The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1900-08-23
FALSE ALLIE CATION
jacksonville Capital ASSOCial!
tiOn MiSrepTeSentS
STATECONVENTIONS ACTIOI
Condition of Present Capitol Nd
Passed Upon.

It's we'll known fact, that the quef
ton of Capital removal was used
the city of Jacksonville, primarily f@
local purposes and that it was precik Z
itated into the State Convention ath
time wheE the nominations wei
pending and the % votes of Duvk 81
county were so much desired by tle
friends of four of the candidates FIR
Governor; that they preferred to voge
to submit the question to the peOp&,
without considering its merits. TIL 3,
in itself, shows that the delegates D
not consider the matter of much ile-
portance and that they were simpy
submitting the question to the peoIk e
for their decision.
After securing, under Sch circul :
stances, the adoption of that portif fn
of the platform calling for prims y
election on the question of the lo$ i
ton of the Capital, the Capital l :
moval Association of Jacksonville J.
dertakes to convey the impressi sn
that the Convention endorsed ae
idea that the Capital should be e.
moved. Could there be aDythEg
more absurd? The fact is, that ne
action af the Convention was in 30
sense an expression of opinion favk kr-
able to Capital removal, and it Jas
clearly so stated in the COnventis IN.
The principal argument used in g.
half of the adoption of the Cap kal
removal plank in the platform Jas
that the people should be given an
opportunity to express themselves on
the subject.
The delegates to the Convent Hon
from the several counties Except i 80,
one for and one againsD were not In
structed upon the question of subj it.
ting the Capital question TO the TO-
pie and there had been no express* *ps
Of opinion un the part of the people
favOring any such action excepk in
Duval county, hence, the deleg es
themselves could not, even if Fey
had so desired, put on record by
thing to show that there was g&le-
raj desire, or real necessity, for Ehe
removal of the Capital. 1t was fell
known and understood by the die
gates to the Convention that no f1ch
desire then existed except on the
part of a few politicians, and bat
there was no necessity whatever for
such removal.
Il is not surprising that, sinS / it
was decided that the question of sahe
removal Of the Capital must be knb-
mitted to the people, there shoul be
other aspirants for the Capital. bat
is in keeping with the natural o DER
of things. Every citizen, or com s4u-
nifty, has the right to seek what sFer
may be honestly obtained, but sthe
purpose to seek in the matter of Gap
ital removal qcdS determined q Fer,
and not before, the action of kthe
convention, in every case exceI as
to Jacksonville.
The Jacksonville Capital RemeFal
Association, not being content 1th
the ridiculous attempt to show $hat
the convention approved of the kdea
of removing the Capital, now cl ims
that it is oneedless to consider 1the
condition of the present capitol bk lid
ing" because that matter has cen.
passed upon by the people r9 pre-
sented in the last Democratic ksOn-
vention." This is plain efok f to
deceive the people into the lief
that the actual condition of the State
House at Tallahassee was know to
all the delegates to the State Con-
vention and that they arrived ht
conclusion, which was based kpon
ascertained facts.
Now it is respectfully submit ked,
that a great majority of the ele-
gates to the Democratic State Eon-
Ventlon IN June, A. ID. 1000, h9 no
idea what kind of a buildingf the
State Capitol was, and for that trea-
son it would have been an abs lutte
impossibility for the conventid b to
have expressed an intelligent tpin-
ion. AS a matter of fact, the con-
vention had no intention of exl Fess-
ing an opinion as to the cOndit IN of
the Capitol building, and any att Empt
to show that any such expressioE was
had is without the slightest fol knda-
ton in fact. If the conventiol had
intended to convey any such in pres
sion is it reasonable to suppose that
the delegates would not have T aced
themselves on record in plalt Ian
guage so that their constf fents
would know just what was meaSt. Is
there a word in the State Demo kratic
Platform condemniDg the PPsent