The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03
Everglades Drainage, Pros
hibition, Economy, and
Lower Taxation.
SAYS PEOPLE TRIUMPHEDa
Schools, Shipping Laws, Re-
call. Initiative and
Referendum.

Tallahassee, Jan. 2.-Before a
cheering crowd, estimated at nearlyi
5000 people, from many differents
parts of the state, men women and4
children, rich and poor, old and young,,
and following one of the most spec =
tacular parades ever witnessed on
Tallahassee's classic hills, Sidney J s
Cats, taking the oath of office ash
governor Of the Commonwealth OF
Florida, delivered his inaugural adj
dress, outlining his policies and pay!
ing one of the most glowing trihutess
to Florida and democracy that has
ever been heard
Mr.. Cats said:
"Citizens of Florida: This is ths<
supreme hour of your triumph, to
have gained this victory over all
the forces of opposition so masterfuIs
and strong as were those that stood
arrayed against you; and to have
withstood them and conquered them,,
places this hour of your success with
the historic ones, when the people
of England raised Cromwell to peer,
or when the citizens of France Desc
/ lated the feudal system in the reiec-
ton of the Catholic hierarchy, and
the kingcraft Of that age, by tho
French revolution, or when the COLI
onies of America stood by Thomas
Jefferson as he gave to the world the!
supremest bill of mans rights, thes
Declaration of independence.
NYour triumph is no less in this
good hour in beautiful Florida, forl
you have withstood the onslaughts
of the county and state political
rings, the vast corporations, and the
railroads, the fierce opposition of the
daily and weekly press, and organize
ton of the negro voters Of the state
| against you, the judiciary of the state
partisan to your needs, and the powers
of the Roman Catholic hierarchy
against you. Yet over all these the
common people of Florida, the every-.
day masses of the cracker people.
have triumphed, and the day of your
apotheosis has arrived, and you can
/ say, as said the ancient Hebrew de-
voice, Lift UP your gates, and be
We lifted up, We everlasting DOORS.
and let the Lord of Glory in. Who
is this Lord Of Glory? The Lord God
of Hosts, He is the King of Glory. y
In my days of fervid youthful
imagination / have often wondered
what could be the browning achieve
ment of human ambition, and have
pictured some things which might
satiate human power, or crown ambi-
tons desire. ] have imagined that
to be a great Rothschild Of finance
and hold the riches of a hemisphere,
in my hands, or to be a Morgan and
listen to the monetary praise of the
Americas, while crowned heads and
potentates of the old world bowed to
my financial requests, would be the
! need of human endeavor, or the goal
of mans distinction. / have dreamed
that to be great preacher like John
the Baptist, Christmas Evans, John
Knox and Charles Wesley, or the
superb Talmage, and sway the masses
of mankind to repentance and ito
tears before the Christ, and the
throne of the Supernal, would be the
supremest achievement of the race,
and the erowning event of mans
lofty ambitions. ! have sometimes
! thought that to be a great traveller
and stand on Sahara's scorching bor-
ders or amid the arctic's polar SHOWS
and hear the gaunt wolf far-flung on
Alaska's barren shore, or stand on
ship deck beneath the equater's lurid
touch and gaze at night upon the
splendor of the southern cross, or
: rest at monday upon the lofty
6 height of the Andes or the SHOWS
crowned peaks of the Himalayas, OF
Sail upon the Rhine and Rhorle,
And view Mount Aetna's fiery side,
And see the Italian sunset sky,
Blend with the Adriatic Sea,
And hear the shout of fishermen,
Along the shores of Galilee.'
: could crown every ambition as a