The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-07-29
WHAT DOES IT AVAIL?"
Evidently Not i'm Editor Harris Tell.
ing The Truth.


in the issue of the Banner of July
%. AS most of the editorial is
repetition of what the editor has
said for more than six months,
we will only indicate one para
graph, the essence of which is
the Banner is justly entitled to
the pittance of a little public
printing, and because the old
board of county commissioners
saw fit to give it to another pa
per, the Ocala Evening Star, the
heart of the editor of the Banner
is bowed down with grief mex
pressible and from it's pathetic
wall, will die of broken heart un-
less that financial invigorator
tones it's system for another
twelve months.
Forsooth a pittance And yet
for dozen years, to say nothing
of the years preceding these, the
snug little plum of $500 has
dropped into the receptacle of his
"portable property" If this is
editor Harris idea of a measly
pittance, what amount of money
for four weeks service does he
designate as reasonable sum?
An editorial along this line would
be SO refreshing to his readers.
But he continues, and condensed,
it's purport runs in this wise: The
Banners party, it's friends, it's
Banner, it's labors, all were vic
torious. 1t was thanked by
every head of every executive
political committee in the land
and Bryan wrote the editor a let
ter. Good! The governor and
Congressman Davis actually
slapped the editor of the Banner
on the back and calculated:
Crank, you are power in the
land and nothing is too good for
you in the gift of the party"
The last sentence is ours.
But all this, too, is begging the
question, for it, too, is a beggerjy
pittancc.
Now hear: "But what did its
friends at home do: They delib-
erately attempted its assasina-
ton. With it's record (the Ban
ner's) in their possession, they
gave the public printing, to
which, by every reasoning of
right, it was entitled, to a man
who had not been in the state
long enough to cast vote, whose
footsteps had not yet warmed our
soil, and whose newspaper these
officials designated had not yet
been born (for confirmation of
our statement see official propo-
sition) and the clerks office was
made an advertising bureau for
this paper"
In years past editor Harris had
the reputation, and, his friends
believed he was worthy of it, OF
being a fair-minded, honest and
truthful presentator of facts in
dealing editorially with subjects
Whatever that reputation has
been in the past the passage
quoted is sadly lacking in the ele
ments named, as the Star viii
proceed to demonstrate.
Editor Harris says the printing
of the delinquent list "was giveI
to a man who had not been in thu
state long enough to vote"
J. G. Porter, the proprietor
and publisher Of the Ocala Even
ing Star, has lived in Mariol
county thirteen years and fol
eight Years has published th'
-, Baptist Witness and for ovel
two years the Ocala Evening
Star, besides having voted il
!, this county for twelve years ant
j, never scratched or voted augh
;, but a democratic ticket. How i
J.. this for statement No l:
If in this article editor Harri
n refers 20 J. a. Mellon, editor o
t the Evening Star, he is agail
S wrong, for this gentleman cam
d to Florida in February, 1894. ar,