The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-03-11
TALIAFERRo AND JENNINGS 81
MAYO.

The Live Oak Crescent Of March ;
contains an account of the joint dis
cussion between Governor Jennings
and Senator TSliaferrO al Mayo, ID
Taylor county, and claims that the
governor filed the senator with after
shame and confusion-putung him
entirely to rout.
| Here is how it says the governor
didit.
Governor Jennings then proceeded 70 read
the national democratic platform II proof Of
. his specified charges. and asked senator Tslia.
ferTo at the conclusion of each plank i he
. lTaliaie-rol. had introduced bill, resolution
OF amendment =1bodylng any idea II either
plank 10 which the senator couG net answer.
Then i was realized by the audience that the
- governor had the senator II a position tha; he
could 70; sK;ucate himself from. and the
crowd jha; al one time seemed 20 Be cheering
the senator began cheering the governor with
enthusiasm. and a. he proceeded section by
section P-OPou1dIugi a mastery manner that
the senator could not answer. sustaining every
point, the crowd began cheering I'll the gov
eruor could hardly be heard.
II seems prepo,terous and almost
incredibls that any intelligent demo-
crst could be made to applaud such
an sd captsndum speech aud TO
resort TO such q performance shows
that the governor IL in most desperate
and deplorable straits.
II every democratic senator IN
Washington, one after another, had
taken the planks OF the democratic
platform day after day aud sought to
have had any idea embodied in them
favorably considered in that body,
those distinguished men, supposed to
be dignifed, grave and reverend,
would have long since become the
laughing stock of the world.
The governor l. dealing in the
merest clap trap and We would feel
hurt to believe that any democrat Of
average intelligence could be deceiv-
Ell by his methods.
He Is proceeding along underwriting |
lines.
The Mayo correspondent Of the |
Live Gas Crescent gives the following /
a. Jennings wonderful peroratiou:
After which. a. soon a. quiet could be re-
stored the governor asked the audience 20 /
place II Imagination the national democratic /
platform u one column as measurement and /
test OF Mr.. Talisfe-ro's service IN the senate /
during his four years term and place BY its side /
IN deadly parallel column every bill, resOlu-
ton Or amendment that he has introduced IN
the senate Of the United states and that such /
column would be as blank as the white walls Of /
the court house, and the crowd began cheering
again.
Governor Jennings closed bis speech under
the time limit amid wild applause by offering
reward FOR the matches record Of senator
TalisferrO the corporation papers have told the
people 50 much about"
Mr.. TaliaferrD, though making a
record in the senate of which his
friends feel msnifestly proud, is not
miracle worker aud does not claim,
nor his friends for him, to have hyp--
Noticed republican senate, re pu0
lican house and republican presi-
dent into ratifying the several planks
OF the national democratic platform,
by till, resolution or otherwise, and
the man who thinks such a thing
possible on the part Of Mr.. Taliaferro
or any other democratic senator,
ought TO be run down, caught, Gagged,
muzzled aud exhibited throughout
the country a. a curiosity far exceed.
ing Barnum's woody horse" or the
what is it,"
For his consistency and brave fight
sgainst big odds, We still retain our
love for the silver Dug; for MS pluck
and sudscity, We applaud the gold
bug; but for his cheek, deception and
duplicity, please, good Lord, now aud
sIu-svs dahvar n from tho huD,huoy