The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-02-04

1t 10 generally understood that in
this the governor had particular ref
erence to this man Anderson who was
not even q citizen). Why is Ander.
son continued in Office, did you ask?
Oh! He ie editor of paper published
In q foreign language which is said to
have circulation of about 5000, and
how useful this was to His Excellency
In the last campaign! These are the
men who are filing the press with
charges against Hacker, without the
manliness to sign their names. To do
so would give the whole thing away.
There are some old verses of which I
remember the following:
81 can fight with the lion
That roars in my face,
But not with the cur
That barks at my heels"
They, through subserVience to the
machine to whom they owe their
omclal existence, are not fighting
HACKER so much as reaching out for
every state institution connected
with our agricultural prosperity.
Backed upb y car load or two Of
game wardens, inspectors and other
politicians, they elected Hackers
successor. 1t is only necessary to say
he is perfectly subservient to the ma
chine.
Elated with their success, one of
these leading politicians declared to
the writer they would drive Hacker
out of the state, which means their
determination to bring the dairy
school under the political yoke, and
l warn the dairymen of the state it
will be a sorry day for our interests
when these political leg pullers &C
complish their purpose and put in
Hackers place man of the Berndt
Anderson and julie Lawrence type.
Known & the value of printers ink,
when for change one of the dairy de-
partment goes out, unless it be to
make stump speech or to pack a
county convention, they are particu.
lar to have the fact noticed in the
local press and then copied where
those who read dairy publications
will be apprised of the fact. Thus
those familiar with their methods
can keep track of what little they do,
in their effort, not SO much to beat
Hacker as to make every state in
stitution part of the machine.
They have charged him with
thwarting and hampering the work of
the Farmers Institute. As one of
the board of directors of the Farmers.
Institute, l denounce this as an in
famous falsehood. The dairy depart
ment is responsible for the present
deplOrable condition of affairs. Mr..
Anderson, while perhaps we'll educat-
ed in his own language, Is VIGOROUSLY
incompetent, without any fitness
whatever for the position beyond his
usefulness to the political big wigs;
and when we have IN his place man
of the same type as our honored Sec
rotary Of agriculture as other states
have and as assistants in this Office, in
place of political hucksters who have
failed in everything they have under
taken except political leg pulling,
men who have practical fitness and
the interest Of our industry at heart,
then and not until then will we have
peace and those who are now the best
friends Of our dairy school, the men
who dairy with cows, will be the best
friends Of the dairy department. We
will honor such man as we now honor
our worthy secretary of agriculture.
We are not politicians, but dairymeu.
Our prosperity is at stake, and until
then we will continue to pray, o,
Lord, deliver us from political huck-
STEERS and tin horns, HENRY AMEs.