The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-03-18
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KEEP AN EYE ON WILLIAM HENRY.
Worthington Herald:
1t will be we'll to keep an eye on
William Henry Eustis. So far he isn't
making much noise, but there is every
indication that he will be in the fight
at the round up. And as a campaign
orator he has few equals, and if light
ming should strike him in the shape of
a nomination he would line up the
party behind him in the best possible
shape.
WILL KEEP OUT OF Il WAY OF EARLY
FROsTs.
Granite Falls Journal:
William III. EustiS is in Mexico now
taking a vacation from the cold
weather and enjoying the refreshing
climate so well adapted to this season
of the year. When he returns look
out for activity along gubernatorial
lines, as the eX-mayor is in the field,
and don't propose to frost-kill by early
contact with the ice wagon.
HAS NO REASON FOR FEAR.
Marshall Messenger:
Congressman McCleary has no fears,
and no reason for fear, for a renomi-
nation to congress this summer. The
few, very few, d%isgruntled p~ostoffice
claimants in Mankato and elsewhere,
will wheel into line at the appointed
time and forget that they ''ever said
So" If not, they are reminded that a
few years ago the gentleman . the
tutor who was untutored in politics,
who did not have scarcely a Republi-
can newspaper in his district, and who
was opposed by nearly every old Re-
publican war horse in the party
they are reminded that this same I'm.
sophisticated schoOlmaster put up a
little campaign peculiar to himself,
and "literally wiped the earth" with
his opponents. Since then Mr.. Nc
Cleary has had some experience in
making political friends, he has de-
velOped into a statesman, has won a
national reputation, has been de-
mauded in nearly every state in the
Union as a campaign speaker, and
this added to his original peculiar
name of campaigning is merely
mentioned to a few disappointed post
Office seekers as a feature in the logic
of events that foreshadows the fenc-
ing in of the world of the Second dis
trict that he captured sometime ago.
AGOOD SELECTION.
Waseca Journal:
Representative McCleary has been
selected to manage the literary bureau
of the Republican congressional cam
paign committee. This is a good Sc
lection and is an honor to the state as
! well as Mr.. McClearv.
A MARKED MAN AMONG MEN.
Benson Times:
Congressman McCleary has been
made chairman of the special SUBJ
committee of the house to prepare
the first draft of the proposed cur
rency reform bill. To be chosen out
of all the great host of congressman
from all the states in the Union to
; perform this most important and deli
cate task is an honor of magnitude,
not only to the able gentleman him
seld, but to the state and district
which he represents and we are proud
to claim him. Mr.. McCleary is a
marked man among men on the all
important subject of the currency,
and not only forged to the front, but
has steadily held and added to his
reputation.
MUST GET TOGETHER.
Fairmont News:
If the Second district wishes a good
position on the next state ticket it
must unite on some one. just as long
as it has a half dozen candidates be-
fore the convention, just so. long it
will have none afterward.
ABOUT AS NEAR.
Glencoe Register:
The latest report in political circles
is to the effect that John Lind will
run for congress in the Second dis
trict. He will come about as near
beating Congressman McCleary, M
of the ablest members of the present
congress, as did Frank Day in '96.
WANTS AN EYE FOR AN EYE.
Delano Eagle:
It. is the utmost folly and the act of
unpatriotic citizens to weigh the life
blood of three hundred American
patriots with Spanish gold. Away
with such nonsense An eye for ar
eye and a. tooth for a tooth.