The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-10


campaign he had remembered that he
had been selected by his home people
as their standard bearer to carry them
to victory and had felt that no act Of
his would bring them into discredit.
In spite OF intense provocations
there has been no traduction Of any
mans character" said Mr.. Blount.
And l have felt at all times that a
man cannot be little before being sen
ator and big afterwards. II / am to
represent the people and be elected it
must be upon my own merits and not
upon the dement's of the other man"
The speaker said that when he en-.
tered the campaign he decided that
this should be departure from former
campaigns, and that he had accepted
no money from any one, and had not
paid one cent to corrupt the vote Of
a single man, and he proposed to con-
tinue this 1nethCd and have the cam
paign, so far as he is concerned.
"a clean one. "If | go down in defeat
lit will be with the knowledge that
there is no blenli6h upon my name or
that OF Pensacola"
TACTICS OF OTHERS.
Mr.. Blount said that he regretted
that he could not say the same of
some Others. One week ago there
crept across the state Of Florida a CAM
paign circular, as 1T termed, that was
SO low and repulSiTe that he would
not attempt to answer it. 1T has al
ready recoiled upon the head Of its
inventor and before this campaign is
ever he will have crept so low that no
homes. man will speak his name above
a whisper"
Mr.. Biount then took UP national is
sues, discussing his platform, and in
doing so said that he had not adopted
the platform Of Broward for the pur.
pose of catching the Broward vote,
and that his platform was that of his
own making, Among his policies he
said was that Of a tariff fer revenue
only. or as the Democratic platform Of
1881 expressed Ii, tariff for revenue
with incidental protection.
The disturbing element Of the coun
try today, he said, is the trust, an6
when these combines are formed for
the puri.Cse of crushing cut compel.
ucn then the government should step
IN. He does not take tho View OF
Roosevelt that there are some good
trusts and some bad trusts, but be.
A4SEtS al trusts are DAD.
BRYAN SHOULD READ UP.
The speaker referred TO Mr. Bryans
recent praise Of Woodrow Wilson's
doctrine OF personal imprisonment for
al guilty trust officials as the surest
method Of breaking up com bines, and
said that this same doctrine was con-
tanned in his Platform issued in 1909
when he became a candidate for the
senate months before Woodrow Will
son announced the doctrine. He said
he favored the Interstate Commerce
Commission and the regulation of
railroads. During his experience of q
quarter OF a century as attorney for
railroads he had seen railroads op-
pressed and had seen them Cypress
the people and he therefore favors a
conservative body TO stand between
the railroads and the people.
There are corporations and corpora
tons, said the speaker. There is one
that marks the advancement of a com
munlty and a people, which assist in
the upbulding of a city. Then theia
Us another which Expresses and re
strains. These latter corporations
should lie regulated by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, to which
should also be delegated the power OF
making railroad rates.
If | an elected 10 the United States
senate you must not expect me %
strike and destroy the corporations
and railroads where their Fundamental
rights are involved, but if there ever
comes a time when there is a conflict
between the corporations and the peo-
pie and the fundamental rights of the
former are not involved I shall vote
for the people, and If there Is ever any
doubt that doubt shall be solved by
me. not for the corporations. but for
the people.
FEDERAL AID FOR ROADS.
Tie speaker referred to his adyo-