The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-07-21
MY EXPERIENCE I'm THE LEGISLATURE
(By G. H. B. FIoyd.)

room. That was the speech in which
Marler said: Every one of you Soc
ialists here tonight have more prop
erty and means than had Jesus of
Nazareth; so what are you growing
about? Doc said they all got so mad
they moved out of his building. Fun
ny thing about compliments! the per-
son to whom they are paid always
believes you mean them, and you,
who pay the compliments, really
never mean them. That is the rea-
son we love fattery and hate the fat
terer has seen our shameful joy, we
pigs eating praise! when the soul
secretly knows that it has already
arrived crowned. Get ON to how
steal a biggety sentiment now and
then and shove her in.
wish could introduce you to Ber-
rell, for several reasons. One is
would like to hear from you if you
think he is so royal as l said after
all. Perhaps you would say, as some
one said of Mr.. Myers-the day after
Myers had been swapping at Broward
in the armory. you remember the
time Fred came down and made a
speech for Taliferro to lose thirty or
forty votes, about the time Terrell
made such a-er-Or-exhibition of
-er political astuteness of himself-a
certain young man of Apalachicola was
raving and raging about Tolls in my
presence a day or two after Myers
speech. "Oh,' he said, "Mr. Myers!
So serene; so liberall so distinguish
ed. such character! such power! such
genius" This was getting tiresome
to me as | had been working on this
fellow as one my rooters, and here
Fred T. had come along and took
him away from mef l tried to think
of something that would show Mr..
Myers up in a bad light, but didn't
know anything, as he had expressed
my sentiments. But the Erynnes
were with me. The next day citi-
zen of the town said to the young
MANI hear you are wild about
Mr. Myers" The Young Man: YES;
he is, ETC." The Citizens: well he
is only a man after all" I must stop
here; my space has given out. But
would like you to meet Burrell to
see if he is only man after all"
Now won't the True Greatness be
hopping mad with me, to drag him
in here? don't care, because he got
me to walk up the street with him
while 1 was the REPRESENTATIVE
of FRANKLIN COUNTY; and then
he met a mere newspaper editor in
front of Appleyard's shack. Myers
stopped and talked with the editor
(who was very distinguished look
ing man, and didn't invite me in the
talk or introduce me to the Editor.
After waiting four or five minutes, in
J. P. Morgan manner | paced on
about my business.
l don't think anybody that I wor-
ship as much as I do Hon. Fred T.
Myers ought to treat me with such
discourtesy, do you now? I hope he
comes out for congress. I would like
to beat some man of real size.
Just before l nominated Mr.. Bryan
| asked Cooper what was the greatest
feather in Bryan's cap; 1 wanted to
know so / could stick it in the said
cap. Cooper who is going to be
Governor some day, and has coolies
of sense, said, THE fact that Bryan
beat Blount is the thing Bryan should
be most proud Of" l thought so too,
but you see I have associated too
long with courteous gentlemen like
Judge Myers to have mentioned that.
1t would have been bad taste as so
many of the Representative were
Blount men. Don't you think So?
Say: you ought to have heard me
make that Bryan nomination. Baus-
ketr SAID he was afraid l wasn't 60
ing to hit the earth this side of Mid
die Georgia..
can't introduce you to Berrell, but
can introduce you to that verse by
Walt Whitman; and I know that the
verse is very royal, standing as it
does for a deep truth:
"Once Passed Through a PopuIous
City"
| "Once l passed through a populous
| city, imprinting my brain, for fu-
ture use, with its shows, architec-
ture. customs and traditions;
Yet now, of all that city, remember
only woman I casually met day
| by day, and night by night we were
together-all else has been long
| forgotten by me;
l remember, l say, only that woman,
who passionately chung to me:
Again we wander-we love-we sepa-
| rate again;
Again she holds me by the hand