The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-08-03
OTmRa RD1TORs EDITORIALS.

fists o. the State should succeed ~ place
ing the control Of the Stetson Univesi-
ty in the hands Of the Aaptist Convcn-
ton Of Florida, thereby making II .
purely sectaEian school, II viii be =
severe blow to the growth, usefulness
and future prosperity Of the institution.
II win have already seen its best days.
-Volusia Record.
Hon. Newton A. Bitch, who win sue
coed Hon. Jefferson B. Browne ~ Rail
road Commissioner on January LIST, 1907,
was q welcome visitor TO The Sun Office
Friday. Mr.. Bitch served the people
for many years as q member Of the
House and Senate from Levy county,
and at present is inspector Of State con-
victs. He has been faithful TO every
trust TepOsed in him in the past, and
no one doubts that he will prove equal
ly 30 In the more responsible Office he
has been called upon to occupy for the
next four ears.-Gainesville Sun.
The attempt made TO make the voters
of Florida believe that II IL the rail-
roads and corporations which are OPP
posing the Governors drainage scheme
IL all rot. There are thousands of peO-
pie all over the State who supported
the Governor and who have never afili-
ated with the railroad faction, who are
opposing this drainage scheme and are
working for the defeat Of the proposed
constitutional amendment which, II a.
dopted, will give the Board Of Internal
Improvement the power to levey a tax
upon the people Of this State that will
be q great burden upon them for many,
many years to come. This railroad and
corporation influence talk is the cum
ming deception used by drainage advO-
Gates. II successful they see a prolific
field for graft, affOrding a get rich
quick scheme the State should not
give these schemers this coveted OPP
portunity. --Volusia Record.
Governor Broward, in attempting TO
defend the Trustees of the /. l. Fund
in their strained and unprecedented con-
struction of the Act of 1886 az to the
proper kind of arrangement for the
drainage and reclamation Of the swamp
and overhowed lands. ignores the fact
that for more than fifty years that the
Act has been in force (for over half Of
which peoiod 1t was administered by
such men Of our own generation as
Drew, Bloxham, Perry, Mitchell, Flem-
ing, Raney, Gwynn, Barnes, L'Engle,
White, WOmwell and many others of
the very flower Of the Florida Democ-
racy), no such Interpretation has ever
before been placed upon the law as that
now cOntended for. Are the Democrat
&c voters of Florida willing to accept
the proposition that those wise and
faithful officials did not know the law
Leesburg Commercial.
Governor Broward has a dredge
throwing a little mud down near Fort
Lauderdale, and II will take it ten years
to reach Lake Okeechobee. And it will
take ten millions Of tax payers money
to build other dredges and to complete
q system of bitches to that lake with
the probabilities that this great sum Of
the peoples money has been squan-
dered. -Volusia Record
One Of the liveliest papers and at the
same time one Of the best edited in the
state is the Tallahassee True Democrat.
Editor Collins hews to the line and al
lows the chips to fall where they may.
He is bitterly opposed to the Everglade
drainage scheme and does not fail to
say so. He is on the ground floor at
Tallahassee and seems to be in position |
to know whereof he speaks. To read
his excellent paper one naturally comes
to the conclusion that he is "agin the
government. - Lakeland Sun.
The Ocala Banner recently reported |
a valuable bit Of testimony concerning |
the Everglade drainage proposition in
an interview with Mr.. c. +. Venable,
an old citizen of Sumter county, who
has had exceptional opportunities for
information, having spent |
several months in that region with a
party. He said that the
scheme of Governor Broward is feasa-
BILE; that there is sufficient fall to make |
il feasible, but that It will cost large |
sum of money, and after it is drained, |
Mr. Venahlp says TINT more than * nor