The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-12
FROSTY RECEPTION.
Gen. Orendorff Talks Mostly to
Empty Seats.
Republicans of Madison Lake Organize a
Mckinley and Roosevelt Club.---
Other Political Notes.

There was room to let at the Demo
cratic speech at Athletic hall last
night. Vacant chairs stared the orator
of the occasion in the face, and hardly
200 people were present, many of
whom were Republicans who dropped
. in out of curiosity. This was indeed
a frosty reception for Gen. Orendorff,
one of the leading Democratic speakers
and attorneys in Illinois and the per-
sonal friend and recent touring COM
panion of Bryan.
Gen. Orendorff is an easy talker and
at times becomes eloquent. He gave
the greater part of his speech, cover
ing an hour and half, to the Philip
pine question, and wandered off into
the twaddle about Imperialism, mill
tarism and standing army, trying to
raise the hair of his listeners with
these bugaboos 1t is not thought that
any of them were so frightened that
they were afraid to go home alone for
fear of encountering one of these aw-
full creatures of infamed fancy.
The speaker tried to make the audi
ence believe that the rebel Filipinos
are very nice pleasant people, who
ought to be organized into Y. M. G.
A. and Christian endeavor societies.
They were the allies of the United
States against Spain, said he, as
though Uncle Sam needed any help to
thrash the Spaniard. He said that
Dewey had sent a ship to Hong Kong
to being Aguinaldo, that innocent,
brown cherub, to Manila. He did not
say that all this time this Aguinaldo
was plotting against the United States
and was arranging to massacre our
soldiers He said that the United
States armed them to fight Spain, and
that if they turned out to be cut
Threats and outlaws we were respon-
sible for it, At the same time, he ad-
vocated hauling down the flag because
these cut threats and outlaws want us
to do so.
Turning to the subject of trusts,
Gen. Orendorff said that he understood
from the papers that once upon a time
Mankato had cracker factory and
linseed oil works, but that this was be-
fore the trusts had swallowed them up
and closed them down. He said that
the Republicans had not done any
thing in the last three years against
trusts, and pointed to the promises
made in the Democratic platform. He
did this latter because he was unable
to point to any action which the
Democrats took when in power to curb
the trusts. He failed to recall the
fact that. the Democrats in the last
congress voted almost solidly against
trusts since the Republicans passed
the Sherman antitrust law. Not
much attention was paid by the
speaker to Tammany's ice trust.
Gen. Orendorff speaks at New Ulm
tonight and if he does not have larger
audiences at his other appointments
in Minnesota this week he will not
carry very encouraging reports with
him when he goes to Indiana next
week.
The Republicans of Madison Lake
organized a Mckinley & Roosevelt club
Tuesday night with thirty-one mem
bers to start with and many more in
view. The meeting was and enthusi
astic one, and the following officers
were elected: President, J. E. South
wick; vice president, Frank Haskell /;
secretary, F. B. knott; treasurer, o.
F. jackson.
The afternoon passenger train for the
west on the Chicago & Northwestern