The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-27
PEN PICTURE Of
CEN. G|LCHR|ST
Governor-Elect An Original
Man, Whose Life Shows
This Characteristic.

The Tallahassee correspondent of
The Savannah News thus interestingly
discusses the result of the recent pri-
mary in Florida:
Florida is to have governor whose
material interests are largely in Geor-
gia and is to have a former Georgian
for senator. Georgia should feel
gratifed at the result of FlOrida's
election.
Gen. Albert w. Gilchrist. who has
been chosen governor by a handsome
majority, was attracted to invest in
Georgia property at Waycross when
ne kl1ew that the Atlantic Coast line
shops were located there General
GiichT list, having the perception of
me IN tultive money-maker, bought an
area pr land about Waycross before
there Tas an immediate prospect of
anything doing in real estate at that
point. He got in on the
groun2 floor and expects to make a
uuarteIXr of a million dollars by his in
yestnlx mt He is not making it by buy
ing - little and holding for great ad-
vanc but his plan has been to buy
largaH tracts of land at a comparative
w sr jill figure, build homes and sell
at easonable figure on the Install
ment plan to workingmen. He has
bujJt ne hundred and fifty homes at
Wayt oss and has established a SUI
h1rb nown as Gilchrist park.
GaReral Gilchrist has pursued a
yer,Y original plan in the decoration
| of &he houses. He has not built them
aSer any well recognized plan He
Thas made them different, so that the
men who bought would not feel that
each had house like his neighbor.
The General is fond of flowers and
in painting the houses used only the
colOrs of the sun f1ower-yellow, with
brown trimmings. On another he
would utilize the colors that make the
buttercup popular; on another he
would bring into contrast the coIors
of the jnQuil.
Many people have wondered why
the Gilchrist colony at Waycross was
bedecked in such a confusion of col
ors, and this is the real reason.
The GiIchrist Motto.
The General Is original. He show
ed this in his campaign. He had
thousands of monkey cards printed.
These monkey cards carried a picture
OF three monkeys, one with his ears
closed, another blindfolded, and an
other with his mouth closed. The Ie-
gend beneath was Hear no evil, see
no evil, speak no evil The General
tfaveied abroad last year, and he
iouHo these monkeys in a temple in
IJapan- asiOpted the mnttn in his
an PalSn IL may have been that mot
10 that won for him. but more likely
II was tne fact that General GiIchrist
pidhIed himself firmly on the consti-
1 tution Vi the state in regard to the
liquor problem. which declares for To-
cal option. The Campaign made nv
tGeneral Gilchrist was much liz thai
1 made by the late Colonel EstiU in
georgia, Two years ago. II was a
/ quiet campaign, made on the consti-
Iulion' ana Tor the enforcement of tn
| IdWS, ana while this sort of camDafgn
IalIed IN Georgia. it won in Florida
II Is proDaDle that the same campaign
would have won in Georgia the wear
that it did win in Florida.
A Campaign Filled With Lessons.
The campaign just closed is filled
with SQ~IessOns, though thew NAV
be obscure to the casual onlooker.
| -Four years ago Governor Broward
was candidate for governor. and
| Jonn N T. Stockton was a candidate |
| for the senate. In this camDaign
| BroWaTd was a candidate for the sen |
ate and Stockton was a candidate for |
governor.
| 1t may be that the neonIa b.d
grown tr1fe tired of what has heen |
known as the BTOward- Stockton ring |
AT any rate the results of Tuesdays |
| primary Indicate that they had. for |
| both Broward and Stockton were de- |
| feated.
1t is one of the perversities of mol |
| itics that Stockton should have been !
, defeated. No man ever worked hard. |
er for office than he: that NAV no |
another way of saying that no man /
ever labOred more faithfully for the
| people. but there is a certain cvnicism
| in politics which fails to recognize the
self abnegatiOn of the men who 90 in
for Office. But in the case of Stock
ton this is true. He has made and
lost several fortunes. and She money
has been lost IN politics: at any rate
that is the general report and belief.
The Reverses of Politics.
There was no caviling or cOInuIaint
with the faction so long as some of
them won, but now that both of the
leaders. BrOward and Stockton are
counted with the down and out club.
it is not surprising that there should
have been rupture. and such is the
report that comes from Jacksonville.
where the headquarters of both were
held during the campaign.
There are also rUmors that the gov
ernor will now call the extra session
of the legislature, which the camDaign
interfered with. Ii is known that the \
governor has number OF pet meas 4