The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
DANA AND THE FAIR.
There is No Excuse For His Violent
Opp osition to the Appropriation Bill.

II AhVAO 40 ANO 18OubS COk LIE NAOACh
Opposition to the Appropriation Bill.
AS already completely demonstrated
| opposition to the Worlds Fair in Wash
ington is due to two causes. TIL,
minor is perversity of New Workers
afraid Of the whip of Charles A. Dana
| BY voting ag9inst the fair they thinl
they may escape censure by that ablt
but mistaken intellect; by compliance
with his apparent desire they may
depend on it that they will earn his
sincere contempt. Mr.. Dana knows
perfectly well that the appropriation
ought to be made. He knows that IL
will be made. He knows that he is
practically alone, indeed absolutely
alone, of all influential leaders of the
country in his attitude to the fair. He
knows that he,maintains his attitude
merely to keep up journalistic self
consistency. There is not the slightest
reason for supposing that he will
unduly reproach representatives who,
like John II. Fellows, cannot
agree with him in this mat
ter; while II is beyond per
adventure that he will not respect
representatives who permit any collat-
eral, irrelevant or personal considera.
tioD to direct their conduct on a
paramount national question. The
New Workers, therefore, who have so
discredited their state and city by
Misunderstanding Mr.. Dana may not
expect praise in the long run from that
astute and subtle gentlemen. They
may tlatter him today; he will despise
them for 1t tomorrow and forever
after.
The major opposition comes from
small demagogues in the Democratic
party, chiefly stupids of Indiana and
dullards from the south, led by the
picturesque Blankhead, of Alabama,
who boasts that he is "self-made
man. and who would undoubtedly dis
credit any other maker. Mr.. Blank
head placed his opposition on the
ground OF constituticnalism 1p TO
Thursday. Theu he confessed. Mr..
Blankhead proposed. speaking for
the contingent he becoming
Iy leads, that if the friends
Of national honor would agree
TO defer the vote on the S5000Oe0 ap-
to December he would
pledge that his following should permit
t to go through without opposition,
that the real motive of pres.
mt hostility is to avoid colliding iD the
coming elections with the crank FAC
ion in the various southern congress
districts. Many Of the southern oppo.
lents of the fair, who constitute the
majority opposition by rea9On of their
obtained their seats by mar
ow margins, and not few by fusion
# democratic and crank support. 1t is
lothing to them that the honor of the
American people should co stained
hat the republic should be disgraced
yer the globe. The only fact of value
o their consciousness is their official
xistence. Re-elect them and they are
eady to vote toe national 2ppropria-
ion.
The New York hostility to the fair Is,
o despicaSle for geographical and per-
onal reasons as not to deserve further
consideration. The southern opposi.
ion has revealed its true nature. 10
oes not represent the great south. It
oes not bespeak the young south. 1t
not the organ of that alert, patriotic.
ambitious south, tho educated
nd refined south that loves art, is eager |
D develop the mineral and agricultural
esources Of southern states and seeks
rdently every practical aid toward
lrther expanding her infant manufao.
lres. The south that opposes the fair |
the Biankhead transitory trail in
rank politics. lis not the democratic
outh.-Chicago Herald.