The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-05-24
EDWARD A. PERRY.

BY the Governor.
Attest JNo. L. CRAWFORD, Secretary Of State.
The Key West Daily Equator DEM
ocrat was one year old on the 18th.
TIE Live Oak Banner dominates Hon.
j. Vann for Supreme Court Justice.
MIR. w. D. Fildes is announced as
associate editor of the Monticello Con-
sticution.
Colonel John T. Graves, of the Rome
Courier, is one of the eight Georgia edi-
tors who are delegates to the St. Louis
Convention.
=" South Florida" in Bronson Times,
is for Davidson for Congress, among
other names, because l do not believe
that the Democratic party can afford TO
dispense with his services at this time"
There is no room for divisions at the
South, says the Mobile Register. All in
telligent men having proper regard for
social order and honest government must
remain united within the ranks Of the
Democratic party.
1t is said that a Boston man, who
was in an Indiana town to build big
factory and lay out a million dollars,
found cows and hogs monopolizing the
sidewalks, left the town in disgust with
out investing nickel.
The Florida School Room is the
name of a new candidate in the journals
tic field, published at Cedar Key, by P.
w. Corr, editor and proprietor. 1t is
neatly printed quarto sheet, four columns
to the page Gainesville Advocate.
The Atlanta Constitution is not far
wrong when it says: The Southern
Democracy will have before many years
to defend the negroes right to VOTE" The
Republicans would disfranchise the ne
groes right now if they could.-HartweU
(Gd.) Sun
The following are the newly elected
officers of the State Medical Association :
President, r A. Lancaster; First Vice
President, J. K. Rainey; Second Vice
President, John G. Ames. The Associa-
ton will meet at Key West, on the sec
ond Tuesday in April, 1889.
Governor Taylor has been having a
tough time of it in the Tennessee Demo
cratic Convention. The two-thirds rule
has caused the trouble. 1t is powerful
bad rule When a man has a majority of
the votes of q convention he is entitled to
the nomination. Register.
The whole end and aim of Republi-
can legislation and legislators is to take
care of class which is abundantIy able
TO take care of itself. The Democratic
party, on the other hand, has q watchful
eye to the interests of the masses-and
the masses will continue to keep it in
poweE-Ismes- Union.
Mr.. Tysen, prominent member of
the Florida Immigration Association, hit
the nail square on the head when he said ::
Immigration means the doubling, treb-
ling, quadrupling the value OF all your
property. 1t means more neighbors,
cheap transportation, and greatly in
creased market for every article You have
to sell"
The Boston Globe says The Demo
cratic party was old when the Republican
party was born, but no one would ever
suspect it to compare the two now. The
Democracy to-day 10 young. aggressive
and vigorous, with its face turned toward
the future. The Republican party, well,
like an old rake, it is still living in the
memory Of the burned-out passions Of the
past.
"A remarkable snowbank remains on
the farm of D. N. Shuler, in Csnsjoharie
township, New York. It'is $50 feet long,
10 to 50 feet wide and feet deep. A
creek runs beneath it, forming . bridge
that horse and wagon can pass over.
An elm tree in full leaf stands in the CEN
trs Of TIE snow. No suowbank has ever
besn known before 1t this point Later than
May !.