The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-04
WE NEVER HEARD
OF WINDLE
APOSTLE OF ALCOHOL. WHO
LECTURES IN oCALA THIS
AFTERNOON
Surprising Ignorance Must be Sor-
rowfuIly Owned Up to By
the Star


the Star
The Star feels quite chopfallen to-
day. 1t didn't know before that it
was so ignorant. Because until yes
terday it never heard of Windle.
That earnest little man, w. d. Up
shaw, hoped into the Star Office yes
terday afternoon and said TO the edi-
tor that he wanted to arrange to meet
his challenge from Windle. The editor
didn't know any Windle except the
Hotel Windle in Jacksonville, so he
said, who's Windle ?"
co." said Mr.. Upshaw, "he's editor
Of the Iconoclast and speaker for
the vets. He will be here tomorrow
and has challenged me to debate"
The editor, who tries to make peo-
pie believe that he knows everything
except few minor matters, which he
has forgotten, shut up like clam,
because he had never heard of Windie
and was ashamed to acknowledge he
did not have the pedigree of that
great man in the w pigeonhole of his
brain.
However, he was busy, as editors on
afternoon papers have a habit of be-
ing at 80 p. M, and for three happy
hours forgot his humiliation.
But, later, when the paper had
gone to press, in straying around
town, he found circular, announcing
in "six-line plea letters of living
light" as Bill Nye used to say, that
the Hon. C. A. WindIe would speak
from the bandstand at $3.50 p. m.
Saturday That Mr.. Windle should
speak from the bandstand was nor
NAL matter, but when the Star man
read that "Windle has the surpass-
ing eloquence of Cicero and the
transcendent oratory of a Demos
thenos (Demosthenes, we suppose,
was meant), that he could outdo the
lamented Brann as writer and only
W. j. Bryan could equal him as an
orator." he skipped off to his den in
dismay, because
He had never heard of Windle.
Can't see how we overlooked it. AS
a matter of business as well as pleas
ure, we have tried to keep up with
the great speakers and writer's of the
nation for thirty-five years-we have
read of Grady, Hill, Stephens, Beech
er, Ingersoll, Bryan, Graves, Bob Da-
Wis and Bob McNamee, of Watterson,
Medill, Dana, Pulitzer, Claude len
gle, Josephus Daniels, Frank Huff
faker, Willis Powell, Hapgood and
Nogood (big bunch Of the latter,
Charlie Jones and j. Fred de Berry,
but
We never heard of Windle.
Of late years, galaxy of brilliant
writers have sprung up, among them
Allen L. Benson, Chas. Edward Rus
sell, Arthur Little, Jack London, Up
ton Sinclair, Eugene Wood, Irwin S.
Cobb, Phillips Russell, ]. Howard
Moore and Mark Sullivan, all opposed
to the liquor traffic, and several
others, who do not announce opposi-
tion to it, but among all the stars in
the galaxy of literature
We don't find Windle.
However, Windle must be all right.
because the circular says he is Brann's
superior as writer and Bryan's peer
as an orator, and we guess the print
shop ran out of plea roman or ii
would would have added, she is fair
as the moon, bright as the sun and
terrible as an army with banners"
However, a. friend has informed us
that hon. Windle is from Chicago, edi.
tor of the Iconoclast, which twenty.
four years ago was made famous by
Brann.
This gives US an interest in Windle
We set type on Brann's Iconoclast
when he was printing it in Austin
Texas, almost twenty-four years ago
and like all other men who knew
Brann esteemed him for his bravery
and brilliancy. Brann was genius
He could take the English language
in his hand as cowboy takes stock
whip and lay its faying lash acros.
the back of anything he didn't ap
prove of. He made his little Texa,
paper read and quoted all over Amer
lea. 1t was often right, sometime
wrong, but always brave and brilliant
Twenty years ago, stack of Icono
clasts came to an Ocala newsstand
every week and sold like hot cakes
But Brann was killed and his pape
became as dull as the Commoner. w,
seldom see copy and seldom see i
quoted. So if Windle outdoes Branl
as writer, he must have hid hi
light under a bushel and then wreck
ed freight train on top of the bushel
THAT CHALLENGE
Now, as for that challenge. MI
Upshaw definitely announced las
Sunday that his engagement in Mar
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