The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-09-28
MOST SUCCESSFUL FAIR /!
The 1898 Fair Totally Eclipsed
All Others.
Gov. Nelson Present and Addresses
the Crowd.

Gov. Nelson Present and Addresses
the Crowd.
From Saturdays Extra.
It was gloomy weather aspect that
confronted the managers ofthe county
fair last Thursday morning when the
sun, for half an hour remained without
a cover, and then all of sudden
passed under q huge cloud from
which the rain fell in cold drilling
manner until nearly ten O'Clock. The
prayers of the officers, with ( nearly
1900 amens were heard. The cloud
passedaway, the sun shone beautifully
and warm, and the ideal fall day burst
into real blossom. The ball game
went forward, the races were called,
Gov. Nelson made his interesting
speech, and the day closed in blaze
of successful glory. The receipts were
over $500 at the entrance.
Gov. Nelson was met at Morton by
Hon. o. B. Turrell, Mayor Dickinson
and J. A. Schmahl, and after dinner
took. the train for North Redwood,
where the gubernatorial party was
metby c. D. Gilfllan, on part Of
President Tyson, Judge Bowers,
Henry Lance and c.. w. George.
The Members were driven to the
Hotel Francois, and at three o'clock
Gov. Nelson was driyen to the grounds
where he was officially presented to
President Tyson, Secretary Dornberg
and G.. E. Mckay. The Governors
address was delivered from the front
of the grand stand, which was packed,
as we'll as the ground surrounding
the stand, with mass of humanity.
He was introduced by President
Tyson.
Gov. Nelson commenced his speech
by stating his pleasure to be present.
He then passed on to giving statistics
on the wonderful growth of Minnesota
during the last 43 years. He also
spoke of it's wonderful development
as dairy state as a cereal state,-
and admonished the forming popula
ton to go into DIVERSIFIED farming as
much as possible, and not be at all
times dependent upon one thing. He
had visited Freeborn county two weeks
since, and he found the farmers of
that county more than prosperous;
the financial question of the present
not affecting them in the least, and
their prosperity was all due to diver
'si6ed farming. Continuing his
remarks he said:
But, my friends, while I have thus
briefly adverted to your agricultural
progress and success I cannot help in
this connection briefly referring to the
great human culture YOU have laid the
ground work for, and which is in its
inc cipient stages; but indicative of great
future results. For the settlement of
our great State we have drawn upon
the older States and upon most of the
northern countries of Europe. There
is happy admixture of the American
Anglo Saxon, the Teutons and the
Scandinayians. Our State, so far as
it's population is Concerned, is not
Scandinavian, not Teuton, nor not ev-
en- wholly Yankee, but these several
elements are the leading components
of our industrious, prosperous and
law-abiding population, and these ele-
ments have in harmony and unison,
and with but little friction built up
our State and made it the marvel and
wonder of our older States. The fa-
theirs of this State, with the most pro-
found wisdom, threw the doors wide
open for our foreign born emigrants,
and with but probation of few
months, unlike some of the older
States, extended them the full rights
of citizenship, and think I may brief
ly say that now, after an experience of
nearly quarter of century you are
all satisfied that the gift was not in
judiciously bestowed and that on the
whole our foreign born population
has in the main made an honest use
of the gift and has not betrayed the
trust you reposed in it. But the soil
and our material resources have hith-
erto reaped the main benefits of our
mixed and cosmopolitan population
By and by, and in course of time our
different elements will assimilate and
combine, into one people, into new
race as it we're, race and people not
wholly the counterpart of anyone Of
our present elements, but the quintes-
cence of all concentrated into one
homogeneous whole. Teutonic and