The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-12-23
THREE WANT
SAME OFFICE
Attitude of Aspirants for The
United States Senate
RACE GETTING WARM
Rrvao and BIount Criticise Actions of the
Other, While Stockton Refers Mainly
10 the Past Record of Himself

Things senatorial are taking a decid
adv more interesting turn of late.
With all three Of the candidates dis
nosed to do the senatorial courtesy
stnnt, as it appeared in the beginning
It seems as it it was going to be sort of
lack-trustee campaign. Stockton is
still springing those daily sensations,
these same being his perfectly beauti-
ful behavior towards his fellow candi-
dates in his speakings and his writings
particularly in his speakings, says
Claude l. Engle in Dixie"
The attitude of some people during
this senatorial campaign with Stockton
in It. may be likened to those who gath
or at the State Fair grounds in the af-
ternoon at about four O'Clock, the time
announced for the double or triple par.
achute drop from md-air waiting for
the balloon to go up.
If Stockton continues on the even
tenor of his way, dispensing John
Wesley notices and the soft answer
that turneth away wrath, some people
are apt to die of disappointment.
When Stockton SAID that he was not
going to say anything about his oppon-
ents or anything rude or disagreeable
abou. anybody in any of his speeches.
the universal sentiment was "Wait un-
til he gets going good. As soon as he
gets on the stump he will forget his
pacific resolutions. But the unex.
pected has come to pass. Stockton has
made quite number of speeches here
and there, in Lee, in DeSoto, in Her
nando, in Levy, in Madison, in Gadsden
and in Pasco, and the word brought
back from those present is that he
made good speech and talked about
what he himself was going to do, in
stead of what his opponents or their
aiders and abetters had done.
Whatever our feeling may be in re-
gard to the three candidates, we have
got to hand it to Stockton that he has
conducted digniied, heightened, open,
fair, manly and growing campaign. His
talk on the tariff is entertaining and in
structlve which is saying great deal,
for this question has been the bupbear
of aspiring politicians ever since Blaine
ran against Cleveland. He tells the
people about man going into store
and pricing suit of clothes. and the
storekeeper charges him SIS for it.
This man pays his SIS and goes away,
rejoicing that the price was not fifteen
and half, not realizing that he paid
IS for the value of the suit and 81 tariff
tax But" says Stockton, ''if this
storekeeper was to tell this customer
that the price of this suit was only So
but that under law passed by Con
gress, he would have to step around to
the postOflice or custom house, ii there
was one in town, and pay 81 before he
could take the suit home. the man
would realize at once the enormous
burden of the tariff tax, and that he
and his neighbors would make such
vigorous protest against it that 1t
would soon be wiped off the books -
People can understand this kind of talk
on The tariff and it states the case eX-
actly. With this one illustration is the
Whole tariff system explained. t2
Stockton is also sound on the money
question, and explains that in way
that people can understand. He lays
down the principle that the banks viii
De the first ones benefited ii low rate
OF interest was charged for loans. ne
Is the first one have heard discuss the
money question, who comes out PLAIN
and says that the bank does not LEND
money, but credit and that the eXpan
SION of credit that would begin imm'-
eiately after the rate of interest was
lowered would result at once in mate
rally increasing hank deposits. That
alow rate of interest benefits the PEG
PIE Is too plain to need comment, am
p'nratlon or exemplfication.
Another departure that Stockton
makes is that instead Of talking about
railroads as he used to do, he is now
1lklng about railroad rates. TINS
catches everybody who contributes ms
snare to the rates that the railroads
cnarge for the transportation OF com,
modltes, and becomes interested at
once when StocE ton says that there be
ABSOLUTE equality of rates, based upon
Inc length of haul, and that one town
uss right to the same rate in proper
uon 70 its distance from the starting
pace as another.
nerc is another thing that is helping
ess!ockton whole lot. and it is a Ilttie
HMng, too: but it is the little things ~
~ ne that are often the most important
rnSey are certainly the most considered
isF'y IN his campaign, he got out a ~
S card on which was printed Let
- Otockton In This Time. Th's Is
eny and it is catching LOT. of people
I q tne hack of this card there is III.
moving up of the preponderance OF
{ers in the United States Senate.
people are about beginning to THINK