The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-06
NEWS AND VIEWS
FROM STATE PAPERS.
We'll justified wailina.

wen JuStlreo WaIlln1.
The Wall Street News, the organ of
high finance, the spokesman for the
great corporations of the country, is
wesping over the disastrous and de-
morahZlng effects of the policies re-
sorted to in order to beat the demo
cratic candidate for the presidency in
1896. IL declares that the election
was bought with money and that the
political debauchery which ensued
was worse and more lasting than
could possibly have been any conse-
quence of the election of Bryan.
The financial magnateS and great
corporations in that campaign in
formed horde of political bloodsuck-
ers that they were a soft thing for
the pirate, and the pirates have been
banded together for business ever
since. It has been necessary to
maintain Hobbies and agents every
where TO protect the companies
against blackmail.--a blackmail which
was taught to the blackmailers by the
campaign of 1898. Out of the cor
rupt practices. then engendered have
grown the insurance scandals. and
upon the result of that election is
based the greater portion of the big
trusts and combinations which are
now robbing the country right and
left.
The Wall Street News is fully JUS
titled in its wsilingS for the past and
forebodlngs for the future-Tampa
Times.
5roWard and Drainage.
Governor Broward has placed the
drainage issue clearly before the peo-
pie. II they reverse themselves on
1t, 1t Is their own affair The people
will not take seriously the platitudi,
GUS and SNUG advice so abundantly
offered by the railroad organs. They
will remember the masters they serve
and decide that, since the railroads
are so earnestly against the scheme,
it might not be so bad after all
What is bad for the railroad is not
necessarily good for the people; but
it is well to search diligently for the
niger IN the woodpile.-Monticello
News.
A Snake Repository.
That dry dock at New Orleans
which was to be such an aid to ship.
ping, the Washington Post says, has
been of little or no use to the navy.
In the four or five years since its
completion it has been employed only
once Or twice, one occasion being the
trial docking of the battleship Illinois
when worEmen had to be sent from
other points to do the work. Naval
officers declare that this dock is prin-
cipally serviceable now as a repOst-
tory OF water snakes, which have be-
come so numerous and belligerent as
to cause much apprehension on the
part OF the caretakers. The cost of
this water snake sanitarium was
about 100000, and the government
has about concluded to build no more
OF misunderstanding Metropolis.
Conscientious in Everything.
Governor BTOward seems to be i'm
pressing the people and the newspa-
pers wherever he has appeared, that
his position on the drainage matter
was just about right. The governor
long ago convinced a majority of the
people of the state that he was con-
sclentlous in everything he did,
Another Endorsement.
Another democratic judicial con-
vention up in Ohio has endorsed Bry-
a. for president, There is something
deeply suggestive in the extraordi-
nary hold this twice defeated private
citizen has upon the affections of the
democratic masses in all parts of the
union. The man led us to two Water
loos and left the party a beaten and
scattered rabhle apparently without
discipline or hope. but not only does
It still believe in him with undimin-
ished faith, but he is winning the ais
affected element that followed Pal
mer and Buckner and disarming the
fierce hostility Of the eastern repub-
licans. OvershadOwed by trusts and
preyed on by hordes of grafters, even
the republicans are beginning to sus-
pect that there are worse things than
BrVanism IL va Oak Democrat.