The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-06-07

proud u The record that he mad made
as state ATTORNEY ana was wiling 10
lie judged by MS public record and
private lie Thai one could not Re
! completely anu eminentIy successful
without receiving some hard Anocas
.iand that few mad recsved harder
fknocas than himself
That ne had passed through ne
school Of experience and mad largely
teen the architect Of bis own for.
tune That after a nard days woTB
he studied law By the Pickering
flames of a ightwood kno1 fire IL
stead of a brilliant electric bulb and
The record of his convictions would
tell the story Of MS eonduct n Of
fee.
He read the letter ne addressed to
Governor Cats asking for the reap
pointment of JuTge Bullock fer Judge
Of the circuit He also read a tele
gram lie has but recently received
from Governor Cats saying: You
did not apply g me fo- Judge Bul-
LOCKS place ! talked Of giving i
to you myself voluntarily
Thai. Mr. Scoheld said, ough; 70
dispose Of that canaTd which mas
teen circulated for pure tuncomb
and is political tuu pc and
simple
Nr. Scoheld scored Bill t7ichs v no
! mad made an AFFIDAVIT saying That
be Gr Scofeldi had sent nm TO
Tallahassee il MS interest 10 ron
Judge Bullock cut cf his job He
said that Hicks vas one Of TWO only
who mad voted against driving liquor
out Of Inverness and he mac denoun-
ced him 10 his face a Crystal River
as liar
i nave given you more han four
years OF good, faithful service why
kic6 ne out 70 put an untried man
in?
! Mr. scofeld eniyened lis speech
with number OF anecdotes all Of
which we're wen ,o1d
Nr Fred l Stringe1 ct Brownsville
/ was next introduced in d most pleas,
ing manner by The chairman
Nj. Stringer said mat III. Scofeld
had gwen himself about as nigh a
Recommendation as the old negro ne
told about in ene Of his anecdotes
He also said that he was now about
as scared IS ne ratuit he has told
about N 50 many OF his speeches He
said he mas hin on q big run.
He SAID that N5 scofeld mad said
that il was perhaps all night for the
other fellow" 10 tell tnlngs On his
opponen, but mat il was another
hing 20 prove them
! He hen preceded 20 read q num-
/ Der Of sworn affdayits from quite
number Of persons al claiming
that Mr.. Scoheld tried 70 'roI Judge
Bullock for MS jop" although the
Judge was the regular nominee Of the
democratic voters Of the district
One Of these affdavits was from
Mr. William Hicks. another was
from Mr. Weeks, another was from
Mr. ] c Davant Of Brooksville and
still another was from Judge Bullock
himself
Mr.. Stringer said mat i Mr Hicks
was liar that ne was found in
mighty good company and ne wanted
10 know how many who knew Judge
Bullock would believe that lie would
swear falsely IN a matter Of this
kind
Among other things that Judge
Bullock said in an AFFIDAVIT that
would occupy more than 4 column of
space Of this paper, was the follow
ing:
Governor Cats said
The next day after he inaugur;.-
ton Mr. Scofeld came into my office
and after an exchange OF few re-
marks, said TO ne: Governor, what
are you going to do with Judge Bull
lock To which the governor said
he replied; What am ! going 10 do
with Judge Bullock? Well, what about
Judge Bullock? What do you mean
about to do with Judge Bullock 2 ;
Mr.. Scofeld said What are you
going TO do about appointing the
judge?' To which the governor re-
Piled: oh, well, that matter has new