The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-10
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bills than any that pass the national
legislature, and she is now looking to
Sparkman 10 turn some OF Uncle Sam
money into our rivers and harbors.
1t was a great honor for the Florida
congressman, and vet it will cause
him to give up his cherished ambition
to go to the senate, at least for quite
a number of years. He realizes that
IL ne were TO run for the senate now
the people would accuse him of desert
ing them at the very time he was able
TO render them the most service, and
this would be a telling cry-in fact it
would almost defeat the Tampa man.
This committee appointment has
thrown a damper over the enthusiasm
OF Sparkman's friends, and they are
beginning to realize that it would be
a mistake for him to leave the house,
and lose his place on the rivers and
harbOrs committee, Just to try his
chances with Mallory for the senate.
There has been considerable talk of
Frank Adams entering the fight
against Mallory, but this same talk was
going on five years ago, when Nal
lOry was up for his first reelection.
Adams wants to go to the senate, but
he is afraid of his support, and he
will never get into the fight until he
is sure of it. My prediction is that
he will never be able to line I'D as
solid a support for this position as
Sparkman could, and with anything
less than this it would be foolish for
him to try.
Will Bryan.
There was some talk around Jack
Sonville a few weeks ago to the effect
that VIII Bryan would enter the fight,
regardless of what other candidates
might do, but this rumor seems to
have had no foundation. Will Bryan
has been waiting his chance and he
will run for something soon. but / give
him credit for having too much sense
to enter a fight against Mallory. No
anti-corporation man can hope to win
against Mallory; he might succeed in
defeating him and allowing a corpora
ton man to win, but he could never
win himself Will Bryan realizes this,
just as did Judge Lamar, and l don't
believe he ever had any serious inten-
ton of entering the fight
John Beard.
1t is said in West Florida that John
Beard has told certain of his friends
that he would go into the fight, and
that he was going to win hands down
over Mallory and every other man
that entered the race, but then John,
you know, was going to congress
once, but for some reason, believe it
was through a lack of votes, he never
got there. Now he is going to try an
other road to Washington, and l pre-
dict that he will find it a much harder
road than the one previously tried by
him
Governor Broward.
Some politicians have been foolish
enough to predict that governor Brow
ard would be in the senatorial fight,
hut the same reasoning that applies
to Judge Lamar and VIII Bryan would
apply to him. Broward is too shrewd
to b., entrapped into such a contest.
K has occurred to me that perhaps
the corporations will not be able TO
center on a man, and that they will al
low Mallory to go back to the senate |
for a third term without opposition. |
Did il ever occur to you that these |
people would like to say of their can
didate few years hence, I'VE allowed
your man to go back without opposi-
ton, now let ours get through the
same way?'
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