The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-05-15
Independence League Head
ed by Labor Unionist and
Wilkinson Call.
THOSE WHO JOIN NEW PARTY
WILL LOSE VOTE IN DEMO-
CRATIC PRIMARY AS ALL WHO
VOTE IN THE PRIMARY MUST
PLEDGE THEMSELVES TO SUP
PORT TICKET AS NOMINATED.

The official call OF the Democratic
primary confines all electors in the
primary to those Democrats who will
support the national, State and Demo
cratic tickets. A movement is on foot
now to establish the independence
League throughout Florida, and of
course those who enlist in this cause
are not qualified to vote in the pri-
mary next Tuesday. The organizers
of the new party in this State are r.
|. Harper. editor of the Central Union
Times, a labor journal published in
Jacksonville, ex-senator Wilkinson
Call, of Florida, and Mrs. Morgan,
who is connected with Hearst's news
paper.
Speaking of the work of these mis-
.sionaries the Tampa Evening News
in its issue of yesterday says:
Representing William Randolph
Hearst in a general way, and more
particularly. according to the distin-
guished gentleman, the National indie
pence party, evolved from the indie
pendence League. of New York City.
ex-Eenator Wilkinson Call is a prom
inent visitor to Tampa today. For
eighteen years Senator Call served as
United States Senator from Florida,
and probably within the State and at
about than any other figure in Flor
ida politics in the past thirty or thirty
five years.
The ex-senator arrived this morn
ing from Jacksonville. He registered
at once at the Hillsboro hotel as did
R. l.. Harper, editor of the Central
Union Times, of Jacksonville, and
Mrs. Morgan of New York, who is
travelling in Florida with Senator Gail
Mrs. Morgan is a political writer for
the New York Journal, one of Mr..
'Hearst's papers, and she is recording
| for Mr.. Hearst and his friends in the
Independence party the development
| of national independence parry senti
| ment in this state.
| Fighting Democracy.
AT the Hillsboro, Senator Call and
/ Mrs. Morgan were interviewed By a
/ News representative. Senator Call
! who served the democratic pal y
| Is years in the greatest parliament
airy body in the world. is now against
ar9 R par Ssiofnpanv boasted that it CON.
! trolled the party. and that while ve- V
| able and very prominent men repre-
| sented the democrats at WaShins.u ton,
| that all were controlled, more Or Tess,
| through opinion moulded by the
Standard Oil company.
Senator Call declared the time
| ripe for the new National Iudepen-
dence party, but when asked whether
he was not working more particularly
| for Mr.. Hearst than for the general
| independence party, DECLARED most
emphatically that such was not true
He aYerred that Mr.. Hearst was a
great man and was doinS a great
| work with his chain of papers, but
/ that he was heart and soul in accord
| with the ideas of a new party, and
| that Mr.. Hearst would be willing that
some other man be nominated by the
! independence party for president, as
| Senator Call declared Mr.. Hearst had
| signifed recently at a New York ban
quet which both attended.
/ The ex-senator declared a state
/ convention of the independence party
would he held at Jacksonville within
| the next two weeks, and that dele
| gates to this convention would repre-
sent the entire state. the object being
| TO select at the state convention dele
gates from Florida to the national in
| dependence party, which will hold
| its convention in Chicago the latter
i part of July. He spoke enthusiast
cally of both Mr. Hearst and the
party, and declared that he, MI Har.
! per and Mrs. Morgan had met with
much encouragement in Tampa, peo-
| pie believing that neither republican
nor democratic parties were doing the
good that should be done for the
country.
To Work in Jacksonville.
Senator Call, Mr.. Harper and Mrs.
! Morgan return tonight to Jackson
| villei where several days VIII be spent
preparatory to holding ,ne state con-
vention. Senator Call hopes to visit
| Key West and some other cities in
/ the state before the convention is
! held, and Mrs. Morgan, this being her
first trip to the state, signified her in
J tention of returning to Tampa before
/ going back TO New York and her reg
! ular political work on the Journal.
Mrs Morgan has been with the
Journal continuously several years
i and is one Of Mr.. Kearst's most val
| ued workers.
Both the ex-senator and The lady
| declare the labor people through ,hc
state have taken a great intcerst in
the new party, and that Jacksonville
laboring people especially are indJrs
ing it. This morning Doth. with Mr.
i Harper, were shown about the cit;
by friends and by Councilman J. \
Roberts through the o u Nh oioa7