The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-20
CANDIDATES
At BOMBAY
MESSRS. FLoURNoY, STEPHENS
AND TRAMMELL ADDRESSED
VOTERS - WAREHOUSE DE-
sTRoYED BY FIRE.
Special TO The Journal


Bombay, March 19.-It was advertis-
ed last week that Hon. w. w. Flour
noy, candidate for congress, would
speak last night at the court house.
Col. Flournoy came yesterday on the
mail train and went directly to Yer
non, where he was billed for a speech
and returned here in the evening.
Hon. Park Trammell, candidate for
governor, and Hon. w. H. Watson,
representing Milton, and Hon. ]. D.
Stephens, representing Mays. were
also present.
Col. Flournoy was late in arriving.
Hon. ]. H. Buttram presided as chair
man of the meeting. Mr.. Trammell
was the first speaker and declared
himself in favor of working the con-
victs on the public roads, and criticized
severely the idea of Mr.. Milton as to
working the convicts on a sugar cane
farm in the Everglades, saying that
the making of sugar from the sugar
cane made in the Everglades was only
in an experimental stage and could
not depneded upon, and that he
was opposed to candidates spending
and favoring law which would pre-
vent 1t.
He was followed by Hon. w. n.
Watson, for Mr.. Milton, who made an
able argument in favor Of the idea of
a sugar farm in the Everglades, de-
claring that the state Of Louisiana
was now working her convicts on a
sugar farm owned by the state and
that it brought the state more money
than by leasing her convicts and that
the Everglades were more fertile and
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cane. Mr.. Watson said that he failed
to find in the records where Mr.. Tram
nell when a member of the house or
senate introduced any measure pro-
hibiting the expenditure of large sums
Of money In primary elections.
The next speaker was Mr.. Stephens.
who showed that he had been on the
stump before and made an able argu-
ment for Mays. showing how much
had been appropriated for the different
harbors and rivers since Mr.. Mays's
term. He was followed by Col Flour
noy, who began by saying he had no
criticism to make of his opponents
and that he believed both of them to
be nice gentlemen, and that he was
running on his own merits and giving
accounts of all his acts as a legislator
and mayor of DeF'uniak Springs, and
showing that all of his acts were In
1aNOr OF the people, out InaI ne "dS
not trying to play to the galleries and
would not If II defeated him Col
FTournoy put himself on record as be-
ing opposed to the initiative. referen-
dun and recall and declared that IT
all countries where it had been tried
that It was a failure.
The hands of the clock were nearing
twelve when the speaking was over
A good crowd was present and enjoy
ed the speaking
The warehouse of the Bombay Bar
gain House. owned by A. ]. Miller
was destroyed by fire. 1t contained
one car of grain, one car hay, one cal
fertilizer and twelve barrels of syrup
| No insurance was carried. Some
freight cars near the warehouse came
near being burned, but large force OF
men pushed them away. II Is MOI
known how the fire started, but 1t Il
thought some boys had been in the
warehouse smoking cigarettes. \
large crowd gathered and prevented
the fire from going to another build
ing.