The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-05-05
May $, 1906

say wire to me at the Parker House, Boston, where
in the parade ground of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company in front Of the lar am, for the
time being, acting as drillmaster. t
little bird brought me the news that ye are
the man in the street Good for We, SPOTS, I'll
soon be in Jacksonville and help ye line up the boys
came up here part Of the way with Bill Taft
Secretary of War, and me old cassmate OF Trinity
and Heidelberg; Bill stopping in New Haven, where
he told the Yale boys about the man with the muck
rake
We know / was in New York where was work
ing from that end of the line to kill the free alcohol
bill in the Senate. have seen several Alcohol Bills
get killed, but none will meet the smooth finish OF
this buckle who put the gloves with the Standard
I completed me job and fixed things so that the
bill will be so loaded with amendments when it
comes TO vote that ye wont know whether 1T means
IL sure tickled Hank Rogers, and as he handed
me the plain envelope with $20S.33 inside he Says
pat me jewel, tits package we hand the dear peo-
pie this DEAL and The horny handed agriculturst
won't put us out of business with his little still Just
yet Bless the Sinnite, it knows who will pay its
But to return to my old friend Bill Taft the same
old jolly Bill who used to send striker to prison
with the same easy grace that corporation Will
lam Florida Cracker in the neck I'll tell ye about
his talk Twas an able effort what else could We
expect from a who sits at the feet OF our !heo
dore and acts as his photograph when Rosy is busy
trying TO throw tine 6lnnlCOrS. .uOWH uhu pun "o
branding iron their hidesl
BillSis born aristocrat, that is to say he is as
tony as possible for man of his buk-35O pounds
and the second generation from the job OF having TO
tote his own dinner pail.
One point in Bills speech want to bring to your
notice, Spots, and that was when he denounced the
press for holding up to criticism so many OF our
prominent citizens It's shame Spots, that Nelson
Adrich and Tom Platt and ]. Ogden Armour ana
John ID. Rockefeller and Chauncey Depew and wal.
ter Coachman should be ridiculed and censured and
made the victims of what me dear old julepmixer,
Henry Watterson, calls "mad-dog' Journalism
1 don't blame Bill for his Indignation. Things
are coming to pretty pass when man with money
has no more chance to escape exposure than poor
devil to keep from paying full tax on everything ne
owns
Taft has had bunch of mud flung at him from
the rude muck raker Ye see SPOTS, thaC biii de.
scrbes the situation at Panama as ne thinks ought
to be and not what it is, and result the mucker
is mightier than the digger.
Bills theories won't keep. They lack emDaiming
and smell bad in a little while after being put into
the air. We remember, SPOTS, that six years ago
Bill told us that all that needed 70 make peace
in the Philippines was the defeat OF Bryan out ne
forgot to tell it to the Fipnos, and they are still
fighting and giving DR.. Wood chance 10 say tha'
Theodore never makes q mistake. .
Among other things Bill tackled were the rail.
roads. He found that they were between the devil
and the deep sea. ;,
saws to Bill: "Say, Bill, that don't 60 in
Florida because the railroads there are between X
Hudson Burr of Dade and the Gulf OF Mexico
Bill opined that he did not know X. Hudson l D,
Burr and plying his ignorance l says, WEI Wen
don't you care, the people Of Florida won't either
after the primaries. - ~ @e.A
"But Bill, I'll tell ye about him. He has M
mercy for a corporation. To the hammock with then
when the plain people demand that No. IS be postet
at Oustee when it is late, thrtycent real ALI
gator bag is lost through the careessness OF rail-
road" = ~- ~ ;t<-
A friend Of mine SPOTS, whose company cuts
million feet of lumber day, could get no cars.
thought hit him below the belt.
'SThe Commission" says he; ut will make tn
railroads let me have cars by reason Of the In,
passed by the Legislature for such cases made an
provided" 80
& So humbly he states his case to the individual
whose rear name corresponds to the covering OF tn
thing used TO designate an old joke
aye disturb me-" cries the great man. I'm bus
tracing lost suit case worth as much as dolla
and six bits, and am trying TO rest little afte
strenuously working for two weeks in recovering
Loaf trunk when threatened to put the SApreH