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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01

rulers of our affairs. This, Of course,
was with the connivance of carpet
baggers and scaiawagS. Under this
regime eXhorbitant taxes were levied
and collected, and me finances thus
raised We're exploited. Insult and in
dignity We're heaped upon our white
people, and the state became bank
rupted so tn speak The burden OF
misrule and graft fell most heavily
upon the white natives. Patience
ceased to be a virtue and the white
people of our favored section revolted
against this reign of corruption. and
by their united efforts the reins OF
government were snatched from the
hands of those in power and restored
into the keeping of the patriotic white
people where they rightfully belonged.
The means and methods adopted to
accomplish this wholesome result it is
unnecessary to here mention 1t is slIf-
ficient that the expenditure of time.
energy. and blood was great.
To Derpetuate the rule OF the white
people in the Southland the primary
plan of nominating Candidates was de-
vised. Since the advent of the pri-
mary the white people have con-
troilei the political affairs of our
county and state. It was devised for
this purpose and up to now it has ac-
cOmplished the purpose of its Gre
alton. And the continued success of
the primary depends upon the integ-
rity of those who participate in if
either as electors or candidates. No
person is compelled to take part in
the primary; il is optional with him.
self. If he elects to do so all that is
asked of him is to pledge his honor to
abide the result and support the
nominees thereof. And when per-
son takes part in a primary either as
elector or candidate he voluntarily as
sumes this pledge, and no honorable
man who participated in the primary
can bolt the nominees of that primary
without stultifying himself. It will be
nothing more or less than faith
broken and obligation repudiated, the
necessary result of which is dishonor.
l can see no distinction between a
man commercially honest and politi
cally recreant. A man is a man; he
is honest or dishonest in the entirety:
What / have heretofore said is
apropos the contest between Messrs
Stokes and Virgins, the regular nomi
nees of the white Democratic primary
and MessrS. Pollock and Bingham
the nominees of the so-called Republi
can executive committee. composed
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01

things is true-either that the audi
ences Mr.. Bryan talks to are in favor
of the guarantee of deposits or they
have not made up their minds fully
and want to be informed about it.
Probably nothing Mr.. Bryan has
said in the course of this campaign,
outside of matters relating TO the
planks in the Denver platform, has
been echoed back to him in various
ways SO much, with expressions OF ap
prevail, as his reply to Speaker Can
non on the subject of his own wealth
and that of Mr.. Cannon. Speaker Can
non has never been accused even by
his best friends of not having enc
mics. This year they are more active
than ever, and when Mr.. Bryan item
lied his own property and then invited
Uncle Joe" to make a showdown. he
made a hit with them. Everywhere
Mr.. Bryan goes some person who has
tomahawk for the speaker takes
the opportunity to felicitate the Demo
cratic candidate On the way he madS
return to Mr.. Cannon.
Raps Uncle Joe
Naturally, Mr.. Bryan seldom misses
a chance in one of his speeches t
take a quiet fling at the speaker. Mr.
Bryan is hearing a great deal to the
effect that many Western Republicans
are in revolt openly against Mr. Can
non, and while he is aware that Can
nonism is less of an issue in the east
than it is in the west. he repeatedly
takes a jab at Uncle Joe" to the eX-
tent of few sentences.
Like the old fashioned eXhcrter, the
revivalist, who at the close of his ire
VIZ arI-s- oil Eaf
changed of heart to rise, Mr.. Bryan
is getting his audiences to vote on
questions by raising their hands. One
fact sometime soverlooked in connec-
ton with Bryan but fact that is not
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01
THE LOGIC AND THE REASON ..,..
FOR THE WHITE PRIMARY SYSTEM.


particularly in Primaries held
Primary?
the excuse-n excuse be necessary-for holding
As Primary
anodng the White citizens of the state opportunity
themselves
is his
m he Can saT ont Of the primary and vote for the candidates Of his
election of he prefers to do And all in ALL
select our city county , and state aH nn tho ,.+sr
goes into the Primary with
his choice there What are his TO get INTO 'hat PRIMARY
that he White eeco and
support
large number of White men Primary say
they will not abide by the result that they will not
candidates PRIMARY
they not obisated to vote for them a Now
hold all?
be settled Pimsryn the friends
liberty
tasyouose
and let al before the people the es
and help attempt defeat
We know majority in
believe that the Primary should be and thu. its nominees
the Primary legislative candidates
candidates committed to proposition to submit the question prOh
bi1on to a direct vote of the people of the state .
Bingham
ste psOspsos nOwee pS be ,4@ Tht per % Oh
suppose pohb
already dry that dozen
possibly
a
that
Mr. Bingham running for the senate there would be some
antiprohbiton could
house
He for the
possibly influence
should voted
obligation absolutely
accomplished by it?
all nominees of
and canda-and there
White
the differ
deciding factor
settle them
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01

Mr.. Hobson still has a fighting
chance. II is stated on the authority
of Senator Dixon, OF Montana. that
our fleet was sent on its spectacular
voyage around the world and took 81
Japan en- route at the earnest reques;
OF the Japanese emperor. The latter
and his councillors have all along
been friendly to this country, but the
masses of the people over there. >un-
jerrating our naval resources, We're
intent on war and the emperor saw
in the presence of our sixteen huge
battleships in Yokohama harbor the
only way TO undeceive them. The
scheme was a success but it leaves
HObson still in possession CT. a good
working war theory
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01
:, some knowledge of the subject.

some knowledge of the subject.
The excellent article from the pen
of Senator John s. Beard, published
in The Journal of few days ago, re-
calls to mind those dark days that
would efface from the pages of his
tory.
IL is familiar history TO all of us
that shortly after the late civil wal
the white men of Florida and of the
Southland We're disfranchised and
thus prevented from having a voice
in their own state governments; the
negroes, late slaves and now freed
men, were given the ballot and back
ed by federal bayonets, became the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01

The New Orleans Daily States :
democratic campaign fund on Wednes-
day passed the $4,000 stage and as
practically all of this money has come
from Louisiana democrats the States
says eXultingly: 1T is safe TO say
that this record has been equalled by
no otner democratic commonwealth
in the American union" 1t is indeed
something for both Louisiana and that
stalwart democratic paper. the New
Orleans States, to be proud of.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01

partly of white men. but mostly of ne
groes. Messrs. Stokes and Virgins
submitted their candidacy for the
nomination for Representatives to the
legislature to the white voters of the
county, and Messrs. Pollock and Bling
ham submitted theirs to this commit
tee of white men and negroes. Herein
lies the distinction.
Now Il is up TO the white Demo-
Gratis who participated in the primary
TO see that Messrs. Stoke and Wig
gins are elected by the usual over
wheeling majority If either DR.. Pol
lock or MI Bingham is elected in this
contest, it Will evidence the weakness
and decline Of the primary. And it
will be the first time that Escambia
county has been represented at ITALIA.
hassee by nominees of a mixed com.
mittee. AS said by Senator Beard, in
the article before referred to. it will
not only be victory of Republicans
over Democrats. but il will be a vic
tory of the negroes over the white
people.
Who nominated Messrs. Pollock and
Bingham? Was it not this committee
composed for the greater part of ne
groes; were they not nominated at
the negro hall over the negro drug
store at the corner of Palafox and
Gregory streets, in the city of Pensa-
cola? Is it not a fact that soon after
his nomination, Mr.. Bingham attend
ed meeting of the negroes, at the
negro hall at the corner of Garden
and Tarragona streets, in the same
city, presided over by a negro, and
did not Mr.. Bingham make a speech
at this same meeting and afterwards
received the congratulations of the
negroes present? And is it not a fact
that at this same meeting, Capt. w.
H. Northup, the Republican nominee
for congress, also made speech, and
was he not called upon to answer to
his negro auditors in reply TO ques-
tons propounded by a negro preacher
named Isaac Johnson, why he had re-
fused to appoint certain negro wo-
man to a certain position in the post
Office? And is it not a. fact that this
same Mr.. Bingham also made a
speech at the Republican meeting
held in Seville square which was
opened by negro named Watts?
Will the white people countenance
such open and fragrant pandering to
the negroes for their votes?
Knowing this and approaching fully
the absolute necessity of continuing
this government in the hands of the
white people, let me ask what earthly
reason can exist, why white men,
honor-bound to support the nominees
of the primary. should join hands
with the negro and again inject them
into cur politics. Cant We white men
settle our political differences among
ourselves in the white primary?
Is there any question so vital to the
white people OF our county as the SUI
premacy of the white people in mat
all z~fl
White men, stand together and vote
for the nominees of the white pri-
mary; the negroes are united against
you.
Yours very truly.
u. T. WILLIAMS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01

The lady socialist who is the nomi-
nee of her party for state superin-
tendent OF schools in this state may
not be legally qualified to hold the of
fice, if elected. because Of her sex, but
We guarantee that she win be put TO
no expense in contesting the question
in the courts. Socialism is as yet in
the germ stage of its development
down here.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01

We are not going TO question their
right to appropriate in this way, only
we think that Bayview, a city park,
should not be classed with the neigh
bOrhood squares when it comes to ap-
propriating money for beautifying the
same.
/ These squares are one block in size
and one half of each square by order
of the board of works, must be resery-
ed for a play ground for the children.
This leaves at the most Only half a
block of ground to spend money on.
Bayview with its 35 acres and nearly
half mile of water front is not a
neighborhood park, but a park for the
entire city.
If the order of the finance commit
tee reflects the views of Pensacola
citizens, and the people who pay the
taxes, regarding the only park PEN
sacola owns. then the $1,000 that was
appropriated and spent last year for
Bayyiew was money thrown away.
The work that the park commission
put in outside of the labor employed
was useless. The money. spent in
grubbing, grading and sodding the
grounds was wasted. The cost and la
Dor of setting out nearly 400 trees and
palms was mistake.
The money spent in providing boat.
ing faciIicites and free baths for every
citizen in Pensacola might have been
used to a better advantage IN some
other way.
The building of shelter house.
erecting tables and benches in differ
emit parts of the ground could have
been dispensed with.
The work of grnbbing, grading and
sodding 10th avenue. along the entire
west side of the park, was all uncaii-
ed for.
This job, however. the city would
have been obliged to do at some fti.
ture time and would cost nearly the
amount of our entire appropriation.
The amount appropriated this year
sSOO-indicates clearly that Pensa-
cola does not need park, but in TAX
ing this position the people of PEN
sacoIa win have the unique distinction
of having a blackjack fhicket TO send
their guests to. when they ask, whers
are your public parks?
GEO. W. JOHNSTON.
Chairman Bayview Park Board.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01
VOX POPULI
ARTICLE RECALLS THE
DARK DAYS OF THE PAST

Pine Barren, Fla, Oct 81, 1908.
Editor Pensacola Journal.
/ have lived in EScambia county
since the days of reconstruction, and
here | have raised family. Having
experienced carpet-bag government in
the state of Florida, | feel that l can
speak of the negro in politics" with
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01
Bry1n IS LOnUinced That HIS Advocacy
Of Bank Deposit Guarantee Maze Hit
Bryan Followers Enjoy
His Raps at Uncle Joe

William Jennings Bryan be
Iieves he has made a hit with his
audiences by his advocacy of gov
eminent guarantee of bank de-
posits.
His followers are enjoying his
raps at Speaker Cannon and the
Democratic nominee never passes
and opportunity of assail1nS the
Illinois statesman
Bryan has adopted the hand
raising method of testing the
opinions of his audiences on sub
jectS of public interest.
The Nebraskan's lecture on the
prince of Peace" it is believed,
has added to his list of friends.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01

We cannot be laggards. We must
make our institutions worthy of our
state. Vote for the amendment.
P X YONGE.
Member Board of Control of State
Educational Institutions.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01

The comparatively few papers in
Florida which are opposing the three
proposed constitutional amendments
generally beg the question of their
merits and put their opposition on the
sole ground of additional expense,
This way of looking at the matter
saves the trouble of doing any think
ing about it, but surely the issue is
worth the most careful thought that
can be bestowed upon It, AS a matter
OF fact no taxpayer will feel any ap-
preciable increase in his taxes if the
amendments are. adopted and with
this objection cut of the way the posi-.
tive benefits to accrue to the people
from them cannot be successfully dis
puted. All three OF them should DE
adopted.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01

| We should all assume that our leg
islature is composed of honest and ca
pable men until proof to the contrary
is given. OF recent years an unfortu-
nate habit has grown upon US of decry-
ing and disparaging the men we select
to make our laws until, in the esteem
of large proportion of people, to be
member of a legislature is TO be
rated as a respectable but essentially
ordinary person, good for nothing else
and always to be watched when there
is lobbyist or any other form OF
temptation lurking around him. That's
mighty good way to lower the per-
sonnel Of the Legislature. Another
good way is for the press and people
to be necessarily expressing the opin-
ion that the legislature hasn't sense
and honesty enough to take care of
such a plain business proposition, in
which there is no complex feature,
as fixing the annual salaries of the
supreme and circuit judges of Florida.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01

The Tampa Tribune, urging the
constitutional amendment to give the
legislature power 20 create additional
judicial circuits. if needed, recalls
this object lesson:
1t will be remembered that, not
long since, the supreme court of this
state, as constituted for the Florida
OF many years ago, became hopeleSsly
overwhelmed in the accommodating liti-
CATION incident to the states rapid
growth in business and in population.
The enlargement of the court was
deemed matter of pressing need !;
and it was done The situation was
relieved. The circuit courts of the
larger circuits are just now in that
same predicament There must be a
speedy change or the cause of Justice
VIII suffer. Vote for the amendments.
Where courts are overworked tue
most vital interests of the state de-
nand that the strain shall be relaxed.
and as We can have only one Judge
for each circuit the only way out of
the difficulty is to create additional
circuits where needed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01
Yours very truly.
Y. T. WILLIAMS.
Editor Pensacola Journal.

Editor Pensacola Journal.
We notice that the finance commit
tee has allotted to tile different squares
for improvements for the coming year
as follows: Plaza, .$2,500; Seville
square, $500; Georgia square, $500:
Malaga square $500 and Bayyiew park
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-01

PENSACOLA FLORIDA SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER l.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-13
SPOKANE MARKET REPORT.
Prices to Producers.

The following list may be taken as a
talr standard of prices paid to local
producers outside of the city market
for the commodities named:
Poultry-Live hens, Ice; dressed, 15c
old ROSTERS, Zoe; dressed, lie: live
geese, 1oc; dressed 14c; live ducks, 13c;
dressed, 15c; fancy live turkeys, 1sc;
dressed, 22c.
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch, $3.50 per
crate; eastern, $4,000.
Mutton-Dressed wethers, Sc; ewes,
Sc.
Veal-Fancy small, 815@9c lb; large
71a@Sc lb; steers, live, $4.5O@5 cwt
up; dressed, re.
Fruits and egetables-New potatoes
$1.25@1.5O cwt; apples, 75c to $1.25
box; carrots, S5c@$1 cwt; beets, INC
ID; dry onions, 1Ac lb; horseradish
root, zoe ID; tomatoes, 75c box.
Cheese-Wisconsin and Hazelwood
151ac; domestic Swiss, lie; Swiss, TIC
ID.
Hay, Baled-Oot hay, $11@12 ton;
wheat hay, $1O@12 ton up; alfalfa, $12
ton up; timothy, $14@15 per ton.
Grain-Oats, $1.25 per cwt; barley
$1@1.15 per cwt.!
Buying Prices.
The following retail prices are quoted
on butter, eggs and cheese:
Eggs-Fresh ranch eggs, soc per doz;
stamped eggs, soc; eastern packed eggs
35@4Oc.
Butter-Hazelwood, 45c; Yakima
Jersey, 45c lb; Edgewood, 45c lb; Ma.
pleleaf, 4oc lb; Rosalia, 4Oe lb; Richie.
lieu, 45c Id; Rosebud, 45c 1b; Tyee, 4Oc
ID; Home brand, 45c Id; Jersey Belle
4Oe.
Cheese-New York cream, Csc lb;
Wisconsin, Csc lb; imported Swiss, 4oc
Id; imported Roquefort, 60c lb; Hazel
wood, 25c 1b.
Straight bran, $1.15 per 100 lbs; red
shorts, $1.25; bran and shorts mixed,
$1.25 per sack, 90 lbs; oats, per cwt,
$1.sO; loose timothy, SIT ton; oat hay,
9Oc per 100 lbs; bundled wheat hay,
$13@14 per ton, bundled oat hay, $14@
IS per ton.
Tamarack and Fir-Four- foot, single
cord, Sc cord; in lots of 5 cords, $5.75
cord; in ricks, 1925 per rick.
Pine Wood-Four-foot single cord,
$3.50; in lots of cords, $5.25 per cord ;
in ricks, 1925 per rick.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-13
THANKSGIVING DAY.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SETS
IT NOVEMBER rs.
Recommends People to Cease Labor and
Devote the Day to Thanksgiving to
the Almighty for the Many and Great
Blessings They Have Received Dur
ing the Past Year.

President Roosevelt has issued the
annual Thanksgiving proclamation
After detailing the wonderful growth
of the United States Gin strength and
worldly power" the president says:
"With nation, as with the indi-
viduals who make up nation, material
well-being is an indispensable founda-
ton. But the foundations avails moth
ing by itself. That life is wasted, and
worse than wasted, which is spent in
piling, heap upon heap, those things
which minister merely to the pleasure
of the body and to the power that rests
only on wealth. Upon material we'll
bing as foundation must be raised
the structure of the lofty life of the
spirit, if this nation is properly to fulfill
its great mission and to accomplish all
that we so ardently hope and desire.
The things of the body are good; the
things of the intellect better, but best
of all are the things of the soul; for in
the nation, as in the individual, in the
long run it is character that counts.
Let us therefore as people set our
faces resolutely against evil, and with
broad charity, with kindness and good
will toward all men, but with unfinch-
ing determination to smite down wrong,
strive with all the strength that is
given us for righteousness in public and
in private life.
Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose,
welt, president of the United States. do
set apart Thursday, the 26th day of
November next, as day of general
Thanksgiving and prayer, and on that
day l recommend that the people shall
cease from their daily work, and in
homes or in their churches meet de-
voutly to thank the Almighty for the
many and great blessings they have
received in the past and to pray that
they may be given the strength SO TO
order their lives as to deserve con.
tinuation of these blessings in the
future
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-13

atlsm and so impatient are many with
the seeming overcautiousness of mod
ern sanitary teaching that the warn
ing. and the reasons for 1t, cannot be
too often repeated. If such warning
is needed by only one family, and a
visitation OF typhoid fever is thereby
averted, it will have been we'll worth
while.
The water supply Of every large city,
taken from river, lake. or a number
Of streams, unless there Is a system Of
sand filtration at the reservoir, is never
absolutely safe. A single case of ty-
phoid fever ON the banks Of the river,
or OF any of the small streams which
contribute to the supply, may contain
mate the water and give rise to other
cases lower down on the stream; and
the aggregate of pollution in the water
may soon render dangerous the city
supply to which it contributes.
The course of the underground water
flow is so erratic that the country dwell
er can never be sure that his well, how
ever securely situated it may seem to
be, may not become fouled with seep-
ings from his own or his neighbours
cesspool.
Typhoid fever, not to mention other
diseases which may be spread by means
Of the water supply, is, 1t should be re-
membered, country disease 1t seems
to he city disease, but this is only be-
cause there are more people in n city.
and so the number of cases Is larger.
and the number attracts attention. In
almost every case. the exceptions being
so rare that they need not be consid-
cred, the infection is brought from the
country, either in the water supply or
in the bodies of those who got 1t while
staying in the country by quenching
their thirst from "the old oaken bucket"
Of sentimental fame.
There are, it is true, other means by
which the infection is spread-flies. for
example, which may carry the germs
from the sick-room to the kitchen or
dining-room. This is probably the most
effective means for the spread of ty-
phoid in military camps. Salads or veg
etables, eaten raw, may be contamin-
ated either from water or from manure
used as fertilizer; and the germs may
sometimes be found in oysters fattened
at the mouths Of rivers or bays into
which sewers discharge. Nevertheless.
the most common mode Of the spread Of
typhoid and dysentery is through the
medium of water; and the wise man
will avoid the danger by boiling every
drop of water used for drinking and for
cooking purposes.-Youth's Companion
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-13

the following three months. and so
would always be present for ship work.
To-day man would be discharged as
undesirable who was guilty Of such I'D
offense.
Our enlisted men are splendid in
character and in ambition; It is Is
pleasure to direct the enthusiasm that
these young men show in their work
Many do not re-enlist, not so much
from a dislike of naval life. but from
the good shore positions that are of
fered to them after their discharge
from the navy. Aboard ship they are
trained to be expert and exact and
handle a multitude of machines where
skill, steadiness and nerve are re-
Quired. The qualities here developed
are valuable in civil life, and young
men with honorable discharges from
the naval service find many desirable
opportunities ON shore,
For the officers, I am proud to be OF
them. know Of no set of men Of
higher standard Of living ana Of a
more devoted enthusiasm in the work
they are called upon to perform.