The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-04-23
"h' LIGHT ON THE poINcs OF
THE LEGISLATURE

AAo-s April IL, lSUS.
10 the Editor ocala Banner.
Fiease thank the good people of Ma
roam county, through the columns of
your paper for the many cards and
reuters written me last week in regard
10 my voting for statewide prohibi-
hon- Tell them I'll stand by nv cam
palgn promises, and will work for and
vote for temperance when given the
opportunity.
we think the amendment will be
ouI Oh committee rooms Thursday or
Friday next. Expect to hear some
good arguments on both sides. Pros
poets good for "drys" succeeding.
About committee clerks, attaches,
etc-well, it simply beats the Dutch.
believe hell and high water combin-
ed could not prevent the stampede
that started the early part of last
week, and before you could hardly
Wink your eye eighteen committee
clerks were put on the pay rolls.
! Ihese committee clerks reminded me
OF my hogs trying to get into my pin
dar held under a poor fence. | could
! fret. worry. cuss. or do anything else.
but those hogs of mine were going to
! get the pindars. So with a committee
clerk, he gets there some how. The
only way l could prevent the hogs
from destroying my pindars was to
nave a good fence around the field /:
so some good law must be pasesd that
will prevent this lavish waste of the
peoples money, or the people must
foot the bill.
The last legislature was expensive.
/ This is worse. for We gave the speak
er of the house (our OcaIa boy a pri.
vate clerk. Sorry some of Ocala' S
good looking young ladies are not
here: would ask for a private secre-
tary, too. as | am simply doing moth.
ing. and need some good looking help
TO carry on the business. for find the
other fellow is getting some sugar
and I'd most likely get some. too.
Eighteen committee clerks, two as,
sistants to the chief clerk. assistant
bill clerk. assistant janitor. etc. with
a pOstmistress at SIS per day TO wrap
and mail out 600 journals daily.
Tomorrow | expect TO show up the
whole business and try and correc,
this waste. Can't tell the result, but
1 am as determined to show up this
rottenness as was to get to the leg
iIslature, and I'll try and put the blame
where it belongs. and have it on the
journal. too. III make campaign
thunder for some one two years hence
anyway
This job that | am trying to hold
down is certainly annoying to me, for
IN two weeks tim-leSs than thirty
hours in seSSion-at an expense Of
nearly $500. and | say honestly {
green-horn like | am cannot in the be
ginning of a session be anything else
than a nuisance. | am getting spank
ed continually. but that's the way my
mother taught me. and | haven't for
got my early training.
There is an effort made to reappOr
ton the state. Looks like a tough
lob. as the fellow that needs the medi
cine objects to losing the representa-
ton he now enjoys. and some mus
lose.
Well. you people know that Franz
CLARK has been here. To my way o.
thinking Frank Clark acted like h*
was small potatoes and few in a Hill
Think much less of Clark than | did
after listening to two hours of hi:
ranting.
| mail YOU the Morning Sun. Loot
al it and try and send an order fol
twenty copies at fifteen cents pc
copy for the season.
am rubbing mp against some o
the big fry" and TO a fellow tina
hardly knows gee from "haw.' It's
real funny 10 me. Didn't know tha
t..big folks" could squeal SO loud whel
YOU pinch them a little.
NIust close. gOi 10 gel al something
elise Yours truly.
l.. :. LIGHT.