The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-03-14

union labor, and people who took little
interest in either religion, or morals,
except to damn Catholics These
statements were to some extent con-
firmed by my own observations and
by the figures shown in the returns
of the primary for 1916 and the re-
turns in preceding primaries when
the same Judge Bryan and the same
Trammel were before the people for
nomination. In 1916 Judge Bryan got
as many votes, or more, than pre-
viously from the rural parts, where
Trammell had formerly been strong
est, but that year the city votes beat
Judge Bryan and shifted heavily to
Trammell.
In truth, Mr.. Editor, of all the
political dramas so far presented in
our history that one in 1916 must be
most humiliating to the pride of our
citizens. With no party platform to
eliminate false and fiuke issues the
quacks and the mountebanks rode
into power.
One is thus reminded of the excla-
nation of the jester, Trinculo, in the
drama, "The Tempest" "They say
there are but FIVE upon the isle; we
are three of them; if the other two be
Drained like US the state totters" We
had then before US the Trinculo and
the Caliban, and their friends appear
ed to working in accord with those
of Sentaor Trammell, who certainly
cannot now boast of anything which
happened in the year 1916.-Hocker.
We join with you, Mr.. Hooker, in
disgust at the campaign of 1916, and
| will join you at any time in opposing
religious Or political bigotry, but it
seems to US that Mr.. Trammell has a
right smart less of the latter than
Mr.. Bryan. Also, we would remind
you that we should Judge Senator
Trammell not by what happened in
1916, but by his record as a senator
since. Will you kindly point out
wherein he has neglected the duties
of his office? Hasn't he made a good
working senator? Don't you really
think, now, he has more influence
with the other working senators than
Mr.. Bryan ever will have? And do
we not need working senators more
than we need word-geysers Editor.
If Trammell has no opposition he
will announce no platform, good or
bad. | am one who does not like to
be blindfolded when I vote.
! So, let William Jennings Bryan
come into the race, and may the best
man win.-Hocker.
According to your own confession,
Mr.. Hooker, you have been voting
blindfold for twenty years, and you
have borne up nobly. But you are not
blindfold about the law. And you
know that the only doubt about the
constitution of your state is the doubt
that you and other opponents of Park
Trammell are trying to cast upon it
| Nobody has cast any doubt on Mr..
Trammell's eligibility, and nobody has
ever known him to break the laws of
his state, or induce other people to
do so.
Sure, Mr. Bryan is coming into the
race-he is like Cats, who couldn't
get an Office in his own state, so came
to Florida. He thinks Floridians are
easy. And sometimes they are.
But when the campaign warns up
Park Trammell will take a little we'll
earned vacation, and come home, and
go around among the folks, and smile
and glad-hand, and show that genu.
inc interest he has in the people he
has lived and worked among all his life,
and they will rally around him, rally
once again. And when the votes are
lcounted it will be found that the best
man has won, and William J. Bryan
has added another stout, green sprig
to his wreath of willows. All the same
it is not fair, and it is not creditable
to democrats that man whose eligi.
bility is not questioned should have
to run against one whose eligibility
lis.-Editor.