Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-23
Candidate Flower of New York
Pays His Respects to That
Agile Animal.
And Uncovers the Truth About
the Fight for the Worlds
Fair Site.
Chicago Saw Her Opportunity and
Made the Most of it at the
Right Time.

demonstration in honor of Candidate
Roswell P. Flower was a notable one.
The hall was crowded long before the
meeting began. The arrival of Mr..
Flower and Mr.. Sheehan, the candidate
for lieutenant governor, was announced
by the patriotic music of the band. AS
Mr.. Flower appeared on the platform
hats were thrown in the air and for fully
three minutes cheering went on. When
order was restored Mr.. Flower addressed
the meeting.
Politios and the Worlds Fair.
In the course of his speech Mr. Flower
said: "Your chairman has said that
was instrumental in trying to locate the
worlds fair upon this site. made an
honest endeavor. can see in your ear
nest faces the anger Of disappointment
against those men who, having risen to
prominent places by their peoples
choi,s, have sold out their peoples in
terests for supremacy in factional
fight. Gentlemen, this the truth, a
truth too long, too wide, too deep and
too high to be covered by the hide of a
Tammany tiger whose opponents are
frantically trying to stain for this pur-
pose. When they sold you out they
claimed that they could thus influence
the presidential election of 1892. The
presidential election and the Tammany
tiger were then and are now but cloaks
to hide the real designs of those who
despoiled you.
Why Now York Lost the Fair.
Twill show you why you lost the fair.
When those interested in defeating New
York dragged politics into the question
in congress, proved conclusively that
there was no place in the United States
where the fair could be held and not ef-
feet political elections except right here
in this city. When the worlds fair
commission from New York arrived in
Washington, Messrs. De pew, Miller and
Cochran and the president of the state
agricultural society made speeches be-
fore the senate committee, presenting
the claims of New York. They guar
anteed $5 900, 900 in cash and that the
city would bond for ten millions more,
and that the bill prepared-prepared by
committee of which the majority were
Republicans-would be passed by the
legislature. Gentlemen that settled the
location of the worlds fair, and the
Chicago Boomers Went Home Disgustsd.
The friends of New York in Washing
] ton looked to the legislature of their
state in expectation, but the Republican
manipulators of the state set to work at
once to obstruct the measure in the
legislature by frivolous amendments to
the bill. Then it was that Chicago saw
her opportunity and the delay was con-
tinued long enough for her to make a
rally. No matter what the final vote
was, that delay robbed New York of
the worlds fair. Our forces had disin-
tegrated, because the Republicans of
this state had forced local politics into
the bill and hung it up at Albany. The
fair was in reach of our people and it
was, upon deGberation and precon-
certed plan, sacrificed merely that Platt,
Hiscock and the Hon. Jacob Sloat Fas-
sett might maintain control of the Re-
publican party in this state.