The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-11-17
AND HERE'S OUR OLD
FRIEND, MR.. BITCH

Editor Star. wake up, come out
of that trance, shake off that spell,
be a sport. Any one that can fight
az hard, as long and as effectively as
you should be a good loser. Frankly,
Brother Benjamin, / am disappointed
in you. / had almost built up halo
around you, largely on account of
your scrapping qualities; you who
have won out in so many hard-fought
battles, you who are every ready to
cross swords with any man on any
subject and able and capable of hold
ing your own, now that you have been
defeated must NOPE around and pout
like child who had asked its mother
for something it should not have had
and been refused.
Your paper goes into hundreds of
homes and is moulder of sentiment.
Is the position you take likely to heal
the bruises brought about by the hot
campaign or is it likely to keep them
irritated and really what is your de-
sire in the matter.
In Mondays issue find the follow
ing: Every day Mr.. Hughes puts off
congratulating Mr.. Wilson causes him
to lose some Of the respect the Amer
lean people had for him as jurist and
a statesman Do you not think that
a wee bit of this might apply to your
colf a1rn NJ Krc+f
The supreme courts decision has
been reversed by the highest tribunal
of this state, and Mr. Cats elected
governor by an overwhelming plural
ity, If not majority; and as your
nancy readers were probably about
equally divided between the two main
contestants, in all probability these
readers of equal intelligence and
honor, believing in you and your pa
per, and instead Of trying to pour oil
on the troubled waters, you are try
ing to keep them angry and rebellious.
Come now, Mr.. Editor, this baby act
doesn't come with good grace from
you Get your heart right and get
right with your readers.
We Cats people are not threaten
ing to read you Knott people out of
the party as you would have been do
ing us had you won; no, we are hold
ing out our arms and hands and bid
ding you welcome back on board the
democratic ship. not altogether in full
fellowship but on kind of probation.
just have seats. Be good and look
and you will soon be ready
for full degree j. S. Bitch.
Montbrook, Nov. Is.
*X##
We are glad to once more hear from
our old friend, Mr.. Bitch. We
thought he had gone to some seaport
town, to try and see the pope's flag
flying over an American battleship,
and had fallen overheard and become
fatally dampened down.
We have often heard that drunk
en- man considers himself the only
sober person in the world We do not
know how that is, as we could never
hold enough booze to make us drunk,
but we have been regretfully aware
for some time that our friend Bitch
was in a trancea Cata1eptic trance
$50 we do not wonder that he thinks
the Star is dreaming, moping and
pouting, and that he is the wide
awake and cheerful child of hope.
Mr.. Bitch attaches too much inn
portance to his candidate. Judging
by what we have heard since the
began, Cats is worse wor-
ried about the Star than the Star is
about Cats. Nobody has seen the
Star NOPE or pout. It's attending to
business as usual, and Cats is only
an incident in its everyday business.
Mr.. Bitch and his other deluded fol-
lowers viii be worse disappointed be-
fore they get through with him than
the Star will.
The readers of this papers are not
complaining of it's policy toward
Cats, and so far as we know the
great majority of them voted for
Knott. We conceded to those who
voted for Cats that they were honest
in their opinion and within their
rights, and they have made the same
concession to the Star.
Also, we beg to inform Mr.. Bitch
that we had accepted the result of the
election and quit discussing Cats. It
had not dug the subject up in his
foregoing letter, it would probably
not have been referred to again.
The Star is democratic paper, and
it sees no reason why it should con-
graduate any man on the defeat of
the democratic party. There is no
more reason why it should congratu-
late Cats in 1916 than it should have
Mckinley in 1896 and
1900, Roosevelt in 1904 or Taft in
1908. There is indeed much less, for
Roosevelt and Taft were
statesmen of high type and were not
elected thru appeals to prejudice and |
Misrepresentation.
In his recent letter to the people of |
Florida, Mr.. Knott said:
II earnestly trust that my friends
and supporters, in common with all
good citizens, will cordially support
he next governor and the admins |
ration, regardless of past differences,
y all that may tend to the prosperity /