The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-12-11

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The country would like to
what's the matter with Democrats 3
tors that they should remain silent A..
the consideration of the Republican :
bill by the Senate?
-" The South is not led by its p,.,,.]
intelligence any more than the Nonh ,
says the Binghamton Republican n
tits, and there is where it has alwsnIJ
the bulge on us.-N Y. Herald,
-Four war vessels have been ord.
to Hayti to see that the decision If h
United States government, that the a.
tien Republic shall be released /
speedily complied with.
will Dir. Benjamin Harrison se.as|
cousin Jefferson Davis to the Court At,
James? If not, why not? 1t Wi
only be ''little family affair."" you h.|
Grant and others provided for their :.
cles, aunts and cousins" and a
shouldn't Harrison do likewise? i
The FLoRIDIAS names Capt Pssia|
Houstoun for President of the State 4
ate. The Captain has done noble wi
for the democracy Of Florida, and u
tainly deserves recognition at its h,aa|
Times Union.
Tine first issue of the WeelL ID
burger, new venture upon tN jouni|
istlc sea, published, as its maize imp6u|
at Leesburg, has reached our desk. MI
published by Messrs. Jordan & Luuis,
and ably edited by Mr.. A. P. Jordnl
We wish it success.
While the New Orleans Reau.u,
admits that there is a New South it saw,
that what is wanted now is New North
whose editors and orators will stop hsrp-
ing Oil questions, which have no practice
importance and whose influence will nj
be reactionary and retrogressive. /
The Hartford Comm Times nu:|
People want all the&Florida oruu|
they can get-for none that are groni|
Cuba, in Jamaica, or in Mexico or Oh
tornia, are equal to a sweet and jis|
Florida. 1t is good to..see the crop i
creasing-as it is likely to increase, a
by year-and if no severe frost hit u
trees, one of these winters will see Ew
ida oranges growing cheaper by reason
the great supply. But they are not ID
now"
Why is it that Florida has advauxl
80 marvelouslv within the last ten or I
teen years? Has she better soil or d
mate than Georgia, or better facilities I
getting her products to market? 3
has not, bu she has an excellent scha
system. She appropriates for each CHI
of school age about four times as mad
as Georgia, and the consequence is "
her lands are being occupied rapidly,nl
her pine forests are disappearing to nil
room for orange groves and truck fara'
Savannah News.
In the House, last Tuesday, Rspr
sentative Stone, of Kentucky, introdac'
a joint resolution proposing an ane's
ment to the constitution providing ID
the President and Vice-President shall
chosen every fourth year by the dlfs'
votes of the people. A paragraph OF y
joint resolution forbids the holding
any loo Il or State elections, except ~
members of Congress, on the day :
apart for the election of President ~
Vice President. The electors for frH
dent and Vlce-President sh Ill De cn0S
on the first Tuesday in November.
Hon. w. A. Hooker, of Leesoa's
has been in Tallahassee during the p
week representing the Citra Os's
Growers Union in case before the ="
ida Railroad Commission, wherein ~
bring charges against the Florida =.
way and Navigation Company and :
Florida Southern Railway Compsn!
having charged them an average Oh :
cents per box in excess of the comurisss'
rates, on all oranges shipped since =
vember 7th. Mr.. Hooker will also rst''