The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-04-19
WHO IS THE BEST MAN FOR Gov
ERNoR?

Tfammell, w. II. Nil on, j. w. wat
son aud Cromwell Gibbons. The
campaign has reached a point where
the average citizen will begin to ask
himself what showing has been made
hr each OF these candidates to entite
rim IL the support of the people-to
warrant them In placing him in the
hlzh Office OF chief executive of the
state
Mr. Trammell is the attorney gen.
sral Of the state, elected four years
ago tie Is asking the office on the
record he has made as public SER
want and on what he is pleased to
call bis fidelity 10 the interests of the
common people as against the Inter
esfs~ There Is nothing original,
nothing startling. in this platform. 1t
has been used in Florida until it is
worn 20 a "frazzle." The favorite
plea Of candidates for Office of late
years has been that they are "agin'
ghe interests" They seem to find in
that proposition an infsllible recipe
Cor obtaining votes. There is really
nothing IN Il. There is probably not
= man runr'ng for Office or holding
Office in Florida today who. in the
event OF an issue between the cor
porations and the people. would not
take the side of the people. Any 9TH
81 course would not only be wrong,
bat Il would be suicide, from polit-
ical standpoint. Mr.. Trammell's plat
form and his other utterances seem
ID be based entirely on the idea that
Ne il entitled TO special considera-
tinn and 20 election as governor be-
cause he has always proclaimed his
Independence of the corporations and
be falhtfulness 10 the people. On
thmt idea every man in the race ought
60 be elected. and every man who is
nov IN Office ought TO be kept there.
This cry was popularized by the late
Governor Broward. but IL has ceased
% sway the people blindly in the di-
recfion its employers would have
them move The unsupported boyle
a. the interests" no longer scares
rvaeoning voters in this state. They
are wiling 90 give every honest man
credit for sincerity as between the
peopie and the corporations. and they
a. NOT believe that any one man pos
nsnaes the states entire stock of po-
liiical virtue IN this regard.
What IL said Of Mr.. Trammell APP
plies wtth even more force to Mr..
Mlli0n. Mr.. Milton is one of the
rampaut aud outcrying defenders of
ths plain people against the interests.
w. han much 10 say about special
privileges" and the menace of cor
pofate wealth IN the endeavor to
snateh from the people their learest
privileges and greatest rights. Mr..
Milton IL a corporation man. in the
sense that a man who is heavily in
iefusfed In corporations may be call.
80 = corporation man. he cries out
aNainsg the corporations while COM
lofisbiy ensc0need In the very inner
eiFcle o. the corporations. He is a
nalipnai bank director and director
Ia other companies of strictly corpor-
aie Halure Ills plea for public suff-
Rae On the ground that he is the foe
of the lnieresls il. therefore. less sim
ere than that OF Mr.. Trammell Mr..
Trafnmeil uses the slogan for political
eneef hut he may claim with truth
tamt b. h. not affiliated with the cor
pprafe interests-Mr. Milton cannot
sake thls claim.
Mf Watson Is a very estimable cit.
iHen 81 FLORIDA. who is making
eiean.eut. evidently sincere campaign
ief fhe Office OF governor, citing his
eareef la the legislature. his record
a. q prlfaie citizen and business man,
A. bis recommendations for prefer
mrnt MF Watson Is an earnest, hon.
esi man and those who know him
emesf b. him. But We fail to note
thai Mf Watson has advanced any
ae0nlfe proposition upon which the
aemorfais OF Florida would feel inn
peiiea 10 place him in the governor
ship
The Tribune believes that the best
man Offering himself for the govern
ufsbip Is Cromwell Gibbons of Jack
eantlile Mr. Gibbons is an able, in
aastflpus. high class. independent and
feseafeeful mana man entirely free
81 enianEiements and factions-a
man Nho - making the race for gov.
ernor un a plain and unmistakable de-
clsEstlon OF principles and policies, a
piaffoFm thar must appeal to the So
her. eensihle. fairminded people of
fhn stale a. the utterance of sim
eere. clearparposed citizen. who