The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-10-30
FlOr1da's Electoral Vote Can't Ese
stolen This Time.


bugaboo has proved boomerang. The
farmers and laborers throughout this fair
land are aroused, and determined to crush
that hydra-headed monster-the war tariff
If honest votes of honest men will do it.
Blaine and the Senate Committee have
kicked the Chicago platform into kndling
wood. Harrison has his arms wrapped
fondly around the whiskey plank and is
floating with the tide-going rapidly out
to sea. The Republican National Com
mittee is alarmed. They see it clearly
indicated that many of their strongholds
in the Republican North this year are GO
ing Democratic. They see that their cause
is a desperate cause, and they are anx-
iously planning and watching for points
of vantage. They see that the battle is
already honestly lost. They are still "fry-
ing out fat" to be used in various ways
such as buying ignorant voters, flood
groes, and 80 forth and so on. Morton's
bar'l has been pulled and dragged at SO
much that the eagl les on his illgotten gold
have their feathers ruffled and look as if
they knew they were going into even
worse company. Yea, their cause is
desperate cause, and they are preparing
to use desperate measures. They are APP
palled at the giant which has risen up
all through the North, and quake in their
boots on hearing his loud call for Tariff
Reform. They have appealed to that
contemplate bloody shirt waver and Flo
to save them again, as he did in 1876.
The other day he called together some of
his corrupt tools. They met at mis- house
in Washington, as the il. +ations said,
"to talk politics." In that talk they turned
their eyes longingly toward the Solid
South. and then and there determined to
make a bold attempt to steal the electoral
votes of Florida, Virginia and North
Carolina. They thought that they were
concocting and scheming in secret, but
our National Committee was on the alert,
aud we have been warned to watch them.
The Republican National Committee
was immensely tickled when Bill Chand-
Ter reported to them which Of the South
ern States he had determined to work on,
and they began at once to figure on what
majority, in each, they wanted. They
heartlessly counted each of the noble
dead who have fallen in our fever stricken
sister city that many
dead Democrats. They set their hired
tools to work in making a report OF all
who had left Florida as fever refugees
and they counted these as all Democrats.
When told that as many Republicans had
left as Democrats, Bill Chandler replied
"Tnat matters not. What we are after
is cloak in which to hide the steal"
The committee then made up THEIR fig
ures, and gave it out that they intended
carrying Florida by majority Of 300.
Now, Mr.. Bloody-Shirt EIectoral-Thief
Bill Chandler-just let us whisper a
word in your ear. We know you and
your schemes. But, this. time, you are
reckoning without your host. They are
gone. Florida is now unquestionably
Democratic. You can't count US out this
time. You mi ght as we'll fold up your
tent and hunt other fields and pastures
new. You, and your monopolistic mas
tiers, need not look to Florida to aid you
in still further grinding down the honest
labor of the country. She will not do it.
Your dirty clan of 1876 have been
kicked out, and to-day Florida is ruled
by honest, staunch and true Democrats,
who will not listen to your vile plots or
aid you for your golden brides. Think
not, because few weak, greedy traitors
to Democracy have joined your corrupt
and rotten party in the different counties,
that you can play the game of 1876.
You cannot. Your figuring will be
hurled back into your teeth. Instead of
going Republican by $500 majority, as
you and the Radically Rotten Republican
Committee, which you represent, wish to
make your Millionaire Monopolist Bosses
think, Florida will go DEMOCRATIC by over
double that majority.
No, Bill Chandler, you can't come it