The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-05-26
THE GOVERNOR AND HIS CRIT
les


Governor Gilchrist has been en-
tirelv impersonal in his recommenda-
tions to the legislature. If he has
mashed anyone's corns this paper be-
lieves that he has done so unin1eh-
tionally. This paper believes that ne
harbors no malice against anyone 30
inst why members of other co-ordi-
nate departments of the state govern
ment should get so excited because OF
what one of them terms his "blundeF
ing ignorance" is something that we
cannot understand. The governor
believes that the rules OF practlce
governing our courts can be slmpll-
fed. and in this supposition the gov
ernor is not alone. Some lawyers ana
some judges go so far as TO agree
with him. The governor THINKS thaO
in MANY instances the ends OF justice
are defeated by the many tecnnlclli-
ties with which our courts are hedgeu
about. He felt aggrieved that the
measure about which he has become
so vitality interested should have been
defeated by the legislature, ana III
one of his messages recently trans
mitted to that body he said that ne
was willing for, and, indeed, hoped
that the matter would be threshed
out before the people in the prlmar-
les. Some of the members or that
body took this to be most grave ana
portentious insult.
1t does not occur so to US, nor Will
it to persons not over sensitive.
The people are the source Of power
so when a member of one coordinate
department of the government says
to members of the other coordinate
departments that he Is willing tol
thresh out before the people an i'm
portant matter upon which there is
a division of sentiment, why should
the suggestion be insulting?
II was not so intended, and when
a member of the senate so far forgot
himself as to move that the 'secre-
tary be directed TO stick a match TO
the message of the governor and
burn it up he did something far
worse than any laundering ignor-
ance" the governor has ever shown.
He did not even stop there, but
grew excited, so much so as to turn
black in the face, and referred to the
governor as an lit" and that thing.
Granting that the governor is gull
ty of "blundering ignorance it is no
justification for a grave and learned
senator to forget his manners. The
office of governor, regardless of the !
one who occupies it, should always
command our respect.
After Senator Flournoy's fervid ex-
hibition of himself in the senate, we
have every reason to believe that |
Governor Gilchrist lowered very
much bigger than he had ever Cora |
before
The senate has It's own duties TO !
perform, and is not responsible for
the way the governor performs his.
The senate should not forget it's
dignity and its sense of propriety 1t |
should treat the executive and judi |
cial departments of the government |
with the utmost courtesy and deco |
rum. The messages of the governor, |
whether good. bad or Indifferent,
should be received with due defer
ence. read and referred to the proper
committees for consideration.
If the governor does anything de-
serving it he should be impeached. |
and unless that is done explosives |
and pyrotechnics on the part of the
members of either branch of the leg
islature, aimed to belittle the govern
or, should be barred.
Lloyd George, the British chancel- |