The weekly true Democrat., 1907-11-22

poVer az Coneregs and dictate what i
should 10 In the matter Of Railroad reg
illation, but are unwilling for the heo~
eral Government to attempt TO regulate
the States. You cannot sow the Tempest
of improper Federal interference Win
the railroads, without reaping the whlri-
wind Of Federal interference with the
State Governments.
CORPORATIONS TRANsFERRING CASES
FROM STATE TO FEDERAL COURTS
SHOULD BE EXCLUDED FROM
THE STATE
l shall recommend the enactment Of
law TO revoke the license of any for
eign corporation doing business IN Flor
ida that shall transfer q case from .
State to Federal Court. Litigation IN
the Federal Courts is very expensive,
and many a poor man, by his inability
to carry his case through theee tribu-
mails, is sprevented from obtaining justice.
The tendency to transfer cases is also 9
reflection on the integrity Of the State
Courts, and those foreign corporations
that seek to do business in Florida must
be made to understand that they cannot
treat our courts with contempt nor will
they be permitted to prevent our people
from obtaining justice, by entailing upon
them expensive litigation in the United
revoke their licenses for this cause h
no longer a mooted question. It first
came before the u, S. Supreme Court
in the case of The Home Insurance Com
pany VS.. Morse, 20 Wall, AS. In that
case a Wisconsin Statute enacted IN
1870 required an Insurance Company
doing business in the State TO appoint
an attorney upon whom process could be
served, and to enter into an agreement
that they would not remove suit for.
trial from a State to a Federal Court.
This act was held unconstitutionsl. as
was similar act passed in Iowa, l21
u. S. 1856. In these cases the Court held
thaG it was 1.-THE exaction of q stipula-
tion or agreement from the Company
not to exercise a constitutional right,
which rendered the statute illegal but
in Doyle VS.. The Continental Insurance
Company, 81, u. S. 535, and more recent
case decided last year by the Supreme
Court of the United States THE Secur-
ity Mutual Life Insurance Company vs.
Pruitt 202, u. S. 246,) the Court held
that "The State may compel foreign
company to abstain from the Federal
Courts, or cease to do business in the
State. 1t gives the company no option.
This is justifiable, because the complain
ant has no constitutional right to do
DuSllSSS III IHdI oCdCSs AHdJ ObtASG
has authority at any time to declare
that it shall not transact business here"
Also GAS a State has the power TO re-
fuse permission to a foreign insurance
company to do business at all within it's
confines, and as it has power to with
draw that permission when once given,
without stating any reason for its ac-
ton, the fact that it may give what
some may think poor reason, or none,
for valid act is immaterial."
| EACH RAILROAD TO HAVE ACCREDITED
REPRESENTATIVES IN FLORIDA.
favor the passage of law requiring
each Railroad doing business in the State
of Florida to have an accredited repre-
sentative residing IN the State, who
shall have full authority TO adjust all
! differences arising between the peopleof
! the State and the Railroad which he
represents. This will prevent a great
| deal of friction, and the people will get
| speedy relief for any wrong which they
may have sustained from the railroad
l have undertaken to give you an
outline of some of the policies that
| will advocate in my messages to the
| Legislature, and trust that my views
on governmental matters meet with
your approval The candidates are be
fore you to choose from, and shall not
attempt to detract from any Of the
other gentlemen who offer themselves
for the position of Governor. It should
not prove my fitness for the Office TO
show them unworthy if could, and IL
have nothing more to commend my
self to you than an attack upon them,
I am poor material out of which TO
make a Governor. would not willingly
plant thorn in any mans bosom, nor
would it add anything to the satisfae-
ton of my nomination to know that any
other man may be disappointed or
panied by the result, and / ask my
friends to conduct their campaign in
my behalf upon this principle and in
this spirit. That ! am ambitious 20 hold
this high office l do not deny. Since
my first entrance into public life have
made a study of governmental affairs
to try and fit myself in some degree 70
perform the duties of high Office il it
were ever my good fortune to obtain it.
But my ambition is regulated by prin-
ciple, and / am incapable by nature and
force of my convictions of seeking per-
sonal advancement through any course
Of public policy Of which my honest con-
victions are not the main spring and the
/ life.
But my friends these policies which
favor If elected, are instruments only of