The Weekly Tallahasseean. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 18??-1905, 1900-11-01
explained, and he will go fully into.
inc educational matters" Judge w;
). Jennings in his Tampa speech.
Jacksonville Speakers.

Placard and the auction bell.
The party was composed of
Messrs. John L. Doggett, w. J.
Bryan and Robt. Sears.
Only Mr.. Bryan spoke. The
speaking was in the court house, and.
as lSwas court week, we are told
that there was present a tolerablv
far audience, a few ladies being Of
the number.
As we were not present to hear
Mr.. Bryan's speech, we would not
refer, to it, but for the fact that he is
reported as making some intolerant
criticisms OF certain newspapers that
do not flavor Jacksonville as the CAP
ltal, among which the Courier Infor-
mant was mentioned as one. We
are aware that at a point or points of
his Spsech, Mr.. Bryan is reported as
dlsclaming that this paper was in
Guided In some of the criticisms: but
he did not keep it so separated from
the others that he may have had in
mind, as to make it clear what part
OF his structures he meant for it alone
to bear, and what part he intended
to apply to it in common with 9th
ers.
Was the Courier-Informant, for
instance, one Of the 'slittle weeklies
that presumed to mould public opin-
lOn? Was it one of those he tried
to belittIe by the rating of some of
those "little weeklieS" as having for
their office equipment only "a pocket
tul OF type, box of bIacking and a
brush" and yet "presuming?" Was
1t ole OF those included in the "sub-
sldlzed press" of which he had much
to say? Was it one of those charged
with ''exhausting the mud holes
throwlng mud on their betters?"
The quoted words may not be the
exact words of Mr.. Bryan, but they
carry the idea conveyed by him to his
audience on the several points
named.
Now, 1t makes but little difference
whether any one of the ideas named
was hsended 7to-xefer exclusively, in |
part, or at all, to this or that particu:
lar newspaper, they were all doubt
less intended to do nomore than create |
little laugh favorable to the speaker
at the expense of his opponents.
They show IN him an intolerance |
that, not being able to meet by fair
and proper argument those opposed
to his schemes, resorts to assertion
and epithet which he, in a desperate
effort to hold up a dying cause,
thinks will rescue him and it. He t
does not yet know that a strong
cause does not need to malign It's Op-
pOnents, and that a weak cause is
made weaker by it.
Therefore, from that standpoint.
he IS entitled to sympathy. Neither
MIR, Bryan nor any other orator,
however, despite 1.-THE effort, will be
able to shade, much less hide behind
such assaults, the fact that a few
Oeal politicians have set their heads
together for the purpose of imposing .
IN the State an unnecessary, and an t
enormous debt for their own profit
md pleasure.
The removal question, from its in /.
'eptiOn to the present time, is a
cries of steps any one of which NAV :
afely be challenged as unfairl Y =
creed on the State through the June :
convention, whose members were
elther elected with reference to such =
question, nor went to Jacksonville :
o attend that convention, expecting
o be confronted by this serious =
uestiOn of Capital removal and all .
hat Is involved in it. Look at the l
Ote on this part of the platform II II
breed on members before the NOM
nations were made. Look at the
iurallty vote, declared as sufficient
remove the Capital instead of a a
laJOrlty vote, or a three-ffths vote b
Is require ed in the Legislature; look e,
the binding of all Democrats to b
ote for every after step, should the v
ovember primary declare in favor in
removal, reaching forward in It's m
hiding power even to the I,egisla- al
ire of 1908; and can you still claim
lat these steps are fair? Shall the
reater wealth of one candidate for -,
he capital assume tO'itself the right I'll
one to mould opinion? al
Shall not the press of the country, Sc Sc
owever inadequate the equipment N
type; however limited in the in ca
lence; however clean its hands of p
'ibe, be berated by Mr.. Bryan be-
fuse, fOrsooth, it does not keep sill
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