The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-03-08
WHICH is THE MORE DESIRABLE,
PATRIOTISM. OR MONEY?

/
remarkable editorial from the Pen
sacola Journal. under the above head
ing.
Several days ago." says the Jour-
nal,. Colonel Watterson said that
money counted for more than patriot
ism in presidential elections
| "a disgraceful admission" says
the Journal, "even if it were true"
Then it goes on to say that Senator
Tillman could not be made to make
such. statement, ''for he comes from
the blood that real men are made of;
men who fight for their convictions,
and who had rather lose when they
are right than to win through corrupt
methods"
Bryan" it says, "has always put
honor and patriotism above every
thing else"
Had Mr. Bryan consented to be
the tool OF the special interests" ex-
claims the Journal me could have
| been elected president either of the
times he was a candidate for the uf-
| fee"
Then boastfully says the Journal
To-day he has place in the hearts
of the people that no other citizen
| has ever occupied
| According to the Journal Mr.. Bryan
has rooted out the memory of George
| Washington, whose anniversary we
have just celebrated, and has taken
that hero's place as first in war,
first in peace and first in the hearts
of his countrymen!"
No man we believe, not even the
vagabond upon our streets, has sunk
so low as to put corruption above
patriotism.
| If Colonel Watterson ever made
any such statement as is attributed
to him by the Pensacola Journal, he
did not endorse it, he did not say that
it was right, but he made it regret
fully as the statement of fact.
Mr.. Bryan has made the statement
time and time again that he was de-
feated by the special interests and
that they were enabled to defeat him
by the expenditure of an normous cor
ruption fund.
Senator Tillman has made the same
statement time and time again.
How often have We been told OF
Harrimans interview with President
Roosevelt, and his going upon tile
street and raising corruption, fund
which he used to buy Mr.. Roosevelt's
way into the White House, and how
often we are told that it accomplish
ed its purpose.
How often have we heard of Mr.
Cortelyou in the same connection,
and how potential were his activities.
And how often we were told that he
got his reward.
For very shame that the Journal
should attempt to deceive it's readers
with such balderdash as is contained
| in the article that we have quoted.
The politics of our country, we YER
lily believe, have been debauched
more by appeals to demagoguery than
by out-and-out corruption, and this
argument of the Journal partakes as
much of the demagogic spirit as any
that has ever come under our OBJ
servation.
Now, this paper has no desire to
bemean nor defame Senator Tillman,
but it sincerely believes that if Edi-
tor Watterson occupied seat in the
United States senate from the great
state of Kentucky that he would have
performed no act that would have at
tached scandal to his name. We do
not believe that he would have frank
ed his typewriter and his piano and
his cow from place to place, nor
would he have used the information
that he obtained by virtue of his of
flee to provide himself and members
of his household with slice of the
public domain.
Now, as this paper has said before,
Mr.. Bryan has been signally honored
by the democratic party-indeed, he
has been honored by it more than
any other man, living or dead-and
of all men he should set the example
of obedience and fidelity to it; but, in
stead, he is constant scold and
kicker. He always has an uplifted
tomahawk, not for the purpose of
producing terror and dismay in the
ranks of the enemy, but for constant
use on the heads of the members of
his own political family, and tn ,reby
creating divisions and dissentions in
its ranks.
Mr.. Bryan knows as well as any
other man that victory cannot be won
with house divided against ITSELF"
The time has come when he should