The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-09-19

90 far - room was conceRaed, IN any
one Of dozen small halls IN the Cap
ital City.
When the roll was called. half an
hour after the hour published for call
Ing the convention to order. but little
more than half Of the accredited dele
gates
Answered to Their Names.
and the chairman experienced great
difficulty in making up the committees
by reason Of the slim attendance from
the outside counties.
The convention was managed and DE-
rected by the professional politicians
and oh3ceholders Of the state admins
tration, and motions were put ana
passed In q hstless way by the dele
gates, who were In q hurry to get
away and so out to the state TAR
grounda The party managers had ex-
pected 0 vast attendance from visitors
to the state fair, and had counted
heavily on this source to make ire
mendous showing Of interest and en-
thusiasm. The result demonstrated
that q great mistake had been made.
for instead OF the fair visitors going
to the convention the delegates to the
convention went to the fair as SUI
perior attraction.
The Auditorium building IL supposed
70 furnish seating capacity for 1000.
and when the Republican convention
was held nearly every seat In the
building, including all the galleries.
was filled. When Gov. Roosevelt was
In st. Paul It was estimated that 5000
people were turned from the doors be-
cause there vas not room for them. In
the Democratic convention last week
there were twice as many empty seats
as there were full ones, and the little
throng Of delegates down on the main
floor looked all the smaller for the
long tiers Of vacant seats that
stretched back from the parQuet to
the
Balcony and Galleries.
Il was probably this slim attendance
that dampened the spirits Of those who
did attend, for the interest was at no
time great o~ the enthusiasm such al
to pass beyond control.
The prearranged plans were carried
out with clock like regularity. and
complete control OF the organization
was retained by L. A. Rosing. chair
IOau "a LIE 6koSC CSuSIAt OOAAAN1SNSO~S
who personally directed the business
of the day. supplying the chairman
the names for the committee, desig-
mating the delegates who should NOM
mate the various candidates and in
all ways tightening his hold upon the
party leading strings.
Col Rosing was assisted TN his
Management Of the Convention
by such Democrats as Thomas D.
O'Brien of St. Paul, John O'Brien Of
Saltwater, Ed O'Brien of Minneapolis
Maj. Bowler, e. M. Pope. ]. A.
O'Shaughnessy, z. II. Austin, A. N.
Lanphere, p. M. Ringdal and other
state officers. The governor. who has
SO often declared that he was lust as
good a Republican as ever on all mat
tiers except the silver question: re-
quired his managers to steer as far as
possible from that dangerous issue,
and, accordingly, the honors of the day
were not denied to the sound money
Democrats of 1896, men who were cam
didates for electors on the Palmer and
Buckner ticket being drafted as dele
gates at large.
The convention at no time displayed
the enthusiasm which marked the
Minneapolis convention two years ago,
and when the proposition was made to
start a canvass for the proposed new
paper at Minneapolis,
Ten Subscribers Were Guaranteed,
and a motion to call the roll and re-
port subscriptions by counties was
voted down by an overwhelming ma
jority. Chairman Rosing announced
that the syndicate with which he had
been negotiating had agreed to start
the paper IL the committee would
I! guarantee 10000 subscribers, and he
said that he had promises Of 1000.
With the ten guaranteed on the floor Of
the convention this left $3.50 to be Sc
cured before the terms of the syndi-
cate could be complied with and the
paper established. The delegates In
personal interviews expressed great
hostility to the st. Paul Globe because
of it's bolt on the national ticket, and
all agreed that they would not trust
It with Lind's interests, but at the
same time they did not seem prepared
to go as far as to subsidize great
daily paper. The fact IL that the state
central committee has already invested
| more than $4,000 in the newspaper
OO011AC00, 0u0 NAC CHA1In 1<Au uA8 IN
formed members Of the committee that
It will take $4,000 to make the general
campaign, and that until that amount
| shall have been raised there will be
ma more Newspaper appropriations. At
| conference Of MT. Rosing. the three
sO'Briens. Mr.. Heinrichs. MI. Mosier.
Maj. Bowler and one or two other lead
srs Of the party It wAs decided to pro-
ceed with tho campaign much after
The Fashion % 1895,
namely. to devote AL the work OF the
campaign and all the funds Of the
committee to the election 81 Lind, and
| fhe other candidates on the ticket,
with the exception Of Ringdal, are to
be sacriflcet - they were two years
ago, and rewarded % were the candi-
dates that year. Ii the event Of Llnd.s
election. 81 rs
One other fact developed III the
course Of the meeting. ana that Is that
there Il to b concerted effort Is
carry the house Of representative On
the theory that Lind Uanfa = lo~S-1.