The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-11-04
DELIBERATE
DECEPTION
Saloon Crowd Malign Good Name
of FlOrida's lamented Son.
BROTHER IN DEFENSE
Declares That Nap oIcon B. Browardfavor-
ed and Would Have Stumped the State
for Statewide Prohibition.

True to their policy of deliberate de.
ception, the liquor interests have sought
in many of the Oh " counties of the state
to line up votes for the fast waning
cause by vile insinuations that Senator
Elect Napoleon B. Broward would have
spoken and written against the adoption
of the amendment, had he lived.
Their cause must be in bad way in
deed il they must make such represen-
tations about one of the States truest
nOblemen- after he is dead to bolster
up their campaign.
That the vicious lie is manufactured
out of whole cloth is proven positively.
Jacksonville, Fla, October II, 1910
Hon. R. H. Buford, Quincy, Fla, Dear
Sir:-The report that you say is in cir.
culation in middle Florida to the effect
that my brother. Napoleon R. Broward,
before his death intended writing let
ter in opposition to the proposed prohi.
bition amendment is IT, my judgment
utterly without foundation. If the
testimony Of mans entire life is to
have the weight here that we believe
it has in the other world, that report is
utterly unworthy of belief. My &C
quaintance with my brother was ex'
tremely intimate thrOu yh all our lives
from our earliest childhood. During al
of the fifty-three years OF his life, ne
never was at any time addicted to the
use of intoxicating liquors as bever'
age, and if he used them incidentally at
all it must have been extremely ex'
ceptional. But what Is perhaps more
to the point, in public and private ut
terances he was unalterably opposed to
the sale of intoxicating liquors.. His
long experience as the sheriff of this
county confirmed him in the conviction
that the greater part of violent crimes
was directly traceable to the use OF in
toxcants. This conviction he voiced
upon innumerable occasions, as is
known to many people.
During his campaign for governor
from the platform in this city, in re-
Spouse to the question as to where ne
stood on prohibition he expressed him
self in these words as nearly as car
remember: II am in favor of any meas
ure that will drive the man In tht
| liquor business into some respectable
calling; into some calling that will moi
lead the men who shake hands with hin
on the street to forbid their wives ant
children from associating with his wife
and children"
During the recent wet and dry cam
paign in Jacksonville, my brother mo-
only contributed of his means to th'
prohibition fund. but he, made one o.
more public speeches in behalf Of ,coun
ty prohibition. He made second sub
scription to this fund and paid II with
in sixty days of his death, and had re
Gently and since the primary promised
to make some public speeches in be
half of the statewide prohibition
amendment if called on TO do so by tn
chairman of the committee. ! wa
with:nim almost constantly during MI
last illness and for some days prio
thereto, and if he ever had any chang
of sentiment on this subject, l am no
aware of it. 49,.
am taking the liberty of giving thl
1letter publicity without first consulting
tyou, because think it due TO m!
Ehrother's memory that his attitude up
Eon this question should be known.
Yours truly 1MoNTCALM BRoWARD.