The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-09-08
They Dispensed 0ratory at the
Garden City Fair
BOTH WELL RECEIVED
Senator From Blue Earth County
Discussed the Woman
Suffrage Question
From! Thursdays Daily.

| A large and attentive audience
yesterday greeted the Hon. d. w
Lawler, democratic candidate for the
United States senate, when he rose
to make the address that had drawn
large number of his hearers to the
fair He was introduced by the Hon
J. w. Andrews.
Mr.. Lawler began his speech by
making a joking allusiOn to the fact
that he saw many friendly faces
there and he, himself, recognized the
fact that he needed them all.
The whole of his talk was based
upon Americanism and the so called
| hyphenate and was intended to re-
| flute the criticism which have been
heaped upon the foreign born citi-
zen,' merely because he was foreign
| born ,He
He led his hearers in fancy
through all of the events which
have been this country's lot from the
| signing of the Declaration of indie
pendence, through the War of 1872,
the Spanish-American war and down
to the recent trouble with Mexico,
He showed by linking the names OF
Pulaski and KosciusZki, Won Steuben
and Won Kohl that some of our most
treasured patriots were of foreign
birth, Pictured the immortal
scene when Lafayette stood beside
Washington at the time CORVALLIS
surrendered at Yorktown, and was
later the recipient of government
al honors which but showed in a
feeble way the appreciation in which
he was held by the American peo-
pie.
He named list of nineteen G. A.
r. men that once sat on the same
platform with him of whom but
three were native born citizens and
quoted a number of his personal
friends that had seen service under
our flag that had chosen of their
own volition the land of opportun-
ity.
The Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge
chairman of the recent republican
convention, has written two books
titled Life of George Washington
and Zone Hundred Years of Peace
which Mr.. Lawler heartily recon
mended to the youth of today as
being text books on the great ques-
ton of peace and how to have it,
He was interrupted many times
during his talk by hearty bursts OF
applause and was accorded an i'm
prOmptu reception at the close of
the program.
Address BY J. w. Andrews.
States Senator J. W. Andrews, who
spoke following the Hon. D. W.
Lawler at the Garden City Fair yes
terday, was introduced by Mrs G. H
TraftOn, president of the Blue Earth
Suffrage association. Mrs. Trafton's
introduction was a masterpiece OF
brevity as she introduced the speak
er who needed no introduction to
the greater number of people there
Senator Andrews speech was not
the usual mass of dry statistics but
| was interspersed with witty allu-
sions to the ever present but rapid
ly diminishing ranks of the "anti's,'
| in addition to the few necessary fig
| ures from many states where women
| have the suffrage.
| There will always be some that
claim woman's place is the home" said
the senator, "just the same as there
are those old fogy types that COM
plain of the automobiles. but thank
the Lord the men and women OF
| this country are beginning to realize
that the women have just as many
| rights as a barrel-house bum and
that when suffrage is nation wide
| there will be more and better schools
for our children and a better atmos
phere surrounding politics than there
| is today"
| He also made reference to Deb
orah, Joan of Arc and many other
women who have had part in the
framing of worlds history and his
peroratlon was so strong that he re-
| CelVed MANY rounds of annlause