The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-30
Republican County Ticket.
JOHN LIMBS SPEECH.

not help but be disappointing to his
followers in this city. In the first
place it was a labored effort. There
was,no enthusiasm whatever injected
into it, and with the exception of a
few instances had frosty effect up
on his audience. In the next place it
was largely made up of assertions and
lacked the proof that will clinch them
with thinking, intelligent people,
such as listened to him last evening.
Although he talked for two hours he
had not time to bring proof to the
assertions he made, although it has
not bothered the Republican speakers
TO prove the statements they have
made.
The FREE PRESS is sorry that it
turned Mr. Lind from his beaten
tracks by the publication of his line
Of thought the other evening. But as
a wide-awake, up-to-date paper, it al
ways gives matters of public interest
TO the people when they are fresh,
and of course after it had exposed the
fallacies Mr.. Lind has been indulging
in around the state, it would be folly
for him to attempt to work them off
here. He did not even attempt to
deny the facts we gave, because he
knew that to do so would be to deny
his own record
Evidently the local managers had
informed him of the fatal results
which followed his statements in this
city last summer, when he said he en-
dOrsed the Chicago platform and
stood squarely upon it. At that time
he said every corporation, every COM
bine and all organized capital was on
one side and the producing classes
labor, was on the other in this fight,
and that this was the issue and not
free coinage. Last night he modi-
fed this statement considerably, in
fact changed it entirely. He now
says that the workingmen, and men
engaged in production-men with
capital invested in manufacture, are
upon one side and the bondholders
and all who have money to loan
those who live upon the earnings of
their savings, are upon the other.
Mark the change of base. Last sum-
mer he said the capitalist engaged
in manufacture was plutOcrat and
against the Chicago platform. Last
night he claimed that the man who
had money invested in lines of pro-
duction was On the Popocratic side.
Evidently Mr.. Lind is at a loss to
know where he is at.
His discussion of the silver question
tOwhich he mostly confined himself,
although last summer he held it was
not the real issue, was much in the
same style. He confined himself to
assertions which he did not attempt
TO prove. He uttered hadf-truths,
stopping where it would show the best
for his side. He declared that this
country wanted an independent fnan-
sial system and then said that prices
would not be effected unless the
money volume of the world was in
creased, thus kicking over his asser-
tion that this couutry was powerful
enough to turn the world to any
theoretical system of finance it might
choose 30 set up.
He stated that he had left the Re-
publican party and then latter startl.
ed his Popocratic associates by saying
he was still Republican delivering a
Republican speech. He declared he
was in favor of a protective tariff
though he is supporting one of the
most rabid free trade men in the
country for president. He claimed
the tariff issue was dead; that it was
admitted on every hand that the re-
venue of the country must be raised
through tariff, the only question
involved is how the duties shall be ar
ranged. Very true Mr.. Lind. The