The enterprise-recorder., 1912-05-17
CANDIDATE FOR
POLITICAL PRINCIPLES

In
United States Government with the tate in .lb-
fishing and maintaining a system Of national yh-
ways, which shall bear mail parces-poSts, and nr
terState commerce from the ports into and betV'&.P
the States and interior counties He is the ,lr
of the first published statement IN Florida alp ng
in favor Of the constitutional right Of the gan ril
Government to aid in this work
He favors: The platform and policy J- he
Democratic party in Immediately revising the riff
DOWNWARD, and especially aoeS he endorse ne
farmers free list bill and the schedules uOw
being advocated by the Democratic majority II lhx
National Congress, including the removal o. the
duty from sugar, and from those manufact .lred
articles which can be made here. shipped to fCrefrn
countries, stand the foreign freight, and be sa5
abroad for less than the domestic rr,cC. The NcrIp-
cratic party is committed to "A reasonable t2rif
levied for the purposes of raising the Governments
revenues only, but there are certainly Cci5e ;il
benefits which flow to our people even from an
for revenue only; and he favorS fair dist lllon
Of these reciprocal benefits 50 that m nlfa it.1 ng
may be done as proftabIy m Florida As in N4is-
sachusettS.
He favors: A capable and vigorous enturct-
ment Of the antitrust laws and demonstrated ms
post on upon the question in the representation NJ
the Government in the successful prosecution If
what was perhaps the leading case under the
Sherman Antitrust Act. Since the decision nf
the Supreme Court Of the United States r me
Standard Oil and American Tobacco Govemp i4ut
Cases, defining the restraint prohibited by the Art
as undue" or unreasonable" restraint the p.l.-
lie and the press of the country unite n the s.nig
ment that the Sherman Antitrust law nesnE
amendment or further legislative defiriIioH WAht
this is true, he has been the only in the pul&c
prints to point out the specific amendments re
quired, which are these: first. the SrE.1% .ut vi
The present punishment presci iDod By .i. !.n.
which is merely as for n mSdemeanor, and HIDssli-
tlting therefor punirhmcnt hv mnriSOnmenr W 70
ten years in the penltentiary; second, an amend
ment to the several provisions to the AcC wt-ch
shall in terms provide that the undue anu
unreasonable" restraints prohibited by tixC Al1
are those restraints whcn accomplish the destyHe-
tion of competition and the establishment pf
monOpolies by means which violate other laws or
which violate settled principles of business morals
and which are in themselves fiagrantly disnUEe'sl.
He favors: A progressive and aggressive po'IHy
and party, but is opposed to i'll considered eY2Tr-
mental legislation which is revolutionary an& IN
capable of being harmonzed with our established
form of National and State Government
He believes that it is the public duty Of eyHry
citizen to register and vote and to take not uNg
an interest in the selection Of officers who ~fRaIi
execute the laws, but special interest in the Seta
tion of those men who participate in the maliing
of the law itself. He maintains that great caugiDn
should be exercised in aw-making, and particularly
in the exercise of the Governments right 10 a.s.
He faVOrs: The administration of those naEEar
al health laws like the national quarantine act ny
Department of the Government having a. ns
head Cabinet Officer with final authority ;ud
jurisdiction coordinate with other department III
the National Government.
He favors: The inauguration OF an active
movement to save the millions Of money invesasd
in machinery now digging the Panama Canal lna
utilizing it to cut ship canal across the peninsula
of Florida He has demonstrated that this is
change which must ultimately he made in the urlb
of the world and which, upon the completion Df
the Panama Canal, would 3ayc approX.mate :, lcl4,
third of the commerce ofIhe world haul of rfrt
hundred miles and enable it to avoid passing
through the marine grave yard which lies t. ne
south of the peninsula of Florida.
He favorS: The administration of our Natpy.ial
laws as applied to Florida by FLORIDIANS
WHOSE VIEWPOINT AND TRAINING ARE IA
HARMONY WITH OUR LOCAL CONDITIONS.
He favors: The absolute disqualification fram
participating in Democratic primaries Of tbcgs
candidates who base their claim to MEMBERSHIP. IN
the National Congress upor abuse and defamat zSp
of their competitors
He is opposed to demagoguery in ol out 81
Congress.
pom his private and business life and the which eu