The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-03-17
A JOURNALISTIC YAHOO

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Those who have read Gulliver's
Travels will recall Gulliver's adven-
lures with the Yahoos-a race of fl
| thy beasts resembling men and having
all their vices. Among their many
other vices and disgusting habits, the
Yahoos would befoul their own quar-
ters and thought it great sport to
climb trees and sprinkle Gulliver
with their filth.
! Now it seems that some of these
Yahoos or their descendants escaped
from the land where they were found
by Gulliver, came to Florida and
started a newspaper Republican
newspaper-the Florida Post, pub
lished at Winter Park. 1ney were
not recognized at first, being taken
for respectable members of the hu-
man family and were treated as such
by the people generally and the news
paper fraternity in particular.
However, with the first issue of the
Post, the secret was out, for true to
their instinct they climbed a tree
and sprinkled their eXcreta upon all
native Floridians-who were called
"degenerates, scions of the former in
habitants, who were sent over from
Spain and England when Florida was
a penal colony" Next they directed
their attention to the Democratic edi-
tors of South Florida, branding them
as grafters and political Judases.
Possibly 80 percent of the editors
in South Florida are of northern
BIRTH" says the Post, and continues
"Of that number, 95 percent were
good and influential Republicans in
the community where they hailed |
from. Coming to Florida, they
have bought out newspapers and i'm
commenced issuing Demo-
cratic papers, not because of the love
of the party or for the principles it
stands for, but for the sake of the
dollar that is in it and given to them
n the form of tax lists, county print
ng and different sorts of emolu-
nents. When the general election -
ime comes around these same self
ppointed Democrats vote the nation
l Republican ticket every time and
rag about it. .
Two of the small-fry editors, one e
nown as Carl Rerick, editor of the S
ade City Banner, and Paul NJ. Mil o
)rd, editor of the Punta Gorda Her il
Id, are from the State of Indiana Il
nd were both good Republican edi- e
RS in their native state, but before g
lying their respective sheets got
I'D feet and announced that in the fl
lture they would support the Demo- lt
attic party in Florida for what there CT
as in it," a
Florida a penal colony! All ma a
We Floridians the sons and daugh- a
RS of thieves, murderers and other Ii
'iminals banished from Spain and Il
ngland! (How do you like that, n
nyway, you native Florida Republi-
ans?) Nearly 80 percent of South "
lorida editors former good and in L
uential Republicans in their native e
tates but now running Democratic Z
apers in order to get political pa 0
ronage and different sorts of emol- t
ments!" (Some boost for the char o
cter of RepublicansD The editor of p
he Herald a native of Indiana! And
/ Republican! S
These quotations give an insight
nto the character of the Post and an
dea of how much dependence may be
placed in statements on any subject
made by it. The editor of the Her
aid never saw Indiana, never held a
more important position than news
editor on a Republican paper, never
voted the Republican ticket in his life
and his name is not Milford. These
lies are like the father that begets
them: Gross as mountain, open
and were it possible to do
so it would be needless to ATTEMPT
to disprove the remainder of them.
The Post, having bespattered over !
$4,000 native Floridians and the ,
Democratic editors of South Florida. 8