The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29
SIGNING FOR The FAIR.
CHICAGO AND NEW YoRK DOzl1
WANT IT VERY BADLY.

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CHICAGO AND NEW YoRk DOzn
WANT IT VERY BADLY.
nut from Present Indications It Q -
II the Northwestern Metropolis Had .
Sure Thing of It-What IL Being Done
by tile Friends OF Each.
ESPECIAL CHICAGO coRREsP o%NDENCE.
The spirit Of enterprise which Chicago
is showing in her efforts to secure the
Columbian Exposition is marvellous and
not without effect. It is noticeable that
in all parts of the country, and especially
In New York City. there is q feeling
cropping out in favor Of Chicago as the
one site for the exposition.
To hold the exposition in Chicago
would insure such o knowledge Of u
national life, resources and the beauty Of
our domain as could not be obtained
were it held in q seaboard or threshold
city. Chicago includes within her popu-
alittes Of the globe endowed with the
privileges and inspired with the oppor-
tunities Of American citizenship than is
elsewhere found; hence 1t is that city in
which the people OF the world are inter-
ested. The 1,16O hotels in Chicago
there are only 2l5 in New York City
guarantee accommodation for the thou
sands OF visitors and their guests who
are assured Of the best treatment at the
usual rates.
That Chicago is fast gaining friends in
the South is demonstrated by the action
Of the farmers convention at Montgom-
cry. Ala. Both St. Louis and New York
made vigorous efforts for Endorsement,
but the Illinois delegates had worked
their forces so well that when the resolu.
ton was presented the vote for Chicago
stood 261 for and 63 against. Following
is the full text Of the resolution adopted:
WHEREAS, The Importance to the people ct
large OF the United States that q great Worlds
Exposition be held in 1892 cannot be o~YereAti-
WnEnEAs, That as agriculture with its kindred
pursuits is the greatest Of our productive In
dustries and unless large space were devoted to
IL the Exposition would como far short Of what
it should DO; and
WHEREAS, The magnitude of our domain and
the grandeur OF its various productive resources
OF SOIL and mine are such as to demand that the
Exposition celebrating the fourth centennial of
tho era be projected on a scale sur
passing anything the world has over seen. aud
commensurate with the resources of our coui-
try. or the nation fails to perform its duty to
itself; therefore
ltSOttCt, III 6blll6 GouLIhl UOluV Ou6IIuR
the best transportation facilities and other
accommodations Tor its visitors be selected for
the location Of the great enterprise represent
ing the Of farm and mine.
Rcsolusd, That this congress indorse Chicago
as the most suitable place ct which to hold the
structed to send copies of this resolution to all
members of Congress aud urge that they vote
for its selection.
In reply to Senator Farwell's article
published in the New York Cosmopolitan
Maydsine. the same magazine contains .
paper contributed by William Waldorf
Aston, q member of the plutocratic FAM
lily of that name, who has some literary
pretensions, and who has devoted his eli.
egant leisure to the production Of one or
two so-called novels, whose fame has not
yet far transcended the limits Of Mr..
Ward McAllister's gilded four hundred.
MIR. Aston begins by declaring himself
cordially of Senator Farwell's opinion,
that the emulation between the two cities
should be conducted without bitterness or
craftsmanship, and %thereupon falls to
abusing aud vilifying Chicago, like a
person destitute of breeding or fairness,
and to insulting her business men in .
most gratuitous manner. A single quo
tation will show the arrogance and
the impertinence of the dude writer: sThe
Senator further advances the architectural
magniticence of Chicago's private resi-
denccs as o logical reason for placing the
great Exposition within their aureole. Chi
cage is the London of America, possessing
metropolitan Imperialism aud worthy Of
the designation of the young giant of the
prairies. Its houses, he declares, are
palaces. We know them we'll, those
palaces, oil Of which were built with bor-
rowed money, and most of which to-day
are mortgaged from corner stone to sky.
light. We know them we'll, those pal
aces, where every sign OF wealth abounds
and where the front door is opened by .
housemaid. We know them we'll, those,
palaces, whose occupants are 'all out on
their doorsteps,' MS they used to sit i'll
New York seventy years ago, when our
palaces were built on twenty-five foot
front lots, and when social life was
primitive in the extreme"
Waving the disreputable insolence
contained in this extract, says the Chi.
cago Tribune, is this kind of stuff a ~
gnment for New York against CHIC 90?
Is il anything more than the vaporings of
All idle plutocrat, who has been enabled
by the industry of his p%rogenitors in
skinning sundry small polar animals. and
vending them at large profits, to hire a
butler to attend his front door, and who
does not consider it in good form" to sit
on his f%ront-door steps of q summer
evening, as they did?
Mr.. Aston has a mind above stock
breeding and farm products. I'VE in
New York. . he says, Conceive the signi6-
canoe of this exhibition to be something
moro than lumber, iron, and live stock.
We have not III mind the agricultural
show the Senator meditates. He does
not van any reminders Of horses,
cattle, sheep, hogs. and the great bust
ness of the country, or the products of
the horny-handcd farmers, Of the iron.
steel, and metals, of the cotton Of the
South, or the products of the looms, an
wills, tnrning-lathcs, laboratories, or the
inventions of the nation.
Such things would only tend to re-
mind him of family traditions and pedi-
gree. They would he strikingly sugges-
tive Of bear ekins, mink skins, beaver
skins, cat skins, dog skins, and the skins
of skunks and polar rats. The ladder by
which he climbed into the fifth history
window must be taken down SO that It
may not be seen by the visitors. VIM,
Waldorf Aston does not care to be re.
garded as the result Of the peltry trade.
but as one of Mr.. McAliister's four
hundred, who do not sit on their front
door steps of summer evenings, and
whose housemaides do not answer the
bells.