The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-09-15

noon. At times it poured down.
The circus parade was something
to be seen. Brass bands galore, Ia
dies and men on horseback. Ami
mails in cages, elephants by the
score; camels with two humps pull
ing immense vehicles; ponies by the
dozens in all colors and shades. The
calliope. Talk of music. Here is
where you get it red hot, right off
the sizzling keys.
The town was full of people
They came in auto cars, in railroad
trains, horse back, in wagons and
buggies. Some of the conveyances
had melons in the rear end of the
wagon box to sell to dealers to
defray expenses, to pay their way
into the circus. 1t is a wonderful
show. The greatest in the world.
Mankato of late has been favored
with wonderful exhibitions and there
are others to come. President Taft
is to be there. That's one. Speak
ing of Taft. In the makeup of the
reception committee, MankatO hog
ged the whole business.
Not a man from outside of thst
city was selected to assist in enter
tanning the distinguished guest. If
the president had been coming to
Lake Crystal, we would have been
friends from Mankato as a matter
of respect.
They tell us the originator, the
man who first suggested the idea of
inviting the president to MankatO
has been totally ignored and his
name is not mentioned among the
faithful few to welcome the chief
magistrate of the nation to that
city. That's a dirty shame!
1t has always been so and will be
so forever. The deserving ones are
left out. There is one place they
will not be left out and that is at
st. Peters gate. We meant the gate
where only those whose robes have
been washed and made clean.
The robes of some of the pOliti.
clans in and around Mankato you
could wash and wash and hang up
to dry, they would still be dirty. In
Mankato the politicians try to ma
nipulate the politics of the county
the same as state politics are by
the twin city chaps. 1t takes the in.
dependent voter to knock the wind
out of their inflated ideas. That's
what we are here for
For years and years Blue Earth
county politics have had a deep
seated core in MankatO and all that
the country delegation had to do
was: Simon-thumbs up.
Mankato has lively appearance
this time of the year. The normal
pupils are in attendance by the hun
dreds. We can tell who are tenn
porarily staying in that city just
as we'll as if we lived there by their
looks and the way they dress. Man
kato is blessed with schools, yet We
have not heard of statesmen being
turned out of any one of their insti-
tutiOnS of learning. Poets are born.
The new star of Bethlehem is just
as liable to descend upon Lake Crys-
tai as our beloved town down the
creek One thing Mankato has that
is worth mentioning is whole lot
of middle aged and old men. This
does not include middle aged and
old girls because they have an av-
erage of being classed in that man
ner. We could name dozen of citi-
Zens of Mankato who are an honor
to any town. Some of them have
resided in our beautiful city and
some of them we would be delight
ed to have them move here because
they would be nearer the pearly
gates. There is one man outside
of the police force in that city who
is ever watchful for the best inter-
ests of the public and that is Agent
SpornitZ. He has an eye on all who
come and go by the Omaha, and
Northwestern routes, to see they are
not injured or take the wrong
trains This means whole lot to
Mankato.