The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-16
Speeches Of Republican Nominee
For Governor Win Folks. =
VANCE CHAPMAN's OPINION
WeII-Known PolitieaiVvriter Declares
Jacobson Has Proved HImselfto
Be q Power on Stump.


on The st. Paul Dispatch, writes his
paper this story of how Jacob f. ia
cobson's speeches take with the crowds
Alexandria, Mimi, Oct. Eff any,
one tells you that j. F. Jacobson, the
republican candidate for governor, does
not make votes on the stump, tell him
he does not know what he is talking
about.
Mr. jacobson, in his earnest, convinc.
ing way, covered two counties yester-
day, Grant and Douglas, and it is
safe bet that one of these, Grant,
is his beyond shadow of a doubt
just to show you what this means,
Grant, where he spoke to fully 500
people at the towns of Elbow Lake and
Wendell, gave Gov. Johnson S9S votes
against $50 for Cole two years ago.
This is better than two to one, and
with Gov. johnson again the, candi-
date, the county would seem ready for
a duplication, or, at least, safe ma
jority, yet. on the authority of the
best posted men in the county, Grant
will come pretty near doing the re-
verse this time.
In any event they are confident that
Mr.. Jacobson will carry the county,
which is source for congratulation
at least.
To the throngs who greeted him
yesterday, Mr.. jacobson said:
IF l am elected governor, I will
pledge one thing: 1 will do more than
earn my salary"
If his method of campaigning counts
for anything, the man from Lac quiz
Parle can certainly he counted on, to
more than keep his promise. -,.r. s.rsn
Curled up in car seat for nearly $50
miles, with his overcoat as a pillow,
and dropped off at Wendell, 2 o'clock
in the morning, there, to be taken in
tow by, sleepy headed hotelkeeper,
rustled off to a cold. room and awakened
at 8 clock for a speaking stunt, was
small fraction of his days work.
Following that, he covered twenty
five miles in an automobile to Elbow
Lake, and after that. he. was taken
to Alexandria, a trip of nearly fifty
miles, again in an automobile, where he
got hasty meal, and took the 500
train for New Folden. . 20, -.-,,.,, Wi.
-. s.15 He Gets the People. e.....v
with bo +o,,pc ,oorI1, b;Ilod hooouco
of ihasty dating, he secured a large
and enthusiastic audience at each, such
as is not accorded to every candidate.
Mr.. Jacobson was accorded a good,
hearty reception both in Wendell, where
he spoke at ii o'clock in the morning,
and at Elbow Lake, where he was the
feature in the afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Jake" as those who greeted him in
his travels yesterday insisted on add
dressing him, is not finished talker,
and as he explained to his nearer:
Il am not pretty talker, but yet
can do and have done some things
that some people whom l know can
talk pretty have not and will not do,
that is, watch out for the peoples in
terests.' 49,. ..ar..... ....
Wendell was where the republican
candidate first obtained his insight into
the probable vote of Grant county, and
what it will do OH Nov. 3. 81. .,.f
The town is a small one, not over
200 in all, and yet it gave him an au
dience of fully that number, and not
a woman in the crowd.
1t cheered him to the echo, and at
the close gave every evidence of sim
cerity in numerous pledges of support.
The audience was taken with his
brief talk, which while plain and full
of homely truths, was to the point,
and left no room for doubt as to what
he would do if elected governor
Another Term for Stealing.
Speaking of the vast raids on the
states timber in the past, he told of
his part in the enactment of the law
which, later, stopped much of it, to the
extent of making those responsible,
pay terribly for what they had wrong
fully taken.
"We call talking the states timber
'tresspass.' said Mr.. jacobson. "But
1 call it stealing, and those responsible
should be treated the same as any
other thief. If | should get to be gov
ernor, l pledge you l will do all
in my power to have such given it's true
name and send all concerned to Still
water" A+
This declaration was greeted with
noisy cheering, and at the close the
candidate was congratulated on his
stand.
In explanation, it must be said that
there is no state timber in Grant coun-
ty, and it is hardly probable that the
same, utterance would be greeted with
the same enthusiasm in other counties
of the state that l know of.
Greeting Just as Hearty.
At Elbow Lake, where Mr.. Jacobson
spoke in the afternoon, crowd of
fully 500 greeted him, the meeting be-
ing held in the new opera house.
Here the audience was more diversi-
fed as to nationalities, and his greeting