The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-11-10
SOLID SOUTH
IS WAyERING
New Orleans Opposed as Pan
ANA Exposition City.
TEXAS FAVC2S SAN FRANCISCO

DECIDED Failing ON In enthusiasts IN
Lone Star state as Evidenced by
Articles Appearing In Papers OF
El Paso and San Antonio-Swina
In Line For the California City as
the Logical Site.
While New Orleans is Industrious
ly claiming the endorsement of the
Mississippi valley region and the
middle west it is allowing the s'solid
south" to waver in its supposed al.
legiance and slip away.
A few days ago word came from
San Antonio, Tex, that there was a
decided falling off OF New Orleans
exposition enthusiasts in that city
owing to the greed of the Crescent
City in attempting to secure the Ma
tional Bankers convention for next
year after San Antonio had put in
bid for their entertainment Such
action was not considered neighborly,
especially after the Texas city had
been asked to support New Orleans
in its struggle for exposition honors.
Now FL Psso. Tex, has apparently
swung into line for San Francisco
as against New Orleans as the log
zeal site for the Panama exposition,
Judging by the following in the I'll
Paso Herald Of Oct. ~:
"El Paso's Interest as to the loca-
ton OF the Panama exposition OF 1915
all lies with San Francisco as against
New Orleans. Az one commentator
says There rever was an exposi-
tion so successful as that al Seattle,
and there never was one so forlorn
a failure as that al jamestown, Va,
Notwithstanding the fact that half
the population OF the country is with.
in days or a nights ride of James
town An exposition at San Fran
cisco will promote the development OF
the west and that is what we are
after"
Sometime ago New Orleans secured
an endorsement in St. Louis and that
success appears to have induced the
belief among the Crescent City boost
ers that the entire middle west was
only waiting for an invitation to
climb on the New Orleans band
wagon.
Next New Orleans announced that
Omaha was for It, but the announce
ment was premature. In its hurry
TO report result the New Orleans bu-
reau at Omaha sent broadcast over
the country that New Orleans had
been endorsed as the exposition city
by the Commercial club, the largest
and most influential organization Of
business men there.
Immediately the Commercial club
held a meeting. repudiated the alleg-
ed endorsement OF New Orleans and
endorsed San Francisco by an over.
whelming vote The city council Of
Omaha, by unanimous vote, passed a
resolution also endorsing San Fran
cisco.
Still asserting title to the sympathy
and influence OF the entire middle
west section, the New Orleans boost
ers descended upon Chicago and re-
uuested an endorsement The re-
quest was politely but firmly refused,
but New Orleans, nothing daunted,
continued 10 "claim" Chicago's sup
port, confident in the belief that the
endorsement would come later. But
on Oct Z Chicago showed unmistak-
ably where she stood in the exposi-
tion fight when the National Business
League Of America adopted a resolu-
tion, which after setting forth the ad-
vantages OF San Francisco. conclud,
ed That San Francisco be, and
hereby is, strongly recommended as
the proper site for the proposed sx-
position"
New Orleans suffered another re-
bun when she sought the endorse
ment OF Washington, d. c. Washing
leans promoters dismissed the sub
jeet with the remark that Washing
tom did not count anyway
New Orleans hopes" TO raise about
ts,000,000 for her proposed sxposi
tion, which will be entirely made
but Senator Foster Of Louisiana
seeks TO minimize the importance ol
having sufficient funds to insure thS
success Of the enterprise. Admitting
that San Francisco will have more
than twice as much money for expo
sition purposes as New Orleans, h'
pleads that "it would be mean anC
unfair for congress to take that fac
into consideration"