The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-11-02
DUTY OF REPUBLICA MS.

TO winch Bryan1ZeQ democracy mas
been driven in its efforts to attract
votes is truly pitiful. A more I'M
American national campaign was
never made in this country than that
waged by Mr.. Bryan and his spell
binders. Besides giving aid and COM
fort to the rebellious Filipinos, Mr..
Bryan has resorted to the incendiary
tactics of arraying class against class,
of threatening the destruction of all
great industrial enterprises, and to
wreck the present commercial pros
perity by tearing down our splendid
monetary system and hosting in its
stead his falacious free silver hum
buggery. Never before has a great
party been driven to such straits and
history fails to record campaign
where so little sense and so much
twaddle was expounded as Mr.. Bryan
has INDUCED in during the past two
months. If Mr.. Bryan were the
nominee and personal representative
of a party founded upon anarchistic
ideas, his attitude could not be more
dangerous to the welfare of our coun-
try or more inimical to the wellbeing
of the whole people. His imperialistic
domination of the Kansas City con-
vention in demanding specific pro-
clamation for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to
independent of any other country
and largely "against the consent of
the governed" followed by his in
cendiary utterances on the stump,
have combined to drive from his sup
port thousands of strong minded men
and leaders of the Democratic party.
Throughout his campaign Mr.. Bryan
has preached the doctrine of rebellion
against the sovereignty of America
over the Philippine archipelago, the
title of which could not have been
acquired without his aid, and through
the votes of senators belonging to his
own party.
Per contra to the dangerous doc
trines preached by Bryan and his hun
cry adherents, the Republican party
has presented to the people of the
country the real issues of national
honor, commercial prosperity and
sound finances. 1t is, as it always has
been, the trusted party of the people
at all times appealing to the higher in
stincts of man and not to the baser.
Its splendid record of the past is a
guarantee of the future hope and as
pirations of American citizenship.
With such patriotic leaders as Nc
Kinley, Roosevelt, Hay, Root, Gage
and others the destiny of the alton is
by no means in peril, and the non
senical trash that is being preached,
of approaching mlitarism, imperial
ism--and several other kinds of isms by
such men as Bryan, Altgeld, Tillman
and Boss Croker, can only be realized
by the putting of these men in power.
But thanks to the discrimin ating good
sense of the American people there is
little danger of the latter catastrophe
Detailing the nation.
1t is no less the duty of Republicans
of Minnesota to bury Lin dRosingism
than it is to destroy Byranism. The
former represent the same ideas,
preach the same doctrine and stand for
the same destructive policies as does
the latter. There is not one good rea-
son that can be advanced why man
who casts his vote for William Nc
Kinley should not do the same thing
for Capt. Van SAINT. He is one of the
truest Republicans that ever stood for
an election. He is an American of
Americans. He believes in and is the
champion of every important policy
advocated by the Republican party.
His private life is as spotless as snow.
His public acts are above criticism,
even with an unconscionable opposi-
tion. 1t should be the pleasure,
duty, of every Republican who be-
lieves in rewarding the faithful and
standing by his party principles, to
work and vote for Capt. Van SAINT sue
cess equally with every other man on
the ticket. Mr.. Lind has denounced
Republicans and Republicanism and
adopted Bryan and Organism. He is
now more bitter Demo-Pop partisan
than he ever was Republican parti-
san, and by no token of reckoning is
he deserving of support from Repub-
hcan voters.
Along this same line, the Free Press
desires to urge upon every Republi-
can and independent Democrat the i'm
portance of sustaining Congressman
McCleary for reelection. His course
in congress has been such as COM
mends him to reelection by the largest
majority ever accorded a candidate in
the second district. By his mastery
handling of national issues in cam
paigns and his uniform support of all
just and efficacious measures in con-
gress, Mr.. McCleary has made for him
self a national reputation, has
brought his state into added promi-
hence in national affairs, and has re-
fiected great credit upon the district
he represents. These facts should
create home pride that will be en-
phasized at the polls, and we believe
they will