Excerpt from Indiana: At the World"s Columbian Exposition, 1893; June 14, 1893
When, at your hands, I took up the work of Executive Commissioner, I did it without experience of having been connected with former expositions. I determined at the start that if industry, zeal, and work would accomplish the result on my part, that neither of these qualities should be lacking. I fully appreciated the honor of the position, as well as its great responsibilities.
As time went by, my desire for success - that Indiana should occupy the place at this Exposition she was so eminently qualified and entitled to occupy - the nearer the time approached that this was to be made to appear in a material, educational, and artistic way, the greater grew my responsibility and anxiety that we should succeed.
Personal apologies I do not wish to make, except that now I see how many things might have been better done; and if mistakes have been made on my part, they are only such as fall to the lot of mortal and might have fallen on any other person whom you honored with the position I hold.
At the outset of my work the most difficult experience I had to encounter was to get our people to take steps toward having our State properly represented at the Exposition. My experience, though, has been the experience of many executive commissioners or officers in charge of the interests of their several States. This is not said to fault-find. The fact is recited only. Our people having had but one great exposition - the Centennial, education, as to the advantages growing out of expositions, is as necessary as education is upon any other subject.
I have the following report to submit of exhibits made by the State and the citizens of our State:
The State Building.
The Board of Managers at the outset of their work decided that the State Building should be a headquarters for the use, comfort, and convenience of Indiana people, their friends and visitors. They also decided that in its construction it should be made, as far as practicable, a display of Indiana building material.
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