The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-07-22

The Rats caaion MeetIag. /: Il
lnasmuch as the meetin Of the DemDcrAsif
State Executive Comm tee called for laA
Thursday would bring together u number ID
leading men, 1t was decide TO improve the SO
casion of their com ny by having a ratAcatjoAi
meeting that night. Notw outstanding THE sker1l
notice Cables Hall was c. DIVIDED, and the pres
ence of many ladies added brilliancy and inttrf
est 10 the occasion. On m ,ton of Judge ". r:
Byrd, Governor BlCxham took the chair, ADD
after few happily ohraset sentences in which
he thanked the ladies for lending their aid tp the
ratification proceedings, b. introduced the next
Governor of Florida, Gen. E A. Perry
General Perry stated that when he came. ri
Tallahassee on matters of business he had NJ
idea that he would he Gu led on to speak, atttk
therefore Came before the meeting quite unprt- :
pared TO make speech yet he made sousstf
and eloquent address, to which the only otee- f;
| ton was that it ended tot soOn He thought ;iti
was too early To outline he campaign -inietil,
we did not yet know Who are TO fight whet ht.ti
the candidate already in he field, or another. "
both we were only certa in that We had to fgbt
Radicalism, by whoever led, and if in the namcs
OF lndependentisn and Republicanism il p.t
| two tickets in the field Ve will show them We
are strong enough 10 beat them both for il il lfs
war OF Conservatism upn Radicalism and viz
| must conquer, for We Md be reinforced fros,
| all conservative clemens Of the population.
whatever their party f1listions were before.
The State needs NO refor1 /, and he would have
| hard task before b m in ivaling the administrs
ton of Governor Bloxhsm, and continuing The
prosperous career Of affairs as he would receIvt
them from his predecessor
The Generals remarks made an excellent I'M;
preston and at their cl se he was loudly ap,
pauded. bouquets were lrown him, fans waved
the band struck ur, and together the affair was
delightfully."- enthusiastic and indeed 80 was Che
whole evenings entertai ment" Between each
speech the call of the house was "Bloxhamtr
Bloxham" and he wa cheered whenever hid
came forward to Introduces speaker, confning
himself TO few elicito is remarks, and disapi
pointing all in thai these were 80 few for gladly
would they have heard m Ore from their favoriie
of the stump and forum
Hon Milton H. Mabry, candidate for Lieu
tenant GOvernoI, was nett introduced W4n
he left his home in Sumter he thought bis county
he found enthusiasm all al )ng the line in Jack
sonvile and here in The be autifnl city OF ITALIA
hassee, and felt sure that lorida would be savei
from the vandal crowd attempting to capture /
her. He referred to the al tendance OF the ladies
the Indies approve what ; good and pure. AMI
hence they ralify the De mocrscy
Hon. Robert Fl. II Davit S,n followed Mr. Ma
Dry, AMI we never heard o lr popular Congress
man in better vein 1i chg hence He skescae:
the WORK of the ChicagoC Cor vents,n and referred
to Clev sland as Tikien's seod Ani SaEscipst Al
Elijah worthy TO wear his n ante
Gov. Bloxham ther Intro lucsNi Hon Chs-be. Z
Doughea ty. candidate for a nsrsse - she So
ond DiNrict-and q hach& A,s, fur which be !
would nos Apologize in his behalf less
much as the last Eemocr tic Prrssden, Wis, |
was lnaigurated WIS = sacAelo<, the h.st 4
Democraiic President who vas eseeset is a bach !
elor, and the next Deu,oen ne PrxsiSaen, $ /
bachelor. Colonel Do,sgherty remarkinx shs, he /
was bachelor but il WIS not Is hnh pxucee.i~d
to make ii stirring SPEECH. Ss,ch meetings ~
this and that At Jackson vile ia dcaled an enthu
siasm which wSs An earnest o SUCCESS Party
organization and party work ere essential, but
they were only the machinery " which the vir;
tue the diligence and the Pre- perry interests of
the people would secure COVE 'nment for their
protection |.
Next came Captain Samuel p SEQ, the Chair
man Of the Democratic !sale Executive Com
mittee, who opened by saying th, echoes OF Pen-
sacola had been heard in Jacks pnville, the re-
Train is taken up in Tallahassee, he campaign is
opening and The army will soon tr in the field,
led BY Cleveland and Hendricks, Perry and Ma
bry, Davidson and D"ugherty. anil would march
to victory. He spoke In earnes praise of the
ability and services oi General Pc ry, whsse sue
cess in The Supreme Court of the United States
had added millions OF dollars worth to the pron III
erty of the State Fl
Major A. }. Russell, Superntene ent Of Educa-
lion, VIII" never selects a theme but TO adorn it,
who never argues but TO convinc., who never +:
speaks but TO charm, spoke next al TOO briefly.
he referred To the momentols cha acter of The
political conflict tie desperate
struggle which radicalism would m Ike. PARTIES
die hardest when it is foreseen that death is iuey
table. In eloquent words lie ske ched the Ca
reer of Cleveland He drew "a col licensed and
pointed contrast of eight years OF radical and
eight Of democratic administration in Florida.
N<fOrp
he minds eye
Next came Attorney General Ran ~, the iery
Ind lmpassoned orator, with 1.-The lights that
glow and words that burn" WHO rapit " sketched
he history of national parties 10 merica, the
Democratic party Of Jefferson surv wing them c
III, for it is bas I'd ON fundamental principles
which are eternal He looked to tn, approach \
ng campaign with entire corfidenc. In the re- V
ult and believed if the State was pr perly can
'assed the Democratic ticket would be elected
" ten thousand majority. :
Col. F. P. Fleming, of jacksonville, who NOM v
mated Gen. Perry in Convention, closed the v
peaking OF the evening in an inter rsting sd- !,
ress in which he ably revie we'd til 3 political o
ituation and found In 1t everything to give conf.
ence in the result-admirable cane idates, an
nthusastic party aud distract ed OPT ostion c.