Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1904 — REPRESENTATIVE MEN ON THE WORLD'S FAIR [ARTICLE]

REPRESENTATIVE MEN ON THE WORLD'S FAIR

What Distinguished Statesmen and Others Bey of the Educational and Inspiring Exposition at 81 Louis. The public utterances of distinguished men who have visited the world’s fair have but one note, and that of emphatic praise. Here are some of their comments: Hon. John Hay, secretary of state: *T have never seen nor heard of anything so fine.” Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the treasury: "Any father of a bright boy can afford to aend him to the Fair simply to study any one of at least a thousand exhibits.” Hon. Charles H. Grosvenor of Ohio: "A visit of ten days by a man Of ordinary aptness and appreciative capacity to the Fair 1s almost equal to a postgraduate course In a university.” Hon. Benjamin B. Odell, governor of New York: "St. Louis has been badly misrepresented by accounts which say that her weather is unbearable. The Fair is wonderful.” Hon. George C. Pardee, governor of California: “The governor of the Golden State, who has spent all his life within her borders, finds that he knew only a little about his state until he came to the Fair and saw all varied products assembled together." Hon. Albert B. Cummins, governor of Iowa: "The Louisiana Purchase Exposition is on the grandest scale of any exposition the world has ever seen." Hon. Richard Yates, governor of Illinois: "The more I see of the Exposition the more I enjoy it.” Hon. Fennlmore Chatterton, governor of Wyoming: "I wish the Fair the greatest success. It certainly deserves It.” Hon. Franklin Murphy, governor of New Jersey: "It is well worth coming from New Jersey to see even a small part of this Fair.” Hon. A. B. White, governor of West Virginia: "I cannot speak too strongly of the greatness of this Fair." Hon. William J. Bryan: "The Exposition is an unparalleled wonder.” Hon. John Sharp Williams, member of congress from Mississippi: “The most wonderful thing of its kind.” Hon. Hoke Smith of Georgia, formerly secretary of interior under President Cleveland: "I am highly pleased with the Exposition and believe it to be one of the triumphs of modern civilization.” Hon. Perry Belmont of New York: "In magnitude and beauty the Fair is wonderful. It is worth coming a long distance to see.” Hon. Daniel J. Campau, chairman of the Michigan delegation to the Democratic national convention at St. Louis: “It le positively sinful for parents to fall to bring their children to see the Fair.” M. Paul Dupuy, editor of Le Petit Parlsien of Paris, France: “I admire the Exposition for its immensity, its spirit of the sublime, its general beauty and its completeness.” Prince George of Bavaria: “I have never seen anything prettier than the St. Louis World's Fair buildings when outlined at night with their millions of electric lights." Hon. Louis E. McComas of Maryland: “The greatest Fair in the world.” Hon. John F. Dryden of New Jersey: "The people have no Idea of the greatness of the Exposition. Every American should see it.” T. P. Shants, president of the Clover Leaf route of Chicago: "The Fair is a big success and will continue to become a greater success as it progresses.”