The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-10-03


The Economist having nsed every means to
divide the Democratic party now HOSTS the
name of Davidson and hopes he may be elected
Having furnished the Republican and Independ
ent speakers with all kinds OF Charges against
the party, it now whiningly hopes that The Demo
cratic candidates may "pull through. Wallace
in Cedar Key and McKinnon in Walton all ap-
peal TO the columns Of the Economist TO produce
charges with which to defeat Davidson and II
the Democracy defeated, that paper, with MS
co-laborers. will have the proper credit. How
humiliating the spectacle! Republicans aud In
dependents using every means to defeat our
nominees. and quoting that paper To sustain their
false charges. The truth is, Mr.. Hilton has al
lowed his enraged passions to overlap his judg
meni, and rendered the columns of his paper a
vehicle for every kind of inuendo and SANDER
against the party. He pretends that il is only
10 secure the calling of a convention. If that
was his object why could he not discuss the
question with the spirit that actuates such papers
as the Mirror. Constitution and other leading
journals that advocate a convention? They
have made converts 10 the cause of "A convention
and nj the same time united and strengthened
the Democratic party. The two positions are
not incompatible. If new Cons tuition is made
and ratified, il must be by solid Democratic
vote The efforts, then, of Mr. Hilton and his
co-laborers to divide the Democratic party and
defeat its Congressional and legislative nomi-
nees is only tending To turn the State over to
the Radicals under the present Constitution. Ii
that result follows they take the consoling
reflection that they have been better friends To
Radical success thIn an out spoken Radical Jour
nal could he.
We have never yet read an editorial in the
EconOmi1 upon State taxation, our county IL
nanceS, and our County Commissioners but did
not conceal the honest truth or assert IA positive
falsehood lis columns in the past may be
searched in vain for one line % encourage or
truthiully enlighren Democratic reader When
our Congressional COm:littce put out an address
to the voters OF the district showing conclusvely
why the people should rally to the party il is moi
allowed To gDto its readers When Mr. Walker
however publishes letters in his Spectator for the
avowrd purpose OF breaking up the Democratic
party, Mr. Hilton always gave them IA conspcu-
Gus place in his columns When il is shown
that the Radical State tax wa, l2I mills which
they collected and spent, and in addition run the
State in debt some $l0sOOO yearly in bonds
alone; when it is shown upon the other hand
that the tax under Democratic rule has been re-
duccd to mills, and instead of increasing the
debt they have decreased it some $500 what
Is the response of the EconontNp Ii contrasts
the taxes of to-day with those before the war,
AMI blames the Democratic party for it, Then
we had about double the taxable resources we
have now, for the slaves were property then we
had no eighty thousand dollars to pay as inter
est; then We had no asylum 10 support; then
we had no free school system 10 maintain; then
these middle counties had not as large railroad tax
to pay then we were not taxed for jurors and
witnesses to try cases daily arising among the
colored population Why can't Mr. Hilton be
candid enough to state these facts and if there is
a remedy point ii out: If he was in the pay of
them in power.
We do not, Mr. Editor desire to be Inisunder-
stood. We voted against the present COnstitu-
ton, aud did not 10 as Mr.. Hilton did, help
force it upon an unwilling people by joining
with the CArpe-baggers and negroes in voting
for it. We are an advocate for a convention
There are many changes we want and many
auctions in expenses, but there is no use OF hold
ing out the hope of taxation as low as before the
war; it can never be reached with our present
resources Ii 50, will the Ecolsomtst show us
how: FIDELITY