St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-10

In Minneapolis are correct noue ol JuuSlnS the
character and tastes of our people, will ever
deny.
Controlled wear after year by the same CLIQUE,
our fall fairs resemble very much a travelling
circus. and our summer meetings, with but few
exceptions, are made up solely for the individual
benefit of the few who comprise the coterie that
manage our fair grounds
During q life's experience in almost every part
of the United States, | think | never was in To-
cality where the people were more disposed to
enthusiastically enter into support of fairs
than in Minnesota.
Throughout the length and breadth of the
state, almost every other farmer and his men,
during the whole year, are looking forward to
taking in the Minneapolis fair as rest and recre-
alton well earned after the gathering of harvest
which is each year the envy of the world The
unmerited support some of our fairs have re-
ceived from the people of Minnesota has been
more than gonerous--it has been noble. Nothing
would be easier than to make our fall fairs sec
ond Derby day in the northwest. A people so
generous, so enthusiastic as ours, are entitled to
the contemplation of Il struggle between lie
onatus," .Foxhall," or ''Kuight of Ellers-
lie instead of so-called races (?) in which
Little Brown Jug Betsy Ann or '.Wake
sg'lang'' and ''hike va" boys rule with undivided
sway this fair empire? BY means. Their
rule is disputed by 'sEspinoza the dare devil of
New Mexico by Little Cricket ct al, and
then, as was done last fall, where hurdle
race is advertised worth $4,000, bv men and
horses who were hiredat hundr d dollars a
head before the entries had closed 10 ride over
the course
I ,l,ar tha bae{o
these gentry in the advertisement in the Press,
was 1.-The horse kings of the prairies. y think
that was it. Why not complete the thing and
have a competent clown. From the birth of our
country the universal amusement at fairs has
been horse racing, this country either in run
ming races or in trotting races. Ever since the
war the former of these two amusements has
been rapidly and surely taking the place of trot-
ting as a popular entertainment The same
spirit which excites applause from Minnesota
audience at the mere announcement of running
race, has caused running to almost entirely
supercede trotting at Chicago, New York
and all of our great cities, with the
exception of a few celebrities, and
and Worth, interest whatever is taken in
trotting by the nation at large, who look upon an
Iroquois, a Foxhall or Ten Brock, with Il feel
ing akin to reverence. What is the reason: Can
IL be some say, because our tro ttrS are owned
by snobs, parvenues and shcddy: and the best
blood in the laud can be found among race
horse owners: In Democratic country
this cannot be the cause. Can the superiority
of the thoroughbred as an animal when com
pared with the trotter, be the reason:
think not, in land where the delights OF fast
driving thoroughly appreciated, such
consideration that have effect. There
must be reason. ] think can name It, with
very few exceptions running races are run on
their merits with very few exceptions trotting
races are not trotted on their merits. Is this
severe: Let us see. Except Honest John
Murphy, name one single leading driver to whom
some disgraceful SANDER is not joined. Now.
look the other hand at our leading running
horse jockeys, Mclaughlin, Barrett, Hayward,
and find one single to whom you can attach
any dishonest transaction a noble, gallant band
they. with their lives always in peril, for
small remuneration, the danger is never stunned
the ever ready bride never taken Stoneberge
says, taking them ~ a class they are above
pcion'' There should be Law against calling
horse traders and trottng horse drivers
Jockeys" Minneapolis has not as yet accepted
the national verdict already given this ques
tion but the revolution will come; the tide is
moving westward irresistably, surely. The
rebuke given to the meeting, just held in Mime
apolis, where running conspicuous by It's
absence, in the miserable attendance furnished
by city of 10000 inhabitants, to
fair held on our national holiday within
the very limits of the town, is but presage of
the future.
The eyes, land may say the hearts of many are
turned towards ''Hazel Hill" it requires
prophet to pr dict the wholesome effect this
laudable enterprise is bound to have
state, though the magnitude of the good it is
sure to create it would be hard to intimate May
its pastures be ever green, may success follow
its every enterprise Doubly praised be our fell
low citizen, Col. King and NJ. McNar, first for
choosing as their speciality in breeding that
noblest of all our domestic animals, the horse.
And secondly among all the various races of their
kind, selecting the decendents of that family
member OF which the Arabian Prince job has
given us so beautiful and grand description, in
Holy Writ JOHN RRADFoRD.