The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-07
Adams Resignation Puts the
Senatorial Fight on Ac-
tive Basis.
LAUD BROWNS CANDIDACY is
NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY At THE
cApITAL-No ONE is IN POSI-
TON TO SAY WHAT SPARkMAN
WILL DO.
BY Jefferson Bell.

BY Jefferson Bell.
Tallahassee, July 6--John L. Nee
ley, who has seriously considered be-
coming a candidate for railroad COM
missioner, and who received fiatter-
ing mention in connection Herewith,
has announced that he will not be
candidate 1t is understood that Mr..
Neeley will give his support to Mr.
Jules Solomon, who has announced
his candidacy. Mr.. Medley served as
secretary of the first commission, and
is well known in the state. He has a
lucrative law practice in Tallahassee
and is a young man of promise> Mr..
Soloman i, one of the best known men
in Florida, and has plenty of friends
all over the state. He has Travelled
the state continuously for many years,
and is we'll .osted in politics. The
fact that Mr.. Soloman will be the only
Jewish candidate for a state office will
give him a solid vote from his people,
a decided advantage to start with, as
he is probably the only man who has
announced for railroad commissioner
who has a solid vote from any section
or class.
There is a rumor afioat that Sena-
railroad commissioner also. Mr.. Neel
is of that class of men known as tine
salt of the. earth" Strong and sub
stantial, and with good political fol
lowing, he would make good official
in almost any branch of the state
government.
Adams's Resignation
Senator AdanrSS resignation from
| Cd nj
as practically an announcement OF
his candidacy for the United States
senate. The senate of 1909 will be
materially altered from the senate OF
! 1907. Four of the strongest men OF
the last senate Will be absent-Adams,
! Neel, Trammell and Massey. Two
others, Jackson and Baker, it is IN
, derstood, have aspirations toward the
railroad commission.
Mr.. Adams has long been one Of the
| leaders of the senate. His career
| has been marked by liberal, conser-
vative, progressive action. An able
debater, a skilled perhame utar1an, a
man of broad, safe judgment and un.
questioned honesty, Mr.. Adams Will
always WELD a strong influence in the
| affairs of the state Further develop
ments in connection with his candi-
dacy are awaited with interest.
Browns Candidacy.
No one seems to take seriously the
candidacy of Thomas J. Laud Brown,
of Tampa, further than that 1t prop
ablv indicates that Congressman
| Sparkman will not be candidate for
! the senate. But if Mr.. Brown knows
| what Mr.. Sparkman has decided, he
! ic in possession of information that
no one else has been able to get 1t
/ Is a popular saying here that mo one
I but God knows what Steve Sparkman
/ intends doing-and He wont tell
/ Another candidate whom the people
4 refuse to take seriously is Achilles
Beard.
What Bryan Wants.
When w. j. Bryan was IN Talla
hassee recently for the first time II
months his friends took special de
light in calling him Senator Bryan
and if never failed to bring forth q
smile Mr.. Bryan's ambition is tc
represent Florida in the United State:
senate, and 1t is an ambition that
expect him to realize, sooner o.
later. He has as yet made no lndl
} cation of intention to enter the race
in the next campaign
Fourth of July.
Tallahassee, like the rest OF the
, country, INDUCED in the usual patra
otto fourth of July performances
Staid old Tallahassee got off her dig
) nifty enough to indulge in parade o
the military. the newly organized
Bloxham Rifles, who trudged out q
, the golf links, (nCw transformed int
} Munroe street park through mud ant
rain, followed by procession of car
) riages and floats decorated with flag
and bunting.
Hon r. Hudson Burr. Hon. B. E
McLin and Mayor Mcintosh occupied
the first carriage, and Mr.. Burr made
the address of the day. Without an!
reference to politics, and, in keepln:
with the occasion, Mr.. Burr's address
, was a very pleasing one Mr. Bur
was introduced by Mr.. McLin, who |!
a ready speaker, and whose remark
} we're decidedly clever. A ball gam'
between the Tallahassee and Apalachi
cola teams followed
Paving Pensions.
J .Out of the fulness of the heart, thu
mouth speaketh.'' Thus runs tn
Scriptures. So if l write too often o
pensions, it is because at present
am living on pensions. We are in tn
) midst OF the usual quarterly rush o
paying pensions. Requests for ar
plication blanks continue to come Il
) hundreds, although we have sent GU
over four thousand from which we ar
receiving an average of forty from
, each county approved by the count.
commissioners. In some OF the coun
ties, a second meeting of the count,
couiaIri ssioners will be held during tn
month to approve applications.
There will be between fifteen hun
} bred and two thousand application
Med in the pension department b.
August first.