The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-12-05
SENATOR TRAMMELL 'SEXP[ [ANAT|ON On
VOTE AGAINST UNDERWOOD RESOLUTIONS
Senator Vardaman of Mississippi was
easily deceived with the same idea.
Both know better now.

C6uUOF tHdt IL S0IdIOF ITdHlmeI CO4
tinues to affiliate with Reed, Gore
and those who consorted with Hard
wick and Vardaman. (all implaceable
enemies of the administration he
will find himself keeping company
with them after the senatorial elec
tion in 1922.
If the senator will pardon us may
we ask how he got those letters so
great in number from so many sec
tiOns of the state as to cause him
for a moment to believe that the SEN
timent of Florida is back of him in his
Joining the Reed and Gore crowd.
and in doing so giving encouragement
to Lodge, Borah and other admins
tratiOn haters, and yet failed TO get
the open letter addressed to him
by the editor of this paper?
He was absent from his post in
Washington but short time, so how
did his host of admirers in all parts
of Florida know that he was going to
spend his short vacation in Tampa,
Lakeland and Orlando?
To those in pursuit of certain things
sometimes a mere handful appears =
legion.
His numbers" may have been like
General Grants pack of bowling
wolves" which he estimated from the
noise they made must be- several
hundred, when in reality there We're
only two.
We think it entirely safe to say
that the senator has got a wrong
grip upon the sentiment of the people
OF Florida.
II the Banner and its editor are out
OF harmony with the sentiment of the
people of Florida on the league of
nations, then Senator Fletcher is out
Of harmony with the sentiment which
prevails here, for in their votes on
the ratification Of the league of na-
tions the two senators are at cross
purposes.
Both cannot have the sentiment OF
the state behind them.
Besides obtaining his opinion of the
sentiment which prevails here from
letters and oral expressions Senator
Fletcher read and needed the reso-
lutions adopted by the camps of Con-
federate Veterans invarious parts of
the state and at the reunion held in
Atlanta. He knows that those old
Confederates know what war is; tina:
they want to put stop to it, not only
at our own doors but throuhgout the
world.
Senator Fletcher put himself in
touch With the resolutions adopted by
the American Legion at their organi.
zatfon in Jacksonville, many OF
whose members had just returned
from the CORY fields of France and
were eye witnesses to the horrors
and havoc of war, and advised the
ratification of the league of nations
without it's emasculation.
Senator Fletcher put himself in pos.
session also of the resolutions adopt
ed by the Florida State Press Asso-
citation as being somewhat in harmony
with the sentiment which obtains in
Florida as to the ratification of the
league OF nations without nullifying
ii with reservations.
Then, too, he read of the almost
universal action of the various Chris
tian denominations In this state and
the prevailing sentiment Of the noble
women as expressed in their various
assemblies.
He knows that the anguish caused
by war falls most heavily upon them
But more than all this, Senator
Fletcher is sound enough democrat
to know that Reed and Gore are the
hateful enemies of Woodrow Wilson,
and mat is the controlling motive
which actuates them in thus throw
ing stumbling blocks in his way in
their efforts to~make his administr,p
tion a failure and weaken hini IN
popular estimation.
Here is a measure that is very dear
TO the heart Of the president, one who
has been twice elected as the chief
executive of the nation, and is as
dear TO the hearts of millions OF oth
ers; and here, too, is resolution PIE.
pared by Mr.. Underwood with the
presidents sanction. and let II be re
membered that Mr.. Underwood re-
ceived the almost unanimous support
of the democrats OF Florida for the
presidential nomination in 1912. and