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

former senator. Wall ought 10 WIN.
Grill was the intrOducer in the last leg.
islature Of the East Coast extension bill
which proposed to grant extraordinary
special privileges to Flagler's railroad
Any such representative Of special IN
terests ought not to be elected TO the
legislature. Madison Recorder.
About that East Coast Extension, the
DeLand Record has the following TO
say:
The Flagler railroad is giving employ
ment to over 900 workmen on the Key
West extension. This extension IS and
will forever be the most wonderful rail-
road building in the history Of Florida.
What a wonderful transformation II.
NJ. Flagler has made to the East Coast
of the State from Jacksonville TO Key
West at an expenditure, probably $780,
OO0, 900. He has been the State s great
est developer and benefactor, for he
will hardly see the day when profit
will come from his vast investments.
Many thousands Of our own people have
followed the opening up Of this beauti-
full and turtle country for settlement,
and many are getting rich by the OPP
pOrtunities given in the investment OF
these millions in our State. Such in
vcstments are what make State great
and prosperous. Just see what will be
shipped from the fruit and truck sec
tiOns down the East Coast this season
The vegetable output is estimated at
nearly half million crates, and the
pineapple crop will foot up about half
as much. There are growers, some
from VOusia county, who will make
fortune this season. And still you hear
of fanatics and anti .cOrpOrationists who
are fighting Flagler and his enterprise.
Proper guards should be thrown around
the operations Of the railroads as are
given the people in the Railroad Com
mission, but this continual fOaming at
the mouth by fanatics about railroad
corporations does the State and her
people great harm. 1t is the method
such people adopt to get Office. 1t is
the office they are after, and not for
the real interest of the State or the
people.
We agree with Editor Dunn, of the
Madison Recorder, and Secretary Of
the Railroad Commission, that Hon.
John +. Wall is a good and true man,
and that he has made Florida useful
and conscientious legislator. but when
he throws mud on DR.. f. S. Grill, one
Of the truest and purest men before
the people Of Florida, he goes out Of
his way to do a gross injustice and he
will have the biggest job of his life in
the undertaking. There is not one sim
gle excuse for it either in this instance,
and it behooves Secretary Dunn, while
he is bending his efforts in the defense
Of the drainage board, to be sure Of
his bearings when he goes after game,
to seek after things and men he can
handle in better shape. No enterprise
of so much financial interest to the
people OF Florida was ever gone into
than is the extension of the East Coast
railroad to Key West, and it is true DR..
Grill may have been the intrOducer of
the measure, but careful reading of
it does not reveal the fact that it came
with it one iota of especial privileges"
that have damaged the people of Flor
ida one single cent. The building of the
extension to Key West through water
ways mostly, is universally conceded to
be one of the most gigantic pieces of
engineering work in the history of the
world, to say nothing of the immense
and incalculable benefits it will be to
this whole country and particularly to
kloridans. There is no reason for cen
sure in that work young man; take
back your thrust and grasp at some
thing easier for you to handle and don't
howl that the railroads OF Your Uncle
Henry" owns us, that's what some
higher officials do, when they are cor
nered in their schemes, or charged with
the abuse Of some official power. We
repeat, "Nc dirty lobbyist" can APP
proach such men as DR., +. S. Grill OF
Hon. Hunt Harris, of Key West. with
scheme that will work an injury &c
the people of Florida, and men of Their
char, cter should fill every seat in the
wv Louses Of the next Leg stature fol-
their services will be needed there.
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Editor Thomas Jefferson ApplsyarG
of the Lake City Index, is an announced
candidate for the Railroad Commission
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Last week we published by request
a communication from Col. l.. +, Rob