The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-12
CASH WAS IN A RIOT.
MILLION OF DOLLARS SPENT IN
NEW YORK CAMPAIGN.
Uncle Sam Enriched to the Extent of
Fifty Thousand Dollars for Post
age; Large Sums Scattered for
0ratory; Printers Reap a Harvest
and Curbstone Chatterers Come in
For So Much Per Day.

OF more than a million dollars, con-
sumed in the fires of the city cam
paign just ended New Workers are
today taking stock of the weird work
ings of the most bitter battle ever
waged in the political history of this
town. Never can the party veterans
here remember campaign in which
more money and mud was thrown to
the raging winds than in the past five
weeks of partisan strife Careful count
in the headquarters of the three war
ring camps shows today that real
money to the extent of hundreds of
thousands of dollars has been spent
by the hackers of each candidate for
mayor. Small fortunes were reaped
by scores of printers, advertising men
and renters of audience halls. Cab
ands of dollars richer for the peri
CARNATIONS of the armies of orators,
while Uncle Sam has cleaned into his
Golfers at least $4,000 for the post
age on tons of campaign literature.
Many a mile of subway could have
been built for poor ,congested, old
Manhattan by the gold that the bosses
have scattered to make fight for the
control of the political fortunes of the
people of Greater New York
Customs and Crime.
Scandals that will shake to the depths
the business and political world of the
nation are today believed to be brew
ing in the brand new customs house
and about the wharves and importing
districts of this town. Seldom has
the threat of exposure moved so
nightly the men engaged in activities,
as extensive as those of the importations
of this harbor, in all the history of
graft probing in Gotham. For years
the business men of this port have
Smelled the scent of scandal rising
high to heaven from every wharf and
stores, where government employees are
able to practice fraud with scarcely
a chance for their superiors to check
or even detect them. Common knowl-
edge has long shown the honest ele-
mcnt in business affairs here that the
channels of this country's greatest
port of entry must be soon secured
clean for the moral benefit of the
whole nation. While every effort is
being made today to purge the Gus
tom service of much of the corruption
that has already been uncovered New
Workers look for tremendous" revela-
tions from this source in the near
future
Millions of dollars, quietly bestowed
in great good works for the people
of this city and country, are today
bearing mute testimony to the life
of John S. Kennedy, whose death is
being mOurned here today by the whole
community. Scarcely tablet or other
public reminder marks the philan
thropic achievements of this modest
gentlemen, who scrupulously concealed
his identity as the giver of some of
the greatest charitable endowments in
recent years. Hospitals, libraries and
funds for every need of the poor
knew their founder in this silent phil
anthropist, though few of their host of
beneficiaries were ever allowed to learn
to whom they were indebted. While
the benefactions of hundreds of much
ricner men were heralded far and wide,
John s. Kennedy worked and gave
treble their amount in secret. Though
memorial tablets may not be Haunted
in their faces, the people of New York
will long honor and praise the man
who lost himself in doing good for
others.
Promising to make each bottle Of
champagne cost whole five dollar bill
to the consumers of this staple of
night life here, the new duty on bot
tied bubbles has just gone into effect
in this city. From end to end of the
white light district thick gloom is
overhanging the victims of this adj
vanced price, while no hope of relief is
being held out by the proprietors of
the gilded lobster palaces. Upon the
spenders alone, the importers declare,
this tariff burden must fall in the
circles where yellow bills are broken
each night in lavish entertainment.
Little sympathy is today being wasted
by the people of Gotham upon the
stricken champagne consumer of the
Great White Way, though their plant
is being heard on every turn of the
tenderloin. Even with wealthy wa
ter" held at five dollars pop, no one
believes the thirst of the town will
be seriously affected.
Though the man who played pivot in
many a city campaign in the past
has been in town all election week,
New Workers are today scarcely aware
that old Dick Croker has seen the
finish of the battle of ballots for the
first time in many years. No one
now takes seriously the repeated ru
mors of the return to real power of
the banished boss of Tammany, and
even eager interviewers have found it
impossible to stir up a shade of inter-
est in the arrival of this political
veteran. As sage and advisor the
younger powers of Tammany Hall