The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-30

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IT back at nominal figure, for the sake
OF securing control of the corporate prop
erty: In some cases the chief object was
TO mouopolize and control the trade and
shut off all competition. In many cases
several, and sometimes all of these pur-
poses, entered into the scheme. In brief
they We're both combinations in restraint
or trade and stock floating schemes, in
Some form combined. And if the true fig
ures could be obtained it would be found
tnaC more havoc was wrought among the
victims of inflated stock than among the
consumers of the trust products. But a
day of reckoning came for many of these
and the shipbuilding trust. The partial
or total collapse of their stock was in
evltable and inherent in their makeup.
The stock victims found themselves sud-
denly Invested of their little all-the saw
| ings of a lifetime. The immense shrink
age in stock values led to one or more
financial fiurries in Wall street, while all
the rest Of the country was prospecting,
and in no need of money. The promoters
Of these corporate trusts, by reason of
the havoc they. had wrought, found their
calling of floating and unloading inflated
stocks at standstill-ft had to some ex-
tent become disreputable and at dis
count.
ssUnsafeo for Pirates.
In the meantime the president as in
duty bound under the Constitution and
the sanctity of his oath of office, had in
Sututed some suits against some OF the
great combinations to prohibit them from
destroying competition in interstate trade;
and these combinations were not of the
stock jobbing kind which / have de-
scribed. But this fact-the fact that these
suits were instituted-was seized upon
with avidity by all the promoters of in
flated trusts and by them made charge
able with all the losses of their stock
finding their calling, for the want OF more
victims, at a standstill, and with the
immense shrinkage in the value of in
f1ated stocks and the consequent tight
in the market of WALL street.
1t is these people, who have thus preyed
upon the confidence and the purse OF a
confiding people, that have set up the
cry that Roosevelt is not safe man.
In their eyes any man who interfereS
with their piratical calling Is not safe
man. But what a comfort 1T is to the
Welt as unsafe for them. If he is unsafe
for them, We have in that fact an assur'
ance that he is safe for us. He has al
ways been unsafe for law-breakers and
trust violators. for those who would set
themselves above the government and lts
l'ws.. for those who would trample on
che dearest rights of the American peo-
pie. How humiliating this Wall street
view of Roosevelt must be to the Demo-
cratic candidate, Judge Parker. The kind
of safety they miss in President Roose-
welt they profess to find in Judge Parker.
The stock-jobbing and stock-foating pen
dulum of Wall street WILL in their opln-
ion, find no impeachment in him. TO them
he appears entirely safe And TINS is,
scented to the American people by the
Democratic party. And on this issue,
more than any other, the Republican
party appeals with confidence to the
American people, feeling assured that
they want no man in the White. House
who will not take care that the laws be
faithfully executed.
Candidate for Governor and State
Ticket.
do not understand that the militant
Democracy. of this state question the
character, integrity and qualifications or
any of our candidates on the state ticket
save one, the nominee for governor,
against whom their chief attack is made
They have q faint hope-but it is vanity
of vanities-that because of the conflict of
candidates in the Republican state con-
vention, and the soreness and disappoint-
ment which they fancy resulted there
from. that they can make such inroads
on his vote among the Republicans of
this state that they can elect their can
didate. There were three candldates lor
the Office of governor before the Repub-
lican state convention: Mr.. Dunn, Judge
Collins and Mr.. Eddy, all men of integ-
rity, ability and considerable experience in
none of them had ever been questioned
before they became candidates for this
office, although all of them had been
many years in the public service. Be
cause Of their good qualities each of them
had a multitude of jealous friends VINO
were anxious to secure their promotion.
There enough Oh ClOSSH6SS III lll0
strength of the leading candidates to breed
the usual fervor and StrenuousneSS that
prevails in conventions under Sucn cir
cumstances. But one of the three could
secure the nomination, and quite natu-
rally many of the friends of the other can
didates were disappointed. SUCH is al
ways the case after strenuous ana ex-
citing convention. But the defeated can
didates and their friends are all good
Republicans who have the welfare of the
country and their party at heart, and VINO
will not for a moment cherish the idea or
putting the administration of our state
in the hands of the Democracy. There is
no valid ground on which any good, sound
Republican can vote against Mr.. Dunn.
Dunn and His Record.
Let us briefly for q moment scan the
county of Tyrone, Ireland, in February.
1855, and came from good Protestant
family of the middle class. At the age
of seventeen he came to tine on1ted
consin He soon moved to st. Louis,
where he learned the printers trade and
wrought at the same until ne moved TO
Princeton, in this state, in 1876, where
he founded. and has ever since published
and edited the princeton Union" one or
the spiciest and most interesting ana re-
liable country weeklies in the state. He
has always been one of the most ener-
getic and public spirited cltlzens or ms
town, and has always had the commence
and good will of his nelghbors. lie mas
and although not lawyer, MS 1eIloW
citizens have had such confidence In his
Integrity and ability that they have twice
chosen him for county attorney. His dis
trict has twice sent him to the leg1s-
Iature and in the legislature he was the
pioneer in initiating legislation for the
safeguarding and proper sale OF our state
lands and the timber thereon.
In 1894 he was elected state audltor, ano
was reelected four years later Durins
his eight years service in that most I'M
p6rtant office no one questioned MS lnteg-
rity. his energy, and his zeal Tor the wei.
fare of the state. AS auditor ne was no.
only ex officio land commissioner, ana mao
charge of the care and sale or al tne
state lands, the timber thereon, ana the
minerals therein, but he was also Ihe
clerk the bookkeeper and the au0ltor OF
all the accounts of the state: through
his office were drawn all drafts on the
state treasury. No state money could pc
drawn for any purpose except upon MS
warrant Whoever heard of his ISSUING
an unauthorized or excessive warrant!
Timber Lands.
His success in disposing of our lands and
the timber thereon at high pr1ce-hfgh-
err than beforehand thereby increasing
our permanent school fund during his
term to the extent of four and half
million dollars, was most remarkable, and
was noted from time to time in the puolic
press with praise and approval. When
ever he found legislation wanting or in
sufficient to safeguard the interests of
the state. he did not sit idle in dignihed
apathy, but he went theoretically to work
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