The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-04-24
TO THE VOTERS

Mr.. Ladd's denying tifet report
THAT he favors taking any portion
OF Monroe County tertiary and
annexing it to any other county,
is entirely unnecessary.
Anyone who knows Mr.. Ladd,
knows that he would not favor
such a project.
It is also safe to say, that every
man, woman and child in Monroe
County would oppose taking from
this County . single acre of its
territory.
But that is not the question IN
volved in this election. The ques-
ton is, what man, woman or
child, in the County, is best equip
lped to prevent the taking of any
of our territory from US?
Dade County, with its wealth
land influence, favors the creation
of Redlands County, which is to
embrace a part of the Florida
Keys and the mainland portion of
Monroe County.
The people of Homestead, and
that vicinity are strongly in favor
lof it.
The newcomers living on Key
Largo, are in favor of it.
The. fight to create Redlands
County, will be one of the out.
standing battles of the next@legis-
llature, and If Monroe County is
not to lose in that tremendous
flight, we mnst--haxaa an ex-
Iperieueed man in the Senate.
Mr.. Laid is an extraordinarily
lgeod mani he is a most-hseful To-
cal man; he is a very public spirit
ed man; but unfortunately he has
mot Senator Malone's great ex-
perience in Legislative saatters;
he has not Senator Malone S strong
circle of friends in the Senate
he is not as familiar with Legis-
lative matters as Senator Malone,
nor is he as skilled and able-a de-
batter and parliamentafian as
Senator Malone.
To say this, is not to disparage
Mr.. Laid. because If he had had
Senator Malone,s expeAehcE in
legislative work; if he had been
| in the Senate as long .asuSeaator
Malone, and if he had had his
training as debater okkhis skill
in marshalling facts, he would no
doubt be his equal. iaA
The fight to creaica IGdiands
County is too vital e0ssMonroe
County to take any risIssatoo i'm
portant to take any chances.
In this fight we needsa train
ed debater; the most experienced
legislator we have. gao ie'e
IF = great Naval battle were
pending, the President would Sc
lect the Admiral with the most
experience to lead our fleet, al
though there might be another
admiral as willing and Is. honest
in his desire to win as the one
selected, but the experienced man
would be put in commands 1t
would be disastrous to do other
wise.
In q boat race, we would place
at the helm, the most experienced
sailor. notwithstanding there were
others who would be willing and
anxious to take the tiller, and as
Earnestly desire to win the race,
1 as the one selected
Al new man in the Senate is al
ways at more or less of a disad-
vantage, so even where ability is
equal, experience has the ad.
vantage.
IL this were a mere question of
personal choice, it might be left
to the friends and admirers OF
leach to settle, but the tremend-
ously important question of slicing
loft a portion of Monroe County,
lis too vital to our interests, t.
place the mighty task of prevent.
ing it, in the hands of one less ex.
iperienced than Senator Malone.
Abraham Lincoln recognized
1.-THE great danger Of changing ar
Experienced man. for one less ex-
/ perienced, and expressed it i
these words:
81 do not. allow myself to sup
pose ~that either the convention
or the League, have concluded Il
decide that | am either the great
lest or the best man in America
but they have concluded it is moi
best to swap horses while crossing
the river, and have further con.
cluded that am not so poor 1
horse that they might not make
Ia botch of it in trying to swap.
| Senator Malone Is veteran
Fighter; he has assisted in passing
measures over great opposition
and in defeating unwise ones
strongly advocated.
/ Conceding that Mr.. I.add and