The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-07-23


Six years have expired and the statutes OF
limitation have run to a bar
Avoiding all circumlocution, these
facts" will bear the following lnterpre
tation: Senator Call and number of
other parties, including the president Of
the Exchange Bank of Norfolk, entered
into an association to speculate IN the
stock of &c useful invention" That in
vention, we learn, was new sewing
machine. They all gave their separate
notes to secure their portion, and author
lied the president of the bank to act for
them, he advancing what money was
necessary, and when the stock was sold,
each one would come in and take up his
note and pocket his share of the profits.
The president of the bank, acting with
in the limit of his authority, held on for
large profits, until the venture collapsed,
as many other welI-planncd enterprises
have done. Now comes the point Of
honor. He calls upon his associates to
honor their notes, and each bear his por-
ton of the burthen, inasmuch as the prof
its would have been divided had the en-
terprise been a success. But does not
Senator Call say in effect, no. If the
venture had been successful, | would have
taken my " Doodle but, as it is fail
ure, and tie statutes Of Nmi!ation hare
run to bar," | will not pay 81 ,505.7l,
my share, and you can hold the bag
We ask honest and honorable business
men, was there ever more shameless
confession Of moral depravity or mental
obtuseness, than the Senator here makes
Does he not admit that if the enterprise
had been successful he would have gotten
his share of the profits, but, as it was
failure, he deserts his associates and
pleads the statute Of limitation a more
dishOnorable record would be hard to
make. DO honest men plead the statute
of Imitation? He says his associates
were "persons Of large means, embracing
several Senators Of influence and reputa-
ton" If such be the case, and the facts
as Senator Call states them, then we teel
confident those persons of reputation"
have paid their losses, like honorable
gentlemen would do, and not attempt to
evade the payment Of debt of honor by
pleading the statute of limitation.
1T we are correctly informed this is but
in keeping with other transactions Of a
similar character We have heard Of the
Senator going in with gentleman of
South Florida and purchasing a stock
of cattle on speculation, and when
the cattle market became depressed.
he pulled out, deserted his friend, and
lett him to bear the entire loss.
But history keeps on repeating itself
When there is d" DOODLE" as in the case
of Dibble and associates in wrecking
our railroad, the Senator is said to have
had no hestancy in pockcting the
"boode."
We dislike to indulge in personal allu-
sions, bat when the Senator chooses such
a low plane,we have to condesccnl torcach
down toward the level he assumes. and
color the picture with the light of truth
That he is failure as Il United States
Senator no one who has followed his re-
cord can doubt lie has stood in the
way of an adjustment of Florda's Indian
War Claim, and, owing to his ignorance
OF the question, or opposition to the
claim, he has served but as a stumbling
block to the States success in that mat
ter. He has kept our swamp lands tied
up at Washington for four years, without
accomplishing one particle of good for
any one. Awakening from a Rip Van
Wrinkle slumber, he has tried for years to
have forfeited the lands along the road
from Tallahassee to Jacksonville, while
the road was not the owner of an acre of
these lands; and the only effect the sue
cess of his efforts could have would be to
throw cloud over the titles of those who
have purchased them, and established
happy homes upon them. And right
here we PROFOUND these Undergraduates
to TIE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA: How long
do you propose to let him keep your
lands tied up III this way? How long
are you going to quietly submit to this