Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
ESPECIAL rKLEeRAn TO TIE DIsPArcH.r

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.r
CHICAGO, June 14.-At meeting OF the
Sons of Pennsylvania, the organization
which has been formed to take care OF Penn
sylyania's interests in connection with the
Worlds Fair, this evening, letter from
Governor Beaver, addressed to Mr.. W. B.
Cunningham, the Chairman, was read. It
was received with applause, and was ordered
to be placed upon the minutes. Governor
Beaver wrote as follows:
have the pleasure of acknowledging the re-
ceipt of your letter of the 24rh instant together
with copy of your address OH the influence of
Pennsylvania in the development and progress
of the West. am very glad, indeed, to find
Pennsylvania's sons who have gone out from
her borders, more inclined to insist upon giving
due weight and credit to her influences in
molding the life and character of the nation
than those Of us who remain at home.
PENNSYLVANIA ISN'T BoAsTFUL.
AS you are well aware, we are conservative
folk. and rather retiring in disposition. We
have not been in the habit of insisting upon re-
ceiving due credit for what we have done either
in war or in peace. Such being the case, we
have found, as might have been expected. that
others are not anxious to thrust the honor and
credit upon u.s. Those who have gone from us
and caught the feryor of the West, appreciate,
probably, more fully now than they did when
at home the great and controlling influence
which Pennsylvania has exerted in shaping our
institutions and in developing the great re-
sources OF the West.
II am especially proud of the stand which the
sons of Pennsylvania have taken in Chicago.
and appreciate the desire which you have to
make Pennsylvanias headquarters at the
requires and deserves. 1t will give me pleasure
to cooperate with you in any way in securing
such result If you have any definite plans in
reference thereto and should
DESIRE ANY LEGISLATION
upon the subject, 1 will be glad to have your
views in full before the next meeting of the
Legislature which will take place on the first
Tuesday in January. 1891. My term of office
will expire before the great fair. which 1
hope Chicago has determined shall be
a tremendous success 1 hope, however, that
this fact will not prevent me from joining the
Sons of Pennsylvania on the occasion, and CO.
operating with them in the meantime in doing
everything which can be done here to give you
the encouragement and support which your
energetic efforts deserve.
am greatly pleased with your speech, and
am sure that If Pennsylvanians everywhere
throughout the Westare as loyal to their native
State. and have as thorough knowledge of
her means measures and men as you have dis
PLAYED in your address the Keystone State will
suffer nothing by comparison with her sister
commonwealths. and her past history and
achievements will be better understood in the
future than they are now.
PENNSYLVANIA TOO PROSPEROUS.
Captain William McClelland, of Pitts
burg, one of the Worlds Fair Commission
ers, was here yesterday on his way to Da-
kota, where he has large business interests.
He will return to Chicago by June "a, at
which date the other Commissioners will be
here.
gyTc Il, do y,xyp ri 10 in,
the Worlds Fair is not On par with those
of other States the cause will be the great
and universal prosperity that exists every
where within its borders" said the Captain
when visited at the Palmer House. "It
NAV be that the good times of the present
will not last two years. If they do our
business men will become desirous Of doing
something to boom trade, and nothing will
so boom it as fitting representation at the
fair. AS an illustration of how the people
in my State feel, just before lett Pittsburg
I asked big copper manufacturer Il ne
were going to have an exhibit at the fair.
He replied that he was not, and when /
asked his reason he said:
MORE BUSINESS THAN HE WANTED.
"sBecause have more business now than
I can attend to, so that more trade would
simply impede me-
ut is possible, OF course, that the people
of nv State would realize before long
that pride, if nothing else, demands that the
showing of Pennsylvania be equal to the
showing of any other and if they do our
Legislature, which will meet next winter,
will act Our newspapers are alive to the
requirements and will do everything possi-
BILE to prevent the State tagging behind.
81 trust Chicagoans appreciate the fact
that this fair is to be the largest exposition
ever held and will act broadly and without
consulting their private interests. This is
the nations fair, and broad treatment by the
Chicago directors will do more to secure
generous assistance from other States than
anything else can do"