The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
BETTER Than EVER
State Fair in Topeka to Main
tain Reputation.
Will Continue to Be Biggest
and Best.
MAY COME BACK SOME DAY.
Secretary Cook Says Capital
City Will Land.
All Kansas Proud of Topeka
Exposition.
iAY COME BACK SOME DAY.

The Kansas state fair secretary of
Topeka comes up today with a smile
on his face despite the defeat of the
measure in the senate this morning.
With the promise to the people of Kan
sas that Topeka will continue to put on
the biggest and best fair in the mid
die west, Secretary Cook places him.
self on record in behalf of the exposi-
ton held annually in this city.
THE Kansas State Fair association
at Topeka will continue to hold great
fairs" 1r. Cook said this afternoon.
Its standing with the thousands of
exhibitors and it's natural advantages
to draw great crowds will make it the
fair of Kansas regardless of the action
of the 1913 legislature.
The fair at Topeka has the distinc-
ton OF having On it's grounds IL 1911
and 1912 the fifth largest stock show
of any fair in the United States The
entertainment features were just the
same as were staged at the Iowa and
Nebraska state fairs. Its size and
usefulness compares right up with the
best state fairs in the country. 1t will
live. 1t will grow. 1t will prosper
1t will please. 1t will be appreciated
thousands of Kansas citizens
Secretary Cook then explained the
experiences of other states in shift
ing their fairs over the country.
Almost every state has had an ex-
perienee of carting their fairs
shows that after the carting season
has passed and the state has spent
thousands in experiments, it has set
tied back to the capital city and has
become great factor in the advance
ment of the state in every way-back
to the city where the states interests
are centered and where the citizens
like to go and proudly take their
friends from other states.
THE Kansas legislature has voted
to put the stamp of the state on a fair
at Hutchinson and in doing so has Of
ficially gone into the state fair busi-
ness, which means that the state must
provide hundreds of thousands of dol
lars for permanent improvements and
assume all shortages in running ex-
penSeS from date.
Both houses refused to consider
the wonderful offer of their capital
city which in dollars and natural ad-
vantages was double the proposition
accepted. / will not attempt to say
why the legislature desired to take
the short end of the bargain. Let the
people figure that out which they will
undoubtedly do as the days go by.
II cannot criticise the western SEN
ators and representatives who aided
in making the uncalled for fair legis-
latlon-lt was local PRIDE ana interest
with them. But how senators and
representatives located in eastern sec
tions of Kansas when their constitu-
ents would have to pass through To-
peka to the location selected won
der how they will be able to explain
their position when they go home.
Their sections alone in this matter
would justify the charges made by the
Topeka newspapers.
But as I have said before-Topeka
is going right on amusing and in
structing the people of Kansas with
her magnificent fair on her quarter
million dollar grounds, in her modern
fireproof buildings and on her incom-
parable track and sodded, shaded ter
ritory
"And the people of Kansas will not
have to pay taxes on the Topeka ex-
nOSitiOn.''