The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-09-20

| Lynch. Mr. Lynch had missed his
train in ST. Paul, so was not in the
city, but Frank A. Day took the re
sponsibility of opening the message
and found that it announced thai
Mr. Wilson would not appear OF
speak here.
Mr. Day at once got Mr.. Lynch or
the line in st. Paul, impaired to him
the disappointing intelligence con
! tanned in the telegram and wanted
to know all about it. Mr.. Lynch
assured Mr.. Day that the managers
of the national democratic headquar
tiers in Chicago had arranged with
Mr.. Wilson to stop here, and he
could not understand why the ar
rangements were not to be carried
out.
Mr.. Day then got into communities
tion with Chief Train Dispatcher
Hickey at st. James and that gen
tleman informed him that all plans
had been made to detach Mr.. Will.
sons car from train No. and hold
| it here until the arrival of train No
| TO- when it would be hauled to ST
Paul. 1t is evident that Mr.. Hickey
communicated with Mr.. Wilson's sec,
rotary, as that functionary wired
Mayor Taylor as follows:
! Understand arrangements have
been made for citizens to meet Gov.
ernor Wilson on arrival of train No
2 early Wednesday morning. This
was done without authorization. Re.
pear at that hour owing to eXacting
nature of other engagements. Please
convey regrets. Walter Measday,
secretary to governor"
Mayor Taylor, after consulting
with C. f. Wise and Professor J. M.
IMcConnell, sent the following tele-
gram to Mr.. Measday:
People assembled to meet COVER
nor. Great disappointment will re-
suit if he cannot be seen. Charles
T. Taylor, mayor of Mankato."
Conductor Steadman handed this
telegram to Mr.. Measday, who re-
ceived it in silence and again drop
ped off to sleep, Indifferent to the
plea that had been made to him by
the democrats of Mankato.
No Satisfactory Explanation.
No satisfactory explanation has as
yet been made as to how Wilson
knew that he was expected to stop
in Mankato and yet said that the
arrangements had been made with
out authorization. Mayor Taylor said
this morning that the only explana-
ton he could make of the matter
was that Wilson's secretary was
having Mr.. Wilson save his strength
for the heavier engagements of the
day.
The crowd, while disappointed in
not having seen or heard Mr.. Will
son, did not get sore at the outcome
Much sleep had been lost by those
who had assembled at the depot but
that was a small matter. When the
train pulled out the crowd disap-
peared as quickly as SNOWFALL
would in the lower regions
Several men were heard to re-
mark: 'It's democratic frost"
Others said; Its joke" And one
irate bull mooser exclaimed: Its a
democratic trick -
Statement From John Wise.
John Wise stated today that Gov
ernor Wilson's failure to speak in
Mankato was due to Mr.. Wilson's
own arrangements and was not
caused by any carelessness on the
part of the local committee or on
the part of Mr.. Lynch of st. Paul.
Mr.. Wise feels sure that Mr.. Wilson
knew that such a plan had been
made and the local papers have
given only such information about
the coming of the democratic candi-
date for president as the information
received from the democratic ma
tional headquarters warranted. 20
+ If Mr. Wilson had peeked out of
the window and gotten one glimpse
of the decorations at the station he
would have been unable to resist
coming out, even though he did NOT
seem to care about taking a look
at the crowd. The union station
never looked so dressed up before,
and probably never will again. w.
Fl. Andersen, who put up the dec
orations, is known to be a master
of the art, and he put his best eff
forts into the decorations there.
What Caused Delay.
Train No. 2 on the Omaha on
which Woodrow Wilson passed
through Mankato this morning, was
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drawbar from the mail coach. That
car was left there and was brought
into Mankato on a later train.
The Free Press is reliably inform
ed that at eleven o'clock last night
Mr.. Wilson was told that arrange
ments had been, made for him to
speak at Mankato early this morn
ing. Mr.. Wilson is reported to have
said that he would not carry out
the arrangements. He stated that he
would not permit himself to be
awakened. .,,
Almost every member of the nor
NAL school faculty and of the high
school faculty, together with large
number of students from both schools
awaited Mr.. Wilson's coming in vain.