The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-11-24
OUR GOVERNOR
THE BACHELOR
Harry Floyd Tells Him to Get A
Wife and be Happy
FINE TRIBUTE To WOMEN
Brilliant Attorney Says: "You, Governor,
Live Like Ten Cents Worth of Ice in
Lonely Room in Hoter'

Writing under the far-fetched cap
ton of "My Experiences in the Legis.
lature." Hon. G. H. B. Floyd, of the
Fort Pierce law firm of Floyd & Fee,
contributes the following to the Apa-
lachicola Times, which is by far the
most readable of any of the series thus
far published
Governor Gichrist was left out of
the previous chapters and when at the
Leon hotel in Tallahassee, feeling sure
that he was dropping into an incurable
melancholy, obtained his permission
to do an essay on "The Bachelor"
apropos of him.
'He said he would not get angry or
hurt me.
"AIl of the time, ! respect only two
things physical violence and death.
Each of these get my angory; other
wise, rocky mountain. Each of these
give me tn hook.
"The fact is that | had already torn
into small pieces two articles on the
Married State apropos of the Governor.
| already knew that | wasn't going to
get anything from the Governor be-
cause he refused to re-appoint me on
his military staff. | didn't care any,
thing for it intrinsically but it made an
impression on Walter Roberts and ROg-
nat Sangree. He respectfully declined
and appointed j. M. Bars instead.
My vanity told me that the Governor,
being martial only in time of peace,
got cold feet, being scared that would
use the useless sword of the Colonel-On-
the Staff and split him through the
stomach Herewith, as had just re-
turned from my junior term in the
University of Insanity and there 'haint
no telling what we are agwine to DO
no how.
$50 tore up the articles wherein
and whereby defended the holy state
of matrimOny at the expense of Chief
Bachelor of the State of Florida cause
! was scared-he being bigger than my
wife's husband. he might do me physi-
cal damage, of which l have as afOre-
said, healthy fear.
"Whae prohteth it Gilchrist to gain
the whole Governorship and lose his
happiness? The bitterest portion of
the defeat and killing of Saul to David
was the prospect that someone would
tell it to the maidens of AscalOn.
When was king of Babylon and you
were Slave in my palace the best
part of my victory was telling you OF
it. When was King of the bar at
Apalachcola Il do not mean Shanna-
hans bari to come home and tell my
wife of a victory over Burdine or
Oven that was very good !
"What if one have the wzardry OF
Shakespeare, what If ones thoughts
like bees rob every blossom in the
world, if one have no tent royal where
in lives an empress to bring home to
her the booty with merry march ? U
Governor No wonder you leave va
cant the mansion in Tallahassee to the
monkeys and bats and the shivering
owls . Why the trees of the mansion
should droop, not with dreary moss but
long trailing swings in which your tall
sons could frisk to and fro and let the
old cat die. A barren scepter is put
within your grasp, no son OF yours sue
ceeding! Why, your celibracy is q
reflection on the fairest creation OF God!
1t is positive sacrilege. Read Venus
and Adonis, | pray you.
Listen--God made the beauty of the
puFbals we call stars; and the endless |
ocean of space; and the shining rivers; !
and the Sc lemn trees that do them
homage on their banks; and the tremb-
ling lily on the river brim; and the !
long delicious cry Of the cardinal in the
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