The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-07
SOME SHORT
STATE STORIES


The Jacksonville Metropolis is a
paper with which it is not always
easy to. agree, but few, ii, any, are
likely to disagree with this: "The peo-
pie of Florida want only the issues
involved in the drainage proposition
discussed, and Broward's opinion of
alleged Republican owned papers or
Abrams opinion of Broward Goes not
interest the voters"
Albert Williamson, the proprietor
and editor of the Jacksonville Flor
idian, is nothing, If not downright,
and, however one may disagree with
him, the opinion of the man who
made the Floridian famous Is always
worth having. In, recent issue Al
bertus has this to say of another edi-
torial celebrity: Brother Caldwell's
Pink Pills For Pale People as iexem-
plified in his old and highly esteemed
JASPER NEWS. is all to the good
According to paragraph in the st.
Augustine Evening Record, willis B.
Powell, the versatile editor of the
st. Petersburg Independent, has won
the prize for the best write-up Of the
recent Lake Okeechobee excursion.
He was the tallest man, blu several
inches, in the party, which accounts
for the tale of his thrilling escape
from being caught by the hair by the
low-hanging branches of the great
water oaks along the Caloosahatcree
That surely would have been a terri
BILE fate had the st. Petersburg editor
been left suspended In mid-air while
his companions on the Thomas A
Edison jcontinued their trip. The al
ligators missed a treat
Another tired newspaper man quits
the tripod and throws aside the
stylus. This time it is c. D. Clough,
of whom the st. Augustine Evening
Record well says: After twenty
years at the helm as editor and pub
Usher Of the Lakeland Sun, C. D.
Clough puts aside his newspaper
work to pay attention to other bust
ness interests. He has sold his news
paper and printing plant to Messrs.
Norman and Hutchinson, who take
charge to-day. The new firm will add
much new machinery to the plant and
make other improvements. Editor
Clough retires with the good wishes
OF his fellow newspaper men in Flor
ida"
The Tampa .Times-which, blythe.
way, has, in the hands of Brennan
Mckay, become one of the best daily
papers in the state-is evidently out
for Bryan this time in dead earnest
This is a sample of some of the re
cent timely observations: "The Times
speaks by authority second to none
in Florida when it says that the mo
mentary chill cast on the Bryan boom
by the misinterpretation of a phrase
of his Madison Square speech is rap
idly disappearing, and long before the
convention day comes he will be as
unanimously the choice of the party
for the presidential nomination as ht
was six months ago its favorite son.
| AS a purveyor of fish stories, un
adulterated Democracy, and a stauncf
supporter of that prince of good fel
low Albert Gilchrist, Adrian p Jordan
stands high in the ranks of Florida
newspaperdom. Rash indeed woulC
be the man who undertook to dispute
Mr.. Jordan's supremacy as a dealer
en- artist. indeed-in what may b.
termed piscatorial romance. Tha
The Journal is not alone in this opin
ion Is indicated by the following time
ly paragraph from the St Lucie coun
ty Tribune: 1.-THE st. Augustine
Record thinks our fish story of las
week ranks with those Of Editor Jor
dan, Of Punta Gorda. Well bet a cop
per cent to a doughnut that Jordan
objects, for he Is recognized as havins
patent right to the use of Legitimate
and unadulterated fish stories"
. In the following suggestive LITTLE
paragraph, the Ocala Star puts Ques
tion which is certainly considerable!
more pertinent than impertinent
Johns answer will, when received
be given a prominent place, next tt
pure reading matter"
John Collins, of the True Democra
at Tallahassee, and who is publishing
splendid newspaper, has constan
Z occurrences of Nightmares on tn,
drainage scheme of Broward, and II
speaking Of temptations besetting hin
to join the drainage gang, says: W.
have had more than one chance t
;, SELL" Now, what the public is inter
ested in is to know who is so sorel.
: tempting John. That would be liv'
news. Expose the tempters and saw
your virtuous manhood"
That excellent paper, the Live Gal
!, Democrat, certainly draws the after
ton of The Journal to a wholly ine1
cusable oversight on the part of tn
latter in the following sprightly para
graph. The Journals failure to motto
its contemporaries new head must b
ascribed solely to the fact that 1t |
mighty hard to get ahead" of tn
Democrat. But here is the aforesai
paragraph: "The veteran Major But
Ter, of the Inverness Chronicle. who's
eagle and Argus eye misses nothing i
| htS ,rfota nychanrec Ia the first an