The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-09-22
AREcAPrTULAT1OH.

True Democrat produces the evidence.
Bronson Times-Democrat.
! Now, IL Brother Collins would only
give names ther'd probably be some
! thing doing Tell US all about it and let
the people of Florida know the persons.
Madison New Enterprise.
II those papers in the State that are
charging graft in connection with the
State Printing and other matters are
really in earnest they should state the
facts and let the accused have chance
TO defend themselves, and If they are
guilty let the people who pay the bills
know who the recalcitrants are. Inu-
endo is not argument. - DeFuniak
Breeze.
The Tallahassee True Democrat is
saying some things 50 pointed as to be
almost personal about the doings at the
capital and the conduct of some of the
State officials and their attaches, yet
the Daily Capital doesn't seem to know
that there is such a paper printed at
Tallahassee as the True Democrat.
The Daily Capital has the opportunity,
| If it wants to take advantage of it, to
! keep itself busy at home without pay
| ing the least attention to the Marion
county democratic executive committee.
-Ocala Banner.
Quite stir is being created through
out newspaper circles in the State over
the action Of the Tallahassee True Dem
Ocrat in alleging fraud in connection
with the Jennings administration. This
paper does not minCe matters; it comes
out with some strong and rather start
ling assertions which it claims it can
prove. There is no mistaking the
course Editor John Collins proposes to
pursue. The outcome will be awaited
with interest. If there has been
wrong doing The True Democrat will
be performing a public duty in making
known that fact. 1t will remain for
the law to mete out punishment, st,
Augustine Record.
Editor Collins, of The Tallahassee
True Democrat, ia making relentless
war upon the Jennings administration.
He has made it so hot that, he says,
even members and clerks of the pres
ent administration won't speak to him
as they pass by. And the Tampa Trib-
une sits listlessly by the roadside and
says never word. 1t was supposed
that the Tribune was the red hottest
enemy of the Jennings administration,
but It seems that the Democrat has
y
hands and injected few thousand
volts of extra heat into it, Punta Cor
da Herald.
The only reason why The True Demo-
crat is singled out as the object Of such
remarks as are quoted above is that
this newspaper has had the courage to
print facts which were otherwise we'll
known, and most Of which were con-
tanned in the public records, and to COM
ment upon the same without fear or
favor.
The "irregularities" at the State
hospital; the reckless employment of
special COUNSEL; the absurd and mis-
chievous Jennings idea that the grant
of public land in trust to the Internal
mprovementBOard was ''irrevOcable";
the improvident and unnecessary sales
Of public lands to spectators; the posi-
lively unauthorized and unlawful pay
ment of fee to b. S. Liddon in the
Taylor case; the farming out of special
privileges to "mine" logs in the beds
of rivers to the State printer land as
sociates"; the unparalleled extrava-
gance of management of the States
business by the employment of numer-
Gus clerks, citing as an instance the
office Of the Comptroller whose pay
roll now foots up $2S, 600 for assistance;
the almost innumerable so-called inves-
LEGATIONS of some of these IRREGULAR
ties" with no actual results, notwith-
standing the publication of evidence
abundantly strong enough to justify
criminal prosecutions; the well-knOwn
and baneful influence Of Ex-Governor
Jennings as a lobbyist during the ses-
sions of the Legislature and as a volun-
teer adviser of the present State Off
Gals, resulting in the defeat of all eff
forts to ascertain the truth through
legislative investigation, and in the
placing of the present administration in
the ridiculous and humiliating position
of presenting to the Legislature a docu-
ment on the subject of the State hos
pital frauds which that body returned
without considering; and last, but not
least, the bare-faced impositions prac-
ticed upon the public treasury and the
State of Florida by the State printer
these are matters which The True Dem
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