Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-11
no Is To Blame.

That the holding Of the Fair of the Cen
trail Wisconsin Agricultural and Mech
anical Association and that of the Jefferson
County Agricultural Society on the same
| days is an unfortunate circumstance, no one
will deny, and the question OF considerable
Importance is, Who is to blame for its being
so. One year ago the Directors Of the Cen
trail Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical
Association established the time for hold
ing the Fair that year without thinking
of a clash it might occasion with the Jetfer
son County Society. The time FOR holding
our Fair being Immediately published in
the local papers, called out remonstrances
from the President and Secretary of the
Jefferson County Society, setting forth that
the time for holding the Jefferson County
Fair had been established first, that their
Premium List and other printed matter
was nearly ready to be published, that
they could rot change the time for holding
the Jefferson County Fair without consider
able expense and trouble, that it would be
detrimental to both Fairs to hold them at
the same time, land that they hoped that the
time for our Fair would be changed to an
other time. Not word was said about a
claim made this year, that it was an estab
lished rule with the Jefferson County So.
ciety to hold its Fair the week after the
State Fair, so we are justified in the conclu-
sion that no such regulation had ever been
adopted, that the claim of this year is not
founded upon fact or the records of the So
ciety and that the whole maneuver is i'll
tended as war on our Association.) Upon
these very fair and friendly representations
being made known to the directors of the
G. W. A. Il M. A, meeting was promptly
called, and The time for holding our fnir
changed to the week following the JET
ferson County Fair, without a dissenting
vote. No one will claim, or does claim,
that the same state of affairs exist this
year, on the contrary, there is not the least
doubt tut that the time for the Central
Fair was established first, and promptly
published in all OF our City papers, in tact
the men engaged IN the war on our Fair
do not and dare not, deny that such is the
fact but content themselves with the claim
that The week following the State Fair be-
longs to them. Our representations Of the
justice of our claim to hold the Central Fair
at the time soon to arrive, have been treat
ed with silent contempt, if not with dis
While our Association sim
cerely regrets the I'm pleasantness being crea-
ted between the two bodies, feeling, as we
do, that no blame attaches to US whatever
the result may be, we are content to await
the outcome. and final decision of the pub
lie with entire composure, assuring all that
we Will perform all we advertise and that
our Posters and Hand bills are no deception
or fraud.
Our association was not formed for money |
making purposes, all our officers work for
nothing, we pay our debts honestly, have |
thus far paid all premiums and purses in
full and though it is impossible to please all,
or award u first premium on every entry,
the management of the Central Wisconsin |
Agricultural and echanical Association
will use Its utmost exertions to make its
Fairs popular and its premiums as liberal
as possible. F. P. BROOK,
.d..r Ism Sec'y c. W. A. & NJ. A.