The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-27

vast bust ness activities, which under
skillful management and persistent
energy will grow into such marvel
Gus proportions as to overshadow
the land.-Pasco Democrat.
FIFTY.DoLLAR IMMIGRANTS.
In reply to criticisms upon his
itemized expense account as special
agent of the Florida bureau of immi-
grafton, Mahlon Gore, editor Of the
Orlando Reporter has this to say:
a few months ago the Times I'm
ion suggested that the bureau of i'm
migration secure the services Of O.
NJ. Crosby, and allow that gentle
man fifty dollars per head for each
immigrant he might secure in Flori-
da. That paper then had in view
the securing Of foreign immigrants
who land at Castle Garden, in New
York city, ordinarily people Of little
means and not specially desirable
citizens. 1t suggested that such a
plan would be far more fruitful than
some Of the INSTRUCTED efforts Of
the bureau to secure settlers from
the West. This suggestion was
made dur ing my western trip.
In reply to your criticism let me
make the proposition to the State of
Florida: If the state will give me
fifty dollars per head for all who
have settled here through and by
reason of my efforts in the West
during the months Of September,
October and Mover last, | will re-
imburse the state for every cent of
the expense Of that trip, salary, in
cidentals and all. | am prepared to
enter into a bond in the sum Of ten
thousand dollars to carry out my
part of this proposition.
More than this. If the state wants
settlers l will engage to supply
them at fifty dollars per head, and l
would be glad to undertake to secure
a hundred thousand dollars worth
at that rate. They should not be
Castle Garden pauper laborers either
But good American citizens, with
the means and experience to render
them valuable citizens.
DOWN WITH CLIQUE RULE.
Through the Republican, Judge
Goss, the Times Union seeks to defile
the fountain head Of democratic
authority, when it declares the dem
ocratic state convention at St. Au-
gustine to be the creature of corrup-
and it's candidates the "out-
put" OF monopolies. The policy ad-
voca,ed by the TimesUnion was
discOuntenancrd and Overthrown by
the last state convention at Ocala, |
which reatfirmed the two-thirds rule,
refused to endorse Call, and nomi-
mated the candidates against which |
the Times Union had declared its |
enmity. Democratic opposition
would have dropped there; the
Times Union did not.
For the TimeS-Union and its near
est friends opposed the two. thirds
rule at Tallahassee; it opposed itself
to democratic law when it advoca-
ted the dissolution of the caucus,
and it opposed itself to all loyal
faith between man and man when it
applauded the breach of the resolu-
ton adopted unanimously by the
caucus and accepted by its candi-
lates.
Even more than all this-!he unity
Of the party is only preserved by
fealty to the constituted authority
Of the party and its legal represen-
atives. Against all these the
Times Union is openly at war; it is
not, therefore, at war with party ?
For it calls the democratic governor
4 "Mahoneite" it attempts to drive
eading democrats out of the party
t is at war with the state democrat
C executive committee, and attacks
hat body almost daily {! Does it
not by this course withdraw itself
rom the party? "He that is not
Tor me is against me" is a tenet in
politics as absolute as in religion.
In view of recent developments,
he possession OF this VOLTS hide be-
comes dangerous. AT the banquet
given to Mr.. Call in Jacksonville,
lis friends made open avowal of
purpose to control state politics in a
certain direction. Clearly and en-
these parties declare they
AVE "plan" to be forced on the
party which will secure Ga governor
n accord with them" policy on the
inc pursued by the Call men at Tai
ahassee, and pursuance of the course
# the Times Union. The acknowl.
dyed leader of the Call men, Hon.
frank Clark, Of Polk, in his late
peech at Leesburg, uttered the
tartling prediction that these
6 views" ShOnld dominate tho nortv