Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-05
THE WORLDS FAIR.
A STORY OF REPUBLICAN, JEAL-
 oUSY AND MALIGNITY.

How Platt, Hiscock and Company Robbed
 New York of the Fair-s3OO, 900 900 Lost
 to New York and Adjacent States-A
 Subject to Remember on Election Day.
 The people in the states near New York city should not forget that the loss of the Worlds fair to that city, with all the advantages which they would have derived from it, was directly due to Re publican opposition. The Worlds fair in New York would have meant millions of dollars to the farmers, tradesmen and laborers in New York state, New Jersey and Connecticut-Ch M. Depew said $500, ,OOO, ,OO0, and Chicago estimate has placed the value of the fair to that city and section of country at $500, ,000, ,000. This sum of money dis tributed in the three states named would have set in motion stream of prosperity which would have been >felt for years among all classes of producers.
 When the loss of the fair was made an issue in the New York state election last year the Republicans affected to treat the matter lightly, but Chauncey M. Depew had prophesied long before that the men who defeated the fair in New York would be "snowed under by 1OO,- 900 votes cast by the farmers, the me- chanics, the laborers and the shopkeep- ers." The defeat of Platt's man-Fas- sett-by almost 5O,00O majority was a sufficient fulfllment of Depew's prophecy.
 And how was the fair lost? A non- partisan committee of 100, of whom only forty-two were Democrats, was appointed by Mayor Grant, of New York, and was sent to Washington. The principal speech for this delegation before the committee of congress having the matter in charge was made by MT. Depew, and the impression was such that the New Workers returned home and reported the fair as won for the metropolis.
 Then came the miserable exhibition of personal jealousy and partisan malignity on the part of Platt and his followers, which robbed New York of the fair. The motive of Platt and his crowd was twofold. They wanted to squelch De- pew, Miller and Belden, who had worked hard for the fair, and who were thus gaining an ascendency which might prove dangerous to the Platt oligarchy, and they wanted to deprive the Demo- cratic party in New York state and city of whatever incidental advantage the fair might bring to it.
 The methods by which the Platt ma- chine carried out it's designs are good example of low cunning and factional strategy. When MT. w. E. D. Stokes, of New York city, went to Albany with the Worlds fair bill for enabling the city of New York to take the necessary financial measures, he first showed the bill to J. Sloat Fassett, at that time Re publican leader of the state senate Fassett said to MT. Stokes: II am ia vorably inclined toward the bill. It looks all right, but why this undue hasteP' "A few minutes later," says MT. Stokes, in his report of the incident, Ga Republican senator informed me that MT. Platt, by a telegram, had ordered the bill to be held. The bill was left in committee and ordered to third read ing, and met MT. Platt's political amend ment and month of impediments"
 The political amendment here referred to required two-thirds majority of the NoW OTh to con- trol it's action; in other words, it gave to one-third of the members the power to break all action by the committee. The reason for this was evident. The committee as made up by Mayor Grant was so conspicuously fair and nonpar- tisan-there being only forty-two Demo crats on it-that absolutely no room was left for the obstructionists to raise the "Tammany" cry. Indeed Mir. Depew had said himself that the insinuation that the citizens committee would be untrue to its trust was enough to make brass monkey get up on it's hind legs and laugh its head off,"
 But the zealous Platt, Hiscock and Fassett had tackled on their amendment to make the commiteee look like a Democratic catspaw. Then they worked the Tammany racket in Washington fo1 all it was worth, and when the final vote in the house of representatives came New York lost the fair by the hostile votes of twenty-three Repub licans living within ten hours of that city.
 That is how New York lost the fair | The whole business was discreditable piece of small caliber partisanship which | the voters should not even at this day l forgive. Let them "snow under" the Platt national ticket this year as Fassett was showed under last year.