The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-06-30

was paid by the bank. endorsed pay
able by a certain police officer to a
certain prominent grocery company.
The young gentleman was out his So,
but the city didn't get it. For this
one known specific instance who can
tell how many such cases never see
daylight?
And you do not have to be told for
a moment of the utter decentralization
of the police department. Authority,
discipline, implicit obedience-these
term are rot to be found in that de
partments dictionary. When Dono-
van was fired and threatened sdit for
restoration to Office, and was foreStalled
by the preCipitate adjustment of the
post he held how was it that the office
was as suddenly recreated and filed by
another man at a better salary2 Did
Donovan krow too much?
And What about those railroad and
dock bonds, Have the commissioners
shown proper diligence in placing
them on the market? 1t matters moth
ing that you may think this is a good
thing for the city, or that it is a bad
one. The question has gotten past you
and me. The people have issued their
orders.
1T is one thing to make general
charges against the commissioners for
incapacity. urftness, negligence. to fill
that. but I trust you will note that
I have been prudent. sober and care
full to make no charge that cannot
be proved and sustained.
LAS one of the first, if not the very
first men in this city to advocate COM
mission gov eminent, I will say (and |
say it more in sorrow than in anger)
that 50 far as it has been tried in
Pensacola it turned out, through it's
commissioners, to be a gigantic fall
ure: that we are spending more and
getting less than in all the city's his
tory for the past 20 years.
AS Boss Tweed said. What are we
going to do about ito"
INTERESTING TILT.
Ed. Forcheimer asked permission TO
say a few words and said that no
one in Pensacola had an idea that Mr..
Walker was such a smart man and
could foresee things that would occur
two and three gears hence. Many a
person in the city, said Mr.. Forcheim-
er. would have been glad had Mr..
Walker impaired to them the infoTma-
ton of the financial crisis before 1t
occurred.
He said that he was satisfied that
had Mr. Walker explained these facts
to the city commissioners as he, had to
this meeting that he could have Sc
cured the appointment of city comp
him as a defeated candidate and
sore head concluded Mr.. Forcheimer,
Il plead guilty TO being a sore head
said Mr.. walker, replying 20 Mr.. For
cheimer. ~T am sore to see three city
commission ers in Office who I know
the people are not proud of. I am
sore head because I am made of blood,
skin. bore and muscle and not from
block of wood
A Bo,sske said a few words on the
recall nd being in favor Of the meas
urs ana any party who favored it.
A PUBLIC MATTER.
J. N Andrews said that the matter
of ? ACau is a public matter and spoke
of Ma Forcheimer's personal attack on
Mr.. walker. The speaker said he
came here when the city was paying
off with script worth from 70 to 20
centsi on the dollar and has helped TO
put the city on its feet and he dISlked
to see it getting back into the posi-
item it was thirty years ago.
VOTE FOR RECALL.
Prof Armstrong spoke a few words
Q n what he called sore medicines ana
read a section from the constitution
nf the Good Government league to
prove his statement that the members
Of this league are not Off7ce-seekers
hut on the contrary cannot become
candidates without the approval Of the
league. Fan Sierra told or MS expert
ence in circulating recall petitions and
the actions Of citizens
It was at that point that the motion
bv Mr.. Andrews to recall all three
was put and was car
ried With only one or two dissenting
votes.
The chairman was empowered to
appoint a committee OF I'VE on or
SANITATION and ten TO circulate recall
netitions. and to call the citizens IN
mass meeting at any date he might
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