The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-15
GOVERNOR PEGS PARTY
VICTORY FOR YEAR 1916
Mr.. Eberhart DISGUISE d The Pc
IiticaI Situation.
NOW FOR THE GET-TOGETHER
declares That Wilson Will Fall lown
NOW FOR THE GET-TOGETHER
Declares That Wilson Will Fall Down
Because People Expect Altogether
Too Much of Him.

Baltimore, Nd, November 13.-Be-
fore he left Baltimore yesterday for
Washington, where he went on af-
fairs of state, Governor Eberhart of
Minnesota, in an interview, spoke
plainly on the recent election and
the difficulties that confront Presi-
dent-elect Wilson.
II think that it is because my peo-
pie know me intimately, and that
confidence in my purpose to promote
their welfare in every legitimate
way that they stood by me in last
weeks election" said Governor Eber-
hart.
"My plurality" continued the gov
ernor, was about $4,000, which was
quite satisfactory in view of the eff
forts made and the large sums spent
by the followers of Roosevelt and
Wilson. AS | look at the situation,
the defeat of the republican party
was brought about largely by the
widespread belief that the nominal
ton of Mr.. Taft was secured by I'M
fair means. 1t is unnecessary to
argue that question at this date
Taft Entitled to Reelection.
I gave Mr.. Taft my hearty sup
port and undivided loyalty and was
grieved that he did not get the re-
election to which he was justly en-
titled, but that cry of unfairness
caused voters to rally to the stand
ard of Colonel Roosevelt, and
through the division in our ranks
came the victory of the opposition.
''All that is in the past and with
the closing of the chapter look
confidently to complete and speedy
reconciliation of the contending fac
lions and, as a result, the rehabili-
tation of the republican party. In
the future we shall see no more
conventions such as were held in
Chicago and Baltimore, for the peo-
pie will express their preferences as
to presidential candidates in state
wide primaries and so there will
never again arise the claims that
some one has been nominated by a
resort to irregular methods
Good Word for Wilson.
81 hope that Woodrow Wilson, a
man of high class and splendid in
telligence, now that he is to take
Taft's place, will justify the vote of
confidence that the nation gave him,
but even his best friends must
realize the stony path that spreads
out in front of him. Today he is
enormously popular and therein lies
his danger. The country will ex-
pect too much of him. The presi.
dent, after all, cannot bring on the
millennium. For one thing, the in.
terests of the southern democrats
and of the democratic voters in the
! northern cities, do not coincide, but,
indeed, conflict. The city folk will
look to the Wilson administration to
reduce the cost of living, but if such
thing could be brought about
through political agencies, it would
be through a lowering of the prices
of all the products of the farm.
Tariff Cut Would Hit Farmers.
''The high prices that the inhabit-
tants of the town pay enrich the
agriculturists, so that if there is a
decline in values of the beef, poultry
vegetables and foodstuffs generally,
the men on the farms who are now
in clover will regard the democratic
party as an injury and Governor
Wilson will speedily become an ex-
tremely unpopular statesman with a
| large element now chanting his
praises"
| Governor Eberhart believes firmly
that the republican party will be re-
stored to power four years hence,
which shows he is a man of faith
and devotion to ideals, that he is,
| moreover, a man of action Opposed
| to capital punishment, he was able
to make the legislature of his state
abolish the death penalty and he
considers this among the best acts
of his administration.