The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-10-07

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|ssdeu ,wiahAslds dissastsfnl fact and feed
tAeu NTH, xhat saits their tastss--pl-asi-
bly, connected misrepresentation oF the
svi doisgs Of their own patty. and false
oAargss against the dsmacFasic purity.
Their spsaksu travel up add dowf the
Sts.s, filing tha earn Of attentive crowds
of asgross With sach stuff a siskles ahsir
fancy or inAamss their prejutaies, AMI rem
DER. their minds qaits incapsple Df aioePt-
ing the autidots of truth Ia yefatasion.
/. is useless to reason with them, fos they
have been s.rictly snjoined Rot 10 bs'isve
what is said by the ,detestahls: dsmeerats
Who they are told are bat aeceiyers and
oppressors Three of theirSssReakefs ha-
rangued Q medium sized lot Of then in
Tallahassee last Saturday, saying ifaat-
ever they .migh.,o :" fire the tegro hsart"
For examplH, one of thent said car
loads of innocent eolorsd npen are taken
to the penitentiary where they arg tor
tured by the devil and bis amps fog two
to fifteen years--yes, ir.uecent nlen :"
Another one, the candidate Tor Congress,
informed the oolored brethrep THAI the
"repabliean party was organised fqf the
bene6t.of an oppressed and do~atradden
people, and had joined the and, Presidents
to right the wronged aud oysr.aro$ the
Democratic party y the in depepdent
movement had brought aboat whas was
never enjoyed before, the right Of free
speech, and if it had not been fot Ubat
the republicans would never have dared
to hold q meeting in Freskort,' etc.
Mr.. Locke lis rather youthful cam
paigner and somewhat tresh,,' trs be
would not have told the :doNntrfiden
what they know is not-eor4ect i tney
know that republican candidates k.'lore
his time had the !" right Of free speech y
and were quite a., " daring 2 40 he:is in
holding meetings wherever thef:e: wefe re-
publicans enough to form them. SdlGng
as he discoursed on the tariff and pther
matters of national politics he had thrm
where they could not help thsrnsalveb, but
might as we'll believe As not What heSaid !;
how could they know better than he sSEen
he assured them that the surplus re2ehue
collected by republican administration
did not come out of the people: When
he told them that Republicans were
more successful i'll collecting money and
keeping it than the Democrats" it was
with bold reliance upon their ignotaIfce
as to how republicans kept the mopeg
kept all they could in their own pockets,
and the balance where it would not do the
people any good. When he told shem
that the hundred million surplus collected
yearly was a good thing for the govern
ment to have, the money was cafe, and
held for the benefit OF the country, they
did not know that if the hundred millions
was not collected aud locked up in! TIE
treasury, but left in the channels Of bust
ness and industry, there would be more
employment and cheaper g.">ds for the
people. Let them think Of. ,that-tope
hundred millions year unnecessarily col
lected from the people. IT The presee It
rate of democratic State taxation IN
Florida more than three hes,ased yed55's
would be required to make up the sum i'i
one hundred million dollars year sur
plus now exacted annually by, the reput-
lican system of revenue taxation, and yet
Locke said to his hearers, the peopls,
you don't feel it," "t is only little
more on your tobacco +" and other goods,
| and "you don't know when yea pay it,
but it goes out Of their pockets all the
| same, and they are kept poorer by i.
They feel their poverty if shey don't
know what caused it. They l.iok in their
pockets and they can't find 1he money
the want Of it troubles them more than
where it went TO- 1t went Tito the na.
! tional Treasury TO make up the hundred
| millions a year TO be locked ur, and Locke
| tells them it is all right-and'a. good deal
went into the pockets of radical hefaulters
star route swindlsrs, plunderieg contrao'
| tors, and tens of thousands OF Useless civI'
| service employees fed by Repub liean adj
| ministration-and Locke did: not say q
| word about these! Not he Fey are all
| members of his party. i ).
We suggest to those whom Mr. Locke
thought he was humbugging THAT if they
would prefer to have the hundred millions
year kept in circulation with:a chance
for them and all to get some d =, that
they vote for Colonel Daviisnr.-Aot for
Locke who belongs to the part ylwtso lock
the money up in the treasury md wants
to go to Washington to keep'nt: there.
Vote for Colonel Davidson, the lfgsse and
tried, who belongs to the USaocr ATTIC
party which proposes to stop " radical
system of plundering the peoplesfhat use.
less money may be boarded in sse Treas
'ury. The money is the peolpfss and
should not be taken from them Dor kept
from them, A. Locke proposes efiall CON
tinae to be done. }s s.:
Flordian, Sept. sO.l
Though the Democrats hAvessreduced
the rate Of taxation to loss than Ane-third
what it was when they captured she State