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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10
POLITICS AND RAILROADS

There was a gentleman in our office
the other day who has wonderful
admiration for the Hon. STEPHEN NJ
Sparkman of Tampa. He thinks Mr..
Sparkman one of the purest men IN
Florida. and one of our best repre-
sentatives in congress. This gentle
man would not for a moment stand 10
see Mr.. Sparkman's integrity as a
man, nor his fidelity as a democrat
questioned, and yet he was very nos
tile to Mr.. Blount and bitterly oppos-
ed his election to the senate, his OPP
position resting solely on the ground
of his being a railroad attorney. he
said that Mr.. Blount could not proper
Nv represent the people-that his nav
ing been a railroad attorney would
warp his judgment despite his efforts
and intentions to the contrary, anu
cause him to be unfaithful to them.
He quoted the following lines on US;
Like the vase in which roses nave
once been distilled,
You may break, you may shatter, the
vase if you will,
But the scent of the roses VIII nahg
around it still.
Yet his friend, Mr.. Sparkman, be-
fore his election to congress, was at
torney for the Plant System, and con
tinued to act as attorney for that road
after his election. Why would it make
no difference in the one case and all
the difference in the other? Why
has it not impaired Mr.. Sparkman' S
usefulness, yet would seriously i'm
pair Mr. Blount's?
Before his election to congress Mr..
Robert w. Davis was also attorney
for a railroad, yet during his term OF
office his fidelity to the people was
never questioned
Before his election to congress Mr..
Wilkinson Call bought the railroad
from Jacksonville to Tallahassee at
public auction with scarcely a dollar
in his pocket, and continued in pos
session of it for a short while, but
no one questioned that his ownership
of railroad initiated against his CIV
ing faithful service to the people.
Mr.. John N. G. Stockton was part
owner of the railroad from Jackson
vile to Pablo Beach, yet his owning
a railroad was not used against him
when he was a candidate for office.
If being mixed up with railroads as
part owners and attorneys for them
will in no way impair ones usefulness
as a public officer, providing he lives
in Jacksonville or Tampa, why will it
impair ones usefulness as a servant
of the people merely because he lives
in Pensacola?
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10
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God bless the flagl Let 1t aoat and
fill
The sky with its beauty; our heart
strings thrill
To the low, sweet chant Of its wind
swept bars,
And the chorus of all its clustered
stars.
Embrace it, o mothers! and heroes
shall grow,
While its colors blush warm on your
bosoms of snow.
Defend it, Ofathers; there's no sweet
er death
Than to float its fair folds with sol
dier's last BREATH
And love it, o children! be true to the
sires
Who wove it in plain by the old camp
fires.
Samuel L. Simpson.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Jacksonville need not boast. The
fact that Nathan Bryan lives there
was an obstacle rather than a help to
him. The main fight he had to over
come was that directed against hav-
ing the two senators from the same
city. He won in spite of Jacksonville,
not because of it.-Tampa Tribune.
This paper does not think so. 1t be-
lieves that if Mr.. BIount had lived in
Jacksonville he would have won
hands down.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10
THE SOUTH AND SLAVERY

The south is abused and we sup
pose always will be for her chattle
slavery. But if sin this be it was
not the souths iniation. The sin was
hers by inheritance. Slavery was
planted in these colonies by the moth
er country.
Visitors are shown the slave market
in st. Augustine and other cities in
the south where slaves were auctioned
from the block and the thought of it
may send SILVER through the frames
of the more sensitive and conscient-
ious of us, yet very few of us know
that not a great many years before
that slaves were sold from the block
in the very heart of London.
Great Britain not only planted
slavery here but originated, fostered
and supported the slave trade. Her
court of last resort decided that
negroes were merchandise and as
late as 1775, just one year before the
illumination of the Declaration of In
dependence after the revolutionary
war had begun, after Crown Point
and Ticonderoga had been captured
by the insurgent colonists, the Earl
of Dartmouth, secretary of state,
in remonstrance to the action of the
colonies in prohibiting the further i'm
portation of African slaves, South
Carolina included among the num-
Der said:
I'VE cannot allow the colonies to
check or discourage in. any degree a
traffic so beneficial to the nation"
Thomas Jefferson, the author of the
Declaration of independence, a slave
holder himself, was the first states
man in America to seriously agitate
the abolition of slavery and attempted
to have a clause inserted in the con-
stitution abolishing slavery in all the
states after the year 1900
The first newspaper having for it's
object the abolition Of slavery was
started in the south. Lincoln was of
the south.
At the time of the revolutionary
war there was slavery in all the colon
les so the south was not responsible
for the introduction of slavery into
the United States, it was not respon-
sible for the slave trade. 1t was sin
burdened on her by others and which
she first proposed to abolish.
The saying is familiar that the
atmosphere of Englnad was too pure
to be breathed by slave yet for ten
centuries slavery existed in England.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

The man who circulated a French
publication in England charging that
King George had entered into a NOR
ganatic marriage with the daughter
of Sir Michael Culme Seymour, was
given sentence of twelve months.
In pronouncing sentence the lord chief
justice said that the punishment was
inadequate for one who had chosen
a weapon for a personal attack upon
his majesty, from the use of which ev-
cry honorable man would recoil. Sir
Rufus Isaacs, the attorney general,
who led the prosecution, in his clos
ing speech, denounced the defendant
as the circulator OF a base libel. The
attorney general concluded his appeal
to the jury by saying that it was not
the throne which required defense,
but that his majesty had sought the
protection of the court as a man, a
husband and father. The proceed
ings came to a dramatic close when,
after sentence had ben pronounced,
Sir Rufus read a letter from King
George in which the writer set forth
that only the advice of the officers of
the court had prevented him from
appearing personally in the court
room and publicly branding as untrue
the allegation that he had ever enter
ed into any marriage alliance other
than that contracted with Queen
Mary.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Though failing to reacn the Cuban
capital by an air flight from Key West
by a distance of ten miles Mr.. J. A.
d. McCurdy after reaching the island
gave the Cubans an exhibition of
ariel stunts. He sailed over the CITY
and reached an altitude of 1000 feet
and at that height executed a number
of difficult evolutions
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

There is blind girl in Pittsburg
who recently went into a trance and
when she awakened claimed that her
sight would be given her. More than
10000 persons tramped in the rain
to see her. When she finally aroused
from her trance she was still blind
though during her trance she claims
that her spirit assembled to the celes-
tial city.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

as | am glad was not; and yet an
inquiry from you as to my needs and
means at that time would have been
Timely, and held ever in grateful re-
lmembrance.
In the Harrison campaign OF 1910,
was again designated to edit cam
lpaign paper. | published it as well,
and ought to have made something
by it, in spite of its extremely low
price; my extreme poverty was the
main reason why | did not 1t COM
PEELED me to hire press-work. mailing,
ETC., done by the job, and high charges
for extra work nearly ate me up. AT
the close / was still without property
and in debt, but this paper had rather
improved my position.
Now came the great scramble of the
swell mob of coon minstrels and cider
suckers at Washington not being
counted in. Several regiments OF
them went on from this city; but no
one of the whole crowd-though | say
| it who should not-had done so much
toward General Harrison's nomination
and election as yours respectfully.
asked nothing, expected nothing, but
you, Governor Seward, ought to have
asked that | be postmaster OF New
York. Your asking would have been
in vain, but it would have been an
act of grace neither wasted nor unde-
served.
/ soon after started the Tribune, be-
cause | was urged to do so by certain
of your friends, and because such a
paper was needed here. ! was prom
ised certain pecuniary aid in SO doing;
it might have been given me without
cost or risk to anyone. All / ever had
was loan by piecemeal of $1,000 from
James Coggeshall, God bless his hon
ored memory, / did not ask for this
and | think it is the one sole case in
which l ever received a pecuniary ia.
vor from a political associate. l am
very thankful that he did not die until
| it was fully repaid.
And let me here honor one grateful
recollection. When the Whig party
under your rule had offices to give
my name was never thought of; but
when, in 1923, we were hopelessly
out of power / was honored by the
party nomination for state printer
When we came again to have state
printer to elect as well as nominate
the place went to Weed, as it ought
| Yet, it is worth something to know
that there was once a time when il
was not deemed too great a sacrifice
to recognize me as belonging to your
household. If a new office had not
since been created on purpose to give
its valuable patronage to H. ]. Ray
mond, and enable St. John to show
forth his Times as the organ of the
whig state administration, | should
have been still more grateful.
Greeley was finally nominated fol
president. He had labored all his
life for the abolition of the slave, yet
| it was the STAKEHOLDER and not the
slave who supported him in his pc
litical aspirations; he had built VI
the republican party and did what he
could to destroy the democratic party
| yet, such is the irony of fate; the only
sympathy he got was from his enc
mics, while his friends villified him
| to such an extent that his spirit was
broken and he scarcely survived thir
! ty days the campaign in which he was
overwhelmingly defeated.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

The Florida soil-vexers are busy
just now. The east coast growers are
busy shipping pines; tn e Sanford
are busy gathering and ship
ping celery; the Coleman cabbage
men are hustling off their cabbage in
CARROTS; the strawberry growers of
Lakeland and Starke are likewise
busy getting their favorite crop to
market, and the melon and cantaloupe
growers of this section are planting
hundreds and hundreds of acres.
There is no idleness anywhere in
Florida.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

We are reminded by reading the
newspapers and observing the wealth
er reports that the winter is not vet
over. There was snow and sleet in
Chicago on the morning of the 9th of
February, heavy snowfall in Iowa.
and the blizzard reached as far east
as pennsylvania. Traffic was imped-
ed in Chicago so terrific was the
storm.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

President Taft lem his influence to
san francisco instead of New Orleans
for the Panama exposition. The idea
VIII obtrude that he expected no polit-
zeal help from the south and a great
deal from the west. The president
should have remained neutral in the
fight
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

In a speech delivered in Atlantic
City last summer Mr. Justice Brewer
of the United States supreme court,
we think, made good point. He said
that the argument used for a large
standing army, the construction of
battleships, the fortification of the
canal, and large military equipment
generally was that these things were
necessary to keep the peace. We
must brighten our neighbors with
big show of strength. Then, said the
eminent jurist, why not apply the
same argument to private life? Why
not have every man go armed to keep
the peace between individuals and
neighbors? Why not compel every
man to wear his fighting clothes to
brighten his neighbor into peace? Why
should not every man become a walk
ing arsenal? Why should not the
same theory and principle be instilled
into our growing boys and have them
carry knives, dirks and revolvers
to brighten other lads into subsection?
The armament of nations in order to
preserve the worlds peace is stuff
and nonsense. We generally get what
We go after. If we sow the wind we
may expect to reap the whirlwind
We cannot go about with a chip on
our shoulder without expecting to get
it knocked off, and for trouble to en-
sue. The way to promote peace is to
muffle our war-drums and beat our
muskets into pillow shares and our
swords into pruning hooks.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

The Fort Myers press has a Mer-
genthaler type-setting machine, and is
fast becoming one of the best weekly
papers in south Florida.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

The esteemed Tampa Times says
that it is being pointed out with some
chuckling and chorting that Senator
elect MARITIME of New Jersey is a
close personal friend of William J.
Bryan. Now if he will just keep his
friend from performing the dog in the
Manager act he will confer a blessing
on his party and on the country.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Chicago has a smoak Inspector who
says that Chicago's loss in one year
from smoak amounts to $21,S30, 900
Will some one please tell us how this
loss occurs and how smoak can be
utilized?
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

London is to spend $70,0O0,O0O on
new dock work in an effort to regain
rank as the worlds first port. 1t is
noted that docks are to be prepared
for ships of any size considered pos
sible for many years to come.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Eugene Thomas, an Atlanta boy. "a
years of age, has been named 90
president OF the United States Steel
PRODUCTS company at salary of s25.-
600 year.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Samuel Johnson said that when
Oliver Goldsmith died all the beggars
in London were in mourning. What
beautiful tribute that was to one who
beggared himself to relieve the dis
tress of others.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

DR.. John Allen Wyeth of New York,
a celebrated physician. is in Florida,
and while in Jacksonville was a guest
of DR.. Edward N. Liel.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

We trust that the white mans
hope" does not rest in ones fists. A
hope like that is hardly worth consid-
ering.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Countess Gizycky wants a divorce.
Didn't think that she could go through
life bearing a name like that even if
it did carry title with it.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Mr.. Bryan is still harping on that
Baltimore banquet. He was not ig-
nored and as it was intended as a
democratic love feast" he should
have been there,
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Cupid is in evidence at Palm Beach.
A young Britisher found Janice Brod-
erick there, former blonde actress,
and after an ardent courtship lasting
three days, married her.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

An encampment of the G. A. R.,
Florida Division. will be held at Kis-
simmee Feb. 14-15. A big program
has been prepared and pleasant
time is expected.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Mr.. ]. Ham Lewis of Georgia is an
other screamer. He believe there will
be war with Japan and the United
States.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

To save themselves from absolute
loss the cold storage men have been
compelled to ship 100000 pounds of
cold storage butter abroad.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

1t is believed that Miss Dorothy Ar
mold, the missing New York girl, is
in a travelling show. making south
ern tour.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Witnesses who saw them testify
that Robin, the bank defaulter, had
$2,S00,O0O in bank shares deposited in
his strong box.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Rhode Islands new capital was
built of Georgia marble 1t cost
SO O1S, 416.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

The commissioners of Osceola
county have decided to erect a new
jail.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Editor Jordan does not seem to be
any better political prophet than
Editor Law.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

The Tampa Times and the St.
Petersburg Times have each other by
the ears.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1911

Miami is to have a big charity ball
on February IA.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

A new $4,000 garage will soon be
erected in Tampa.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

FOR SALE-Tomato plants, sweet
po oon SIPS and velvet beans for sale.
',oVO'UOO L1Vlngston's New Globe to-
i asa pants at $1.25 per NJ. Delivery
O. sl.er FEBRUARY 18th. HEADQUARTERS
Ioi poIato Sips and velvet bean seed.
:. H. DAVIS Barlow, Fla. 1-27-2t.*
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

The World and the Commoner do
not like each other little bit.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

A pulmonary plague is raging in
China and thousands are dying.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10

Wars are excusable, if confined to
flies.
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1911-11-28

It seems probable Northern friends of the Tuskeegee ed
II have lost fahin him. If their jealousy in espousin8 his
has certainly This strengthened by the fact that
Northern press has had little comment upon the acqua OF
Ulrich assauting Washington some months afo.
The Louisville Courier and Dispatch of date has this to
and we doubt if it eXaggeraeS
he press and pulpit of the North would have made it so
neon educator and philosopher phanhost not safe from
Nice the Southern white and that ne could get
dress Southern of law would have been insisted that
uy was influenced wholly by prejudice and that the charge
against Washington by his aaant too fantastic be coz
ed with the life work OF Dr. Wasne
With his and mental caibe would have been branded
personally acquainted with Dr. Washington
"Had fre-eang Southener figured in the Urch role and
vile Memphis New Orleans been the OF the assault
rial we should have heard the end of in decade Every
written by Northern westler with the problem would have
chapter incident is be hoped that matters stand
es of the North will have word to the subject
All these things make observe that is altogether differ
whose gored Not only this but the evident fact
M old hatred of North for the South has fully subded
made manifest Can die in the hearts of the
Z It has died in the hearts of the conQuered?'
THE friends the pretended friends of Washington in the North
his purposes doubt for he has often stated that
m is the place for his work out its destiny and has shown
negro favored far above the working classes of other
Is We wonder they have forsaken him for standing firm in
ef in the Southern whites
Greek philosopher knew that times change and that men
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1911-11-28
Dandruff and Itching
Scalp Yield to
Zemo Treatment

Why should you continue to expert
ment with salves, greasy lotions,
and fancy hair dressings trying to
rid your scalp of germ life. They
can't do it because they cannot pen
e trate to the seat of the trouble
and draw the germ life to the sur
face of the scalp and destroy it.
Why not try PROVEN REMEDY?
One that will do this. We have a
remedy that will rid the scalp of
germ life and in this way will cure
DANDRUFF and ITCHING SCALP.
This remedy is ZEMO (ANTISEP-
TIC) SOAP one application of
ZEMO will entirely rid the scalp Of
dandruff and scurf. Do not hesitate,
but get a bottle of ZEMO to-day. 1t
acts on new principle and will do
exactly what we claim for it. Sold
and endorsed By Dixie Pharmacy.
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1911-11-28
Diamonds Lend an
Air of Prosperity
to The Wearer.

Diamonds always have been and
always will be good investment
Diamonds on the hand are better
than money in the bank.
They indicate prosperity. They
afford untold pleasure. They at
tract Individual attention.
Nothing could possibly be more
acceptable gift than a splendid dia-
mond. Nothing could ever give
more returns on the investment
than the purchase ola good diamond
No matter how little Or how much
you wish to spend, this store has
for your inspection complete stock
of good diamonds. We buy only
good diamonds. We buy diamonds
that you and we can both be proud
of.
We are willing to sell them at a
modest margin. Each diamond we
sell is guaranteed to be exactly
what we represent it to be. We
show diamonds both loose and
mounted; and we would very much
like the pleasure Of showing you
what our diamond stock consists of
RUSSELL BRO THEIRS
Marble Front, Opposite
Exchange National Bank.
Fitzgerald Georgia
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1911-11-28
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1911.
CONSTITUTION AND GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE

page conspcuousy displayed Sunday morning the
Atlanta Constitution carried virtual admission that Pope Brown Wou
M elected by large majority the seventh day of December
probably the most partisan OF all the papers
in the present eubenaoa race Is probably more re-
pnsbe for the candidacy than other influence the
hate little doubt that the ex-governor was induced to enter
against judgment by the editor the Constitution ana e
senator Terrell.
One pecuarity contest that the friends OF
the of the state claim the
ounty for their favote least hundred counties in Georgia the
eDd of Russell predicted that Russell will the county lhe
Lends Of Joe Brown rule claim the for their candidate
the Brown usually that they believe that ne VIII
county is the striking popularity of the present campaign
largely result indifference the part of the voter many
@ have not expressed preference between the several candidates
nus the politicians what will happen December h
Now the Atlanta mailed inquiries to represen
county, and from the 47 inquiries the represent
i've citizens ery naturally the partisan organ the e9oV
and no doubt 80 per partisan supporters of the
veo come the responses that Little Joe will 63 counties less
Ian majority the additional information that Judge Rus
eet Now giving the ex-governor 63 and Judge Russell TO-
majority for Honest Pope the farmer candidate and
people him the Constitutions nd
Z ted only by larger majority.
We believe that the ex-governor will barely lead the Judge
Inv of the informed the believe that ne will run
u Fd in the
Let's give Judge Russell double the number of counties accorded
Constitutions and give Little Joe five counties more
In judge Russell that will give the two As counties out of l4 eaV
102 counties for Honest Pope"
We believe that Constitutions indicates Any
informed who will take the time anayze the Constitutions
wing last Sunday morning will be forced the conclusion that the
e is overwhelmingly Pope Brown and the silent voters be-
e verdict accordingly the seventh day OF December