The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-04-10
Hy FRANK Il HuFFAkER,

BY FRANK l., HUFF AkER.
Tallahassee, April e.--~Give q poor
without the necessity or even being
tempted to submit to a collar in his
eRorts to finance his campaign"
This is the emphatic demand of
State Senator Charles Il. Davis. of
Madison, one of the most thoughtful
progressives in the senate, and his
principal hobby during the legislative
session will be that of giving the poor
man this chance. Senator Davis iE
one Of those few and-far between In
dividuals who have the habit Of think
ing for themselves, and when he
thinks he proceeds to put his thinks
into concrete form. Therefore, he IN
determined to pass q corrupt prac-
tice act, which is destined to cut, down
election expenses in state elections to
a marked degree.
The bill to be offered by the Madison
county man is similar to the famous
Oregon corrupt practice act, and Il ~
drawn so as to dovetan with the pri-
mary law and general election law now
in force in Florida. A feature of the
hill is requirement that campaign
literature must be submitted to the
secretary of state and sent out in PAM
phlet form, each candidate being as
sessed percentage of the first year
salary of the ONCE to which he aspires.
There are various other good features
of the bill, which will provide strong
penalty for violation. Senator Davis
has drawn the bill with great care and
its provisions have been fav 1rably
commented upon by a number OF SEN
ate and house leaders
United states Senator Nathan p.
Bryan, armed with his new primary
bin, arrived Monday night and pro
ceeded to enlighten the solons Tues
day evening. His address before the
joint body was well received, and II
was evident that many of. his sugges-
lions are highly thought of and will
be enacted. From the way the political
doctors hover about the PROSTATE form
of our beloved primary law, that in
strurnent must be 'ailing powerful"
Wen, let's hope some cure-an wiz be
sffcctive.
Farris n Queer Being.
Speaker Ion L. Farris is surely
queer being. Why, he is one polittcat
advocate OF publicity who really be-
lieves in publicity. Amt it awful. Ma
bel? Did you ever hear tell OF the
likes in Tallaharsee2
While making his speech of accept
anee Tuesday afternoon Speaker Far
plause by announcing himself as an
sx-off1cio member of the committee on
rules and declaring that he intended.
II possible, to write these two rules for
the government Of the house: One
prohibiting secret or executive sessions
of any legislative committee and the
second requiring that record of every
vote in committee be kept
Many a political hypocrite has
heightened his career in past years by
hiding his crookedness In committee
secret sessions and by having his
secret votes lost to view thereby.
The proposed rules of Mr.. Speaker
will do away with this form of evasion
and il is believed that the house viii
adopt them before this effusion is
published. an excellent committee on
rules, with Lamb, of Suwannee, as
chairman, having been appointed. En-
forceTnent OF these rules win lead to
publicity of the real kind, much to the
chagrin of members of the whisper
ing chorous society who have for
years tried to Guido the soft voiced
pines OF the historic old red hills 81
Leon except when singing their own
praises into the listeners of the
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