The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-05-26

pered his work and tried to ruin It He
could obtain no representation in Flor
ida's great daily, that claims to print
all the news, but L'Engle told his story
to the world.
A banker fortified in a Gibraltar OF
finance tricked two Florida boys out of
their hard earned savings. In the
courts, they compelled him to disgorge
F1orida's leading dailies were dumb,
but LEngle printed the story.
The city of Jacksonville. governed
by an oligarchy. suffers from many
evils. The people are over taxed, their
money is wasted. they are treated with
insolence by their own hirelings. The
rich and powerful dailies keep mum on
these abuses, but L'Engle's little Dixie
led the movement that shall restore
the people to their own.
The port of Jacksonville, important
to all Florida, is tied up by railroad
which virtually controls its entire wa
terfront-something that Ocala is in
terested in almost as much as the sea-
port city itself Nobody. except the
few interested in keeping II quiet,
knew this condition Of affairs until
L'Engle's papers eold them.
Quack physicians, at regular inter
walls, raided the state, taking the peo-
pies hard-earned money and giving
only empty promises in return, and 40
one would expose them until L'Engle
did so.
This is what the men who are trying
to defeat L'Engle call sensatianalism.
Perhaps IL Is. But well would II be
for the people of America II every
journalist could and would be as out
spoken.
Let the people mark we'll that
DEngle has laid his lance in rest
against only the rich and powerful. He
has fought only those who could fight
back. He has not profited financially,
but has kept himself poor. He has not
dealt in scandal but in public affairs.
He has not slung mud, but made
charges that his opponents have de-
MED, but have not disproved. He has
not printed anything that gentleman
could not read aloud in the presence Of
a lady. How many of the newspapers
that denounce him can say the same
We saw, the other day, in an ex-
/ change the statement that IL L'Engle
| went to congress he would disgrace
the state by his utterances on the floor
of the house. He would have TO be
very rank indeed IL he was as offensive
as the corporations particular pet, the
1 Hon. Frank Clark.
| L'Engle's papers have been no more
| outspoken than the New York World
| is in national affairs. Why should he
| be denounced for that which YVES
praiseworthy in Pulitzer?
| Doesn't every citizen of Florida know
that If LEngle was a sensationalist,
| making charges without proof, that he
would have been in the penitentiary
| long ago? Do they not know that II
his charges against his opponent In
| the congressional race had not sub
stantial backing that Mr.. Toomer
would have had him arrested ere now
for criminal libel? Do they not resent
| as an insult to their intelligence the
statement that he has been deceivinE
| them these half dozen years, during
| which they have seen repeated EVIL
dences of his bravery and truth?
The Star has had as fair an oppor-
| tunity as any other paper Of judging
L'Engles work and merit. Therefore
il has supported him, hopes he will bt
| elected. and has no doubt that IL he Il
he will represent the state with dig
Unity and power.