The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-09-07
SENATOR CALL In OCALA.
HEspEAKs ON GENUINE AND sPU-
RI0Us DEMOCRACY.
The Growing Tendency Of Monopoly il
to Destroy the Democratic simplici-
ty Of Our Institutions.

presence Tor several years, ana the an
nouncement that he would speak here
last Saturday afternoon, the most in
opertune day of the week, being Sat
urday and the day for holding the
democratic primaries all over the
county, Notwithstanding large and
enthusiastic audience greeted him in
the opera house, estimated at about
four hundred persons, many of whom
had come fifteen to twenty miles to
listen to the peoples friend ON matters
of national legislation.
Promptly at the hour announced,
3 80 p. m, Editor F. E. Harris, of the
Banner, introduced the distinguished
speaker. Mr.. Harris said:
As pure as we conceive the character
of Washington to have been, history
records the lamentable fact that he
had enemies in his day and these en-
emies made onslaughts on his public
and his private life. This was then,
is now, and ever has been the bane of
our American politics. That great
trio of statesmen, eclipsing all other
names in our history, Clay, Webster
and Calhoun, We're not without their
defamers. And this has been so of all
our public men.
The loyalty of that great soldier of
the south and of the century, Robert
X. Lee, was for a long time doubted,
and Albert Sydney job nson, the flow
er of southern chivalry, went down
to his death with the sound of "trai-
tori ringing in his ears. The charac-
ter of Garfield was lampooned with
infamy, yet at his tragic death ma
tiOn of mourners hovered around his
bier. Blaine was called the "tattooed
statesman and in his first campaign
the character of Grover Cleveland was
painted as black as Dante's Inferno.
The greater are our public men the
more ferocious are the attacks made
on them. The assassins of character
are insatiate.
the attacks made on Senatar Call,
to my mind, are the most vile and un-
warranted of all. And why is this
fury raised against him SO industriousIy
feliow-citiZens? Does any man here
believe that if he had kept his mouth
closed and said nothing against the
dangerous encroachments of corporate
power that these industrious activities
would have been set in motion to ac-
complish his ruin? If he had not es-
poused the cause of the people, does
any man in this audience believe that
there would have been established
newspapers, at enormous cost, to at
tack his character, to cripple his in
fiuence and ultimately TO destroy
him?
The accumulation of vast wealth in
the hands of a few, the formation OF
syndicates and trusts and the stealthy
aud steady encroachments of eorpor-
ate power, are threatening the simplic-
ity OF our democratic institutions, and
because Wilkinson Call has had the
bravery and the manhood to put the
people on guard against these dangers,
the cry has gone forth against him,
like it went forth against Carthage of
old, Call must be destroyed ~
All this slander, all this defamation
of character, is because he has his
sympathies enlisted in the war against
these dangerous powers on the side of
the common people.
Ia one of the uprisings of the peo-
pie of France down in the ambuscades
was seen a brave and spirited officer.
The men, startled and astonished,
asked: What are you doing here?"
Doing here,n he said, "why | belong
here. | was born on this side, and on
this side | expect, if necessary, to
yield up my life ~
The gentleman who is to address
you to-day, fellow-citizens, like this
brave young French officer, was born
on the side.of the people and his ele-
walton TO office doesn't make him for
get them. Their rights and interests
were instilled into his youthful mind
by his honored uncle, the late Richard
X. Call, aud in the struggle of the peo-
pie against the combination OF trusts
and syndicates, aggregated wealth and
power, he will be found
down in the aaubuscades among the
common people, fighting to restore
their liberties and traditions the same
rs they were left fresh from the hands
of the founders of our government.
The Introduction met with great favor
and at its conclusion Senator Call
stepped TO the front and was received
with loud and prolonged cheering
He was listened to with profound at
tention and the telling poiuts in his
speech, which were many, were en-
applauded.
The Banner would be pleasdd to
print the Senator's address i'm full, had
it the space, to show Its readers how
grossly he is misrepresented by the
monopolisIic press of the state aud the
self-styled leaders of the democracy
of the commonwealth.
Say what they viii, Senator Call has
beyond doubt during
his course ia Congress and in his
speeches to the people that he is stick
ing close to them, guarding their in
terests and is solicitous of their well
fare, giving no uncertain words of
warning to the yeomanry of the land,
of the intent and acts of the lieuten-
ants of the railroad interests in the
state, manipulating the democratic
party to do their bidding and tramp
ling on the grand principles of the
party which mas made it the peoples
party.
The Senator gave the same explana-
tion here that he has done elsewhere
why he opposed the confirmation Of
Messrs. Long and Wilson and his ex-
PLANTATION met with very generous APP
plause.
All in all, it was Call day in
0cala, and he left here with more
friends than when he came. Score
another triumph for the tribune of
the people.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for Cuts.
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands