The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-03


tuted chief. He was legally elected the
president of the affair, but what partic
ular loyalty has he shown to deserve such
distinction. What has been PATRICK's
general occupation-and how does he
live? He lives by reason of such frauds
as the one now on, snd THE GLOBE only
quotes this part of a letter to show that
there is general distrust already mani.
tested. A gentleman writes as follow
a letter giving some ideas of his own:
"The suggestion is this: Come to
Raleigh and take a careful look at the
PATRICK-CHILToN show-alias the South
ern Inter-Sta Exposition-opened yes
terday with a grand flourish of trumpets,
and then publish the plain truth about it.
If you will look below the surface you
will see a gigantic fraud-or, as one citi-
zen said, it was conceived in fraud, born
a fraud and will die a fraud
Now you will naturally want to know
what is the matter? Well, it is simply
this: The Southern Inter State Exposi-
ton is a private corpOration-consisting
of about three persons-probably one
more, who are carrying on an exhibition
under a name that probably cannot be
called a false pretence, but certainly
amounts to that. The name carries with
it everywhere the idea that the show is
a joint exhibition of all the southern
states, in showing to the world the nat
ural resources Of those states, while in
fact it is a"CHEAP JOHN" private money
making scheme of a few men. The states
las ~states) have no show at all, but under
the general name of a state you will see
certain articles exhibited by a man from
that state, and for sale.
"For example, notice the Florida
exhibit which is supposed to be an
exposition of the sourc of that
state, where [ am told it consists
Of the contents of only one fancy
store of Florida curiosities, all for sale,
with the statesmen all ready to tie up the
articles you may buy and the whole run
by a man from New York. You will
see that all the Estate exhibits" are about
the same. They do not represent the
states but only goods Of individuals
from those states put there to sell. The
idea has gone out to the world and
many people from a distance will
come to see it and be greatly deceived
0 n coming to find a show Of totally diff
ferent character from the thing adver-
tised.
"4ou will notice that everybody and
everything is 'on the make and that it is
money trap which will do harm to the
whole South. No reasonable man wants
'ATRICK, Chiffon & Co., to be hurt in
my honorable scheme to make money
Eut it should not be done on q. false pre-
ence. Every tub should stand on it's
bottom and the southern states {
'ught not to suffer in the estimation of
he world through the misrepresentation 7
It a few men who are running a private i
nap G
Don't take my statements as true and '
% not publish anything l say, but go to 1
and look around and tell the /
plain truth to shame the devil c
"These suggestions are thrown out to
aggest inquiry on your part and you g
an then draw your OWN conclusions.
I'm my journeying about the country v
see many things and sorts of people b
ut l before saw a more shreWdly
scheme or one more calculated a
deceive than this Southern Interstate D
EXPOSITION" T