The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-02-12
rom the Washington Post.
SENATOR CALLS CAREER.
A Strict Party Man and Consistent Aavo.
cate Of Silver.


summing up of the senatorial sItua
ton In Florida, has, to my mind. beer
guilty Of gross injustice to the senio,
senator from that state. / have bee,
a close observer of Mr.. Calls course IN
congress for fifteen out of the eighteen
years he has had the honor to occunx
seat in the United States senate. a.
to his "erratic course" and the in.
ability to classify him but as "sne
generis," the idea has evidently origi,
mated in the fertile Imagination Of
yonr Tampa correspondent.
The Senator has always been strictly
party man, and has invariably acted
with his party whenever any vital
party measure has been before the sen.
ate, and stands to-day with the major.
ity of his democratic colleagues. a
pronounced advocate of the free coin
age of silver.
Senator Call has served his state
with distinguished and signal ability
and his popularity there needs no COM
ment. The fact of his having received
the caucus nomination, and having
been elected for three successive terms,
speaks for itself.
He has encountered the same Oppo-
sition at the expiration of each term,
but il has vanished like vapor before
the MONDAY sun when the Legislature
convened to elect his successor.
Without entering. therefore, into a
discussion as to the merits or dement's
of the various candidates who aspire
to succeed Senator Call, it is safe to
prophesy that he will be his own sue
cessor.
In writing this | beg to state that /
have no private ak to grind, as I am
neither an office holder nor an office
seeker, and am actuated solely by a
sense of justice and an interest
i'm the state where | once claimed
citizenship.
r. a. FENNELL.
Washington, January %.
Captain Bill Kendrick, always n
welcome visitor, is in Ocala,
Don't fail to go to DIR. Lloyd's drug
store and see the closing out stock.
Mr.. Fl. b Masters arrived in the
city Thursday afternoon from New
York.
Ocala dosen'tlseem to know when
she has got enough. She wants
another bank.
p. II. Mcintosh, of Fernandina,
committed suicide last Tuesday after
quarreling with his wife.
Mr.. T., II. Nissan, prominent
broadway attorney, is in OcaIa visit
ing his brother, w. A. Nissan.
Bradley Martin, who has become
famous on account of the great ball,
has near relatives living in Ocala.
Mr.. w. Il. Goodwin, the Gainesville
capitalist. was in 0cala Thursday
looking after his Investments here.
DIR, C. Sill of the Park dropped in to
see us during the week. The Doctor
is planting egg plants on an extensive
scale.
Rev. DIR. w. W. Dubose, president
of the Mont Eagle Female College, of
Mont Eagle, Tenn, is at the Ocala
House.
The basis of general prosperity is in
the prosperous condition of the agri-
cultural classes. -Brockton, Mass. }
Diamond.
Tobacco planting is becoming one
of the leading industries of Gadslen
county. Tobacco planting in Florida
has come to stay.
Mr.. J. Spence Stone, formerly of the
Banner, is aow foreman of the Chat
tanooga Times, aud is receiving u
very handsome salary.
The county school superintendent
held an Interesting meeting at Live
Oak Tuesday. Many interesting top
les were discussed and important pa
pers read.
The Epworth League held big
rally in the Methodist church begin
ming Thursday night. Most of the State
officers were present and read inn
portant papers.
Now is your chance to get toilet ar
ticles. patent medicines and a variety
Of articles less than cost at the closing
out sale of DIR. L. Z. Lloyd's drug
store, Broadway.
Mr.. NJ. II. Clark, private secretary
for jeff Davis during the late war
and now a prominent tobacco manu-
facturer in Tennessee, is in Ocala and
will make thorough investigation OF
Marion county soils.
The first shipment this year of or
anges was made from Eastlake a fe"
days ago by Geo. f. Snow, from the
Sam HodgsOn's old grove. They were
billed to Boston, and averaged l76 ant
$50 to the box.
Go to DR.. Lloyd's drug store, Broad
way, and see the'elosing out line o
medicines and toilet articles away be
low cost. Iron tonic bitters, Sl.W
now IS cents; female regulators, 81
now IS cents; Blizzard oil 20 cents, for
merry % cents.
Just arrived to-day, the finest lot o
Georgia raised Jersey cows and heit