The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-12-16
Decides to Refer Them to Com
mitiee for Adjustment.
And Report to the Directors at
the Next Meeting.
c. N. Andrews Objects to TAX
ing a Back Track.

From Mondays Daily.
Once more this morning the Board of
Trade spent long session discussing
the resolutions passed by that body
some weeks ago with reference to the
circular letter issued during the recent
campaign in support of the candidacy of
james T. McCleary for congress and
bearing the signatures of the president
and secretary of the board. Once more
the whole matter was laid over and was
referred to a committee with instruc-
lions to report at the next meeting.
Il wish we could just stand up and
let every member of the board have a
good kick at u.s." remarked Seer tary
Taylor just after the close of tn I ses-
sion, land put stop to this praci Ice of
spending hours of valuable morning time
in discussing this matter"
VI. G. Willard preached the subject by
introducing the same resolutions that
were introduced at the previous meet
ing by H. P. Jensen, looking to the
resembling of the original c. n. Andrews
resolutions passed condemning the ac-
ton of the president and secretary, and
substituting a set that seemed decidedly
like whitewashing outfit. Mr. Will
vi - L.
sage of the resolutions that were
preached at the last meeting just as
white wash. In other words, the sting
was taken completely away by the SER
les of amendments proposed by Mr..
Willard. The Willard resolutions were
an abridged edition of the Jenesn set
and contained little else than repudia-
ton by the board of the McCleary circu-
lar. So - "a
John c. Wise moved the adoption of
Mr.. Wizards resolutions as he desired
to have them passed. Thomas Hughes
also supported them in this form.
c. \. Andrews did not wish to have
his own resolutions rescinded unless
there was some reason for it.
Thomas Hughes said in his opinion
those resolutions were too drastic What
he especially objected to was the phrase
political trick" used to designate a
supposed coalition between the officers
and Mr.. McCleary. The Willard reso-
buttons accused nobody of perpetrating
a political trick. Otherwise he didn't
particularly mind having the original
resolutions stand.
Mr.. Andrews opposed the Willard res
olutions. The action of the board in
passing the Andrews resolutions had not
been Incorporate. Those resolutions were
rearranged with the assistance of one of
the officers to whom they referred be-
fore being passed. The Andrews reso-
buttons were almost approved by the
president and secretary themselves. If
the resolutions do any wrong that was
overlooked it should be corrected. He
was not disposed to carry politics all
through the year. While a man is a
candidate, it is proper for opponents to
criticise him. Yet the board by the ac-
tion of the president and secretary was
placed in position, which would for
bid any self-respecting democrat from
remaining a member. 1t was made to
look like an adjunct of the republican
party. The original resolutions did not
seem far out of the way.
One phrase might be open to objec-
ton: Joining with James T. McCleary
to perpetrate political trick" Never
theless the circular bore all the ear
marks of political trick. Mr.. Andrews
said he thought he could tell pretty well
who was back of the movement to res
cind the original resolutions. In the
Jensen resolution, while the hand was
the hand of Esau, it was the voice OF
McCleary. Mr.. McCleary comes before
the board to have righted what he deems
an attack upon him. There was much
about the Willard resolutions that look
ed like an attempt to whitewash a
tricky performance and to belittle a
mistake that should be properly rebuk-
ed Another objection to the Willard
resolution was that they attempted to
get out of the board an Endorsement of
McCleary's position on the parcels post.
1t would be mistake to let the pendu-
lum swing away back to McCleary. The
proposed resolutions aimed to minimize
wrong and to give indirect support to
Mr.. McCleary. The board had done