The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-10-06
BITCH INTIMATEs
HE'S GOING TO BOLT
Montbrook, Oct. A, 1916.

Editor Star: That was a solar
plexus blow you handed me in reply
ing to my last article; however,
have gone out and borrowed birth
day almanac and pocket dictionary
ard am ready for you again. Let me
tell you, though, am getting con-
CALCULATIONS almost in every mail.
One man says, "Give him some more"
and IT think you will fade Benjamin;
another, IF you need any more litera-
ture, have it,; another, II look for
your and Benjamin's scrap first" but
all concede that you are one of the
best writer's in the state and / can see
a sympathetic feeling in all of them
for me and a fear that you may wipe
me off the face of the earth in argu-
ment before long.
Let's see; we have about lost sight
Of the Cats part of the question and
guess it is just as well as it is gem
orally conceded that he will. carry
every county in the state, including
the grand old county of Marion, and
before these lines are read we will
know what the courts will have done
for Mr.. Knott and as see it, it makes
no difference what the courts do the
people have made up their minds and
on the 7th day of November will
register the biggest vote for Mr..
Cats for governor that has ever been
given candidate in this state.
If the flag which is hoisted over
our battleships during religious SER
vices is distinctly American and was
fashioned and promulgated by Prot
estants, why waste so much space and
timeSin explaining it? / am frank to
say that am unable to give the
origin of it, however I have searched
the authority you refer to and have
been unable thus far to find any in
formation along this line. ] have
found the flags used by the United
States government in its various
branches for both land and naval
forces and am still unable to find this
flag which believe in some manner
represents Romanism. Will you kind
tly describe the pope's flag prior to
1870, also describe any flags used as
remnants to represent the pope or the
church.
During the investigation of the
Madison and Hamilton county recounts
before the supreme court, Justice FL
lis, speaking for the court, said in
substance there is no doubt in the
minds of the court that there has been
fraud perpetrated in Madison county,
and at this juncture Mr.. Adams, coun-
sci for Mr.. Knott, presented that ia
nous document requesting that he be
allowed to amend his bill by striking
Madison county from same. You, Mr..
Benjamin, may call this excitement
over the recount in Madison, but prac-
tically all of your readers who kept up
with the evidence submitted to the
court will call it fraud, fraud, fraud;
and wonder how many but will agree
with me in that Mr.. Knott would
never have asked to strike Madison
had the court not said we find fraud in
Madison, and Mr.. Knott's counsel was
shrewd enough to have his statement
ready in. the event this was the find
ing of the court so as to prevent the
findings of the court going out to the
public.
say all honor to the guardians of
the North. 1t was they who first felt
the crushing weight of the iron heel
oil the hierarchy and it was they who
organized themselves under this BAN
ner to combat this monster, which to-
day has practically within its grip
every city in the United States of over
$4,000 inhabitants, and many of our
state legislatures and our national
Congress.
You say it is natural for any Amer
lean to resent the idea of any church
or any foreign government controlling
his country and yet you do not see any
danger, when church boasts that it
has three million votes which it can
use at the proper time for the union
cf church and state, for the abolition
Of free speech and free press, for
the suppression of our public schools
and the establishment of parochial
schools in lieu thereof, with only un-
adulterated, 8-carat Catholic teachers;
with 10000 bachelor priests preying
on partially unsuspecting public;
with 10000 women under lock and key
in nunneries which only priests have
access to; with $4,000 millions of peo-
pie sworn to allegiance to a pope who
claims universal dominion and sworn
to obey code of laws which makes
them the foes of modern ideals and
practically everything that tends to
the uplift of the human family. I
could take up several columns of your
paper enumerating the many things
which feel the hierarchy is threaten
ing our liberties with, but what's the
use.
Mr.. Editor, it may be that am I'M
duly alarmed and hope that + am,
but from what see and hear on all
sides it really looks to me as if we
who are in the forefront of this fight
are almost asleep on picket duty.
J. S. Bitch.
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