The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-11-17
SOLID South
IS WAvERING
New Orleans Opposed as Pan
ANA Exposition City.
TEXAS FAVORS SAN FRANCISCO

Decided Falling Of In Enthusiasts In
Lone Star State as Evidenced by
Articles Appearing In Papers Of
El Paso and San Antonlo-Swlnq
In Line For the California City as
the Logical Site.
While Neg Orleans is Industrious
ly claiming the endorsement Of the
Mississippi valley region and the
middle west it Is allowing the 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,
SopSCldllS dLtGI lLG GAd9 OlLy Ldu
been asked to support New Orleans
in it's struggle for exposition honors
Now Ell Paso, Tex, has apparently
swung into line for San Francisco
as against New Orleans as the log
fcal site for the Panama exposition,
Judging by the following in the FL
Paso Herald of Oct. u:
eel Paso's Interest as to the loca-
ton of the Panama exposition of 1915
all lies with San Francisco as against
New Orle"1a. AS one commentator
says: There never was an exposi-
ton so successful as that at Seattle,
and there never was one so forlorn
a failure as that at jamestown, Va,
Notwithstanding the fact that half
the population of the country is with,
in a 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 tc
climb on the New Orleans bant
wagon.
Next New Orleans announced thai
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 ovel
the country that New Orleans hat
been endorsed as the exposition city
by the Commercial club, the larges
and most influential organization o.
business men there.
Immediately the Commercial clul
held a meeting. repudiated the alleg
ed endorsement of New Orleans ant
endorsed San Francisco by an over
whelming vote. The city council O
Omaha, by unanimous vote, passed ;
resolution also endorsing San Fran
cisco.
Still asserting title to the sympath!
and influence of the entire middle
west section, the New Orleans boost
ers descended upon Chicago and re
quested an endorsement The re
quest was politely but firmly refused
but New Orleans, nothing daunted
continued to "claim" Chicagos sup
port, confident in the belief that tn,
endorsement would come later. Blu
on Oct 7 Chicago showed unmistaE
ably where she stood in the expos
tion fight when the National Busines
League of America adopted a resolu
ton, which after setting forth the ad
vantages of San Francisco, conclud
ed, That San Francisco be, an
hereby is, strongly recommended a
the proper site for the proposed e1
position"
New Orleans suffered another re
buff when she sought the endorse
ment of Washington, D. c. Washing
ton refused, whereupon the New o.
leans promoters dismissed the sui
1ect with the remark that Washing
ton did not count anyway.
New Orleans hopes" to raise abou
$8,000,000 for her proposed expos
tion, which will be entirely inadt
Quate for so great an undertaking
but Senator Foster of Louisian
seeks to minimize the Importance {
having sufficient funds to insure th
success Of the enterprise. Admittin
that San Francisco will have NOR
than twice as much money for exp,
sition purposes as New Orleans, b
pleads that "it would be mean an
unfair for congress to take that fax
into consideration"