The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-05-18

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title they have accepted and cheer
| fully wear.
These men have been denounced as
"demagogues;n men "hostile to the
interests of Florida" men who are
actuated by desire to Cypress the
railroads and drive capital from the
state, which we are always told is
timid.
On the committee that issued this
reform address Marion county was
represented in the person OF General
Bullock. Why should he at thislate
hour turn demagogue? Having spent
his whole life among tile wilds of
Florida, why should he now be hostile
to her interest and in arms against
her further progress? The hero of
two wars, brevetted in both for bra
very, and beloved by his soldiers be-
cause always carrying himself on a
level with them and never above
them, why should plain Bob Bullock
belle his whole life and in his old age
become demagogue and turn trail
tor to his state? And to be told this
by newspaper that hasn't been here
long enough to claim citizenship is
rubbing it in little deep.
From this paper, which comes to
Florida to denounce men whom the
people of Florida have honored, Tut us
take sample extracts:
Florida is rich, but its native wealth consists
chiefly in ITS hidden and undeveloped resources
To continue the splendid progress of the past
few years the same means must be employed
which were use to inaugurate that era of pros
perity and II bring us to the point which we
have reached. We are not yet ready to say that
we want no more capital and pluck and enter
prise from abroad to prosecute this work to its
greatest degree of success. We shall need more
money and more people to complete it.
There are few newspapers and politicians in
the state who would defeat these ends entirely.
Their blind zeal for so-called reform" move
ment in politics has led them into the adoption
OF course which seeks to strike death-blow to
this work of advancement These papers have
caught up the arts and Establishments of dema-
to gain In the hope of riding into Office on the
prejudices of the people, these politicians would
sacrifice every interest of the state, and finally
the people themselves.
Can the people of Florida be deluded into the
belief that such men are patriots? Do they not
know that with the reins of government in such
hands not another dollar would seek investment
in their state? Do they not know that the course
he
drive capital away from Florida?
We call upon the people of Florida
to declare these statements false be-
cause they are false.
For period of nearly thirty years
the editor of this paper has been labor
ing for the upbuilding of Florida.
Every throb of his heart and beat of
his pulse have been in sympathy with
the people of this state. And this
couldn't possibly be otherwise. Born
here; married here; children born
here; bones of parents mingling
with the soil here every in
terest here, and yet told by the
editor of this paper who hasn't
even voting residence here, that we
have the ''arts and Establishments of
demagogue;" that we seek to strike
DEATH blow to the advancement of
the state, and all for the sake of pit
iful office.
Fellow-citizens! the free distribution
of one of these corporation papers and
the Jealous upholding of the other by
the corporate power of Florida bodies
no good, and good people should not
be deceived by them and should up
hold the papers and the men whose
long years of faithful service tell of
their loyalty and devotion to the peo-
pie.