The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-09-30
nepnAlican Misrepresentation.

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such hold upon the ignorant, for its !
leaders withhold distasteful fact and feed |
them with what suits their tastes-plsusi- |
bly, concocted misrepresentation OF the
evil doings Of their own party, and false
charges against the democratic party.
Their speakers travel up and down the
State filing the ears of attentive crowds
of negroes with such stuff as tickles their
fancy or inAames their prejudice, and rem
ders their minds quite incapable Of accept
ing the antidote of truth in refutatlon.
1t is useless to reason with them, for they
have been strictly enjoined not to believe
what is said by the detestable democrats
who they are told are but deceivers and
oppressors. Three of their speakers ha-
rangued a medium sized lot of them in
Tallahassee last Saturday, saying what
ever they might to fire the negro heart.
For example, one of them said car
loads of innocent colored men are taken
to the penitentiary where they are tor
tured by the devil and his mps for two
to fifteen years-yes, innocent men :"
Another one, the candidate for Congress,
informed the colored brethren that the
REPUBLICAN party was organized for the
benefit of an oppressed and downtrodden
people, and had joined the independents
to right the wronged and overthrow the
democratic party :" " the independent
movement had brought about what was
never enjoyed before, the right of free
the republicans would never have dared
to hold a meeting in Freeport,' etc.
Mr. Locke is rather a youthful cam
paigner and somewhat fresh" or he
would not have told the downtrodden
what they know is not-correct; they
know that republican candidates before
his time had the fright of free speech "
and were quite a. daring" as he is in
holding meetings. wherever there were re-
publicans enough to form them. So long
a. he discoursed on the tariff and other
matters of national politics he had them
where they could not help themselves, but
might as we'll believe rs not what he said
how could they know better than he when
he assured them that the surplus revenue
collected by republican administration
did not come out of the people? When
he told them that Republicans were
more successful in collecting money and
keeping it than the Democrats it was
with bold reliance upon their ignorance
as to how republicans kept the money"
kept all they could in their own pockets,
and the balance where it would not do the
people any good. When he told them
that the hundred million surplus collected
yearly was a good thing for the govern
ment to have, the money was safe, and
held for the benefit Of the country, they
did not know that if the hundred millions
was not collected and locked up in the
treasury, but left in the channels of bust
ness and industry, there would be more
employment and cheaper goods for the
people. Let them think of that-one
hundred millions year unnecessarily col
lected from the people! At the present
rate of democratic State taxation in
Florida more than three hundred gears
would be required to make up the sum OF
one hundred million dollars year sur
plus now exacted annually by the repuh-
lican system of revenue taxation, and yet
Locke said to his hearers, the people,
"vou don't feel it, cit is only a little
more on your tobacco" and other goods.
and "vou don't know when you pay it >
but it goes out of their pockets all the
same, and they are kept poorer by it.
They feel their poverty if they don't
know what caused it. They look in their
pockets and they can't find the money :;
the want of it troubles them more than
where it went to- 1t went into the ma
tional Treasury to make up the hundred
millions year to be locked up, and Locke
tells them it ia all right-and good deal
went into the pockets of radical deiaulters,
star route swindlers, plundering contrac-
tora, and tens Of thousands of useless civil
service employees fed by Republican ad-
ministration--and Locke did not say a
word about these! Not he-they are all
members of his party.
|. 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 chance
for them and all to get some of it, that
thew vote for Colonel Davidson--not for
Locke who belongs to the party who lock
the money up in the treasury and wants
to 90 to Washington to keep it there.
Vote for Colonel Davidson, the true and
tried, who belongs to the Democratic
party which proposes to stop the radical
system of plundering the people that use
less money may he boarded in the Treas
ury. The money is the peoples and
should not be taken from them nor kept
from them, az Locke proposes shall con-
tinue to be done.