Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-10-01
VAST CROWDS At
JOHNSON MEMORIAL
MINNEAPOLIS AUDITORIUM is
FAR TOO SMALL FOR THE
GATHERING.
KING OF SWEDEN SENDS MESSAGE
Ex-Governor Lind Spoke at Church OF
Redeemer Exercises-Many Other
Churches Held Meetings to
Pay Their Tributes.

Minneapolis, Sept. 27.-Simple, as
was the mans life, straightforward,
direct, with appealing tenderness, the
addresses at the memorial service to
the late Governor Johnson in the
auditorium Sunday afternoon gave
voice to what was lying dumb in the
minds of the 5000 persons crowded
into the building.
Half an hour before the program was
to be opened, floor, galleries and stage
were filled, and nearly 1000 people
were waiting outside at o'clock when
Bishop Edsall pronounced the invoca-
ton. AS many more were turned
away during the next hour.
High over the stage large picture
of the dead governor was hung, draped
with the national colors and crepe and
on the walls above the second gallery
were rosettes of half furled flags with
mourning pendants.
"If ever any doubt had existed re-
garding the true greatness of the man
whose memory we meet here today to
PEELED at the sight of this gathering"
said Mayor Haynes, who presided at
the service in the place of President
Northrop of the University of Mime
sofa, whose attendance was prevented
by illness. "The secret of Governor
Johnson's success" said the mayor,
clay in his entire simplicity and gen
uineness."
The mayor then read message of
tribute from the king of Sweden, dated
Sept "a, and sent through the Swed-
ish minister of foreign affairs to the
local consulate. 1t was: "Graciously
commissioned, / beg to express his
majesty's warm sympathy in the Der
eavement occasioned by our country
man, Governor Johnsons death"
John A. Johnson's life and death
contain an intimation of Immortality,
declared Rev. NJ. D. Shutter. His
work here on earth will go on and
on, said DR.. Shutter, broadening in its
scope, influencing the characters and
acts of man by the inherent power OF
example, while his Maker will, no
doubt, provide him with greater work
to do in the beyond
Hartman Went PenniIess.
"Within a few weeks just past"
said DR.. Shutter, zone of the kings of
| finance has passed from the earth. He
had amassed millions in money. Yet
when the Master called him to account
for his stewardship he was absolutely
not rich in this worlds goods, but he
appeared before his God many times
a millionaire.
He Came Near to All Men.
"It is not our place to give him a
seat among the great men" said Rev
Andrew Gillies, when our bones are
Wondering in the dust, our grandchil.
dren will lisp his name and recite his
achievements. But it is our place to
rejoice in the virtues that made him
liked by all. The remarkable thing
about John A. Johnson was, not be
cause he came near to some men, but
because he came near to all men. He
was a man of the people, belonged tc
the people and served the people until
the end of his days"
The speaker called upon his audi
ence not to forget that, while the loss
is a great affliction to the state ant
nation, yet the blow has fallen most
heavily on the wife, who today sits il
midnight blackness in which we car
only know the twilight"
At the Church of the Redeemer.
'He lived man and died an ideal.
1t was with these words that former
Governor Lind closed his tribute tc
the late Governor Johnson at the mem
orial service at the Church of the Re
dcemer.
at is not of the life nor the political
services of which l speak," said Mr..
Lind, "but of the memory which re.
mains.
"That funeral procession at ST. Pet.
er demonstrated that men are ruled
by sentiments-by ideals. am CRATE.
full that it is so. IL we were governed
by intellect and calculation it would
be a barren world. There was much
Johnson that appealed to the common
man. His experiences were the ex.
periences of the great mass of people
knew him intimately. | loved him
love his memory.
Memorial services in addition tc
those already referred to were held in
many churches of the city. Geo Eber
hart addressed one of the meetings.