The Pensacola journal., 1919-09-06
SHOW
SEEMS ASSURED
FOR PENSACOLA
Enthusiastic Meeting of Com
mittee of 100 Is Held at Yacht
Club With Visitors Guests at
Famous Fish Supper.
1--WE CANNOT FAIL TO
WIN" is SENTIMENT
Committee Will Be Increased to
$50 and Plans Are Made to
Send Big Bunch of Boosters
and Two Bands to Tallahassee

and Two Bands to Tallahassee
With the enthusiasm running high
and interest growing by seaps and
bonds Pensacola began last night the
last lap in the race for the Victory
Centennial. Members of the commit
tee of 100 who met at the yacht club
for fish supper, pledged their 10y
atty without stint and gave the promise
that the city would be moved as she
had never been before by great
and overwhelming sentiment to gain
the prize without counting the cost.
Decision to increase the committee
! to $50 and to go to Tallahassee i'm Oc-
tober, armed to the teeth, and with
big delegations, not only from Pensa-
cola, but from every town and village
in the territory lying between the city
and the Suwanee river, were two big
steps forward taken in the progress to-
wards the ultimate goal. The trip will
be made by automobile and two bands
will accompany the boosting West
Floridians when they go up before
the state purchase commission for the
| final plea for recognition for Pensa-
| cola's prior claims.
| Every member of the great delega-
tion will wear button. the c. r. r..
4 cenIennlal TOUR 10 dS Doo5L
for Pensacola in the final drive.
Pensacola is old il is true" Chair
man Reasbaw. chairman of tho com
nittee. tol0 the members last night"
bu. sne is not bewhiskercd yet. We are
going 10 raise such wind tonight that
we will start a hurricane. Pensacola
has come out of her shell and she Is
going to stay out now and forever"
1T is safe to trust our claim TO the
J centennial commission" John Il. Jones'
a member of the state body said. 1--WE
really have the only claim. All that
! is necessary is for the entire city
! and she will get IL. She has on;y
3 to show the commission that her peo-
? pie are united in a common cause and
) the people of Florida and the COM
mission itself will back her up. But.
: If our people are luke warm and those
/ of us who are knockers sway you. 1
5 tell you then that we will not get
: the centennial 1t behooves each and
, every one of you to boost that those
|, who knock may cease their knocking.
: that all West Florida may go and
convince the commission that we not
only desire the centennial, but that we
have the proper spirit to carry IT
2 through, that we desire to make IL a
| credit to Pensacola, to West Florida.
to the entire state and to the nation.
81 have heard objections raised, and
; I believe that they come froI1 people
who don't know anything about the
3 centennial, but seem to think that PEN
: sacoia men and Pensacola money are
, sought to carry on worlds fair. They
say IL is absurd and l agree that 1t
would be myself if l did not know that
7 the money we raise here will be
-. in bucket The state
r and federal governments will give the
4 same aid that they have always given.
The states of the union will send their
own directors. England and France who
once occupied Florida, Spain from
whom we too kit and other nations
not too badly crippled and above all
lthe South American countries Will come
here to be represented. From every
) city in the world ships carrying the
: manufactured products OF the nations
will pass through our magnificent har-
Dor.
'They tell you Pensacola will be
dead after the centennial. / tell you IT
will not be dead. The population VIII
= double and redouble even before the
e gates of the exposition are opened.
E We will get the things we need most,
. the things we have been yearning for
: for years. things that are lasting for
2 a happy people.
]. 1--WE will get the completion OF the
oiG. f. A. r. r.. connecting with the
: great Southern and Frisco lines. we
:. will get the Pensacola, Mobile and
.el New Orleans road, connecting with the
e line centering Mobile. These things
IS and more we will get through the CEN
= tennial and when we get them we viii
= receive ten times over what we have
81 expended. we will be placed where we
= ought to be as rival for New Orleans
s and we will far surpass our sister city
| Mobile / need not say again tina
we are in the fight to win. l believe
we will win. The proposition of Jack
sonyilIe and Tampa / believe can not
and will not win
AS SO argued before the commission
/, bv Judge Sheppard and Mr. Beard
that commission has not the authority
J. to divide the centennial in that way
II lIf the state commission should decide
Ivt that no city in the state of Florida
. can carry on an international exposi-
,ei tion which will be credit to the
~ state of Florida, then it must say 50
- and report in that way to the legis
- 1at,re The commission can do moth
! | ing else. When this is done it vii
!. lonlv nuIlify the act to steal from Pen