The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12
From a Staff Correspondent.


Rosings southern tour, the first of
three mapped out by the state central
committee, closed in Mankato tonight
in a blaze of Democratic enthusiasm.
Despite the ugly weather and the Sat
urday nights business, the citizens of
Mankato turned out in goodly numbers
to welcome the standard bearer of De-
mocracy at the Mankato opera house.
Enthusiasm ran high and the temper of
the meeting augurs we'll for an increas-
ed Democratic vote In Blue Earth
county. The reception rendered Mr..
Rosing by the Democratic organization
was gratifying in the extreme.
Mr.. Rosing's party was Joined at
noon at GAINESVILLE by H. Zimmerman
and S. Wilhartz, representing the Blue
Earth county organization. They at
tended the Waseca meeting and acted
as a special escort to Mankato juno
ton, where the party was met by re-
ception committee, headed by Mayor
Nicholas Peterson. and including Coun-
ty Chairman A. r. Pfau, State Central
Committeeman j. @. Thra1l and ]. M
Weiser. At the Mankato station Mr..
Rosing was greeted by strains of mill
tary music and the cheers Of a large
crowd of citizens. A citizens commit
tee of twenty-five escorted Mr.. Rosing
any party to the hotel, where, at an in
formal reception, scores of prominent
Democrats were presented to the stand
ard bearer of whom they are justly
proud. The citizens escort committee
was preceded to the hotel by a band.
Another band concert preceded the
mass meeting at the opera house. Judge
Daniel Buck presided and introduced
Mr.. Rosing and George j. Jones, Of
Rock, who tonight made his last speech
with Mr.. Rosing. Mr.. Jones joins c. N.
Andrews, Democratic nominee for con-
gress from the Second district, in Man.
kato, and will tour the district with
him, commencing Monday.
Appearance Arouses Enthusiasm.
The appearance of Mr.. Rosing on the
stage and the arrival of the venerable
Judge Buck reused the audience to a
great burst of enthusiasm, and his
forceful, logical speech was frequent
ly interrupted with applause.
Mr.. Rosing dealt unsparingly with
the ariff-fostered trusts and the pres
ent Republican administrations policy
of inactivity. The Republicans claim
that the Standard Oil trust is one
fourishing without the protection of
the tariff fell before Mr.. Rosings eX-
poSure of the legislative trickery which
deceived President Roosevelt who Mr..
Rosing said he believed was absolutely
honest in the statement as he under
stood it, Coal oil or kerosene is on
the free list, but everyone of the BIZ
products and petroleum are heavily
protected, and these bi-products are
the great profit-returning monopoEes
enjoyed by the trust. Mr.. Rosing said
the great political parties have changed
places. and today the Democratic party
stands for the principles for which the
Republicans of forty years ago stood
and fought. The Republican party
then fought for liberty. The Demo-
cratic party of today is fighting for
the perpetuation of these liberties.
His position on the coal strike ques-
tion voiced exactly the sentiments of
the meeting, and when he argued that
the government should insist on arbi-
tration of the strike or that the opera
tors surrender the mines at a fair COM
pensation to be worked for the benefit
of the people, the audience went wild
with enthusiasm.
Railroad Policies Compared.
Mr.. Rosing compared the railroad
policy of the Van SAINT administration
and the two years of Democratic man
agement under Gov. Lind and his rail-
road and warehouse commission, which
iI- twelve months accomplished more
than any commission before or since.
before he left the question of railroads,
he satisfied his Mankato audience, as
he has every audience he has address,
ed, that he is not only not afraid to
talk about the So-called merger issue,
but that he knows enough about it to
make it dangerous topic for Repub-
lican candidates to handle. His expose
of the railroad discrimination practiced
by Van SAINT for political capital has
killed the merger issue in the first and
second districts. The people generally
no longer believe the suits long since
dismissed were brought in good faith
Jones, of Rock, the young orator
nominated by the Democracy for clerk
of the supreme court, made good In
Mankato the reputation which preced-
ed him. Probably no young man has
made the pronounced success on the
campaign stump achieved by Mr.. Jones
since Joining Mr.. Rosing. He has made
only brief speeches following the party
leader. His handling of state and ma
tional questions is logical and his elo-
uuence has endeared him to audiences
which frequently insist that he make
longer speeches.
At Waseca and GAINESVILLE.
Mr.. Rosing's halliday visit to wa
SEGA county included a rousing after
noon mass meeting at the Waseca
court and handshaking turn at James
Vile.
The trip to GAINESVILLE was one Of the
many departures Mr. Rosing has
made from the itinerary laid down by
the committee for him. The origina
programme contemplated a mass meet
ing in Waseca in the afternoon as the
only break in the trip to Mankato. A
Waseca a committee of prominen
Democrats, headed by County Chair