The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-04-30


and got the license to marry sally +
and when he got home the negro said +
~! BOSS DID you get my license?" Yes +
you said Sally" well what am I |
going to dc. can you change the |
Licensed? No, you will have to buy
cost?' Two dollars .eW 3 new tb ore
amt that much difference between |
them EN- two niger gals
:, There isn't much more difference |
tian Two dollars between all three of |
these Fellows that I am running
against. l am going to ask you to- |
Bear IN mind, they did not make
these offices. They were your ofices |
ana you gave these offices to them
Even Even admit for moment that they
| heen paid both in honor and in rnoneHJ
70 pc good officials but have they
measured UP to the standard of states
snsa5aIlo. rave they done anything
make your faces brighten or your
eyes nash? If not, then I ask vo1, n
i pel US al on the same basis and let
" run this race and measure "a by
the same standard Of business common
sense, and If you will do that / viii
e pc sadis ats and that is about ali I
asA you to do. There are three
The first is Senator BRYAN the nraz-
e iIe Incumbent Senator Bryan is a
5000 lawyer. He is a fine gentlernan.
| I baye a 10y, 1oyai friend. I know because
maintain that I am not vgsItt1l -. e
paCVe mat Senator Bryan is bad
den of proof is on senator Rr,I ne D ar5
ms friends TO prove that thase peonle
| e 9a torloa arc justified in having two
yers who are continually fghtine each
9eher. maintain that the CITY of
S atos itself ioes not want Sem
! paper in Jacksonville sIpnor+ine sbiv,
| charge That he inherited this office
/ t,oth governor Broward and his
| prother. Senator Bryan comes back
| nefore the people and he states that
| II IS customary. a Democratic prece-
oent' 70 give man the second term.
States senator with ali the pride and
| pIestlge or that great position, would
pc TOO proud man to come back to
the people of Florida and ask them
to be returned on any such fIlmsy ex-
| cuSe. but that Is no Democratic pre-
ceaent. 1t never was submitted to the
was when Taliaferro ran for his sec
ond term. He had two opponents.
stockton and Jennings. and he did not
get a majority of the votes in the
nrst primary; Had it been a Demo
cratic precedent or Democratic rule
ne would have gotten a majority in
| himself did not vote for Talfaferro
| 80 Senator Bryan never thought of
this old hoary headed Democratic rule
until his own interests were involved.
Bear in mind, my friends, that the
Democratic party had not been in
power since 1895 and just a a time
| When the tariff question, the trust
question, the financial situation and
the world wide war, Senator Bryan
tried to give up this great position
and get himself better life time job
Judge Of the Circuit Court of Appeals.
Surely If he was under no obligation
to stay at his post at this critical time
the people Of Florida are under no
obligation to return him, provided they
can md better man, and confiden-
TALLY I am willing to admit that I
am a better man.
Senator Bryan went up and down
this state from one to the other sing
ing the anti-corporation song and he
before he forgot the tune. Have you
heard him singing any Of it in this
campaign? The postmaster gene ral
wished to extend the facilities of the
parcel post. He wanted congress to
pass on that measure, knowing full
Wen that the corporate interests would
muddy the waters In congress and de-
| lay the extension of these facilities,
just as they had delayed the establish
ment of the parcel post for more than
generation. When the ship purchase
bill was up he said he favored the bill
which was passed by the ship trust.
1t was war measure, an emergency
measure. A measure that had for its
purpose the furnishing of transporta-
ton of our lumber, our cotton, our
phosphate, and he helped to kill it on
a parliamentary vote. Now what do
you think of that? Don't you think
he had a very technical mind? Don't
you think my friends we have a little
too much of this parliamentary tactics,
senatorial criticism, whereas, why's
and so forths, and too little regarding
corporation platform on which he was
elected to office? It reminds me of a
fellow once who bought a wolf dog
and went out to catch a wolf They
| after him. The man met a farmer and
said did you see wolf and a dog
Farmer. 'Iow were they?'' well
replied the farmer. The dog was a
little in the Lead
Mr. Bryan got after the corpora
tions and ever since 1t looks like the
corporations have had him in the lead
| He said he Is conscientious and honest
about it.. I don't doubt that my
honesty and sincerity, but so was the
dog honest and sincere: He was hon
est and sincere when he started the
wolf and a blamed sight more wher
the wolf got after him.
Now, the next man we have up az
one of my opponents is our handsome
governor. The governor said that VS.
did not need a hardware man In Wash.
ington, that we need a statesman.
am a hardware man. I make a living
out of hardware. On the same rule hi
is a statesman. He makes a living
out of the state. He has been doins
That is one theory. Then another the
DRY. A fellow was down the stree
one day with a dog and another mai
said What is your dog good for?
He is a bear dog" How do yol
known IT know because he ain
worth cuss for anything else" Tina
is another theory. He acknowledge
that he is a statesman. That is twt
theories. The constitution of Florid
forbids that a Governor shall succee'
himself What Is the spirit of tina
law? To keep the Governor out o
politics. This constitution of ours wa
passed in 1885 by men who have nov
gotten old, men who had been through
| the Civil war, men who had bee
through the carpet bag days, men VIII
had high ideals of public service an
public duty, and their conception OF
governor was a man who was abov
petty politics, party politics II yo
please, a leader of the people, ma
we could look up to and lean on, an
I defy any living man to show wher
Governor Trammeu ever led anything
I ask you to go to his own home cit
and county and find where he ever pu
two bricks, one on top of the othe
ever made two blades of grass grow !
place of one, ever took any part in th
constructive work In that section
He is a professional politician. pur
and simple. His friends say he is