Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-04-12
4 oNoULlsH BUSINESS.

"The tarms OF ofIee Of Juptiee
Charles B. Psfkhfil and James B
Whitfield, two justices OF the State SD
preme Court, expire next January. !
10 generally understood that they vii
be candidates for denomination at th
coming Democratic primaries. Tn
people OF Colombis county will take
ghoulish pleasure In voting SgainS
them. Their unfair methods In fight
ing Lake City, when endeavoTlng u
secure the permanent location Of bh'
University OF Florida, will be remem
bered BY eli true. loyal and patriotic
/ citizens Of Columbia county. These
men should mot receive . vote within
the confines Of our couuty's border
iins. and, unleSs We are greatly mis-
tsken In the people Of Columbia coun'
~, they will not"
The above 10 taken from The Citi-
zen-Reporter, Newspaper published
~ Lake City, OF date April 9th, 1908
snd No have never before seen 90 glaF.
ing IN illustration Of the truth Of the
old adage; Whom she Coda would
destroy they first make mad" Every
body 10 Florida knows Of the now eele'
bEated "Buckmap BILL" wisely de-
signed 70 consolidate the Six schools
for higher education, that the State
had heretofore been sndeavoEing 81
great and ever increasing cost 20 sup.
port, into TWO institutions, the one fOV
white males, the other for white fe-
males. Everybody knows, 700, thas By
the provisions Of that bill the two col
lsges thereby provided for were TO be
located by the Joint vote OF the 1--WE
members OF the Board 81 Control ore.
ated BY the act and the I've members
OF the State Board OF Education.
Everybody knows, too, that me Jus.
ticsS Of the Supreme Court had no
COZ nection whatever with either OF
these two boards, and had no voice Ia
the selection Of sites for these two col
leges. 40 does everybody know that
the two boards, who alone bad the de-
cision Of the matter when they met.
By Q majority vote selected Gaines
vile In Alachua county 40 the location
for the University or male school, and
Tallahassee for that Of the Female
College. Everybody know, too, that
had It not been for the efforts and
votes Of Hon, Frank Adams, whose
habitat 10 In Hamilton county, has
whose largest property ande business
Interests are &C Lake City IL Colum.
bIa county, and that OF Hon. Guy
GIllsn, Columbla county's State Sen.
ator, the Buekman hill would never
have become . Law. Everybody knows.
TOO, that when Lake City failed OF
election under the bill "a che site for
the University, che instituted pro.
ceedlngS In the Supreme CouPs Of the
State 70 have che Buchanan bin cd.
judged BY that tFibunsl 10 BE- uneon.
stl,u.ional upon divers and various
gFooods That court, 10 an exhaust.
I've. painstaking oplnlon By Chief Jus.
tlce 8haekleioFd, the absolute coPFeet.
ness Of which eannos DO ealnsaid By
any respectable lawyer, those repre-
sehIlng the "ghonllsh pleasure Geek.
ere" Of Lake City always excepted
held the Law TO be entirely constItu.
tIonal. And herein lies the offending
OF JOstiees PaTkhill and whitfield.
They took part, 90 they we're In duty
bound under their olficial oaths, In The
decision Of Lake Ci,y's case to annul
che Buchanan bill, and decided, 90 wac
shelF sworn duty, according 10 ta,e, but
against Lake CYty And now Lake
City will take a"'ghoullsh pleasure" 10
voting against them tos having doae
their duty bscauss that duty was eoa.
t'a'y TO the augusI wishes Of Lake
Gay. Every lev ssi, lu every eour,
has right side and wrong side, Oar
confidence In the uphahtnsss and ius-
'Ics OF our Judiciary Ia general lead.
as 10 believe iha, they sndeavor 81.
wsys 10 nnd the SIeh, sids Of every
case, and to decide Herewith, and In
this es's We are perfectly ,ati,hsd tAas