The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-04-06

That Hon. S. NJ. Sparkman will sue
coed himself Is a self-evident fart. His
services as the representative in Con-
~grSes Of the people of the First district
of Florida have been so pre-emineDtly
satisfactory and so valuable to every in
terest that we do not believe there is
one voter out of twenty who would toll
crate q change The remarkable emf
hence which Colonel Sparkman has at
tanned seems the greater when con-
tuasted with his humble beginnings.
Earlv left an orphan, his training in the
schools was limited. He was the foster
child Of adversely. But the youth who
can bear the strain and endure the pri-
walton of carving his own fortune, under
difficulties and circumstances that were
almost insuperable, to climb the dizzy
heights of professional eminence and
political honor, is in every way worthy
of the esteem and confidence of the
people.
OF the people, poor and struggling to
fit himself to fiji sphere of usefulness
and honor, he learned lessons more diff
ficult than those taught in the schools.
Almost from the day of his entrance
into Congress he has been recognized as
one of its foremost and ablest members
He has ever been in the thick of the
fight, battling bravely for the right as
he saw it, and however heated and tur-
bulent the scene, his mind is ever clear,
his aim definite, his purpose unfaltering
and his pOise of character so superb as
TO challenge the admiration of his con-
freres With no external influences to
aid him, victory came to him through
the sheer force Of his strong intellect
and attractive personality, and he dur
ing his second term became member
of the Rivers and Harbors Committee,
a distinguished honor sought by nearly
every Congressman, but attained by
very few.
The profound admiration excited by
the eminent services he has rendered
the State of Florida, in position which
displays his great and forceful qualities,
will render any and all opposition to
him futile He believes in the tradi-
tons, teachings and principles of the
Democratic party, but his party fealty
is not of that cheap quality which con-
stantly proclaims itself lest it be over
looked, nor does he so parade it as to
render it personally offensive to others.
While his opinion is always firm and
founded upon investigation and convic-
ton, yet he scrupulously respects the
Judgment of those who differ with him.
He is great enough TO recognize the
right of all men TO think for themselves
and he has never yet so belittled him
self as to impute improper motives or
lack of ability to those who had reached
conclusions and expressed opinions con-
trary to his own,
He is now in the zenith of his splen-
did intellectual and physical manhood,
ripe in experience, full of knowledge,
with every faculty trained and more
thoroughly fitted to discharge his duties
as representative than at any time in
his career, it would be folly to change,
really it weuld be a calamitous com
pendulum of evil to deprive the State
and the nation of his valuable services
Just now Therefore we repeat that
his nomination and ell ,ctlon is fore
gone conclusion, no matter who may
enter the race against him.-Pasco
County Democrat.