The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-09

10 start out over the l. and N. for
Arnageddon, which is understood to
be an imaginative place about forty
feet above the elevator shaft in the
Outlook building.
But as long as he has started out
Mr.. Hodges intends to do some scrap
ping along with Messrs Gunby and
Anderson, whether the train they're
starting on is taking them back to
that Outlook building or not In ex-
pressing his intention to be in the
thick Of 1t, Mr.. Hodges dramatically
exclaimed:
And whether we win or whether
we lose, l will fight the fight to the
finish, 50 help me God"
Some campmeeting enthusiast right
at the rostrum said Amen" to that so
fervently that stiffness reigned while
the speaker reverently laid aside a
cigar.
RoAsTs FOR WILSON.
There were several references to Ar
mageddon and the battle for the poor
and Wall street and the Big Stick
and then Woodrow Wilson became
the target
1T is not Mr. Wilson of Virginia"
he said, "as Senator Bryan would have
had you believe in his speech last
night II Virginia, he has renowned
the state of his birth in trust -ridden
New Jersey-in Princeton, N. r."
Then followed a vigorous outburst
against Princeton University, a Pres
byterian institution in which the ma
jority of the students are the sons of
people either poor or in very moderate
circumstances; an institution in
which, through the practical democ-
racy Of Woodrow Wilson, minority,
Of about 200 sons OF the rich are not
now enjoying solely the benefits of
certain advantages founded for the
entire student body and which they
attempted to usurp. Mr. Hodges, ap-
parently ignorant of those things, and
seemingly unaware that the big vote
polled by Wilson for governor was
largely the result OF self exemplifica-
ton Of principles in Princeton, handed
his audience the following souvenir
postal picturing the university under
Wilson:
TT is a rich mans school and main.
tanned for rich mems sons In Prince
ton, New Jersey. You people, you poor
people of Pensacola, Florida, are not
sending your sons there to be edu-
Gated. / know only one Florida young
man that has been educated there and
he is the son of a man in Tallahassee
"a man who has been a senator-and
that man has stated that 1t costs him
eighteen hundred dollars a year to
send his son to Woodrow Wilson 5
school in Princeton. New Jersey. Yet
Woodrow Wilson comes out for the
poor mems votes while maintaining n
school for rich mems sons at Prince
ton. New Jersey. Do you think that
man has the common touch?'
Yet you are expected to swallow
the dope"
HONESTY OF ROOSEVELT.
Then Mr. Hodges said a lot more
things and talked lot about the un-
falling honesty of Theodore Roosevelt
the mention of whose name not once
brought a single hand clap.
Yet the audience was expected to
"swallow the dope" in the face of this
statement, made only a half-hour be-
fore from the same rostr1lm by Mr..
Bingham;
Some people say that he (Roose-
velt) got the Panama canal in an il
legal way I admit that he probably
did, but that only shows the man"
4
ator Bryan's coming out in favor of
a single primary at which every voter
shah vote was probably inspired by a
wish to remain in the senate the rest
OF his natural life.
Having gotten no applause. he start
ed out to get some.
He called the Democratic party
''The Jackass." That failed.
A bit later he quoted one of the big
magazines TO show that the Demo-
cratic congressman from Florida were
generally mot voting" when any tariff
measure was before the lower house.
That got a laugh and the eye Of the
blue bull moose appeared to wink.
Then he ridiculed Taft for his mild :
" protesting to Mexico when Ameri-
cans in Mexico We're shot and when
an American town was shot up and
for not even mildly protesting when
Mexico warned this country to keep