The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-08-02

ord. and of course the Times-Union
and some Of your Over-zealOus
friends promptly spread the news as
great honor to Ocala. The STAR
made a very mild comment that
your speech had no place in the Rec
ord, and some of your friends SEEM
ed to think it was sacreIigious in
saying so. They began to throw
bouquets at the Star, and the Star
thinks it more blessed to give than
to receive, so you can thank, them
for a matter that would have been
confined to a paragraph or two
spreading over several columns
The Star is tolerabIy we'll posted
on public sentiment in its home
city and county, and if you want
them it can give you the names of
number of leading citizens who
think about the matter just the same
way it does; in fact. it consulted a
number of them before it spoke.
Your offer to pay Mr.. L'Engle, my
self and others who may claim the
amount whatever printing your
speech in the Record cost, is ridicu-
! lOus-as an argument, it is about on
par with a small boy making a face
! at somebody who has said something
| he has no answer to. If you and
! your brother congressman had to pay
! for all the unnecessary printing you
/ have allowed in the Record since you
took your seats. it would peel so
many bills off your rolls YOU would
have trouble in buying your Christ
/ mas presents.
Now, a few more words about Mr..
! L'EngIe who seems to be giving
! YOU more trouble than should be
/ expected of an infnitessimal atom.
/ About 10 per cent OF the wrath in
your letter is vented on the Star and
/ the rest on Mr.. L'EngIe. which
isn't the proper proportion on atoms.
! Mr.. L'Engle was a very sick man
last winter He wasn't physically
. SJif-E ~ 80 ~ w dSl1IA5 LOii- bub lie
went. lest his vote should be needed
! by his party. He was in his seat
whenever an important matter came
TO a vote, and he was in call all
the time. Claude has been rather
hard on you, but | don think he ever
/ tainted you for not staying out of
bed when you were sick
What important committees did
! you serve on during your first year in
! Congress? Don't you know that
every citizen Of the United States
who knows anything about Congress
knows that a new member is expect
ed to keep quiet and serve on the
minor committees?
When you say of L'Engle "one
reading his letters in Dixie would i'm
agine that he was running the whole
business up here" you show that
either you haven't read the 'atOm's'
| letters, or you have been reading
! them with a carelessness that does
your legal training mighty little cred
it. l keep a file of Dixie and |
challenge you to indicate the article
that would cause any fair-minded
man to infer that Mr. L'Engle claims
he is running things in Washington.
The tenor of his letters is exactly the
i opposite. You'd play the deuce in let
ting anybody know the real facts
if this assertion of yours is a sample
What great things have you done
in Congress, Mr.. Clark. for Florida
and the nation? The Star has kept
tolerable close tab on public events
and it does not remember your ever
setting the Potomac on fire, or paint
ing the name of your state on the
empyrean dome. So far as this paper
has been informed, you have moi
been distinguished among three hun,
dred other ordinary statesmen.
Whenever you have done a good
| thing that has been called to the at.
tention Of the Star, it has praised