The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-29
REPRESENTATIVE BULLOCK RE-
PLIES TO SENATOR CARNEY
Ocala, Fla, Sept. %, 1911

Replying to Senator Carney's arti-
Gle in Wednesdays Banner, / wish
to state that / am very busily engag-
ed in an effort to make living for
a large family, and have but little
time to devote to newspaper contro-
versy with Senator Carney, who for
the last twenty-five years has done
little else than run for and occupy
Office, and while in one public office
sought another that might chance to
be in sight.
A public chronic office-seeker, who
must do something in the office-seek-
ing line ito make a living" has the
time to parade himself in the news
papers, as we'll as to parade his ig-
norance of many matters he attempts
to discuss through them. have not
such time.
AS long as the true author of the
undesirable game law was not given
to the public, l was informed that the
senator undertook to create the i'm
preston that | was it's author. Now,
since it's daddy" has owned the
child, he is attempting to make be-
lieve it is white"
No one but fool and an ignoramus
of the simplest rule of grammar could
possibly construe my statement that
Il had opposed Senator Carney from
start to finish," as a personal antag-
onism to him.
When the senator read my letter
in reply to the letter of Mr.. McLain
he knew, and he knew when he wrote
the article to which this is a reply,
that this expression referred only to
my opposition to his proposed legis-
lation upon the subject of game pre-
servation. His contention otherwise
demonstrates the smallness of the
man in his office-seeking methods,
and is demogogic misrepresentation
of the first water. People of intelli-
gence, reading between the lines,
can well discern the secret motives
which prompt this letter from the
senator.
1t is true / did not support the SEN
ator in his candidacy for the senate.
i could not endorse his proposition
for woman suffrage, nor his PROPOSE
ton to enact law whereby the white
peoples taxes should go to the educa-
tion of the white children only, and
those paid by the negro to the edu-
cation of the negro children only.
The latter, an absolutely unconstitu-
tional, revolutionary and impractical
measure, was discussed and cham
pioned by the senator in every speech
/ heard him make in the campaign,
and I think | heard him at least a
dozen times; but if he ever under
took, in the slightest particular, to
frame a law to this end and dealing
with this proposition no one ever
heard of it; and defy him to prove
that he did.
gave him credit then for having
too much intelligence to suggest
such demagogic legislation, and it
seems that he learned better upon
more deliberate thought
There was no personal reason on
my part for not supporting the sen
ator, and there never has been a
time that / felt personally unkind to.
ward him. l well remember several
years ago, when he was first a candi-
date for tax collector q think it was
in 1909 that l rendered him some
good service. He seems to have for
gotten this in his zeal at present to
bring me into this game law discus
sion, and to make his personal re-
Election upon me. The difference be-
tween me and the senator in this par
ticularI is that l am in favor of strict
measures of protection of the game,
and he, the senator, is in favor of any
old thing if he can boiler ''farmer!''
and get vote. Like woman suffrage
and negro education, this howl does
reach some.
Especial exception do | take to the
following from the senator's article
of Wednesday morning: ''It then de-
veloped after Mr. Bullock had return
ed from Ocala that he was opposed
to any kind of a game bill, except
one that would give special privileges
to his clients (the parties who own
the.large hunting preserve near Lake
George) and to the men who pull
these peoples legs"
l have never been. at any time, un-
der any circumstances, in any man
ner whatsoever, the attorney for
these people; have never visited their
property; never saw it, and was new
er approached by any member of the
club, or anyone else upon the subject
OF legislation, except by Mr.. R. l..