The Pensacola journal., 1920-03-16

should do away with the institutions that de-
signed to dsperse ignorance and prejudice. and
close all avenues to advancement.
I'VE should not call for funds for good roads.
We should contemplate improvements.
We should be willing to take our sodden place in
that state of life that we would indicate we prefer
if. by any chance. select any but the best to
represent US in the great senate Of these United
States"
The statement Of the Miami Herald is little
broad, but it is interesting as it shows the strong
feeling that there is in the agains the Cats
regime; just as the letter from Mr. Peters is inter-
esting, in showing the attitude of a man who con-
fessedly has been in this state only short time,
and is not yet fully conversant with conditions
here.
Again Mr.. Peters feelingy says: please tell me
where in the constitution the United States
give the senate the power to close schools abol-
ism roads, etc." Nowhere. far as we know. Nor
have we ever claimed that it did.
Far from taking offense at the remarks of Mr.
Peters. The Journal has found much that is inter-
esting in his letter 1t always interesting to have
a stranger come into state and pass judgment on
problems affecting the state and which the people
OF the state have difficulty in settling 1t is
ly always an easy matter for outsider to adjust
differences of this kind, when not hampered with
the impediments of inside information
As for The Journals attitude towards Mr.. Cats.
it is and has always been. unalterably opposed to
him. The Journal supported Mr.. Knott in the past
gubernatorial campaign believing that what this
state needed was a good business man at its head.
The writer of this editorial was acquainted with
the record Of Mr. Cats long before he entered
the for the governship lived in the same town
with him; knew personally Of his uncouth ways
and believed at the time, and believes now, that he
is first, last and always for Cats
Mr.. Cats has a way of making bombastic
speeches, but when his statements are investigated
they frequently discredited.
In his speech in Pensacola recently he attempted
to lay the blame Of the pneumonia epidemic at
Camp Wheeler upon Senator Fletcher; he attempted
to prove that it through the influence of Cats
that the leper colony was not located in Florida.
To those who not informed, these statements
might make appeal. But the newspaper editors
have only to consult their files to know that these
assertions untrue.
Senator Fletcher more to blame for the
pneumonia epidemic at Camp Wheeler than Cats
deserved credit for preventing the location of a
leper colony Of the Florida keys. These
statements had about much to back them, as
did the statement that Cats elected, he would
have the president. vice. president and members of
congress to spend two weeks in Florida at his in
vitation.
II this state wants man to represent her who
will make the nation laugh because of his antics
and buffonery, if want who is blasphem-
Gus enough to say that the common people of this
state have three friends: Sears -Roebuck, Jesus
Christ and Catts;' then will send Cats to the
senate. But Cats will not go to the senate with
out the protest of the of this stae who are
acquainted with his record.
The Journal intends to publish any editorial
expressions which. in its opinion. will aid in expos
ing Cats for what he is; untitled to repre-
sent the people, either their chief executive
in the senate of the United States to which he is
aspiring
The Journal believes. with the Baltimore Sun,
that IF like Governor Cats of Florida can
be elected from that state to the United States SEN
ate, such platform his and by virtue Of such
appeals his the belief in the saving grace
of democracy will receive extremely severe
shock. He is making his canvass in brutal and
undisguised appeals to ignorance, prejudice and
class feeling. A lower. more blatant or more bias
phemous campaign of demagogy never staged
in this country. Sockless' Simpson never came
anywhere it: Blease's methods were refined in
comparison, Vardaman a knightly figure, con-
trasted to the new political hero of Florida" To
this we most cordially subscribe