The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-06-24
NAPOLEON Is. BROWARD
(Herbert Corey in the Cincinnati
Times-Star.)

Herbert Corey in the Cincinnati
TimesStarD
They don't have to ilibuster in the
United States Senate-thanks to sena-
toria1 courtesy, which permits each
senator to talk until his soft palate
says forward and impedes his utter
ance-but, if they did flibuster. there
certainly would be filibusterous time
| coming. For Napoleon Bonaparte
Broward the king filibuster of them
| all, has been elected to the United
States Senate from Florida. OF course,
| if meticulous accuracy be insisted
upon, Mr.. Broward has only been
| chosen by the state primary of the
unterrified to go to the Senate to sue
coed the Hon. Mr. Taliaferro. But-as
| he was the choice of the state democ-
| racy-and the exact personnel of the
| Republican party in Florida may be
| absorbed by a single glance down the
list Of postoffices it is hardly stretch
| ing a point to say that he has been
| elected All Florida will proceed to
act under that theory at least
| And Broward isn't one of the sort
| that does all his filibustering orally,
| either 1t IS understood that nova
days, since he has been governor of
his state, and has redeemed the Ever
| glades, and has practically been elect
| ed to the Senate that his connection
| with the Three Friends is. not to be
referred to in polite society. But that
| is just his friends way of looking at
it. No one ever heard Napoleon Bona
parte Broward say that he is asham-
| ed Of the sea- going tug that carried
/ guns and trouble to Cuba. More than
| that; under certain conditions Gov.
| Broward will back a friend into a cor
ner, and tell him the Three Friends
story from keelson to checkrack
! She was the niftiest piece of work
| that ever f1irted her tail at gun
boat" is Mr.. Broward's estimate of
| the Three Friends. Nor has he ever
admitted that there was anything to
be ashamed of in the record of the
little steamer that figured the inter
national diplomacy while she kept
busy. There may have been shade
Of irregularity in her actions. but
nothing more. "A filibuster that gets
away with it," says Gov. Broward, sis
a patriot, and a self-sacrificing friend
of humanity It's only when he's
caught that he becomes a pirate"
| But the new senator from Florida
of the Three Friends essay. He is a
good deal more than a filibuster. For
years he has been the strongest indi-
vidual force il. the Democratic party
in Florida, until in 1904 he began to
cast about for a man big enough to
beat Congressman Bob" Davis for
the nomination for governor. Brow
ard thought that Davis had reached
that point Of stoicism at which he
could look at a corporation without a
| Shudder. No else appearing
; Broward announced that he was a
/ candidate himself and won hands
down. His election followed as a due
matter of course on the issue he had
personally discovered and conducted
. the reclamation of the Everglades
and cursed be he who would ever re
fer to them the Dismal Swamp.
He has made good with his issue
too He has partly converted the
great bog into flourishing farm land
; and it is because he felt the need OF
Federal help in this matter-which
could best be secured If he were a
member of the Senate-that he has
been enabled to send Taliaferro to the
stable. He is a big, whole-souled
sturdy man, who looks like a farmer
and acts like a king politician, and
down in Florida he Is considered alb
sOlutely on a water level. His pedi-
gree is rather classy, as may be imag-
ined from his baptismal names. But
when he really began life, at the age
of twelve, that family history was
about all he had. He and younger
brother were living alone in the single
cabin that remained to the Browar6
clan, on the banks of a brackish Flor
ida river. Their parents were botf
dead. They worked in the fields
against negroes, THESE youngsters, tt
be able to buy their salt hog anC
hominy," and at night would barricad,