The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-01
UNJUST CRITICISM

is INDUCING IN pdIuOnaOl0 Y
faction as a result Of the highly sue =
cessful fair held in his city, is lnchn- q
ed 10 apply bit of undeserved crit
icism in the following: +
eve are receiving by every mali
column after column of stuff for graf
uitous publication concerning the MID +
Winter Fair at Tampa, of which the
Hon. T. ]. Laud-Brown is president
and Eitor Wallace Stoval is secre-
tarv. hut neither of the said genIle-
men put in an appearance at our mar
roTouslv excellent fair. Their ao-
senca was the subject for comment
Co also we receive pecks Of literature
concerning the Florida Exposition
Fair al Jacksonville for gratulJous
notification. Mayor Sebring IS presl-
dent and Mr. G. D. AckeTly Is secre-
+arv of the said fair, and there are
fftv-three directors, yet this assocla- !
+ion was unrepresented at our talr'
which was pronounced by all FlSl-
tors tn be so deservedly meritorlous.
60 WHY should we in the interior tear
! the shirts off our back and wear OUT
o,,r lungs in wild hurrah over their
: fairs when they are so absolutely IN
different TO fairs outside their own
= citiesq Don't all answer at once
please!"
So far as the comment applies 10
the Editor of the Tribune and the
s management of the Florida State Falr'
Editor Harris is hasty in his concIu-
sions. In the first place, the usual
n courtesy of extending special INVITA-
+ions TO the press was omitted IN the
case of the Marion County Fair. WINE
at minor circumstance, it is valuable
. unggesting the fact that the Ma
rion County Fair management hlaue
Y No Noticeable effort to secure the aC
tendance Of the editors Of the state
The Tribune devoted daily space
ry -, Tho Ocala Fair. editorially and II
be its news columns. 1t was represent
"a a. Ocala by a regular paid cor
rosrondent who sent reports OF INT
ed. fair daily. all of them being puoHsn
lily cd prominently. Furthermore MI
an w q Rrorein. Vice-President OF IN
Florida state Fair, attended the Ocal
. exhibition as a representative Vi Vi
-ne ,.ocia+ion The editor OF the 1T
~ne bune regrets that he was unaDie !
US visit the Fair and enjoy the dlspld
Of the resources of one of the oe'
counties in Florida as well as the 40
ms ni+o1itv Of the Ocala people, just
tor famed throughout the country
- IF the Banner will give one-'hll
az +bo snace to the state fair that u
Tribune did to the Ocala talr' u
tribune will feel and acknoWled'
nat. that Editor Harris has done mo
Ev- than his share.-Tamps Tribune
300 perhaps the Banner was hasty
Ey- go conclusions but it did not thl
will co then. nor does it think so now
There we're no complimentary u'
cts issued by our fair officials
n in ovnn 70 the local press, because
: ar tvrsz were 80 exceedingly limited
part Tf tho Tribune had a special rep
|; de- sentative present he did not ms
cum himself known to this office yet
Thich Tribune did have more about our
en- than auv other outside publications.
Mr. Brorein was present the
dav of the fair, but he came up 5
Kore- " for the purpose of trying to get
sect exhibits sent to the Tampa exp
Lee tiop-which was purely a BUSH
ed to nronosition. the business being
New fined almost solely to one end OK
u ian string. .-
Now n times past Marion county
IS the ,o.,o ovbibits both to the Jackson
and - ToroDa fairs. and sent large
cations to both cities, and in the "
m of the same the Ocala press
y-nlne not stinted in either space or pr
Oh Ine The Tampa Times devoted D
BROOK litrIe more than a dozen lines to
10 'ne fair. and had it not been for us
S was oo1orad correspondent in Ocala
annual Marion county fair would not
10 .ne had so much as honorable menu'
ereis" tho jacksonville Metropolis.
~ plo We felt that W. had rlght &c
arI'eS' tor treatment and DO not dlsguis
fact that we felt considerably
ou-oo and hereafter our hurrahs Will
80 g. served for our own homemade ia
- The boot ought not always be
charges on one IOO1'
at ben -uE