The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-11
vOx POPULI
THINKS BROWARD THE MAN
FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR


Editor Pensacola Journal.
l wish to state some reasons why
Governor Broward should go to the
United States senate.
Whatever else may be diSparagilg7
ly said against our chief executive.
it cannot but be admitted that he
has, in these slort four years, brought
to himself distinction such 80 it be-
comes the lot of probably few public
men to enjoy.
From a life of freedom from, or
so to speak, shortage of the condi-
tons that usually precede the ad-
vent to such an office as governor OF
state. we find this parsonage, not
vet four years ago, at single leap,
being landed in the governors chair.
| Nor have the great body of our peo-
plel had occasion to be disappointed
| in their choice.
While we are not, as nation,
given to the worship OF heroes, We
none the less appreciate individual
| achievement-1the nerve. the vigor.
the constitutional makeup, of a great
| character.
man has not had, from the very
! stnrt. not merely animated opposi-
tion. but much of the time, really
malignant. and powerful obstruction
| lists to cross his path, every such
one, need but look over the turbu-
lent battlefield of these four years.
! Respecting what has been the
principal subjects OF controversy in
this eventful struggle, the PROPOSE
ton to drain the Everglades, mas
most likely been foremost
AS touching the magnitude of the
project, undertaken by this daring adj
venturer, writer has made telling
use of these brief words: Taking
a view of this question or draining
| the Everglades, the very mention OF
which had become jeering by-word,
and the mere suggestion of which
had staggered more than one Of our
legislative bodies" etc.
Another. a noted magazine writer,
in long article, has these words
respecting the remarkable under
taking. and its hero. governor n.
B. Broward did not originate the
! idea of retaining the rorida will
derness and adding its ineXhaustible
wealth to the resources of our coun-
try. but he deserves the very great
credit of determining to do what
other men had only talked about.
For several generations men
have talked about draining the Ever
| glades, but nobody drained them
1 NOBODY went 50 ldI DIS W tOt AhuidNS
a practical plan. Had it not been for
Governor Broward. the talk OF drain
ing the Everglades might have run
on for several generations, without
the reclamation of a single acre OF
] the overfiowed land To this self
/ made man--then the captain of a
tug boat-the inspiration came to run
for governor. on a platform which
distinctly proposed to begin the WORK
of draining the Everglades"
/ SAT first mis- candidacy provoked
the amused comment of the polite
ians and the editors, who believed
that Broward had no more chance TO
be elected than ice factories would
have in hades. Il
! "But Broward is really a very
strong, magnetic and persistent man
and the jeers of the ringsters made
no more IMPRESSION upon him than
bird shot would make on an iron
clad The manner In which ne calm
ly walked over his political enemies
J was at once unique and satisfactory.
This description of the moving,
convincing power OF Governor Brow
ard, is perhaps best comprehended
by those who have observed his per
suasive influence and its effect upon
audience after audience-though load
! ed down and poisoned with prejudice
/, that he has approached
As profusely complimentary of the
man. have been thu attentions he has
received outside of the state, notably