The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-03-09
.Tanahassee. IA. Mar

to see corrected any false impression
which you may have created in the
minds of the people, and yet allow you
fair opportunity to defend your posi-
ton, respectfully invite and urge you
to meet me in joint public discussion
of this question, at Ocala, or any other
point or points in the State. and at a
date or dates within the next six weeks
to be mutually agreed upon.
If you are sincere in your conten-
tions / am sure you will welcome an OBJ
portunity to meet in public discussion
and confuse an advocate of the Com
mission law.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) R. HUDSON BURR
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If Governor Broward denounced the
State papers Saturday night in his jack
sonville speech defending his Everglades
drainage scheme in the way he is re-
ported to have done, he has no right to
feel proud of it in his cooler moments
While sue h an Incorporate outburst
may appeal to the cheaper class of citi-
zenship-people of little information
and less thought who delight in the vul-
gar show of hearing somebody abuse
somebody else, it will not help his rep
utation with the enlightened people of
Florida who read and think. The drain
age Of the Everglades is a public ques-
ton in which every citizen of the State
has an interest, and any of them, or
any newspaper, has a right to doubt or
deny the expediency of such a scheme
and express themselves fully on the
subject. The papers have done nothing
more than this, and they have done It
in terms of perfect courtesy. To pub
licly revie them as being bought by the
railroads is not only stale and outWOrR
device in politics, but it is untrue. The
railroads could have no motive in buy
ing the papers on such an issue, for it
is to their interest to have every acre
of waste land in Florida made product
i've as soon as possible. Live Oak Dem
ocrat.
Yes, it was quite an undignifed thing
for high statesman to do-to get up
on street platform, on a clustering
Saturday night and squirt old, worn-out
peanut campaign insinuations and
charges against the newspapers being
owned and controlled by railroads, etc.
1t does seem that some bad advice is
being given our Governor by some bad
men. We are extremely sorry that he
takes it, and we note that he throws
in some sentiment" too.
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A neat rejoiner was that made by the
Times-Union to Governor Broward's as
sertion that he was elected without the
aid of that paper. The Times Union
grimly remarked that it was also true
that the Governor was nominated with
out the vote of his own ward, his own
city or his own county. Tampa Tribune.
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The State of Florida had best spend
some of its money in trying to get peo-
pie here to settle on some of the many
thousands of acres of tillable land we
have already at our command, than to
spend it trying to reclaim the Ever
glades, land that we will not need in
many years .-DeSoto News.
You will perhaps remember that Ell
lot F. Shepard wealthy grandson Of
the late w. X Vanderbilt, ran over a
boy with his auto in the environs-6f
Paris some time ago and was sentenced
to three months Imprisonment and a
heavy fine. The government has re-
fused to pardon him, and the chances
are very strong that he will have to
spend the allotted time in Jail Tampa
Times.
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A government that Furnishes small Of
tenders without fear or favor but winks
at the big violators Of the laws needs to
make change in the servants whose
duties are to enforce the law. 1t is not
a just government that will send petty
to the ''pen" for a term Of
years while the man who has stolen in
surance funds to the extent of many
thousand of dollars is let go free. Mad
son Recorder.
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Is he sane? If Governor Broward
keeps up his inane twaddle about the
press of the State being purchasable,
the people of the State will be compelled
generally to write him down as a hope
less chump. Instead of running over
he State, denouncing the newspaper
men, and endeavoring to arouse inteuSAt
n windy scheme which fooled some :, J
he people into nominating him tor Gov
ernor, Napoleon would be in much bet