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

h!bition bill was up at the last legis-
lature, he was writing messages every
day to the legislature about every
nary word about prohibition. He
was running for congress then in the
First Congressional District and
Tampa was in that district and conf
centrally they drink a little liquor in
It reminds me of fellow who was
about to die and sent for a minister.
you viii soon be called on to face the
great Judge 81 know it." 81 am
6Slag 70 Prag going w to st gqp w wopid
nouncing the devil and all his works"
Now parson that is all very well for
my condition can't AFFORD to make any
new antagonists" He could rot afford
to antaonize the German vote. He
could not afford to antagonize the
whiskey vote in Tampa. You know
At home belong to a hunting sIab.
we have q lot of hounds and among
old and toothless. He never did run
very fast and never did have much
sense but he would always run and
run and run, and because OF MS per-
sistence and perseverance in running,
now for the sake of old days, when we
turn out our dogs We turn out old
fox and are sitting on our horses we
will hear in the distance the dog and
somebody would say, Here comes old
And here comes General Gilchrist.
General Gilchrist starts in this race
under two hats. his own hat and his
to keep up with me he had better
throw both away and run 1t bare
headed, for that is the way ! am run
ming. Running like the fellow they
had up in court in a shooting affair.
They asked him did you see him
shoot?" Yes sir" did you see him
shoot the SECOND ,v tim ne; n. no sir.
something that was running
You have all seen the old gentle
mans circular. and you will note ne
seems that he descended from Adam
and Eve and Noah and Washington
and Madison and a lot of men ana
women distinguished and now dead.
Well you know there are ancestors
and ancestors. Some people are proud
and some they are not.
Last week, for instance, ] have a
little negro girl just employed in. my
any ancestors?' And she said, mo
sir, my mother combed them all out
So he had better comb ancestors
| and all ideas thereof out of his head
If he expects to win this race be-
cause this is a mans job and the man
who wins is going to win on his own
| intelligence, and the ancestors OF GEN
eral Gilchrist, whether dead or living,
| same circular, he said that had he
! lived in any but q southern state he
would have been candidate for che
| presidency. Well I am glad he lives
| in a southern state. 1t is too bad
! that he has gotten bigger than the
| South but I am glad because would
from the presidency at this critical
| moment, even by General Gilchrist.
But he ought not to let lit
tie thing like being born and raised
4 1@ TyI1rfH1 NJ xKyft n
| his ambition. He ought to initiate the
| example of another great general
/ Napoleon Bonaparte-born on the lit
tie Island of Corsica. almost man
| without a country. General CdlchriSt
| should 60 TO Washington, take his three
monkeys with him, wipe the stars on the
flag and emblazon the three monkeys
| thereon as emblems of American in
| telligence.
MY frinds, I have referred to all OF
! these opponents of mine for two pur-
poses. Partly to entertain you and
| chiefly to bring out what they hold
| We are all taking care Of ourselves
And that brings US back to where we
| started and that was I asked you tC
take care of yourselves. General Gil
christ announced against Senator
| then retired from the race and sold
| his information to Fletcher for S25S.1S
/ Fletcher paid him S25s.00 too much
| but If Fletcher was a good senator
against him. II ne was a bad sen.
ator he should not have sold out t.
him. Senator Bryan has never ex
planned to you, my. friends, why ht
tried to lay down this great Office o,
United States senator. Governor Tram
nell has not explained why he leaves
the office where he is paid $4,000 {
month and given mansion to live II
and runs for two Offices Surely i
you had a man to do anything q
business you would discharge him. M,
ideal of public officer is one whC
not only discharges the paid duties
Of his Offices such as appointing hi
friends to office, but who recognizes
the moral and political obligation t
the people of Florida a s whole, ant
when he commits public act Of an!
Of these men have explained thes
things to you. Surely / am not setunf
, too high standard for these ,grea
statesmen to measure up to, when.
ask them to at least conform to tn
, rules of business and business Justice
J and business courtesy that we denan'
! | from employees In business ana
professional life.
/, platform here and I am going to onl
discuss one of its points. The poin
I am going to discuss briefly is on
! that Is always with us. 1t Is Xix
! death and taxes, we never get ava
. 7 from #, and that Is prohibition.
7 am the best prohibitionist that thi
: State ever produced. came just a
3 near establishing absolute prohtbitio
: in Florida as any living man-o
drinking IL ali myself. And l cam
I very near succeeding but I went dow
to Cuba and they make liquor out 9
{ cane skimnings in Cuba and 1t GO
I ! the best Of me.
J am like the fellow that Wake
into Memphis and said 81 can Whi
+ any man in the City of Memphis.
+ Nobody disputed It and he said i ca
4 whip anybody in Shelby County" NC
3 body had anything to say so he sal
4 Il can whip any man in the State {
4 | Tennessee" and q man knocked hil
I down He got up and said II CUES
z took in too much territory ths
:, time" So 1 took IN too much terri
' tory when I annexed the Island
\ Cuba on the liquor business, and
n cult and quit for good, and haven
q had a drink for years. But Al
4 against National prohibition. becaus
a I believe in the right OF the people {
8 the different States to govern then
!, selves in all matters wherein 1t ca
y he done by them in q practical wa,
4 I believe in legislation that will Pre-