The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-26
UNCLE STEVE IN OCALA
Visit and Good Speeches from Our
Congressman and State Senator
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of the citizens and voters OF Marion
county and talked with them and at
10 o'clock went up 10 the court house
in the circuit court room. where Mr.
". T. Gary acted a. master OF cere-
monies and introduced the speakers
There was a good gathering of voters,
many of whom were from the country,
and before the speaking progressed
very far the room was almost filed
But for the fact that the speaking had
been previously advertised for . p. m.
the crowd would have been much
larger.
The Star reporter could not remain
for the entire speaking. but heard
most of Col. Sparkman's talk. Col.
Sparkman is not fiowery orator but
graceful speaker, telling without
flights of oratory or gymnastic stunts
what he has 10 say in clear, forceful
and easy language, and holds at all
times the closest attention Of his hear
ers. No matter where he speaks or on
what subject: whether in a campaign
or in the halls of Congress, the colonel
has something sensible and good to
say and says il in a way that COM
mands attention.
When asked this morning, while
paying a visit to our office, what he
would speak about, the colonel laugh
ed and said he would talk a little
about the democratic. the republican,
the progressive or bull moose, and the
socialist parties. their principles and
platforms-and he did so.
He denounced the special privileges
of the great trusts and stated that the
protective tariff was their greatest al
ly, and that with their enormous
capitalization, only or less than one
fourth of it had been paid in in actual
money or it's equivalent. that the bal
ance was not water, he was sorry to
| say, but something more substantial
special privileges, fOstered by the re-
publican party's principles and made
| possible by the protective tariff. Do
away with the protective tariff, as the
democrats want to do, have a tariff for
revenue only. and allow the thousands
| of small and medium sized companies
and manufacturing enterprises to COM
pete in the business field, and justice
| would be done and the people given a
chance with the great capitalists and
a more just and equitable relation
would be esta blished between money
and the people-capital and labor. He
said that he believed in an inheritance
tax and an income tax; that the great
| fortunes of bonds and stocks should
bear their portion of the common bur
den; that this should apply in federal
| and state matters
Mr.. Sparkman then proceeded tC
eulogize our democratic candidate
| Governor Woodrow Wilson, and was
greeted with enthusiastic applause
He said he was proud Of our candidate
and our platform. He said with ever
so good a platform a party with 8
weak candidate was greatly handi-
| capped and ruin was sure. He spoke
of the great power of the president
that he possesses almost as much pow
er as both houses of Congress, as was
recently most forcefully illutrated
when the democrats in Congress pass
ed several most needed measures
measures that would have brought un'
told good to the people and they were
vetoed by the president and the two
thirds vote necessary for their pas
sage over his signature could not bt
obtained in the Senate He said the
country not only needed a democratic
House and Senate to carry out thu
great principles of the democratic
party but they needed a democratic
president. else much of their effort
would be in vain.
i Mr. Sparkman said he had known
Gov. Wilson for many years and wa
familiar with his private and public
life That whatever obligation hac
been placed upon him he had met i
with the full measure of a man. Tha
as public speaker, as president of
great institution of learning, as gov
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and now. as the candidate and leade
of the greatest political party in tn
land. he was measuring up fully as
man capable and efficient and abov
reproach .CGreat applause). In hi
Judgment Gov Wilson has ever
chance to be elected. He would not b
surprised If, on the morning after tn
election he should read that Gov. vii
son had carried every state in tn
Union He would. of course, carry TIL
solid south. many Of the doubtful
states and the badly divided ones, an
he could easily believe that he Nigh
carry them all Never were the chance
of the party as good or the future a
bright and never have we had a bet
ter. cleaner. more able standard bear
er.
Col Sparkman said Mr.. Taft was
good and an honest man. but he ha
not always been able to stand u
against the pressure and influences O
his party and its machinery and in
: luences. He gets his cue from tn
republican party and is weak in it
hands.
Mr.. Sparkman then touched brief
on the bull moose party. He said It
platform emanated solely from the pc
and brain of the party's leader. Nj
Roosevelt. He said that the colone
in his opinion. was the most danger
Gus man who ever sat in the preSiden
tial chair. and that a sigh of relic
went up from one end of the land I
=. the other when he was succeeded. eve
i if it was by Mr.. Taft. That Mr.. Roose
welt set at naught the great cOnsti
tuition Of the United states and wa
governed solely by his own Stron
. will in public matters and set his Ow
opinions above all else. That his right
+. hand man. Perkins. was allied mos
2 closely with more Of the great "inter
ests" than almost any other man VIII
could be mentioned.
col. Sparkman then turned 10 til
socialists. He said that their part
platform was based on a protes
: against our entire government as
: exists: that they propose 70 turn al
business enterprises over TO the gov
? eminent. let the government ru'
things ana look . the government 70
support. In IL program sent out.
says this : only preliminary TO Il
>eizinE the government. when i vii
put INFO effect its plans. That the 50
cialiStS DO not give out their platform