The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-01-21
VARIOUS OPINIONS

WANTS THEM TO VISIT wINoNA.
Winona Herald:
Hundreds of dogs are being stolen
in Chicago and shipped to the Klon-
dixie. Dog stealers are cordially in
vited to Winona.
MUCH THE SAME.
Fulda Republican,
The average Congressman seems to
return to work after holiday in just
about the same humOr that the
average boy goes back to school.
SOUTHERN MINNEsoTA's RIGHT CON-
CEDED.
Morris Sum-
Southern Minnesota's claim to the
right to designate the next Republi-
can gubernatOrial nominee, will not
be seriously questioned if the demand
is backed by delegations united in
support Of some one candidate, for
aside from its being useless to oppose
there is disposition to concede that
the honor and privilege is justly due
that locality not as matter of poll j.
cal right but of courtesy.
EQUAL TO THE OCCASION.
Litchfeld Review:
McCleary, of the Second. has hard
row to hoe. There are more than
thirty presidential post offices at his
disposal The congressman is equal
to it, however.
HAS NOTHING NEW TO SAY.
Owatonna Journal:
William j. Bryan has been enthus-
ing the boys up in ST. Paul and Min
neapolis. 1t seems little early in
the season for that sort of thing. If
Mr.. Bryan had anything new to say it
might have been different.
CAN'T DETECT 1T IN THEMSELVES.
Window Reporter:
You can find any number of people
who can dect newspaper when it is
lying, who can't see lie in them
selves when they expose it with an
arc lamp, or in broad day light under
mid day sun. There are some so
blind they won't see, and those are
the most hopeless cases of lost vision.
SHOULD PUT UP THEIR SHUTTERS.
Hutchinson Independent:
Rabid Democrats who are holding
up Hanna, of Ohio, as horrible ex-
ample" of ''boss" to their Republican
friends are requested to put up shut
tiers on their glass houses at once
while we respectfully refer them to
certain"B Crocker''of Greater New
York who Is Democratic spokesman
of the most enthusiastic type.
HAS GOOD SENSE.
Lanesboro Journal:
Speaker Reed knowing that the f.
nances of the government are not in
condition to be MIXED by every aspir-
ing city for public buildings will see
that such appropriations are made to
await more favored season. Tom
Reed may be somewhat of Gar but
he has sense enough to be just before
being generous, and all in all he would
make very creditable presidential
timber.
DOsEN'T THINK TT WORTH WHILE TO
New York Mail and Express:
Mr.. Bryan insists that poor men are
much better off in Mexico than they
are in the United States. Yet it is a
fact that he will not deny that the
labOring man gets only half as much
pay in Mexico as he does in this coun-
try, and that his dollar won't buy
half as much there as it will here.
These, OF course, are mere details
which Mr.. Brya an doesn't think it
worth while to explain.
KNOWS LITTLE OF HIS SUBJECT,
st. Paul Pioneer Press:
Mr.. Bryan, in his address to the stu.
dents of the state university, told
them that the essential qualifications
Of an orator were that he ''should
know what he was talking about
and believe what he said" Tried by
this test the Boy Orator has about as
much claim to the title as slight-of-
hand performer in a dime museum.
On his favorite subject of money and
finance, on which he has set about to
instruct his auditors at prices ranging
from twenty-five cents to dollar q
head. he probably knows less of what
he talks about than any man of ma
ture years in America, engaged In
similar vocation, unless 1T be Ignatius
Donnelly.