The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06
Says the Lid is Lifted High in
the Capital City.
Corruption Runs Rampant; No
One to Stay lis Course.
Men Voted Like Cattle; Get
Three Dollars Apiece.
From Thursdays Daily.

Rev. Thomas Morgan, better known
as the man who originated and conduct
ed the Bethel Mission in st. Paul, was
one of the principal speakers at the
Methodist conference yesterday after.
noon. His address dwelt more particu.
larly on "Home Missions" in the larger
cities. Rev. Morgan has long been
resident of ST. Paul and he knows some
thing of political conditions there. He
referred to the political corruptions in
the capital city. His town, he said, is
the dumping ground of all the weak
charges of the state. If you have a
family, you buy them a ticket for St.
Paul or Minneapolis. He talked at
length on the foreign voting population.
He told the story of one Ccilian who
came to him for advice as to whether
he should register, for fear he might
be signing a note or some other SINH
lar document which would get him into
trouble. After election Rev. Morgan ask
! ed him who he voted for and the fellow
replied: II don't know. We all got
| three dollars apiece, but don't know
who we voted for He attributes much
of the corruption to the corporations,
which furnish funds for the purchase
councilmen, who will in turn vote to al
low the violation of law and crime in
many fragrant FORMS He drew very
| dark picture of the conditions in his
own city. DR.. Morgan is engaged in
Bethel work and personally assisted in
rescuing fiftytwo girls from life of
shame in st. Paul last year. He paid
glowing tribute to Miss Martha Trews.
a deaconess, who is a good Samaritan
among the poor of st. Paul.
More in Attendance This Morning.
At nine o'clock this morning the bust
ness of the conference was resumed and
many who were not present yesterday
responded to the roll call this morning
DR.. Cowgirl, secretary, read the min
utes of yesterdays proceedings.
Rev. j. F. Stout, presiding elder for
the st. Paul district, read his report.
There has been a marked advance along
all lines of work. Churches have been
built, chapels and parsonages purchased
and built; $33,55S has been spent on
improvements to church property. Many
additions to the membership have been
added and Dr. Stout's report showed
splendid work in his district
Bishop Merrill created much merri
ment by calling the four presiding eld
ers, Revs. Rule, Stout, Doran and Clare
upon the carpet and putting them
through rigid examination as to their
work and department. They were, how
ever, dismissed with honorable records
amid the applause of the visiting clergy
The clergy were then called upon to
give a report of their stewardship and
all responded promptly.
Rev. S. n. Phelps of Window, sup
his fiftieth anniversary into the con-
ference next year, was voted an invi
tation to preach to the conference next
year.
Dr. F. NJ. Rule, presiding elder of the
Winona district, gave good report of
his district work. Dr. Rule, who was
the pastor of Centenary church., this
city, few years ago, has lost none of
his old-time popularity His report
started out full of vim and was over.
flowing with the personality of this
prominent divine. Much good for the
Masters cause has been accomplished
during the year. Many conversions
have been recorded through aggressive
evangelization, new term for revival
meetings.
DR.. Jennings Addresses the Conference.
DR.. Jennings of Cincinnatti, Ohio,
member of this conference and rep
resentative of the Methodist Book con-
Germ of that city. addressed the confer
ence He attributed small falling off
of his business last year to the fact
that many Methodist preachers went to
the st. Louis fair and consequently
bought less literature. He related some
of the trials of publisher, of the heavy
advance in the price of paper, and many
other commodities used in the book and
paper business. The question was asked
from the audience, "Why don't you
form trust ?" swell, we did. but it is
one thing to hitch up trust and an
other to make it CO. and we were un-
able to advance our prices to correspond
with the advance in materials. We have
either got to increase our circulation
largely or advance our prices" His
house publishes all kinds of Methodist
literature, consisting of books, papers.
Sunday school papers of all kinds.