The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-04-09
A FINE APPOINTMENT.

At the meeting of the Mississippi
Exposition Bureau on the Dad inst,
the chief business transacted was the
election of State Commissioner,
whose duty it shall be to collect and
have general supervision and direction
over Mississippi's exhibit at the st.
Louis Fair, to open next year. For the
purpose of this exhibit the State has
appropriated $4,000, and the position
of the State Commissioner is one of
great responsibility and labor. There
we're a number of prominent aud active
candidates for the office, the total
number of aspirants being over TWEEN
ty; but when the members of the
Bureau met, having an eye to practi
cal results and the greatest adaptable
ity of the man to the place, Hon. r. II.
Henry, editor of the Clarion Ledger,
who was not known as a candidate for
the office, was chosen and agreed to
accept.
All in all, THE LEADER does not be
lieve a more capable man FOR the place
could have been found. and il regards
his selection a most fortunate one for
the State, on which the Governor and
the other members of the Exposition
Bureau are to be congratulated. Mr..
Henry is mn of tirelesS energy, a
Mississippitn proud of his State,
possesses unbounded enthusiasm in
carrying out successfully anything he
undertakes, and no man is better &C
quainted thi an he with the States re-
sources, or has so large personal &C
quaintance, perhaps, outside of Mis-
sissippi. Beginning with the Centen-
NAL at Philadelphia in 1876, he has at
tended and acquired large degree of
practical knowledge of every exposition
held in the United States since,
which knowledge will serve him to
splendid purpose in his present
position.
At the meeting of the State Bureau
on Friday, it was decided not to visit
the exposition in a body, though the
Governor and State Commissioner may
pay the Charleston exhibit visit, and
gather information which will enable
them to best make an exhibit at the
st. Louis Fair.
The following resolutions were
passed, in which is summed up what
the Commission did at this meeting.
"Resolved, That the Governor, as
president of this bureau, be requested
to appoint an honorary lady commits
sioner for each county in this State;
also one for each of the five supervisor
districts of said county, to cooperate
with and make report to the State
Commissioner.
"Resolved, That the Governor, as
president of the bureau be requested
to appoint such colored persons in va
rious portions of the State, as he may
deem advisable, as honorary commits
sioners, whose duty it shall be to aid
the commissioner in securing a credit
able colored exhibit at the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition.
Resolved. That this Bureau and the
State Commissioner meet at the South
ern Hotel, in st. Louis, May 13 next,
for the purpose of comforting with the
management of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition in order to make ar
rangements for the Mississippi ex-
hibit."
On motion, a committee, consisting
of Messrs. Quin, Still and Burkitt were
appointed to define the scope of the
Commissioners duties.
The bureau adjourned, subject to the
call of the president.
In assuming the duties of State Com
missioner to the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition at St. Louis next year,
Hon. R. H. Henry has taken on ire
mendous esponsibility, which can only
be successfully discharged by the pa
triotic cooperation of the devoted sons
and daughters of the commonwealth.
Mississippi has been delinquent in the
matter of appropriations with which to
place in evidence her marvellous
products and resources.