures found to this
explicit document are those of Sena-
tors Wyman, Morgan, Potter, ex-Sena-
tor Washburn, r. G., Evans, Eugene
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07

fectly with his party on the great
questions of the day. In commenting
upon this habit of Populists and
others of contrasting themselves to
Lincoln, the St. Louis Globe Democrat
says:
There is a very general misappre-
henSion of LincolnS position on the
subject of finance which some of his
biOgraphers are largely responsible
for. They have said that he neither
knew anything about nor cared any
thing for the finance question, and
that he left this subject entirely in
the hands of Secretary Chase. A
story is told in several of his biogra-
phieS that when Chase asked to in
troduce to him a delegation of bank
ers who wished to discuss the money
question with him he exclaimed to
the secretary: "Money | don't
know anything about money L
never had enough of my own to fret
me, and [ have no opinion about it
anyway" But this gives wrong i'm
preston. While Lincoln neither
knew nor cared anything about the
finance question in its abstract phases
and technical aspects, and while he
interfered less in the management
of the treasury department. than he
did ia that of the other great fields of
governmental affairs, his veto of a
District of Columbia bank note bill in
1862 which would dilute the currency,
and his regrets ia messages at the
necessity or assumed necessity of the
large issues Of legal tender notes
authorized by congress, show that he
had a very good idea of the finance
question in it's concrete application.
A year or two ago some PopuliSt
composed diatribe against the al
legged tendency of the "clasSes" to
'oppress the Masses" and ascribed it
to Lincoln, but it's fraudulent char
acter was betrayed by the clumsiness
of it's language as well as by the mar
rowness of its spirit Lincoln was
not man to see ghosts in daylight.
Upon the finance as we'll as upon all
the other great issues of his time,
except reconstruction, he was in COM
plete harmony with his party, and
upon this issue he and his party
might have reached common ground
if he had lived until the meeting of
congress in December, 1865, when re-
construction became question of
practical politics. He signed, of
course, the greenback bills which his
party passed, but he saw, as Chase,
Sherman and the other Republican
leaders did, the possible peril which
the $3.50, 900, 900 of incOnvertible notes
issued at one time and another would
bring to the country ultimately I'm
questiOnably the bill which Sherman
pushed through congress in 1915,
which brought these notes and all the
rest Of the cOuntry's currency up to
the gold level in 1879, would have re-
ceived from him, had he been in the
presidency, the hearty and inteili-
gent support it obtained from Grant.
If alive now he would take precisely
the same attitude toward the 16 to l
folly and dishonesty that Sherman
and the masses of the Republicans
hold
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07
LAYING 1T TO LINCOLN.

SO-called reformers have great
habit of trying to appeal to their
hearers by saying that they are an
Abraham Lincoln Republican, and
that they believe in the principles
which he advocated. They feel that
an excuse is needed for their action
and look upon this statement as suf-
ticient to justify it. They would give
the impression that Lincoln believed
far different from his party, or that
the party of that day was far differ
ent from what it is today. But the
principles of the party were the same
then as now, and Lincoln agreed per-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07

G.. Hay, ex-Attorney General Hahn,
p. V. Peavy, Geo. A. Pillsbury, 5. b.
Howard, John B. Swift, E. e. Smith,
j. S. Bell, G. f. e. Peterson, Nels
Munson, j. A. Nordeen, }. IL. Paul
son, w. M. Regain, Ell Terrence, Robt.
Stratton, ex-Postmaster L. ID. Hale,
A. D. Robbins, Geo. w. Marchant,and
others of equal or less local celebrity.
1t would seem to clearly show that,
when a community will rise up with
an open exhibition of disapproval of
the candidacy of one of its own Cit
liens for the highest office within
the gift of the commonwealth, to the
extent that Minneapolis has, that
there is something rotten in Den
mark" When politics have come to
that pass which will warrant such an
open and emphatic protest against
the continuation in office of any man
or set of men, it is about time that
the common people stopped and ask
"whither are we drifting and to what
purpose?" Gov. Clough's lack of popu-
larity and standing in his own home
is certainly an unfortunate predica-
ment for him to face in campaign
such as the approaching one promises
to be, and if the action above noted is
an earnest of the sentiment existing
in Minneapolis against him, where he
has resided for more than quarter of
a century, what other or better evil
dence Of what should guide the de-
cision of the country can be furnished?
The old saw that imam is not with
out homer save in his own country"
would seem to apply with double force
to Bro. Clough.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07
Deafness Cannot be Cured

By local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear
There is only one way to cure Deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucous
lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets infamed you have
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing,
and when it is entirely closed Deaf
ness is the result, and unless the in
fiammatiOn can be taken out and this
tube restored TO it's normal condition.
hearing will be destroyed forever:
nine cases out of ten are caused by
catarrh. which is nothing but an in
famed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (cauSed by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure Send for circu-
lars, Free f. J. CHENEY & Co.,
Sold by Druggists. 75c. Toledo, o.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07

FROM what we are able to learn of the senti-
ment of this district, Congressman McCleary S
chances of being his own successor are fast as
Stunning intinitesimal proportions.
The above is from the Martin
County Sentinel, strong free silver
paper, and the sO-called sentiment"
observed by Bro. Day is evidently that
produced by looking through 16 to 1
goggles. And they don't reflect much
of sentiment" in .the Second dis
trict.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07
PIECE OF VANDALISM.
A Bullet Goes Through Plate Glass
Window

Some time Sunday night a bullet was
fired through the large plate glass
window on the Main street side of
Mrs. Dittman'S millinery store, in The
Saulpaugh block. The bullet was
about 3S calibre and cracked the
glass from side to side, besides max
ing clean cut hole of the size of
the bullet. The latter could not be
found and did not penetrate the cur
tain, which was down and has a few
slight cuts from pieces of glass. Where
the bullet went is mystery, unless
it stuck in the glass and was extract :
ed by the person who did the shoot
ing.
There is no clue to the miscreant,
but if discovered, his wanton de-
structiveness should be paid for by a
good fine.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07
A HOLD UP.
How Jacob Saenger Encountered
Two Highwaymen Last Night.

Jacob Saenger reported to the po-
licet Monday that he was held up
Sunday night at about 11:15 o'clock,
while on his way home srom this city.
He was on foot, and when near Geo.
Hodapp's farm, four miles from this
city, came across two young men of
about the same height, who demanded
his money. One fired revolver in
front of him and the other fired be-
hind him, to put him in proper
frame of mind to comply with their
demands. They went through his
pockets and secured seventy-fve cents
in money. He had taken the precau-
tion to place $3.50 in his hat before
starting on his lone walk, knowing
that foot pads were abroad, and thus
saved the greater part of his money.
There is no clue to the robbers,
who quickly disappeared.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07

In case of danger the Indian was ever ready
to act and often too at the expense of personal
bodily harm to himself. This promptness and
self-reliance in cases of accident has been the
means of his saving many lives. Equally alert
has he ever been for greater dangers, those
arising from a disordered condition of the
kidneys, liver, stomach or blood, which he
knew as well as the best physician of to-day
would eventually result in death.
His remedy for these troubles was always a
medicine compounded from roots, herbs, banks
and gums, not roughly thrown together, but
carefully compounded, the secret of making
it having been handed down from generation
to generation. This same remedy known as
kICKAPoo INDIAN SAGwA, is to-day still made
as it was formerly by the Indian and is known
and recognized the world over as one of the
greatest blessings ever given to man.
If you are aiing try this wonderful medicine.
cure in every instance is speedily effected
and in no case has harm ever resulted from
use. Sold by all druggis.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07
ANNUAL. MEETING.
The Building and Loan Association
Elects Officers.

The stockholders of the Mankato
Mutual Building and Loan Associa-
tion held the annual meeting Satur-
day night, and elected the following
officers and directors:
President-GeO. Pass.
Vice President-James Wilson.
Treasurer-Geo. B. Owen.
Secretary-James B. Swan.
Directors-M. O. Sundt, f. f..
Powers, G. A. Richardson, Jno. r.
Thomas, Thos, Coughlan, Thos.
Hughes, L. N. Holmes, p B. Sparrow,
S. Nelson, B. f. Pay, Geo. T. Boynton.
These are all reflections, with the
exception of Mr.. Owen, who succeeds
Geo. W. Thoms as treasurer, and Mr..
Sparrow, who succeeds G.. A. Lewis
as director.
The directors will meet Wednesday
night.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07
NEARING THE CLOSE.

The firm which has the contract
for putting the heating plant into
the government building expects to
begin work the first of next week and
has notified Architect Gerlach that
it will have the material and force
of men on hand then.
In response to an order from Wash
ington, the services of Foreman
Yeorg have been dispensed with, ow-
ing to the progress of the work and
the small funds remaining of the
appropriation.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07
ALL PEACEFUL AGAIN.

Peace is once more lowering over
the Syrian colony, and discords have
been healed. Both sides unite in the
interchanging of friendship, and they
declare that there will be no more
trouble there in the future. These
Syrians are naturally peaceable, and
are honest and industrious. They are
taking a great interest in the affairs
of Turkey and Armenia, and are
friendly to Russia on account of the
latter's friendship for the United
States and her being the main hope
against the Turk.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07
THE CAUSE OF CHEAP WHEAT.

The one article of farm produce
which the silverites use in their at
tempt to sustain their assertion that
gold has appreciated instead of silver
growing cheaper, is wheat. They ig-
more all other products. They pay no
attention to the fact that previous to
the panic of 1898, a days labor would
purchase more gold than it would in
1873 or at any time previous, which
one might judge, from the story the
silver monometallists tell, to have
been the ideal age of the republic,
but none would be more strenuous
kickers than they, were they obliged
to be set back to live under the con-
ditiOns which then existed.
But in the claim that gold has ap-
preciated simply because the price of
wheat is not as high today, the silver
monOmetallistS omit one very import
ant point, and that is the item of
wheat supply. They ignore entirely the
fact that the wheat producing area of
of the world has greatly increased in
the past twenty or twenty-five years,
and that countries which were then
producing practically no surplus
wheat are now sending millions of
bushels into the same market in
which the United States has been
pouring her surplus, so that in 1894
this country was not sending as much
wheat to England, according to
it's population, as it was in 1876.
If our export had kept pace
with England's demand we would
have sent much more wheat than we
did. But England is now getting
large supply from other countries
where years ago she obtained pract-
ically none. In twenty years the
Canadian wheat supply has increased
100000 bushels, the greater part of
which has gone to England. In 1880
the export of wheat to England from
India amounted to only 500, 900 BUSH
els, but in '94 it had reached so, 100000
bushels. In 1861 the wheat acreage
of Australia was $4,000 acres. In
1892 it had reached 1892, 900 acres,
the surplus wheat therefrom going to
England. Another country which is
competing with the United States is
Argentine Republic. In 1889 her eX-
port of wheat amounted to only $780,
600 bushels, but in 1894 it sent Eng
land 61,O0O,0O0 bushels.
TO say that all of these influences
have had no effect upon the price of
wheat, and that the only reason for
it's decline in price is because silver
is not now coined free, is the purest
folly, and yet that is just what the
silver mOnOmetaliSt would have the
people believe. If the demand for
wheat had increased as fast as the
supply, the price of wheat would rule
higher than it does today, though it
might not command as high price
as it did twenty or twenty-five years
ago, not because of the alleged crime
against silver, but because of the
great improvement in labor-saving
machinery with which the farmer
can raise wheat today cheaper
than he could then. These are the
forces which have worked to
cheaper the price of wheat, and they
are forces over which silver has no
control.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07
BIDS OPENED.

Bids were opened Saturday night
for the construction of the addition
to DR.. Andrews office, as follows:
j. d. Carroll, $3.50; Kleinschmidt
Bros, $3.50; G. B. Nelson, 50, S00;Cote
& Carlson, S3,772; Henry Tanger, So
1851 N. Day & Co. "a, 26O; Norlander &
johnson, S4,397; Hugh McMurtrie, 49,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07

Mr.. B. d. SMITH, of Mankato, is
getting much encouragement of sup
port for attorney general, and es-
pecially is this true of the Second dis
trict. This district hasn't position
on the state ticket, and the next Re
publican convention will be expected
to make amend for the condition of
affairs by nominating Mr.. Smith to
succeed General Childs.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07

THE Martin County Independent
says business interests and new enter
prises are waiting upon the action of
the Republican senate. Jesse.
When the Republican senate comes
into power in 1897, it will act. The
present senate, the Independent should
remember, is not Republican.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07
A Minister'S Confession

| must confess that | derived more
benefit to my lungs from the use of
White Wine Of Tar Syrup than any
remedy | have ever tried, and cheer
fully recommend it to every one hav-
ing any kind of lung trouble.
Rev. A. M. HUMPHREY.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07
Trilla, Coles Co.. Ill.
Our Six Year Old Daughter.

Our little six-year old daughter had
a very sore throat, badly liberated,
and coughed almost necessarily Gave
the White Wine of Tar Syrup accord
ing to directions and she began to
improve Immediately and soon got
we'll. Mrs. Groves and l have recon-
mended it to others, and we consider
it the very best medicine in use.
Rev. d. III. GROVES,
Pastor M. e. Church, Clarksville, Mo-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07

OILS; Frank Gramer, 1880; Schlngle
& Co., S4,199; Day & Briggs, 1884;
Mahlke & Co., 1926.
The contract has not yet been
awarded.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-07

Mrs. Lease has cancelled her date
at Mapleton on account of sickness,
but will fill the engagement in June.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-12-26

how much suffering her refusal caused
him. She told him a. gently a. she
could that their lives could not be
linked together; that although she ad-
mircd him and esteemed him she felt
that q would be risking his future as
well as her own 10 consent 70 a union
when she was sure no adinlty existed.
Il was a touching speech and she threw
so much heart into q that she dld not
observe that he was taking notes In
shorthand When she had concluded
be arose and put his rotebouk W his
pocket Extending his hand he re-
marked genially. I'm ever 90 much
obliged 20 you. You did 4 ever so
nicely and Tn under a thousand obn-
CATIONS. I'm writing a novel and have
scene In which a Girl refuses TO
marry a man. was anxious to avoid
the atoreotyped style Of depicting such
Incidents and make Il realistic. You're
the seventh girl have proposed to and
every one OF the others accepted me
II you had said Yes I think I'd have
been completely discouraged. Wash
.ngton Star.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-12-26
PARIsIANs rAkINo ro sKInTs.
moomsru Ar. Not the sasrt rhlss Asy
More.

nioomers Are Not the saari rhiag Any
Boomers are not the START thing
any more Since the smart houses re-
fuse to make this unbecomlng garment.
the better class Of French ladies has
taken 70 wearing skirts: AZ least. apol-
ogles for skirts. such a. We So attaehsd
10 a bathing suit and barely reaching
10 the knee. says q Paris letter In the
New York Journal The middle-elass
women ntill cling TO the masculine at
tire however. As 70 the difference IN
the wheels themselves. the tin or metal
rims instead OF our wooden ones. are
the most notable feature. A police reg
ulalion demands a name plate. with
the owners name aud address on every
wheel. 70 that stolen or lost property
may be Identified or returned. In
many cases the bells. which are also
a necessity. are replaced BY larse-slaed
raitles which awlng from the handle
bara ana jingle along the streets until
one feels rs though the seasons were
reversed and the sound was that Of
diminutlve slclghs spinning past. At
night there Is a picturesque change
from our regulations. Instead Of oil
lamps. gay-colored Chinese lanterns
hang on the EsHdle-baE and sway with
every motion OF the wheel. They do
not caat as good llgM on the road
for the benefit Of the/ridcr a. do our
favoTlte lamps. but they are certainly
immensely effective for the looker-on.
and suggest At once the idea OF feast
Of lanterns" on wheels. The more prac-
teal part Of French bicycling Is seen
in the militia Gendarmes riding BY
In their red uniforms is a common oe-
currence. while the sight Of an ofheer.
booted and spurred. with shoulder
cape and sword. receiving and return
ing the salutes OF his regiment. all on
wheels. Is something quite unique.