Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 18, 1912, Page 4

% g - ASL 48 - a2 a s ' the Telegram FIRST! PAGE FOUR Tne Evening Telegram! Published every sfternoon from the Kentucky Buildinag, Lakeland, Fla.|those of your dad? Entered in the postofice at Lake-|scems most unduly and needlessly tand, Florida, as mail matte: of the|small; second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR.|waste; we loonies are smitten with A. J. HOLWORTHY THE EVENING TELYGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA, JUNE 18, 1912 ROOSEVELT HANDS,0UT ».Co HOT ONESTATRRALLY (Continued from Page 1.) CORRESPONDENCE. By Walt Mason.) Are your ways much better than The present day letter makes lots of folks mad. It by similar men outside. I suppose the explanation must be found in the fact that in the slow, but general moral advance, certain men lag a lit- tle behind the rate of progress of the community as a whole, and where their own real or fancied interesis “Dear 8ir,” and “Yours|rendered himself wholly to the bid-|are concerned, such men fail to rec- Truly,” and that's about all. No gos-|dings of the professional political | ognize generally accepted standards sip is written, we've no time 10|poges, and of the great privileged|of right and wrong until long after interests standing beside them. I had ! they have been recognized by the also become satisfied that unless llmajority of their fellows. There was “Dear | made the fight it could not be made|a period when piracy and wrecking microbes of haste. No news of the muley old cow or the pig; Susiness and Circulation Manager.|Sir” and “Yours Truly,” and them|at all and that Mr. Taft's nomination | were esteemed honorable occupations, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year ....-........ -$6.00 Six months ...... oo 2,60 Three monthe 1.26 Delivered anywheie within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, from the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS s weekly newspaper giving =2 Tre- sume of local matters, crop condi- tions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. e —————= WE PRINT IT FIRST. Just in @ modest way bluster or bragadocio—the Evening Telegram may say that as regards news of the national conventions, as wel] as all other matters of great im- portance, the milk in the cocoanut, the grain in the chaff, may be se- cured from this paper some hours earlier than from any other source. We are served by the sume agency that gives the news to the biggest papers in the country—the Associat- ed Press—and they never allow any patron, big or little, to be scooped on any event of real importance. We might add that this is the only pewspaper in the interior of Florida that has this service. Of course, we cannot give the min- or details with which the big city dailies fill up their columns, any more than a Lakeland jewelry store, for instance, can carry a stock like Tiffany's, or a department store, highly creditable to this city, can compare with Wannamaker's. We can only content ourself with giving to imkeland the best newspaper service that any town, anywhere, of the same population can boast. We have a challenge outstanding, asking any reader of this paper who can pro- duce a better paper, published in any town in the country of the same size of Lakeland, to bring it to this of- ‘fice and we will equal or surpass it, it we'have to bust a hamestring. Remember you alwaays read it in .Y“' it's warm here, but how do you supose it is in (‘hicago? Really, it seems that it is a very small person, indeed, whose ideas cannot embrace the entire area of a town the size of Lakeland, but are bounded by the side of the railroad track on which he or she chances to % : 2 'tl‘ The report of the Killing of the Cuban Estenoz, seems to be untrue, judging from the remarks Mr. Estenoz is making., Viewing the situation from this distance, and Es- z's threat to “start a real race ' it seems that about the worst thing about the report is that it was not true leader, Underwood has made official an- nouncement that he will have first place on the Democratic ticket or none at all. This effectually disposes of the rumor that Mr. Underwood is playing for the vice presidential nom- ination; it also conveys with absolute positiveness the information that the ballots for next fall's election will be printed without Mr. Underwood's name The Tampa Tribune in its issue of today credits an excellent editorial to the Lakeland News which we re- gret to say was not written for that paper, some other State paper being entitled to the credis Per contra we very frequently see our editorial credit at all. However, we never make any Kick about th 1S to Cap propriate” the editorials of another is and sincer can he paid the writer with » Sperity n she is r that mentions the thou ! one items in which you arg during the year, and d vot find in papers of large cities Fort Myers Press | deed! 1 without vied in other papers without any | comes the sig! How wiser and bet-| would come to him without serious|and long after the community as a ter the way of your sire! When be|gpposition. The event has justified | whole had grown to reprehend them wrote a letter he used up a quire; | poth my beliefs. I very earnestly ask | there were still backward persons lie strung words together with fervor |our fellow progressives, who have|who failed to regard them as im- and est, and told of the weather,|supported other candidates, to re-|proper. In the same way, as late as {the crops and the rest; Aunt Mary|member that oné of the cardinal|thirty years ago, there Were many vis havin' much grief with her hair; he told of the spavin upon the bay mare; the big spotted gander got principles of the doctrines which we|men in public life who, while they hold in common, is our duty normal-| would refuse to receive a bribe, did 1y, loyally, and in good faith to abide | not think it objectionable to give a sick and went hence; old Tom Alex- | jy the well-thought-out and honestly [ Lribe; although now the sentiment ander had painted his fence. The expressed action of a majority. Thelir the community has grown =0 news of the neighbors was all writ-| gverwhelming majority of the Repub-|sronze that it is no longer possible ten there; their games and their la- Hjean progressives have declared for|to excnse the bribe-giver any mor bors, their joy wnd their cave! Thelme. 1t has become clear beyoud | 1o the bribe-taker. In the sami modern way better? Iudeed, and in-| shadow of doubt that had T not made there are still in certain parts The old hioned letter hadjthe progressive fight it would have ¢ this country representatives of a | something to ¢ I just got a bil- completely broken down, and there [ o=< fqr from uncommon a guaarter of ! let trom Jenkyns de Smith; he'd 10| would have been no snbstantial op-1: contury ago, a class which regards | time to fill it some ideas with; his{ position to the forces of reaction, and | +lection as a game without rale l patience, unruly, soon suffered a fall; | of political crcokedness, Let those!ip which it is merely a sizn of clever- “hear s thi and “Yours Truly” s abont all! «-x to swindle and cheat, Evidently { the majority of the men whose ac- tions we complain of on the national! a means for securing the triumph of | committee still occupy this attitud. | principle, ponder thece facts and re-|toward nominations, although som: The past score of years have seen ! train in this crisis from playing into|of them may have passed beyond it, a marked advance in the musical|the hands of our enemie:. as regards election. But on the com- | tuste of the public and the composer| ..\q. 7rufr at first denied that he|mittee, and associated with the men | has not been slow to keep pace with represented the bosses. His denial |Who assume to be respectable, there the elevating step. was of little consequence, for his|are certain representatives of M. Who, among those old enough t0| jaeds belied his words. But | doubt | Talt whose presence gives us cause to hark back twenty years, but can re-| ;s 4y present he would venture to re-[ wonder whether there are not far member how the popular songs of the peat the denial. As it has become|Wworse influences behind the action of day swept the country over, asks an constantly more and more evident|the committee than any at which | exchange. And they were not of the| .4 the people are against him, he[have guessed. Mr. Stevenson, of Col- most elevating sort, either. Of course| pas more and more undisguisedly | orado, has appeared on the commit- they had sentiment in them, as most| () own himself into the wrms of the [tee. now holding the proxy of ong of | popular songs do, and the music for| |osses. Here in Chicago, at this mo- | Mr. Taft's delegates, now that of an- | i and [ progressives who stand tor principle | and who are concerned with the for- I T A !tunes of any particular man only as A MARKED ADVANCE. same of them was really pretty. The | pant. he has never had one chance |other. Judge Ben B, Lindsey, in his | conntry was for a long time one o guceess, save what was given him|book, “The Beast and the Jungle’ grand chorus of Little Annie |y action of Messrs. raue, Barnes, |has given a very graphic account ot Rooney.” This was backed off the Lrooker, Penrose, Murphy, Guggen-| Mr. Stevenson’s political activities in by “Sweet Marie,” “Com- Atter the Ball,” “The Fatal Wedding,” and songs of the sort, keim, Mulvane, Smoot New and their | Denvers D may areatly wish that ev- associates in cheating th» people out | ery decent man in this country cv- Same | of their rights. cry plain rvight-thinking gitizen, who overwhelmingly by th: people them- | i in doubt as to what the representa- The public, it was feared, was #0-|gelves in the states where primarics|tives of Mr. Taft have done on the | ing dafly over silly sentimentality.|were held, that in the last state in|Pitional committee, would read this And doubtless these same people who | which he spoke, in New Jersey, ne|book of Judge Lindsey's. In especial were fearing for the sanity of the na- | yermitted himself to be betrayed into|let him study the part in which tion now rejoice in the knowledge|the frank admission that he expected | Judge Lindsey refers to Mr. Steven- that the popular taste has been edu-| to be nominated, because he believed |son, and then let him think for him- cated up to something really worth|(he national committee would stand|self just what it means when Mr Wwhile. by him. One member of his own[Taft and his associates accept the Nowadays one can hardly nego-|cabinet, representing au state thai|help of Mr. Stevenson and import tiate a city block in village, town|has just repudiated him, has been|him from his own state of Colorado. or city, without hearing the strains| working hand-in-glove with the oth-|t0 act for other states on the na- or the words—sometimes without re- | er Taft members of the nationnl com- | tional committee, in which one of gard to music—of “That Mysterious | miittee, under the lead of Mr. C(rane, | the ablest men engaged in the move- Rag,” “Everybody's Doing 1t,” or|of Massachusetts; Mr. Penrose, of |ment to rob the pcople of their right some equally classy masterpiece. Pennsylvania; of Mr. Melvena, of |tv rule themselves, We do not recall the music or the | Kansas; of Mr. Murphy, of New Jer-| ‘“‘Our opponents here in Chicago to- words to the rag, but there are none |sey, and Mr. Scott, of West Virginia, | doy have waged such a bitter and un- of us permitted to forget ‘‘Kvery-|all of whom have just been repudiat- | scrupulous fight for the very reason body.” Even little children go :bout|ed by their own states—to steal from |that this is no ordinary factional bumming it. And it truly is elevat-| the people the victory which the peo- | contest. The big bosses who control ing. ple have won. Last February it was|the national committee represent not How much better for a mere child evident Mr. Taft was the acceptec |merely the led captains of mercenary to be occupied with the singing of | representative of the bosses, of the|Politics, but the great crooked finan- He wos beaten st ete, than to be wasting time telling | crooked politics and cronked business | tains. These political bosses are ob- about the sentiment that bound the | which has been the chief source, not | NOXious in themselves, but they arc “Comrades™ one to the other, or en-|only of our political, but of our so-|[even more obnoxious because they vving the fellow whose sweetheart | cial and industrial coccaption. 11 b fvepr ivilege in its most sordid Annie Rooney was. How much bet- | now, al us form. The majority | ter that we should be consumed with | Taft 2 desive to shuflle the feet in unis to condone, and to with the m ry in our h timent and the become cvdent that \ly is willing to weaviosce in, wd | Cnationa! committee, in decid- | cases before them, have p Pticed political theft in Whhery al theft estoas, and mor opt the fin sterions rag than to car-{of any course of action on wh every I ts and minds the sen- tune of “Sweet Ma these men embark, even thongh sn action represent rie destruction to the Repr Tiom 1o petit lar n treaser, as well veny and is as dish dumaging than or an part Such a renaissance in the musical [ to which they nominal': bhelong, an ¢ dinary theft. There is no law to faste of the public is @ good omen. |[also treason to the canse of the reach the offense they have commit Few of us understand enough that we | American people as a while fted, but morally these offences ar really appreciate grand opera or ani Among the nation i committeen, o, | FF More serions from the standpoint oratorio- the classical goes against who have taken pari m this conspic Lof national interest than any of the | x1ain of the uneultivated. But think Wt 1HORG Afe & Lordinary commercial or political of- of the elevation of spirit which must fenses which expose the perpetrator “’ result from the wave of ragtime that courts o | has during a dozen years been rav ag- ing the country from end to end and from top to bottom. aamboer of men who in the ordinary relations of lir, doubtless decent and reputable. Prob- | 10 be brought ably these men excuse themselyos, 1, | fustice | themselves, for what they ar doing on the ground that they arp not committing what the law reoog nizes as a crime It may well by ! \ few years ago | doubted whether on the whole o it would have been shocking enough hefore the now We merely are setting a new stand- ard. We are a ragtime people. Our politics show that. | CLASSICAL MUSIC. What = your idea of classical mu- | country does not saffer more from y bbby > 3 s i sic, Mr. Cumrox had a president marched to his seat|(pe misdeeds of men who recosnize | . in the executive chair to the inspir- { a5 binding on their conscien. .- only i RO IneE s Kuow. g notes of Souza’s “Stars and | the obligations of law esty, 1: {about it. But it always seems to m tripes” or loulanger's March.” | it suffers from the misdeeds of =1 tya) | that when a Writes classical m Now few of ns will be shocked | (riminals. Men like Messrs ¢ e |sic h 1 i S -y should Champ Clark or Roosevel ol of Massachusetts, Broeker, of Conng greater light bear| ticut, and Nagel, of Missouri, wi platform at inaus- | qrai) some lesser or A s S danee g he g x { Washington Star | tence about th behind their bolder asso iates ration time besked such as Mesrs. Penrose. Marphv gnd Writing a people’s song has srown | Mylvane wre doubtless I v be an olevating ocenpation Mi- ked at the miscondu = ami Heral rald ng bank «a H sion never becomes casier by s I nement, while grows ) fivials. 1t hast - r every day Common sonse and a strange t Bl £, 10 s0¢ men hith- bid as well as conscience says, “Choese | oTto esteemed reputabl. this day.” s i a benefactor to the 1= action and to se¢ | my the sale or we do not consider thecomplete satisfaction must accorya “IUs a bear; it's a bear; it's a bear,” | men who uphold the ccmbination of | (iers who stand behind these led “ID-l lonce for We Have a Full Line of CLUETT-PEABODY ARROW BRAND SHIRTS AND COLLARS In the Latest Stvles. L & 3 We also have a full line of Kneeland's Shoes. Styles for Particular People at Our Store. € ) THE HUB JOS. LeVAY Money is Always Welcome it your good will comes with it. We don’t want it unless you are ther. e taor oughly satisfied with what you buy here. 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