St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-12

tons were the three great ques-
tionS to be considered. He was not here
to speak against any other city, or to
say that any one of these lacked the
Qualific ations requisite. He was here
to say that New York possessed these
qualifications in an eminent degree.
The impression had gone abroad that
New York did not want the fair. This
was incorrect. The people of New
York did not take fire easily, but they
worked methodically and quietly. The
people of New York gave absolute as
surance that the money needed for the
fair, whether ten millions or fifteen
millions, would be ready. There would
be no sectionalism Ill New Y0rk'S dis
cuSsion and if congress decided that the
fair should be held elsewhere New
York would assist that sister city in
every proper and legitimate way. He
took it for granted that this fail was to
be not commercial, but an educational
enterprise. He reviewed the interna-
tional exhibitions and described their
educational influence, especially that of
the Philadelphia exposition in 1876. If
the fair was to be of educational advan-
tage it should be situated where the
GREATEST NUMBER OF ARTISANS
could visit it. Although New York was
on the seaboard, 25.000,0U0 of people
were within twenty hours ride of it.
New York stood first in the list OF
agricultural states. The farmers of the
East were suffering, and he appealed
to the West in their behalf. If the fair
was to benefit the agricultural interests.
it should be held in New York. As to
the political question which had been
raised here and elsewhere, he said that
if the fair was to be debased to partisan
uses it would be better to hold no expo
sition at all. New York proposed to
govern this fair by commission of 103.
whose names were to be engrafted on
the bill. The names and history of
these men were an absolute guarantee
that partisan politics would have Moth
ing to do with the affair if it was held in
New York. James Wood, president of
the state agricultural society. made a
brief plea on behalf of the agricultural
interest. The fair would fall far short
of representing that interest if it was
not a great agricultural exposition.
The agricultural products of every
district of the country found their way
through well established channels to
New York. 1t would be unnatural and
difficult to take the agricultural pro-
ducts of all sections to any city except
New York. Secretary Stokes laid be-
fore the commission the Hewitt memor-
ial, containing plans, elevation of site,
committee lists, etc. This closed the
hearing on the part OF New York.
Mayor Cregier, of Chicago, said that the
people of his city believed that the eX-
position should be
HELD IN TIE GREAT WEST,
but wherever it should be held. they
would endeavor to add their might to
make it cOmport with the dignity of
this grand and impressive nation.
There was no rivalrv between Chicago
and New York. Chicago. recognized
the grandeur and greatness of the city
of New York, but Chicago believed that
this great exposition as we'll as
New York could. They did not
hesitate to accord to St. Louis like
prerequisites. But that should not
detract from the marvel of the
Western hemiSphere-Cm Chicago. New
York had been growing for 200 years.
Chicago was only eighteen years old.
He was glad to learn there is one thing
in which Chicago and New York We're
identical. People came to New York
in July ana August as a luxury. So
they did to Chicago. [Applause.l In
conclusion, Mayor Cregler said that the
West must be recognized, and be be-
lieved he represented sixteen sovereign
states of the Northwest when he de-
manded it. Thomas B. Bryan said that
he was amazed to see the emetamOrphOsis
which had come over New York in the
last few days. 1t was not long ago that
the imperial-he would not say imperi-
Ous-city of New York hesitated to
come to Washington to ask congress
this favor. MIR. Bryan said that when
the glorious l03 from New YORK marched
into the room, headed by the prince of
banqueterS, he was reminded of the
story of the two cOlored churches which
competed for fair, and it was deter
mined that the church which did
not get the fair was to have
a new pew, and on the Sunday
when the pew was completed and placed
in position, when the congregation had
gathered together, the preacher said: :
''Bredren, on dis occasion dere will be
no hymns, no sermon, but de whole con-
gregation will join me in de little coup
let has wrote for dis occasion:
GLORY haleluyoo; we's got de pew.
We's got de peWl''
''NeW York." the speaker continued,
''had DE Pew and it should be content
with that and let Chicago have the fair"
Mr.. Ryan spoke of the climate of Chi
cago as being more delightful than that
of any other city. He also referred to
the transportation advantages Of his
city. Speaking of the site for the fair,
he quoted MI. AStor's remarks made to
the New York committee to prove that
the New York site was not available
and described at length the advantages
of the sites offered by Chicago. Speak
ing of the demands of the agricultural
interest, Mr.. Bryan said that he had re-
Gently attended farmers convention in
st. Joseph, and the farmers from seven
states there said that their interests had
been shamefully neglected in the past,
and they wanted the fair held IN Chi
cago. Mr.. Depew, he said, had in the
morning handled their circulars deli
cately but critically. The gentleman
from New York had way of insinua-
ting thruSt-Of sticking the needle into
the flesh so delicately that a man could
not object, but
II HURT JUST THE SAME.
The mental play of the gentleman
from New York reminded him Of the
antics of squirrel on a ramshackle
fence in Virginia. They might admire
the squirrel. but they did not neces-
sarIly admire the fence. He would have
a word to say about circulars. The New
York committee never got beyond the
"elite" from abroad that they talked of
so much in their circulators. Well, if
the ''elite" was so desirable, what was
the sentiment of the people abroad on
the subject of the fairs location? Again
and again had they been asked, and
again and again they had responded
"Chlcago." 1t was very well to
talk about fraternity. Chicago re-
cognized the desirability of union,
but she asked New York to come
over the Alleghenies and learn how
Chicago wanted to be fraternal. What
of New Y ork's S5,0O0,O00 of which she
talked so much? The truth was that
the New York papers had spent months
in scolding and pleading with their
millionaires, and that, falling in this
object, they had fallen Oh their knees
before Depcw returned from England
and cried: "Chauncey, come to our
rescue" And Chauncey had gone to a
banquet, and, turning in the face of his
VanderbIlts and the other monarchs of
the purse, had said: down with the
dust. gentlemen. or we are lost" Pro-