The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-08-31
Mr.. Guttersen Outgenerals
Second District Man.
PUBLISHED A STATEMENT.
This Showed Where President Roose'
Welt Stood on Question Of Tariff
Revision; the Campaign.

Mankato, Mimi, Aug. 24.-The con-
gressional campaign for the republican
nomination for congress, in the second
district. from now on, will be one OF
the hottest contests which this section
of the state has ever experienced.
Gilbert Guttersen, who is making a
canvass of the district, in opposition to
McCleary, has gained in strength and
popularity from the date of his filing to
the present moment, and his friends as
sert with confidence that he will carry
the primaries handsomely.
Guttersen is making clean cut cam
paign, and has the support of majority
of the newspapers of the district. He
stands in line with the reform element
of the republican party, for repubh-
can revision of the tariff, control of the
trusts, election of United States sena-
tors by popular vote, and federal supev.
vision of transportation.
McCleary stands for the opposite, and
Mr.. Guttersen has the congressman on
the defensive, explaining why he was
turned down by Speaker Cannon for
chairman of the appropriations commit
tee: why he failed to raise his vote for
the railway rate bill, the pure food law,
the antitrust acts and, in fact, all
important national legislation, enacted
at the last session.
The managers of Mr. Guttersen have
started to review the record of Mr.. Nc
Cleary in congress and they have put it
up TO that gentleman to show wherein he
ever originated single measure of fed
eral legislation that bears his name.
They also call on Mr.. NIcCleary to
demonstrate wherein he mas accomplish
ed anything of specific advantage for
the district, it being generally conceded
that the rural routes established in the
section are no more numerous than in
order parts of the state.
People are awakening to the fact that
thew themselves secured the rural de-
livery system and not McCleary, who
simply endorsed the petitions sent In.
As for the establishment of the routes
due credit is due Mr.. Guttersen, who was
for several years rural route inspector.
Local pride and his loyalty to the dis
trict of course accounts for his work in
this line.
McClearv's method of handling his tar
if speech is coming in for a great deal
of criticism.
He has for several sessions been in
the habit of getting up speech, say
early, or, perhaps, in the middle, of the
session, and sometimes during the lat
ter part of the session, and then holding
it out of the COMPRESSION Record until
long after congress adjourned.
Then he would change it to conform
to the declared policy of the republi-
can leaders, in whose counsels he does
not participate and whose confidence he
does not enjoy. But this sort of decep-
ton will work no longer in the second
district McCleary can no longer fool
the intelligent and wide-awake voters
of Southwestern Minnesota. His latest
exploit i'm printing a big volume of sta
tistical tables and other matter, and
dating it as having been delivered in
congress June 25 last has met with the
ridicule and contempt which such meth
DDS deserve.
And, in this connection, Guttersen and
his friends have called the turn on Nc
Cleary The latter, as soon as Presl
dent Roosevelt's letter on the tariff ques
tion appeared, arranged to release his
speech, which has been hung up down in
Washington ever since June 25.
McCleary had planned to food the dis
trict with an extract from President
Roosevelt's letter to Congressman Wat
son, of Indiana, containing only that
portion of the letter which would give
W Tic
But, before he had chance to ge
the type set up, Gilbert Guttersen wa.
out with statement giving Roosevelt's
tariff statement in full from A to z
and showing, in an open argument, tina
the president is committed to the polio,
of modifying certain schedules, whel
needed, and of the entire tariff law, whel
it will be of benefit to the country.
This is the position taken by Mr.. Gut
tersen. He is as strong republican
as there is in the state, with good
clean record. He stands with those re
pnblicans who are waging great figh
to throw off the exactions and imposi
tions put upon the people by the grea
trust corporations.
MeCleary, with his vote, last Jun,
in favor of the Steel trust and the zee
ment combination, which AS has bee
demonstrated recently, proposed to hol
up the Panama canal commission, &
course, has the support of those grea