The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-10-07
MR.. sRowARO IN ocALA.


orat,c nominee for governor of Flor
ida spoke to a fairly good sized
audience at the court house Tuesday
| morning, beginning his speech at ten
O'Clock and closing at fifteen min
utes past twelve.
In the absence Of Committeeman
Edwin w. Davis, Hon. Henry W.
Long was requested to act as master
of ceremonies.
Gen. Robert Bullock, being the
i Oldest democrat present, and IN
memory of his past services to the
party. was hOnored by being request
ed to occupy a seat on the platform.
In his Introductory speech Mr..
Long stated that as a nomination on
the democratic ticket, as politics
now stand in this state, is regarded as
equivalent to an election, therefore
there is not the same interest mani
tested after as before a primary nomi-
nation and for that reason democratic
| audiences are not so large. Mr..
Long said he made it point, when
introducing a speaker, not to make
the speech of the occasion, but he
could not help from referring with
regret to the mud that was thrown
during our primary canvas and he
hoped the spectacle that the Sheats-
Holloway controversy had inflicted
on the public would prove a warning
to the party hereafter and that it
would not again be duplicated.
Mr.. Long then introduced Mr..
Broward as the ''next governor of
Florida"
Mr.. Broward in bowling his acknOw
Judgement to the applause which
greeted him, thanked the people for
the great honor they had conferr-
ed on him by giving him the nomina
ton and said that as his election was
a foregone conclusion he could under
stand why great throngs are not now
attending his meetings. He said he
would preface his speech by telling
an anecdote. He said there was once
an Old man accompanied by a little
boy, who had gone squirrel hunting.
He finally saw d squirrel in the top of /
a tree and in raising his gun to shoot /
it his palsied hands caused the gun to /
wobble, but when he fired, the squir- /
rel fell and he referred to the ac-
curacy of his shot with some degree
of satisfaction to the little boy, who |
remarked that it would have been i'm /
possible for him to have missed the |
squirrel because his gun covered the
whole tree.
So the speaker said that he had so
much to say that he would be obiig-
ed to "wObble" good deal but
hoped to hit everything he fired at.
Mr.. Broward said that it is inn
portant for several reasons that the !
democrats should vote in this cleo
ton, one of them being that the re-
publican party in its platform pro-
poses to cut down the representation /
in the south for the alleged reason
that the negro vote in this section is
suppressed. Mr.. Broward, however.
claims that this is not true so far as it |
relates to Florida. That, if the negro |
here pays his poll tax and complies |
with the law in other respects, he /
is allowed to vote the same as white /
man and his vote is counted.
He said that there are several .
presidential tickets in the field, To-
wit: the populist, socialist, prohibi
zionist, republican and democratic. so /
it behOoves the democrats to Doll as |
big a vote as possible in order TO |
maintain its prestige and solidarity. |
He said that he was glad that the
democratic vote was so much divided
in the primary election, because il
showed an independence among the
democratic voters to be admired and
that while he thanked those who |
voted for him he had only admiration |
and no i'll will towards those who
voted against him.
He said he recognized the fact that
the highest officer in the state is but