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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-03-23
ANNOUNCEMENTS
For Sheriff

am a candidate for sheriff Of Ma
rion county subject to the ratification
of the democratic primary. which will
be held May 18th. 1908. Your votes
are earnestly solicited. and if ] am
elected will perform the duties OF the
office faithfully.
Very respectfully yours,
John l.. Edwards.
County:
/ hereby announce that l will be a
candidate for the office Of sheriff OF
Marion county. in the coming dem
ocratic primary Of 130s,, and respect
fully solicit the support Of the people
OF Marion county. If I am elected to
this office 1 pledge an honest and iT
partia! administration of the duties OF
said office. Respectfully.
John p. Galloway.
/ hereby announce myself a candi-
date for the office Of sheriff of Mar
ION county. Florida, subject to the
coming democratic primary, and
promise If elected. an honest and i'm
partial administration Of said office.
J. l.. Smoak
I announce my candidacy for sheriff
OF Marion county. subject to the rules
and regulations prescribed for the
democratic primaries. 1 respectfully
solicit the hearty support OF the DEM
ocratic voters Of Marion.
G.. e. Miller,
For County Judge
To the Democratic Electors Of Marion
County, Florida:
Believing that my record in the adj
ministration Of the duties Of the above
office has met with the approval and
will receive the endorsement Of the
democratic electors OF Marion county,
I announce that 1 am a candidate for
reelection as county judge. and re-
specially solicit your support in the
coming primary. Respectfully,
Joseph Bell.
For Clerk Of the Circuit Court
To the Democratic Voters of Marion
County:
hereby announce my self candi-
date for reelection to the office OF
clerk Of the circuit court Of Marion
county, Florida, to be voted for at the
primaries May 10Th, 1908.
Should you continue me in the Of
flee it will be my aim to discharge the
duties of the same as the law directs,
as have endeavored to do in the past.
Respectfully.
S. T. Sistrunk.
For the Legislature
respectfully submit my name
to the voters of Marion county
as a candidate for the legislature
subject to the democratic primary OF
May 18th. 1 have no platform to for
mulate or pledges to make, but submit
my claim on a citizenship Of % years
in Marion county. If elected, 1 viii
perform my duty to the best of my
ability and for the best interests Of
the county Of Marion. and state o.
Florida. c. L. Bittinger-
To the Voters of Marion County:
At the request Of a number Of citi
xens Of Marion county. I have decidet
to make the race for representative
and solicit the support Of the voter
nthe primaries May 10th, 1908.
w. d. earn.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-03-23
For the Legislature

To the Voters OF Marion County:
At the request of a number of citi-
xens Of Marion county, have decided
to make the race for representative.
and solicit the support Of the voters
nthe primaries May 10th. 1908.
w. d. earn.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11
BELIEVES THERE'S soMETHiNo
BETTER THAN COLD CHARITY

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10.-[Editor
Herald: 1t is surprising to see the
zeal with which people will defend be-
loved institutions. Especially Is TINS
noticeable in the fervor with which
some defend the church as factor In
modern economic life. A. G. C. Brown
tells of how 1t played the part of a
good Samaritan with him as though
that were conclusive of it's efficiency.
Suppose the case of an industrial
town Of say, 10000 inhabitants. 5000 OF
whom work in factories, and the fac
tories close. Can a church there or
all the churches together provide Tor
all those people? Yet that Is not an
improbable case in our Industrial life.
Surely we need something besides a
little desultory charity. The advocates
of charity as a remedy ought to re-
member those who must receive as
we'll as those whose pleasure 1t Is TO
give. The tense struggle of many a
poor family Is to keep from accepting
help; they will hunger and smile over
1t, but if they must accept charity they
lose self respect-the very thing tnat
made life worth living. What the world
needs is light and strength to solve Its
economic problem and do away WIN
the need of charity.
To saw this Is not to detract from
the value of the church as an ethical
teacher, but when its friends claim for
it power to solve the modern economic
problem with which the workers are
confronted they are going outside OF
the facts. "A. H. ~
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11
HINDSIGHT

T LAST the authorities are show
II ing signs of awakening to the inn
"A portance of dealing with suggest
i've scenes in moving picture shows.
The Herald has called attention to the
demoralizing and even criminally sug-
gestive effect of certain advertisements,
and of certain pictures in the cheap
shows. At last Uncle Sam has become
interested in the matter, not from any
tender regard for the general morals of
the community, but from fear that
some offenses, among them counter
feiting, may be popularized.
Many shows are giving practical les
sons in the art of counterfeiting coins,
and are literally academies of crime.
We all know that scenes of burglary
and murder have been common attrac-
tions at the picture exhibitions, and
that SOME holdups and burglaries
which have taken place in Los Angeles
are traceable to their demoralizing In
f1uences, but the authorities have not
been able to see that an elaborately
faithful pictorial representation of a
skilled burglary is an object lesson in
that impious art.
The treasury department, however.
is much exercised over the fact that
the process of coin counterfeiting has
provided a subject for stock pictures
In the shows, and the secret service
men have orders to seize and destroy
all pictorial object lessons in counter
feiting. John E. Wilkie, chief of the
secret service, has issued an order to
his men to conf1scate ANY film which
portrays the methods used in violating
the laws pertaining to counterfeiting
stamps, coins, bills and bonds. Many
such films are still extant, as they
were sent out broadcast" This is an
apt illustration of keen official hind
sight. Still, hindsight is better than
chronic myopla.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11

have wronged no man under the Stars
and Stripes. We have no right to de-
prive them of liberty. We have no
right to murder them.
Hale was hanged. John Brown, shot
to pieces and hardly able to walk to the
gallows, was strangled. Are we to
add a third to the notable crimes OF
American history which are attributed
to TORYISM, and are we to sit by
quietly while Magon, deprived of lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness, is
robbed of life itself by a disease con-
tracted within the cramped walls OF a
Los Angeles prison as a result of his
incarceration?
Magon is DONE FOR. He will never
again be we'll. Is not that punishment
enough for an innocent man who has
wronged no human being on the Amer
lean side of the line, and has worked
patriotically to bring about the greatest
good of the greatest l1lmber Of our
fellow human beings on the other side
of the line?
Is the department of state asleep?
Has Washington lost all sense Of
responsibility while our higher officials,
including the chief magistrate himself,
desert their posts to "go on the stump"
for Taft?
President Roosevelt, If Magon dies
In Los Angeles county jail Of disease
contracted as result of Imprisonment
your administration will go out in dis
grace and will be remembered not for
the bravery you personally admire. but
for infamy and truckling cowardice!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11

such mortgage as an interest in the
property.
Senate amendment No, 20 limits tht
Indebtedness which the legislature may
create.
Senate amendment No. 81 prohibits
the legislature from extending the fran
chise or charter of any sen,i-publ.c
corporation or remitting the forfeiture
of the same. The term of existence OF
corporations may be extended at any
time prior to the expiration thereof for
a period not exceeding fifty years upon
certificate of the written consent OF
two-thirds of the stockholders.
Senate amendment No. SO makes the
stockholders liable for all debts of the
corporation to the amount of their own
stock and makes the directors or trus-
tees Jointly and severa11y liable to the
creditors and stockholders for ali
moneys embezzled or misappropriated
by officers of the company.
Senate amendment No "a prohibits
the licensing of lotteries and requires
the legislature to enact a law prohibits
ing the fictitious buying and selling OF
shares of stock.
Assembly amendment No. provides
for the direct primary.
Assembly amendment No. author
ICES the legislature to pass laws regu-
lating the electric and appointment of
county officers and prescribing their
duties and salaries.
Assembly amendment No. 8 defines
the public school system and provides
for the maintenance thereof.
Assembly amendment No. "a defines
membership of the state board of edu-
cation and empowers the legislature to
pass laws governing the duties of the
board and providing for the publishing
of text books.
Assembly amendment No. rs defines
the veto power of the government.
Senate bill No. $50 submits to the
people the proposition of changing the
state capital from SACRAMENTO to Ber-
kelley.
There are two amendments providing
for state bonds to create a fund for
wharves, piers. etc.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11
GIVES HIS OPINION ON
WoRKINeME AND CHURCHES

SIERRA MADRE. Oct. 9.-[EditoI
Herald: Why workingmen should
attend church is not made any clearer
by A. G. c. Browns rare and remark
able tale of unsolicited" assistance
from some church. though his case, II
correctly stated, was violation of the
usual custom, to politely direct those In
need to the Associated Charities, an
institution maintained by public con-
tributions.
The question of going to church all
hinges on what the church teaches and
what a workingman is sure to hear II
he goes. A church primarily Is q rell-
gious institution with creeds to bind
the mind and force the thoughts to
travel in circle. Its principal busi-
ness is to get people into an imaginary
heaven after death and to keep them
out Of the same kind of hell As the
existence of these two places Is yet to
be scientifically demonstrated, the
work of the churches does not interest
a workingman that knows enough to
think and reason.
What the workingman wants is not
church charity, nor aims doled out by
those who have robbed the producer
and got more than their share, but an
industrial system that will remove the
great and unjust inequalities that exist
throughout the world today. The
churches have never yet taken up such
a work nor instituted q reform move
ment for his benefit; and 1t has a rec
ord of 1900 years existence. AS a sop
to catch this gullible individual with
"guile," as st. Paul would say, some
preachers profess to favor Socialism,
but most churches, including the moth
er church, condemn 1t. "The poor shall
inherit the kingdom of heaven" Is what
the church message is to workingmen.
CLAIMING SEVERANCE,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11
OUR GREAT SANITARIUM is
IN THE ANTELOPE VALLEY

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9-[Editor
Herald: There is SO much discussion
and SO much written about the great
white plague, or consumption, at pres
ent that these few lines may not come
aniss A year ago last June I was
taken Ill with a violent fever, which
lasted q month. It was accompanied
by bronchitis and lung trouble, The
young doctor had prescribed some
good, nourishing foods, and hardly any
medicine. After the fever subsided and
l got strong enough, I went into that
part of the Mojave desert called Ante
lope valley. 1t is not desert In the
strict sense of the word, as wherever
they use water they make 1t bloom
like garden. With the purest air and
water, no fog, plenty of rabbits TO
chase, lost all trace of a cough at
once and gained about a pound a day
for a couple of weeks. This great strip
of land lies about seventy to eighty
miles north and east of Los ANGELES.
and contains such towns as Palmdale,
Lancaster, Willow Springs, etc.. along
the Southern Pacific, and Hesperia.
Victorville, ETC., on the Santa Fe rail-
way. Living at these settlements is
very reasonable, and Nature, with the
use of very little medicine, will perform
wonderful cures. In concluson would
say that spent most of the month of
August last year, and again this year.
not far from Palmda1e elevation 1850
feet), and fQ1nd it very beneficial.
Yours for health. ]. r. MOELLER.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11
State Pure Food Law Should
Be Enforced to the Letter

A CCORDING to the latest bulletin of
"a the state board of health that
A body has heard some seventy
five cases of violations of the state pure
food law. A number of convictions
have been made, but all cited to appear
before the board protested that they
were ignorant of the provisions OF the
law. Apparently the board warned the
violators and they say that they VIII
give all the manufacturers of the state
plenty of opportunity to study the law.
In the meantime the board kindly has
not seen fit, as authorized in the act, to
publish the names of the manufac-
turers and dealers who have been
found guilty of violating the pure food
law" Now, is not that fine way to
enforce a law?
In every other instance of a law be-
ing enacted violators of 1t are punished
and ignorance OF the law has been no
excuse except possibly for slight
mitigation Of the sentence. But the
state board OF health sees fit not only
to excuse the guilty manufacturers
and dealers' from all punishment but
will not enforce the publicity section of
the act which is really the section that
will make the dealers and manufac-
turers respect and obey the law, but
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11
ANOTHER WRITER SAYS
LET PRISONERS BE "TRIED"

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10.-[Editor
Herald: 1 remember the article re-
ferred to by Val. StCne and I recall
very distinctly one line which he has
not quoted. 1t was something ike
this: "We have started our lyncAlng
ali too late. Had we begun 1t in our
grandfathers' time, we might have
achieved useful results" etc.
That remark of 4Ar. Stones about
sweating Cor "confessing'o men into
jail is most timely. Conviction of an
accused person ought to depend upon
PUBLIC TRIALS, and not upon con-
fessions Of guilt extorted In the sweat
box by God only knows what methods
of intimidation. There are people VINO
tell me, with every manifestation or
seriousness and truth, that not fntimi-
dation alone, but even personal vio-
lence enters into the "sweatbox" pro-
cess in this city. Anyway, / KNOW
the intimidation method Is used, and 1
think the case Mr.. Stone cites, as well
as another recent case OF trial by
public indignation" (and detective
office bullying) is most unsatisfactory
and discreditable, though, strangely
enough, people seem to think 1t Is good
enough.
By the way, what is the meaning of
this movement" which the Los An-
geles papers seem to have agreed to
state? Already their suggestions"
about "posslble'F lynchihgs are bearing
fruit. A second attempt on the man
Martin, and now the arrest of a negro
for following two white women" 1t
works. Presumably another confess
sion'' Is now in order.
CARL PETERS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11
POLITICAL PRISONERS

DROM time to time we are reminded
X that Los Angeles is the theater of
Il what appears to be, in default Of
evidence to the contrary, an interna-
tional Injustice for which the Diaz
administration on one side of the bor-
der and the Roosevelt administration
on the other are jointly responsible.
Our latest reminder of the detention in
Los Angeles county Jail of Mexican
student and professional man on the
say-so Of a gang of Mexican machine
politicians is serious, and gives much
food for thought, because reports from
the local bastile would indicate that
Magon, during his years Imprisonment
without trial, and in constant danger of
being surrendered to his political enc
mics who are hungry for his life, Is
already condemned to death. During
his Imprisonment in Los Angeles county
1ail he has contracted form of lung
trouble which in due course ~ time
will put period to the somewhat SEN
sational but probably nobly patriotic
career of Ricardo Flores Magon. This
man ana MS TWO COHlpdlrlOts nave
been held in jail in Los Angeles on
such ridiculous charges as splitting on
the streets of the City of Mexico; on
John Doe warrants for various alleged
offenses, time and place not specified;
on pretexts so flimsy that they would
be laughed out of court if Americans
were arrested on them and taken before
our police magistrates.
Nathan Hale was not as badly treat
de by his redcoat captors as Magon has
been by the representatives of the Re-
publican administration. Hale was
hanged, but not tortured. Magon is
described as being "a man of learning
and experience, an authority on inter-
national law, and regarded as the
brains of the movement which has for
its avowed purpose the overthrow OF
the Diaz tyranny in Mexico."'
What is the matter with our pious
Pecksniff Republican friends at Wash
ington? Why should the United States
be the jailer of Mexican patriots? They
have done no hurt and Io harm to any
human being in the United States.
They have injured no American. They
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11
YESTERDAY

WV HEN a citizen like James Kerr
w passes out old settlers remind
" us that the California of yester-
day was a land of strenuous lives and
violent deaths and that present
pleasant conditions have been attained
to by the fearless efforts of honest and
good citizens on occasion handy with
their guns.
Thirty years ago outlaws and bandits
county. They were in the habit of run
ming off, the cattle and horses of set
tiers, and it was the business of James
Kerr and other peace officers to run
off the runners-and, If necessary,
run them off the earth. In the bad old
days plunder and pillage were con-
Quoted openly. and peace officers knew
where to find the pillagers and plum
derers, and could call them to account
without unnecessary formalities. In the
good new days there are still pillagers
and plunderers of the peaceful settlers,
the people of the state Of California,
but it is difficult to get legal bead on
the rascals. 1t is we'll to remember at
election time that rose by any other
name will smell as sweet, and so it is
with roguery. Disguise it with new
titles, by much "legislating" teach it
to cover UP its tracks. or to surround
itself with a barb wire legal entangle-
ment, but in spite of its scientific and
civilized" defenses it is the same old
roguery which in more primitive times
preyed on the property of the people In
the hills and dales Of California, the
same kind of roguery which James
Kerr sometimes "got" and sometimes
stopped" with his gun. Today the
ammunition with which to fight law
lessness and disregard for popular
rights in California is not the bullet,
but the ballot. USE IT!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11

is OF the greatest benefit to the con-
sumers In the way of protection, point
ing out those manufacturers and deal
ers responsible for impure goods manu-
factured from deleterious materials,
says the Grass Valley Union.
The plea that any manufacturer or
dealer in the state has not read the
pure food law Is a false one. Every
one of them has read 1t and the as
sociations OF men engaged in each
business that Is affected have made
criticism on the provisions OF the bill
and protests against some of the sec
tions. The state law is nearly similar
In it's provisions to the federal law.
The state board of health knows that
any manufacturer or dealer is cogniz-
ant OF every provision of the law.
The plain fact Is that the state
board OF health should not have the
authority to nullify a law-for their
action so far In its enforcement has
been barren of results SO far as the
people OF the state know and amounts
to little more than a notification of the
law. 1t is nearly two years since 1t
was enacted and went into effect but
the members of the state board have
not decided that the manufacturers and
dealers have had opportunity to in
form themselves as to the provisions.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11

Not since the Middle Ages, when
clerical England was torn and dis
traught by a discussion as to how
many angels, without crowding, could
dance on the point of needle, has such
a delicate subject of controversy been
presented as that of the nail in the
door, which is engaging the attention
and legal learning of Guy Eddie, assist
ant prosecuting attorney. If a nafl Is
driven through a certain door moro
than certain length it becomes tres
passer, and may be driven back. Yet,
If it is driven back too far. an offense
is committed against the property
rights of the original nail driver. Mr..
Eddie must determine the legal status
of the nail, the nail driver and the nall
repeller He has our sympathy.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11

Judge Conrey in his address to the
City club yesterday on the proposed
senate constitutional amendment No.
expressed the opinion that the stock
gamblers of the state might .'ossibly
receive more benefit than the people
should the amendment become law.
At present a victim has right to sue
for money lost through gambling on
margins, but this feature is omitted
from the proposed amendment. The
necessity for a roundly and soundly
and explicitly anti-gambling measure
in this state would seem to be indi-
Gated clearly.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11
ADVICE AND NERVE

A N eastern publishing flrm has TAX
II en- advantage of Republican dull
- times to supplement the "situa-
tions wanted" columns of the daily
papers with a book on How to Get
Position" The man who is out of
a job spends his last nickel in the pur-
chase of this book-and then his trou-
bles are over-nearly. All he must
do in order to make his future a gilt
book. Here, for example, is what 1t
says on the subject of newspaper re-
porting: ITO get an appointment as
a reporter you must have had some
experience in writing up news or have
some aptitude for it."
There is considerable truth in this
statement, and we cannot challenge it.
Rarely, indeed. does the graduate of
the store or factory walk into a
newspaper office and proceed to fill
columns of readable space with ac-
ceptable news matter.
The instruction book goes on to say:
"a diffi6ent. sensitive person is not
likely to make a success as a reporter"
Why not? Everybody knows that the
most successful reporters are as mod
est as Burns daisy. "A reporter at
times must have plenty of confidence
and courage" If he is working on
space he must be especially confident
and courageous when he is making out
his bill. But that by the way. We
don't believe anyone can learn to be
successful newspaper writer or any
thing else by studying two scant pages
in a catch-penny hand book. In col
loquial phrase, publishers of such
books "have their nerve with them"