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Milligan. Fla, May ia grand
terday All the county candidates
were present and also John S. Beard,
candidate for United States senator,
and j. Walter Kehce and Dammit II.
Mays, candidates for congress.
Mr.. Mays was the first speaker and
he made a good speech and a favor
able impression, thanking the people
of the county for the support they
had given him in the past and prom
ising to do his best for them if they
sent him 10 congress. He spoke
pleasantly of Mr.. Kehoe and said that
the only objection he had to Mr.. Ke-
hoe was that he was too young, that
he could afford to wait for twenty
years.
Mr.. Kehoe spoke early in the after
noon and made the best political
speech ever delivered in Milligan. He
spoke pleasantly of his opponent, Mr..
Mays, told his hearers that when he
was in Jefferson county, the home of
Mr.. Mays. that his opponent showed
him every courtesy, introduced him
to everybody and asked them to do
anything they could for him except to
vote for him; Mr.. Kehoe said that
| Mr.. MayS's objection that he was too
young was not we'll taken, that he
was thirty eight years old. the father
Of six children and the owner Of sew
era1 gray hairs honestly acquired. He
said that Mr.. Mays was not consistent
when he said that he, Kehoe, was too
| young; that in 1891. when Mr.. Mays
| was younger than he, Kehoe. was now,
| that he was a candidate for the United
| States senate that he failed in that
race and then dropped down a notch
and ran for governor twice, being de
feated each time. and that he had
now dropped down another notch and
WAS running for congress. Mr.. Kehoe
said, Il do not think that | am too
I young, but do think that MI Mays
is old enough and has run enough TO
rest through one campaign al least"
Mr.. Kehoe discussed in masterful
way, the question of railroad rate
/ legislation, the importance OF extend
ing the power of the interstate Com
nPerce Commission to regulate and
enforce its interstate rates, and the
right of the several states to control
intrastate rates: he dWeIt upon the
importance of developing cur water
ways and especially the deepening OF
the channel from Pensacola bay ITp tC
/ Bay Point. Bagdad and Milton, in the
Blackwater river. He discussed the
| question of states rights, rural free
delivery of mail and explained why
/ and how the United States govern
ment should assist in the construction
and maintaining good roads, by appro
priations for that purpose.
Mr.. Kehoe being an old Santa Rosa
county boy and knowing personally
nearly every other voter in the cOun
ty. was already strong in this COUNT
and section, but his speech here yes
terday was a masterpiece ana showed
that his heart is in the right place
and that he has been giving public
questions deep thought and made him
many new friends, especially among
the new corners to this county who
did not know him personally.
Hon. John S. Beard closed the
speaking and made a fine impression
He. discussed the Acknowledgement OF
the negro as voter in a way thai
carried conviction TO his hearers and
made him many new supporters: he
touched up Gov Broward. Hon w. -
Lamar and d. u. Fletcher. his oppon
erts, and showed that they were each
the representative of some special in
tereSt or political machine and i'm
pressed upon his hearers the fact tha
he was one of the masses OF the peo
pie. that his life had been spent in TIN
interest of the masses and that al
United States senator he would be thu
friend OF the people and the represen
tatfve of no special interest or ma
chine.
The day was a glorious one and the
candidates and visitors were loud II
their praise of the good people OF NrlI
1i0an and their uDS1FrraScod bocni+ ayffx,