The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-05-17
Tpngressman-at-Large from the State of Florida
POLITICAL PRINCIPLES

He favors: The immediate cooperation by the
United SraeS Government with the States in establishing
and maintaining system OF national highways, which
shall bear mail parcel posts, and interstate
from the ports into and between the States and interior
counties He is the author of the first published state
ment in Florida arguing in favor OF the constitutional
right OF the general Government TO aid in this work.
He laVorS The platform and policy of the Demo-
craiG party in Immediately revising, the tariff DOWN,
free list and the schedules being advocated by the
Democratic majority in the National Congress- including
the removal OF the duty from sugar. and from those man
ufactued articles which be made here, shipped TO
foreign countries stand the foreign freghts and be sold
abroad for less than the domestic price. The Demo
cratic party is committed TO reasonable tariff levied for
the purposes of raising the Governments revenues, but
there certainly incidental benefits which flow TO
people even from tariff for only and he favos
fair distribution of these reciprocal benefits that
manufacturing my be done as profitably in Florida as
in Massachusetts,.
He favors: A capable and vigorous enforcement Of
the antitrust laws and demonstrated his position upon
this question in the representation OF the Government in
the successful prosecution of what perhaps the lead
ing under the Sherman Anti trust Act Since the
decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in
the Standard Oil and American Tobacco Government
Cases, defining the RESTRAINT prohibited by the Act sun
due" unreasonable" restraint, the public and the
press of the country unite in the statement that the Sher,
man Anti Trust law needs amendment further legiSla
tive definition While this true, he has been the only
in the public prints TO point out the specific amend.
mcnS required which are these first the striking out OF
the present punishment prescribed by the Act which
merely for mSdcmeanor and substitute therefor pun
shment by Imprisonment TO ten years in the penten
second amendment 10 The several provisions 10
the Act which shall in terms provide that the undue and
unreasonable restraints prohibited by that Act are
those restraints which accomplish the destruction of COM
petition and the establishment OF monopolies by means
which violate other laws which violate settled prnc
pies of business morals and which are in themselves fla
gravity dishonest.
He favors: A progressive and aggressive policy and
party but opposed TO lconSdered experimental legis-
aton which is revolutionary and incapable of being har
monzed with established form OF National and State
Government
zen to register and vote and TO take not only in
eres in the selection of officers who shall decide what
the law is and of officers who shall execute the laws, but
special interest in the selection OF those men who par
cipatc in the making of the law itself. He maintains
that great caution should be exercised in law making,
and particularly in the exercise of the Governments right
TO tax.
He fayors: The administration of those national
health laws like the national quarantine act by De-
parmcnt of the Government having at IFS head Cabi
net Officer with final authority and jurisdiction co-ordi-
maize with other departments of the National Government
He favors: The Inauguration of an active movement
TO save the millions of money invested in machinery now
digging the Panama Canal and utilizing ii TO cut ship
canal the peninsula of Florida He has demon
Srated that this is change which ultimately be
made in the map of the world, and which, upon the COM
pIcon of the Panama Canal, would approx matey
one third of the of the world haul OF eight
hundred miles and enable avoid passing through the
marine grave yard which lies 10 the south OF the PENN
Sula OF Florida
He favors: The administration of our National laws
rs appIied TO Florida by FLORIDIANS WHOSE VIEW
POINT AND TRAINING ARE IN HARMONY WITH
OUR LOCAL CONDITIONS
He avors: The absolute disqualification from par
cipating in Democratic primaries OF those candidates
who base their claim membership in the National Con
gress upon abuse and defamation OF their competitors
He is opposed to demagoguery in out of Congress-
pon his private and business life and the views which he
rest to the people