The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-29
SOME REASONS
TO CONSIDER
Home Newspaper Tells Why
Jackson Should Not be Elected
NOT FITTED FOR OFFICE
District He Misrepreseuted as Senator, as
Well as Home County and Precinct
Voted Against Him Two Years Ago

The following excerpts from the Git
rus County Chronicle, published at In
verness, the home of Candidate jack
son, for twenty years, should set at rest
any thought of him getting vote for
Railroad Commissioner in ST. Lucie
county:
One reason why the people here are
not in favor of the election Of W. X.
jackson for Railroad Commissioner is
that he admitted in his private talk to
his friends that he is at heart opposed
to the commission system of govern
ment for the railroads, and they don't
feel like electing a man to an office
that he is opposed to on principle.
The Brooksville Argus, speaking of
the candidacy of w. X. Jackson. for
railroad commissioner, says he is "A
competent and successful business
man." Brother Russell must have
writ" before he thought. y jackson
lived here for twenty years, during the
, time he was president of phosphate
mining company that failed, president
of mercantile establishment that fail
ed, president Of telephone company
that failed interested in a government
patent for a buggy hub that failed, and
interested in another phosphate mine
that also failed All of the five Occu-
patons engaged in by him. were fail
ures, and what is more striking is that
every man here who was connected
with him in those business ventures is
opposed to his election as Railroad Com
missioner.
Another reason why the people OF
Citrus county will not support their
former neighbor and Senator, Mr.. w.
K Jackson, for Railroad Commissioners
. is that they remember in the race two
years ago, he had majority of votes
over Dunn, his opponent, in each and
ali of the counties which are conceded
by everybody to be the railroad centers
This shows them clearly that he Is the
choice of the railroads. And why
shouldn' t he be? All he knows about
railroads and their methods he learned
as their servant. His sons were en-
ployed by railroads. His son-in.law
was employed by still another system.
And the people here know Mr.. Jack
son too we'll to believe that he would
give the people fair deal where it
ment dollar for him or his immediate
relatives, See his legislative record in
this respect,
The official vote on Railroad Com
missiOnersfor Citrus county at the prl-
mary election held May 10, 1903, was:
Dunn, $50; jackson. III; Irwin, u;
SOlomOnsOn, 81.
In the second primary of June l6, the
vote in the county. was: Dunn, 290;
Jackson, ia; Dunn's majority ll6.
! The official vote in fernando county
for the first primary was: Dunn, lO2;
Jackson, 81; Irwin, ll6; SOomonson. 10.
: And in the second primary, the vote
was: Dunn, 220; Jackson no; Dunn'S
majority ITO.
, We haven't the Officially vote for Pasco
/ county, but Dunn received plurality
of the votes in the first primary and a
majority in the second primary.
/ These are the votes of the people in
the counties where Mr. jackson lived
for twenty odd years and whi.h he pre-
/ tended to represent in the Senate. 1t
is simply an expression of the people
in this senatorial district, exhibiting
/ their dissatisfaction at his service and
! testimony of their disbelief in his
ability to represent them in the Rail-
road Commission.
! The fact that Col. w. X. Jackson,
of LAX Gland was Confederate soldier
during the Civil war will not initiate
against his candidacy at the primary
for nomination on the state ticket as
railroad commissioner. That he is al
so an able and intelligent man and 10
Gated in ? section of the state that
needs representation on the commission
will probably help him. Tampa Times.
Now people, wouldn't that jar you?
He.lved IN Inverness for about twenty
years and who of US ever heard that he
was Confederate soldier? There was
a report here in,a campaign number
of years ago7to the effect that he held
an altogether different position from
that of soldier In one of the armies,
but our recollection is that MIR. Jackson
proved that he was ''home With mama"
in those days. The people here have
said by their votes that he Is neither
able nor intelligent enough to represent
them on the Railroad Commission they
said that two years agoby giving Dunn
!. majority both in this his old home
precinct and also in the county at large
this precinct and county being the home
of Mr.. Jackson for about twenty years.
; Citrus County Chronicle.
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| The Sunday School of the Methodist
church enjoyed most pleasant picnic
at Ten Mile creek last Saturday. A
, large crowd was in attendance. and the
haautifnl dav and splendid dinner WaS