Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 2, 1913, Page 4

PAGE FOUR. Y'Y 4 talk about it. I don't want to fer the matter to the people to be "'e tVMml I"’leqram Lem hind or dis Lut voted upon in the next general elec- m there are some thinzs 1 will do and tion in 1914, Then if the people fav- Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla, “°™€ that I won't. This is one of cred the proposition the Legislature e O the things 1 v.1il not do. of 1915 could pass the act giving its Entered in the postoffice at Lake- S Sa R censent. The only thing that would : land, Florida, as mail matter of the The divorce industry up in Duval then remain to be done would be to second class. county had nothing to complain of have the act creating the State of M.”F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. | ‘" war of boor business lust \West Florida pased by Cangres year. There were 404 divorce suits Congress would hardly refuse to pass filed in the Circuit Court of that the act if the people should vote for county during 1912 and 145 di- the proposition in a general election. urteous, HENRY BACON, Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: vorces were granted. As there is strong :‘entlment OneyeRY o . oot i $5.00 The essentially inferior, scrubby tkroughout the State in favor of Sixmonths .. .. ...... .. 2,50 character of Governor Blease of State division we cannot see why fhe Three months .......... 1.25 South Carolina is f1ly revealed by next Legislature should be nnwhl- Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week. From the same ofti e is issued the fact that when he pardeoned that jng to refer the matter to the’ people 1ig batch of negro criminals the oti:- for settlement.” e day he attached as a condition SRR e = that they should all leave e State. : ——————————————————— He wzs willing to foist all this erim- THE LAKELAND NEWS i“al vermin on vther States, thus ad- A l'!]‘l[ N0~ "\INSE A weekly newspaper giving a re- riitting that the pardoned ceavicts e same of local mwatters, crop condi, were undesirables not fit to be at gk e . A TR \ ' tions, county affairs, etc. Sent any- Jarge. ‘ A AND THFN THE YEAR 19182, where for $1.00 per year. sl Republican governors are getting . to be as scarce in this country,as' Republican congressmen. Here are | 3 a few of the new Democratic gov- ! (By George Fitch.) ernors in northern and western The 1912th year since tke world States: Willlam Sulzer of New S8topped counting backward and be- York; James M. Cox, of Ohio; S. M. £an to look forwar’ has come to a halston, of Indiana; Elliott W. Ma- close and has been completed on jor, of Missouri; John C. Karel, of Schedule time without any bhitch ' \Visconsin; S. E. Baldwin, of (on- Whatever. i3 necticut; E. G. Dunn, of lowa; E.' For many centuries the years have . N. Foss, of Massachusetts; \V. N.°been completed exactly on time. This | Ferris, of Michigan; 8. E. Stewart, i3 a fine illustration of the exeellencel' Lex Montana; J. H. Morehead, of Ne- 0f the organization of the universe | Lraska; E. S. Johnston, of South Da- but a sad reflection on the modern kota, and E. Lister, of Washington. hctel which cannot get up a thirty- Seems strange to think of mo- five place banquet and serve it be-' with the wishes of our first presi- (iatic governors for some of those fore the soup is cold. ' dent in his farewell message; but Siates, but we are all the creatures The year 1912 was one of the long ' he does succeed to a critical rela- . habit, and a féw years hence, if 966 day models and was successful- | t'on of this country to Mexico, for things keep coming our way, it will 1V negotiated by upwards of 1,600, conditions are getting worse there foemm strange to think of those States 000,000 people. Upwards of 30,000, 1 ard American intervention may yet [, hamoeratic goOvernors. 000 human beings retired from the ¥ be necessary to protect American . S universe during the year, ‘whl]‘«_' f wtikons and thelr INventaven. i Marse Henry Watterson is back in ©bout 35,000,000,000 new memberlfi: ’ D "South Florida and after a brief stay 0/ soclety were admitted. This' i The criminal industry of iynching o, Fort Myers he will go on to hic shows a satisfactory growth and+ F suffered a large and gratifying slump G0y om0y Naples on the west Should encourage the building of # during the vear just closed. The ... o g welcome, thrice wel- 12T8e number of new automobile gas Chicago Tribune keeps close track come, and the more so that he must Tages during the next year. ‘¢ ct these events and its figures just feel a little lonely in view of exist- The Year 1912 was one of the published show only fifty-two lynch- ing political conditions these days. most inadequately heated years of ings in the United States during ... Henry got off at the wrong Tecent times. The thermometer re- 1912 against a considerably larger place during the pre-convention days mained persistently at zero until number for the year previous "‘.last summer, and in consequence he March. Over 1,000 theatrical com- though the figures are not given for ;. not expected to sustain a close ad- , Pabies were frost-bitten before June. that vear. The crest of this PAr-' yicory relation to the incoming Wil- Wood fires were comfortable in July ticular crime wave has probably son administration. He made = and in November the greatest snow ! v been reached and lynchings will few remarks of a highly personal in the history of America fell, com- | 4 krow less frequent during the years «nd disparaging character concern- bletely burying the largest president It begins to look like that deep. dork, sinister plot to corner ail the federal offices in Florida under the Wilson administration and hand them out to a few favorites was a neares-nest. It hus alarmed no one, rot even the office-seekers who don’t stand in with the alleged caucus, for everybody knows that the Wilson administration will not do business on those lines. o President-elect Wilson will suc- ceced to no “entangling foreign al- liances,” which is in accordance te come, ing Mr. Wilson, which he can't very and the most terrl:cdex-prelldent tlu:1 3 EE T well take back unless he wants to country has Ml e i 3 “We have got to square legisla- ¢t a jiberal portion of dirt. He _ The Year 1912 saw great progress tion and big business with the sim- gpoke in the heat of argument and 1B W#NY Ways. Aviators, office build- rle morals of individual action,” ings, the price of gasoline and the suid Woodrow Wilson the other day cost of living reached hitherto umn- in an interview. It is one of the touched altitudes and automobiles Lest things he has said since he became so cheap that no man with rade his celebrated proverb, “Guilt might as well be a Republican for $500 will be safe henceforth, It was Is personal.” Inject that doctrine alj the influence he will have at the ® healthy year for kings, the death Into the public and business life of White House for the next few years, Tte being very low, but the most : tke country and many of our largest Consequently no Florida Democrat 9/888trous year om record for the s problems and grievances would dis- sceking favors at Washington neeq REPUDlican party, which split with k appear. Our president-elect has the ' Lother Mr. Watterson to sign his pe- 4 loud report in June and has re- knack of compressing large truths,tition while that gentleman is in ™ained enthusiastically and igflex- E Into a few words, and, better still,'gur midst this winter. ibly in fragments ever since. § he has the courage to live up to his ! In 1912 science discovered that ) owWn proverbs, as he has demonstrnt-f icebergs are impervious to steam- - “ed both at Princeton and Trenton. | yShips even when rammed at full CLSRS ,Steed. Andrew Carnegie got poorer in 1912, but so many other magnates got richer that the slack was more than taken up. The art of murder was considerably improved during the year in New York and many on the spur of the moment, as you might say, and perhaps he is sorry for it now, but what he said went into the record and Marse Henry B —" — NOT A PARTY ISSUE BUT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE. In view of some recent jury \'ol'-; The Pensacola News is taking the ¢icts in the State, to say nothing of matier of State division very serious- a long procession of them in years !y and evidently intends to stick to agone, in which justice was brutal- the subject and do what it can to ly outraged because jurymen were bring the matter before the next well dressed young men achieved without the backbone to do their legislature. The issue can neither fame by the frank and above-board duty, the following paragraph from 1, laughed nor scorned away now. wuv in which they eradicated each the Tampa Times deserves general und those papers which have been other. : endorsement: attempting to do that might as well { The year 1912 will be remembered “Among the new settlers that will ubandon such a policy. States have in history for many thousand years. come Into Florida during the year heen divided before and they will be 1 will be one of the dates which the b Just about to open we hope there divided again. State division is as tired school boy of the year 2500 i . Wil be some from Virginia, New practicable, though not as easy, and be required to remember becaus .~ York and Indiana who will know sometimes as desirable, as county of the awakening of China, the u.t.; ‘- - how to write the word “guilty” on division. The question will be Vot ting to sleep of :'urkey am; the :ur- their verdicts when they are chosen e upon by the people of Florida be- peynding and capture of the south to serve on juries. Florida needs fore many vears have passed. In a pole. .’ -some new blood of that kind.” | leading article on this ‘subject the o8 —_— ¢ Pensacola News says: " b The Times-Union, our Ieadlnsl “The News belleves that there Is Tr:::lobh.l.l:r::!:r't.h'n vertakes « Florida newspaper, publishes a enough interest in State division 1o s even thore who havel at the fastest sworn statement Jan. 1, which ! piie -+ shows & daily circulation for the pa- £ - 7. per of 23,391, an increase of nearly i .10,000 in the past five years. In %, view of the sparse population of the State that is a fine showing. The .T-U has plenty of enemies and it cul- . tivates a rather frigid metropolitan 3 ! 'temperament which does not en- : . ‘coupage friendship, but it is a great . journal in all its departments and P people abroad who see it and read - il are very likely to think well of a k- State that produces a paper of such oo magnitude and excellence. Keep your eye on Champ Clark Tkat man may be the fly in the Democratic ointment yet, and it Mr. divided without the comsent of the , Bryan gets too influential in the Legislature and of Congress. How- ccuncils of President Wilson Champ may conclude to make a rough “., house. How he feels toward the . vcommoner is indicated in his reply to a reporter the other day when " asked about his attitude toward that i gentleman: “I'm not goin¥ to talk about him,” he said emphatically. “You can mark that down, and there is no use justify an expression from the peo- ple on the subject. We do not agree e with our West Florida contemporary | . that the matter should be nubmltt«»:)ii. AY LINE INCLU‘)ES'. I to the people at the next state pu-! 3 mary. Sate division is not a party . measure. In a primary the mattor | would be voted upon only by Demo crats. There are Republicans, Pro- gressives, Populists, Socialists and | lP:nhlbluonl.u in Florida who have | as much right as Democrats have to ! vete on such a vital matter as State _division. The constitution of the United States does not provide that there shall be a vote of the people before a State is divided. It is sim- ply provided that no State shall be Newspapers Magazines Stationery Post Cards Cigars | ’Cc me and see me before pur |chasing elsewhere, ever, as the Florida Legislature will | hardly give its consent before nwl veople express themselves on the | matter it is moae likelgeghat thw: will be a vote of, the: neojjle on:‘he" ziatter before the Legislature acts | Miss Rl.l It should be a vote of the people OY-! by naniel News Stand oll parties and not an exprvsslnn: Loooy of Edisonis Tuester Your patronage appreciated. 3 from Democrats only in a primary. | The Legislature next year could re- .. et e it To all those who have so gener- ously contributed to the success cf my business by giving mea portiop of their trade, I am grateful ang extend best wishes for a Happy New Year. May it hold in its wake for you and those dear to you, “Life’s Choicest Blessings, Good Health, Exceeding Happiness, Abiding Peace and Unqualified Prosperity X \ K HILL Ten Good Reasons Why You Should Own a Lot in Park Hill First. Because it is.in the Best Towfi in South Florida. Second. Because it is as HIGH if not HIGHER than any point in Lakeland. Third. Because it has One Mile of Granolithic Side Walks. Fourth. Because it has High Class Building Restrictions. Fifth. Because 4 Beautiful Lakes can be seen from its Summit. Sixth.. Because Shade Trees will be Fall. Seventh. Because all Stregts will be Gradéd. Eighth. Because it is the most attractive Residenfial Section in Lakeland. Ninth. Because Lotscan be ;old on REASONABLE Terms. Tenth. Be~ause if you don’t, you will wish you had, if you do, will always be glad. planted on all streets this =see§_ Deen- Bryant ® Co Rogan Building or §. M. STEPHENS