The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-09-01
SPEECH BY ANNA
OLSEN IS SPICED
,HE SPOKE POLITICALLY AT
GARDEN CITY FAIR
oVERFLOWOF SARCASM
Planned" big Interests, u
Praised Bryan, Kept Crowd
$50 HUNDRED


City fair yesterday afternoon. She
spoke her piece vel TO a smaller
audience than that which listened
to Hon. Fred E Hadley the day be-
fore. Mrs. Olesen was in fine fet-
tle'a and her powerful voice reached
out to the edges of the throng that
had gathered around the speakers
stand. Mrs. Olesen is clever, she
excels as a politician. She knows
how TO get the sympathy OF her
crowd. she does so by verbally as.
sailing the So called big interests.
She md not pass by any OF these
yesterday All of them were pan
ned'-and the crowd applauded
which act gave Mrs. Olesen en-
couragement to again charge her
batteries and make other attacks on
the big industries OF the country.
II was field day for Anna Dickie
. Oiesen. Every success in life met
With her Remuneration and was hit
with her sarcasm.
Fair At An End.
Garden City Fair Society yester.
day brought its sixty first annual
exhibition TO a close with marked
success. According TO the statement
of President Crane and secretary
A. D Mccormack the attendance
for the Two last days OF the falr
amounted to about six thousand as
compared with an attendance last
year of five thousand. Yesterday
show was featured by a stock par
ade shortly after noon. This parade
was headed by Marshal Henry
Krause on horseback followed by
the members OF the Mapleton band,
and then followed the fine string or
domestic animals shown at the talr.
The Holstein and Guernsey baby
beef cattle, raised by the boys ana
= girls of Blue Earth county certainly
presented fine appearance. Fol
lowing the stock parade an immense
throng of people, consisting mostly
of ladies from the surrounding VII
lagos and towns listened to the ad-
dress by Mrs. Peter Olesen OF Clio
ouet, candidate for the United
States on the democratic ticket,
A baseball game toward the close
OF the afternoon between Madelia
and Madison Lake brought the &C
tiyities of the day to a close. TINS
game resulted in victory Tor Ma
della by a score of six to one. Dur
ing the game George Roe Oh Maoe
( ia who was acting as umpire was
struck on the shin by batted ball,
and he is now suffering from pain
full leg.
and Drum corps, consisting of Amos
Fisk, G.. A Conrad and AR. ). EMS
iiyened up things on the fair
grounds with their special brand OF
music. These venerable musicians
received liberal applause.
introduced BY Or. Andrews
Upon the arrival of Mrs. Peter
Olesen and her daughter, Miss Mary
Olesen on the fair grounds yester,
day noon they were the guests OF
DIR and Mrs. j. w. Andrews, Pro-
fessor and Mrs, ]. r. Brandrup at
a picnic dinner beneath large
walnut tree on the grounds; Others
An the dinner party were: Mrs. hoy
n. Andrews and daughter Corneiia,
Mrs. A. ]. Veigel, and Mrs. +.
Hunt and daughter Lula. When Inc
hours of her speech arrived, Mrs
Olesen was escored to the speakers
stand TO the strains OF the Maple
ton band -
DIV. Andrews In introducing
Mrs. Oiesen to the audience SAID
that he is republican, but is glad
at any time to introduce demo
Graf. who is a good loyal American
He stated that the speaker is the
first woman in the United States
who was regularly nominated as.
candidate for the office she seeks IN
a. regularly called convention.
Mrs. Olesen in opening ner az
dress said that she was glad to De
In Southern Minnesota and to be al
. the county fair. She likes county
fairs. because they are so democra
tic. and for that reason are Amer
can She said that she wished &c
call attention to some of the issues
of this campaign She could re-
member back, she said to the time
when under the leadership OF MarH
Hanna when the voice OF people
was silenced in congress. and the
!. big monied interests had full pow er
Z Two men were chosen by the PEG
ME later on, however, to bring
about remedial measures. They
were Theodore Roosevelt and w
u BRYAN. In Roosevelts time was
reaction and during Wilson's mrs
time remedial legislation, including
che federal reserve act and the farm
loan act, and then the dread9
World war came on and great sac
rffces had to be made. The people
hoped that out OF this great turmol
that there would come a congress
the best the country had eyer
KuOWQ. UuIF lie PSSptS .
pointed. The majority OF the mem:
bers of congress forgot labor anC
listened to the voice. of big moniee
The speaker said that there are
two schools Of thought, first those
who believe that the people should
absolutely dominate the government
and those who believe that the PEG
ME should be satisfied to nave DIS
interests rule. The speaker sal!
that she absolutely believed IN th'
rule of the people.
$50 far have spoken TO tnlrt!
thousand people, burt have yet u
hear one kind word from The Man
= kafo Free Press. ] have forgiven
its editor, and when go to the sen
ate will represent him just thu
same as any other Minnesotian.
don't want to lie unfair, but wan
to forgive publically as goot
Christian should" daughter ant
raped Tariff Bill
The speaker said that the people
of this country are worTlea Owe we,
the prospects of the new tarin Dill
Mrs Olesen said that the bill shoul'
he written by the actual consumer
instead CT men of big interests
Ths nroposed new tariff bill Tn
sneaker said, would heap an add
tionai burden of two billion dolla a.