The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-11-17
CLIPPINGS AND COMMENT.
From the State Newspapers on
Divers Interesting Topics.

haps Brother Tatum wants to make
"sobPr and reliable" printers more
numerous. Madison New Enterprise.
The Palatka News has mentioned
Hon. +. s. Grill in connection with the
Office Of Governor of Florida. And in
this connection we are here to remark
that If the people should choose him for
that Office they would make no mistake.
DR.. Grill would make an excellent Gov
ernor. -Leesburg Commercial.
They are having a merry time up in
Tallahassee over some of the State
printing. According to the True Dem
ocrat Judge NJ II. Mabry, Librarian of
the Supreme Court, recently refused to
receipt the State printer for some vol
umes Of Supreme Court Reports because
Of inferior quality of paper and work.
manship. Judge Mabry's action was
endorsed by Acknowledgement Ellis, Of
fetal Reporter for the Supreme Court,
and the matter was then passed up TO
the Board of State Institutions for adj
justment. --Starke Telegraph.
A branch of the Kelley Institute is
to be located at Jacksonville with B. B.
Tatum as president. With so many
dry counties in the State this institu-
ton ought to receive liberal patronage
from the victims of blind tiger booze
Dunellon Advocate
Perhaps Governor Broward figured
it out that "to the victor belongs
the spOils " and in his selection of a re-
ception committee from the State at
large to welcome the President on the
occasion of his visit to Florida acted
accordingly. His failure to appoint on
the committee Hon. X. w. Davis, who
has given the best years of his life in
faithful service to the State for "his
victuals and Clothes" so to speak, is
almost objectionable, and the intelligent
Democracy of Florida will not soon
forget it.-West Palm Beach Sun.
The Tallahassee True Democrat, in
every issue, claims that there has been,
and is now, rOttenness and graft in
The Democrat claims that the State
has been robbed in legal way and the
people fooled, in regard to the true con-
dition, for several years The Demo
crat claims that a combination was
formed in Tallahassee, known as the
Capital Printing Co., which is practi-
cally owned by some of the State Off
GERS, and that this combination is fast
getting rich from the peoples money.
The Democrat has made some broad as
5ertions, and yet no libel suits have
been entered against it, which is evil
1ence that the Democrat must know
what it is talking about. 1t seems that
the editorials are mostly directed tow
ards the COmptroller's Office, and there
Is probably room for believing that the
Democrat is right. Jasper Banner.
According to the Tallahassee True
Democrat, which paper, by the way, is
doing its utmost to expose graft in |
nigh places at the State Capital the |
i5th volume of supreme court reports, |
just delivered, is "abOut the rottenest |
piece of public work ever turned out in !
the State Of Florida" 1t must be .
rotten" when Attorney General Ellis |
has refused to accept the work, and, |
with the supreme court justices, has
referred the matter to the Board of |
Commissioners of State Institutions.
who made the contract with the State
printer and whose business it is TO see
hat he fulfilIs his contract. II is said
,hese reports are printed on cheap grade
newspaper on which the type shows
through from side to side, and that the
forms in some places have been re-
'ersed, thus bringing the paging TO the
inside edge of the book instead of the
outside, and thereby interrupting the
continuity of the printed matter. In
)ther words, it is just such a job as the
people had every reason to expect when
! blacksmith was awarded the contract
'or State printing. -Palatka News.
The fact remains that the political
parties recognize that money is the
most essential feature in conducting an
election. No longer are campaigns of
,ducatiOn carried on. Now the money
$ used on election day to bride voters
md in this way defeat the will Of free
'orn and honorable people The man
Who takes money for his vote is bad,
)ut the man who uses money for the
purpose Of buying votes is far worse.
I isn't right to place temptation in the
way of any man. And asking a man to
ell his vote should be regarded as the
worst kind Of an insult, an insult not
My to his manhood. but to his citizen
hip And a man who would sell his
'ote has no right to be declared a citi-
en. And the bribe-River is the lowest
reature of all. The decent people. the
'eople interested IN the welfare Of their
ountry, will rise in their wrath and
mite down the people who put money
o such base uses. And unless this Is
one we cannot say 1t is a government
4 the people, for the people and by the
eople. Today we have a government
{ money, for money and by money.
'hink this over and see IL IL Is not true.
= Jacksonville Metropolis.