Show THE BIG CllMllIA FAIR Virginias State Building Was Dedicated Yesterday SENATOR DANIELS ORATION < Fishermen Also Appeared and DetU cated the Izaak Walton College Illinois Knights of Pythias Turn Out 1 Good Numbers and Have a Day in the White CItyThe Cling man Injunction CHICAGO Aug 9The weather continues con-tinues bright and pleasant Today was an interesting one at the Worlds fair It was Virginia day and the Virginians dedicated Mount Vernon House Virginias Vir-ginias state building on what claimed to be the meeting of the first free legisla tive body to assemble In America which took place sometime in the seventeenth century at Williamsburg Senator Daniel delivered an oration and General Fitzhugh Lee was among those present The Knights of Pythias of Illinois had I day at the fair They marched gaily in with plumes and banners under the command com-mand of BrigadierGeneral JH Barkley of Springfield Exercises were held in festival hal at which Supreme Chancellor Chan-cellor Blackman presided Charles A Barnes of Jacksonville made the principal princi-pal address The fishermen also appeared and the Chicago Fly Casting club dedicated Izaak Waltons cottage this being the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of the father of the gentle sport The Clingman injunction suit was brought up before Judge Coggen today on an application to dissolve the injunc tion by the Worlds fair authorities The case was set for hearing next Wednesday The total admissions today was 135010 of which 106833 paid In the suffrage congress today Fred Douglass was greatly wrought up by Stephen C Weeks professor of Trinity college of North Carolina who read a paper on negro suffrage The professor said Negro suffrage is a failure it must remain a failure so long as it ia not an ally of the white vote as tho southern people will not submit to their domination domina-tion The white must rule No man who has not lived on negro land knows what negro domination is It means the destruction of property ruin and bankruptcy bank-ruptcy When the professor finished Douglass made an impassioned repy You are not afraid of negro domination he said the negro never can rub this country He would be outvoted by 60000000 of whites there is no opposition to tho negro in the south until he aspires to rise If aspires to become a lawyer or doctor he at once becomes an upstart The sections discussed papers on the government of cities female suffrage and law reform |