Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-26
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2,e'Tate-The People Stand By the Stat

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Fair.
Preston. MIMI, Correspondence Wilkes Spirit
of the Times.
DEAR SPIRIT: Not long ago some gentleman
in that resonant village of Minneapolis wrote
you that there would be no State fair held at
St. Paul thi, year. He doubtless hoped there
would be none. and thought that if he would
only persistently irritate the story that there
was to be nOne, people would never discover to
the contrary. The breezy influences Of the
inflated suburb in which he resides have led
him astray. People down here in the Southern
part Ut the State have found him out. they
know there will be Slate fair at st. Paul, aud
propose to attend it despite your
Minneapolis correspondent or the Min
neopols organ published in St. Paul,
which he quotes. This attempt upon the part
of Sitting Bull Wheelock and Pacific Mail King
to freeze out the Minnesota State Agricultural
society, in order to substitute in ts place the
tawdry glitter of their own meritricious show,
hereby to retrieve their broken for
tunes, ia getting to be we'll understood by the
people of the State, and will, beyond question,
eventually meet with the disasters which it de-
serves. No enterprise of the Importance to a
State that well established agricultural So
iety sustains to it should be permitted tn die
out for the personal gain of individ-
ua's or the jealousy of . pom ous young town.
Our State organization this year aLtains its ma.
jority, passing from the day of adolescence to
those Of manhood; despite the ISLANDERS you
have heard, 1T has bad vigorous youth, and in
my role of prophet let me predict that it will
attain lusty maturity. This year its pre-
,umptous young rival thinks to far ou,strip it
in attractions. The puffed-up youngster will
have Rarus and Hopeful. Well, who cares to
see them! They can't give any body race, and
they 9 not showing sensational time. Then,
again, 1t is in the circuit, and will have all tue
flyers. Not 30 fas 1t will Simply get
the hppodrnme crowd, who are carrying out
The most outrageous swlndles and jobs in spit
of the ablest aud most watchful judges. THIS
disreputabie gang killed the late Chicrgo meet
ing, and the magnificent new grounds in that
city will soon he relegattd 10 the unpopula,ity
that swallowed up D. xter Park. When people
attend race they are entitled to the genuine
article, it is their right to honest rivalry,
anything short of this is fr lud which even
| tualiy drives from the race-track every
| n"n-professinnal spectator in disgust.
leaving the pullers, thieves, and
harpies to prey on one another. If they would
only exterminate each other from the face of
the earth, every respectable lover of racing
could afford to forego the amusement for al
least two years, and it look, no" as if that
would be the remedy applied. To certain
extent it will be applied to Minnesota next
month. Minneapolis will have the top saw
yers, but no racing; they travel to gull the
public not to beat each other. Mr.. Smith, of
Earlville, one of the most capable judges in
America could not change drivers so as
to make horse race at Chicago. Who
rs Their. in Minneapolis that can do it?
True. the poffed-np lutte town can blow
nard enough for almost anything, but it takes
more than wind to loosen the arms of the av-
rage hippodrome circuit driver. St. Paul,
~ the other hand, will have a splendid lot of
local horses frcm Wisconsin, Iowa and Mime
sofa, some of which will prove sensations;
many of them will be driven by their owners
md breeders, the racing will be the genuine
article and infinitely more interesting than the
stale and hackneyed cut-and-dried events of
the circuit pool boz manipulators at Minneap-
'is. The crowd will go to the State fair at St.
Paul, and that is where they should go.
Yours MTG.