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The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04
As to the policy that should be pursued

AS to the policy that should be pursued
there, Mr. Palmer says that the sentiment
of the army is that the agitators should be
severely dealt with. They do not believe
that gratitude of the insurgent leaders is
sufficient to impel them to appreciate
liberality. They believe that two or three
hundred halfbreeds who live by agitation
should be punished by Imprisonment fol-
lowed by Punishment. They were the
radicals" Mr.. Palmer says. "who forced
the conservative Filipinos, such as Ar
liano the present chief justice of the su-
preme court, out of Aguinaldo's cabinet at
Malolos when Aguinaldo himself was in
clined to make peace with us-political
gamblers who will always be a source of
trouble. Better than banishment, many
contend, would be confinement to one of
the small islands as social lepers for term
of twenty years. That example would put
an end to the making of real agitators out
of worthless coachmen, house boys and
clerks. Now the agitators can with i'm
punity explain our acts as they choose to
the people in earshot of the American. who
can reach only the few through an inter-
prefer. The people believe in them just
enough to believe their cock and-bull
stories, but not enough to consider them
mar tyrs. as they would Aguinaldo. If we
put them on an island where they would
have no audience the cost of maintaining
the whole parcel of agtators would be less
than that of maintaining a platoon of
American soldiers in these islands for a
year. AS it is each one is costing US as
much as platoon"
In commenting upon this the Mime
apol1S Times remarks that these SuggeS-
tions are entitled to consideration, and
says; "If the agtators are more danger
Gus than the guerrillas themselves, then
the agitators must be put out of the way.
When incendiarism prevails in city the
police department is an important ad-
junct of the fire department. To rest con.
tent with attempts to extinguish fires with
out trying to arrest those who applied the
torch would be folly. IF we have inter-
preted Mr. Palmer's words Alright this
simile applies to the situation in Luzon.
The agitators must be gathered in as rap
idly as possible and sent to some nice quiet
place where they can agitate no longer.
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04
Republican Congressional Convention.

By the direction of the Republican Congress
sional Committee of the Second Congressional
District, of the state of Minnesota: A conven-
tion of the Republican voters of the Second
Congressional District of the State of Mime
sofa will be held in the Union Hall, in the City
or Mankato, Minnesota, on May 18th. A. d.
1900, at 2 o'clock D. m. of that day for the pur-
pose of electing two delegates and two alter
mates to the Republican National convention
to be held at the city of Philadelphia, in the
state of Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, June 10th
A. d. 1900 And also to recommend to the Re-
publican State convention to be held in the
city of Minneapolis. in the state of Minnesota
on the 10Th day of May, A. d. 1860, at IL o'clock
m, presidential elector to be nominated by
said convention as one of the presidential elec-
tors.
ALI voters who are in sympathy with the prin-
.cipals advocated by the Republican party and
who desire its success regardless of other past
political affiliations are invited to participate
ia the selection to delegates to this convention.
At a meeting of the Republican Congressional
committee at the city of Mankato. Minnesota,
on the 10Th day of March. A. d. 1900, by motion
duly made and carried That each county of
the Second Congressional District of the state
of Minnesota shall be entitled to one delegate
for each $50 votes or major fraction thereof cast
for the Republican candidate for president in
1896, and that each county be allowed in addi-
ton thereto five delegates at large.
In accordance with the above motion the
several counties of the district are EMIT ed to
be represented in the convention as follows, to-
wit
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04

which naturally implies Yankees answer:
There may have been instances when
m ember of congress occupied position so
prominent that his retirement would be
deep loss to congress and the country.
Does the above reason exist in the present
cas- p" Now while it remains for the
convention to give anindisputable reply to
this interrogatory, will merely suggest
that if in the case of Mr.. McCleary such
reason does not exist, then his successor
should be man who occupies standing
so prominent that his accession would be a
great gain to congress and the country.
Does this condition exist in the candidacy
of Mr.. Funk? Candidly 1 think Mr..
Funk's proposition does apply in Mr.. Nc
Cleary's case, and that am not alone in
this view is evidence in the reply of the
Minneapolis Journal Republican paper
outside of this district, and one of national
reputation. The Journal editorially says:
1t might be said in answer to Mr..
Funk's question that there is an i'm
preston not only in the second district
but in many parts of the country that
Mr.. McCleary's retirement would be
loss to congress and the country Mr..
McCleary has certainly built up an
enviable reputation.
And this view is concurred in by all of
the metropolitan Republican press of the
northwest.-C. C. Whitney in Marshall
News Messenger.
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04

if chosen to represent this district in Con-
gress. He admits that Mr.. McCleary is
a good man but believes himself the or
dained of Heaven; Moses to lead us out
of the wilderness of political error, and
therefore better man. Seriously speak
ing, Mr.. Funk. like many other politicians,
or would-be representatives, believes he is
pleasing his neighbors most by drawing on
Uncle Sam for some really useless i'm
provement. One of the dangers to Re-
publican institutions is the appropriation
habit, and really to hear some of the state
and United states representatives talk, one
would think that all they were sent to their
respective legislative bodies for. was to
bleed the government Reveille.
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04

1t is no secret that the reform force.
prefer to have McCleary renominated
While Funk would net be strong candi
date so far as is now known, he would no
be compelled to defend his own record =
Fairmont Sentinel.
Mr.. McCleary has had no difficulty ir
the past to defend his record in congress
and we do not anticipate that he will this
year. The Republicans of this district
have accommodated the reform forces
with Mr.. McCleary's candidacy several
times in recent years, as the editor of the
Sentinel can personally testify to, and
their desire to be knocked down by him
again this year will be cordially granted.
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04
Will Cut Little Ice,

There was an under current at work in
this district sometime ago by the opposi-
ton to McCleary to have Attorney Funk
of Mankato, Senator Miller of Luverne,
Representative Jacobson of Madison, and
Senator Somerville of Sleepy Eye enter
the race for congress, and at the nomi-
mating convention the former three throw
their strength to the latter in hopes of un-
seating the present incumbent. The
scheme has doubtless been dropped as the
time is now too short to cut any figure
Mr.. Funks announcement this week will
cut but little ice--Lamberton Star.
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04

The Chicago Inter Ocean thinks an act
of injustice has been done the state of
Pennsylvania and M. S. Quay by the re-
fusal of the senate to seat him, and says il
is the result of the personal whim of Sena-
tor Hanna. 1t seems to be characteristic
of some, when things don't 60 their way,
to put the blame for it upon Senator
Hanna. If Mr.. Hanna is really too blame
for this, he has done an act to be proud of,
and one that will raise him in the estima-
tion of the people and the nation. The
Free Press does not believe Quay to be
any worse than dozens of other leaders
in both parties. He has been successful,
and that is enough to make him hated by
the opposition party, and by some of his
own, who have been turned down. If the
people of Pennsylvania want him for sena-
tor they should elect him, and he should
abide by their decision and try to get into
the senate by overturning constitutional
precedent
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04
Mr.. Funk's Platform Reviewed.

AS to Mr.. Funks platform. it is very
slight structure. He says, if elected, he
shall have in view, at all times. two OBJ
jects; first, to try to secure for his district
such recognition as it desires, and second,
special ambition to reform the pension
laws. Those are both laudible objects,
but fail to see where Mr.. Funk. with no
national, or even state. legislative associa-
ton or experience can so we'll secure recog-
milton as can Mr.. McCleary, with his eight
years of acquaintance and experience, and
his large influence with the administration
and public men. 1 hear no complaint of
want of recognition of our district dur
ing Mr.. McCleary's term of Office, and our
Mankato friends. with their splendid gov
ernment building. our Pipestone friends
with their fine government Indian school
building, have no fault to find, while the
old soldiers and the public who are in
terested in the preservation of the historic
Fort Ridgely grounds must appreciate Mr..
McCleary's efforts in this matter. Now if
Mr.. Funk will be little more specific and
tell US what particular improvements he
will Immediately secure for this district we
shall not be so much in the dark.
AS to reformation of the pension laws,
of course this is all moonshine. and merely
bid for the old soldier vote. The refor-
nation of pension laws has been work of
a third of a century, constantly improving
at the hands of the old war heroes who Of
fcer the national organization of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and the bronzed
and brainy veterans who are members of
congress, and who know more of pension
matters in minute than any amateur can
didate for congress could acquire in an ex-
perience of years. What Second district
old soldiers demand is prompt attention to
their claims for pension, and no member
gives the old soldier more or prompter per-
sonal attention than has Mr.. McCleary.
Having thus reviewed Mr.. Funk's two
plank platform briefly, it but remains to
call attention to the other features of his
pronuniciamento. He thinks McCleary's
successor should not come from Blue Earth
county. So do all Republicans of the Sec
ond district, and this feature is mutually
disposed Of He states that during his
dozen years residence in the district his
Republicanism has never been questioned.
This is true, probably, of ninety-nine per
cent of the other 21,2o5 Republicans who
voted for congressman two years ago, but
this fact does not fit US all to be congress
men. The other feature of friend Funks
proclamation is embraced in a question,
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04
Views on MlCleary and Funk
His Candidacy Inopportune.

Mr.. Funk is an able attorney, loyal
Republican and gentleman against whom
we have nothing more to say than that we
think his candidacy comes little inoppor-
tune. That there is number of disgrunt.
led men over the Second district we will
not deny. These are men who chose to
take ofense where no offense was given
most of them whose struggles for postoHice
or other appointments proved futile be-
cause there was not postofice for each.-
ST. James Plaindealer.
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04
SITUATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

Frederick Palmer, a special correspond
ent of Golfers Weekly. in a recent letter
from the Philippines as to the situation
there, says the serious problem of the hour
there is that of the disposition of the friars.
Most of the Spanish friars who were res
cued by the advance of our troops through
the country, are at Manila or other points
garrisoned by the Americans Here they
are remaining at the suggestion of Arch
bishop Chapelle. Gen. Otis insists that
they return to Spain, while the Archbishop
thinks that their proper place is to remain
in the Philippines. He thinks that in
short time they can return to their parishes
and can do much in helping to restore a
peaceful order of things. On the other
hand many petitions have been sent from
various localities opposing their return. and
Gen. Otis believes that if they did return,
they would be assassinated, and that they
would aggravate conditions by their pres
ence. The archbishop, however, thinks
they would be power in strengthening
and upholding the authority of the United
States through the awe in which the peo-
pie hold the priestly robe. He says there
are not native priests enough for one fifth
the churches, and none can be spared
from American churches and that if there
were, they would be helpless. as they
would not know the language, nor be ac-
quainted with the customs of the people.
Hence he thinks it better to return the
friars and gradually supplant them with
priests from our own country. And so the
controversy stands.
Mr.. Palmer says there are many diff
culties in the way of the enforcement of
the Spanish laws, which are yet in force |
there. Our officers do not understand the
laws. and interpreters are not always re-
liable, being always for sale to the highest
bidder. Most of the Spanish records he
says, have disappeared, and our officers
are left absolutely without anything for
their guidance in cases that were pending
at the time of American occupation. :
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04

Two years ago last Friday occurred the
first battle of the Spanish-American war
when the New York and Cincinnati and
the monitor Puritan bombarded Man
tanzas. 1t was also two years ago yester
day that Admiral Dewey received his or.
ders to proceed to the Philippines and
capture or destroy the Spanish fleet. There
has been great deal of history for the
United States since that day.
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04
JUDGE CANTY'S BOMB,

Judge Canty made an address in Mime
apolis Thursday evening on the Philip
pines which was in line with what he had
said privately since his return. The
Judge holds that he is an expansionists but
not of the kind that would take and hold
the Philippines. He would take territory
only that is contiguous to our present
states. The judge neglects to state that
we are not in the PHILIPPINES by our own
volition, but as the result of war, and the
policy he would have carried out, would
be infinitely worse and more troublesome
for US than the policy that is now being
pursued. His plan is, in short. that we
should hold the larger seaport towns and
abandon the interior to the nations, collect
the customs, maintain protectorate over
the island and insist that they shall sub
NIT the differences to the Americans for
ar bitration. This is a most impractical
sc heme that could never be carried out
without great cost to us, with no benefits
in return. Judge Canty objects to the
present policy because of the large army
it will take to subdue the natives. but his
plan would take just as large an army
and make us responsible to the world for
the acts and misdeeds of the natives.
Common sense, devoid of all political pre-
judice indicates that that the Judges ideas
could never succeed. The judge went to
the Philippines the representative of
political clique and of course he found
material for the peculiar views which he
puts forward. But the people generally
will much prefer to take the words of Gen
Joe Wheeler. Bishop Potter and like men
who have spent more time in the islands,
and who, while against the holding of the
islands when they went there, were con-
vinced that our only duty was to retain
of them and establish a strong
government over them.
But the bombshell of Judge Canty's ad-
dress was his closing remarks, when he
predicted Bryans defeat if nominated,
and declared that the I6 to plank should
be eliminated from the platform at Kansas
City. He declared that the patriotic
leaders of the party ought to get together
and select good safe man for the presi-
iency and that they would stand a show
If electing him. The east, he said, did
not want Bryan. but they saw no way of
him, and so we're pledging their
support, when they intended to knife him.
He rudely jolted the belief of fu-
iondom that Minnesota was fusion be- |
,ause it had elected John Lind governor,
~ telling them that it was 5000 Repub-
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04
May 4 IL IS
ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS.

OhDLh III cAAMlNE AOSOONIC.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth-SS. In Probate Court, Special term,
April 26th, 1900.
In the matter of the estate of Asahel P.
Jacobs deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Henry R.
Case, executor of the estate of Asahel P.
Jacobs, deceased, representing, among other
things, that he has fully administered said
estate, and pr lying that time and place be
fixed for examining and allowing the final ac-
count of his administration, and for the as
signment of the residue of said estate to the
parties entitled thereto by law:
1t is ordered that said account be examined,
and petition heard by this court, on Saturday
the I'd day of June. A. ID. 1900, at 10
o'clock a. M, at the Probate Office in
the City of Mankato, in said county.
And it is further ordered, That notice there
of be given to all persons interested by pub
fishing a copy of this order once in each week,
for three successive weeks prior to said day of
hearing, in the Mankato Free Press a weekly
newspaper printed and published at Mankato,
in said county.
Dated at the city of Mankato, the 18th day
of April, A. d. 1900.
By the Court:
Probate Court Seal. VIM. F. HUGHES,
Judge of Probate.
w. r. Geddes
Attorney for Administrator.
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04

The Fairmont Sentinel says the nomina
ton of Towne for vice-president on the
Bryan ticket, would make Minnesota {
doubtful state. Towne's record as a con
gressional candidate in his district in OF
and 9S does not support this assertion
Minnesota is not turned as easily as thai
Frank. and will come up smiling next No
vember with at least 40, 900 for Mckinley
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04
CALL FOR REPUBLICAN COUNTY
CONVENTION.

A Republican County Convention for the
County of Blue Earth and State of Minnesota,
will be held on Wednesday, the 9th day of May,
A. d. 1900 at two o'clock p. M, at Athletic hall
in the City of Mankato, in said County, for the
purpose of electing twenty-one delegates to the
Republican State Convention to be held at the
City of Minneapolis, in said State, on Wednes.
purpose of electing twenty-one delegates to
Congressional Convention of Second Congress
sional District to be held May 18th, 1900, at
Mankato, Mimi.
The representation at said County Conven-
tion will be in accordance with resolution
adopted by the County Committee of the
County. to-wit: Each election precinct will be
entitled to one delegate for every 25 votes, or
major fraction thereof, cast for President Nc
Kinley in 1896, and in accordance Herewith the
several election precincts in said County are
entitled to representation in said Convention as
follows:
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04

Allen o. Meyers, of Ohio, in few re-
marks made before banquet at Wichita,
Kan, made the prediction that if Bryan
was elected president next November, he
never would be allowed to take his seat,
but would be assassinated. Meyers seems
to have great capacity for the gloomy
side of things.
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04

can at the last election. Bryan. he said,
was poor manager. and he thought il
was time he was asked to step aside.
Bryan's nomination means Mckinley S
election, though the judge said he would
vote for the Nebraskan if he was nomi.
mated.
It's safe to say that the Democratic
managers will not allow the judge to 60 on
the stump without first having his subject
matter carefully blue pencilled.
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04

The result of the state conventions of
Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania the other day indicate the best of
harmony among Republicans this year. in
spite of the predictions of Democracy that
they would be split up. In Ohio, where
they have been dead sure all winter there
would be an open revolt against the presi-
dent and Senator Hanna, nothing of the
kind occurred, but instead all was har-
mony, and every effort possible being put
forward for party success. These four
great states have fallen into line for a
great Republican victory at the polls next
November and the remainder of the north
and west will swing after them.
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04
For McCleary and Van SAINT.

1t goes without saying that Cottonwood
county will send Van SAINT delegation to
ST. Paul and a McCleary delegation to
Mankato. If there is any OPPOSITION to
either of these men nobody has heard of it
Reporter.
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04

All county conventions in the district held in
gates to the said Congressional convention
shall be held on Wednesday, May 9th, A. d ,
1900.
All primary elections for this convention
must be held in accordance with the primary
election laws of the State of Minnesota.
Dated this Goth day of March, A. D. 1900.
@ L. BENEDICT
Chairman,
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04
Unfortunate in Location.

While the Herald has nothing but a
friendly feeling for Mr.. Funk, we are very
much inclined to the opinion that he is un-
fortunate, to say the least, in his location.
as it has been generally believed that the
successor to our present congressman, II
another one is chosen, should come from
a source outside of Mankato and Blue
Ea rth county Worthington Herald.
+
Appropriation Scheme Foes Not Attract
Mr.. Funk intimates that heis the proper
person to fill the place, and incidently hints
at numerous reforms he will bring about
The Mankato free press., 1900-05-04

Primary elections will be held in the several
election presincts for the purpose of electing
delegates to said Convention on Saturday, May
9Th, 1900, from the hour of o'clock p. m to the
hour of 9 o o'clock p. m.
HARRY PADDOCK,
ID. s. EVANS, Chairman of said Committee.
Secretary of Said Committee.