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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
VOX POPULI.
THE PRIMARY SYSTEM
Is HERE TO REMAIN
Millview, Jan. II, 1910.

Millview, Jan. II, 1910.
Editor Pensacola Journal.
The convention days are past never
to return. The candidates of a con
VentIon are not, nor never were, or
would be the choice of the people.
The slate would be made before the
convention met, and no matter how
many delegates there were, whether
1t be state, congressional or county
convention, the unit rule was always
the rule. and the chairman cast the
vote OF the entire delegation, and the
slate as made out by the politicians
approved by the special interests
were nominated, and in the general
election you must take your medicine,
no matter how bitter the dose. vote
on principle as against your own in
terSts.
The convention plan is all one-sided
and woe be to the delegate that does
not side with the chairman and spec
lal interests. He will not be recog-
niZed nor be allowed to have a saw
in their proceedings.
This much from experience. It is
only few politicians and special in
terest candidates that cannot go be-
fore the people and be nominated that
want convention. They are not
getting enough of the special interest
judges, more particular those on the
supreme court OF tue state. Iaey
claim the people are mot competent
to say who the judges shall be, leav-
ing out the legal right. The state
executive committee has no power to
call a convention, it being the crea-
ton OF the Democratic party. and
only0there to carry out the wishes of
the party, and not that of politicians
and special interests. 1t has been
decided by the party, by vote, that
all officers from governor down to the
lowest Office must be nominated
through primary elections, and if
would be only a waste of time 10
again submit the question to the
voters, for the primary elections are
here, and to stay. Should the state
committee overstep their bounds,
they can be called down bv their
creators. One state committee over
stepped its bounds and got a black
eve. AS in the case of the superin-
tendent of education, they might lust
as we'll put that convention baby %
bed. The masses say primary. and
they are in the majority. Great
Chumps the common people. who pay,
indirectly, seventy per cent of the
taxes. would be TO allow the state
committee or any other committee
to deprive them of the right to say
who shall rule.
A. T. PURSELL.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15

Claude L'Engle, candidate for the
United States senate, is in Miami to-
day and will remain several days in
Dade county, in the interests of his
candidacy. Mr.. L'Engle looks the pic
ture of health. and he is we'll pleased
with his prospects for success. He
saws he has seen and talked to u2-
wards of fifteen thousand voters, and
while he has asked no man to vote
for him he is assured that the people
are impressed with the righteousness
of his canvass and his point of view,
and he believes that he will be nomI-
mated. Mr.. LEngle is stopping at
the San Carlos.-Miami Metropolis.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
At the Present Moment.

At the present moment there seems
to be every promise that Senator
Taliaferro will be re-nominated in the
first primary by an overwhelming
majority, but this condition should
not throw the senator's friends and
supporters off their guard. During the
campaign that may now be said to be
on every vile known to the demagouga
will be brought into action in the eff
fort to defeat the senator and those
citizens who wish to retain his useful
services should be on the alert
StaTke Telegraph.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
SOFT, GLOSSY: HAIR.
1t Can Only Be Had Where There 10
No Dandruff.

Any man or woman who wants soft,
glossy hair must be free of dandruff,
which causes falling hair. Since it
has become known that dandruff Is a
germ disease, the old hair prepare
lions that were mostly scalp irritants,
have been abandoned, and the public,
BARRIERS and doctors included, have
taken to using Newbro's Herpicide,
the only hair preparation that kills
the dandruff germ. E. Dodd, Dickin-
son, n. D., says: "Herpicide not only
cleanses the scalp from dandruff and
prevents the hair falling out, but pro-
notes a new growth. Herpicide keeps
my hair very glossy" Sold by lead
ing druggists. Send 10c in stamps
for sample to The Herpicide Co., Do
troit, Mich.
One dollar bottles guaranteed.
w. A. DAlemberte, druggist and
Iapothecary, 121 S. Palafox street.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
The Necessity of
Living at Home.

1t is perhaps an old and somewhat
hackneyed subject, but is as true to-
day as it ever was that the real pros
perity of this country depends on the
people raising as many things as pcs
sible on which they can live at home.
The Journal has been agitating this
matter because it is the proper time
in which to agitate it. 1t will soon be
time of year for the farmers to begin
to make plans for their crops and ap-
portion the acreage to the different
kinds of crops that will be raised.
This being the case, it is a good
idea for the farmers to bear in mind
the awfully high prices that are pre-
vailing for meat, lard, meal and flour.
1t is especially well that the farmers
should consider the advisability of
raising all the corn possible, by fer
tilizing their property and putting in
a good-sized acreage. Then should
come the matter of raising more hogs.
Pork rs always saleable on the market
and 1t is just as much a ready-money
crop as cotton is. 1t has been figured
that farmers cannot buy their provis-
ions and make money on raising cot.
ton, even at the present prices and nc
one need expect the prices to be as
high for cotton this fall as they are
now. Anent this subject the following
from the Vicksburg american is very
much to the point:
A statistician has recently figured
out that compared with wheat at
$1,16 per bushel, corn at 66 cents, and
pork at %, cotton at 20 cents a pound
will not appear relatively high, when
1t is remembered that the majority OF
cottonplanters buy their bread and
meat on the basis of these prices"
The writer of this paragraph prob
ably had no intention of being satiri-
cal, and yet he has succeeded in a
marked degree. All over the South,
today, there are plantations and farms
burdened by mortgages and owned by
men who are living from hand to
mouth because of their persistent prac-
tice of buying their bread and meat
ION the basis of these prices" Again
and again in the past two decades,
cotton has reached ten, twelve, or fiji
teen cents. The planter who sold his
cotton, even at ten cents and bought
his food supplies ION the basis OF
these prices, was surely digging a
pit into which he must sooner or later
fall. MichawDer, one of Dickens s
best and most famous characters
figures the situation out exactly when
he said-with slight paraphrase-
make a dollar-spend a dollar and
five cents-result, misery. Make a
dollar-spend ninety-five cents-result
happiness" With cot ON at 20 cents
and hogs, corn, oats and potatoes
raised at home the grower of the
southern staple who does not grow
rich ought to give up trying and apply
for admission to an asylum for the
feeble minded.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
Secession of Siskiyou.

We have heard of late with distress
ana anguish the word secession.
Our distress is made not less acute,
nor is our anguish less excruciating.
because the word is used of a state
that meditates seeding into, not out
of the union. For it is no miracle OF
peaceable secession. Already We hear
war cries and breathings of slaughter
Fathered by California, mothered by
Oregon, unfilial Siskiyou emeTges with
threatenings and violence from its
parental confines. A vast empire
endowed with ocean harbors, with
mineral wealth. with scenic attractions
and tall timber is in rebellion.-New
York Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15

According to the Montgomery Ad-
vertiser. the Alabama state treasury
now has nearly a million dollars to
its credit and is in by far the best
condition it has experienced since last
July. And this condition exists, too,
after the payment last month of the
Semi-annual interest on state indebt-
edness. amounting to about $4,000
the payment of the quarterly pension
warrants of more than a quarter of a
million, and the payment of the De-
cember school teachers warrants sew
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
Senator TaIiaferro.

Senator Taliaferro, who will be a
candidate for reelection to the United
States senate, has a big advantage
over his opponents, if he will really
have any that will be formidable He
has an able, record as the senior sena-
tor of Florida, and his good services
to the state at Washington Is ap-
preciated by the people Many who
opposed him before will be found this
time working in his behalf. Taliafer-
no has, as senator, done much for
Florida in congress and is in position
to do much more, and for this reason
alone people are going to support
him-DeLand Record.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
CumminS.

.-enator Cummins, of Iowa, is as
mild a hammered man as you would
wish to see on summer day-soft
spoken, kindly, a thorough gentleman.
But behind that gentle exterior is a
moral purpose that has been made OF
him one of the great fighters of the
country. No man less dauntless than
he could have carried on a successful
struggle against the, domination OF
Iowa by the railroads which were the
all powerful rulers of the state when
he entered public life.-Kansas City
Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
THE GREAT PULSE
OF THE NATION
PeriIs of Aviation.


Every progressive achievement OF
mechanical science has taken its toll
of human lives The name of Leon
Delagrange, one of the foremost stu
dents Of aeronautical science, is now
added to the roll of those who have
persisted in the warfare against the
most inventive genius pitted against
the most mysterious and mutable of
the elements. To the death roll OF
aviation as given in the news dis
patches including the names of Self
ridge, Lefebyre, Fernandez and now
that of the gallant French air voya-
geur, must be added that of the Italian
Erea Rossi, who was killed at Rome
On the day that Lefebyre met with dis
aster and September % Captain l.. F..
at Boulogne in attempting to eff
feet a difficult landing.-Philadelp
Ledger.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
Punishment of Morse


If anyone ever really believed the
frequently repeated accusation that
this country has lone law for the poor
and another for the rich" the expe-
rience of rich men in the last few
years must have dispelled the Illusion
While not all of the large thieves
have been detected and punished, no
more have all of the small thieves,
but large thieves as well as small have
been sent on the way to Jail of late
with ruthless impartiality that
recognizes no distinction of class or
condition. The sentence of Charles
w. Morse to a term of fifteen years
Imprisonment for violation of the ma.
tional banking laws is conspicuous
illustration of the futility of wealth
and influence as a defense against the
DEGREES of public Observation-Disclosures
Ledger.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15

he would be the representative in that
body of the Savannah naval stores
trust and of the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad Company. Possibly it
was the knowledge that this would
be charged against him that contribut-
ed to Mr.. Blount's withdrawal.-Punta
Gorda Herald
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15

Mr.. Broward is making too much
money just now down in the Ever
glades to make any formal anounce-
ment as to his intentions to run for
the United States senate-DeLand
Record.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
BroMard a Runner.

The Lake City Index insists that
Broward will be in the. race for gov
ernor next time. Broward himself
declares he is running for United
States senator. As he is some run.
ner. perhaps both may be right
Lakeland News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
Gold is BECOMING Cheap.

It is said that the worlds production
of g. last year amounted to s442,-
100000, an increase over the year 1908
Of $31 600 600, and was by far the
greatest output of history. The total
production is now twice as great as
that of 1896. when William J! Bryan
advocated the free coinage of silver
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15

The withdrawal OF Hon. W. A.
Blount from the senatorial race robs
Judge Reeves and Gen. W. B. Lamar
of some of their thunder. They had
intended to warn the people that, if
Mr.. Rlount were sent to the sonata
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
Pneumonia Follows 4 Cold

but never follows the use of Foley's
Honey and Tar. which stops the cough,
heals the lungs, and expels the cold
from your system. w. A. D'Alemberte.
druggist and apothecary. 121 S. Pala-
fox.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
1sAcoIA FLORIDA, SATURDAY MORNING JANUARY Is, 1910

eral days ahead of time for the benefit
of the school teachers who wanted
Christmas money. Alabama ought to
be happy in her prosperity.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
Needed at Panama.

Needed at Panama.
Prof. Percival Lowell takes the tar
out of his opponents by reporting the
discovery of three new canals just
completed. We wish a few Martians
could be imported to Panama-Phil.
adelphia Inquirer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15

Gainesville is to have an air ship
exhibition. That town always did
have a lot of high flyers anyway.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15

The DeFuniak Herald will publish a
daily during the Chautauqua session
which begins next month.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
A Scrap Worth While.

+ 1t is announced that Secretary Bal
linger may meet Chief Forester Pin
chot in st. Paul next March. If this
be arranged we care not who may get
the Jeffries-Johnson affair.-St. Pau
Pioneer-Press.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15

The Miami Metropolis, aside from
being an excellent paper generally,
has one of the best editorial pages in
the state.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15

the progressives. As the counties
come in one by one to join the good
roads procession the Times feels that
its prescription of the right policy is
more than vindicated, it is being adopt
ed. The way to get good roads is to
build them. The counties are the
municipal governments that are invest.
ed with the power to do the work. BY
each county building what 1t needs or
can afford, the outermost stretches oil
one county will conAect with the like
stretches from another, and so on until
there is system which will eventual.
" extend over the entire state.
There ought to be, and probably
will eventually be, good hard road
from below Miami to Fernandina, an
other from Jacksonville to Pensacola,
third from Jacksonville to Tampa, a
fourth from st. Augustine to Tampa,
and all these to be supplemented by
score. or a hundred of longer and
Shorter connecting roads, until the
state is so criss-crossed with them
them that a man with a machine or a
team can reach every important city,
town and village in Florida without
going through a rod of sand. Florida
is on the right road to get good roads,
and We congratulate Dade county on
the prompt and almost unanimous ac-
ton of her people in taking up their
share of the work with energy and
vim.-Tampa Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY STATE PRESS
West Florida Has Them.

West Florida Has Them.
West Florida offers more and richer
opportunities to the investor, the
homeseeker and the settler than any
other part of the country. This is adj
mitted by those who have travelled far
and have come to West Florida to
make their homes.-DeFuniak Herald.
To McLin Belongs the Credit.
Inspector Neel stopped over with
his family Saturday, but was off again
Sunday. Sunday is one of his main
days for convict camp inspection, as
he can then personally interview the
convicts at leisure and find out their
condition. 1t is interesting to hear
him tell of the states rules and re-
quirements in regard to convict man.
agement. Florida undoubtedly has the
most humane rules and regulations for
convict management of any southern
state, and B. e. McLin, state super
visor of convicts, is entitled to most
of the credit therefor, aided and abet-
ted by faithful and intelligent corps
of nspectoTs.-Holmes County Adver-
tiser.
Does Prohibition Prohibit?
The Miami Metropolis says there
We're twenty-five names on the police
court blotter when his honor assembled
the bench Monday morning, all of the
defendants charged with being drunk
or disorderly, the outcome of New
Years Day and Sundays arrests"
Not a single arrest was made for
drunkenness or disorderly conduct
New Years Day or the Sunday follow
ing in Orlando, and careful perusal
of the records show only thirty ar
rests for drunkenness during the year
of 1909. During the last year Or
lando had open saloons there were
over three huncTed arrests, while I'M
der prohibition rule there were only
one hundred and sixty-five all told this
year. The proportion of drunk and
disorderly conduct cases in mayors
court, before and since prohibition
went into effect in Orlando, is about
seven to one and yet, some will tell
you prohibition does not prohibit.-Or-
lando Reporter-Star.
Harry Whitney in Florida.
Harry F. Whitney, of New Haven,
Conn, one of the most famous hunters
in the country. and H. H. Benedict,
Jr., also of New Haven, are two Of a
party who arrived yesterday at the
Leon hotel, to remain for season or
hunting and fishing in this section OF
Florida. They will be joined in a few
days by Messrs. Sage and Carnegie
the latter a nephew of Andrew Car
negie. They are all exceedingly in
teresting visitors, and the fact, that
they have chosen Tallahassee as the
rendezvous for their winters hunting
speaks we'll for the advantages that
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15


Berthold,
O
big
guided
children Dakota
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15

this section holds out for the sports
man and tourist.
Mr.. Whitney has become quite well
known all over the country through
his close connection with Commodore
Peary in his arctic explorations, and
his testimonials in behalf of Peary's
claims as discoverer of the North
Pole.-Tallahasse Florida.
FIoridians Pull Together.
The Panama City Pilot expresses its
appreciation of the act of many citi
zens of Pensacola in signing a petit
ton to deepen the entrance to the
harbor at Panama City and says:
This is a courtesy from the citizens
Of that growing city that is fully ap
preciated by those interested, who are
not only the bay people but large
portion of the inhabitants of south
eastern Alabama, southwestern Geor
gia and West Florida. AS was said
by leading Pensacolian, What helps
to develop ST. Andrews Bay will help
Pensacola That is the right way to
look at any movement that aids to
build up the gulf coast. 1t is spirit
that will do more for the success OF
Pensacola and the gulf coast than
years of such localized effort as has
been put forth in the past" Jackson
vile has taken towards all Florida
the attitude assumed by Pensacola
towards this Improvement. The truth
is Floridians in all parts of the state
pull pretty we'll together.-Jackson
VILE Times-Union.
Serving TWO Masters.
Some of our exchanges have lately
been discussing a bad practice into
which the Southern Railway Company
has fallen, namely, that of retaining
as counsel attorneys for counties and
municipalities the former
with a frequency which indicates
purpose and intent. This relation is
so grossly improper that it should
exist nowhere. No one desires good
feeling between public-service corpora
lions and public more than we do, but
in matters like those which county at
torneys handle or can influence the
two should be represented by differ
ent, and not the same, persons. To
pursue any other course is to invite
just complaints and ultimately smooth
THE path of the railroads enemies.
Against this abuse, because irrecon-
ciliable with sound professional ethics.
the State Bar Association might well
take action. Failing other relief, ,an
act of the legislature would be in or
der.-Charlotte Observer.
Getting the Roads.
Dade county, of which Miami is the
enterprising capital, has voted $780,
I1 f0,. hn 81 16t fr,, Of md
roads and thereby Joins the ranks OF
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15

1t is a dangerous thing to take a
cough medicine containing opiates that
merely stifle your cough instead OF
curing it. Foley's Honey and Tar
loosens and cures the cough and ex.
pels the poisonous germs, thus pre-.
venting pneumonia and consumption.
Refuse substitutes and take only the
genuine Foley's Honey and Tar in the
yellow package. w. A. D'Alemberte,
druggist and apothecary, 121 S. Pala-
fox
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
A Good Man.

A Good Man.
We learn that Hon. Newton A.
Bitch will be candidate for re-elec.
ton as a member of the railroad com.
mission. He is a good man, one Of
the best in Florida, has served the
people worthily and we'll and should
be etained.-Starke Telegram.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15

Boost, boom and build-that's all.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-15
4'Ionor to Whom Honor lis DUE"


Wen have to take off our hats TIC
Hon. William A. Blount for his ex-
pressed antipathy to asking the dear
people for their votes.
We might plagiarize and say:-To
ask, perchance to BUY. AYE, there S
the rub!" And after you buy them,
they WON'T STAY BOUGHT; and
then the scroundrers gone and there :
no chance to catch him in his decep-
ton.
Talk about the CONVENTIONS
wrong, and the "pangs of despised
love-" but it never was in it with the
PRIMARY.
In the primary you spend your
money from start to finish, and al
though others can ''see your finish
in that bourn from which no travellers
returns, generally known as Salt Riv-
er, you hand some other dead-beat
your last ten spot and are told of the
proud mans contumely" and YOU
think of your own ''insolence IN of
fee" And you keep on begging and
you really believe you have the last
vote in the ballot box until the in
spectors begin to count the ballots
Then and not until then, are you
"sicklied DER with the pale cost of
These Mortals Be-"
Thus the conscience of BUYING
and BEING SOLD "does make COW.
ards of us all' and will continue to
keep good men and poor men out OF
a primary election.
The Bible has taught us that it is
as impossible for rich man to enter
the kingdom of Heaven as for camel
to crawl through the eye of a needle.
Then it is plain to us all that there
are only two places for the RICH man
HE'LL and the PRIMARY ELEC-
ITION.
But for a good man and poor man
well, he may continue to crawl
through the needle if he can, but at
all events he can KEEP on KRAWL-
ING, and some day when he has
"shuff1ed off this mortal COLI through
the starvation route, he may crawl in
to the kingdom of Heaven, but he'll
never remember crawling into public
office over the primary election sys-
tem.-Jacksonville Floridian.