The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-09-17
PARK TRAMMELL,s VIEWS
on NATIONAL POLITICS

PARK TRAMMELL's VIEWS
ON NATIONAL POLITICS |
Park Trammell, the present attorney |
general and the democratic nominee |
for governor OF Florida, in comment
ing upon the national political situa |
tion said:
AS / view the situation, ii IS prac-
ticaIly the same old fight between the |
democrats and republicans, with the
difference, however, that in the pres
emit contest the democrats are united
and in harmony while the republicans
are divided into two factions One
wing Is headed by Taft and the other
by Roosevelt. This split in the repub-
iican marty, coupled with the fact that
the democratic party has a strong
platform, full OF progressive demo-
cratic policies and has in the field a
more excellent ticket makes the situa-
ton most favorable for a democratic
victory in the November election and
believe we are going to win.
THE old republican party has struck
the rocks and its ship Is going TO
pieces. Through all the years of It's
power. both under the Roosevelt and
Taft regime 1t has been the friend and
promoter of the special interest class
es, In fact, it has been in partnership
with the favored few. One group of
the tariff barons are placing their
~nInoes NO in President <-ratt-- HE
other group knows from experience
that they have a friend and champion
In Mr.. Roosevelt. The great masses of
the people need not expect any real
sympathy or substantial relief from the
success of either of the candidates
no w uinp Of he
lican party The high protective
tariff, which is really the paramount
plank upon which Mr.. Taft and Mr..
Roosevelt stand has nurtured and fos-
tered trusts and monopolies in Amer
lea until today the great problem of
the nation is one of putting down
these gigantic trusts and monopolies
which have flourished so under repub-
lican rule.
The democratic party and demo-
cratic leaders have heretofore led in
the advocacy of progressive policies
and in fact and in truth the democrat
ic party is today the party of progress
sive policies and principles. 1t is in
this party that we have the hope OF
once again restoring to the people
their government with the benefits
which Justly belong to them.
1t is apparent that Mr.. Roosevelt
Is trying desperately to catch support
from democrats; but in my opinion
few, IL any, democrats will be dispos-
ed to support a republican heading
new party which was launched be-
cause he did not when he asked for it,
some three months ago, get the nomi-
nation for president from the repub-
lican convention. While he and his
running mate and the other candi-
dates OF the new party are under a
new banner In their effort to catch
both republican and democratic voters,
Ii is very apparent that the bull
moosers or the national progressive
party is in reality but one wing of the
republican party. 1t was suggested
and created almost entirely by repub-
llcans. who. only three months prior
to its birth as republicans were dele
gates to the republican national con-
vention which nominated Mr.. Taft.
The convention brought together by
Mr.. Roosevelt to nominate him was
composed almost exclusively of repub-
leans In the several states including
Florida, those whom the bull moOsers
have nominated for the various offices,
with but very few exceptions, have
been life long republicans and have
heretofore spent their energies fight
ing democracy ana us pOlCleS. Ine
democrats neither north nor south are
lining up with this wing of the repub-
lican party, which for the last thirty
days only has been calling itself the
bull moosers or the national progress
sive party.
This Roosevelt wing of the repub-
lican party sailing under it's new name
by assuming a fence straddling'
policy on the negro question / am told
hopes to break in on the democratic
forces in the south. but in my opinion
the game will not work. Overtures
and promises are all right IL past
events give them the stamp of SINGER
ity but are vain and unreliable when
all out OF harmony and accord with the
past conduct and record of those who
hold out the promises.
THE people remember that only a
short while ago Roosevelt was presi-
dent for seven years. During these
seven years, the democrats of the
south believing then as they do now
In a white supremacy used their best
efforts to have the United States Of
fees OF the south filled by white men:
but despite their efforts and the
southern sentiment on this question,
Mr.. Roosevelt. throughout his entire
time as president retained the negro
Joe Lee, of Jacksonville, as collector
of internal revenue of Florida. with a
score OF negro deputies. He insisted
on retaining the negro Crum as COL
lector OF customs of Charleston, s C.
He Is the man who while president
dined the negro Booker Washington at
the White House. He is the gentle
man who brazenly proclaimed in con-
nection with the negro holding office
in the south that he would not close
the door OF hope to the negro. This is
little of Mr.. Roosevelts record upon
this question when he was in power
and not trying to get the voters of the
south to support him. So far the
south is concerned certainly his past
record shows that no confidence is to
he placed in his maintaining the white
mans supremacy.
With our party united and in har-
mony l am looking forward to a great
democratic victory in November"
The council in Its wisdom will not
allow a barber to shave citizen on