Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-12
MIR. BRYAN,S ARGUMENT.
~ HUMOROUS PreSentment OF I'll
Lake G1ty,S Cause

| Lake C1ty's Cause.
Thomas B. Bryan was the mex
speaker. After referring in humorou,
| nianHcI TO rvOw CIaIMB. Auu HIr.
Depew, he proceeded to argue that OF
all the large cities, Chicago had the
coolest, the most comfortable and
pleasant china te, and that she had un-
equaled railroa d facilities and accommo-
dations. No other city was equally
a ccessible alike for the bulk of the ex-
bibits and for visitors. The gentlemen
from New York could make beautiful
pictures OF their sites, while the poor
Chicago people must contend themselves
with building shaft of truth and
pedestal of facts. Gould any honest,
fair-minded, dispassionats man say the
site selected by New York was the
proper site? The truth was, the site
was not the right location for Worlds
Fair. It had physical distractions; it
was uneven it would require vast ex-
penditure of money to tear down build
ings; it required vast sums to blast it's
rocks it required dynamite to blow up
the constitution of the State in order
that it might be occupied. Chicago
had thousands of acres at
the disposal of the fair, not
a house to buy, not cubic yard to level F.;
throughout the length and breadth of
the land could not be found any city Of
adequate resources and population tha
could present to the Congress of the
United States such plans and such adapt
ability of ground for the purposes of a
grand exposition, as could the city OF
Chicago, within ten minutes of her
hotels, which seemed to have been made
and left unoccupied for this express pur.
pose. The farmers of the country, by an
overwhelming majority, wanted Chicago
and when he said this he spoke advis
edly. The agricultural journals wanted
the fair in Chicago, because in the mag
nificence of New York's appropriation, il
, had appropriated ten acres for an agri
. cultural exhibit. Why, one single, high
mettled animal of the West would paw
the earth and snort his contempt at such
a pitiable appropriation. Ten acres
what, for the vast domain of America
South America and Mexico as we'll
] Ten acres! daughter
:. The great majority of the people ir
this country had said Chicago. New
York owed nine-tenths of her greatness
, to the West. To be sure she had sen
her money to US, but she had got higf
interest for it; it had been returned tt
8 help fill her Golfers. Her merchan
marine was made glorious by the prod
ducts of the vast western empire. Tht
8 dependence of the West upon New Yori
, was nothing as compared with the de
K pendence of New York upon the West
Q In the interest of the entire country
Chicago was for the West and the Wea
was for Chicago. The Worlds Fai
would he curse to New York, and man
New Workers knew it, because they ha
8 told him so. [Laughter.l The gentle
men knew in their hearts that it woul
Q be curse, because they knew New Yor
II was unequal to the occasion. The CO
!. pacity of her roads and hotels wa
already overtaxed.
He pleaded not for Chicago, but for th
West; for the miner, the agriculturalis
manufacturer, lumberman. The Wet
q had claim; it was now her turn. Sh
3 waited patiently and long. Referring
y Depewls speech, Bryan SAL Depew neve
II opened his mouth but that he revealed
e rich casket of gems of wit and wisdom
d but as they rolled out this morning b
it wished they could be changed ini
D. blocks of marble, and then the Goodies
% OF Liberty might have had q pedests
At and her eyes would not have grow
3. weary looking forsthe promised Washin
sr ton triumphant arch and the Graz
le m nument. daughter There was OF
g. Thug New York lacked that Chica,
ir had7-she lacked public spirit, and publ