The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-08
WILD WH|RL IN YORK
BIG TOWN HAS HAD A WEEK OF
AWFUL DISSIPATION.

BLIND bOSSeS ARE SndISeu WITH nav
ing Succeeded in the Nomination
of Barnard; the Cook-Peary Con-
troversy Has Broken Out Afresh;
Burdening the Barristers; Jackies
Had a Great Time in Metropolis.
New York, Oct. 2.-Wrung to the
point of utter prostration by the mad
revels of it's gala week, Gotham is
today bracing itself to recuperate from:
the effects of the widest whirl the
town has known in a generation.
Where the feet of millions of visitors
have overrun every by-way throughout
the metropolis everything lies disor-
dered, and everyone leans distract over
the wreck of all semblance of the reg
ular order of life here at the opening
of the busy season. Muddy tatters of
bunting still line the unswept streets,
scuffled underfoot by the weary crowd
of workers who are taking up their
routine once more. On the army of
policemen and traction hands the
strain of the invading army of cele-
orators is shown most sadly. With
little food, sleep or relaxation, the
big bue-coats have, with the other
workers of the streets, put in week
more nerve racking and strenuous than
the oldest New Yorker can remember.
Never has this island stood the strain
of entertaining so large and lively a
horde of guests and seldom have it's
normal activities been left so COM
pletely paralyzed.
The Blind Bosses.
With candidates chosen by four men
for the four million souls in this city
to select between, the municipal cam
paign is being begun here today with
as roaring a farce for it's curtain
raiser as has ever been produced in
all the weird political history of the
town. Within the corner niche of a
notorious all-night lobster palace the
nomination for mayor of man named
Barnard has been made by the whis-
pered word of Tim Woodruff and Par
sons, while not single soul in all
the ranks of the half million demo-
cratic voters knew the man he would
be privileged to support till Murphy
and McCarren tipped their convention
dummies tine wink From now on till
election day each party voter must
shout for men of whom he has heard
little and of whom he knows less
opening city campaign there is being
heard the rising roar of the loyal
party voter for a voice in the choice
of his standard bearer. Friends of Gov
ernor Hughes declare today that this
biggest blunder by the bosses of the
town will surely result in the success
of their project for direct primary
nominations next year
Hero Is Heckled
Now that New Workers have spent
their interest in honoring the heroes
of the Hudson river, public attention
has today become sharply focused
once more upon the rival claimants
for Arctic laurels. Since the first
Juror of the return of Cook has died
away, thousands of staunch partisans
of Peary are coming to the front to
urge their claims. Never has any man
been harder heckled here or more per-
sistently pressed for proofs than the
Brooklyn explorer, who is sticking
close to his inquisitorial bomb proof at
his closely guarded hotel quarters.
Peary's pack of questioners are still
unsatisfed at the response of Cook
and are daily awaiting the arrival of
the naval pole hunter to confront and
try and smoke out his rival. The
meeting of Cook and Peary and a
frank and fair threshng out of the
much mooted question would be wei
coined by everyone in this town.
Burdening the Barristers.
By assigning three of the most
prosperous corporation lawyers in this
city to conduct the defense of trio
of penniless men charged with muir
der, Judge Malone has today set all
NEW OIk SIllllllS. w HiiC thC pCiiSh
has always held the right to engage
the pick of the profession for the
luckless defendants who have not a
penny for their life struggle in court,
the $500 county fees for this work
have usually been snapped up by a
horde of starving solicitors who hang
about the bench solely for these
crumbs of practice. To the corporation
legal lights, whose every hourly con-
sultation yields hundreds of dollars
in fat fees, the task of wrestling for
weeks with the criminal law has come
as sad and unexpected cross. As
an example to the leaders of the bar
to be generally useful instead of par
ticularly profitable the public has
hailed this latest quip of the learned
justice.
Those Jolly Jackies.
Not since the squadron Of Sampson,
Schley and Dewey returned here from
their triumps against Spain has this
city been overrun with Yankee tars
as it is today while Uncle Sans ships