The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-09
MAKE THEMSELVES FELT.
Republicans Of the Second District
Have a Duty TO Perform.
From Thursdays Daily.

Republicans in the second COMPRESSION
al district are in position to make them
selves influential in the policy of the ma
tional party. They can stem this tide
of mixed sentimentalism and rapacity
which is carrying the party into ex-
tremes sure, sooner or later, to bring an
other disastrous reaction, as in 1892, or
they can give it an impetus that will
make much sooner the defeat. More re.
sponsibility rests upon them than the
selection of republican candidate for
congress. 1t is for them to say whether
the policy of governmental interference
with the distribution of wealth, the de-
Election of part of that which all pro
duce to the pockets of those who produce
some things, shall be the permanent pol
icy, increasingly applied, or whether
their party shall retrace its steps, re-
deem its early promises and limit taxing
to the needs of government.
No republican in that district should
let himself be led by the thought that
his vote for candidate counts for moth
ing in the national effort for revision
that reduces The contest between Mr..
Miller and Mr.. Mc0eary has attracted
attention all over the country. Nowhere
has it attracted more interested atten-
ton than among the standpatters. Their
organ, the Protective Tariff league, with
its mouthpiece, the American Economist,
has sounded warning TO their side of the
to the protective policy, as
they advocate it, of the defeat of Mr..
McCleary. We doubt not the district is
flooded with the reading matter of that
league. Every republican voter, as he
goes into the primary booth, should feel
that his vote will bear upon and affect
the future course of the national party.
Mr.. McCleary is trying to attach his
fortunes to President Roosevelt; to
make the latter's deserved strength car
ry him also. 1t is for this that he
quotes from the messages and speeches
of the president, to create the impress
sion among his constituents that the
president and he are of one mind on this
question. Possibly, he really believes
this If so, he deceiyes himself. Were
there nothing else to indicate the presi
dents real position his insistence upon
the difference in LABOR cost here and
abroad as the measure of protection, is
sufficient to show that he has no part
or lot with Mr.. McCleary's ultraism.
Mr.. Roosevelt is no loose thinker OF
talker. He knows of what he talks.
When he talks about labor cost here and
he knows what it is, and that
there is no justification whatever in that
difference for the A1cCleary doctrine or
for tariff not very much above the rev.
enue point We feel warranted in saying
that the views of Mr.. Miller are far
closer to those of President Roosevelt
than are those of McCleary. Mr.. Nc
Cleary, for some reason, has chosen to
take sides with the Hanna element, one
that so distrusted the president that for
months it schemed to defeat him for the
with Hanna. These are facts
which second district republicans should
take into consideration in deciding
whether to vote for the revision of the
tariff, up or down.-St. Paul Dispatch.