The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-06

on the contests, they give to one side
or the other sufficient strength to or
ganize the convention and after that,
it's all over, except more or less hot
air and grand stand plays.
HE Is SOME PUMPKINS,
When you stop to think that prac-
tically every southern state always
sends up contesting delegations, and
decision one way or the other, con-
stitutes control of the balance of pow
er in national convention, it can be
appreciated that one of these especially
from the south is some pumpkins with
president who desires to succeed
himself or to name his successor.
I would love dearly to give to you
gentle reader, right here, the history
of this unique but complete scalawag
Judge" Long. He is dead and I sin
cerely hope he is playing on a golden
harp, or swimming in a golden sea-
just as either occupation would most
appeal to him. Circumstances viii not
permit his story in this edition, but
such material as he furnished as
character in southern republican poll
tics was never meant to be wasted,
and l shall at the proper time intro
| duce you to him and let you Judge
him If you desire, for yourself, and
you shall have it in due course.
At the time I protested against
Lees appointment, my term as chair
man of the state committee had expir-
ed a month previous and I was a has
BEEN" but Mckinley listened to my
protest against Lees appointment pa
tiently, but when I had concluded he
said to me That has been settled
| and Judge Long, who was present,
echoed it by saying. YES, that has
| been settled" and then a big, fat.
black negro, an A. M. e. bishop, who
was also present, again echoed it say
/ ing, Yes, that has been settled"
/ was one of the three or four men
| to whom Mckinley gave credit for Sc
curing for him in 1896, the Florida
| delegation to the, national convention,
and he always treated me with gen.
erous consideration.
Senator Hanna was out of Washing
ton at the time, congress not being
then in session, and have always be :
| lieved that had he been in the city at
! the time in question October 1889.
| that Mckinley would not have ap-
pointed Lee. I saw the senator short
ly after and expressed my regret over
the presidents action. He had little
to say and of course, did not criticize
the president to me, but l judged that
he disapproved of it.
HANNA WAS A MAN.
And must stop a moment here, my
fellow countrymen, to say of Senator
There was a man" I have
met many men in my life time and
some of them under circumstances
where they were tried by fire that
. | he -
some stood the test like men and some
did not, but never have 1, nor ever do
I, expect to meet squarer, fairer,
better man than Marcus A. Hanna.
Big, bluff, broad and brainy with
no more guile in him than in a child
that was Mark Hanna. LOYAL to
friends, true to himself he was a
man.
Among those gathered in Washing
ton whom I knew personally were E.
r. Gunby, of Tampa, and H. L. And
erson, then of Ocala, but now of Jack
sonville, both bright. brainy men
clean cut in every way and standing
In the front rank in the profession OF
law in Florida-leaders in the bust
ness and social life Of their respec
tive communities. East and South
Florida were full OF republicans OF
their type, before the day when the
party had negro boss.
They told me that they had seen the
president and laid before him the rot
ten situation in Florida, due to the
Joe Lee-C hubb regime. which had Sc
cured ascendancy in the party in 1885
that the president was Indignant
and disguised and had talked freely
with them with the view of giving the
republicans of Florida a new deal.
Gunby. and Anderson and Chubb
present national committeeman and
state chairman of the so-called repub
lican organization, had in 1896 lee
the movement known as the "Lil!
Whites which opposed the elemen
known as the BLACK and Tans." and
which resulted in a bolt from the Tai