The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-08-02

Why this man is Patriarch.
Think Of a Baptist preacher big
enough to have opinions different
from the people in the Baptist
church. Why he was the only one
who voted against the so-called anti
race track bill? This thing, that
Gibralter did. This man Rogers is a
man. He makes me think of England
and Assyria and Niagara Falls and
the midday sun and the Pacific ocean
and the seven or eight stars that
seem to us to turn forever around
Polari..
But" someone says, You are SOW
ing now with a sack. How can any
man remind you of all those things?"
Whoever said or thought such an
this stunt of Walt Whitman's:
20 stars you are very splendid and
sublime; but l do not take Off my hat
to you, for / am as great as you"
Did you ever see a great man meet
great man after a long absence?
What mutual admiration. AS when
Washington meets Victor Hugo.
saw something like this in Tallahas-
see. Preacher Rogers. the Gibraltar
of Florida, greeted the greatest intel
have been able to recognize-a man
whose intellect strides like a healthy
lion; why to see this man of intellect
pounce with superb springs on legal
or mortal or philosophical problem is
to watch a human feat more inspiring
than to see Curtis in a bi-plane sail
ing a mile above the Hudson river
Rogers said General Ellis, l am glad
to meet you again. 1t has been sew
eral years since l saw you last. l wish
to tell you again of my profound re-
spect for you" l felt like cheering.
No clouds of ignorance or prejudice
hid the height of w. H. Ellis from the
Keen eye of my Patriarch.
Now while | am holding up the mir
ror to one representative from Marion
county, | will turn the looking glass
in front of Ray Bullock. If Rogers
has, burning in his soul, the live coal
of religion, Bullock has, burning :,
his soul, the live coal of genius.
There are plenty Napoleans, Vol
tares, Byrons, Mirabeaus in the
| world, but fate, in this incarnation
| has not blown the coal into a flame
They but stand and wait. Emerson
positively believed that he had met
and recognized several of the great
spirits of the world re-incarnated and
disappearing around, this time
under the DISCUSSES of Smith and
Jones or what not / know a light
keeper named David Silva whom
after midnight, when l am with him
in the open air, / believe to be Hanni
bal the great. He was the majesty
of the capitol at Washington.
| Now the fact that Ray Bullock
doesn't tower over the South is be
cause the angel has not seen fit t6
breathe upon the coal.
/ Oh for Svengali to teach this singer
to sing!
Il Oh for a cause that would stimulate
this man Bullock to use his powers
all of this, Get the legislature edi
ton of the Tallahassee True Demo
crat" and look at the photograph o.
Ray Bullock reproduced there-yOJ
history books.
H Whether the angel has famed che
coal of his genius or not he is /;
good deal even now He scalded INK
with hot steam one afternoon in The
legislature and poured flaming ashe!
of lava over me. His scOrn was epic
What contempt he had for radica
measures and their advocates! H,
was the aristocrat of the house, AM
he too had joy and divine gift o
laughter. His sheer was long, lon.
whip in the hands of western cattl,
driver
He is full of startling gifts. l
would make you live a year or SO long
er to hear him mimic the explosions
of Reeves and the arguments of Fee
and the addresses of Schofieid. H
is full of grace and magnetism. III,
does not crook the knee to any one
Oh if some one would come alon,
and train him! Put him for month";
on the training table diet; trot hin
around the foot ball field for a coupl
of hours each afternoon; make hin
pull boat from daylight to 9 a m.
make him knock a punching bag
couple of hours every day; make | in
run and jump, what records he woul,
break! How proud Marion count
and Florida would be of him. He il
not mustard What a good fellow h
is. What life he has! And the DO.
in him is not dead either.
, AS soon as you are with him few
minutes you see that he has tha
incurable hereditary disease know
! as Ancestors" I'll venture tn
guess that none of his ancestors ha
had to use hoe for six or eight gen