St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-22
BOOMING THE FAIR.
Eloquent Depew and HustIing
Chicagoans Do the Talking.

New YORK, Dee. 21.-The dinner
given at Delmonico's tonight by the
! New York commissioners of the ma
/ tional Columbian exposition, consisting
| of Chauneey NJ. Depew, John Boyd
/ Thatcher and J. S. Page, gave evidence
/ of New York's intention to do what it
! can TO make the expedition a success.
/ The speakers were all enthusiastic.
/ The scene was inspiring. Letters of
! regret were received from ex-President
! Cleveland. Vice President Morton, eX-
! Mayor Hewitt. Senator Daniel, of Vir-
/ ginia, ana Richard Croker. After din
ner. when the cigars had been lighted.
/ Chairman Depew raped for order, and
/ IN opening said. in part:
Our Columbian exposition comes at a
most oppOrtune time. The unprece-
/ dented crop which cur fields have pro-
duced this year.and the equally unprec-
edented demand for our food products
/ abroad. Will give us for twelve months
an eXhilarating period of prosperity.
Farm mortgages will be paid off. new
enterprises will be started, old railroads
Will be extended and new ones will be
constructed
/ This great industrial exhibit at Chi
cago will take up the frayed threads of
opportunity, too lavishly EMPLOYED. and
car Of American progress. The vast
movement of peoples over railroads, the
| stimulus given 10 business at cities and
! railway centerS, the hundreds of mill
ions Of dollars brought into active use
! which would be otherwise unemployed.
will save Us as nation from the dan
gers which threaten. and crystalline
IEto permarcy thousands OF enterprises
which otherwise would fail from lack of
confidence or capital.
Inc citizens OF Chicago have already
expended S10.O00.000 of their own money
and tEeIr patriotism and resources are
not yet exhausted But the ex-
penSe of this national enterprise
should not be wholly borne by
( the locality where congress has
| placed it. 1t is an insult TO our state
70 ask what should be the place of New
L ork IN this grand exposition. First in
population, in manufacture and almost
IN agriculture. first in all the elements
that constitute a great and growing
commonwealth. her place in the emu
/ lOuS and friendly rivalry of sister states
IN this grand exhibition should be that
which nature and the enterprise of her
people have given her.
Our markets are West. our cOmpeti-
tors are West. We must remove any
prejudice that may exist against our
trade. and then command the markets
by the superiority and cheapness of our
product. The opportunity is before US
to suffer great loss or gain incalculable
advantage. In the presence Of this rep
reSentatlve body, speaking for them and
through them for the people of the COM
mOnWealth, l can say to the country
east and west and north and south.
New York viii be at the Columbian
exposition. and she will be there in the
full grandeur OF her strength and de-
velOpment."
Senator Palmer said in part: The
charge has been made that partisan
politics has had 10 do with the man
agement Of the exposition. To me the
charge seems to be without the slight
est foundation. The president of the com
mission Is Republican. the vice chair
man of the executive committee is
Democrat. the secretary of the com
mission a Democrat. and the director
general is a Republican. They were
elected by acclamatIon, and
man must be devoid of all sensiblity
who would not feel. under the circum-
stances, that he was committed thereby
to observe the strictest neutrality. The
! president Of the w Orld's Columbian
exposition is a Democrat. the seere-
| Jary Republican, the treasurer a
Democrat. Some of both organizations
have been IN public life. have had to do
With political affairs. have held to their
respective parties with tenacity, because
they had convictions and because
/ they believed that the great ma
| tlOnal parties were the engines Dv
! which these conventions could be pro-
noted; but they are men of sense. cor
! rect ideas and generous impulses. and |
/ believe each one and all would consider
flnHlSplWpZ nIShnnnPod
themselves to and did not oppose on all
and any occasions the slightest tend
II cy TO partisan discrimination The
creation OF so large board of lady
managers and l am glad to say
here that board would have much
preferred the name OF woman to that
OF LADY, was the cause Of some ad-
verse comment. The course of that
/ board has justified the action of the com
mission. 1t was the first time that our
government had in any way recognized
women.
Women who have apparently hither-
to known nothing of life but the de-
/ lights Of the promenade. the badinage
| oil the salon, the luxury of the boudOir,
or the dolce farniente of seaside
loiterings, have sprung forth like
Minerva from the brain of JOve. full
paDOplied for work. To those who be-
lleVe IN more varied work and better
wages for woman, who appreciate artis-
| tic taste, who believe the mOer
woman is dignified the greater the
assurance or worthy sons to be given
! the republic, the action of the commits
| sion needs no defense. W. T. Baker
| reviewed the history of the organiZa-
/ ton of the fair. and said he
was happy to see that almost
/ every trace OF bitterness over the loss
/ OF the fair to New Ork has disappeared.
| and that with mo fears to beat awav,
no strifes to heal. the past unsigned Tor
/ and the future sure" the project was
| going ahead steadily with the cooper
/ alton in all needed ways of the people
/ of the nation.
I Director General Davis said: at NAV
J be said that the Worlds Columbian ex-
| position Is intended to express our graf
! ltude to all nations of the earth that
| have III any way promoted our prosper
| lty and made our national life possible.
/ Ibe greater the success of the Worlds
! Columbian exposition the greater will
| be the glory reflected upon those ma
| tiOns. The exposition is to be American
; sunshine and soil, American skill and
! genius, American scholarship ana
/ thought. against all the world, and the
world will be prouder and all the better
| if we gam the victory.
| Wind, Rain and HAIL