The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-22
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BY BR0WARD
Large Crowd Greet Him in st.
LuCie County Court House
CANDIDATE FOR SENATE
fIorida's Greatest Citizen Reviews Past
Services for the People and Gave
His Purposes If Elected Senator.

Fix. Governor Napoleon B. Broward,
the peoples candidate for United States
Senator, addressed the voters of st.
Lucie county in the court house la st
Thursday evening.
The speaker was introduced by Rep
resentative w. r. Hardee, in the fol-
lowing speech.
1--WE have with us tonight. citizen
who needs no introduction to the voters
of st. Lucie county, for the name of
Napoleon B. Broward is known through
out the length and breadth of the land
as being identified with enterprises that
has brought the State of Florida more
into prominence than perhaps any man
within her borders.
600 where you will-gO to the
National Capitol, and you will hear
more of Rroward as man of public,
constructive ability than any man in
the State at the present time. This is
also true of other places. where his
personality, his enterprise and devotion
to the advancement and development
of Florida has become known.
Sew men can point to record along
the lines of achievement which has
brought Florida into prominence and
which has caused food of money to
be invested in the state equal to that of
our distinguished visitor here tonight,
who is candidate for United States
Senator. and no more fitting compli-
ment could be paid him than fell from
the lips of his opponent, Claude l. Engle,
in this house two weeks ago, when,
I tAt Il,
clay enough in Florida to make brick
enough, to build a monument high
enough to do Broward credit. for he is
the greatest man Florida has ever pro-
duced." This tribute is paid him by
one of the men who is trying to secure
the honor for himself. and is the senti-
ment which seems general among the
voters. and which believe, will crystal
ize into force that will carry NJ b.
Broward to the United States Senate
in the coming primary by an over
whelming majority, and with this con-
victiOn firmly fixed in my mind, take
great pleasure in introducing to you,
our next senator Napoleon B. Brow
ard.2
After extending thanks, for the kind
words of Mr.. Hardee, the Governor
made reply to the charge ,ecently made
by Claude L'Engle, also candidate
for the senate, concerning certain land
deals in which Brpward as governor
had protited. He said
when Event to the Denver cOnven-
ton met Mr. Bodies and he wanted to
buy some land. | put him in touch with
a private party who had land to sell,
and got the commission that | asked.
| didn't know that Bolles wanted any
State land Facts of the business is
that matter wasn't talked about at all.
Maybe | did the fellow wrong, and
the size of his peck etbook
by the size Of the man. He's a little
bit o'felow. | thought When he bought
100, 600 acres of land from private
party that he had enough. | sold it to
him. had a right to do it; there's no
legal or moral law against governor
making a real estate transaction,
whether its land in the Everglades own
ed by a private party or Il city block
in Jacksonville I had right to do it,
and have no apology to make for it.
I've got family to support and pro-
pose to do it. don't know that ] owe
Mr.. B0lles anything and | don't know
that he owes me anything.
Sometime after this affair went
to Washington to deliver a speech be-
fore the Rivers and Harbors Congress,
and there former Governor Jennings
and myself met Bolles again. 1t was
then that he brought up the matter of
buying Everglades land, saying that he
would like to have half million acres
of land and he offered two dollars an
acre for it right off. The only other
chance we had to sell had been to Scott
who wouldn't talk anything more than
a dollar an acre. When | found out
that Bolles wanted that much land at
two dollars am acre and that he was
willing to take it in alternate sections
so that the State land would get the
benefit of the drainage also, | was glad
to make she sale, because it insured
the drainage of the Everglades, the
thing that had been working for four
years. ! got commission for selling
private lands, but no commission for
state lands. "
Governor Broward then proceeded to
the points in his platform which he said
he would endeavor to put into effect if
he should be chosen senator. He went
into these at length with an earnest
ness that left no doubt as to his deter
mined purpose and his familiar know
ledge of his subject. He laid out
plan for the construction of coastal
water system that would give inland
navigation from Boston to Mexico
throught Florida at a small cost com.
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