The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-23

be successful in the future of the I'm
tied States, might well commit this
to memory:
l have written you thus at length
because | do not wish to be misun-
derstood and because | feel as much
interested, l hope, in the success of
the people of Florida engaged in that
industry as any other citizen of the
State. l had this question to meet
when was a candidate for the Sen
ate and | can only say to you now
what | said to the growers themselves
then-that | will not vote for a pro-
tective tariff on anything, wherever
grown, manufactured, or produced
If believe | should do that would
not be a Democrat but a Republican
instead.
Yours very truly,
N. P. BRYAN.
1t is the aggregate of just such
individual acts of courage and hon
eSty as this that makes up the moral
ity of a political party-and the
length of its tenure on the public
faith.
Two Florida Newspapers.
1t makes a good deal of difference
to Senator Bryan's future, of course,
whether the newspapers of his State
indorse his integrity or condemn him
for standing by 100000 Floridians"
and especially for standing by
"$1OO,000,000 of capital" Well,
there are two newspapers in Miami.
One, the metropolis" said this:
1t was written like a man should
write letter and expressed senti-
ments that every real Democrat must
have. 81 will not vote for a protec-
tive tariff on anything" he says
nor will he. A statement of this ma
ture was, of course, unnecessary from
Senator Bryan. His friends in Flor
ida knew when he was elected that
he would go to Washington as a Dem
ocrat and would remain a Democrat,
true to his party pledges. We even
wonder at the temerity of any body
of men who would offer a suggestion
that he trade his vote to the advo-
Gates of protective tariff to another
State for protection of Florida's in
1ustries.
The other paper is the Miami
Herald" 1t said this:
Senator Bryan will probably find
that while he may be theoretically
the practical working out of
mis- idea in Florida will be to divide
he party in this State and retire him
10 private life.
To put in words the relative quail
ties of these two papers would de-
orive our readers of the opportunity
Tor an agreeable bit of intellectual
exercise for themselves.
The Point.
The difficulty is the special inter-
ests are usually organized, and the
people are not. 1t is easy for a few
oenehciaries of special privilege to
get together and call themselves
100000 Floridians;" but there is no
easy way for 100000 real Floridians
o make themselves heard-By Mark
sullivan, in Golfers Weekly.
Following the publication of the
lbove article in Golfers, President
Wilson wrote the following letter to
Senator Bryan:
white House, Washington,
-, MAY Is, 1913.
Hon. Nathan P. Bryan,
United States Senate.
my Dear Senator:-Being shut
'ut by the daily demands on me from
eading the newspapers, l apparently !
lave to find out what is going on
rom the weekly papers which l look t
ver at the weeks end. | have lust ,
cen, therefore, in Golfers Weekly, /
our correspondence with the Citrus I
Irowers' Association of Florida. | /
want to express my warm and sim G
ere admiration and to say that / I
congratulate the party and the coun- l.
ry upon having a man to serve them il
Tho sees so clearly and does his duty C
0 fearlessly. b
Cordially and sincerely yours. u
(Signed) "WOODROW WILSON" C