The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-11-17
MY EXPERIENCE i'm THE
LEGISLATURES
ny e ILL., B. FLOYD i'm Apalachicola Times.

l advise you to call Rivers Buford
and Paul Lang and Arthur Gibson
into consultation. Let them be your
advisory physicians.
What, the governorship, after all,
is only a pretty Easter hat made Cor
your wife-and you look queer wear
ing it yourself. Even Grover Cleve-
land had sense enough to fit the
White House as a hat with willow
plumes on woman's head Think
OF what good time your wife would
nave inviting only a certain crowd to
visit her at Tallahassee in the gov
ernor's house! There is positively
something shameful at your age in
living single. Even if no one would
marry you before, you can get some
body since you are governor, and |
hereby sustain a demurrer to any
pleas you may file, or strike such
pleas from the files as frivolous.
There is another reason you ought
to marry. You are setting a bad ex-
ample to the state of Florida You
talk about yourself too much The
only cure for this is a wife to laugh at
you successfully. You want to shift
some of the worship you give your
self to another idol You think too
much of yourself Your perspective
is wrong. Your sense of values is
contorted. If you had been married
you would have refrained from hang
ing three hundred cartoons Of your
self along the walls of the governors
mansion, and refrained from taking
your guests up and down the hall to
show them the food on which your
abnormal vanity fed. No one has
any dignity unless he has lived with
dignity, and dignity is this-a wife.
Why, you are ship without char
ter party wobbling around on the In
dian ocean. You are lamp unlit;
you are a magnolia tree without a
blossom: a hawk without wings; a
painter without eyes; "a tongueless
nightingale heart-stified in its dell:
Omar without his jar of violet wine;
a mother whose children are buried;
a hotel without guest; a lawyer
without fee; lungs without an at
mosphere; Napoleon without a battle
field; Edison born an idiot; Caruso
dumb; Plato without brain; Romeo
divorced from Juliet become a miser;
a gold-barred bee hunting iron flow
ers; body without head; an arm
without a hand; a ship without a Di-
lot; st. Paul without Savior; the
play of Hamlet without either Ophelia'
or the moody prince; Florida without
an orange grove; the earth without
the sun; a universe without even the
memory of God!
My God! Governor, what's the mat
ter with you, anyhow? You ought to-
get wife so you can sing to her like
this:
81 cleave to you alone. o beautiful!
o Eleanor. o Dawn. White Lily!
Start
Inscrutable feet sunrise of my soul!
Dear Joy invisible in pansy eyes!
My wife! o Love! o Mystic Symbol!
Dear!
BY the way, now, having sued out
writ of quo-warranto against your
holding the office of governor, and
having entered upon final judgment
against you ousting you from that
office, why not make me governor? 1t
wouldn't mean anything to me, put
my wife and children would appre-
ciate it. And if you can get elected
to the office of governor on the
strength of lot of postcards on
which are printed the pictures of
three babboons, looks like | ought to-
get to be governor and U. S. senator
and so forth on the strength of lot
of postcards on which are printed
the pictures of John Cay, and Rather
inc, and the baby. Somebody lend me
some money, and I'll try it.