The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-04-30
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But believe me, my friends, this
primary system of nominating your
candidates, can equal death itself as
an equalizer.
So far as this part Of it is con-
cerned, I rejoice as much as any of
YOU in the beneficent results we have
seen at it's hands. 1t never tears down,
but it builds up. 1t is the democrats
ideal of democratic form of govern
ment. 1t brings the glad tidings of
good government to our very doors,
and it assures US as no other messen-
ger of the truthfulness of that God
given heritage that all mankind are
brothers.
But some radical changes are requi-
site and necessary in this law, for as
it now stands, the poor nan-no mat
ter how worthy or well qualified, is
too heavily handicapped to win over
the rich man in a race for public OF
: fee.
Common decency demands that
these changes be made. A reproduc-
ton of the Oregon law whose provis-
ions I have not the time to discuss,
would indeed be "a consummation
"It comes high, all right, but we
| have got to grin and bear it."
Now, I am going to tell you about
the several candidates who are seek
ing this office.
Reviews the Candidates.
"Only six The largest aggrega-
ton Of combinations of modern
! times"
eve have little Eddie O'Brien, of
Pensacola, little Baudie L'Bumble, OF
/ Jacksonville, and little Willie Toomer,
who has just recently butted into this
game.
"Do you know George Martin? Dc
you know any of the rest of these
candidates
ask any one of them where they
were when Albert NJ. Williamson was
fighting the battle of the people of
Florida for a railroad commission
away back yonder in 1898. If they
they will acknowledge that they were
on the other side of the political
household of Florida.
| II am going to especially pay my
respects to some of these recent &C
QUESTIONS to the ranks of the p2o-
pie of Florida
"You know Mr.. W. NJ. Toomer only
came to Florida a few years ago
/ But he hit the ground running. He
thought he wanted Frank Clark's job,
/ but he was soon afflicted with what
the doctors might diagnose as Pedes
Frigides, which being interpreted, can
only mean cold feet
Then who pulled him out, and
who put him in?
! There is a word that answers the
question, but / am afraid you will
think its Greek is just a little off
color:-It is Dam phi-no.
| Have you seen his double-column
advertisement in our Jacksonville
dailies, in which he declares he doesn't
know whether Claude L'Engle or my
self are the most distasteful to him q?
| Well, Little Willie, you have start
| ed something.
| "Out Of the abundance of the heart
the mouth speaketh," and so your
coarse and vulgar story of your Geor-
/ gia Judge can only prove your caliber
that of a negroes "22," and I am
going to tell this audience that you
are like Claude L'Engle only in one
! lnsC2nce,-your lnOrdInate vanity and
/ disgusting conceit,-and that if your
poor little brain were dynamite, it
wouldn't blow your nat off. Conceit!
Yes, sir! If the conceit were only
/ pumped out Of him, he'd go higher
than any airship atioat But right
here | am going to tell you a story
that is especially apropos to this case.
Two other little boys were trying an
| improvised flying machine One of
them took it up on top of the kitchen,
and his brother soon heard something
hit the ground with a terrible thud.
Running up to him he asked, "Buddie,
how do you like fying?" ooh" said
! the youthful aviator, "FLYING'S all
right, but LIGHTING'S HE'LL"
For let me tell you, my friends,
that old threadbare adage was never
truer in any case than in this:
Fools rush in where Angels fear to
tread"
But I Go know, my fellow citi-
zens, that the corporate interests Of
the State are all up in arms at my
candidacy, and that they are doing
everything in their power TO beat me.
This Colonel Toomer is one of the