The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-04
GIVES RESUME OE FIRST YEAR
OF SHOLTZ'S ADMIlISTRA ATOM

/ ]. P. Newell, secretary TO Gov
ernor Dave Sholtz, has prepared
the following statement in giving
resume of the first years ad-
ministration of the chief executive
of the state:
! Tallahassee, Florida
! january 3, 1884.
| 1t is entirely fitting that on the
first anniversary of the Inaugural
ton of Governor Sholtz theirs
! should be released a resume OF
his administration. Even as close
ly as have been associated with
the governor it is impossible for
me tt call to mind every accom-
plishment of his administration
but shall endeavoF to enumerate
the major achievements, without
any effort to list them in the or
der of their importance.
First. let it be borne in mind
+, that Governor Sholtz assumed the
reigns of office at q time when
general conditions throughout the
state were unquestionably worse
| than at any time subsequent to
the Civil War. Shortly after his
Inauguration every bank in the
United States was closed. The
entire and complete breakdown OF
our public schools was imminent,
Hundreds of thousands of people
were threatened with actual star.
walton. However, under these ad-
verse circumstances and conditions
i when assuming office, the Sholtz
! administration can be credited
among other accomplishments with
the following:
observance of and COM
| pliance with the program of the
democratic platform, both stats
| and national;
Perfect cooperation with
| President Roosevelt and the de-
| velopment of unprecedented cor
! dial relations between the national
and state administration;
3.-The maintenance of pleas
ant relations between the state
| government and the people of the
] state;
Establishment and main
tenance of cooperative relations
between the state government and
the political party responsible fol
it;
5.-Loyalty to party and
friends;
6.-Refusal to harass the peo-
pie by the levying of new and OBJ
noxious taxes;
IA direct and businesslike
manner in which problems OF
state were approached and solved
NOTE: The foregoing achieve
ments were enumerated by Honor.
able J. B. Hodges, chairman OF
the state democratic executive
committee, who added, "You may
include as many of these items in
your resume as you desire, and
you may credit them to me as
Chairman of the Executive Com
! mittee.'
To continue: ~
8-The type of appointees with
whom he has surrounded himself
as department heads and. as men,
bers of boards and commissions
9.-Team work with his adj
visors and associates;
10.-Recognition of women in
state politics;
11.-Holding the first legisla-
ture to the constitutional so days
and consistent refusal to call a
special session at an expense Of
several hundred thousand dollars
to the people, which has been
done in the face of not only great
political pressure but almost in-
coHoeivable pressure from selfish
financial interests;
12Eliminatioh 81 county Of
ficers lobby during the Legislative
session;
13.-Establishment of I uni
form system OF accounting
throughout the stets pndeF The dc
rection and snpervision 81 tue
state auditing department.;
l4.-Consistent efforts with
tax collecting agencies to enforce
the collection of taxes, especially
for the benefit Of our schools;
l5.--Insistence that school
boards budget the 1884 expen-
ditures on the basis of the five
million dollars reasonably to be
anticipated as state aid, rather
than upon the basis Of $500. coo
suggested, thus preventing what
clearly would have been q $780,
600 deficit In our schools this
term;
l6.-Frank dealing with all sit
uations affecting the welfare Of
the people without regard to po-
liticai effect;
i7.--Initiation Of . safety cam
paign to reduce the heavy death
toll and accidents on public high