The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-06
EDDY TELLS WHY He
STANDS FOR MEL SON
Former Congressman Writes Appreciation Of the
Senator and His Services to the People
Unwritten History Told.
Special to The journal.

Special to The journal.
Sank Center, MINI. Oct. 6.-Frank
IN. Eddy has been classediby some poll
ticians among the opponents Of Senator
Knute Nelson He refutes this charge
In the most effective way, by the publ
cation OF two-column article on Mel
son in his paper, the Sank Center Her
aid. AS an appreciation Of the senator
and character study by man who
knows him intimately, it will be read
with interest all over the state. Mr..
Eddy writes:.
For. some unaccountable reason an
impression seems to be abroad that
the editor Of the Herald is opposed to
knute Nelson's reelection to the
United States senate. Nothing could be
farther from the truth than this. We
have known the senator ever since he
came to the state. We have known him
as sta1e senator, as congressman, as
governor and we think we know every
side of this manysided man as no one
else In the state knows, him. We have
and candidates as in the last congress
sional primary campaign, and When
our ideas predominant we are as proud
as a boy with his first pants. We
| think anyone who wins out in a politi-
cal tussle with the cold man. is fair
y entitled d t. 60 away back and toss
In the blacklist hours of the ma
ton s despair, fOld Knute,' then
Young Knute, cast his educational
prospects, his political prospects and
his financial prospects to the four
winds and Joined the now rapidly van
1shing army that swept southwark like
an angry sea. No soldier made a bet
h1 II
rollcall-or a meai-tiH on the bioody y
field of Port Hudson he was shot thru
and thru and lay for hours sweltering
IN his own gore beneath a southern
sun: We were Intimately acquainted
with Senator Nelson ever since he came
to the state. We knew in a gen
eral way that he served in the union
army, but we never knew what a brave
war record he had until we had it from
the lips OF his old captain, who was our
guest at luncheon in the house restau-
rant, and who used to come down to
washington every session to smoke a
pipe and drink rum punch with
his little Norwegian corporal.
Work for Free Homesteads.
1--WE always regarded as the crown
ing glory OF our congressional career
the passage Of the Eddy free homestead
Pill. Inns matter involved more than
$35,0OO,OOO. We finally won out: won
out in the face of adverse report from
the department. of the interior, the hos
tlllty OF the chairman of the committee
on public lands, the ayowed opposition
OF the leaders on both sides of the
house and this $35 100000 did not 90 to
trusts, corporations or combinations of
wealth, but to sturdy homemakers and
citizen producers that have made this
the greatest nation among all the great
nations of earth. It was the greatest
legislative victory for men that was
won in the halls Of congress in the last
fifty years. We received much credit
and we were entitledxto much credit
for its passage: but if Knute had not
aided us by his sage advice, born Of a
long legislative. experience and stood
| by us as. close as burdock burr in a
cow g tail, we would have been as help
less as piping canary, bird in the
claws of our maltese tomcat, that has
licked everything in the animal king
dom within four blocks of our resi-
dence
"In the matter of the Northern Pa.
| cific indemnity lands in which we were
both mutually. interested Nelson stuck
TO his position with a pertinacity equal
| to that of bulldog with his teeth