The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-10

We would grow to it in time-as this
little boy said that was wearing his
pas pants. But since that time Ger
tain amendments have been male &c
it, at odd and sundry times, mostly b.
interested parties. and most of the
amendments are bad, bad for the PEG
pie.
For one thing, most of the mayor
power was taken away from him
Mayor Bliss you remember-and now,
it is funny thing burt il is a fact the
people that are guardedly talking
about the necessity for a new charter
that will give the mayor more power.
are the very people that fathered
those particular amendments thai
took the mayors power away from
him.
We have some politicians here thai
would like a new charter every two
years, and they would like to draw It
themselves. IL would read one way IL
they were in and another way if they
were out!
There are other issues before the
people that lack of time will not al.
low me to touch upon. and DOUBTLESS
new issues will spring up between this
time and the converting of the legis.
| lature, and during the session of the
| Legislature, burt / believe that from
our position upon the issues that We
have referred to. you can rest assured
that our hearts are in the right place.
and that our votes and work will a.
ways be upon the side of right and
| Justice, to the honor and glory OF
Florida,
Local Option.
There is one more matter: Fellow
citizens, we, the Doctor and /, are
home-builders and home-ruIers, both
| in the broad and in the literal sense
| Our opponents are Prohibition Dem
Ocrats, and pledged to dry up the
state.
If elected, we will endeavor to forcs
the state to legislate for state, and
not for, or against, localities. The
United States of America passes no
specia! laws for the government ct
Florida; Florida should pass no sps-
cial laws for the government of Is
Gambia, or Duyal, in opposition to the
wishes of the people of those coun-
tiesi
| The smaller political body should
guard iealously its rights. The larger
political body should ever be consid-
crate of the rights Of the smaller!
! Whiskey is bad,
A man once told me--he was q
printer-that there was no marked
difference between whiskey and a
mother-in-law. He said that both were
maddening and destructive, He said
that he was good judge of both, buo
that in his case he could swallow the
one and he couldn't the otheri
No, he was not a Pensacola printer.
| FellOw-citiZens, let us raise our sons
to be men among men, gentlemen
among ladies, and not q lot Of milk.
sops.
Gladstone said that the best men ir
the world drank whiskey, also tbs
worstl
But am not speaking now merely
of the liquor question: am speakin :
of the broad principle Of personal lib
terty, of local self-goyernment, or
FOCAL OPTION!
We now have the privilege of local
loption, but the continuance of this
Iprinciple is threatened by the election
of OUT opponents, Messrs. Virgins and
Stokes!
The principle of seIf-government is
as broad, and is as dear to us. as IL
the principle OF human liberty, its
first cousini
Ask that Irishman next to you!
Ask the Italian to tell you the story
of Garibaldi. the hbeFator,
| ASK the 6reek 10 tell you the Sal
story of liberty lost to the Turks
Through Indifference, and of how IL
was finally regaiRed after massacre
that shocked the whole world,
Ask the German, the Spaniard, the
Norwegian, the Swede, the Dane, the
IPolander, Ask them, and they will ali
tell you the story of liberty, OF liberty
fought for, of liberty gained, or of lib.
lerty lost forever!
Or turn to the flallowed history OF
our own couptry- turn hack tn abou-