The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-29
SENATOR CARNEY REPLIES To
REPRESENTATIVE BULLOCK
Ocala, Fla, Sept. IS. 1911.


In replying to an article which :.
peafeo In your daily paper of the tatt
INST, headed, Representative M,
lock and the Game Law" I beg r.
submit few facts to be considered
by the people of Marion county
nave nothing to conceal in regard tc
Ine part that | took in the passa ge
OF this local game law. I do not wish
to deprive Col. R. F. Rogers Of the
credit due him for the part he took
nor snail | withhold from the public
the natty part that Mr. Bullock tool,
In passing, l will remark that Mr.
Bullock was absent from the legisla.
1--WE nails a good deal of the time the
legislature was in session. Manv
things could and did happen during
his absence, and other things took
place whilst he was in Tallahassee
that he probably doesn't remembey
correctly, on account of his many So
rlous 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
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
game law that would suit the masses
of Marion county people. Colonel
Rogers, as we'll 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 of
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 of
life are entitled to all the good things
that Marion county has and could
give them.
The open season for hunting being
November, December, January and
February under the old law, gave out
side parties, who come into the state
solely to hunt for sport, the same or
better chances to kill our game than
our own people had. These parties
came prepared to hunt, killed our
game and returned home, not caring
what damage they had done us. In
compensation for the game killed,
crippled or driven off, some of them
paid small license. This license,
in certain cases, Mr. Bullock, being so
generous at the states and countys
expense, wished to do away with. See
last part of article of new game
law.
Third. We recognized the fact Gas
l have stated in former articles9 that
a man who raises or takes care OF
game of any kind on his own inclosed
premises, was more entitled to get
the benefit of that game than an out
slider.
Fourth. Our home hunters of the
large game stated that the open sea-
son for killing deer under the old law
was entirely wrong, saying that there
were from five to ten more bucks in
the hunting territory now than does.
That a man who hunted deer would
never kill a buck in the winter
months in Florida if "a doe or taWn
could be had. That the bucks We're
latest in September and OCTOBER
and if the hunting season were con-
fined to these two months that the
larger part of the deer killed would
he bucks and not does, as heretofore.
Fifth. The fact that nine-tentns Oh
the people of the county were not
hunters, and under the old law there
was no possible chance for them 70
ever get a taste of our wild game, DIS
none was allowed to be SOLD. were
these nine-tenths of our citizens u
be ignored for the pleasure OF a Sc
lect few sportsmen, who, "nen 'nen
DAYS sport is over, can ana 10 ~
ouentlv bring their game to a certain
class of town cafes, and have tneii
game served to their liking, getting
tbe fun of killing the game during
the day and the pleasure OF ea'ine
nx,ad IN toast, 10 q