Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-06-09
INTERESTING NOTES
FROM STATE CAPITAL
Action Of Board in PardOning Wal
ter Taylor Endorsed.
ouegRNAToRlAL POSSIBILITIES

IRON DWiOn, rs GNlOIISu w GCO
County, Is Failure.
Tallahassee. June S.-Se'dom has
any Official at Of the administration
met with more hearty approval than
the recent action OF the : ate Bosrt Of
Pardons in granting pardon 10 Wal
ter /. Taylor has been given.
At the time Mr.. Taylor was convict.
ed and sentenced 70 serve five years
in the STATE pri4on for his murdsrous
assault upon Mr. Lamar, there we're
many who felt that the sentence i'm
posed by Judge Malone was exceeding
~ severe II must, however, b" r..
membered in this connection that NJ.
Lamar was q State oHi'isl and that the
attack. was made in his Office where lie
was discharging hi. du'ieS as Attorney
General. Aside from every Other COM
sideration Judge Malone must have
felt that IL was necessary 10 insure the
State officials from such attacks by
making an examp II Mr.. Taylor,
On account OF the entire mater
growing ont Of fac,ional politics, and
alleged election 'rauds, it has been the
subject Of violent partisan action,
After the case was appealed 10 the
Supreme Court and that body Jndic.
ially affirmed the decree OF the circuit
court, Mr. Taylor's friends made an
EFFORT TO secure p'rdOn. The ladies
Of Tallahassee circulated petition
and went before the board in body in
his behalf Their appeal had sensa-
tional denOnement Judge Liddon oi
Mariana, Hho was Prosecuting At.
torney when Taylor WAS convicted
was present, aud when the ladies' ha0
concluded their addresses he rose and
made an argument against the pardon.
The ladies openly expressed their in.
dignation and left in n body, The
next day Mr. Taylor began serving HE
sentence IL IL understood that a.
though Mr., Lamar would not, at the
time the petition was circulated, Join
In the effort, in fact declined TO do 80,
that it 10 largely due 10 HE recent Fl.
iorts that Mr., Taylor has been pardon.
ed, ieelinRJhat n his majority in the
recent primary was foil vIndication
Of his course he co aid well afford TO be
generous,
Pleasant it 10 for the Little Tin
Gods when great Jove mods
But Little TIN Gods make their
little mistakes
In missing the hour when HreA,
Jove wRkes
KiplinH Gays that It il n mistake to.
NEEDLE with Questions ~ state in a
land where men are highly paid to
work them out for you, ! WAS going
TO say something about the little scrap
We had down NJ O'Ala At the Press AZ.
ISOLATION last week over the Carter
resolution on the state printing, but /
ran across that ht Of wisdom from the
EASt set out IN enc % HI. Plain Tales
From the Hills, aud will drust
A. OcAlA MIR McBrAth nominated
Frank HAFFp, the veteran editor OF
The Hammer, Tor Governor, Naming
the nett Governor ga iRVorlte pE,tlme
about now With the brethren ~ the
preps aud the following list " possI.
biiiIics IL going the rounds Park
TFAmmel oi Lakeland, President 81
the lAIt senate Albert W G,lchrisl OF
PunlA GordA, Speaker OF the llouIe ~
1870 / ; CrIi OF rAlAtkH, formerly
State Treasurer, X hud,on Burr Of
DAde ~ present \ member OF the
Railroad Commission \. 4, Glitch.
memher.rlrct ~ the Railroad Com.
miStion Jefferson u, Browne, Who vii
retire from the Com mi,s,ou neGt lAnu.
AIRY J y. G stockton ot Jacksonville,
+, 4 Jennings 81 Pensacola ", }
Tucker ~ - Pierce. Frank Adams 81
JNpsF Cromwell Gibbons ~ Jackson.
vale ATTORNEY. EiiIt. James r..
Etoome ~ NAdsdrn, AUd Arthur VA.
hams 81 feTnAndiuA From the lot
might Toe eliminated rnmmcil Mitch.
G,bh1u' fucker. Broomc aud VA.
hAmS tfAnk ADAMS sAys he wouldn't
have Il, but he may change he mud
int two yeArS Mr. StockIous ambiIion -
10 SO 20 the lultrd states SeuGtc.
We Isrd TO ca CtomNr,l Gibbons
G1vrtnor" duttg tho lcgr,IGturv
act 10 see ham smile and MAKE din.
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