The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-06
MY EXPERIENCE IN
THE LEGISLATURE


feel cheap and paltry and trifiing. If
[ happened to be talking to a lady out
in the hall Of the capitol and West
Joined the party, the said g. H &.
Floyd disappeared to all intents and
purposes and the eyes of the lady were
all for West. 1t is an argument in ia
Vor OF the belief that the same Spirit
that created us, created the universe
in which We live. that We find our
habits OF mind illustrated SO perfectly
i'll the habits Of matter. The glorious
correspondence of natural things with
our mental life, enriches US. Did you
think that the value OF the discovery
of the Pacific Ocean ceased when it is
used as a highway of commerce?
Why that inspiring moment becomes
a symbol repeating itself throughout
the mirrors of thought, and we find
Keats conveying to US his emotion of
grandeur on first looking into the soul
of Homer by the quickly realized il
lustration of stout Cortez with all his
men, silent on a peak in Darien.' OF
course it was Bilboa, but the use of
the name of Cortez is not bad art,
dWarf1ng to its proper proportions the
inconsiderable physical incident.
The moon revolves around the earth;
the earth about the sun: the sun about
star in the constellation of Hercules:
the star in the constellation Hercules
about some other star. Perhaps there
is some central star on which lives
the spirit of God and about which all
the systems turn. And as the planets
by a superior attraction make satel-
lites we each cause others to revolve
around us. What l mean to say, is
that if 1 am not careful. this man
West representative from Santa Rosa
county, if I an not careful will make
q, moon Of me. Will revolve around
him as the earth revolves around the
sun. He is so brilliant and shining.
and blessed with such stability and
aquirollence. (EQuipollence is good.
just found it in the dictionary looking
for a synonym of equilihTiun.) You
have doubtless met people who seem
TO lasso You and drag You after them
as q mounted cowboy drags a buffalo
after him. Mr.. j. \. Coombs was
such a person. One fell toward him
as brick-bat does toward the earth.
The fires of his individuality burned
fiercely like the sun and to be with
him disintegrated one. l used to try
to tell him that my fee would be fifty
dollars, and deeply resolved to make
it fifty. He would say in his imperious
manner like the explosion of a siX-inch
bun, Well what's your fee in this
case, sir?" give dollars" 'All right,
now-Zarl, pay Mr.. Floyd FIVE dollars
all could say. Judge Malone and MT.
Fred Myers affect me that way and
almost all women affect ME that way.
can't tell them everything I want
to. Also MIR. w. A. Blount. When
with these people 1 find myself trying
to talk pretty. Tom West will make
fine attorney general and is going
to be elected. I prophesy. Outside Of
| Capt Whiteside. he is mainly entitled
to the credit of putting Apalachicola
in the Hall of Fame. and he ought to
carry Franklin county solid. But that
! is all side issue. The fact is that
Tom West Of Milton is fellow you
| could introduce to the lawyers Of the
| highest court of England and they
t would say when his back was turned
He is not only a good lawyer, but q
fine gentleman" AS aforesaid. I give
him my sprig of lilac. l wish you
could all know him well. He is one of
/ those fine men the thought Of whom
makes life taste good. and makes you
! think of the song Pippa sings in pass
/ ing
''God is in His heaven,
All is we'll with the world