The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-09-28
An UlfImafum Issued
SENATOR CARNEY REPLIES
TO MIR. BULLOCK
Ocala, Fla, Sept. 26, 1911

oCdid, r Id, sept. 20, lSlI-
To the Editor Ocala Banner:
In replying to an article, which ap-
peared in your daily paper of the 14th
inst, headed, Representative Bull
lock and the Game Law" l beg to
submit few facts to be considered
by the people of Marion county 1
have nothing to conceal in regard to
The part that I took in the passage
of this local game law. / do not wish
to deprive Col. r. F. Rogers of the
credit due him for the part he took,
the natty part that Mr.. Bullock took
In passing, l will remark that Mr..
Bullock was absent from the legisla-
tive halls a good deal of the time the
legislature was in session. Many
things could and did happen during
his absence, and other things took
place whilst he was in Tallahassee
that he probably doesn't remember
correctly, on acaDdnt of his many se-
rious attacks of indigestion" as lie
termed it. was present at every roll
Call during the entire sixty days
session. and think that my memory of
a few things occurring at Tallahassee
during this time will be considered as
good as Mr.. Bullock's.
A short time before the meeting of
the legislature Colonel Rogers came
| TO town and spent the night with me.
We discussed legislative matters,
probable bills, etc; among them a
| of Marion county people. Colonel
| Rogers, as well as myself, coming in
| daily contact with the plain, bona
fide, everyday people of our county
found that the people as a whole, and
particularly the country people
claimed that they were unfairly treat
ed under the local game law; that
the pump gun and pointer dog experts
got most of the game, and did not
represent one one-hundredth part o1
| the tax payers of the county. Was
this just to the masses of the people:
The first idea. was to shorten the
game season, hoping thereby to give
the game better chance to increase
Second, to give our own home people
of Marion the benefit of all there was
in the game proposition. Our people
who stay here and fight the battles o
| life are entitled to.ail the good thing.
that Marion county has and coult
give them.
The open season for hunting being
November, December, January ant
February under the old law, gave out
side parties, who come into the stat.
solely to hunt for sport, the same o.
better chances to kill our game thar
our own people had. These parties
came prepared to hunt, killed ou
game and returned home, not carin,
what damage they had done us. II
compensation for the game killed
crippled or driven off, some of then
paid small license. This license
in certain cases. Mr. Bullock, being s.
generous at the states and county
expense, wished to do away with. Sc
last part of article 6 of new gam
law.
Third We recognized the fact "a
have stated in former articles) tha
: man who raises or takes care G
game of any kind on his own inclose
premises, was more entitled to &c
the benefit of that game than an ou
sider
Fourth. Our home hunters of tn
large game stated that the open Sc;
son for killing deer under the old la
was entirely wrong, saying that theT
;. were from five to ten more bucks
the hunting territory now than doe
That a man who hunted deer woul
= never kill a buck in the winte
months in Florida if a doe or a faw
could be had. That the bucks wei
fattest in September and Octobe
and if the hunting season were CO
fined to these two months that tt
larger part of the deer killed woul
be bucks and not does, as heretofor
/. Fifth. The fact that nine-tenths
- the people of the county We're n,
hunters, and under the old law thel
u was no possible chance for them
ever get a taste of our wild game,
none was allowed to be sold. We
these nine-tenths of our citizens
D be ignored for the pleasure of s
llect few sportsmen, who, when the
days sport is over, can and do fl