The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-14

has not the courage to designate the men by
name.
The clerks Of every county in western Florida
viii testify that the deeds given by the Pensa-
cola and Atlantic Railroad Company are signed
by NJ h Smith, president of the company, and
ny L d. Randolph and J. L. Cadwalader, trus-
tees.
When these men of the highest reputation
send me the executed deeds. must send hack
the money.
viii any sensible man believe that President
smith and Trustees Randolph and Cadwalader
are IN league with me as a band Of common
thieves TO rob the companyl
Yet this is the Only way MIR. Calls charge can
De SHOWN 70 be true. The money from those
lands has been used to pay the losses incurred
IN operating a railroad through sparsely
settled country. Yet Mr. Call says this is
putting the lands into the pockets of few
men,
Mr.. Call also charges these unnamed persons
with taking the peoples money for the worth
less quit claim deeds : Every clerk 10 Western
Florida viii testify that every deed recorded in
his county from tae Pensacola and Atlantic rail
road IS a warranty deed.
- IL would require hours to consider fully Mr.
Calls laundering action concerning the Indian
it briefly.
Before l commence, however, let me direct
your attention to the fact that this claim,
amounting TO a very large sum, has been due
Florida during all of Mr.. Calls eleven years
service IN the Seuate; and ask what has he
done about its II We admit for argument IAN
admission, however, not justified by mis- record
tnat ne was earnest and patriotic and vigiant
ana INDUSTRIOUS, what has he been able to ac-
compllshi Absolutely nothing. Had Mr.. Call
possessed these qualities he would have sue
ceeded.
l charge that he was willing to settle for
S9%OOJ cash the states claim, which the Secre-
LLary OF the Treasury now says should be over
S500.000 cash.
charge that Mr. Call was willing to accept
less than one-ffth of this amount not longer
ago than last fall, having always been willing
10 waive the states Just claim for interest.
charge Mr.. Call with dupIicty when he
stated In the Senate that not an acre of land
was ever certified to the state to construct a
railroad between Jacksonville and Pensacola,
Offering as evidence a letter from Gov. NJ. S.
Perry. written in 1883 to Hon. Thomas A Hen
bricks, commissioner of the general land Office,
when the lands were actually certified in 1860,
year later, by j. S. Wilson, who had succeeded
Smith, who succeeded Hendricks, and they
were approved by Jacob Thompson, secretary
of the interior.
charge him with ignorance in claiming be-
before the Senate of Florida that the Pensacola
and Atlantic charter was void because the
Llttefield road, in which Mr. Call was a stock
holder, had exclusive rights, although the
supreme court of the state had declared the
state bonds issued to Littlefelds road unconsti-
tutIonal.
1t is sometimes said that Mr. Call has devoted
a great deal Of time to the service of the party.
During my six years service on the state COM
m1ttee he never contributed dollar to its
treasury, and as chairman OF the state commit
Tee found IL impossible to rely upon him to
meet appointments even after he had con-
sented to them and authorized their publica-
ton
charge Senator Call with stopping for five
years the patenting of swamp land to his own
state, thereby injuring Florida and keeping
millions OF acres off of the tax books because
he alleged there was an organized system of
fraud being practiced in the United States land
office at Gainesville, which office and officials
had no more to do with the swamp lands than
the man in the moon.
charge that Mr.. Call in his resolution stated
in specific terms the necessity for investigating
the transfer of swamp lands by the United
States to his own state. AS all the patents to
Florida, except about &, 900 acres, were given
under democratic administrations, the reflection
was upon the officials of his party. He
provided, in his resolution of March 81, 1885, in
plain and unmiStakable terms, that 'suit should
be brought by the United States to cancel such
patents"
charge gross deception in Mr.. Calls claim
that all settlers on railroad lands are indebted
to him for their homes, as it is not true in any
sense.
1t is true that the Florida railroad waived its
claim to over $1,000 acres occupied by settlers,
and in Western Florida hundreds to whom the
Pensacola and Atlantic have decided their
homes were advised by Mr.. Call to ignore the
railroad. Then how did he help them when
they dsregarded his advice?
charge that if Mr.. Call could succeed in his
mistaken land policy, which he has tried so in
eHectualy TO enforce for eleven years. the state
would not be dollar richer, settlers would be
thrown into litigation. and every mill between
Milton and River Junction would shut down, for
the mills cannot buy government land This
would throw out of employment the loggers, the
haulers and the mill hands, and general distress
would follow without any benefit to any one.
maintain that his oft-repeated statement
that each house of congress had passed forfeit
ure bills separately is misleading. The Senate
has never passed bill FORGETTING lands opposite
a constructed road.
Let ms remind you that it is not my record
that you are Investigating. Require the senator
to answer my charges
Do not forget that you have trusted me in
more important matters than the selection of
Mr.. Calls successor.
You placed me at the head of your party or
ganzation, and have not betrayed you.
do not believe that you will forget the trying
days of 1888. do not credit that you will with
draw your confidence and good will because
my manhood requires me TO resent Mr.. Calls
personal SANDERS, and his arragnment OF the
state and the democratic administrations of
Florida.