The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-11-16
THE JUST FATE
OF THAT SCHEMINc
Constitutional Amendment = What
Florida Newspaper Hen Have
% Say AhOut At.

The election Is over and all reports
so far received indicate that the drain
age amendment to the constitution has
been defeated by big majority, some
estimates placing it as high as 5000,
although 1000 seems to be nearer the
correct figure This should put an end
to any effort to again ask the people OF
Florida to confer on any set OF men
arbitrary powers. or TO delegate leRIs-
lative authority on board Of executive
officers. st. Lucie Tribune.
Mr.. Broward's stock seems to be
watered Mr.. Broward, as a Sena-
torial candidate, will be Of little force.
The people of Florida have set down on
him good and hard.-Dunnellon Advo-
cate,
The drainage campaign was a mud
singing affair in more senses than one.
There may be more mnd-slinging in
politics, but there will be no more mud
singing in the Everglades. Nassau
Star.
In our own State there was very
little interest in the election ex-
cept in the matter Of the Governors
drainage amendment. Though incom-
plete, sufficient returns have come in
to make plain the fact that the drain
ment has been knocked into a cooked
hat by the sovereign voters of Florida,
and now Mr.. Broward will have to take
up his 'slack" and come again West
Florida seems to have been more
friendly to the drainage proposition
than the other portions Of the State.
In South Florida, with but two or three
exceptions, every county was against
the proposition, while the middle coun-
ties hit the proposition large series OF
solar plexus blows. Plant City Courier.
On Tuesday the people of the state
informed Gov. Broward that It was
their opinion the Everglades could not
b drained. The DeSoto News.
The only issue of interest in Florida
was the drainage amendment, and the
result shows that the people Of this
state do not care to invest five men
with monarchial powers, the amend
ment having been defeated by vote
of at least two to one. The vote on
this question in Alachua county is es-
pecialy gratifying to The Sun. Gaines
vile Sun.
Florida's good-natured governor
grows threatening. The defeat of his
pet scheme of Everglades and other
drainage has caused him to feel blue.
He told a prominent gentleman in
Jacksonville last Wednesday that he
is mot through fighting yet. BY way
of explanation, the governor added
They have beat me, but / am not
through fighting yet. In fact, | feel
better prepared and more in the mood
for fighting than at any time since |
entered politics. will have another
constitutional amendment offered at
the next session of the Legislature,
and will have some bills put through
which will cause weeping and wailing
and gnashing of teeth in certain quar-
tiers. am going ahead with the drain
age of the Everglades, regardless of
way" Take TO the woods, we anti
drainage voters, for ar adverse major
ity of nearly FIVE thousand voters is not
going to save you from the inevitable.
st. Augustine Record.
Governor Broward has said that he
would veto a measure TO tax the whole !
state to pay for the drainage of the |
Everglades. So we are safe anyhow so
long as he Is governor, unless two
thirds of the legislature could be in
duced 10 vote for a measure making an
appropriation. Winter Garden Rico |
Chef. but has he not made promises
before that he treated lightly. Such |
treatment as he handed TO Major |
Tench, for an example
Nothing but leaves are now left to
remind the people Of the drainage dis |
cussion, and these, scattered from Bag !
dad TO Panasoffkee, are fast becoming I
raked up to feed the insatiate maws of
kitchen fires Governor Broward
opened the Jacksonville Carnival with
q speech, introducing the various COO
hee-hoo-chees, tumblers, acrobats,
snake. charmers and dog-faced men to
the waiting people. There are large
number Of people in the State who feel
that the Governor Is especially fitted
TO shine in a permanent position Of this
kind AS a matter of fact, some Of
the most active Of the anti-drainage
spouters were enough to cast suspicion
of corporation influence upon all who
honestly opposed the scheme. And yet
the fight was really one in which the
honest, thinking people Of the State,
aided by one railway corporation noted
for its decent regard for the rights Of
all, were pitted against a really vicious
railway corporation, aided and abetted
by a coterie of official grafters whose
most Potent stock in trade is an ability
10 fool the ignorant and minimizing i
large part Of the time. - Palatka News.
The Time Union claims Dade county
gave a majority Of thirty-nine for
drainage. II did no such thing; it