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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23
To Save Southern
Civilization.

When we are ali through with this
presidential election and the country
has again been lost or saved Tin the
humbug parlance of politics., here in
the South we will have to go about
the work in grim reality of saving the
very civilization of our section from
the assaults of the night-riding white
savages who are trying to dominate it.
The press dispatches almost daily
tell us of the incipient stage of this
form of outrage in the cotton states,
such as the posting of gins, threats
to burn, ETC., and it is only a short
step from this to the actual destruc-
tion of property by these masked and
banded scoundrels and towards; and
that murder will also be committed
to effect their purposes is practically
sure unless they are checked in time
Crime of this kind may readily take
an epidemic form, as it has done in
the tobacco-growing districts of Ken
lucky, and there is abundant evidence
that unless sternly repressive meas
ures are taken we may soon have a
condition in the cotton belt of the
south that will make even the Recon
struction era seem like desirable
state by comparison. And all this un-
der the pretext OF compelling every
farmer who grows cotton to forfeit.
his independence as a citizen and
yield slavish obedience to scrub
mob of disguised assassins, rogues
and rascals in the disposition of his
crop, and hold it until they permit
him to sell it.
1t is barbarism, pure and simple.
and should be treated accordingly. II
it is permitted to go unchecked that
part of the South ravaged by it will
become uninhabitable by decent peo-
pie and worse than primitive condi-
lions, when the woods were full OF
hostile Indians, will prevail.
The overwhelming majority of our
farmers are good citizens and law.
abiding men too sensible and honest
TO engage in such vile work, and II
our Southern governors and subordi-
nate officials will meet this evil
promptly and treat it wfsA merciless
severity We will soon have an end
of it.
We need, not few. but very many
legal hangings in this country, and I'm
til We get them the law will be de-
spised by men with criminal instincts
and lawlessness will everywhere
flourish.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

LEGATIONS he writes to that paper as
follows:
Unless something like d miracle
happens during the next fortnight n
diana viii give her electoral vote TO
Bryan this year. AS the case now
stands, the only doubt is rs TO the
size of his plurality. This is not like
ly 10 be large-from ten to thirty
thousand-and on that account the re-
publicans have not entirely abandoned
hope. They will, of course, continue
the brave struggle which they have
made against heavy odds since the
beginning of the campaign.
Even now, with all the facts
against them, the republican leaders
do not openly admit defeat. They
still try TO hope that some lucky turn
OF events, some accident, may enable
Taft TO squeeze through. They are
fighting politicians, these Hoosiers.
and they do not always know when
they are whipped; and when they do
know it they do not confess it. Down
in their hearts those of them who
know the truth, in SO far as it can be
known, feel that the game is about
over and the score against them; but
there is another inning TO play, and
they go on with the struggle, bearing
as brave an outward front as they can
under the circumstances. 1t is a dis
couraging situation which they face.
If one dares tell the plain truth, it is
not SO much the loss of the state on
the presidency that gives them grief
as, the fact that If Taft goes down
the governorship goes with it, the
state ticket, the legislature, United
States senatorship."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23
SUPREME COURT SETTLES CASE
MAYS IS NOMINEE-KEHOE RETIRES.

settled and
of Florida
eecti1g him.
writing Of the courts decision
but the touches merits OF
declaring Mr. Mays
the
VIII
the of all his election to
bteyfough and unfortunate for
Of that is settled
friends Of Mr. Mays
will loyal to the successful
nomine
third district who regret
We not imagine however that his de-
of democrat
would had the result
beenth
of ability
third
Kehoe and the democratic
be rolled nominee
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23
Absorption of Line, They
Say, Was Most Inop-
perfume.
SHIPPERS IN FEAR
OF HIGHER RATES
Democrats Try to Make
Campaign Capital Out
of Financier's Ex-
pansion Policy.

By John Snure, in Philadelphia Times
E. H Hartman. who finds. IT
hard work to escape attention
when any really big political
campaign is on, is likely 10 be given
plenty of. notice before the present
contest is over. About the national
democratic headquarters here, atten-
ton is being directed to the latest
feat of Hartman in railway financing.
the requirement of the Rock Island
and the Frisco.
The plan is to charge the admins
tration with laXity in enforcement
of it's Sherman antitrust law in per-
hitting this latest merger to go on,
and to hold up as mere pretension
the administration efforts hereto.
fore to smash" Hartman. Whether
the present democratic intentions
will reach to the point of a real
| movement to portray TO ,he country
the dangers involved IN permitting
Mr.. Hartman to get a grip on so
great share of the railroad mileage
of the United States as he now con-
trolls is something that remains to
be seen. 1t is known the democrats
are considering the situation, and at
republican headquarters there is ner-
vousness lest the Hartman expansion
in the Rock Island direction be turn
ed to Bryan's account.
Blame Finaneier.
Republican politicians who talk
about this latest movement of Harri
man say frankly that it is most in.
opportune. They say they nave had
troubles enough in this campaign
without having Hartman come along
and let a deal become public for
which the republicans will naturally
be blamed by the democrats, through
their literature and their spellbind-
ers, regardless Of whether they are
blamable or not. 1t is safe to say
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23
Mack Says There Will Be
No Depression if Mr..
Bryan Wins.
TAFT WILL GET
FARMERS VOTE
Big Four" Official Investi-
gates Rural Conditions
and Finds Leaning
Toward Ohioan.

emphasize the fallacious nature OF
the idea in question.
Mr.. Roberts cited other evidence
for the purpose of showing that the
tendency in Oklahoma under the new
law is for. undesira ole men to plunge
into the banking business. thus i'll
creasing the probable percentage of
loss, which must be recouped from
the guarantee fund. and which, as
he sees 1t, means an unjustihable
economic waste. Mr. Roberts holds
that the true way to protect the de-
positor is to surround the banking
business with stricter limitations
and not to invite careless banking by
guaranteeing deposits
What percentage of the farmI
vote in the middle West is going Il
c1ange from republican TO democrat
in this campaign? Any one that can
answer this definitely will confer a
favor by telling both the republican
and the democratic naSagers, In
view of the heavy agricultural vote
in the middle West.
A republican prominently connect
ed with the campaign management
said today that a leading official OF
the Big Four road had been inquirins
into the farmer vote through his
agents in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
The replies indicated that for the
most part the farmers would not
change, but that about per cent
would shift to Bryan. On the face OF
things this is not a large change. but
when IL is considered that the demo
Gratis are counting on gaining much
from the labor vote, something from
the negro vote and something from
that share of the population that
lives on salaries, it will be seen that
a shift even of per cent of the ag
ricultural Gvoters might give Bryan
several electoral votes from the
closer states of the middle West.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23
The Apathy Is
Not Real. .--

The New Orleans Times-Democrat
finds an explanation of the apparent
apathy and absence of popular excite
ment in the present campaign in the
fact that the great American orator
has been largely supplanted by the
great American press as a medium OF
Information to the public, and the
news of the campaign can be read
and discussed with calmness and
deliberation not possible under the in
fiuence of the spellbinder's voice.
There is much in the theory. We
can all read the speeches of Mr.. Bry-
an and Mr.. Taft. as printed in the
daily papers and analyze them with
more justice and accuracy than if we
had heard them delivered amid strons
emotional surroundings. and what
seems like apathy is merely the alb
sence of the orator, the shouting
crowds and all the other concomitanti
Of noisy public meeting.
But the people are doubtless doing
more real thinking now on the issues
which divide the great parties than
ever before, and that they can do this
thinking in the quiet and unexcitins
perusal of newspaper columns where
the story is all told, is clearly an ad-
vantage and means a more intelligent
apprehension of the arguments of the
candidates and their auxiliary takers
This was not possible before the
telegraph and the Associated Press
had done such wonderful things fol-
the spread of current news and all
the daily happenings of the world, and
that such is the case means not
apathy nor loss of interest, but differ
ent and improved conditions for re
ceiying and assimiiating facts and ar
guments.
This view of the case, in connection
with the further fact that the issues
of this campaign are largely OF an
economic character in which no heroic
note can be sounded and no appeal to
the old sectional passions and preju-
dices successfully made, accounts for
the alleged apathy Of the American
people at this time; but there is no
real apathy, and next month more
ballots will be cast with pure reason
behind them unmixed with party
prejudice than ever before in our his
taU.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

by the sacred writ of injunction. Mr.
Roosevelt has found a mare's-nest and
when he gets Mr.. Bryan's reply he
will have a vague suspicion that he
would better have kept silent. The
democratic platform calls fer no dras-
tic or revolutionary change in the en-
ployment of the writ of injunction,
and Mr.. Gompers, who is member of
neither party, simply accepted the
democratic plank on the Injunction
issue as being more favorable to Or
ganized labor than the practical eva
sion of that issue by the republican
national convention.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

that If the republican campaign man
ayers could quietly take Mr. Harri-
man out and kick him all around a
ten-acre lot without attracting no
tice in doing it they would be glad
OF the opportunity for cnastiSe-
ment.
The fact is we'll appreciated by the
men in charge OF the republican CAM
paign that shippers AZ over tle
country, and especially in the Middle
West, are still apprehensIve over the
idea that the railroads are bent on
general increase of freight rates as
soon as such an increase can be
made most safelyN Many a shipper /.
impressed with the fear tiat when the
election is over. the talk of general
rate increase will revive even more
strongly than it was heard last spring.
1t is obvious that the Hartman con-
troll of the Rock Island and Frisco
can be so employed by the demo
Gratis as TO get many shippers
wrought up in a way to embarrasS
the republicans greatly. particularly
as it comes at a time when tho
freight increase agitation is fresh in
mind, and inasmuch as Hartman is
well understood to be in favor of
higher freight rates.
Mack is Aroused.
National Chairman Mac; is much
aroused at the efforts of the republi-
cans to spread the fear thai in case
Of Bryan's election there viii be a
business depression. He is assailing
his oppC nents for Trying 10 employ
the 1896 methods over again, and is
giving out the names of prominent
business men VINO are taking the
position that there, will be depression.
About the democratic headquarters. it
is asserted that there is a great deal
Of quiet coercion of employees go
ing on through the country on the
part of manufacturers anu others.
While it is apparent occasional enl-
ployers are trying to influence the
votes of the'I mel Z does not al'-
pear that this is true II general
way
One of the most troublesome is
sues the republicans have had to meet
in this campaign is the one of gov
eminent guarantee of deposits. The
best evidence is that it is going to get
Bryan thousands of votes. 1t does
not appear the republicans have been
successful In counteracting it, Presi-
dent George E. Roberts, of the Com
mercial National Bank. talked about
this question today and ;amented tie
fact that the subject was not more
thoroughly understood. He said that
the operations of tie Oklahoma law
were coming to. be exactly such as
might have been anticipated, and he
regretted the facts about 1t could
not become fully Known before cleo
| ton, as in his opinion they would
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

The civil war is ancient history anu
just now, near the end of pTesiden-
tial campaign. we are more concern
ed with modern facts than with VIVA.
relates to the heroic days of 1865.
But even now when we have Mr. Bry-
an. MFR. Taft and Mr.. Roosevelt 10
read after every day, those of US
who were a part of those old war
times and have vivid memories of the
fierce passions, hates and prejudiceS
OF that period Will note with keen in
terest and pleasure that in st. Louis
a movement has been initiated by the
Grand Army posts. in that city, which
has for its object the formation of a
permanent society for patriotic and
sraternal purposes made mp of Union
and Confederate veterans. We live in
IN era of great thin2S, and nat the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

The Hartford Times reproaches the
South for a want of liberality in Its
contributions TO the national demo
cratic campaign fund and says that
this section has thus far raised only
ss.525 to help along the cause. The
Times is badly misihformed. The
South has contributed many times
that amount, one paper alone, the
Memphis Commercial, Appeal, having
sent in more than $4,000. In proper
ton to the wealth of the two sections
the South has done better than the
North.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad" is an ancient adage
verified a thousand times. The New
York Central railroad system is now
reported to-Ne threatening its EN-,
ployees with reduced wages if Bryan
is elected. This is, of course, an in.
direct form of attempt at compulsiOn
and Mr. Bryan wanted nothing better
for a text when he heard Of it during
his campaign in Ohio Wednesday. He
made the most of it in his speeches
that day ana doubtless he made votes,
too. No self-respecting workingman
will stand for that sort of bulldozing
in this age.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

If Governor Broward succeeds in
selling the Everglades for a fair price
ON condition that the land shall be
drained, as is rumored, he will have
practically redeemed his promise and
most Irritating issue will be taken
out of our state politics, And it is
not likely that anybody would buy that
property without the purpose of drain.
ing it, so that 1t might be made a
profitable investment. Thus Ear it has
been chiefly productive of politicians
quarrels, wrangles and disputes, but il
is said to be good for sugar which
will count more as an asset in the
wealth of the state. Take the Ever
glades out of politics.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

Senator Ben Tillman, of South Caro-
lima, has returned home after sum.
mer spent in Europe and announces
that he will take no part in the ma
tional campaign. Mr.. Tillman) has
been considered the most fiery and
explosive of any of our public men,
with the possible exception of Mr..
Roosevelt, and as he believes strongly
in Bryan his determination to keep
out of the shindy probably means
that he has not yet been fully restored
10 health. Mr.. Tillman is a valuable
public man of invincible honesty,
strong common sense and much force
of character and we suspect that his
European trip has so broadened his
views and lifted him out of a provin-
cial environment that ne will no longer
be the ferocious partisan of former
years. A trip to Europe is always
good for an American who has strong
observing and thinking faculties.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

Up in Georgia Tom Watson, popu-
list candidate for president. is worse
than Incorporate in his speeches. He
is rabid and has grown SO reckless o.
truth that he is now denouncing Mr..
Bryan as an advocate of social equal
tty between the white and negro races
The charge is, OF course, absurdly un-
true, but so little attention has been
paid to Watson during the campaign
that he is doubtless seeking to get in
the limelight by the very extravaganza
of his campaign ISLANDERS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

Writing letters is too tame for Ted.
dy- in the present tumultuous state OF
speech in New York City tonight in
behalf of his friend Taft. He will say
a plenty and it is not improbable that
he will say too much for the good OF
his cause, for when he gets worked
up our strenuous president sometimes
opens his mouth and promptly puts
his foot in it. Mr.. Taft is neither vol
canic nor magnetic on the stump. but
he is temperate, cautious and tactful
and if he had been freed of Roose.
velt's bumptious and officious advo.
cacy during the campaign, his pros.
poets might be brighter today
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23
Hurricane Was Severe.

A copy of the Nassau Guardian re-
ceiyed at this Office states that the
hurricane which visited portion of
the Bahama Islands on the 18th of
September was the most severe ever
felt, not excepting the great Sc hurri-
cane The gratest damage was done
at Exuma. Long Island, and surround
ing islands. In many places every
house was blown down, and the mag
istrate writing from Simms. says that
there is not a green leaf or blade of
grass left on the island At this place
the wife of David Marie was buried
under the wreck of her house. Her
neck, back and legs were broken. yet
when the debris was cleared away a
four-months old child was found in her
arms, crying and unhurt. There was
great loss of life and property.-Key
West Citizen.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23
Indiana Almost
Sure For BRYAN.

Walter Wellman, the weIlknown
veteran correspondent. who IS not a
democrat and wants Taft to win, has
been in Indiana investigating the sit
,ration there for the Chicago Record
Herald, which is not democratic
newspaper. As a result OF his inyes-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

least among them would be the gen
uine and general reconciliation to each
other of the men who fought the bat
ties of the civil war and their regu.
lar commineling around camp fires to
talk over the old days in the spirit of
mutual respect and true comradeship.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

Uncle Joe Cannon is now having the
time of his life up in his district In
Illinois. But ii is anything but. a good
time, for Gompers has camped on his
trail and will be satisfied with moth
ing less than his congressional scalp.
Uncle. Joe is a good man in his way,
but ''durn his way"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

Mr.. Roosevelt has again 'butted
in with long open letter to Senator
Knox, of Pennsylvania, in which he
sternly demands of Mr.. Bryan that he
shall lay bare the facts of the deep,
dark conspiracy between that gentle
man and Samuel Gompers. the labor
leader. to overthrow the liberties OF
tbs American pealle Is pov pIoteGted
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
NATIONAL.
,sidential Electors:

NATIONAL
For Presidential Electors:
ii. p Bailey,
p W. Butler.
Robt. L. Davis,
Geo. c. Martin,
Samuel z. Pasco.
For Congressman:
J. Walter Kehoe,
D. II. Mays.
STATE NOMINEES.
Governor-Albert w Gilchrist.
Secretary of Stste-H. Clay Craw.
ford.
Attorney Generai-Park NJ Tram.
nell.
con,ptrolIer-A.C C. Groom.
State Treasurer-W. V. Knott.
Superintendent of Public instruction
VIM. II. Holloway.
Commissioner of Agricultural. e.
McLin.
Railroad Commissioner-Royal G.
Dunn.
Justices of the Supreme Court:
VIM. A. Hooker.
Thos. NJ Shackleford
COUNTY NOMINEES.
Representatives:
G. L. Virgins.
]. p. Stokes.
Sheriff.. G.. Van Pelt.
Clerk of Court-James Macgibbon.
County Judee-Henry Bellinger.
Tax Assessor-W. w. Richards.
Tax Collector. S. Roberts.
County Tressurer--J. Ed. Williams
School Superintendent-N B. Cook.
County Surveyor
Justice of the Peace, Dist. 2.-R. L.
Nicholson.
Constable, Dist. &C. P. Bobe.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23
COUNTY NOMINEES.
Political Announcements.
FOR sHE5IFF,

FOR sHEHIFF.
i hereby announce myself as a candidate
for the office of Sheriff OF Escambia Coun-
ty. Independently, In the general election
to be held in November. and solicit ths
votes Of all voters in this county.
CAPT FRANK A. BOGHICH
At the request OF many friends in both
city and county, hereby announce myself
Escambia County, IN the general election
TO be held I'm November. and solicit this
votes Of all voters in this county.
G. H JACKSON
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23
Bought for Five Millions.

A Jacksonville bank publishes a
striking advertisement in the Brooks
vile Argus, citing the fact that in 1919
Florida was bought from Spain for
five million dollars, while today the
assets of this bank alone approximate
five and one-half millions. And the
state is just beginning to grow in
wealth and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

Editor Pensacola Journal.
Socialism is not theory or ism,
but a condition. 1t is a fact, borne
out by statistics compiled by the gov
eminent, that the producers-those
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY STATE PRESS
Never Scratches a Ticket.

The writer never scratches a ticket.
He has always supported Loyalty the
nominees of the democratic party
voting for every person named on the
ticket-and il was pleasure to him
to so record his vote. Can every man
who claims to be a democrat say as
much ?-Apalachico Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23
vOx .POPULI

SOCIALISM A CONDITION
1 SAYS w. A. SMITH
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