The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-08-25
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L'EMGLE BY ], c. BROWN
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ness Of your article in the last issue
of Dixie.
Awaiting your answer, beg to
be J. C. BROWN.
The statement that I am whip
sawed into mailing out interview
packages, because I want to be mar
shall, is not warranted by any facts
real or fancied. I have Senator
Bryan's endorsement for marshal
AMI have had same for some time.
I have been advised by friends to
ignore this slanderous article ap-
pearing in Dixie; that projectiles
fired from that quarter are not of
the armor piercing variety; that the
wasp from this iconoclastic sheet has
lost it's sting, but speak lest the
silence of self-respect be misunder-
stood.
l do not believe L'Engle's para
; mount object was to injure Mr..
Bauskett or myself. but the chief
object of his attack was Senator
Bryan. He would willingly accuse
me Of plagiarism and thereby injure
my character in order to assail Sen
ator Bryan.
And this from q man whom the
State has elected to seat In Con.
gress. A man to whom the govern
nent pays twenty dollars per day
(from his point of view to write
dcfamatory articles about fellow
members Of the Florida delegation,
under the caption Of whats What
in Washington. 1t is possible that
the people will find out, in the
fourth congressional district what's
what and who's who in Washing
ton. in reality, by the time Of the
next primary.
Mr.. L'Engle's chief claim on the
people to return him to Congress,
if truthfully stated, would be that
he has tried to hamper the work of
the other members from his State,
by iconoclastic articles appearing in
Dixie. Yes, it would be quite in
teresting to note What's What ir
Washington.
1t is true that Senators Fletcher
and Bryan are holding some Of the
very best committee assignments.
No two senators stand higher in the
estimation of their colleagues and
the administration officials and no
men are working harder for the
good of their constituency and for
the country as whole than they.
Over in the House the same con-
ditions exist with reference to
Sparkman and Clark and the junior
congressman, Hon. Emmett Wilson.
Wilson made his advent into Con-
gress at the same time that L'Engle
did. Wilson occupies position on
the currency committee and is rem
dering yeoman service in that ca
pacity. Where do we find whats
What in Washington?"-The great
L'Engle? The self-elected leader of
Democracy. You can't find him, al
though Dixie says he is staying on
the Job. He is assigned to the CON-
mittee Of District Of Columbia. In
I 6tker s3ords he is Il low pfVaie in
the ranks Of the City Council Of
Washington. What good can ever
accrue to this State in having such
. clown representing US in Congress,
who can command no higher COM
mittee assignments than he holds?
We did not elect this man for the
purpose Of writing baseless fabrica-
tions for Dixie. but to represent q
great State In the House of Repre-
sentatives. It Is pity, indeed,
that he has no higher conception Of
the duty he owes Florida than to
frit away his time in the manner
he has when such great questions
confront our national law-making
body.
/ suggest to the gentleman who
was elected to Congress from the
State at large and who is now 1t
large in Washington. before he IL
30 prone 70 criticize the work Of