Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 24, 1912, Page 4

fAGE FOUR The Evening Telegram cAraiy JomNstoN on | THE STUMP FOR TOOMER. THE EVENING TELEGRAM L \EELAND, FLA., MAY 24, 1912. PARK TRAMMELL says: “I¢ shall be the aim and pur- pose of my life to render an ef- ficient, faithful and loyal ser vice as Governor of the State.” FOR SALE Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Makes Some Telling Remarks on Sub- ject of L'Engle’s Candidacy, Based on His Egotism, Entered in the postoflice at Lake- tand, Flovida, as mail matter of the ] }" { ‘ Capt. J. B Jonnson, of Dade City, 1 shall labor and }'")l’k for | City suburban and Country Propel'lies ¢ second class. Sl e those things which will foster ) b — is on the stump in this part of the : : i M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. | .\ oo i mooo o his cane and fldvu"aE%‘;L;fi""f; a‘;: Homes, GI‘OVCS, Farms at Real values { ! M e T | didacy for Congressman at large and ALL THE P £ i {1 Ab L LORNORTHY R flective speeches, grateful to all who voted for 4 Business and Circulation Manager, 5 miking some eflective S 4 | 4 : Sien 1 ! Tl __ns,,l,’,t s — he following is an extract from one | me “} th? first :tn:l'ia::d? df(,el ! d H d X O IR SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | rhis ireases ‘on ilis shnieits tertain the mo x .‘h‘yn\ ‘ FIOO 8‘ en rlx’ wners b il One year .... $5.00 1 It is an affront to the people of ing towards all Flori emo- i 0] i 8ix months . .+ 250 | this State to even suggest L'Engle for crats regardles of whether they 3 ! Three mouths ... ..... 1.26 |4 seat in Congress. His only claim Delivered anywhete within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, From the same office i8 issued THE LAKELAND NEWS 8 weckly newspaper giving a re- same of local matters, crop condi- tions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. FOR CONGRESSMAN AT LARGE. This paper confesses to a lack of enthusiasm as concerns the race for the position of congressman at large. As has indicated, it vastly preferred one of the eliminat- ed candidates to either of these now As a choice must be made between the two, however, it appears to us that, measured by their respective quali- been plainly offering in the second primary. { to public attention is his colossal egotism and his talking and writing persistently, and abusively of his fel- low citizens. His mephitic speeches and writings are hot air pure and simple. He stands for no construc- tive policy in American government, but on the other hand his fatuous and chimerical ideas are destructive ot the traditions of our fathers and thie great principles of our coonstitu- tional government., He has shown not the slightest conception of the great problems that now contront the American people, the solution of which demands the wisest and most conservative statesmanship. The ida do mot seem te be fully alive to the peril and dis- grace his election would bring, if he had the ability. The people general- 1y do not know what little Claudic is; he stands for Claudie first, last and all the time, and to the devil with the people. He is supremely selfish and daring. He has suggested PARK TRAMMELL. voted for me or not.” PARK TRAMMELL'S name without opposition will be on the ballot, TUESDAY, MAY 28th. It will he appreciated, if when you vote, you will please mark your ballot: FOR GOVERNOR. X PARK TRAMMELL. ———————————————————————————————————————— CNE FRIENDSHIP OFTEN OVERLOOKED. Hesides the close individua] friend- ships that every onc should have ic life there is one great and im- portant friendship often overlooked. Friendship toward the world at large, the whole great mass of living, breathing humanity. Try to be a friend to it, Take a friendly, generous cannot help loving it. J¢ a friend to it. If you do not know the world well as vet, then until you get a wid- ¢t erperience with it take the word ¢f great men, such men as Thackeray and Dickens. They knew and loved it well Let us make friendship one of our dearest ideals. It cannot be attained in a day, nor can any ideal that is worth attaining. It may have to grow slowly with the growth of our o g n i view of it; be willing to serve it, " fcations and characteristics, thef .= 000 legislation than all the| = o G0 Jove it. This is a|TA it must have many tests, H i expect better service | pan i » State 3 2 . : ' 8 a v ; people might expect ‘e‘ men in the State of Florida. rough old world, to be sure, and often | PUt !¢ tu m.rt out with a high ll'jen} ‘ from Toomer than from L'Engle, It is true he has the gall and tha scems hard, but think of all of friendship. Let us trust what i o A presding.. Toomer is a substantial man; a business man; a man who will fill the office of congressman with some dig- nity and discretion, and with some credit to the State. L’Engle, on the other hand, would not be taken se- riously in Congress, He would be looked upon and treated as a joke— and the joke would be a sorry one so far as its victim was concerned—its vigtim being the people of the State of Florida. We take little stock in the charges and countercharges that have been made concerning these two candi- dates. We are rather inclined to be- | lievg that both of the candidates are pretty decent fellows, while both, like the rest of us erring mortals, perhaps have been guilty of things they have no reason to be proud of. Very few | men of sufliciently mature age to as- pire to be congressman are ‘‘spotless and undefiled.” Conceding to each equal status so far as personal char- acter is concerned, the question re- solves itself into a mere matter of ability, and qualifications for the position sought. The balance of it is all bosh and buncombe, intended to deceive those unsophisticated enough to believe all the stories one candi- date tells on another, and to take se- riously the protestations of love for the dear “peepul with which can- didates love to garnish their appeals for votes Applying the test indicated we | the value of our lands, thus swell- have: WOAM Toomer, successtul man | ing the revenues of the State and re- ol aftairs, professional man of ac-|storing tens of thousands of acres to knowledged ability, a man who has accomplished something, who would take to Congress a well-trained busi- ness and legal mind, and who would be recognized by fellow-members as a man capable of dealing with the serious concerns of life and legisla- tion in a direct and intelligent way Then— Claude 1’Engle, always erratic, never taken seriously by any who know him, brilliant, but lacking bal- ance; an amoosin’ cuss, but wholly out of place where men of large cali- ber are working out situations and problems of national gravity, It is not difficult, from this utterly impartial and unbiased parallel, to decide which of these two men are best fitted for service to the people of Florida. KNEW HE LOOKED THAT WAY. Severaul natives of Indiana travel- ing on a railroad train, differed on the question whether a man born in that State could be distinguished at « glance. They resolved to put it to a test by going through the train with the champion of the affirmative in command. He passed in the first car and looked a passenger over nar- rowly. Then he went up to him and said: “Weren't you born in In- diana?” “l know I look that way,” was the atswer, “but I've been sick a long time.’ HOW' THIS FOR ORIGINALITY? Holder of gentleman's umbrella, engraved J. B. W. on end of handle, will please take same to abstract of- fice and get clear title—Blucher Wilson in Bartow Courier-Informant. _— ‘The oat crop in the section around Mariansa is 8ald to be the best in ten yeare. cffrontery to offer himself as a can- didage for Congressman at large from this great commonwealth, Ah! lit- tle Claudie is a great man, a great statesman, and when he throws his gigantic intellect into a question vhether it be of finance or constitu- tional government something has got te come, You may always know where to find Claudie, to-wit, where he has always been found, drawing pay from some corporation for lobby- ing the Bell Telephone Co., for in- stance, the State, or from his gullish and too confiding friends. He would be a greap orator, he lacks only about forty things-——he has lungs. His monumental egotism is all that keeps him from being pitiably pathetic and this to all minds less ignorant o: better educated than he render him intolerably offensive. Unsafe, unsound, unscrupulous,, a demagogue of demagogues, a sensa- tionalist of the most ultra type, a self-convicted prevaricator, a lobby- ist, therefore a corruptionist, he is tattooed with every political vice, prestituting the sacred name of the press tor the purpose of self aggrand- izecment and playing always a double ame for salf-serving purposes. L'Engle has opposing him, Col, W AL Toomer, a successtul business man who has been largely instrumental in developing our naval stores and lumber interests and in appreciating the assessment rolls, the very an- tipode of Ilittle Claudie eminently successful as a lawyer, able as a state=man and simple and demoeratic as o citizen, his career is an un- Lroken record of honest and patriotic service, He is &t all times honest, and patriotic. A gentle- man and a scholar, the gulf that sep- arates Mr. Toomer from such a man as L'Engle cannot be measured. |If Wwe compare the two men, we find L'Engle a demagogue. Mr. Toomer a statesman, the one a political trim- mer for sclfish ends, the other a pa- triot whose every aim is untinged with self, the one a rampant ranter, the other a scholarly orator, the one a would-be robber of reputations, the other an honest gentleman, the one is an unblushing self-seeker, the oth- cr an honest representative of the people—in short, the ome is little Claudie L’Engle, the other Hon. W, M. Toomer. L'Engle is so far the most paltry creature that has offered himself as a candidate for (ongres- sional honors in this State. My coun- trymen, on the 28th you will be called upon to pronounce a most mo- mentous judgment, you must make your choice of the one or of the oth- er; which do you prefer? consistent Claude L’Engle would add a new clement to the make-up of the House of Representatives. He would be sui generis. There is no other—there has been no other—and there will be no other—like him in the entire body. A cross between the crank, the harlequin and the montebank, he would reflect upon Florida a fame of which we are not covetous, and which would cast into the shade that gained by Kansas as the home of Pfeffer and sockless Jerry.—Tampa Times. All of the prisomers at the city stockade in Tampa were forced to be ‘vnoduud 8 Tew days ago. ° the great-hearted people you have ever known or heard of, and you will find that they are not those who quarrel with humanity, but they love it and are ready to serve it, as you love and ure ready to serve your friends. There are some who assert that the world is all goodness and kindness and beauty. Anyone who has llved in close contact with the world, who has met ith its sorrow, who has seen loss, dishonesty, disloyalty, perhaps dishonor, ho has seen its pitifu] pov- | erty and its often sordid wealth, will never make any such sweeping as- sertion. This world is very certainly nqt all goodness, not all kindness: end yet look at it with understand- ing and sympathetic eyes, and you friends we have, lat us go toward those who are coming into our lives, aind let us try to take up the old broken triendships with a more lov- ling. understanding, forgiving touch. If we conid each some day be the ideal _friend, generous, understand- ing, broad-minded, faithful, spending 'mu‘ natures richly, grudging nothing What are our lives, after all, excep i relation to other lives? Let us miake the relation as fine as possible, Pensacola Journal. Could Get Along Without It, “Hilda, if you leave me now I shall refuse to give you a testimonial.” “Ay tank ay not need testimonial. 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