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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
AFTER "EASy" VOTES.

St. Paul Dispatch: Governor Johnson
plan of campaign is made abundantly
clear by the letters from The Dispatch
staff writer with his party. 1t is
all ad captandum, all aimed to tickle
the people, fatter them when neces-
sary and say nothing. He coolly OBJ
serbs all of the credit of the repub-
lican administration of all of the af-
fairs of the state. Whatever was good
that the legislature did, he takes it to
himself. If the state finances were well
handled by the treasurer, 81 did it.
If more taxes are raised upon a
lower levy, it was 81 that did it,
Before he gets through he will be
claiming credit for the good crops and
the high grain prices, the rainfall and
the long autumn. He may even 60
the length of claiming credit for the
discovery of Frank Day. ~
But he does not take credit for Bry-
an. No finincial woman could pick a
chicken bone with more dainty handling
than Governor johnson displays when il
comes to talking of Bryan. He knows
Minnesota is going to repudiate Bryan
and he is fearful of being included in
the reputation if he ties up in any way
to the Nebraskan. He is cute in this
but it is question whether he is
cute enough to deceive the Bryanites
Already their mutterings are heard
They call him trimmer
They complain that he is
good enough democrat when there are
none but democrats about, but il
good enough republican when there
is a republican vote to corral.
What do the republicans say9 They
know he is after their votes-not fol-
himself, because he declared he did moi
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
tom" HART HAS MADE GOOD.

'Tom" Hart is another one of the
faithful county officials that will be
returned to the position he has so
ably filled during the past four years.
He has been faithful to the trust i'm
posed in him and he will be reelected
by an increased majority.
Everybody knows Tom Hart Every
body knows what an excellent official
he has been. He has inaugurated
several reforms in his office and these
have been of a beneficial character to
the many people who have business
relations at the treasurer's office.
The Free Press is convinced that
the voters of Blue Earth county will
do as well>by Tom Hart on election
day as he has done by them the 36j
days in the year. There is no great
necessity of The Free Press going into
a long dissertation on the good quail.
ties-public and private-of Mr.. Hart
He is so we'll known to the people
of this county that anything that we
might say of him would be super.
fuous. Tom Hart is another county
official that has made good.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
FOR COUNTY OFFICES.
Mr.. M'CLEARY AND CONGRESS.

Minneapolis Tribune: The Tribune
never has concealed its belief that the
loss from congress of the intellect and
training, energy and legislative indus
try of Representative McCleary, was a
misfortune to the state.
No more. has it concealed the belief
that his defeat was due solely to his
stubborn assertion of individual incli-
nations against the growing senti-
ment of his district in favor of tar
if revision. The tariff being mainly a
question of public expediency and the
greatest good of the good of the great
est number, we cannot regard this
as a noble sacrifice of political power
TO high public conviction.
Therefore. The Tribune, like many
others in and out of his district, has
desired to see Representative McCleary
restored to the station in which he
was so useful by some surrender
in the public interest of personal in
clinations that involve no really vital
principle This desire has grown more
strong as the state seemed menanced
with public loss, at least as great,
in the growing separation on the same
urgent issue between Representative
Tawney and his constituents.
Though Representative McCleary is
what Mrs. Grant used to call ga very
obstinate man." he has given of late
much sign of more reasonable atti-
tude towards those whom he asks to
return him to power. No one expects
him to abandon his academic adhesion
to the principle of high protection. He
is asked only to express the sentiment
of his district in sincere support OF
the program announced by his party
in its national platform and in the
speeches for its candidate for presi;
dent.
This he has done, though he might
be more explicit and probably will be
before the campaign is over. Perhaps
the most welcome concession he has
made was the pledge not to support
the reelection of Speaker Cannon, who
has come to be the anti-Christ of the
tariff reformers.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
SUGGESTIONS ON COUNTRY LIFE.

The commission on country life which
is gathering information for the presi
dents use in recommending legislation
to congress to help rural communities
has started a campaign to get into in
dividual touch with half million per.
sons.
The commission has prepared list
of twelve questions on the general econ
omic, social and sanitary conditions of
rural life and is mailing them to farm
ers, educators, clergylnen, officers of
organizations which deal with any phase
of rural activities, business men, rail
road men, and others who ought to have
first hand opinions on the present con-
ditions of country life and of the
needs of rural communities.
Each recipient is asked to give his
reasons for his answers and to make
any suggestions that seem pertinent.
To sum up, the commission inquiries:
.'What, in your judgment, is the most
important single thing to be done for
the general betterment or country life?"
From the letters that have already
come in-and there are hundreds al
though up to this time mo direct APP
peal for opinions has been made-the
believe they will receive
particularly valuable assistance from
the clergy. Country ministers and
priests have not only written sur
prisingly large proportion of the let
tiers, but their suggestions show a
broad and intelligent grasp of the sit
uation.
The census bureau has agreed to tabu
late the information which these letters
yield. The next step of the commission
ers will be personal tour of
the rural parts of the United
States in order to get the opinions of
the men and women there by direct
contact and word of mouth.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
HAMMOBD'S BRILLIANT" RECORD.

Turing the nineteen months that Mr.
Hammond has served as congressman
he introduced five bills, four of them
private pension bills. One of these
pension bills passed the house and
Orrin Mason was the beneficiary.
Two bills granting pension to Otto
Gimm were introduced. 1t passeth un-
Outstanding why Otto Gimm was thus
favored The bills were identical in
character and were handed in on April
Z and s.
: 1t is possible that Mr.. Hammond on
April s had forgotten that on April
I he had introduced bill of like ma
ture.
Mr.. Hammond's record so far in
congress would not take up great
deal of space on that blackboard: that
he referred to in his debate with Mr.
in Mankato on the evening
of Oct. 10.
The number of old soldiers, and wi
dows of Civil war veterans, who have
received pensions through the efforts
of Mr.. McCleary, while he was mem
Der of congress, can be counted by the
hundreds.
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Oct. 23-30-Nov. 6.
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth.-sS. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate or Jennie
l.. Fernald, deceased
Letters of administration on the es-
tate of said deceased being this day
granted unto Walter E. Schmidt of said
county,:
1t is ordered that all claims and de-
mands of all persons against said eS-
tate be presented to this court, for ex-
animation and allowance, at the probate
office in the city of Mankato in said
Blue Earth county on the following
day, viz: Monday, the 18th day of
April, A. D., 1909, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon of said day.
1t is further ordered that six months
from the date hereof be allowed to
creditors to present their claims against
said estate, at the expiration of which
time all claims not presented to said
shall be forever barred unless for
cause shown further time be allowed.
Ordered further that notice of the
time and place of hearing and exami-
nation of said claims and demands shall
be given by publication of this order
for three successive weeks prior to the
day appointed for such examination, in
the Mankato Free Press, weekly
newspaper printed and published at
Mankato in said county.
Dated at Mankato the 18th day OF
October, A. D.. 1908.
BY the Court:
probate Court Seal.)
VIM F. HUGHES.
Judge of Probate.
H. L. & j. w. Schmidt. Attorneys.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
FARMERS ARE PROSPEROUS.

w. F. Steigerwalt, a prosperous far
mer whose home is near Ames, Iowa,
in recent letter to the editor of The
Philadelphia North American, says:
a few weeks ago | read an article
in your paper that. an Iowa farmer
personally carried 500 to Lincoln Neb.,
and gave it to Mr.. Bryan to be put
in the democratic campaign fund. If
this be true, then l say that the fools
in Iowa are not all dead. l have been
a farmer in Iowa for over thirty five
years and such times as we had ten or
twelve years ago the Iowa farmers
do not want again, when we had to
sell oats from five to seven cents per
bushel and corn at ten cents per bu-
shell; live hogs from Sl.75 to 81 per
hundred weight The present prices for
the same articles are: Hogs, Sc; corn,
60 cents; oats, fortyfve cents, and
other products in proportion.
''The farmers of the middle west
have nothing to camplain of. The
panic of last fall created furry. Prices
dropped, but in six weeks nearly every
thing settled back to normal The
east. where the trouble started, has
suffered great deal more and the
conditions are far from normal.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30

tective principle which has brought
prosperity to the nation must be pre-
served.
H~is no more important to the well
fare of the people, republicans con-
tend, that the home market for farm
products should be maintained that
manufacturers should furish and that
workmen should have constant and
steady employment at remunerative
wages than that Americans would be
given the opportunity to buy foreign
products at slightly decreased price.
This is the position taken by Mr..
McCleary, and it is the most logical
Revision means proper adjustment
of the schedules. Any other course
would be followed by disaster to the
industrial and business interests.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30

publican craftsmanship recognizes it
as a matter Of grave concern to the
whole country and therefore to be
withdrawn from the arena of party
controversy and adjusted in accord
ance with the requirements of JUS
tice and equity.
So far as enforcing the antitrust
law is concerned, the republican party
does things, while the democratic party
merely says, things. But the record
confronts Mr.. Bryan and he cannot
refute it. His loose talk shows either
that he is ignorant of the plain facts
or that he has deliberately misrepre-
scented them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
THE FRAnKINe PRIVILEGE.

Two years ago all the Hammond
supporters were '"hollering' themselves
hoarse about McCleary sending his
speeches under his frank to the voters
of the district, and declared it to be
a rank abuse of his ranking privilege.
Hammond admits that he has sent out
this year under his frank, forty-fi
thousand speeches. Fifteen thousand
of his own and fifteen thousand each
of two other congressman. The frank
privilege talk against Mr.. McCleary
has been dropped since it is found
that Mr.. Hammond has been flooding
the district with his and others ora
torical efforts" I-.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
OCT. 49, s23. 3O-19OS
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS


STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth.-ss. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of r. NJ.
P elk, Deceased.
Letters testamentary on the estate
of said deceased being this day granted
unto Mary L, Phalin : of said County.
IT IS ORDERED, That all claims
and demands of all persons against said
estate be presented to this Court, for
and allowance, at the Pro-
bate Office in the City of Mankato in
said Blue Earth County, on the fol-
lowing day, viz: Monday, the 18th
day of April A. D. 1909, at ten o'clock in
the forenoon of said day.
months from the date hereof be
allowed to creditors to present their
claims against said estate, at the ex-
piration of which time all claims not
presented to said Court, or not proven
to it's satisfaction, shall be forever bar
red unless for cause shown further time
be allowed
ORDERED FURTHER, That notice of
the time and place of hearing and ex-
animation of said claims. and demands
shall be given by publication of this
order for three successive weeks prior
to the day appointed for such examina-
ton, in the Mankato Free Press, a
weekly newspaper printed and published
at Mankato in said County.
Dated at Mankato, the 18th day of
October, a. d. 1908.
BY the Court:
WIN. f. HUGHES,
Judge of Probate
probate Court Seal)
w. Il. e. C. ID. Geddes.
Attorney.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
AN INSULT TO Mr.. BRYAN.

The fact is that the Johnson COM
mittee absolutely refused to bring into
the state any speakers for Mr.. Bryan;
they also declined to have the ma
tional committee send any such speak
crs here or to arrange for any Bryan
meetings, says The Duluth News
Tribune.
Fred Williams came because of an
agitation by Mr.. Bryan's Minnesota
friends. He was sent here in spite
of the Johnson committee that the
state might not quite 60 by DEFAULT
When he reached Minneapolis he found
his meeting had not been advertised.
He found that both the johnson
state and county committees refused
to be responsible for it or to rent the
auditorium. If an individual friend
and admirer of Mr.. Bryan had not
himself rented this hall at his own
expense, no meeting would have been
he,> in that city.
AS it was the meeting had to be ad
vertised on the day of the address
with the result that while about l,5OC
were present, the huge auditorium
looked rather empty. Such treatment
of man SO distinguished as Mr.
Williams is nothing short of an in
suit not only to him, but to Mr.
Bryan.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
WORDS VERSUS WORKS.

Mr. Bryan's noisy contention that
the republicans, though, in control of
the government, have not enforced the
Sherman antitrust act, is, like so
many of his assertions, utterly at var
lance with the facts. Mark how plain
tale shall set him down:
According I to official information
compiled by the department of justice,
there have been instituted during the
Roosevelt administration 22S proceed
ings, civil and criminal, for violations
of the Sherman act and the other
laws to regulate interstate commerce.
Of these, seventy-three have been con-
Guided successfully, forty have been
concluded unsuccessfully and lis are
still pending. The fines imposed as
the result of convictions in criminal
cases amounted to $l,200,325. Under
previous republican administrations
seventy-four prosecutions were insti-
tuted, of which thirteen resulted sue,
cessfully and sixty unsuccessfully
while one is yet undetermined. The
convictions amounted to $S,50l.
sAs against that showing note the
record under democratic administra
ton During the period of Mr.. Cleve
lands service as president there were
instituted under the laws mentioned
fifty proceedings, civil and criminal
| OF these, fourteen were concluded sue
cessfully, thirty-fve failed and one is
still pending. The fines imposed il
cases resulting in conviction amounted
to $4,000.
Such, briefly stated, is the record Of
the two parties in the matter of en-
forcing the antitrust laws. 1t is
case of democratic words versus re
publican works. Mr.. Bryan woult
punish the yiolators of those laws by
drowning them in deluge of super
heated epithets. The republican pol
icy is to prosecute them under thu
forms of law and make the punish
ment fit the crime in every proceed
ing resulting in conviction.
Mr.. Bryan's whole method of deal
ing with the trust problem is the
atrical, cratic and Ineffective. Tn
case is one that requires light, no
heat. tt will be solved by appealin;
to reason rather than to passion. MI
Bryan treats it as fad, which ma.
properly be exploited to promote hi
4seltish political interests, whereas re
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
METHODS OF TARIFF REVISION.

The Owatonna Journal Chronicle
calls attention to the marked difference
in the methods proposed by the two
parties in revising the tariff. The
theory upon which tariff revision
would be made by the republican
party is entirely dissimilar from that
to which the democratic party adj
here's The democrats regard the tariff
solely as a means of raising a reve-
nue.. The best tariff, according to
them. is that from which, while too
regarding any interest, the necessary
revenue may be more easily raised.
When the republicans make a traiff,
revenue is a consideration subsidiary
to the public welfare. The first duty
is to see that the commercial and
industrial interests of the country will
not unnecessarily be disturbed. and
their constant care is for the welfare
of the people whof Pre- engaged in
agriculture and other productive &C.
equations. At all hazards the pro-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
Get. 30 Nov. 6. 13--190S.
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth.-ss In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Wendell
Ingwalson. deceased
Letters OF ad m mi Stration on
the estate of said decea e d
being this day granted unto Patric K
Sheehau. of said rounty:
1t is ordered, that all claims and demands
of all persons against said estate be presented
to this court, for examination and allowance.
at the probate Office in the city of Mankato in
said Blue Earth county, on the following day,
viz: Monday. the 18th day of April. A. d..
1909 at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day.
1t is further ordered that six months from
the date hereof be allowed to creditors to pre-
sent their claims against said estate. at the
expiration of which time all claims not pre-
Sented to said court or not proven to its sat-
iSfactiOn, shall be forever barred unless for
cause shown further time be allowed.
Ordered further that notice of the time and
place of hearing and examination of said
claims and demands shall be given by publ
cation of this order for three successive weeks
prior to the day appointed for such examina-
ton, i'm the Mankato Free Press. weekly
newspaper printed and published at Mankato
in said county.
Dated at Mankato, the 21st day OF October
A. ID. 1908.
By the Court:
PROBATE COURT VIM. f. HUGHES,
SEAL.] Judge of Probate
s. B. Wilson. Atty.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30

Governor Johnson urged the voters to
join some party and vote for the men
and things that would bring them the
best results. He touched up Cannon,
Fairbanks and Joe Bailey mildly.
At the A. O. Z. w. hall there was
small crowd assembled. Mr.. O'Brien
addressed this, and later Governor
johnson spoke a few words, and held
a brief reception. Half of the audience
here was composed of ladies. Governor
johnson here expressed himelf as in
favor of woman suffrage, and hoped
to see it in Minnesota. Then politi-
cal campaigns would have social fea-
lures.
There was noisy demonstration
on the streets after the meetings, and
some red fire was burned
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
Oct. 23-30-Nov 6.
ORDER FOR HEARING ON SALE OF
REAL ESTATE OF MINORS.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth.-Ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the guardianship of
John Albert Kutz, Arthur G. Kutz and
Louis T.. Kutz, minors.
On reading and filing the petition of
Rose KutZ, guardian of the persons and
property of John Albert Kutz, Arthur
G. Kutz and Louis E. KutZ, minors, for
license to sell the undivided three sew
enths interest in and to lot five of block
seven of Smiths addition to LIE Sueur,
subject to the life estate therein of
said petitioner; and the undivided six
lot four of block seven of said Smiths
addition to lie Sueur aforesaid, all be-
ing in the county of LIE Sueur and
state of Minnesota, being the real es-
from said petition that it is necessary
and would be beneficial to said wards
and all persons interested therein that
said real estate, or a part thereof
should be sold.
1t is ordered, that the next of the
kin of the said wards, and all persons
interested in the estate of said wards,
shall appear before said probate court
the county of Blue Earth aforesaid. on
the 14th day of November, A. D., 1908,
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon, to show
cause why "a license should not be
And it is further ordered, that notice
of such hearing be given to all persons
interested in said estate by publication
of this order for three successive weeks
prior to said hearing in the Mankato
Free Press. weekly newspaper print
ed and Unpublished at the city of Man
kato in said Blue Earth county, Min
nesota. Dated October Goth, 1905
BY the Court,
probate Court SeaD
VIM. F. HUGHES.
Judge Of Probate.
Jno. C. Noe, Attorney.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
MAILING A FAlSEHOOD.

Democratic admirers of w. S. Ham
mond are industriously circulating the
story that James T. McCleary, when
member of congress, opposed the
employers liability bill. The denial
to this falsehood is found in The Con-
gressional Record of April 2, 1906. Mr..
McCleary voted for the bill and assist
ed in its passage through republican
house
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Oct. Is. %. 30-19De.
ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNT.

'STATECOF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth.7s IS. In Probate Court.
In the matter Of the estate of Charles ii.
Ewing. deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Annie
e. Ewing. Administrative, of the
estate of Charles III, Ewing,
deceased, representing, m n
other things, that she has fully administered
said estate. and praying that a time and
place be fixed for examining and allowing
the final account OF her administration. and
for the assignment of the residue of said estate
to the parties entitled thereto by law:
1t is ordered. that said account be exam
ined. and petition heard by this court. on
Monday, the 9th day of Novmeber. A. ID. 1905
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ at the probate office, in
the city of Mankato. in said county.
And 1t is further ordered, that notice there
OF be given.to all persons interested by pub
fishing copy of this order once in each week
for three successive weeks prior to said day of
hearing in the Mankato Free Press. weekly
newspaper printed and published at Mankato
in said county
Dated at the City of Mankato. the 18th day
Of October, A. y. 1905
By the Court.
WIN. L. HUGHES.
probate Court Judge of Probate.
Seal
S. B. Wilson. Atty.