The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-12-01
sTATE PRINTINc PROBLEn.

9Ah4 EAANAA NAVDkEEAs
We reproduce the following from the
columns of the Jacksonville Metropolis,
head lines and all, in order that our
readers may realize how the State
printing problem appears to others:
LAWYERS ARE JUSTLY MAD
AT THE BoTCH WORK OF THE STATE
PRINTER 49, THE WAVE OF REFORM
THAT SHOULD CERTAINLY PROVE EF-
FECTIvE IN FLORIDA.
The Peoples Good Money Should Sc
cure Good Work, and Not a Lot of
Dlsgraceful Stuff That Subjects the
State to Ridicule.
To the disgrace of Florida the MEM
bers of the Legislature and other State
officials have allowed the State printing
to be the cause of much ridicule for the
State and has subjected certain officials
to serious charges.
So careless has the State printer be-
come, 80 greedy for the profits, that
the Bar Association Of Jacksonville has
taken up the matter and leading citi-
zens all over the State. realizing the
injustice, are now crying for a halt.
They are justified in their demand for
the right.
The peoples money should not be
spent for trashy and worthless work.
1t is no excuse to say that the work
is in ignorant and incompetent hands.
The imam higher up''-the man who
will allow such work to be given to I'M
reliable people should be held also &C.
countable. The State printing is likely
to be an Issue in the next campaign,
and it should be. A wave of reform is
sweeping over the country, and it
should strike with mighty force certain
affairs in Florida
THE PROTEST MADE.
Hons C. M. Cooper, A. w. Coekrell
and N. p. Bryan have been selected as
committee from the Jacksonville Bar
Association to protest to Governor
Broward against the shoddy work now
being done on the Supreme Court re-
ports, and it is understood they will tell
Broward their opinion of the work to-
day The fact that the State printer
was a supporter Of Broward should
cause the governor TO insist more siren
uously that the State of Florida be dealt
with fairly and honorably.
To promise good workmanship and
then produce cheap, disgraceful work is
form of graft that is cursing the ma
ton today.
The State Of Florida should not pay
one dollar for the bad work already
done. The next Legislature should see
to it that this disgusting practice stops.
What does the administration propose
to do about it?
Can it stand the charges Of an out
ragged, honest people?
prntuaNI
reason than President Roosevelt to issue
a Thanksgiving proclamation, for Flor
ida is the most prosperous State in the
Union, and is not troubled by scandal
insurance, political or of any other
kind. Jacksonville Times Union.
Florida, truly, has much to be thank
full for, but the Times-Union Rip Van
Wrinkle method of shutting its eyes to
scandal which everybody else knows
about, is nothing less than amusing.
The scandal" of the rotten State
printing is only a small part Of the
shame brought upon the State by the
Jennings administration, but it is, fortu-
nately, one Of the very few items that
have survived to plague and distress
the administration of Governor Brow
ard. There was, too, an insurance
scandal, " wherein a political favorite
was permitted to enjoy practical mo-
nOpoly of the insurance patronage Of
the State, and although he was formerly
a poor newspaper man, he is now
banker, ike Jennings. And the Times
Union was-and is-in a position TO
know all OF these things, only its extra
ordinary and unexplained policy appears
TO be TO ignore them. Some day the
causes Of lis peculiar behavior of ST.
lence will be made known
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A parody of a popular song entitled
Everybody Works But Mother" de
feated a Hepublican county otficeholder
in PennSy vaniu who had provided places
for his family. - Independent
Some Florida officials may have to
answer for something of that kind,
along with other things. before they
will receive endorsement again for Of
flee at primary election. More than
one Florida officer has looked well after
their families and political workers,
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John Mitchell. president of the United
Mine Workers, predicts a strike in the
coal mines for April Of next year in