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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
CRY FOR JOHN A. ].
Eastern Democrats Fall in Love
With Our Governor.
They Want Himto Promise to Be
In the Real Big Race.
Jermane Writes of Great Shout
For Minnesota Man.
Johnson Seems to Have Started
Things Down There.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily
Jermane writes The Minneapolis
Journal from Washington the following
interesting political story. 1t reads
well:
Of course, all signs of politics are
more or less likely to fail but if the
ones now in evidence pan out, there is
no doubt there will be under way in
this section of the country real
johnson boom within the next sixty
days. 1t is said that the governor
himself is the only man who can pre-
vent it.
There has been several conferences
yesterday and today of prominent
democrats in this city, with view
to seeing if something can be done to
bring Governor johnson of Minnesota
into the field as passive candidate
for the presidential nomination. The
men participating in the conferences
do not expect the governor to enter
the lists actively, but they are inclined
to believe that if he will permit GER
tain work of organization to be done
for him by others. the result will be
that he will get the delegates from
Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and
nearly all of the other states of the
southern Atlantic seaboard, with the
possibility of genuine southern land
slide which will carry him to the NOM
nation.
The singular thing about the matter
| is that the men participating in these
conferences are all personal friends of
Bryan. They believe, however, that
Bryan cannot be elected, and that.
taking him at his recent public an
nouncement regarding the nomination
next year, ,he cannot object if the
party should see fit to pick out, in
stead of himself, some man whom it
thinks will at least have chance OF
winning a. aaz
Much interest is being taken as to
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
GARDEN CITY NEWS NOTES
Personal Mention and a Number Of
Interesting Happenings.

Mrs. w. A. Wagner was Man
kato visitor last week.
Arthur Felix went to st. Paul last
week.
Mrs. A. ]. Knight and Kittie visited
at Raleigh Childs' Sunday.
Frank Swift has gone to Nebraska
to visit relatives.
Miss Liza Wilson visited in Vernon
Center last week.
Esther Thompson, who has been
teaching school in North Dakota, re-
turned home this week.
Mrs. Yarten of Vernon Center was
in town this week canvassing.
Howard Waite, who conducts a bak-
cry in Fairmont, visited his brother
Homer last week.
Mrs. Pew and children of Vernon
Center visited her mother and sister,
Mrs. Loring and Miss Anna Loring,
of this place last week.
Hertha Hopkins and Blanche Bixby
were in Lake Crystal Thursday.
Fred and Chester Kendall were in
Lake Crystal this week.
Ray Hopkins, who has been visiting
his sister, Hertha Hopkins, returned
to his home in st. James Monday
Will Keinholz and T. Randall of
Amboy were in town Friday.
Mr.. Woods of Amboy and Mr.
,Washburn of Vernon Center were in
town Friday.
Mrs. Buckles was Lake Crystal
caller Thursday.
The w. c. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Lizzie Beer Dec. 81. Topic,
School Savings Banks. Leader, Mrs.
Lizzie Hughes.
Mr.. Buckles has been visiting rela-
tives in Smiths Mill this week.
Frank Fairchild Jr. is on the sick
list this week.
Mrs. John Osgood was in Mankato
Thursday.
Charles Rector was in Mankato last
week.
Mrs. Thayer, Mrs. Ida Terry, Mable
Fairchild, Mrs. Hughes and Anna Lor-
ing were Mankato callers Tuesday.
Mrs. Swan and daughter Genevieve
were in Lake Crystal Saturday.
Mrs. Will Duffield was in Lake
Crystal Thursday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
Best Environments.

were higher than now. Leather from
hides purchased at prevailing low prices
he predicted will probably be sold at
smaller price.
j. Harry SELF, second vice president
of SELF, Schwab & Co., asserted that
the shoe manufacturers can't lower
prices because the tanners refuse to
cut the prices of their goods.
"We have been trying to induce the
leather men to reduce their prices,
but our efforts have been futile" said
Mr.. SELF, "On that account shoes are
no cheaper. There has been combi-
nation among the leather men, and they
persist in maintaining their price list
as it is. AS a matter of fact, there
has been a drop in the prices of both
country hides and packing house hides,
and we have been arguing that now is
the proper time to sell leather cheaper.
There has been a scarcity of heavy
leather, however, while light leather
has been more plentiful"
Z. n. Lapham of the United States
Leather company declared that in the
past year the cost of leather has been
reduced.
"The cost of leather has fallen off to
some extent during the past year,
and it looks as though it is going to
be cheaper yet" he said "ShOe men
won't buy leather at any price now on
account of a disturbed market, but
as soon as stable conditions return
we may look for some changes. l think
For the past ten or twelve years
leather men have made little money,
as every one in touch with the stu
alton knows, and l am hoping that
prices for the commodity won't de-
crease"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20

Governor Johnson's probable attitude
toward such movement.
One of the most prominent demo-
Gratis in Maryland, who does not want
his name used at this time, said to-
day:
81 have been reading lot of news
paper articles about Governor Johnson
articles appearing in several of the
large southern cities, among them the
Baltimore Sun, and | had made up my
mind that they had overshot the mark
were too high colored; but since
have had a chance to see the governor
in action, including his great speech
at the Gridiron club dinner, L am sure
that these articles fell far short of do
ing him justice. / am personal friend
of Bryan's, but l want to see some
man nominated who will have a
chance to be elected. Such a man is
Governor Johnson"
All such talk as this does not
son will be nominated, but it does
mean that democratic leaders are not
going to permit his boom to die with
out struggle to keep it alive. If
the plan to capture the southern
states in this vicinity for him should
carry, it might mean his nomination
for Bryan could hardly win without
the support of all the southern states
A special dispatch from st. Paul to
the Washington Star Tuesday evening
says that arrangements are being made
to secure the Minnesota delegation for
johnson, and also the delegates from
the Dakotas and Wisconsin. 1t was
said further that it was believed in
Minnesota that Illinois would also be
in line. This news, if true, will be re-
ceived with loud acclaim here. All that
eastern and southern democrats want
to know is that the governor will give
his consent to having II boom worked
up for him, and will not put a damper
on it by saying that he will not con-
sent to be considered as long as Bryan
is in the running.
The idea here is that if Johnson
men are chosen from the southern
states, or any of them, they will all
be friends of Bryan's- personal as well
as political friends-and that if enough
of them are gotten together, Bryan
will see what is coming and acquiesce.
1t is the understanding here that as
soon as the plans here outlined can
be perfected, some means will be
taken to get word to Governor John
son and find out if he will stand for
them
The Baltimore News, which in Mon
days issue published two strong arti-
cles favoring the nomination of Gov
ernor johnson of Minnesota for the
presidency, fired another broadside in
the Tuesday evening papers, giving
two columns on the front page to a
discussion of the Minnesota gentle
mans availability. The article is
pitched in key of high compliment.
and thousands of extra copies of The
News are being mailed. to all impor-
tant points along the Atlantic sea
board, to leading democrats, One
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
The Glory of Gods House;"
Sermon By Rev. ]. W. Brown

had ever done him. So the church
repays any sacrifices in its behalf.
This church was erected in Gods
honor. Church edifces should be in
harmony with the homes of the peo-
lple. In various ways then will true
honor come and cause the work to pro-
gress. The church is monumental.
Childhood is honored there. If true,
it is sad thing that there are two
million childless homes in our land.
These homes are those of the rich
and cultured, and are on the avenues.
The church has great mission in
saving the children to God.
Divergent elements are united in
the church, making all one in faith
and love. If different, we 90 in differ
ent ways; then we come here to be
one; and you have erected one beau
tiful home for all. The revolution
of I776 brought forth statesmen.
Craftsmanship was uppermost in the
mind The rebellion brought forth
Lincoln ana Grant. This generation
has brought forth millionaircs Oh,
for great representatives of the Christ:
because Christ life is uppermost in the
general thought. There is power at
our command. There is a glory for
us all. 1t is God given. The speaker
referred to Gypsy Smith and Bud
Robinson.
The sermon was filed with inter-
esting incidents. In opening, Rev.
Brown invited the large audience pres
ent to take off their hats to him, and
the ladies took the hint and removed
their headgear, so that those behind
them could look at something else. Mr..
Brown then complmented the ladies
on looking much better.
There will be social hour in the
church parlors this evening from seven
until eight o'clock. Everybody is in
vited to meet the former pastors and
look over the church building. Drs.
Rule, Cowgirl and Stout win be pres
ent, and at eight o'clock a platform
meeting will be held, presided over by
Mayor Andrews, and addressed by Rev.
+. M. Rule, presiding elder of the Wi
mona district, and Presiding Elder Ker-
foot of this district.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
Hide Buyers Agree With This,
And So Do Tanners.
But That Doesn't Explain The
Boost in Shoe Prices.
Public Gets It Hard, No Matter
How the Cow Jumps.

Chicago, Dec. l2.-Says the meat
man; Meats are no cheaper because
hides, tallow and oIeo are lower"
Says the shoe man; "Shoes are no
cheaper because leather costs the
same"
Says the leather man: Leather is
cheaper and may take further tum-
BILE in price"
There you have it with variations if
YOU are interested in trying to find
out why it is that you can't get meat
cheaper when live stock is lower, and
why shoes are no less expensive when
the cost of hides has fallen off S.
apiece within the past six months.
The problem boBbed up yesterday in
connection with statement made by
Edward Cudahy of Omaha that the
cost of meat does not lessen because
the hide market has slumped.
'The public must understand that
when a packer buys an animal he
must figure on the profit to be derived
from the entire carcass, and not on
any particular part of it," declared
Louis Pfaelzer of Louis Pfaelzer &
Sons, wholesale and retail meat deal.
ers at 4lSl Halsted street.
For instance, hides sell for So apiece
less now than they did six months
ago, and the packer gets 50 head
less for his tallow and cleo. With
such conditions prevailing you can't
expect meat prices to correspond
ingly lower. The packer must make
profit somewhere, and if he slashes
meat prices to correspond with the
tumble in the price of hides, tallow and
oleo he is going to lose money!
According to Mr.. Packer, it is neces.
sary for the tanners to keep hides fol-
considerable length of time before
they can convert them into leather
The leather on hand at present, he
said, vas made from hides purchased
a number of months ago when price;
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20

would almost think that The News
had received large retainer, it is
devoting itself so earnestly to the
johnson cause, that its only reward
will come, if there should be reward
at all lin the knowledge that it has
done something to prevent the demo-
cratic party from nominating a GER
tain gentleman who is. certain to lead
it down to another inglorious defeat.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily. %
The last sermon of dedication week
was preached at Centenary Methodist
church last evening by Rev. J. NJ
Brown, d. d., pastor of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church at Sioux Falls,
S. d., and formerly pastor of the
church in this city, in 1866. He took
as his text Isiah GO:7 and First Cor
rinthians 3:l7. His subject was "Thc
Glory of Gods House" He said that
the prophet looked forward to the
Christ as that glory. He leaves the
local conditions and looks forward to
the Christ. If he comes back to the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
Old Soldiers Are Invited.

All old soldiers and members of
the relief corps are urged to be in
attendance upon the meeting of the
post tomorrow evening. Department
Commander Whitney will be present.
A program will be rendered,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
Our New Home

w Re will move soon into our new home in the mann.
" moth block at Nos III to ll6 South Front
Street, formerly occupied by the big store Of
Lamm & Holman We will then have the largest and
finest equipped business college in the Northwest Three
spacious floors in magnificent block 80 by 76 feet will
be placed at the disposal Of our school and students.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20
For Christmas

NAN you think Of better gft---a gift more worth
u while or longer to be remembered your own
son or daughter your most deserving niece or
nephew than business education. Start them right in
Efes work---a scholarship in our splendid College
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20

From Saturdays Daily.
Clare Thompson, aged eleven was
drowned in Lake Sisseton, Fairmont, at
Is p. m. Thursday. The body was re-
covered in three hours.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-20

Mrs. Smith of Lansing, Iowa, who
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
George NJ. Smith, went to st. Paul
this morning, and from there will go
home. i ,...4-..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

Those eight Duluth telephone girls
with Irish cognomens who so quietly
and effectively squelched a fire III it's
incipiency in the Lyceum building in
that city last Saturday afternoon are
deserving of we'll filled Christmas
stockings. There were 1900 people
attending an entertainment in the
Lyceum at the time and had panic
occurred many of them would have
probably lost their lives. The brave
girls who acted so promptly should
not be forgotten. especially at this
season of the year. vac
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

The refusal of Judge Dickinson last
week to grant temporary Injunction
restraining the Minneapolis board of
education from expelling Hobart
Brooks because of his membership
in Greek letter society is thought
by many lawyers to be death blow
to school fraternities. It is held by
the court that a board of education
has right to govern the conduct of
pupils while out of school as we'll as
in. A hearing on the application for
a permanent injunction will be held
on December 30, but in the face of
Judge Dickinson's ruling it seems
almost certain that this application
will also be denied.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

At Newport, r. l., the government
maintains a naval commissary store,
and complaints have reached Wash
ingtOn from the merchants of that
place against the governments COM
petition. It appears that this COM
missary store is selling goods to the
public at prices detrimental to the
business of the merchants entering
protest. From this it seems that the
printers are not the only ones with
whom the government has entered
into competition and it is high time
that halt we're called on such pro-
ceedings. p
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19
Brother Apologize of the Cannon

Brother Apologize of the Cannon
Falls Beacon is still of the opinion
that criticisms of the creating of I'M
necessary Offices by Messrs. Rosing
and Ringdahl of the state board of
control are E'pop-gun politics. ~ Per-
haps. But we remain of the opinion
that S. W. Leavett, the senior mem
Der of the board of control, than
whom the state of Minnesota has no
more efficient and conscientious SER
want, is fully as competent a judge OF
the necessity fora hen-coop inspector
as his worthy colleagues. Mr.. Leavett
has emphatically asserted that the
new Office was unnecessary and is
unauthorized by law, and we believe
Mr.. Leavett is right. But Mr.. Leav-
cit has been overruled and the ap-
pointee is decent sort Of q fellow.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

Here is a sample of the stuff that is
being published in the Johnsonian
press: 'Mr. Bryan should not
imagine he is the only pebble on de-
mocracy's beach. He has been tried
and found wanting. If democrats
want a, man who will cater to the
interests let them select William J..
Bryan for their standard bearer, if
not they had better choose our John
A. Johnson Items of this nature
are decidedly unfair to Mr.. Bryan,
for of all men mentioned as presi-
Dental possibilities on the democratic
ticket he is certainly free from faint
so far as toadying to the interests is
concerned. And that is the very
reason why the interests are opposed
to him.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

So long as mines are operated there
will be mining accidents, but it seems
that insufficient care is exercised in
guarding the lives of the men who toll
underground. Had greater precau-
tions been taken it is scarcely possible
that the horrible calamity in the Mo-
nongah mine, where over three hundred
lives were snuffed out, would have
happened. The system of operating
mines especially coal mines-is evil
IDENTIFY imperfect. H.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

Denver won out in the contest for
the national democratic convention
and the date decided upon to nomi-
nate Moses is July 7. The sum of
800, 900 was offered by Denver pro-
vided it was selected as the conven-
tion city. Some of the democratic
national committeeman were opposed
to the acceptance of this bonus upon
the grounds that it savOred of brib-
cry, but these opponents numbered
only IA against 81 when the question
was put to a vote. One hundred
thousand dollars is nice little
corruption fund for the unterri6ed to
start the campaign with.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

Many Spaniards are displeased
because their baby crown prince is
fair of face and possesses decidedly
Teutonic characteristics of counte-
nance. There is German blood ii the
baby's mother, but this is an
advantage rather than drawback.
It will have tendency to check the
degeneracy which now permeates, the
Castilian royal family-that is, twill
have the effect Of strengthening, men
tally and physically, future mon
archs. Spain should be elated rather
than displeased. ~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

r. D. Haven is the republican candi-
date for mayor of Duluth, and E. A.
Tessman is the democratic candidate.
There is no good reason why Duluth
should not have a republican mayor
once in a while, especially when the
republicans place in nomination such
an excellent gentleman as Mr.. Haven.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

If @. G. Schultz, the fellow who is
attempting to fill the position of as
sistant state superintendent of public
instruction, is responsible for the
assertion contained in local article
in the Minneapolis Tribune of the
18th inst. to the effect that "Robert
G. Dunn seems to be more or less
mixed up in the school troubles at
Cove" he, Mr.. Schultz, should be
admitted to full membership in the
Ananias club without delay. IL
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

According to the World of New
Mexico a species of lizard inhabits
that country which exhibits a particu-
lar preference for the inner side of
peoples shirts. It's name is the tilt
jak and it subsists on insects. AS
New Mexico is infested with aeas in
multitudinous number the tjitak is
doubtless welcomed as bosom CON-
paniOn.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

In addressing the United States
senate upon his bill for the control 81
trusts Jefferson Davis Of Arkansas
declared that the Sherman anti-trust
law had proven Intellectual, that under
it's operation the trusts had grown
stronger, defiant and arrogant, that
the law had not even tanned, much less
destroyed, one combination conducted
in restraint of trade. JEFF Davis is a
democrat, but nevertheless he spoke
the truth.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

A peculiar coincidence was the
wreck of the seven-masted schooner
Thomas W. Lawson on "Friday the
thirteenth" The schooner was the
largest sailing vessel afoat and was
named after the author of the novel.
Friday the Thirteenth. But had
she been named after anyone else the
catastrophe would have happened
upon precisely the same date.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

Young stock, for governor, Is
steady. There is none on the market
just now, but if he wins out at Wash
ington in the proceedings recently
argued there, it will go skyward at
once and his nomination be almost
assured. Gov. Johnson went to
Washington with Attorney General
Young. They seem inseparable and
II either is candidate for governor
it is safe prediction that the other
will not enter the race.-Joe Cobb in
LIE Sueur News.
Why the "ifs?' Attorney General
Young was elected to the position he
occupies to attend to the legal bust
ness OF the state. He is we'll paid for
the duties he is called upon to per-
form. In the performance of those
duties it was incumbent upon him to
defend the rate law enacted by the last
legislature. That he has done so to
the best OF his ability no one doubts,
and he has been assisted by able
counsel for whose services the state
will pay. So far as Mr.. Young's cam
didacy for the governorship is con-
cerned it should not make a particle
OF difference whether or not his con-
tentlons are sustained by the United
States supreme court. The other eff,
relative to Governor johnson should
not be given a moments considera-
ton by any candidate who seeks the
republican nomination. Republicans
should take it for granted that the
opposition will nominate it's strong
est candidate, and the republican who
is afraid to measure lances with Gov
ernor johnson should not enter the
race for the republican nomination.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

Orchard has again been placed on
the stand, this time as a witness in the
trial of George A. Pettibone for the
murder of former Governor Steunen-
berg. The villain reiterated the
history of his diabolical deeds with
the same sang froid as in the Hay
wood trial and even intensified the
description of such deeds by adding
more horrible details. No jury can
conscientiously convict upon the testi-
mony of such a blackguardly, lying
ruflan as Orchard.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-19

Duluth's fair sex are going in for
street cleaning this winter. It seems
they are determined that the thorough
fares shall be kept free from snow.
To say the least, it doesn't speak
very highly for the men folks of that
town to stand around and look on
while the women shovel snow and
slush.