The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-08
THE VISIT OF THE PRESS Asso-
CITATION.


organized in this city in 1889. 1t is
now about to enter upon the eleventh
year of its useful life 1t represents
the mass of the interior press of the
State, and stands for the best elements
there are In California journalism.
While it is true not all newspapers have
membership in it, it is nevertheless the
representative association of publishers
and editors of the Pacific Coast.
The association has decided to hold
the annual session for 1899 in this city.
1t will be held during the first week
OF the State Fair. This decision is i'm
portant to fair interests for many rea-
sons, but the chief is that it will bring
to the Capital City for several days the
representative men of the organs of
public opinion. They will therefore,
be here in an observant attitude and
will go hence with. impressions that will
tell for good or ill concerning the Fair
and the city.
That such body has resolved to
mark the opening week of the Fair by
the. presence of it's membership is a
distinct compliment to the State Board
of Agriculture and the city, 1t is very
gratifying to learn that the Citizens
State Fair Club has promptly recog
nized the decision of the Press Associ-
alton in the form of resolutions express
sive of the sense of this people concern
ing the coming of the publishers and
journalists of the interior
These men are clear seeing, expert
enced people, having the highest, best
interests of the whole State at heart.
They are aetuated in their organization
by the eleanest and most commendable
Of motives, and during the ten years
life of their association have labored
steadily and unfaggingly for the de-
velopment and upbuilding of the State
along lines approved by wisdom and
justified by experience.
They should be welcomed in a proper
manner and shown such courtesies by
our people as are fitting. 1t will not
be expected, however. that any extern
sive preparations or particular solicit
tude shall be taken on their behalf.
They expect nothing of the kind, being
very practical people. and neither given
to nor anticipating fiattery or preten-
tious preparation. But they should be
made to feel that the city is honored
by their assembling here, where the as.
ISOLATION had it's birth and that it is
peculiarly complimentary to the city
that Sacramento has been chosen as
the place where the association will
complete the first decade of it's exis-
tence
1t would not be inappropriate, how
ever, for the Citizens Fair Club to for
ward copies of its resolution of &C
acknowledgement to every member of the
Press Association, and couple with it
an earnest personal invitation in order
that the attendance may be conspicu-
ously large, for the association men,
bership is scattered from the Oregon
to the Mexican line, and hence it's mem
bers attend sessions at no small per-
sonal inconvenience and cost. What
ever, therefore, tends to induce very
large attendance will make the session
all the more interesting, and add great
ly to the value of the visit at such a
time, when the States annual exposi-
ton is on. 1t should be realized also,
by the State Board of Agriculture and
by exhibitors, that the visit of these
journalists, who will go hence to speak
through their columns of the Fair, that
it is especially important that the ex
position shall be ready In all particu-
lars on the opening day-that the usual
delays and the customary state of I'M
readiness in the first week, shall this
year be notable by absence. There is
no good reason why exhibitors cannot
begin preparation early enough to have
the Fair complete one on the opening
day.