The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-05-06
FOR THIS CITY.

to Tallahassee by the kaleidoscope of cur
rent events will always remain impossible
of realization aud full appreciation. The
capital knows by experience that partie:
interested in legislation always attend 6
session and always produce unusual hustle
and animation on her streets and in bel
hotels.
But Tallahassee stands amazed at the
spectacle presented to her to-day. For the
first time the capital city has had a glimpse
of the tactics of the little political clique
which has 80 long dominated Jacksonville
For the first time Tallahassee has seen the
carrier pigeon" the bureau of misinior-
nation" the sympathy racket" the
organ of personal abuse" and "the factory
for the production of misconception and
suppression of truth with other products
OF the slums at work daily. For the first
time what is proudly termed 1.-THE
methods of the metropolis Of East Florida"
have been paraded on the stage in a
theatre large enough to allow of inspection
by the whole state.
Tallahassee cannot be deceived on any
question relative to the record made by
Mr.. Call. Her people know it because
the curtain has been lifted to their eyes
time and time again. They are prepared
for all the tergiversations of the willy
demagogue because they know him per-
sonally also. They are familiar with his
business life, they have seen the record
in their probate Office made by him years
ago, and therefore those who wonder
that Leon county is SO bitterly anti
CalP' show an ignorance of history by
the expression of the surprise.
Tallahassee is the antipodes of Jack
sonville The candidate whose boom has
been created in Jacksonville, managed
from Jacksonville, supported from Jack
sonville and controlled from jacksonville
is utterly antipathetic to Tallahassee.
The methods which might be successful
Ill JdCKSOHVlllC dI0 dDIlOIICllU W AHA
hassee.
Tallahassee has been Disguised by the
studied misrepresentation on which the
Call campaign relies for its foundation. Tai
ihassee has always looked askance on the
professional lobbyist. But she now sees
him in a new light The urgent and per-
sistent advocacy of Calls claims by the
hosts of independents from whom her Sec
ton has suffered so much, disgusts her
democratic soul. The recommendation by
majority of a committee OF democrats in
favor of a republican and an independent
to GUST two democrats whose title to seats
she considers good az thoseot her own mem
bers or those of Duvat she thinks unrea-
sonable and unjust because no reason has
yet been assigned for IL. Leon is an Alli-
ance county as we'll as a democratic one
and the circular letters of Mr.. Call scat
tered broadcast on her streets denouncing
the foremost Alliance leaders 10 the Union
as "liars" have not made her forget thai
he has also denounced those democratic
leaders whom she most delights to honor.
Again: Tallahassee is moral town.
She shuts her stores on Sunday and be
lieves that many things allowed in the
metropolis of East Florida" would be
indecent in her limits. What does she
think of an opera-house run with unlim
tied whisky and cigars by lobby in the
interest of ''the peoples candidate .
Must candidate of the people resort te
the worst measures heretofore sacred te
''the corruptionists ?" Must the "candi
date of the Alliance" as Mr.. Call il
called by the T.-U, put up nationa
banker to elect him that he may abolish
national banking?
Will the people believe that Mr.. Johr
N. G. Stockton of Jacksonville, with two
national banks and two corporation
papers, both daily, would make of him
self a lobbyist, curb-stone politician {
street-corner wire puller, to cleo
a man who would break up his business
Would such men as the Stocktons O
Jacksonville keep up such a place o
business as the Tallahassee opera-hous1
has become to select the peoples candi
date" to protect the peoples riehts"-i,
do anything but put money or politica
power in the pockets Of the Stocktons an.
their little clique of Jacksonville politi
Clans?
Read, reflect and make up your minds
Will you feel honored wheh you find yo
have been used as q cats paw for III
temporary use Of these schemers?