The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-19

ministration and policy. 1t is an in
suit to the intelligence of the Ameri-
can people to think for one moment
that any of these collateral issues are
going to attract or draw their atten
ion from the real issues and facts as
they understand them. AS a business
proposition, my friends, it is all re-
solved into one issue, "Do you want
a continuance of these conditions or
not2"
Confirms the Prophecy.
Mr.. Frye has yentured to pro-
phesy, now l want to confirm that pro-
phecy. After a business experience of
over forty years, I want to say that
just as sure as the sun rises in the east,
just as sure as the laws of nature
govern the universe, if you change
from the present policy, and make
change in the present administration,
and Mr.. Bryan is put at the head of
the government of the United States,
not only financial panic will follow
Immediately, but our industries will
be Frustrated and will not recover in
ten years. Now how absurd, how per-
fectly ridiculous it is to talk about
yielding to the pleas of any man sim
ply to place him at the head Of this
government simply because he has
an insane desire to be there that we
shall sacrifice all our own present in
terests tear down all that we have
builded up in the past forty years,
placing the United States on the
very firing line of nations. Why, if
no other interest would impel US our
patriotism would say God forbid our
country would say God forbid. And
there is something that comes closer
| home than all that, and that is the
welfare and the comfort of our fami
lies, our friends, our homes and child
rem. That is what should influence
every father, every head of house.
Bring it home, bring it right down
| to question of self. In this country
where every mans vote is as good as
any other, where he has as much to
say as another in regard to his prin-
ciples, man who works with pick
and shovel has 40 good right as Mr..
Bryan has to settle that question, and
I want to prophesy once more to my
friends, that the man who works
with pickle-pick 1 mean. Laugh
ter. Well, they will be in a pickle.
| Voice, whats the matter with Jack
SOM" Gen. Jackson is dead, my friend,
didn't you know it, It is not the same
kind of Democratic party now as
| Jackson knew.
Bryan's Last Effort.
(Some one said something about
millionaires. Now, my friends, just
one minute. Bryan's last effort is to
array class against class, he has aban
| doned every other issue because he has
been met by irresistible and unan
swerable argument that has destroyed
every fabric that he has built up, and
now he resorts to the argument of the
socialist and anarchist, and is trying
to turn labor against capital and class
against class. Every one knows that
in the United States, under this very
administration, there is no such thing
the managers and the directors of our
great railroads, of our great manufac
turing institutions. prang themselves
from forge and the factory, and from
the track to become railroad presi-
| dents ; and their opportunity is only
limited by their ability and industry.
The only difference between them
and Bryan is that they work with
their hands and brains and he works
with his mouth, and he is working to
very good purpose with his mouth
now, for the Republican party. ZAP
plause. He has not made a speech
. in the last thirty days but what he has
made Republican votes. In 1896 there
were some people in this country who
believed that Mr.. Bryan was at leas t
honest in his opinion. Every day
brings forth the fact, and I hear of
some men who voted for him in 1896
and they are multiplying as the days
| pass - that now do not be-
! lieve he ever was honest in his inten-
tions, that he has been playing the part
! of the hypocrite, and the thing that
has led him on was this insane desire
for Office, and that he would sacrifice
his own self respect even to get there.
Good bye.
! Senator Hanna concluded amid ap-
! plause and cheering. M. J. Cuddy
proposed three cheers for Mark Hanna,
which were given with a will.
Cheers we're then given for Mckinley
and other Republican candidates. AS
soon as this demonstration subsidized,
the Swaunee River colored quartet, of
Minneapolis, which had come on the
@. G. w. excursion train, sang sew
eral campaign songs that took exceed
ingly well.
The crowd went to the depot to see
the party off, and Senator Hanna was
obliged to repeatedly dof his hat, and
expressed his thanks for his hearty
reception.
The train pulled out for New Ulm,
where the next stop was to be made.
Stops were also to be made at Marshall
and Tracy, and the train will reach
Watertown, S. D., about p m.