The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-18
MY EXPERIENCE IN
THE LEGISLATURE
by c. H. FLOYD, IN ApaIaehIooIa Times.

ton. Buck up. Aim at the stars II
you fall in the ditch. Get a hustle
en-. You are the mustard. Old boy,
you have 1t In you; you have learned
how to make a living, now go after
them" Tell him this every time you
meet him. and soon he will 90 up like
rocket and he. unlike rocket, viii
keep going up. You know 1t takes a
peculiar kind OF man to succeed in
politics and keep on succeeding. There
was Captain VIM. II. Neel. He had
no frills, and when the East Bay vote
and Harry Marks helped the voter
out OF his boat upon the wharf. some
of them would tell US, Stand back
stand back! don't want to talk to
sny Of you! I Just came over to the
polls to vote for old Captain Neel; I'm
for Bill and nobody eIsel Make way!"
And he hurried TO the polls and made
| cross mark for Neel, and bought
some provisions and soon was sailing
to the Eastward while we wonderful
how Sheriff Neel did it Gornto is
Sheriff Neel and some. Look at John
Beard. A figure like the Duke of
Northumberland ought to have!
Brains like poetl A speaker like
Toombs or Henry Grady; but he lacked
| something. Probably he was too far
| from the earth. Gornto has something
| that Col. Nat r. Walker possesses in
| c8C0lS1S ana b1HL w 1lkeFSOn Oa11 mao
| In his great days. Everybody can
| understand him. You could feel him
/ in the house like you can feel the
body OF water in big lake outside of
your window In the cool, quiet sum
/ mer night He was e presence. He
gives you q locomotive effect-a freight
| train or an ordinary passenger train
On which the people ride who don't go
in Pullman cars or Palm Beach spe-
/ Gals. If he lived In Apalachicola he
could beat Bill Hinsey for Tax Col
lector and that gives you an idea of
his political touch If he had been a
| member of the Franklin Guards he
world have been lieutenant as quick
as Dodd got that office. He is Col.
Joe Hickey, Jim Lovett and r. r. Bur-
dine made into one man with little
/ of WIN Oven added. Once before
| said that he was combination of John
| Medley, Fred T. Myers and g wash pot
Don5t you see that one blast from the
! trumpet of such man would get your
rights and the corporations would get
/ just justice. He would not be a fash
| iopable Governor, but when he went
| TO New York to attend the launching
| Of a battleship, the New York papers
| would give him ten columns to Gil
! christ's one. He is a son of the soil
and Florida has soaked into him until
| F1orida-it is Gornto! His perspect-
| i've is great: his emphasis is accurate.
He doesn't fiddle or play the hanjo
nor poker. He might be capable OF
all these things. but he considers
them contemplate in the head of a
family. ! tell you If as Governor Of
Florida he made speech in Kansas
City and Roosevelt was present Roose-
welt would knock down fifty or sixty
people and get to him, the Georgian in
Roosevelt answering TO the good stock
In Gornto. Someone suggested that
his name would be handicap for high
office. But Spano and all of the citi-
zens OF Florida who came from South
Europe would vote for him because Of
bis bind faith that some Spanish Cav
alier had married his great grand
/ daughter In Sussex county, England.
1t is such safe and full blooded and
/ genial, steady men as Gornto that are
her old place In the councils OF the
nation.
/ neglected to mention that he is an
Il excellent debater. He has so much
horse sense you can almost hear him
whtnny. The house listened to him
i and the old leaders soon saw that he
would shove a few of them out of the
pilot-house and they ganged together
to sand-bag him into obscurity. Ev-
i cry time they hit him with the ham
| nier he gained fifty pounds In weight
and five feet in height. He is as
substantial as square timber. He is
a good foater, good heart, few defects.
well RATED. and is tied up to the East
bank of the political Hurricane Reach.
For the benefit of the New York Sun,
which thieving sheet has been pirating
these articles will state that Hurrt-
cane Reach Is that part of the Apa-
lachicola river where the logs are kept
awaiting the tim when they are to be
converted into the finished product