The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-03-11
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that he is not, and in long that Tram /
nell is the better man for the job.
Thus it was that Frank Clark |
handled the same question about
twenty years ago. but he answered, |
in short, that he was, and in long that |
he was the better man for the job.
The people were then more inter
ested in the long part than in the
short part; so the long and the short
of it is that Clark went in by big ma
jorities, where he is still long on the
long part and his people long for him
yet.
So let US have more of the long and
less of the short. Hence, less of the
law and more of the facts.
| First, you raise the question that
if Bryan ran he would be asking the
people to help him violate provision
of our state constitution, which is
shrouded in doubt by the national
constitution and by ancient usage
fully concurred in by our voters.
] / fear, Mr. Editor, that of all our
friends who have sat in the legisla
ture since 1900 few, if any, have not
voted for unconstitutional laws. For
these derelictions, in most cases,
others were made to suffer substantial
injury. | am a poor champion for
any friend who is free to venture upon
such ground where private, or public,
injury may result; but the point you
raise is at best doubtful and if injury
results it must be cast on the public
by majority vote.
Second, while Trammell was COVER
, nor Judge N. P. Bryan was senator
and the latter had Pete Dignan, a
Catholic, appointed postmaster for
, Jacksonville; hence, the advent into
politics of Cats, guardians of liberty
, and labor unions. So, Cats, Van
Swearingen & Company took the field
, against Judge Bryan to make political
! capital of the anti Catholic vote and
they needed man to beat the judge
for the Senate; hence, Trammell was
, made the tail to- balance their politi-
4 cal kite.
Judge Bryan, in his first race fol-
, the Senate, was supported by Tram.
NELL, but the latter then joined the
3 firm of Cats, Van Swearingen ano
O Company and beat the judge for re.
2 election because the latter was toe
Catholic in his views. After Tram
,. NELL got to the Senate on that issue
i he voted, in 1920, to elevate Judge
o Bryan to life position, as United
a States Judge, in a court second onl.
to the greatest legal tribunal in thu
world. This was the same Judge Bry
an whom Trammell and his friend!
had just led the public to believe pos
lsessed dangerous pro-Catholic views
e thus was admitted that, which il
g otherwise abundantly proved, viz
that in the political year 1916 NOR
IL than one Don Quixote won the da.
> with the wind mills.
" At that time I was informed by re
liable people that most of the church
% goers, business men and propert.
l. owners in Jacksonville, Tampa, Pen
r sacola and other larger cities vote'
against Cats and Trammell, who's
III vote thefore came, in the main, from
T. union labor, and people who took litt1
s. interest in either religion, or morals
except to damn Catholics. Thes
statements were to some extent con
firmed by my own observations an
by the figures shown in the return
s. of the primary for 1916 and the re
'e turns in preceding primaries whe
If the same Judge Bryan and the sam
10 Trammell were before the people fo
* nomination. In 1916 Judge Bryan &c
s. as many votes, or more, than pre-
g viously from the rural parts, wher
N Trammell had formerly been strong
4 est, but that year the city votes bea
v. Judge Bryan and shifted heavily
$. Trammell.
&c In truth, Mr.. Editor, of all tn
political dramas so far presented
er our history that one in 1916 must b
ne most humiliating to the pride of on
n citizens. With no party platform
es eliminate false and fiuke issues tn
er quacks and the mountebanks roc
Is into power.
ne One is thus reminded of the exclf
n nation of the jester, Trinculo, in tn
drama, "The Tempest" "They So
there are but five upon the isle; W
are three of them; if the other two /
Drained like US the state totters." "
ca had then before US the Trinculo an
a the Caliban, and their friends appear
re ed to working in accord with thos
" of Sentaor Trammell, who certainl
cK cannot now boast of anything whle
III happened in the year 1916.
IN If Trammell has no opposition h
10 will announce no platform, good
m bad. / am one who does not like
In be blindfolded when | vote.
So, let William Jennings Brya
come into the race, and may the be:
man win. Sincerely yours,
William Hooker.