The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-09-07


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JACKsoNvnLE, September 8, 1880.
Peace and quietness once more reign in oul
city. The disgruntled crowd of Republican lead
crs have scattered for time, but are expected
to meet here again very soon. jenkins and knight
have patched up a truce between the valiant can
didates. l regret, however, to cay that Simon
put his foot into it very bad before leaving Jack
sonville. He got of his famous Cuban (written)
speech at the meeting on Wednesday night. -
which he expected 90 drag in all our cuban
friends here and st Key West TO the rpport Of
the Republican ticket. 1t was an soortion, fell
stll-born, bus ne felt 90 good owe his EFFORT that
he (Simon, Dennis and Stjskney partook too
largely If "antidote," and about midnight were
in condition for regulsr bender, and they had it.
Ii the course of thet, carousals they entered one
( of our keno shops and spent the balance of the
night there enjoying the little game" acting
| in such behterous manner as to disgust the in
mates of the place, and came near causing the
proprietor to call in the services Of the city 20
lice to eject them Simon, in particular, was
very noisy and unruly, and was perhaps the most
offensive and boisterous Parties present who
witnessed the conduct say it was beyond any
thing they had ever seen in q place Of that kind
and endured.
Now kind and gentle readers, would you have
thought for moment that any man aspiring to
the high position of Governor Of the State of
Florida would stoop so low, so demean himself
FIRST to get in q condition that Of itself should
dsqualify him from receiving the support of all
moral citizens at the coming election, but in ad-
dlion to that deliberately walk into public
gambling house, sit down at a table and take
hand in the game and keep it up until near day
light the next morningi Can it be possible that
any good citizens will cast their vote for such
man to rule over this State for the next four years?
Is il man of this character we are willing to
inirust The affairs of State withi think not |
What surprises me is That Simon B. Conover
should be so weak To commit 80 great folly,
particularly al this time when asking the suffrages
OF The people Of whom he should have the good
sense 10 know thai ninety nine out of every one
hundred men Of character in the State would
condemn and " i'll moi support by their ballota
And will il MT surprise all 10 know that United
States District Attorney, who is only removed
but one as next 10 the judge in the suppression
of crime and the conviction of men engaged in
crime would knowingly, wilfully and deliberately
walk into gambling house, sit down at a table
and take part in game which he knows is car
| ried on contrary TO and in defiance OF law, and
in asurrepIiiOus manner to evade the eyes of the
officers of the law to prevent prosecution under
the very law that he, by his oath, is bound TO
protect. Will our country readers believe this
condition of things in the candidate for Governor
and in United States District Attorney holding
an Office under the Federal government know
they will doubt the fact, but 1t is capable of
abundant proof, if necessary, by those who were
in the gambling room when the party entered
and were witnesses to all that took place during
the whole night, even up to the time of their
departure In the small hours of the following day
We will only speak of two of the three, as the
other party is so much at home in such places
his presence is not 10 be wondered at and as
reputation with him rests lightly on his shoulders
would be proof against exposure
Some folks will be very much surprised when
the vote is counted on the Republican ticket In
little underground work going on-manipu
lating-by parties on the Republican side. The
cream Of the joke is that 1t is among themselves,
and so long as dog is willing to eat dog" let
them do so. One thing is certain, while engaged
in The family fight they are not cheating the De-
mOcracy, and we like the woman in the " fight
between her husband and the BEAR" look on
with perfect indifference. hear considerable
talk around town in regard TO the revival of the
old society known as the Sons of Malta" by
Simon on his recent visit here, and that al a pre-
lmnary meeting the night before Simon's /" Gu
ba address" few parties effected an organiza-
ton by the election of officers and that lodge
is to be started here and also one in Key West"
in order to rope in the Cubans. Leib Is an old
member of this order and will put him on the
track, and il it proves true l will give your
readers some rich and rare fun. will have him
attend the meetings and give a full report Of
their proceedings. Simon Ia said to be G. r. j.
A. of the institution. l don't know what that
means, but OF course one OF the head devils of
the secret society. Leib will tell me- Now let
US resurrect a little-let rs go back year or so
and show our Northern friends who have re-
Gently settled in our State the kind of men they
win be supporting II they cas-, their ballots for
Risbee and ConOver or any one ON the State
ticket on the Republican side.
In the land Office at Washington should be
found document Of Al psges that fAaiens upon
one w. H. Gleason Commonly known as Slip
perry Bill and his partners fraud in land warrants
to the amount of over 100000 dollars, and yet
all of the forgers are at large and the hand
of justice has not been raised by the Republican
administration TO bring these rascels TO an &C
count before our courts. About year since
letter in the Savannah Nescs gave partial detail
OF the whole transaction, giving the names of the
principals In the crime and now ask how %
great and serious crime could be smothered
and the principals go free. unless 1t be by the
connivance and consent Of the officials Of the
Republican administration in Washington. l
have not space 10 this letter to 60 into full par
tculars but will do 80 st some future time ifneces-
sary. Mr.. w. H. Gleason Tor Slippery BilD was
here In this State before and at the time Of the
Republican convention-took an ctiyepart 10 the