One of Largest Crowds

in History of Flour City Was Out to See Chief

Executive of Nation.

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DELIVERED ADDRESS AT FAIR GROUNDS MONDAY

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Unfavorable Weather Braved by Thousands, Who Took Rain, While Listening to Address.

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President and Mrs. Coolidge are now aware that the northwest has a particular interest in them. They were astounded at the large concourse of people, who lined the streets of Minneapolis during the noon hour Monday and waited until the president’s automobile cavalcade passed. They cheered as he and Mrs. Coolidge. Still other, thousands were on hand at the fair grounds that afternoon to listen to the message he had to deliver to the people of the northwest. It was the largest crowd the writer has ever witnessed in the grandstand and convenient places, adjacent to the speakers’ stand. Still later in the evening thousands crowded around the state capitol building attempting to gain entrance thereto for the purpose of shaking hands with the chief executive and Mrs. Coolidge. It was one of the greatest outpourings of the people of the northwest that has ever occurred in the Twin Cities. Both St. Paul and Minneapolis were filled with visitors, drawn chiefly by the fact that President and Mrs. Coolidge were there, and secondly to be present at the Norse centennial, which was so pronounced a success.

Receive Cordial Welcome

Never in the history of the state has a chief executive received a more cordial welcome than did President Coolidge. The demonstration must have been one that convinced the President that Minnesota and the whole northwest is about free from the political vagaries of the past several years.

Addressed Great Crowd

At the state fair grounds, where he addressed probably the largest crowd he has ever faced, the President sounded the keynote of international cooperation. But he left it to the premier of his cabinet, Secretary Kellogg, to serve a real notice upon those who do not believe in the American system of government.

“If fraternity and co-operation is possible on the scale of this continent among people so widely diverse, why not on the scale of the whole world?” the President asked.

And right after the President had made his address, largely expressive of his gratitude for the contribution which the people of Norwegian ancestry had made to the national life of the United States, his secretary of state sounded another note.

Secretary of State Kellogg served notice on the radicals who do not like our type of government that they can seek homes elsewhere.

Referring to those who would tear down American institutions, the secretary said:

“If these people are not satisfied with our government and our institutions, let them go where they can find a government which does satisfy them. This is no place for them.”

Weather Inclement

While the President was delivering his address thousands, who were not covered by the protecting roof of the grandstand, took the rain, which fell rather heavily several times, and seemed to not mind the inconvenience. The wind was raw and it was a most uninviting day, but this did not deter the thousands present from remaining until after the President had delivered his address. Cloud after cloud of dust drove down the race course,and made it uncomfortable for those, who were standing between the grand stand and the speakers’ stand.

Governor Theodore Christianson likened the migration that entered Minnesota and to which the Commonwealth owes so much to that which started the first settlements in Massachusetts. He stated that they came because they had greater religious and political freedom in this land than in Europe. The governor introduced the president.

Brown County Journal,

June 12, 1925

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