Evening journal., 1891-10-20
LIVE POLITICAL NEWS.
Flower, Fassett and Sheehan
Speak at New York.
FLOWER AND THE WORLDS FAIR

In which the Metropolis Was Worsted
by chicage-Fassett Addresses Three
Meetings IN single Evening.
NEW YoRK, Oct ga big Worlds fair
mass meeting so called, was addressed
last evening At the Belmont riding acad-
envy by Hon Roswell P. Flower Demo
cratic candidate for governor When Mr..
Flower appeared he was cheered for fully
two minutes
M. Flowers speech.
Mr. Flower in beginning his speech re
ferred to the meeting as anonpartisan one,
composed Of men who had not forgotten
the loss OF employment to laborers and loss
Of business 10 merchants, truokmen and
farmers by the location OF the Worlds fair
in Chicago Continuing, he said:
Your chairman has said that | was instru-
mental in trying 20 locate the Worlds fair upon
this site. Gentleman, Imade an honest endeavor
This site was solicited for its many advantages.
lte material advantages were incontestible, It's
beauty unsurpassed BY any rival site, and il
would have graSfed our American love Of
patriotic sentiment, for General Washington
chose this spotto meet the British and here pre-
pared for q s battle " Harlem Heights
can see % yonr earnest faces the anger OF
disappointment. which, IL ! am not much mis-
taken, will boar the hatter fruit Of resentment
-resentmcut againrs those men, who, having
risen % prominence by their peoples choice,
have sold out their peoples interests for su.
premacy IN q factionsl fight Gentlemen this
Is the truth truth too long, too wide too deep
and too high 81 DO covered by the hide Of a Tam
many tiger which our opponents are frantieally
trying 10 skin iar his purpose II ia q truth
TOO serious ho be dNpelled from your minds
When they sold you cut they claimed that they
could thus influence the presidential election IN
1872 The presidential election and the Tam
many tiger we're .hen, and are now but cloaks
TO map the real da ms Of those who despoiled
you win show YOU how you lost the fair.
The Loss Of the Fair.
When those Interested In defeating New
York dragged politics into the question in con
gress proved uoncluively that there was no
place IN these United States where the fair
could be held end not affect political elections
except right tefe in this city. And the reason
was that time was al-mportant element and
We lad q yeaf sud half the start / showed
them that yoaf ana Il half had been spent in
gnfterng paving and sewering the ground that
was offered iuf iha site at cost Of q million
and a half doltss and that no other CITY that
did not have this foundation work to start on
could possibly hold The fair short Of 1903 /
showed them that we could finish the grounds
and buildings By May 1892. have the fair brought
people 60 home 70 their elections When the
Worlds fair committee from New ryrk arrived
IN Washington Ecssfs. Depew. Millor and
Cochran and The president Of the State Aeri
cultural society made speeches before the sen.
ate committee presenting the claims Of New
York.
They guaranteed s5,000O00 in cash and that
the city would bond for $4,000. uOO moro. ana
that the bill prepared prepared by commit
tee Of which the majority were Republican,
would be immediately passed by the leoisla-
ture. Gentlemen, hat settled Che location 81
the Worlds fair, and Chicago boomers went
home IN disgust The friends Of New York III
Washington looked 70 the legislature Of their
state in expectation. But the Republican ma
nipulators OF the state set to work at once 10
oostruct the measure IN the legislature bv
frivolous amendments to the bill Then Il was
that Chicago saw her opportunity. No matter
what the final vote was, that DELAY robbed New
York o. the Worlds fair. Our forces had dia.
integrated, because the Republicans Of this
state bad forced local politics into tho bill and
hung il up at Albany.
The Alleged Reason why.
Fellow citizens, jealousy between the big
four in the Republican party lost YOU the fair
Depew and Miller were actively and earnestly
working for it, Depew was made chairman of
the legislative committee Platt was ON that
committee; but when Plat found that Depew
and Miller we're getting a great and growing
boom from the citizens Of New York and the
state for espousing the fair, he and Hiscoch
had TO invent something 10 break their power:
and 50 the Hon Jacob Sloat Fassett. the leader
Of the Republican senate, acting for Thorn, sue
ceeded IN robbing you, fellow citizens, Of this
prize that would have come to you Ia q natural
way-rohhing your real estate owners OF a
largely increased price FOR their land; rohbing
labor Of double wages during It's continuance:
robbing merchants Of a holiday trade hotel
hoo
upon the Hudson, the cement mines OF Ulster
the farmers OF Duchess and Orange counties
the lumber dealers and furnishers OF building
materials In fact robbinR every farmer, every
trade and every industry in the state OF New
York.
senator Hiscock and the Exposition.
The speaker charged that Senator His
cock seemed very anxious to revise his
record on the Worlds fair, and had stated
that he (Flower) owned some railroad
stocks 10 western roads, and that that
might be the reason why New York lost
the fair Mr. Flower asserted that His
cock had never favored the fair for New
York and that Hiscock and Plat did not
want 20 strengthen the Miller wing Of the
party by permitting Mr. Depew and Mr..
Miller 10 get too much Of boom, or 60
permit them to become too prominent IN
E.
the speaker said.
When driven to the wan BY public indigna-
tion meetings held in New York the opponents
OF the fair played delicate piece Of hnesse bv
amending the bill, asking that two-thirds Of
the committee control H. Whereas. before.
the Republican majority Of the committee con.
trolled ite action; BY that adroit move the
trium virate, Platt, Hiscock and Fassett placed
It in the power Of the forty-two Democrats to
control the fair, "A forty-two OF the 100 were
Democrats
1t is only Just 70 say that Mr. Belden, my
colleague IN congress, worked heartily and
earnestly for the fair, as did also Mr. Miller
and Mr. Depew. At that time we knew that
the delay caused by Fassett In the state senate
host tho fair 70 Us. There were twentv.three
Republicans living within ten hours ride Of
New York who voted for Chicago. Had those
votes been cast with those Of the friends Of the
fair New York would have won the prize.
These men were told that II the fair came 10
New York 1t would be controlled by Demo
Gratis. and instructed 70 send il west thew
obeyed the mandate Of Thomas c. Plat and
sent il west
These are the plain facts in regard 10 the his
tory Of the Worlds fair Deny them he who
can. Talk about protection TO American labor
Why. here were $3.50, O00, 900 about to be thrown
into the lap Of labor and all the different indus.
tries Of this state. This money was diverted
from New York, spurned, sacrificed TO the
lealousy q flatt Hisoock Fasaatt 6 Co. for
fear that Depev, Miller and Beiden might get
little nearer to the people than themselves,
iose its grip.
M. sheehan Speaks.
William +, shsehan also spoke. He