The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-05-19
MAYOR WELlES
ROASTS BLISS
Whom He Accuses OF
Lying and Failing
to Pay His
Debts.
PROBABLY FIVE HUNDRED PRES.
EMIT IN SEVILLE SQUARE, HALF
OF WHOM WERE WOMEN AND
cHIIDREN-SPEAkERS FAILED
TO ELICIT ANYTHING LIKE GEN.
ERoUs RESPONSE:

Probably five hundred people attend
ed the Grand Rally al Seville Square
last night in the interest of the can
diGacy of Cheever L. Shine for mayor
of Pensacola, but the crowd was made
up of at least $50 women and children
and a large number of Bliss support
ers and was noticeably lacking in
enthusiasm. DR.. F. G. Renshaw pre-
sided and introduced the speakers
who took occasion to inject many
petty personalities into their remarks,
some of which caused laughter on the
stand but most of which fell with a
dull sickening thud, expressive, appa-
rently, of the contempt the crowd felt
for such reprehensible methods OF
campaigning.
r. Pope Reese
was the first speaker, and he devoted
his remarks principally to the White
| Democratic primary, which he declar-
FED was Illegal. He referred to the
question of municipal ownership,
which he stated was an old matter in
Pensacola and, although Mr.. Bliss
claimed the issue as his own particu-
lar property, it had been an issue for
number of years. In support Of his
contention he read from Chapter 50S7,
Acts of 1901, Laws of Florida. relative
TO the issuance of bonds by the city
OF Pensacola. He eulOgized the anti
white primary candidate in flowery
terms, and was applauded weakly as
ne retired. bearing bouquet which he
stopped like a professional ball tosser
when it was fired at him The next
| speaker was
C. 1. Shine.
Mr.. Shine talked at considerable
length, principally of the qualifications
he possessed for the Office of mayor.
He reiterated his platform and re-
ferred the curious to the people OF
Tallahassee for his record previous to
taking up his residence in this city.
He praised the administration OF
Mayor WelleS and promised to follow
in his footsteps if elected d In answer
! TO published questions of Mr.. Bliss,
/ Mr.. Shine said he had been guilty Of
performing manual labor, but that he
had not done so anywhere but in the
state of Florida. Referring to Mr..
Bliss statement that he (Bliss) had
lforgotten more about the labor ques-
ton than Mr.. Shine would ever know,
3 the speaker said he was not response
bic for Mr. Bliss deficient memory.
( (Pope Reese yelled once or twice while
the others on the stand applauded
weakly
/ Mr.. Shine was presented with
bouquet two sizes larger than the one
received by Mr.. Reese, for which he
duly expressed his appreciation.
George 7. Morgan.
4 Dr. Renshaw introduced the ex-
Calling Gun as "The Ricocheting tor
pedo whose florid rhetoric would put
/ to blush the Aurora Borealis or cal
cicum light" Mr.. Morgan then pro-
ceeded to rieoehet. Mr.. Morgan said.
in effect that the candidacy of Chas.
Fl. Wells and Rix NJ. Robinson was
more or less of q joke and that Mr..
Robinson was simply working to get
/ a chance at the federal repubii
can trough again The aurora"
jumped municipal ownership along
the same lines as Mr.. Reese and then
read a paragraph from Mr.. Bliss
/ book on strikes, which he criticised
/ severely He then took up the water
I franchise question and asserted, In
/ substance, that the franchise applied
for by Mr.. Bliss was the biggest kind
of a graft-the most valuable, in fact.
ever asked for in the state Of Florida.
In this connection Mr.. Morgan said:
l'1 believe that he Bliss and the
linen interested in moving the stand
pipe have Bliss up as their candidate
for the purpose of securing the fran
ehise. The question never come down
to municipal ownership until Mr.. Bliss
got it into his head that he could be
j elected mayor Of Pensacola. That n
J the meat in the cocoanut of municipal
ownership. It is Mr.. Bliss for mayor
! and the franchise afterwards" In con-
Injection with the talk on Mr.. Bliss's
labor record Mr.. Morgan said: Read
his book and you viii see that there
has been Judas Iscariots since the
!. time OF Christ; you will see that Bene-
/ dict Arnold was not the only traitor"
!, He closed his address by landing Mt.
Shine and hurting few personalities