Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 23, 1912, Page 4

PAGE FOUR [he Evening Telegram ——————————————————————————— “ublished every afternoon from the Sentucky Buildiag, Lakeland, Fla Maiasdibis el wison. [P ot e tna U e et sutered in the postofiice at Lake- -and, Florida, as mail matter of the ;econd clase, < F. HOTHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY susiness and Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Do: FEAE ..ivcesrsesese$6.00 3ix ROULH8 ...eov.voeo. 860 Three monthe ...-..... 1.88 Delivered anywhere within the iimits of the City of Lakeland tor 10 cents & week, e “rom the sstue office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS + wekly newspaper giving & %o~ cime of local matters, crop condi- ‘jons, county aftairs, etc. Sent snywhere for $1.00 per year. P ———_————— DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President—Woodrow Wilsen. For Vice President—Thomas C. Marshall. Presidential Klectors—Jefferson B, Browne, J. Fred DeBerry, Charles E. tones, W. Chipley Jones, Leland J. Henderson, H. C. Sparkman. Congressman, State at. Large— laude L’Engle. Coungressman, M. Sparkman. Congressman, Frank Clark. Congressman, Third District—Em- rett Wilson. Governor—Park Trammell. Attorney General—Thos. F. West. Secretary of State—H. C. Craw- ford. Commissioner of Agriculture—W. A McRae. Treasurer—J. C. Luning. Comptroller—W. V. Knott. Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion--W, N. Shetts. - First District—S. Second District — Lakeland in its campaign for new members is cxpecting to increase its Roard of Trade to 400. Good for Lakeland; that looks like boostinsg some.—Orlando Star-Reporter. Jut as deap old Mrs. Partington of sacred memory might have said, the increase exceeded Lakeland's most sanguinary expectations, In- stead of 400, the number went to 508, all zood men and true, who con- stitute a Board of Trade of which any city, large or small, might be proud. THE EVENING TELEGRAN, LAY ELAND. FLA. OCT. 23, 1912. surc must be a tough! An Orlando lady \\'ri((‘.;; Oregon country. tke wounded Bull Moose leader as| “that gallant gentleman,” and Mr.i | university, the leading negro insti- back that she would rather die in ' Dryan used the adjective “manly” | tution for learning in the country, Orlando than live in that State. O Governor Gilchrist has issued his | proclamation designating next Sun-! day, Oct. 27, as Tuberculosis day, following the lead of the national association for the study and pre- vention of tuberculosis. —0 The Lakeland Telegram opines from a perusal of the Tribune that the climate of Tampa would not be healthful for Jack Johmson. How about Lakeland's?’—Tampa Tribune. Absolutely pizonous for him. ORI NS Orlando voted last Saturday on a sewerage bond proposition and the returns show that it carried by 2 vote of 172 in favor of bonds and only 7 against. Good for Orlando. That beautiful and growing little city has done the right thing and did it by a majority which speaks [\'olumes in favor of the progressive { spirit of its people. ' A The Tampa Times has looked into thie matter and discovered that there it no law which requires that the { names upon the ballots to be voteqd a¢ | i the approaching election shall be ar- :rflnm'(l in alphebetical order. 'l‘hux\ ;rruuirvmvm applies only to primary | elections. In general elections the {only restriction is that the names ot all candidates for the same office shall be printed *‘together.” 00— R s | Charles Edison, son of Thomas A. Edison, has set out to beat his fam- | ous father as an inventor. He is get- | ting his scientific education at a | Massachusetts school and when he :g\-ts through there he will concen- | | trate his faculties upon the discov- {ery of some cheap substitute for coal, | E\\hirh he says is getting so scarce | (that in fifty or a hundred years it Uwill be a luxury which only the rich !} can afford. 1f he succeeds in this the old man may well contemplate his son with awe not unmixed with ]pagun in its entire freedom from anyl | letters now running in the Pensa- in connection with one of the Col- onel's statements, the T.-U. reads those Jistinguished Democrats a lec- ture which is nothing less than tincture of the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount. Our Jacksonville contemporary takes Mr. Roosevelt too seriously and hates him so cor- dially that there really seems to be some personal animus in i no: rclated to his candidacy. 1t is actu- olly un-Christian and sets u baq ex- ample to the rest of us who aie try- ing to live up to the spirit of th. higher journalism which expells all poison from its consideration of public men and measures. -——0 THE GENESIS, CHARACTER AND CAREER OF JOE LEE. Joe Lee, the negro leader of the Republican party in Florida, has had plenty of newspaper notoriety in years past, but there has been a sin- gular absence of information about kis personality. John Stiliman, th: reformed Pensacola Republican, sup-! plies this information in one of his; cola Sunday Journal, and from we condense the following: { *“It is surprising that more has | not been known of the history of | this wonderful charactey of Florida, and it seems strange that | should in a way be his biographer. He is reputed to be wealthy, has never heen known to intrude himself where not wanted and is retiring and in a native dignified way is deferential to white people. He can make the best speech on short notice, delivers the best sermon likewise, and is also the best parliamentarian and presid- ing officer that you would meet in nany a day's travel. I took occasion once to ask him something about his | personal history ang as near as | can . now recall, the following is an out- line: He was born in Philadelphia and reared by a white tamily in that | city-—Quakers, if my recollection is it envy. right. He was born long cnough o { before the war to be old cnough, he The Times-Union is unrelenting | told me, to remember sceing Abra- in its bitter animosity toward Col-|ham Lincoln when he was passing onel Roosevelt, 1t gave him but the | through Philadelphia some time dur- scantiest measure of sympathy when he was wounded, and as soon as it wor known that he was not seriously Furt that paper promptly rv.~|um-di its former attitude toward him. Be- | Cenuse Governor Wilson referred lu\ 3 lots---on the market. WHY? ing the war. I remember he told me | that he climbed up a lamp post 1o enable him to get a good view of the rran who freed the slaves. The white family gave him a good education, and in due course he went to Wash- nomination which Watson doesn' | approve of. g ! SSEORLS DN | SHUTT-UPP. | and studied law and ministry, grad- vating in both. He was now ready for business and decided on a polit- ical career. Taking down a map of the United States he looked it over carefully with the view of selecting the best location in his judgment for such a career. The city that he final- 1y decided to favor with his citizen- ship was Jacksonville and the State was Florida—and that is where he came, along, I think, in the early seventies. And he has done well in kis chosen career for himself. “It almost makes one's blood run cold to go back and conmsider this little black man in his young man- hood, deliberately selecting the place ington angd there entered Huwanll |ot action, and especially when one further considers what his decision meant to what promised at one time to be an oasis in the desert, that is a decent respectable Republican par- ty in the South, and if not a white party one with white leadership. For the material and conditions were therc in East and South Florida for such a party, but for the blight that this superior black man put upon | it, in carrying out his ambitions as! he had planned them for himself in | | his carlier years. | “lle preached some and he pr:u'-' ticed law some. * * * [In 1888/ Harrison was elected president and | Lec receiveq the appointment of col- | lector of customs for the Jackson- ville port and served until Cleveland’ was elected. He was again appoint- ed in 1897 to the same office and' held it for a year op more until aft-" er the Long-Lee-Chubb combination was effected in September, 1898, when he was promoted to the posi- tion of collector of internal revenue for the State of Florida, which he has held up to and including now." | i 2 The opinion long entertained hy! m:ny people that Tom Watson, of | Georgia, ex-Populist and alleged | Democrat, is “nutty’” or thereabouts, E will be confirmed by the news thai he has bolted the national Demo- | cratic ticket because Woodrow Wil- | sow, while a church member in goo.! standing, is tolerant of another de- | Mr. Shutt and Miss Upp were mar- | ried in Port Chester, N, Y., recent!y It is up to Mr Put to marry her sis- ter. THE REASON WHY TR Every man in Lakeland should place his order for a Fall Suit with us is because: 1. We carry the largest, best and choices stock of woolens. pure wool. 3. We make the best clothes in town for the least money. 4. 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