The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-07-30
Mcintosh Mention.

For ourselves we accept Content!
suggestion and our cap and bells will
only be seen every "coon's age" in The
columns of the Banner. We think
the remainder of the Banner band o.
the male way of chewing their TO-
bacco had better do likewise, as there
seems to be need of Mr.. Harris
heavy political editorials about thi,
time for the gold bugs are moving
| heaven and earth TO capture the un'
terrified but badly demOralized democ.
racy. OF course Content and the
| other sweet girl correspondents will
have to have their regular weekly say
"a woman must talk You know.
Mcssrs. l.. B. Porter, Wood and Bass
polite and efficient head statesmen, left
Wednesday for Nashville TO "do" the
exposition Guy Aver, son of Oui
worthy representative, is in Jackson
vile for few days Miss Griffin,
daughter of our efficient county treas
urer, is visiting in our city, the guest
of Mrs. Thomas Hugh Pettis, ol
Palatka, has been spending few days
III the city We understand that
several Cuban tobacco growers have
been looking at land in this vicinity,
they intend growing the weed foI
market Mcintosh is not hustling,
we willingly let Lowell claim that dis
tinction, but it is progressive. When
it comes TO growing vegetables our
good folks pull off their coats and roll
up their sleeves and make more veg
etables than any point on the road.
When the rapid growth of our popu-
latiOn made increased school facilities
necessary, Mcintosh was equal to the
emergency; our school builing was en-
llrged, another teacher employed and
another year still other advances will
he made. The next scholastic year
finds Mcintosh with high school
employing three teachers. "When
the summer days had come the hot
test of the year with beaming sun and
cleaning sand and no breeze any,
was apparent when presto the dam is
erected and the pool is au fait accom-
plished and the deniZens of our pro-
gressive city can now dispOrt them
selves lad libitum' in its pellucid
waters. Our county commission
er and all round hustler, w. +. Allen,
is entitled to the belt as the best auct-
iOneer in the state. At recent sale
while selling furniture he gave such
free vein to his vivid descriptive pow
ers as to actually sell himself a single
bedstead for one dollar more than the
original cost five or six years ago.
Forgetting for the moment that he
was the purchaser he got off his usual
joke and raised such laugh at his
own expense that Mr.. Gist had to hold
him to Keep him from jumping the
crowd Why don't Silverite shut
his face about Dutchman voting the
populist ticket? Say. brother, isn't
this free country and can't Dutch
man vote as he pleases without being
eternallY nagged about it? Does voting
the p0pulist tick0t make him any
poorer farmer or worse citizen and
neighhor. Let me whisper you little
secret. The populists p0lled nearly two
million votes in 1891 and Bryan failed
to carry the country by 600,0oD votes
last fall, although supported by the
free silver republicans, many gold
democrats and large percentage of
the populists. At the next election
all the gold democrats will vote
against him, a half million would be
n low estimate and if the populists
take the middle of the road, carrying
their two million votes away, where
will Bryan and the free silver demo-
Gratis be? Take your pencil and do a
little figuring along this line and l
think you will see it is necessary for
the democrats to pursue an exceeding
ly conciliatory course towards the pop
ulists. TOUCHSTONE.
T0uchstone hits the nail squarely
on the head. We don't want to drive
the popuIists away from us but want
to induce them to come back TO the
fold. Ed. Banner.
Highest market price paid for coun-
try produce, by J. B. Sutton, % Expo
sition st. 6-lStf