The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-30
To VICTORY
Jacobson Believes Himself to Be
The Winner of Fight.
CONTEST is NEARING CLOSE
This Week viii See Many Republican
Orators In the FiId; Settlers Make
Good Boosters.
CONTEST Is NEARING CLOSE


that l shall be elected" said J. F. ia
| cobson, who returned to st. Paul
yesterday from a trip throughout the
southern part of the state "There is
republican harmony everywhere and
the local committees are working
harder than ever and have secured
satisfactory results"
Mr.. jacobson has spent three weeks
in the First and Second congressional
districts, speaking to large and en-
thusiastic audiences wherever he went.
The local committees in all the coun-
ties visited have made it strenuous
life for the republican candidate, for
they have scheduled from three to
eight speeches for him daily, totaling
thirty for the week.
1t has been very strenuous cam
paign, but he has not failed to keep an
appointment with the exception of
two small places last Saturday. These
were near Scandal and Forest Lake,
which were scheduled for the morning,
but as his train was delayed just out
of Mankato, because of disabled en-
CINE, he was forced to cancel these
meetings. Congressman Stevens, how
ever, addressed the gatherings, as did
local speakers. Saturday night Mr..
Jacobson spoke at Saltwater, and in
the afternoon at South Saltwater
Both meetings Were large and enthusi-
astic.
"There is strong sentiment in the
state in my favor" said Mr.. Jacob
son yesterday 81 have no doubt of
the country districts, and in the cities
the sentiment is growing daily. have
no doubt that l will be elected"
Northern Counties for Jacobson.
Attorney General Edward 7. Young
brought glowing reports to the repub-
lican state central committee yester-
day of the sentiment in the northern
part of the Red River valley after
political tour of Warren, Thief River
Falls, Red Lake Falls, Fertile and
Crookston.
81 am convinced that all those coun-
ties in the northern part of that fer
tile country are safe for jacobson.
Kittson Marshall, Red Lake and Ro
seau counties will be decisively for ia
cobson on Nov. 3. In Polk [ found an
overwhelming tendency toward the en-
tire republican ticket. Polk is in the
best shape of the northern counties.
My addresses were largely attended
and the names of jacobson and Taft
were greeted with the greatest en-
thusiasm."
Polk county was hotbed of john
sonism at the last election. 1t con-
tains many officeholders, who have
been wisely selected by the machine in
st. Paul to propel the scuttled demo
cratic craft into a safe harbor at the
coming election. Their paid efforts,
however, are being nullifed by wild
enthusiasm spontaneously arising from
the stanch republicans and indepen-
dents that make up that community
Mr.. Young passed through that part
of the state some time after MIR. ia
cobson's trip, and the republican can
didate's tour into that part of the
state is now shown to have scattered
seeds whose full fruition will put him
in the state capitol on the vital day
of the coming month.
81 no sooner got into that live cor
ner of the state than the strength of
the party became evident. spoke to
large audience at Warren on Thurs
day, rode in an automobile to Thief
River Falls, about twenty-five miles,
spoke there and at Red Lake Falls,
about ten miles south, on Friday, and
spoke in Crookston the next night,
Saturday. spent short time in
Fertile, in the southern part of Polk
county and the center of a wealthy
| farming community.
'In Crookston there is now Taft
Jacobson club of $50 members, all Of
them being residents of the city. There
| is no doubt in the minds of North
Valley politicians that Jacobson will
sweep everything before him.
The hundreds of settlers in the
northern part of the state whose homes
were formerly in the second. district
viii give Jacobson's cause its most
solid impetus in the northern counties,