The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-10-28
REVOLT HAS SET IN.

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vass to hold out to the end, and al
ready reaction has set in. The two
remaining weeks before, election will
witness revolt little looked for by
the defamers of the Republican can
didate for governor, and his majority
will be Of such magnificent proper
tions as to give the combination party
some salient pointers for future con-
sideration that may be valuable to it
in the conduct of campaigns to follow.
The average voter, when he comes
to know the truth, has only contempt
for party that will stand out and try
to maintain campaign of personal
misrepresentation and villitication as
the Democratic-Pop party has
undertaken this year in Minnesota
against one of the ablest, most patri-
otto, companionable and truly lovable
men ever nominated for office in the
states history. Mr.. Enstis' whole life
gives the lie to every aspersion that
has been cast upon him by the leaders
of the opposition in their frantic
effort to break his wide spread popu.
larity with the masses. He is essen
TALLY a imam of the people," He
knows what it is to suffer and be
poor, for he has experienced both. He
left the parental roof when a mere
youth without dollar in money with
which to help himself and only a
limited district school education. He
was further handicapped in his de-
termination to successfully battle
with the world by physical infirmities
that would have rendered success
impossible with one possessed of less
force of character. determination and
perseverance. Endowed with superior
intellectual qualities and hope for
the future that guided him safely
through the trials and tribulations
incident to the struggles of early and
unaided manhood, he worked his way
through college, and from the day Of
completing his education, has made
steady progress in the business and
social circles until now we find him
standing before the people of his
adopted state as one of it's foremost
citizens. One of it's most interesting
and effective public speakers Mime
sofa is proud to claim him. He has
done much to advance the interests
of the state in material way, and as
governor he can be of infinitely more
service to the commonwealth. He is
truly and unostentatiously a cham
pion Of the peoples rights and a can
didate for governor of a party that
has never lowered it's flag to the op-
posing party-whether that party be
Democrat, Populist, or Democrat
Populist or both and all combined.
He comes before the people Of this
state clean-handed and clean hearted,
with not the stain of single dishon-
orable act to be accounted for by him
self or apologized for by his friends.
He is man whom the Republican
party is proud to present as it's stand
ard bearer, and whom the people can
feel an especial pride in as their chief
executive. He was not chosen to lead
the Republican hosts to victory by
politicians, cliques or combinations,
but by the spontaneous demand of
the people who believed in his in.
tegrity, fidelity and splendid man
hood and on these grounds, and these
only, is his election requested. Mr..
Eustis is the chosen representative of
a great party that does not seek votes
from any particular class of citizens,
but from all classes alike, recognizing
that every man-wherever his birth
place may have been-who has sworn
to the stars and stripes is
an American citizen in it's truest
and broadcast sense.
To the credit of many-a very large
Misunderstanding Democrats, the
falsehoods which have been circu-
lated against Mr.. Eustis are con
demned in the seyerest terms. They
recognize in him a man of great
strength of character who would
make governor for all the people,
and the votes of many such will be
cast for him. They prefer man of
political convictions who is not
ashamed to proclaim them, to one
who admits that he is not Democrat
nor yet Populist, but political
orphan" who has no defined views ex-
cept the all absorbing one of wanting
to be elected governor,
What the Republicans want to do
is to set their houses in order and de-
vote the Sth day of November to
going to the polls and vote and get
ting their neighbors to do likewise.
Let there be no "Mr. Apathy" around
any Blue Earth county Republican
home on election day, and then
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