The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-30
LEONARD A. ROSING SOUNDS
KEYNOTE OF STATE CAMPAIGN
Democracy Ratifies It's Nominations and Takes Up Is
sues at Great Mass Meeting in Minneapolis.

last night, held no terrOrS for Mime
apolis Democrats. Over 1000 of them,
wet, but enthusiastic, assembled at
Normanna hall, Third street and
Twelfth avenue, to ratify the Demo-
cratic state ticket and hear the key
note of the campaign sounded by the
party leader and gubernatorial candi-
date, Leonard A. Rosing, Of Cannon
Falls.
The showers which began at
O'Clock and continued at intervals dur
ing half the night would have de-
TERED any but men enthusiastic in
their support of principles involving the
preservation of the rights of all men,
expounded by leader, enjoying in the
fullest degree the trust and confidence
of the rank and file of the Democratic
party.
Shower followed shower and just be-
fore 8 o'clock the rain came down in
sheets. Between the showers and plod-
ding along in the later heavy rain the
citizens of Minneapolis turned out in
surprising numbers to greet their can
didate for governor and his associates
on the Democratic ticket.
Long before 8 o'clock the hall was
fairly filled and when the platform
party arrived the main floor and large
balcony were quickly filed to a COM
Portable limit.
RAIN AFFECTED NUMBERS,
BUT NOT THE ENTHUSIASM.
The voters did not have it all to
themselves, either. On the platform
were dozen ladies and scattered here
and there through the audience were
numbrs of enthusiastic members of
the fair sex. Had the weather been
fair the big hall would not have ac-
eommodated half the crowd. AS it was,
what was lacked in numbers was more
than made up in enthusiasm.
The party of fifty on the platform
included besides Albert G. Leeck, of
OWatumWa, candidate for state audi
tor, Frank Larrabee, Minneapolis, can
didate for attorney general, George P.
Jones, Rock county, candidate for clerk
of the supreme court; Maj. James
Madison Bowler, Minneapolis, can
didate for railroad and warehouse
commissioner, numerous prominent
Minneapolis Democrats Among them.
were Frank N. Stacy and H. A. Sauer,
candidates for the house in the Thirty
ninth district; Albert T. Heinrich and
James G. Hayes, candidates for mayor;
Edward Conroy, candidate for sheriff;
Harry A. Lund, Olaf Gylstrom and
Adam Hanna, candidate for city
treasurer
Among me state Democrats were
Chairman H. L. Buck, of the state CEN
trail committee, Winona; Secretary H.
T. Tolmie, Spring Valley, and John
Stone Pardee, Red Wing, editor of the
Argus.
Chairman Elijah Barton, Of the
Hennepin county committee, opened
the meeting and introduced F. G. Win
ston as the permanent chairman.
ROsING RECEIVES A
TUMUETUoUS OVATION
The arrival Of Mr.. Rosing and his
party was signalled to the crowd in the
hall by the strains of martial music
from band stationed near the en-
trance. The appearance of Mr.. Ros-
ing at the entrance of the hall was the
signal for the ovation. The party in
cluded Mr.. Rosing, on the arm Of
Chairman Barton; Mrs. Rosing, es-
corted by F. G. Winstrom, and Miss
Anna Ketensky, confidential secretary
to the state committee, with Chairman
II. L. Buck. AS the party merged from
under the balcony the cheers became
deafening and were continued until
after the party had taken seats on the
stage.
Maj. j. M. Bowler was the recipient
of another ovation and the various To-
cal candidates were severally given
enthusiastic receptions by their re-
spective followers in which all of the
crowd good naturedly Joined. Enthusi-
asm was in the air. 1t was contagious
and every man and woman in the big
hall was hopeleSSly infected.
The arrival of former Gov John Lind
at $40 was the signal for a demon
stration seldom accorded a candidate
for public office. The former governor
entered the rear of the hall just as Mr.
Rosing made some reference to his
administration. Some one called Here
he is now" The cheers which greeted
the popular idol fairly shook the big
building.