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that he told the committee mat lney
should have a hearing or he would
break trace in his efforts to see that
Justice was done them.
If any OF you cattle fellows are ar
rested and convicted for not dipping
your cattle, if you will bring your case
10 my attention, he said, Will grant
Won 2 pardon if it is the last act NJ
my life.
he said that Senator Fletcher could
have mad the two Florida regiments
that went 70 France sent as Florida
regiments. and not thrown with an
hundred other divisions, and thus
robbing Florida Of her distinction, and
making i a greater hardship on her
soldier boys.
II Fletcher is unable % ger appro-
priations for Florida shipping, al
though on the committee, why, he
asked. does ne not go 70 Some of his
"plute" friends and get i from them?
The governor got very little ap-
plause except when ne told an occa-
slonal anecdote.
He repeated many times That he
was cracker" and that I'VE crack
ers ought 10 stand together"
He related that ne was II New York
on one occasion, adm went 10 one Of
the swell restaurants, and sal by
man who called for ''grits and gravy"
The waiter said there were nc grits.
Wen then. ne said, bring me some
hominy ane gravy. TWO eggs fried on
both sides and ne put the eggs or the
hOminy and poured 4 dish q gravy
over the whole and plunged q the
task ny energeticaIy using his
knife 70 get rid OF it. the govern
or clasped him by. the hand and ex-
claimed that ne knew ne was Flor
ida cracker" and told him that he
was one himself; told the waiter to
repeat the order, and those TWO
crackers" showed that sven bunch
what good eating really was. and now
IT ought 10 be done.
AS his propaganda story" if told
in many audiences, is destined TO be-
come famous, we hope our readers viii
pardon as for producing it.
The governor said that Pat O'Brien
was an Irishman who had married
widow with six children. She and Pat
had been married a number OF years
but had been blessed with no Off
spring. Pat was hearing a good deal
about propaganda" of various sorts,
and as his wife in her younger days
had been a school teacher, he thought
he would ask her what it meant: So
one day ne said TO her: And Mary,
what is this thing they call propa-
ganda, hear so much about ?" His
wife didn't know its meaning, and told
Pat that she would give him it's full
meaning when he came home to din
she was compelled to improvise
meaning, or confess her ignorance.
So she said: Pat, it is this way:
had six children by my first HUSBAND
but none by you. So am what might
be called a proper goose, but you are
not a proper gander."
Someone asked if the governor
would return 10 0tala by auto He
was told that he would take the Sea-
board Limited. and proceed immedi-
ately TO Tallahassee.
But the Seaboar1 Limited does not
stop at Oxford" said the inquirer
mo, but the governor has wired for
ii TO stop. The REQUEST is in the ma
ture Of a peremptory order, and it will
hardly be disregarded; he is the gov
ernOr that does things"
The governor hurried to the station
with a number of his friends accom-
panying him. He took a commanding
position at the front of the platform,
but the train whizzed by.
His friends were dumbfounded-tha
one-eye had lost its paralyzing pow.
or.
Attorney General Van swearingen
will be asked TO ramsack the law
books 10 ascertain. if the charter of
the Seaboard Air Line Railway can
not be annulled.
After the governors retirement Sen
ator CallSins of Fernandina, who is
candidate for attorney general, was in
troduced, after fitting eulogy by the
master Of ceremonies. The young
senator evidently made a hit. He has
face that speaks volumes of what IS
behind H. has clAar and fasoinatino