The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-21

Bryan, the greatest man since Abraham
Lincoln, for that great crisis. But now
the clouds have passed; they see new
light.
''The friends of Bryan and Hearst,
who still believe in the principles they
battled for in 1896 and 1900, are absOlv-
ed from further allegiance to a party
that is here today and there tomorrow
and forever nowhere but in the soup.
Like the darkey's crab, when yo find
dat fellah yo doan can tell whudder yo
met him or whudder yo obertOok him.
minnesota democrats don't mention
Parker. For obvious reasons they are
running Roosevelt ohnson-P Peoples
campaign, and their only excuse for max
ing campaign is the claim that some
of the republicans are dissatisfied with
the republican nominee.
johnson, the democratic candidate for
governor, is an original gold standard
advocate and Parker man, reorganizer,
Elected to the senate as democrat in
1898 he antagonized Gov. Lind and his
party upon nearly every important
measure which the party stood for and
proved himself to be absolutely unreli-
able.
Backed as he now is by certain rail
road and lumber interests who are
financing his campaign, what could the
people expect of him if elected? What
claim has he upon the friends of Bryan
and Hearst? None whatever.
"On the other hand r. G.. Dunn as
state auditor stood manfully by Gov.
Lind in his attempts to compel the
street railway companies and other public
service corporations to pay their fair
share of the taxes; to increase the rail
road gross earnings tax from to 4
per cent, and to secure other important
measures for the public good He and
Gov Lind were in unison in opposition
to taking money out of the peoples
pockets and paying it over to manufact-
urers of beet sugar.
''To Gov. Lind's appointees in the cap
itOl Mr.. Dunn was most cordial and
helpful at all times. Casting aside par
tisanship he did everything in his pow
er to aid Lind in his administration of
affairs. Many democrats cannot forget
these things and will vote for Dunn at
the coming election.
'R. C. Dunn is in every essential a
man of the people, the common every
day people whom God loves, because he
makes so many more of them than the
other kind. He is a strong, sterling,
generous character, without false note
in his noble makeup. His record as legis-
lator and state auditor was good enough
to save Van SAINT from defeat in 1900.
If it could accomplish that against such
a candidate as Gov. Lind it surely ought
to be sufficient to elect Dunn in 1904
over a man who has accomplished moth
ing to entitle him to the governorship
and whose only excuse for being a can
didate is the belief of the democratic
managers that some republicans are not
for Dunn Any man who was willing to
head the democratic ticket would answer
the purpose.
Quinn stands for something, and you
always know just where to find him.
Johnson stands for nothing and he will
not stand for that even, without hitch
ing.
"There are some men on the democrat
ic ticket for whom the Bryan and Hearst
democrats can vote with pride. 1t is a
source of regret that John A. Johnson
is not one of them. st. Paul Pioneer
Press.
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