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

PRAISE FOR DUNN
Major Bowler Says That He Is
Entitled to Election.
He Throws Some Hot Shot Into
the Democratic Camp.
Reviews Some Unforgotten His
tory Of the Party.
All of Which Makes Very In
teresting Reading.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Believing that R. C. Dunn is a man of
the people and that his record as legis-
lator and state auditor entities him to
the highest office in the gift of the peo-
pie of Minnesota, Mai. j. NJ. Bowler of
Minneapolis, one of the leaders of the
radical democrats in the state and state
dairy and food commissioner during Gov.
Lind's administration, yesterday an
nOunced that he will support Mr.. Dunn
for governor in preference to John A.
johnson of st. Peter, the democratic
candidate.
Maj. Bowler, who was temporary
chairman of the democratic state con-
vention at Duluth, believes that Mr..
johnson is controlled by the so-called
reOrganiZers in the democratic party
and that it is the duty of all democrats
who believe in the reforms advocated
by the radical or progressive wing of the
party to vote against the candidate of
the democratic bosses.
He says that johnson accomplished
during his only term in the state SEN
ate nothing which entities him to an
office of great responsibility and that on
the contrary the democratic candidate
voted against and did all in his power
to defeat legislation that was in the
interests of the people. The democratic
managers, he says, have no excuse for
waging compaign against Dr. Dunn
other than the hope that some republi-
cans will not vote for their nominee
Mr.. Dunn, on the other hand, he says,
is essentially man of the people. He
describes the republican nominee as a
strong, sterling, vigorous character and
calls attention to the fact that his rec
ord as legislator and state auditor saw
ed Gov. S. r. Van SAINT from defeat in
1900 against so formidable candidate
as John Lind. He says Mr.. Dunn put
partisanship aside when John Lind was
governor and did all he could to help
the democratic governor in his admins
tration of state affairs. Many demo-
Gratis, he says, cannot forget these things
and will vote for Dunn at the election.
Maj. Bowler said yesterday:
"The democratic party long ago ceas-
ed to be a constructive agency in ma
tional affairs. 1t went wrong on the slav-
cry question. During the rebellion it
was discretionary to the verge of dis
loyalty. 1t has but little to it's credit
during the last fifty years of its exis-
tence. 1t has sometimes been theOretic
ally right but almost always wrong in
practice. 1t is entitled to credit for the
enactment of the income tax law, which
the supreme court upset. I cannot re-
call anything else of Importance to its
credit.
at is composed of irreconcilable fac
tions as diverse in sentiment as plu-
tocracy is from genuine democracy.
Cleveland fully represented one faction
and his administration was republican
in almost every important feature ex-
cept in his hostility to soldiers pensions,
and that was not democratic.
'That same faction now dominant rep
resents the cold blooded commercialism
of the east and the repulsive methods
of the south. In their hands it has again
become the instrument of the trusts in
their efforts to absorb the fruits of pro-
ductive industry.
"All efforts to build up the democrat
ic party in the west are abandoned. 1t
is waste of time to ask western
man to be democrat unless he is in
favor of trusts and monopOlies. The
other faction represents the broad,
warm hearted, genuine democratic SEN
timent of the great west.
'The party machinery is in control of
Hill, DeiIlOHC ana O1eVelaHu, anu DIyaH
and Hearst are unwilling captives. The
party is back again i'm the ditch where
Cleveland threw it and from which Bry-
an rescued it in 1896. There let it
stay and rot. The west has no further
use for it.
Conditions are rapidly ripening for
the formation of a new party, based up
on the Declaration of independence and
the teachings of Jefferson, Lincoln and
Bryan. Meanwhile there will be large
increase of the Peoples party and the
Socialist vote, mainly from the friends
of Bryan and Hearst who cannot vote
for Parker.
GIN this state the will of the demo-
cratic rank and file has been Overrid-
en- by the audacious leadership of the
reorganizers and the surrender of former
trusted Bryan leaders, men who in 1896
were wont to roll their eyes heaven
ward and proclaim that Providence had
wrought overtime IN furnish William !