The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-12-09
.LANEY SPEAKS
FOR WA. bL0UNT
At QUINCY FAIR
Pays Eloquent Tribute to
the Memory of N. B.
Broward.
Makes Comparison of For
rner Governor and Present
Senatorial Candidate and
Finds Many Like Qualities
in Two Distinguished Flo
ridians-A Great Speech
in Gadsden County.
Special to The Jeurn ~.

Quincy, December s.-Judge Chas.
H. Laney spoke at the Gadsden Coun.
ty Fair here today in the interest of
the candidacy of W. A Blount for the
United States senate. Judge Laney's
speech was inserspersed with anec-
dotes, poetry and pathos. He maid =
lofty tribute to the late Governor
Broward and then went into the dis
cussion Of his subject. Judge Laley
said in part:
DIRECT ELECTION OF SENATORS.
The constitutional makers intend
ed the senate of the United States TO
represent the sovereignty Of the states.
Consequently, the senators We're NOT
elected by the people, but by the legis-
lature of the states The lower house
Of congress is supposed to represent
the people. The governor Of state
cannot appoint a representative Ia
congress, but he can appoint a~sen4-
tor temporarily. The direct election
of senators by the people makes thu
senator responsible for his position.
A party primary is the nearest ar-
proach to this method that can now
be obtained. 3
GOVERNOR eRoWARp. - =
'tAt the time of his death Governor
Broward stood out as the most con-
spicious character in Florida history.
Born about the close of the greatest
conflict that ever shook the continent,
he saw the crimson reflection of the
lost cause as the latter set forever In
defeat. He naturally inherited eyma
pathy for the weak and oppressed OF
all nations. Looking down the gulf he
saw Cuba and her fight for freedom
and going to her assistance he soon
became prominent as flibuster.
Ever after that he was in the public
eye, until he attained the governor
ship and then the nomination for the
United States senator. Dreamer
though he was, he at last attained
the consummatiou Of his dreams. He
climbed the Alpine heights and then
ON the very summit of his ambition
the a1penstocll fell from his lifeless
hand and went sounding down the de-
clivity and he died looking at the sun
from the very apex of his hopes. The
aeronaut falls to earth, but science.
gathering up his charts, plants his
signal in the wind and flaunts her
banner in the pathway of the storm.
into lofty realms has left his life an
hSpll dtiOu W Tie dopii lug duu tuo
young for years to come
RROWARD AND BIOUNT.
"Broward is gone and we turn from
the contemplation of his character to
the consideration of the living. In
many respects there is a similarity
between Broward and Blount, yet In
other respects they are wonderfully
dissimilar. Both self-made, indus
trious, and persistent in the acom-
plishment of ends, Broward and
Biount-the one a magnificent speci-
nen of rugged manhood staining
forth like some rough bowlder wbiten-
ed by the storm-the other finished
Parian from the lapidary Of the
schools. The one a beacon light set up
by nature on the hills and flashing
with steady blaze upon the open
seas of life; the other brilliant cleo
trio kindled by dynamo of magentic
power and Illuminating the moral ami
intellectual seas with living luster.
The one a magnificent Percheron
hauling life's responsibilities over
rugged roads; the other a finished
racer with every muscle developed
and every hair polished, sweeping to-
ward the goal with all the beauty and
symetry Of a perfect training. Neith-