The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-09
WHAT FRANK SAID
Mr.. Eddy's Speech Nominating
Jacobson for Governor
CHARACTERISTIC TALK
Tribute to the Man From Madison
Paid by One of the Best Speak
erS In Minnesota

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Hon. Frank NJ. Eddy's speech plac
ing ]. F. Jacobson in nomination TO
governor at the recent repblican stat
attracted so much atten
tion that The Herald reproduces
here where Mr.. Eddy has his hom
and where all are his personal friend:
Here it is:
If a candidate and his friends
have been unfortunate in their
choice of a speaker to present
their candidate to this convention
l am exceedinly lucky in the can
didate l am to present, for so
we'll known is he to all Mime
sofa Republicans that Oratorical
eloquence cannot enhance his
chances or the lack thereof de-
tract therefrom.
His nam is in itself an Grafton
and his private life and public
record claim his worth an hun
dred fold better than stilted
phrase can perform the task.
The voter that does not know
him at least by reputation, is en-
cased in ignorance and indiffer-
ence too dense to penetrate and
the citizen who does not admire
the upright and downright
straightforwardness of his every
public action is too crooked to
be influenced except by methods
that our candidate has never
learned to use.
He was a Rough Rider" when
the one who has made that term
a synonym for righteous, aggres-
sive political action, arrayed in
the kits of kiddom was riding
wooden hobby-horse.
He was an advocate of the
square deal" when the mighty
man who has made this phrase
a slogan the world around for
even-handed justice was play
ing marbles for keeps" in the
back alleys of Hoboken. Not on
:, ly does he stand for a, square
DEAL" but he always has stood
and stands now for an honest
shuttle" and a straight CUT
without which a square deal'
is the merest pretential bluff of
justice and equity.
Oh, it is easy to be politically
good when righteousness is pop
ular and the very atmosphere is
surcharged with the electricity of
reform but our candidate boldly
stood for the right when such
action made him a bright and
shining mark for the hate-enven-
omed shafts of ridicule and
contempt. During his long pub
lie service, he has blazoned on
the public records of this state
so that all who will may read,
that the one rule by which he
squared his official life was to
do the right, as he saw the right
and that when he came to de-
cision he stood for it, worked
for it, fought for it, regardless
of the consequences to himself,
regardless of what powers array
ed themselves in opposition, stead
fastly he pursued his course with
all the pertinacity, persistency,
aggressiveness and courage that
came down to him as heritage
from his Viking ancestry.
Oh, it is easy in these days
for statesmen and near statesmen
to stand up in their places and
hurl hot defiance in the face of
''bloated monopoly and promise
legislation to check the 'encroach-
ments of corporations and curb
the power of predatory wealth"
but our candidate wrote or gal
lantly attempted to write that
kind of legislation upon the stat
ute books of this state when
many of those who have recent
ly discovered the ten command
ments raised the cry of "popu-
list calamity howler," "dema-
gogue," and gravely decided that
such legislation was "unconstitu-
tional."
Times like these demand no
fair weather" reformer. Times
like these demand a man who
has been tried by fire and found
true; one whose record and ac-
tions as we'll as his words, give
full guarantee that he will man.
fully stand by the people and the
peoples rights in storm as well
as sunshine, stand rock-firm,
though hell itself, should vomit
forth lava floods of iniquity.
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