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Show MARSHALL TALKS AT TO FAIR VICE - PRESIDENT REPRESENTS PRESIDENT WILSON AT DEDICATION DEDI-CATION OF EXPOSITION. Refers to Claim of Colombia and Declares De-clares "The American People Are Wise and They Know He is Not Wise Who is Not Just." San Francisco. Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, representing the president of the United States, on Wednesday formally dedicated the Panama-Pacific international exposition. exposi-tion. Standing beneath the great arch of the tower of jewels, the vice-president vice-president addressed a vast concourse of people who crowded the Court of the Universe. Mr. Marshall spoke with solemnity and was constantly halted by applause. ap-plause. Especially wasr this the case when, referring to the Panama canal, he voiced regret "that this altruistic work has a real or seeming defect in the charge of an injustice done a sister sis-ter republic of the south." "Let us not be too much dismayed this day by reason of that fact," said he. "The American people are wise and they know he is not wise who is not just." Oharles C. Moore, president of the exposition, introduced the first three speakers, United States Senator James D. Phelan of California, Chester Ches-ter H. Rowell, representing Governor Johnson, and Mayor James Rolph, Jr., the latter expressing the hope to the vice-president that the message he would forward to the president would be "California has done well." President Pres-ident Moore called for three cheers when Mr. Marshall was introduced. |