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Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15
For State Senator,
X j. W. WATSON.
vERo

Rev. Kettle of Eau Gallie, held SER
vice at the school house Sunday even
ing.
Geo Hall and r. G. Hardee of Sc
bastian, came down to attend the po-
litical speaking at the school mouse
Friday evening.
The government dredge, Florida, on
its way to Gilberts Bar, is at work 10
the river channel at Vero dredging a
six foot channel as 1t goes.
Mr. and Mrs. N. o. Penny and Mrs.
F. G. Prange left Monday for Games
VILE to attend the meeting OF the
State horticultural society Mr.. Fenny
and Mrs. Prang both have Important
numbers on the program
Mosdames Clifford, Penny and Ford
NJ nt To Fort Pierce Thursday evening
70 attend the meeting OF the oroer oi
the Eastern Star.
M g Jones. Jr., and Dixie Summer
n. we're in Vero Tuesday purchasing
l LII T for their cattle camps located
back OF this place.
vero was fovored with candidates
oolore Friday evening, when they
savored the voters OF this preclnct
,n;th sneeches. Those present were
Rev faine. B. F. Hardestyl 7. z. Pop-
wy nsII N O. Penny and Mr. Stinson.
p sobool started Monday morning,
Miss Eddie Geiger OF Green Cove
Sp.s pupils to start with and pos
cnnor,ntendent Nesbits has been In
:, s PUP ssvaraI times recently looking al
~ sr'v tSe school building There has
yer .ne tmeive foot addition on the back
end and the bulldog nSYeo Oa'A =
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15
FRANK CLARK SCORES TRIBUNE
Congressman Replies to a Gross
Misrepresentation.

It is reported that Frank Clark
has offered to take the stump
against Gov, Broward. ae had
better be in Washington where he
is drawing salary to attend to the
peoples business. Gov. Broward's
friends will remember Frank Clark
two years hence. st. Lucie County
Tribune.
Washington, d. c., May 8, 1908.
Editor Fort Pierce News:
The above notice l find in the last
issue of the Tribune.
don't know what this means when II
said: 1T is reported that Frank Clark
has offered to take the stump against
Gov. Broward." To whom did make
the offer? Was the offer rejectedY
The report is a twenty-five carat lie
If I wanted to take the stump against
Gov. Broward." l should certainly dc
so, and not just offer TO do so. There
is 40 secret about the fact that L an
unalterably opposed to his candidacy
for the Senate. When this paper says
"had better be in Washington where
he (I) is drawing salary to attend &c
the peoples business" | suppose the
same paper thinks it is all right foI
Broward to abandon the duties which
the people are paying him to discharge
and 90 galivanting over the State IL
search of another office. The fellow
who indicted the above is evidently 9
member of Broward's "great-hearteo
gang" nm g.,
The funniest part of this little fell
lows effort is his statement that Coy
ernor Broward's friends will remember
Frank Clark two years hence; Ihls
will be nothing new. There has not
been moment of time in the last four
wears when "Broward's friends" (pie
bri0ade) has not remembered Frank
Clark % But the verdant youth who
noses as ''editor" of the Tribune is mis-
taken about this. He and all OF Brow
ards pie-gang will not remember
Frank Clark two years hence" There
will not be enough of them by that
time to remember any one. Browaro
will be so dead politically by that time
he will find himself deserted by the
nie-oang now held together solely by
the cohesive power of official pap"
Let the young man editing the Trib'
une not disturb himself as to my polit,
zeal future. l will in the future as
have in the past rely upon the people
and not on the machine, | shall point
TO record of things done in their In
terest and not depend upon demagogiC
promises. n,
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15
SCHOOL CLOSING EXERCISES
Excellent Program Rendered to a
Large Audience.

The closing exercises Of the Fort
Pierce graded and high school, which
were held in the Improvement Club hall
Monday afternoon, were of a high or.
der and witnessed by one Of the larges t
crowds that has been in the hall for
some time. Three hundred invita-.
lions were sent out for the occasion
and the invited guests, who were the
patrons of the school and others. re.
sponded in great numbers
During the reception hour from 2 to
3 o'clock the faculty, assisted by the
graduating class were kept busy re-
ceiving the numerous guests, and by
the latter hour the auditorium was
filed to its capacity by parents and
friends of the school children.
Mrs. Hunter, principals ably presid.
ed and did the honors of chief hostess.
The following program was well rem.
dered and every number was heartily
applauded:
Piano Duet. Misses Laura Penney, Florence Stetson
Chorus"..... Commencement Song ......... School
Address Of Welcome ........... Hon. r. R. Gladwin
Chorus.,.,...,.. Florida, My Florida" .. School
Address Mr. Brian X. MeCarty
Sunbonnet Babies" ....o.. From Primary Grades
heclIatlon' ".u.,."..,.Eugene Summerlin
Dumbbell ealesthenics Twenty Girls
Teddy Bear Lullaby. Girls
Flag Twenty Primary Pupils
Indian Club Drill Seven Girls
Violin Solo,. Hearts and Flowers Will Hunter
Accompanies Miss Laura Penney
Song ...,.,.,.,.,,,. Rambling" Boys
Eastern Star" Marches and Poses
Sixteen High School Girls
College Life Chorus by School
OflBlnal fOeH. toQrnan BackuS
Vacation by Malcolm Moore"
Distribution of Prizes and Comforting Diplomas
Supt. w. ]. Nesbtt
Song. ...." America"
Pianist o",.v.",.M Miss Ruth Alderman
Each number on the program de-
serves special mention and we regret
that we are not able TODD full justice
to them. The marches, drills, songs
and recitations showed ability as we'll
as work. However, wedesire to men,
ton the address of Brian X. McCarty
to the graduating class, which was
considered by many TO be one Of the
best addresses ever delivered in Fort
Pierce. Mr.. mccarthy IS one of the
home boys and this fact makes II more
interesting, and his friends predict
great future for him as an orator.
Superintendent NesbiEt, who was on
the program to distribute prizes and
confer diplomas, was absent from the
city and Mrs. Hunter a5ss supplied his
absence.
After the program the guests were
invited to the dining room down stairs
to partake of refreshments, which con-
sistsd of cake and punch.
Many were the complimentary re-
marks passed on the school and It's
management during the past term, a
great number expressing the opinion
that the pupils had made more pro
gress than during any other term ID
former years, and each teacher was
implored by various patrons to resume
the work next fall.
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15
A Sudden Death.

Last Friday night about ten O'CLOCK
sudden death was reported at tue
railway station. When the express
train came in from the south Fireman
D. F. Purdon asked for relief stating
that he did not feel we'll. Anotner
man was put on the engine and Mr.
Purdon went to the employees room 70
wash no. He then lay down on table
and asked Mr.. Johnson, the, nignt
hostler. 20 call him when he was
Through with the next engine.
About twenty minutes later Mr.
Johnson went to take him 70 his own
room to 90 to bed. After vbinly try,,
;n,y IN wake him light was secured
and to his horror found the young man
dead. DR.. Rollins was at once sun,
moned but it was in vain, Tor lie was
entirely extinct. 49, =,
No one was with him at the time OF
death and Coroner Tyler summoned a
inrv and a brief inquest was held, tne
yyardict being that the deceased came ,l
~ his death from natural causes. Inc
U ~ supposition is that 1t was heart
tromhIa being aggravated by overheas'
In his pockets were post caros ao'
dressed ~ nd to D. +. Barton and other pa
nars gave his address in Jacksonville,
r. was later learned that MS n la m os
Purion. and was known py Dotn n .aI 60.
The conflict of names IS accoun.ou ~
nv the fact that he was step son aIu
~ Of some places called Dy MS iavn-
ev.;s name and Others by bis steP-isCn-
e.,s THE remains we're shipped oao-
,,rdsv nifIht to DeLand where tns
Young mans relatives reside
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15
Mound raised to pay Watson's cam.
'lsn expenses, he pays his own. II
Franklin for Sheriff.

indicate ]. A, Franklin, who is
,.nlg a thorough canvass for the Of
/. \, q sheriff reports that he is making
9 progress toward the nomination.
4. rankin Is making the race on his
'' n record and is in no ring, clique
4. ns api has not asked the support of
n pnIcans, candidates or others
=. 81 not Tree to cast their ballot as
4. Y His personal record will
=, ne closest of inspection and 10th
',.l =. o. can be brought out to his
'', He is a hard working, in
!. ~ citizen and will so conduct
X .a u Of the Office If selected to fill
wy next four years, 24-1t.
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15
new BUSINESS HOUSE IS OPEN
Coats Bros. Grocery is Now Ready
For Business.


A new business firm is introduced to
Fort Pierce this week under the name
of Coats Bros, who have opened first
class grocery store in the billiard build
ing on Orange avenue. This firm is
composed of j. G.. Coats and W. Il.
Coats, both of whom are well known in
Fort Pierce and personally need no In
PRODUCTION, for Greene and Lee have
hosts of friends all up and down the
river.
A visit to the new store Wednesday
morning revealed the fact that they
are ION to their job" and are opening
up handsome line of staple and fancy
goods, which they intend to let go at
the lowest prices and do strictly cash
business. Their line will be confined
to groceries and feed.stuffs, and they
will carry at all times a complete line
of the freshest and best groceries
w. L. Goats is manager and VIII be
in charge of the store. w. e. Iedder,
recently with the st. Lucie Drug Co.,
will assist Mr.. Coats and these two gen,
tlemen will be be found ready and
anxious to supply the wants OF the
Fort Pierce people in the grocery line.
They have been busy opening goods
and arranging the store all this week
and expected to be able TO throw open
the doors to the public by today,
Read their ad which appears 10
another column and call and inspect
their stock.
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15
N POLITICAL GATHERINGS
], candidates Developing as
uiobtv Campaign Orators

.,gn speaking has become
OnpInlsseD among the county candi-
h'pagg'S6 ids fair to be a qualification
rs ana o osnirants for political honors
iulu a,S sfsirs. During the present
pang tour meetings have been
agslg uuhich a majority of the candt,
Y q Z. WIN bent their energies toward
y i asiaj fights and tried their hands
annp speaking, hui. c,.v ,ooo,irc
ny sS Oe'r and Sebastian entertained
7 .', s Last Saturday night
ao lime for them TO appear in
y /. 1Is c and they were all on hand
Y Ile,v their claims for office.
s.Is~sn R. Whyte, of the county eX-
Al ANU ccommittee, presided at the
s'a llSu and in the fewest possible
s;l'E ;rtroduced each speaker. The
y, ' n which they came Teye' Sena-
n Hudson and Hon. John w.
IL candidates for State Senator;
W. y Hardee for the legislature; w.
s..bit, B. F. Hardesty and X. NJ
a. ss lor school superintendent; f. L..
s s.s' and Fred Fee for county
q +, Dutton and Frank NJ. Ty-
4, lax collector and F. G. Poppell
n..r the start until almost the
!v .to roferences made by the can
slss % the opposition, sounded like
. \. ~, rsetinc of a mutual administra-
a society' but when the tax collec-
"a olSre was reached on the callen-
,Ie color of the remarks were
,.sd and for the first time in the
-",iyn something besides bouquets
Y handed out. This caused a small
s0is q excitement and regret that
.,Sioc Of the kind should be inject
IIsio The otherwise harmonious cam
allowing this meeting came a
Ihlv.ave mile iaunt across the coun-
!, q tsntie, where the enterprising
ssDs Of that prosperous section had
lnnred a big barbecue and picnic for
! ahdidsies' benefit.
Fifteen candidates and few en-
hiaslc supporters from this side
" he trip, and were reinforced az
nlle BY three candidates in that Sec
Reports from the returning can
,l.s are to the effect that the Tan
Is treated them royalty and fed
m feast At for a King. Those
.Dblo nese Messrs. Nataon, Hud-
hahiee, Fee, Hemmings, Tyler,
|tln, Poppell, Tedder, Hardesty,
,'|i|ll and Franklin. They appeared
heeor1er named and all made good
hRelr talks. Other candidates who
lae there we're V. G. Walker, j. K.
hAl John H. Wynn, Peter Rauler-
40 R. &. Mclaughlin and Alex Sloan,
l'e !hree latter being candidates for
from that district. II.
Z Hancock presided in a graceful
inner and was so impressed by the
'almde Of the seekers for political
Pdefment that he was forced at the
eeUsiQn to thank the candidates for
BEN good behavior.
"a Tuesday night Senator hudson
Y Nh Watson addressed a fair sized
|s,llence at the school house in Jensen,
.lsIe they set forth their qualifca-
''s for the position.
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15
' 's sSS believes in protecting home
'Au so voted. 1t


il. sort Pierce, Fla, May 10, 1908,
81 !, Fort Pierce News;-
70 'as primary is growing near and
|,ss Pgple must soon make their
~, ,0r the various offices l feel II
4. Ky as an old soldier who suffered
"a es1 cause, to say a word for the
u ,'S wS friend, Hon. ]. w. Watson.
{ " 4, v ! while in the legislature,
"a Y times when occasion arose,
M, s.o..klng for the cause Of the old
|'|s ~ ana ~, their widows; our present
,I,'s .aw was supported by Mr..
||s., Nnen Senator Hudson voted
loS,. = have examined the Sem
.' S.' ,,a, Of 1907 and End recorded
li0l thereof the name Of Sena-
||I,' ~ voting with two Others
|.. .ne old soldiers and their
e. saving the little pittance
& 2er present law gives us. /
( ,ss ,.es that it looks very hard
. .' 9aps man like Mr.. Hudson TO
i. AZ petition, when he TOO we'll
.Ss Pegnt TO know, the hard
%r'ures suffered by those
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15
Church Notices.

Presiding Elder r. f. Ley will be in
Fort Pierce next Sunday and hold SER
vices at the Methodist church at IL a.
m. aud 1880 p, m. Communion at
morning service. Quarterly confer.
ence will be held Saturday night at
1880 in the church,
Sunday morning worship in St. An,
drews Episcopal church, 6 o'clock holy
communion, IL o'clock morning prayer
and sermon. Theme, "Religion Re-
garded As True, Its Origin Is Intelli-
gible, Regarded AS Fictitious, There Is
No Known or Conceivable Cause To
Which 1t Can Be Referred" Sunday
school at 10 a. M, w. 7, Hardin super
intendent. Friday service p. m.
Choir will meet as usual. Seats are
free. Everybody welcome. George
Moore D, D., pastor.
Preaching at the Baptist church
next Sunday morning and evening.
Morniny text "Be Ye Therefore Per
feet, Even AS Your Father Which Is
In Heaven Is Perfect" Providential
Chastisment, Mat. 5: Heb, 1913. Sun
day school p. IN. Young peoples
meeting at $3.50 p. m.
JENSEN
Congregational service, worship and
sermon, in the Jensen High School
room next Sunday night, May 18th at
6:45, Subject, lessons from fire, flood
and cyclone, Rev. Breckenridge pas
tor.
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15

Watson would rather let a few Con-
federate soldiers, who don't need IL.
have pension than to deprive thous.
ands of those who do from getting it,
so he voted for the bill. II
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15

Mrs. Florence Watts of Lake City,
arrived in Fort Pierce Sunday last and
is expecting to open up a dressmaklng
establishment. For the present she Is
stopping with her nephew, DR., Van
Lapdingham. Her daughter, Miss
Onida Watts, will join her the first OF
next week.
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15

Remember that Watson's record in
the legislature bears out the fact that
he Is the friend Of the old soldiers and
their widows-he voted for them 70
have pensions. Mr.. Hudson voted
agaipst them having pensions, See
Senate Journal 1907, page ll6I. IL
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15

the center of the lot, new screens put
in, pump put down and other inn
provements that will add greatly to
the camfort of the teacher and pupils.
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15

Where man has resided a long
time he is best known. He lived in
Oceola county rs years, ask Oceola
county people about him and see i
they don't tell you that Watson is all
right. It.
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15

Watson believes that the money paid
by the white people for school purposes
should educate the white people and
the money paid by the negro should
educate the negro children. 1t
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15

Watson doesn't wait till just before
the primary to get acquainted with
you. He knows you the year round. 1t
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15

Watson's record 10 the Legislature
shows that he is always willing to sub
NIT all questions to the people. Z 1t
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-05-15

Don't believe political enemies but
ask Watson about his position on any
ouestion-he will tell you. 1t
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-07-02
BRYAN IN MARYLAND.

The -c.Iers of the Democratic par
ty in Maryl /, who have managed by
trick ballots and by judicious distri-
buttons OF a ronage to keep in power,
LOOK with sorrow upon their party in
the national arena, where it is leader
less and issleless from their stand
point. OF course, Mr.. Bryan is the
leader OF majority, but he is not the
leader OF majority of Democrats of
Marvlard.
In vain did the late Senator German,
the late l.. Victor Baughman, the late
William -'inkney Whyte, Senator
Rayner and other Maryland Democrats
who were conspicuous and influential in
the national councils of their party
labor to inject new life and new
issues in the organization, which has
rendered valuable services to the nation
in the past, but after twelve years.
beg inning in 1896, the Democratic party
stands where it was placed by BRYAN
and other frce-silyer fanatics of the
West.
Bryan will be nominated for presi-
dent by the Democratic convention
which will meet in Denver next week.
Of that there is no doubt. There was
some doubt month or more ago, when
efforts were in evidence in New York
that there would be furnished opposition
and organization against the twice
candidate for president. Influential
financiers allied with the Democratic
party set the wheels agoing and then
they stopped. They 'laid down." Just
as Republican financiers laid down four
years ago after lending encouragement
to the movement by New York Demo-
cratic financiers to nominate Judge
Parker for President, and after holding
out promises of strong financial aid.
The nomination of Mr.. BRYAN NAV.
therefore, be accepted as a foregone
conclusion. He will be the paramount
issue, the platform of his party in the
campaign. What he stands for the
party must stand for. whether it wants
to or not. Unfortunately for Eastern
Democrats, and especially Maryland
Democrats, Mr.. Bryan stands for things
unpalatable to them. As an individual
issue Mr.. Bryan is not valuable asset.
A horse that has the reputation Of
kicking, baking and doing other things
is not marketable animal at an attrac-
tive price. Mr.. Bryan has been twice
defeated. He is today the best abver-
tised man in the United States adver-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-07-02
HE COLONEL Al The BAT.

Our great and good friend, Col. Hen
ry Watterson Ito whom be peace and
joy everlastingD fills long column in
his excellent periodical, the Louisville
Courier-Journal, with a treatise upon
the history, mystery, morals, heft,
bulk, vistage, prospects and policies of
Mr.. Taft.
He begins his treatise with the fol-
lowing singular remark:
Upon a platform of imposture,
largely constructed out of timbers stol-
en-, from Mr.. Bryan's backyard. the
Republicans party has set a man of
straw"
Up to the hour of going to press we
have read this mastery document no
less than Ia times, and with each peru
sal our admiration for it has grown. 1t
is brilliant with hard and unaccustomed
words, and all of them are correctly
spelled. Its sentences proceed with
the seductive sinuosity of stream of
molasses; it glows and glitters with re-
condite and exotic metonymies, synec-
doches, prospop9ias and automomasias;
it is in both prose and verse, and has
strophes, tropes, arpeggios and ca
denza. 1t quotes poets. prophets, pub
licists and philosophers-the Bible, the
Rig-Veda, the State Papers of Thomas
Jefferson, the Book of White and Black
Magic and Necromancy and the famous
On Styriki Konunga Ok Hoefpinga of
the Swodes. 1t is, in word, lasting
proof that scholarship is no last art.
and that literature did not die with
Googlor. But there is one thing that it
sadly lacks, and that thing we venture
to opine, is a connected or underestimate
bic thesis, th,orem or idea. The Colo
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-07-02

tised as standing for things which the
American people do not want.
The Democratic party, therefore,
will be sadly handicapped by his can
didacy. He cannot expect to win all or
even a greater portion of the radical
vote, for that vote will be divided, as it
was not divided in 1886 and again in
1900, when Mr.. Bryan was a candidate.
He got the bulk of it at the elections of
those years. Maryland's vote for Bryan
this time will be less than it ever was.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-07-02
FOR A SAFE AND SANE FOURTH!

The whole country has been aroused
in recent years over the question of the
use of dangerous explosives on the
Fourth of July, and among thoughtful
persons there is a demand for the step
ping of the practice. While no very
serious results have been experienced
in the immediate vicinity of Oakland as
a result Of the usually loud and at times
boiste~ous celebration of the Nations
birthday, it is not within the ken of any
one to say when a fatal accident may
take place.
As further argument for enforce
ment Of the law against the use of dan
gerons explosives we point to the terri
BILE effects which have been experienced
in other parts Of the country. Two
years ago, on the Fourth of July, one
hundred and sixty persons were killed
and over five thousand MANNED. Of
these, probably seventy-fYe died OF teta-
nus OF .lock-jaw, t3irty-eight were killed
by gOnshot wounds, fourteen by stray
bullets, eighteen, mostly very small
children, were burned to death. eigbteen
were killed by the explosion of powder,
dynamite and torpedoes. three bv piant
firecrackers, and three nv cannon
Among the injured, twenty-five became
totally blind, seventy-two lost one eve.
fifty-six lost arms or legs or hands.
Speaking on this subject recentlv in
an editorial headed. "Must the Slauph-
ter Go On" an exchange said:
"The Fourth of july outbreak has
never been croditahle to American com
mon sense and good taste. Its neroetu-
alton is an a .aillment of our care for
human life. We PIE calmly proceeding
to make a holocaust of life because we
lackthe energy to break ,faditionwbich
fastened itself upon US decades ago. A
bad habit grows more heinous as time
passes on; and vice in old age is much
more hideous than vice in youth When
we were younger people and lacked
the register of life and death which we
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-07-02

Our readers should keep their weather
eye open for fakirs and swindlers, thew
are numerous and work every scheme
catch people. The latest swindle, work
ed by sharper in one of the cities re-
Gently is an apt illustration of the abil-
ity of these dead beat fakirs to catch
not only the ignorant but all others
who are not constantly on their guard.
This swindler walked into a jewelry
store and selecting S125 watch left a
check for $500 drawn on an out -of-town
bank, with instructions that the watch
be regulated and that he would come
after it and his change week later.
On returning he was informed that his
check was no good "Well, that is
strange" he said, cts the second
time the bank has done that thing on
me. But here's the money for your
watch, and he counted out $l25 in cur
rency and started for the door. ooh,
yes" he said, turning around, ''you d
better give me that check" 1t was
willingly handed over to him. On the
back was the jewelers. endorsement.
With this the man went into bank. got
it cashed and was never heard of alter
wards.