Anti-Expo letter from Iowa-OMAHA AND HER SHOW by Mr. E. Green Lemley,
editor of the Clarion in Richland, Iowa. "The great (?) Expo is a
nonentity. It deserves the name Expo only because it exposes the schemes
of a set of rascals... You might call it a delusion or a snare, but
nobody is deluded or snared. If you planned to go to Omaha, give it
up... it is too expensive... Omaha has been called the rival of Chicago.
Better call her the rival of Council Bluffs, which is neat, clean and
full of business. Omaha is the deadest, dirtiest and most dilapidated
town ever seen.. many of the plank walks have whole planks missing, grass
grows in the cracks in the sidewalks and mackeral and by the time the
fair is over there won't be enough of the town left to pay for burying"