Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-09

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| LYING NEWSPAPER and Il PIG
HEAD. ... ..
Bill Kings morning newspaper continues
to show it's disloyalty to st. Paul by abusing
everyone who endeavored to make the recent
State fair a success. OF course it denounces
the recent State fair as a failure and couples
this denunciation with the deliberate lie that
an effort was made by friends of the exhi-
bition to have it regarded as st. Paul, in
stead of a State fair. The Chamber of Com
MERGE committee and tho Chamber of Com
MERGE itself, consistently and persistently
announced that it was State fair which ST..
| Paul proposed to aid, because it was State
institution, but in no sense assuming a re.
| sponsibilty therefor.
This Minneapolis newspaper (printed in
st. PauD gleefully announces that the Min
neapolis show was success, and the State
fair was failure because the latter was held
at st. Paul. This is it's apology for betray-
| ing this city.
Now for the facts. The State fair was
conceded throughout the State to be State
matter, and not local to St. Paul. AS an
exhibition pure and simple, the people of
the State made it a success. That larger
crowd was not in attendance was chiefly due
to the asinine self conceit and pig headed
obstinancy of Sam E. Adams, the eleventh
| hour president of the concern. Destitute of de-
cency and gentlemanly instincts in the treat
ment of those who were honestly endeavor-
ing to make silk purse out of sow's ear,
| and finally creating wide distrust of his
integrity by his action towards the treasurer,
Mr.. Adams forfeited both respect and sup
port. He arrogated to himself the entire
control of everything and refusing to call
together the executive committee of the
association, he wilsully repudiated whatever
directions were given by members of the
committee who CHANGED to visit the
city, or who were invited to
come by others to regulate the petty
dictator. AS a matter of fact, from
the time the calamity befel the society of
placing Sam Adams at its head, up to two
days before the opening of the fair there
never was meeting of the executive COM
mittee. Mr.. Adams himself was never
legally elected, there being but three
members of the executive COM
| mlttee present when he was
chosen, the remaining votes being supplied
| by the Chamber of Commerce committee.
who had 10 legal authority in the premises.
It is due the executive committee to relieve
them from all share in the gross mismanage-
ment, blind stupidity and worse,
which characterized the conduct of
the State Fair just closed.
The illegally chosen President should not be
robbed of his laurels. Messrs. Fridley and
Gutter with the exception of one visit by
MIR. Ingalls) were the only members of the
executive committee who were even in the
city, from the time the pig head Inaugural
ton up to two days before the fair,
and the only thing they accom-
plished was to be snubbed and in
suited. It is especially due Mayor Fridley
to say that he early and constantly dissented
from the management, and took liberal
view, which, if acted on, would have made
the fair success. Finding his counsels and
his official votes unheeded, Mayor Fridley
abandoned the matter and only
discharged such duties as the position
which he filled legally imposed upon him.
In fact no member of the executive board
should be held in the least degree RESPONSE
bic for the management of the fair, but
Major Fridley was especially pronounced in
his opposition to the domineering and dis
reputable course of the accidental and ille-
gal president. The mistake made by the
executive committee was that they did not
depose Adams when he insisted on manag-
ing the treasurer and placing his creatures
in positions which should only be filled by
honest men.
1t is we'll understood that Fair, without
q crowd, is not q success. Horses draw q
crowd aud crowd makes Fair: That was
never more clearly demonstrated than last
week, where the finest agricultural exhibit
the State has ever seen went begging 70,
visitors. splendid racing programme was
prepared which did not involve the
society in any liability what
ever. It was programme which would
have brought at least $4,000 people to the
ground during two days. By aid of the
telegraph the endorsement of the programme
was secured from majority of the e1ecu.
tive board, but the self-conceited fraud who
occupied the Proficiency, fatty repudiated
the instructions which he was legally bound
to obey, and which it was an insult and out
rage to decline to execute.
That accounts for the absence of large
portion Of the crowd.
The browning arrogance and insult was
when Mr.. Adams insisted on appointing the
assistants for the treasurer-Albert Schefer.
Mr.. Scheffer's selection inspired confidence
in the moribund affair, and be-
cause Mr.. Adams knew he would
not be allowed to finger any of the
receipts, he determined to force change.
The fact that he went to Minneapolis and
selected new treasurer several hours before
Mr.. Scheffer resigned, or before Mi. Adams
knew that he would resign, (save that he
(Adams) could infer that no man would wish
to be contaminated by associating