The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-13
ALAS. POOR FLORIDA


ney j. Cats is at present visiting
Washington, and it is said the object
Of his trip is to present further pleas
for the pardon of his brother-in-Iaw,I
Blake Campbell, who was sent to the
federal penitentiary at Atlanta for
robbing Montgomery bank of thou
sands of dollars. 1t was in behalf of
Campbell, Alabaman, that the gov
ernor wrote an insulting letter to the
attorney general of the United States,
in which he threatened TO run for the
presidency because Woodrow Wilson
refused to throw the burdens of war
aside and pardon man who had ad-
mitted his guilt.
Gov. Cats, erstwhile minister of
the gospel, has disrupted the board
Of control of state institutions by de-
manding the election of Joe L. Ear
man, who quit the whisky business
when he saw that business was DOOM
ed by public sentiment, and assumed
control of the higher educational in
stitutions of Florida, including the
University of Florida and the Flor
ida College for Women. Earman, who
always refused to drink the stuff he
sold to other men, aided the governor
in his campaign. He was at the time
in the liquor business. The governor
recently admitted in a speech that the
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liquor men had furnished money to
the Free Press, his Jacksonville or
gan, thereby contributing to his
(Catts9 election. Therefore, it seems
that he would pay his debt to the Ii
quor men by forcing Earman upon
other members of the board of con-
troll, one or more of whom resigned
when the governors wishes became
known. This is the attitude of man
who claims the right to preach the
gospel.
Gov. Cats has recently secured the
appointment of man named Rhodes,
a Tennesseean, as manager of the
Florida State Market Bureau. He not
only went out of the state to get q
man for this position, but, it is said,
appointed rank republican to an i'm
portant office in a democratic state
that is, state which was supposed to
| be democratic until Sidney j. Cats
was elected governor. Mr.. Rhodes is
said to have run for Congress in a
Il 80, nj %ho ac4 a1n
ton, making his race on the republi-
can ticket. 1t is also said that he
would have contested the election had
the republican party secured control
of the House of Representatives AS
that dream was not realized, he gets
"balm of Gilead" from Governor Cats
in the shape of the position which he
; now holds, and to which he is in nc
, wise entitled.
!, Gov. Cats Gusts Sheriff Bowling
/, of Duyal county from an Office tt
which he was elected and replace:
8 him with Henry Hayes Lewis of Jack
: son county, who had never voted il
5 Duval county, and who lost his posi-
ton as collector of internal revenu'
! for Florida as result of exercising
: his vocal organs against the rules O
Y the department.
1t is said that Governor Cats con
n templates firing" officers of Monro
: county, of which Key West is tn
r seat, because they failed to give tn
S Island City cleanup" in two weeks
a also that he will replace these official
with political friends.
Gov. Cats sent an asinine letter t
Richard Henry Edmonds, editor 0
the Manufacturers Record an
{ staunch friend of Florida, suggesting
! that he (Edmonds) get up an arm
e of Marylanders and come down t
a Florida and see what he (Catts
n would do to them. This in respons
h to request from Mr.. Edmonds, mad
s to governors of other southern states
a for information relative to the state
f preparation for war against Gel
IS many.
Ell This is the Cats way of governin
r our state.
Poor Florida!