The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-14
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS FOR
M'KINLEY.

The Bryanites have been making a
great deal of noise about the CONNER
cial travellers being for Bryan. They
have told how the trusts have caused
travelling men to be laid off and that
as result the "Knights of the grip
were going to Bryan en- mass But
this as we have held all along, is sim
ply another of the campaign yarns.
The facts do not sustain it. The trusts
have not interfered with the travelling
men, but the step toward free trade,
which Democracy took in '93, and the
silver agitation fostered, did sadly in
terfere with their work and happiness
but under the Republican administra
ton they are all at work again doing
better than ever, and their numbers
are increasing. On this. point we ap-
pend an interview that W. w. Jer-
name, of the Minneapolis Journal,
better known in the northwest as
Jerry j" had in Chicago with A. F.
Peake, secretary of the Republican
Commercial Travellers League, and
the facts he sets forth are fully con-
frmed by talks we have had with
travelling men whom, we have met
during the past month. Mr.. Peake
said
"This Democratic talk of the men
working for Bryan is foolish. have
been on the road for twenty years, and
l have never seen such unanimity
of feeling among the men as at the
present time. They are all busy book
ing good orders. Four years ago they
were busy looking for orders that they
scarcely ever found The material
prosperity has benefited the travel ing
man directly, and he is no fool. He
sees the way the wind blows about as
quickly as anybody, weighs everything
carefully in the shape of argument,
and looks for prosperity as sign of
good times.
GOOD times are here, commercial
men want to prolong them the COM
mercial men are for Mckinley Nc
Kinley will get at least 80 per cent of
the..vote of the travelling men nearly
all over the United States. Of course
the New York men, and there are a
good many of them, are identified,
some of them, with Tammany Hall
Those we cannot expect to get, but a
large majority of travelling men from
all over the United States are for Nc
Kinley. l haven't ever heard OF any
discussion of this subject. They are
satisfied with the conditions and be-
ing satisfied with conditions, will
vote the straight Republican ticket.
1t is said that commercial travellers, on
account of the trusts, have been re-
duced in number; the facts are, there
are today more commercial travellers
by % per cent on the road and draw
ing better salaries than there were
four years ago. This trust bugaboo is
not affecting the travelling men. The
general business of the country is in a
very much better and more prosper
GUS condition than four years ago. 1
cover Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and
New York, and in all these states I
find the merchants prosperous and con-
tented. They exert wonderful in
fuence and are all satisfied with the
present conditions, and if they consult
their own interests must of necessity
support the present administration.
when you find calamity bowler
or man without any business on the
road, you can put it down that he is
a man that never makes a second trip
for his house. 1t is not the fault of
the times, it is the fault of his ability,
and he is not salesman. -