The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-15
TALIAFERRO is BEATEN.
Napoleon Bonapartc BrOward Wins
SenatOrship in Florida.

Jacksonville, Fla, June 9.-Friends
of United States Senator James D.
Taliaferro. concede that Governor n.
p. Browrad won the election for the
United States senate by more than L.
500 majority.
The man VINO has been chosen by
the people Of Florida to represent
them in the United States senate has
had an adventurous and remarkable
career.
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward is of
Huguenot descent on his fathers side
and his mother was of an old New
England family. Browards parents
died when he was IL years old. Two
years later he began as varied a ca
reer as ever led to a Governors chair
and United States Senatorship by
finding employment in logging
camp run by an uncle. He RATED
logs, sawed fence rails and made him.
self generally useful. Next he tried
farming, then he became a steamboat
roustabout.
Starting on tug as cook, he had
worked his way to second in COM
mand, when he shipped north on a
coastwise sailing vessel. bound for
New Bedford.
At 16 he was fishing for cod on the
Grand Banks. One Of his vivid rec
objections for this chapter in his ca
reer is that he went to the fishing
grounds clad in a gingham shirt and
jean pants" and nearly froze in con-
sequence.
Broward first went after cod in
1873. During the IA years that en-
sued he was a seaman on coastwise
sailing vessels and fishing boats, d
steamboat hand and a pilo, in Flor
ida, finally becoming part owner of a
steamboat plying between Mayport
and Palatka. Florida.
In 1887 he gave up the sea to run
o wood yard. The same year he was
appointed Sheriff Of Duval county, in
which he was born. to fill a vacancy
caused by death. BY reappointment,
election and reelection he remained
Sheriff until 1900, when he went to
the State Legislature from his coun-
ty. He became Governor four years
later. .,: s."
But before he quit the office OF
Sheriff he had gained fame 10 at
least two national capitals as one OF
the most daring Of the Cuban fili-
busters
In 1896 he re-entered the steam
boat business, having secured an in
terest in the notorious Three Friends.
This ocean-going tug was built In
jacksonville for the primary purpose
of supplying the Cuban patriots with
munitions of war. Broward him
self commanded the tug on eight Of
her trips to and from Cuba; he al
ways took charge whenever the signs
pointed to an exciting voyage.
Through his connection with the
Three Friends Broward has the dis
tinction of being the only living Gov
ernor for whose capture foreign
government offered a large reward
One Of Broward's partners was "Dy-
Mantle Johnny" OBrien, the Spanish
government also having a standing
reward for his interception and cap
ture.
Broward could not, with truth, be
called a poor man these days, though
even now he is no millionaire. 4
goodly portion OF his worldly posses
sions has resulted from his filibustcr-
ing ventures While Broward turned
partly for the excitement Of the game,
ne insists that he was actuated also
| by a strong desire to see the CubanS
| freed from spanish rule. In any
| event his Is name writ large IN
the last years of the history Of Cu-
ban nlibustering.
y few years before he became in
tcrestcd I'm the Three Friends, Brow.
ard mined phosphate; two years he.
fore he was made Governor he go
In the towing and wrecking business
The native OF Florida, asked as L
what his Governor has done coul,
reply quite truthfullV, were ne =,