The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-10-06
NIX. CARNEY REPLIES TO MP
suLLocks SECOND ARTICLE
CFrom Ocala Evening Sta,

law which you could not nub1ish i,
yesterdays Star on account of 1ene+b
oI artlcIe and limited time at vour dis-
posal before going to press. also
saw Mr.. Harris and he said he would
rather would not have. nv article
published till after the issue of Tho
morning Banner Of the 4th. as Mr. PM
lock would have an article of anoloov
etc, in that issue.
Inc article L now send you for pub-
LEGATION IS not the one rendered vo,,
and the Banner yesterday
waited, hoping that Mr.. Bullock
would make "amende honorable" TO-
wards myself. But he in the article
referred 10 apologies to the public
ana begs its pardon, but still leaves
uncorrected the impressions of his
second article of recent date, that
nave made statements that are not
true. MI Bullock in his short article
OF apology yesterday to the public said
ne reserved the right to reply in case
ne should be 'assailed." AS I have al
ready been "assailed" and my veracity
questioned, L certainly have a right to
reply. 1 am just as willing as Mr..
Bullock or any one else to contribute
my share towards securing peace.
happiness and good will" but Justice
demands that I set myself right before
the public - In this article I will con-
fine myself, as I have heretofore done.
strictly to the truth. From Mr.. Bull
locks second article the public might
think began this newspaper contro-
versy. I did not. Mr.. Bullock began
his attack on me in his first article.
making statements in regard to my
self which he could not prove. Why
did he begin this attack anyway? Did
he do this of his own volition or was
it done at the instigation of another
or of others? This information may vet
leak out In his first article he said,
Il am not the daddy of the game law
of Marion county but Senator Carney
is" and then he said Senator Carney
is the daddy of this law from start
to finish" and that he (NIr Bullock
had nothing to do with the bill, except
to confuse it and render it invalid
Now in the second article he owns up
that he did frame a part of the bill,
which he now fathers. This in my mind
is very Objectionable part of the bill
refer to the latter part of article six,
which eXempts nonresident club mem
Mr.. Bullock says I have been running
for or holding office for the last %
years. This is not the fact Before
our big freeze sixteen years ago, had
never solicited nor accepted a public
office. This freeze came in 1895, de-
stroying my hard earnings of more
than twenty years. Something over a
year later 1 ran for a county office.
a 10
rendered to me the position of county
commissioner. I accepted and served
the people of Marion county to the best
of my ability I declined a reelection.
A few years later was honored with
the office of county tax collector. This
is of such recent record that the peo-
pie know whether or not 1 was faith
full to them in this trust. After hav-
ing declined to allow my name to go
before the people for reelection as
tax collector in 1910, 1 was nominated
for and elected to the state senate, and
1 have been as true to the people in
this, an almost complimentary office,
as I was TO them when holding an Of
fee in which there was more remuner-
alton.
1 have served the people two years
Il
half years as tax collector and nearly
one year as state senator. In all
thus far ten and a half years. During
this time l have tried to give the peo-
pie value received for their money Had
I been absent from the legislative halls
for days at a time on private business
1 certainly could not and would not
have accepted pay CSC per day. for the
time 1 was away.
Mr. Bullock says I advocated certain
things during our last campaign which
he could not endorse, namely: The
rights of women and separation of the
white mans school fund from the ne
gro school fund. 1 say now as 1 stat
ed in the campaign that I advocate
every good measure, moral, humane,
temperance, charitable or what not.
that our good women of Marion county
want or need for the protection of their
homes or for the uplifting of society.
1 still believe in the justice of separa-
ton of the white school fund from the
negro school fund and whilst at ITALIA
hassee 1 had five among the best law
yers in the state to look into the mat
ter. All of these lawyers agreed with
me as to the justice of such a law and
i hope 10 see Sucn law eHdclSu SOlle
day. During the campaign l advocated
the Acknowledgement of all illiterate
and drunken negroes, whose votes
have been the means of bringing re-
proach upon our county and state. I
introduced and had passed through the
senate a bill to disfranchise this class
of negroes The bill was a consti-
tutional one. embodying the grand
father clause that is in operation in
most of the Southern states. This bill
went 10 the lower house, but if Mr..
Bullock ever raised his voice in its be-
half / never heard of it.
Now in regard to the Lake George
preserye matter. In talking to Mr.. r.
T. Martin some months ago in regard
70 doing some surveying for me, he
said he had done some work for this
Lake George company and remarked
during the conversation that he
thought these people were paying too
much license for hunting as they had
RI nav in both Marion and Lake, their
lands being in both of these counties
hat