The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-01-26
DOOLEY ON THE
ORLANDO MEETING

(Fiorida Grower, Nov. 2, 1919
II see be the papers that theyse a
call for the citrus frute orange
growers Of Floriday to meet at Orlan-
do on Saturday" said Mr.. Hennessy.
"Yis,'' said Mr.. Dooley, "all the
leadin' an led men, includin' Ketch-
EN- an the Major, will be there. You
raightly named 1t the call, faith tbs
the call of the wild, as me friend
Jack London would say. Me friend
Ketchem fs wild because he can't ship
out the Crane frute oranges an he
has the Major to issue the call. That's
why it's the call of the wild tbs
all planned In Ketchem's office.
Ketchem takes down the tilliphone
an he says &gimme the lang distance
operator Lang distance, says he,
give me Saint Augusteen Who do We
want there? says the CURL; the Flor
iday East Coast Railroad, says Ketch-
EN-, want the big boss, says he. Hell
10. says he, can you lend me the Ma
1or with the long name. says he.
What for says the boss; to take
another crack at the Floriday Ex-
change, says Ketchem. Certainly,
says the boss, an so the Major is
put onto the job"
"Will he make a speech?" says Mr..
Hennessy, an what's 1t all abute, any
way?"
He WILL" said Mr.. Dooley. "The
Major will rise in all his majesty,
feeling perfectly at home in his COM
pany. He will say: Mr.. Chairman
(himself being chairman) an fellow
citrus fruit orange growers, in fact l
may say, prosecuted and prosecuted
representing as / do 80 per cent. OF
the orange growers Of Floriday and
also the Floriday East Coast Railroad,
that true frind of the grower, l pro-
fist against the outrageous, murder
GUS, villainous, contimtable, objec-
tionable, unreasonable course now be-
ing pursued be the Florida Exchange
an Willum Chasem Temple. Did l
say pursued? | did Maybe the word
was wrongly used. They are not be-
ing pursued. Faith, tbs the free an
Independent shipper that wants to
market his own frute whin he want
to, that is being pursued. Even a
nimber of me own family is thus be-
ing pursued be the Williams, an he has
been arrested in this beautiful an
free town of orlando, more shame
to thin. I come befure you, not as
representative of that grand and glo-
rious institution. the Floriday East
Coast Railroad, that crate highway,
under the control of me own boss,
one of the greatest highway men in
the country, that crate highway that
has extends it's bands of stale an
other bands of like nature, all the
way from Jacksonville, the home of
the Toimes-O Onion, that glorious rip
resentative of a free press, to Miami,
extend out into the blue wathers Of
the ocean. printing reckoning finger
to that Pearl ef the Ant Hills, Cuba
Libre where grow the glorious pine
apples eff that free country that we
love 80 we'll; the pineapples | name.
1t has bin said that the Floriday East
Coast hauls the pines eff the free Gu
bans for rs cints when they charge
the Floriday growers SO cints, an
the distance much shorter. While tbs
true, tits all owing to the exeginces
OF the occasion, an the fact that no.
body else can get the business of the
FIcriday grower while unfair in COM
peting steamships not owned by that
great benefactor, S. o. Flagler, haul
the Cuban pines at a redicolusly low
rate. 'Tis something the common
grower cannot be made to understand
an we will pass 1t hurriedly by; but
/ come as a representative eff 80 per
cintum of tn orange growers of Flor
iday, an in behalf of me friend
Kitchen, that other CRATE frind eff
the Floriday growers. All me and me
friend Ketchem wants is to be let
alone an have things as they was
before we liver hered eff this damna-
BILE Floriday Exchange that is now
tn ruination of me friend Ketchem's
business. We now cum to the pint.
I denounce with all tn force of me
pie Tilligram that said Crane frute
oranges Is poysen. Gintlimin, lookin
you all In the eye an swearing that
me words is true, I ate green frute
oranges this mawnin' frum me own
groves, where 1 formerly lived, the
town being called after one eff me
antsisters, and the straits all bein'
named after me, and where l still
own the opera house that niver op-
Grated; that beautiful town of Ia.
wares, an I'm not ded yit, an there
fore gintlimin, how can l ask you,
how can Crane frute oranges be poy-
sen under like an similar circum-
stances an conditions? Therefore.
gintlimin, / ask that yer take a vote
that the Floriday Citrus Exchange is
a detremint to the state of Floriday
an to me frind Ketchem' an to con-
dim the action of Willum Chasem
Timple In sinding out his poysen til.
ligraft-"
"Will they do it?"
Faith, I dunno. They'se an old
sayin' an a thrue one-theyse many
q ship bechune Sandy Hook an the
slip."
''She left me for some motive or
another