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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24
The Street Paving and
the Supervising Engineer.

The proposition TO make contract
with an engineer to supervise Pensa'
cola's proposed street paving improve.
ments and to pay him three per cent.
of the amount expended on such
T improvements, looks to The Jour
nal like a very costly contract
in fact, very unreasonaoiy
Expensive affair. We agree there
store with Mayor Bliss that halt
sshoald be called and the matter investt
tgated before any contract for this
ivrork Is made.
! The city will probably spend $780,
tC00 In street paving improvements.
Three percent of this amount is 3d.
10000. These improvements ought
rot 30 consume period longer than
two years. The work of the engineer
will not be constant, during that time.
lie will have plenty of time for other
business and the city Will no doubt
have great deal of other business in
Lis line to be done
Why not therefore hire an engineer
by the year until these proposed i'm
misunderstanding, paving, water
works construction, etc.-are complet.
ed? The city will get more work and
the latter Will cost less.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24
SUMMARY OF
THE WEATHER

Weather bllerau records show yes
terday's maximum temperature to
have been SO degrees at 2:25 o'clock
D. m, while the minimum was 70 de-
greeS at a. m. Last year on the
same date the maximum temperature
was 80 degrees and the minimum IS
degrees.
Wednesday when Pensacola record
ed maximum Of 81 degrees, New Or
leans reported 80 degrees, Nashville.
Mobile and Meridian "a degrees and
Montgomery SO, while Knoxville reach
ed the 100 degree mark.
Observer Reed yesterday said in his
daily summary Of weather conditions:
"The western barometric depression
Is central this morning in Kansas I;
and, in conjunction with high pres.
sure area over the northwest, Is caus-
ing showery weather In the Missouri
and upper Mississippi valleys; show
ers and thunderstorms continued into
the night in Tennessee and the south
Atlantic states. Excessive rainfall
amounting ito 5.92 inches Is reported
from Kansas City and heavy to exces-
s.ve rains have occurred in eastern
Georgia and extreme western Texas.
Maximum temperatures were above
90 degrees again Wednesday, in Ten
nessee. Mississippi Alabama and
Georgia and reached 81 degrees in
Kansas and 80 degrees at Chicago; a
maximum OF SO degrees is reported
from Montgomery and 100 degrees
from Knoxville. The coolest this morn.
ing is 40 degrees in Yellowstone Park.
Conditions are favorable for fair
weather in this section tonight and
Friday with light variable winds shift.
ing to south"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24
r. r. EXTENSION
AT HOMESTEAD
Material Being Shipped to
Mainland Work on East
Coast Railway.
The Miami Metropolis says:

l. ne Mldiill MetTOpOliS says.
A vast amount Of material for the the
F. Z. C. railway extension building is
now being transported by rail to the
Homestead section, the most of the
material at present being inteded to
complete the track from the present ter
minus to Jewish Creek, where the line
leaves the mainland for the keys.
All of the light rails In use between
Miami and Homestead will be. replaced
by heavier and permanent rails, while
the old rails will be laid from Cutler to
Jewish Creek. AS soon as this shall have
have been done much of the Transports
ton of material for the various keys,
which is now conducted from the termi-
nal dock in this city, by steamer, will be
done IF r.om Jewish Creek, the supplies
first going there by rail-
This will make the water route much
shorter and facilitate greatly in the i'm
portant work. At Jewish Creek five
dredges and a large force Of men are now
engaged in building triangular dock OF
great capacity and which Is intended to
accommodate the material consigned to
the keys
Although the main Offices and ware
rooms of the constructing engineer will
remain in Miami, II will not be long be-
fore practically all of the material for
the extension will be carried directly
through Miami to Jewish Creek and
there taken by steamer to the places OF
consignment the same as is now being
done from this port.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24

ization has been drawn. The officers
of the corporation are men Of many
affairs, and can devote only small
part Of their time to the matter They
are James d. Phelan, president; F. w.
Dohrmann, first vice president; w. T.
Herrin, second vice president, and r.
G. Drum. acting secretary. Mayor
Schmitz and Governor Pardee are mem
bers Of the board of directors.
General Greedy advocates making the
refugees work now. he urges the cut
ting down Of the relief to the barest
necessities. and also charging a email
rental for the use Of tent shelters.
"As long as you baby these people,"
said the general when asked for his
opinion, 'they win not help themselves
There are thousands Of loafers In the
camps who VIII not work until they
are compelled to- They are having the
softest snap Of their lives. Cut out
the soup Kitchens, abolish the bread
lines, stop distribution Of every sort
Of relief, and they will awaken to their
situation. at present they regard the
relief fund as everlasting. They are
not mentally trained to look ahead very
far. Their stomachs generally reason
for them. If my advice was accepted.
q rental would be charged for every
tent. OF course some discrimination
would have to be exercised, as there
are many who are helpless-the old
people and the delicate women and
children. As for the ablebodied, they
should be forced to work, both the
men and women.
There never was so great demand
for labor on this coast as at the pres
emit time. The Western Pacific rail-.
road wants 1000 men, the United Rail.
roads 5000. Contractors are advertis.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24
The Revolution in the
Cuban Republic.

The revelation which has broken
out In Cuba seems to be causing the
officials of the republic considerable
worry and apprehension, notwithstand
dng the fact that there is no apparent
cause for the outbreak. and although
the confident statement was given out
'when hostilities first commenced that
the revolt would be suppressed with
in q few days, the trouble seems 10 be
growing rather than diminishing, the
latest advdces being to the effect that
the rebels have practically laid siege
TO the city of Havana.
That the conspiracy has been brew
ing In Havana for a number of months
there can be no doubt and, as there
are no political issues involved, II
would seem that the trouble has been
started for the sole purpose of further
Org the ambitions of several of the
,disgruutjed Cuban leaders, who have
been left out irthe cold in some man
uer by the administration.
The revelation may assume serious
proportions or It may die out within q
short time IN 6he usual manner OF rev
olutions started dn the Spanish-Ameri
can countries. The principal thing
that concerns the. United States Is the
possibility Of this country becoming
I Involved. The American residents Of
the Isle of Pines have chafed unde,
Cuban rule ever since the Cuban gov
eminent was established and 1T would
take but NttleT to induce them to take
q hand In the revolt. especially If the
revoMtionists seemed to be IN a posi-
ton that indicates success and were
viking to guarantee either the abso
lutte freedom of the island from Cuba
rule or that 1t would be coded to the
United States without question In
event of their success.
The American residents of the
island, while few in number, would
find their forces largely increased with
recruits from the United States In
event that they Joined In the revolu
ton, for 1t DIS beyond question that
there are hundreds OF men In this
country who would answer an appeal
q the Isle of Pines settlers and go to
their assistance In a war against the
Cuban government. In this event the
United States would probably become
mixed up In the affair.
The people Of the United States
will watch the outcome of the present
trouble with more than ordinary in
terest. not SO much ON account of what
1t may portend for the Republic o
Cuba as for what 1t may mean to citi
Gems of this country now residents oi
the Isle of Pines.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24

John ID. Rockefeller, 1t is said, con
templates establishing and endowing q
home for chorus girls Next thing we
know John may be defending a di
yorce suit
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24
WILL DINE WITH
NEWSPAPER MEN
ay Associated prsss

New York, Aug. 23.-At a meeting to-
day of the executive committee in charge
Of the reception to w. ]. Bryan, 1t was
announced that Mr.. Bryan had accepted
an invitation to dine with newspaper men
IT the Waldorf Astoria an Septemhex /
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24
NEWS AND VIEWS
FROM STATE PAPERS
Florida Is FIouriahing.

The era OF great prosperity started
in Florida a few years back is still ON
indeed, increasing all the time
throughout the state. One hears of
new enterprises being established
everywhere, new capital being invest
ed, new manufacturing plants. new
farms, druit groves. vegetable fields
Am instance of how Florida is growing,
both in wealth and population, Is CIV
en- in the tax returns of Polk county
for the present year. Her total as
seSsment tor the year 1906 is, in round
numbers, $6,000.000. an increase OF
100000 over the assessment of 1906.
And one also hears Of similar increases
in a county's wealth in many sections
of the state. Voiusia county is dnclud-
ed in this remarkable increase in tax
able property. A few years ago her
total assessment was $3,1OO,00O. Now
1t exceeds $4,O0O,OOO. All Florida is
enjoying a prosperity she has never
ia her history had bsiore.-DeLand
Record
Big School Of MuIlet.
Fishermen will be interested to
know that the mullet season is now ON.
Reports were received yesterday from
a fisherman who encountered a school
Of these fish which he estimated would
cover five acres.-Miami News.
-
, Warm Work for Loeb.
Secretary Loeb finds it rather warm
work just sitting ON the Hid or the
third term for his strenuous chief
with the thermometer in the nineties.
Take 1T easy, Loeb, there rs more tro,i.
Bile coming, as YOU will have a fraz.
zled congress ON your hands in a
month or two and it will require con.
siderable nerve to keep the numerous
defeated Republican members In the
straight and marrow path. free from
corruption MISUNDERSTANDING Trib
une
Sale of Newspaper.
The Green Cove Springs. the Oldest
PAPER in Clay county, was sold yester.
day, Mr.. Charles NJ Morgan being the
purchaser. This paper was establish.
ed here about twenty-six years ago by
Col. ]. n. N. Chnch and owned by him
until about twenty months ago, when
it was sold by the executors of the
Clinch estate to Mr.. NJ. H pride, who
has been editing 1t up to the present
ssle. Mr.. Morgan, the purchaser, was
for several years previous to the sale
to Mr.. Pride, an employee i'm the of
fee of the Spring. Mr. Morgan h.
very popular and we'll liked by every
one. and We predict for him success
Green Cove Springs Times.
Plenty Of IdIers.
There are enough idle men-men VIII,
have no visible means of supports
Florida. to fill every vacant position
These idlers will not work. however
without forced to do SO, and for this
reason the vagrancy law was enacted
This LAW has never besm enforced
strictly, but the time has come when
1t should be, and If put in active oper
alton tomorrow in every county in the
state, the labor problem world be solv
ed. There are thousands of able-bod
fed men in the south Ewing or existing
without visible means of support while
the wheels of commerce are practical
~ locked for want of laborers. To en-
force the vagrancy law is the solution
Live Oak Democrat.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24

II Taft fails to get the presidential
nomination ne might get job sitting
on the lid in the Cuban republic.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24

Hoke Smith is now the undisputed
political boss of Georgia. Howell
Russell, Jim Smith and Estill will now
take seats way back in the rear.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24

Candles.
Candles treated as follows VIII not
melt and run down while burnins'
Make thick lather of soap and wa,
ter. Take one candle at a time anu
cover with the thick foam. Wipe Oh
what you can with the moist hand ana
lay away to dry,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24

sional District:
WIN. B. LAMAR. of jefferson.
For Justices of the Supreme Court:
CHAS. B. PARKHILL, of Escambia
JAMES B. WHITFIELD, of Leon.
For Railroad Commissioner:
NEWTON A. BITCH. of Levy.
r. HUDSON BURR. of Dade.
For State Senator, End District:
JOHN s. BEARD.
For Member House of representative,
CHAS. NJ. COSTON.
M. o. BAGGETT. =
For Tax Assessor:
w. w. RICHARDS.
For Tax Collector:
]. s, ROBERTS.
For County Treasurer:
J. ED. WILLIAMS.
For Members of School Board:
W. e. ANDERSON.
H. G.. DeSILVA.
W. Nj. AGERTON.
For Member Board County Commits
sioners:
J. B. ROBERTS.
JNO. A. MERRITT.
JAS. M. ANDREWS.
H. G. CLOPTON
JAS. r. STEWAD0
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24

For Justices of the Supreme Court:
CHAS. B. PARKHILL, of Escambia
JAMES B. WHITFIELD, of Leon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24

Councilman r FLEEING Bowden. of
Jacksonville IN made hid DOR fama
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24
PENSACOLA FLORIDA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST a. 1906

by introducing a measure in the city
council. to tax washerwomen.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES

For Member of Congress, 3rd Congress
sional District:
WIN. B. LAMAR. of Jefferson.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24

For Railroad Commissioner:
NEWTON A. BITCH. of Levy.
r. HUDSON BURR, of Dade.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24

For State Senator, End District:
JOHN s. BEARD.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-24

For Member House Of Representative,
CHAS. NJ COSTON.
M. o. BAGGETT, -.
The new age., 1906-05-05
MADE IN OREGON FAIR

The made in Oregon" fair prom
ises to be a great success. 1t is a
good idea, and will tend to induce
people generally to patronize home
manufactures and other industries as
far as possible. This has not been
done as much as it ought to have
been, and there is need of a popular
awakening on this subject. If every
body would support home industries.
and buy only Oregonmade products.
the manufacturers in turn could help
! their neighbors in all lines of activity
more; could employ more labor, buy
more materials and merchandise, and
circulate more money. Thus, popula-
tion and trade an commerce
would grow apace, and the city, and
other towns with manufacturing es-
Establishments, would grow much more
rapidly than they do.
Portland is finely situated to be-
come great manufacturing center:
indeed, if it is to become a great city
it must become so; and the way to
make it so is to support the manufac-
tories in existence, and their pros
perity will induce others to locate |
here. Everybody ought to take live
ly interest in this fair, and show their |
appreciation of the many good things
already made in Oregon and help to
hasten the day of still larger things.
Patronize home industries. Buy only
things made in Oregon.
The new age., 1906-05-05
ENTHUSIASM IS GENERAL FOX
CANDIDATE WITHYCOMBE.

1t may already be seen, thus early
in the campaign, that DR.. Jas. Witty.
combe, of Corvallis, the Republican
candidate for governor of Oregon, is
the popular nominee with the people.
No such degree of general enthusiasm
for a gubernatorial candidate has
been displayed so early in the contest
for years in this state as is already
apparent wherever DR.. Withycombe's s
name is mentioned in that connec,
ton. The reception of the announce
ment of the nomination of Furnish,
for instance, was a mid-winter frost
compared with that of the news that
DR.. James Withycombe would be the
opponent of George E. Chamberlain
in the latter's breathless quest for
a second term.
This is a good omen. 1t foretells
good results. 1t means that we are
again to have Republican governor
for the Beaver state. 1t means the
destruction of the little Democratic
ring that has been running our pres
ent governors Office during the last
half of his present term. 1t signifies
that one of the best men in the state
will be it's executive officer 1t means
that Oregon will present an unbroken
official front after the ballots shall
have been counted in the present
contest.
DR.. Withycombe is a popular man
personally. He has endeared him
self to the people of the state by his
eminent service in his present capac-
ity in the agricultural college. He is
equally popular politically, because
he has at no time in his life engaged
in factional quarrels with the main
organization of his party. His politi-
cal record is as clean as his private
record as a citizen-and that is with
out a stain or blemish.
DR.. Withycombe will receive an
old-time Oregon majority for the
governorship. Rest assured of that.
The new age., 1906-05-05

the kind 1t is composed of men of
character-men whose hearts, for the
most part, are filled with charity;
men who heard and needed the cry
for assistance and who yearned for
an opportunity to render it; but Gov
ernor Chamberlain put up his official
palm against the appeal for help, shut
his official eyes and again lapsed into
his political slumber.
Senators Fulton and Gearin were
actuated solely by honorable and hui
manitarian motives in their request
that the governor call a special ses-
sion speedily in this great emergency.
What was the motive that actuated
Governor Chamberlain in refusing to
hear their request? The motive that
actuates the petty politician, having
once tasted the flavor of official pap,
to become a demagogue and a cheap par
tisan cheat. His excuse was that of the
grasping politician whose greed for
office is greater than his love for suf-
fering humanity-a cheap, narrow
politician whose conception of public
office is limited to the bulk of his lust
for personal agrandizement.
Chamberlain is Southerner whose
sympathies are yet with the South
and, therefore, little may be expected
from him here; but this one gigantic
official blunder, suggested solely by
the paltriest kind of petty politics,
cannot be overlooked by the voters
of the state of Oregon in the present
campaign. 1t portrays the mems
character too clearly to warrant their
trusting him again with such respon-
sibility.
The new age., 1906-05-05

neighbors that he is the best man, tC
urge them to vote for him as a favor
to the worker, a great many votes
will thereby be gained, and gained be
cause this candidate had the money
to hire these thousand or so special
workers. He had a right to do this
but it puts the man of small means
at disadvantage, because he cannot
hire similar work done.
The same is true in a less degree OF
county and all offices. The man with
the long purse has the advantage, and
the man of small means has but a
slight chance to win a nomination
There are other defects in the law
but this, We think, is the worst objec
ton to it, and it seems to be one that
cannot be remedied.
The new age., 1906-05-05
A RICH MANS LAW.

The comments of the state press on
the working of the primary nomina-
tion law in the late election are vari-
Gus, and of course not in accord, some
papers expressing the opinion that it
is on the whole satisfying, others con-
demning and ridiculing it. The New
Age has discussed it heretofore con-
slderably, cODceding that it had its
good points and would effect some
good results, but at the same time
pointing out its bad features, and the
event so far seems to have justified
both our commentator and our crit
icism.
One feature of the law, or rather
one result of its operation, which rem
ders it subject to criticism, which the
press of the state generally agree is
bad, and to which The New Age has
repeatedly alluded, is that it does not
give poor man much of chance to
get an Office at least a state office, or
to be nominated for congress. AS
one editor facetiously said, 1T is
poor mans law; that is, it will make
man poor if he tries to get a nomi-
nation"
Take the contest for United States
senator; the man with the most
money, or who used the most, won
the nomination, and for that reason.
We do not mean to intimate that any
votes were bought outright, or that
anything illegitimate was done, but
the money was used, in large quanti-
ties, undoubtedly with the result of
influencing many voters. A great
many men do not care much who is
nominated or elected to any partic-
ular office; they know none of the
personally; but if one of
the candidates has money with which
to hire locally influential man in
every precinct and neighborhood to
work for him, to represent to his
The new age., 1906-05-05
FOCI OF THE BATTLE.

That the main fight of the June cam
paign will be concentrated on senator
and governor is now even more 3p-
parent and certain than it was before
the primaries-when it was clear
enough. The Republican candidates
for state Offices, except governor, will
be elected without struggle, and as
matter of course. But there will be
tremendous effort to re-elect Cham
berlain governor, and to defeat
Bourne, the regular legal Republican
nominee for senator, with Gearin, who
it must be admitted, politics aside, is
strong, capable, worthy man. Over
these two Offices will be the battle Of
the campaign, and it will be warm
and interesting one.
The New Age sees no good reason
for Republicans failing to support and
vote for DR.. Withycombe for govern
or. AS it has repeatedly said he is a
man entirely qualified for the posi-
ton, and won the nomination fairly
and squarely in contest with a num-
Der of well-known and able Republi-
can aspirants. He is not and never
has been a factionist, only a quiet,
loyal Republican in the ranks, always
faithful to the party and to what he
conceived to be his duty to his state
and county. He always abided by the
will of the majority of his party and
the people. believing that the MAORI
ty should rule and that progress and
peace were preferable to wrangling
and strife. This is undoubtedly a
heavily Republican state; it ought to
have a Republican governor, and so
retake its place politically where it
belongs.
1t is asserted and reiterated that
factional strife has ceased and that
party unity and harmony have been
restored. If so, if these be not false
professions and pretenses, then Mr..
Withycombe will be elected by a large
majority, beyond a doubt, because no
body doubts that he is honest, capa-
BILE and worthy.
The new age., 1906-05-05

extremely improbable, and almost un-.
|thinkable, the Democrats should have
a majority of the legislature, they
would not elect a Republican, al
though a Republican might have re-
ceived a popular plurality. State
ment No. L." construed literally, in
wolves a solid vote of all who signed
it for one man, the one receiving the
plurality at the polls, regardless of
party, but members are not thus go
ing to abandon their party in such
case, and will construe Statement
No. l." if they have signed it, to suit
themselves. AS the Oregonian says:
"The statement is freak statement.
No matter what the popular vote may
be, the Oregonian-if the legislature
shall have a Republican majority
will insist on the election of Repub-
lican senator If the Democrats shall
have a majority in the legislature, it
will expect the election of Demo
cratic senator, no matter what the
popular vote may be. There is no call
to have patience, on such subject,
with the puerilities of silly people or
doctrinaires"