New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-06-19
MANKAT0 BACKS Up
Acts G OF Ho0D D ! |. }
PAYS FINES OF MEN ARRESTED
FOR .ASSAULTING MEMBERS
OF BOOSTER TOUR
FARMERS SLOWLY BECOMING
AROUSED AND ANGER WILL
FIND EXPRESSION

AROUSED AND ANGER WILL
FIND EXPRESSION
10 be denied the right of passing over
bridge to which the tax payers of Mic
ollet County had contributed fully $4,000
was the experience of the farmers of that
county who made trip thru Nicollet
County last Wednesday in the interests
of the candidacy of Chas. A. Lindbergh
for governor. Everything had moved
along very nicely and according to pro-
gram until the party attempted to cross
the bridge from North Mankato into
Mankato. Here they were met by
| crowd of hoodlums who tore the Lind
bergh banners and Non-partisan League
penants from the cars, tore off the U. S.
flags, threw them on the ground and
trampled them under foot and also tore
off the Liberty Loan and Red Cross
buttons from the coats of quite a number
OF the men. Expression like yellow
dog, Hit him, paint him yellow and
"string hirc up" we're quite common.
A travelling salesman by the name of
E. A. Kehoe, according to the Mankato
papers, was one of the main leaders of
this assault upon the Non-partisan
League boosters. +
St. Peter Police Make Arrests
Tho rort1y roooboJ Dofor about
100 o'clock and drove to German Park
where they had their lunch. Altho the
welcome at st. Peter was not very
cordial one, still the farmers of Nicollet
County were satisfied with the reception
given them by the citizens of St. Peter
and nothing would have happened in
St. Peter to mar the trip if a big car
containing eight Mankatoites had not
appeared on the scene who began to tear
off the Lindbergh banners. Fortunately
the Chief of Police hove in sight before
there was any serious trouble and placed
the rufians under arrest. Three of the
men, however, managed to get away
and the other five were brot before
Justice Miller. Nelson Kesler, Leo
Glennen and William Aldo were fined
$40 each and Hugh James and Frank
Dalton were acquitted. VIM. Walsch
another Mankatoite who got into a
fstic encounter with one of the visit
ing farmers was also arrested and fined
$40.
Poverty Stricken Bunch
Only one of the Mankato bunch had
enough money to pay his fine and the
| others were given jail sentence but
later some one from Mankato advanced
the fines and the prisoners were then
discharged. The story published in
the St. Paul Pioneer Press and in the
Mankato Free Press to the effect that
st. Peter business men had raised the
amount of the fines by subscriptions is
without foundation. The St. Peter
Free Press is authority for the statement
that the man who advanced the money
wanted to know how he was going to
get his money back when one of the crowd
said *tNever mind, get the receipt from
the justice and present it to the Man.
kato City Council where it will be taken
care of
New Ulm Friendly
@ Upon their arrival in heIcity of New
Ulm the boosters gave an open air con-
cert on Minnesota Street and later on
repaired to Turner Hall Park. A COM
mitteea consisting Of Samuel Gieseke,
chairman, Herman Albrecht, Math..
Meurer, ]. H.. Meurer, Nicholas Rein
hart, Alb. Sievert, Hy. J. Braun, J. H.
Dorm, Herm. Fitzke, and R., D. Wagner
presented the following resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted:
To His Excellency, President Wood
row Wilson: ~ Ga# .a
eve, the undersigned, farmers of
Nicollet County, Minnesota, while on
booster tour thru Nicollet County on
June H., 1918, in the interests of the
candidacy of Charles A. Lindbergh,
Republican candidate for Governor Of
the State of Minnesota, were most
shamefully assaulted by lot of hood
lums while crossing the bridge from Mic
ollet County to Mankato in Blue Earth
County, and several United States flags
were torn from the autos, thrown on the
ground and trampled under foot. The
farmers, numbering about six hundred
with their families had done nothing to-
provoke this assault.
Eve most respectfully call your att
tention to this dissertation Of the Flag,
for the purpose Of having the government
take such action as may be necessary
to prevent any further such flag desc
crations and to punish the guilty parties.
The undersigned committee will cheer
fully assist the Federal authorities in
prosecuting these parties by furnishing