The Ocala banner., 1922-03-31
BRYAN AND THE FLORIDA CRACK
Err

The Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindealer
says that Bryan should be elected to
the United States senate from Florida
to succeed Park Trammell The Los
Angeles (Calif.) Express likewise; al
so the Philadelphia (Penn) Public
Ledger. Now let us hear from the
Florida Cracker on the subject at the
June primaries. What he will do for
the opinion of the three papers men
toned will be a plenty.-Gadsden
County Times.
All of which may be true. Things
just as merciless have happened all
through the pages of history to long
list of those whose lives were devot-
ed to the uplift of humanity and the
betterment of the world
Socrates was given hemlock; Caesar
was assassinated; Calico was put in
"sackcloth and ashes and made to
renounce his theory of the rotundy
of the earth; Columbus was taken
back to Spain in chains; Raleigh was
executed; Stephen was stoned; John
the Baptist was beheaded; ST. Paul
was bruised, beaten and imprisoned
and Christ was crucified.
So why should Bryan escape?
All his life he has devoted his tai
ents to the cause Of the common peo-
pie, striving with might and main to
place the man above the dollar in or
der that there should not be pressed
down on the brow of the toiling mil
lions a crown of thorns and that man
kind should not be crucified on
cross of gold.
So if what the Florida Cracker"
does to him will be a plenty" his
tory will be only repeating itself.
To which the Gadsden County
Times makes the following reply:
Quoting what the Times had to
say against the foreign propaganda for
w. j. Bryan and what is likely to hap
pen to that gentleman at the hands of
the Florida Cracker" in the June
primary should he make bold to con-
test for a seat in the United States
senate, the Ocala Banner opines
things just as merciless have hap
pened," and then proceeds to compare
the orator of the Platte with Socra-
ties, Caesar, Calico, Columbus, Ra-
leigh, Stephen, John the Baptist. ST.
Paul and Jesus Christ. Just why Ma
poleon, Gladstone, Alexander, Angus
tus and a dozen other wen who have
had large part in shaping the desti-
nies of the world and in making his
tory were omitted we neither know
nor question. The Banner, in common
with several other newspapers and
individuals, seems to hold to the opin-
ion that in order that this govern
ment, planted by the sword of Wash
/ ington and washed by the blood of
/ Lincoln, might not perish from the
earth Bryan must be sent from Flor
ida to the United States senate If a
man whose words are usually empty
wagons, that, like Tennysons brook,
ran on forever, but bear no freight, is
! to be the savior of our country one
can easily understand how imperial
Rome was saved-the invaders fed
( lest the self-constituted sentinels talk
them TO death"
/ 1t will be seen that the Banner did
not liken Mr.. Bryan to any of the
names noted by the Times.
| 1t simply said that if the plain peo-
pie of Florida, whom the Times re-
ferred TO as the Crackers" would do
him plenty that the treatment
would not be unlike the treatment
meted out to so many all along down
the centuries who had devoted their
time and talents for the uplift of hui
manity and the betterment of the
world in so many ways.