The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-27
SPIRIT THE PRESS.
A LOST OPPORTU NIFTY.

The Farmers Alliance lost the
chance of life time in not elec:lng a
candidate of their own order to the
United States senate; had they done
this, their influence in the future pol
itics of Florida would have been al.
most unbounded. The farmers OF
Florida have the fullest sympathy OF
the Sentinel and we regret that they
did not take advantage of this grand
opportunity of placing themselves
high up in the politics of our state
Orlando Sentinel.
FUNNY ISN'T IT?
AS soon as the people want to get
up an enterprise, a railroad, school
or anything in fact. they always run
to the newspaper. The newspaper
is acknowledged to have influence if
you want it or it is against you, but
never if you are requested to adver-
tise your business to help support it..
-Starke Telegraph.
EFT TU BRUTE?
The Call issue is done with for the
present, and while it will to a certain
extent come into the next contest, it
will not be so strong, for the condi-
tions and issues are entirely of diff
ferent character. While the Herald
is, and has always been a strong adj
mirer Of Senator Call, and expects to
continue to be, we do not feel in
honor bound to stick or work for any
man or faction simply because he or
they were of our same way of think
ing in an issue that has long since
been settled. While our friends Of
the Call issue are good and tried men,
the friends of the democratic party
are stronger and more powerful, and
to the democratic party We will con-
tinue to stick by in the coming GU
bernatorial election, and not by a
ruling clique of Jacksonville that be-
leves Itself stronger than concen-
trated lye. No, never.-Palatka Her
aid.
THE SOU ELCIIED CLIQUE.
The fact that the few little polit.
ical bosses, who, in their delirium OF
joy, at the Call banquet, announced
their purpose to run the state, were
squelched in their first movement in
the city Of Jacksonville, is enough
to show to them the absurdity and
utter hopelessness Of their claims.
Frantic with delight at barren vic
tory, won at the sacrifice of demo-
cratic principles and party fealty,
these men were so inflated with
sense of their Importance that they
were in no condition TO reason or
judge, hence they were capable only
OF such foolish and suicidal acts as
men of even ordinary sanity would
have the wisdom to leave undone.
The frenzied few became both hot
headed and light-headed and in their
efforts to control the party, not for
the party's good, but rather tor the
aggrandizement Of a few chosen
spirits, they shouted themselves
hoarse in their efforts to sing Flem-
ing, Chipley, Taliaferro and other
true, tried and loyal democrats into
their political graves. These would
be leaders imagined that in politics
they were all powerful and they
gathered their followers and assured
them they would carry things in
Jacksonville with "whoop p and
in 1892, with vociterous bowls, they
would down every democrat not in
accord" But there was no whoop
and mighty small following, so the
bosses got left, badly left. The
howlers now shout "Mahoneism,"
but it is too thin, too gauzy, to de-
ceive the democracy of Florida.
The political tyros must learn the
healthy lesson that putting up Job
is not the only thing necessary in
this age of practical politics.-Pasco
Democrat.
THE TRUTH ABOUT II.
Major Mckinley says for his
party: "We prefer to tax the i'm
ported rather than the domestic pro-
ducts" This statements lacks ex-
actness and completeness. You tax
imported products and the people
who consume them pay the taxes,
which go into the treasury. And
you enable the manufacturer of pro-
tected domestic products TO tax the
people and to put the proceeds in
his own pocket.-New York World.
THE NEW FLORIDA.
The life Of Florida is merging into
the life Of the nation. We are ran
idly passing from the old life into
the new, from the ancient type of
civilization into the modern. from
the luxurles and romantic into the
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