The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-12-18
Written for the FLoRIDfAN.l
1.-THE Rl2laOmR.'s

Edisors F7oridian: In communication in your
paper of November "a, handling the Hitons !"
without gloves this language occurred:
when Governor Bl0xham appointed General
Perry to conduct the railroad litigation. did he
not appoint better Democrat than II. Is. Hill
ton Is not General Perry one who has given
No encouragement to Independentism and other
vagaries which Mr. Hilton has tried to foster ?"
A correspondent Of the Monticello Constitution
quotes the first part of this paragraph and Hdces
out the suggestive allusOn tO the Independent
ism and other vagaries which Mr.. Hilton has
tried to foster" This omission by his eulogist
was perhaps wise, for have not these same va,
carries caused universal disrust of the political
integrity or honesty of the man who has made
himself notorious by them? His Monticello Gu
logist closed his eyes to all of Hilton's crooked
ness since 1876, and dwelt upon his services In
the campaign of that year Bah was not Bcnc-
dict Arnold brave soldier until resentment at
fincied Sights made him q traitor? Who has
forgotten HltOn's personal abuse OF Governor
Drew, after the Governor declined to make him
Judge of the Second District? l know he has
said that us ncversapped for office, but let GOV,
ernOr Drew publish n letter or two he received
on the subject that the public may see what
sort OF hole some men will try to creep through;
Does anybody suppose if Drew had appointed
him we should have heard anything OF his abuse,
or that there would have been any Economist or
that if Blcxham had made him Attorney Gcn-
cral his malicious attacks on the most brilliant
administration Florida has ever had would have
been witnessed? Who doubts, again, that il Col.
Davidson was not defeated at the last election II
was not the fault of the HiltOnsy Is not tho
proof accessible in letters that they encouraged
the formation of the Independent party in
this District? Was not the Spectator, the indie
pendent organ, printed in the Economist ONCE,
and were not the two papers so much alike IN
their general tone that people wondered what
the McKnnOn crowd wanted with another or
gan when they had so good a one in the organ
of the HiltOns?" Has the Monticello euloglst
forgotten that last winter when the indepcnd-
ents in the Legislature and few others met to
formally organize themselves into State institu-
ton n representative Of the IIiltOns" was pres
cnt, and that proposition was made to make
the Economist "the organ of the party" and
that this proposition only failed through the OPP
position of Mr. Strplng a member from Mad-
son? Vagariesr' Fancy Gen. Perry guilty OF
such lunacy IIiltm's thnly disguised whine at
not being appointed to conduct the suit OF the
State in the railroad tax matter blinds no one to
the fact that the Governor acted wisely in max
ing another selection in Gen. Perry. | suppose
the whole bar would unite in saying that Perry
is infinitely the best lawyer. He is no crank in
law, politics or finance At any rate, the result
of the suit has justified the Governors selection.
Had Hilton been appointed there is no telling
what the end might have been, though believe
courts sometimes overlook the weakness OF cOun-
sci and give favorable judgments in spite OF their
blunders MORE ANON