Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 17, 1913, Page 4

R vening .- NDORSEHENT | Ihe Evening-,Telegram MO Fublished every afternoon from the| Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. | The Pensacola News givos the fol i i e ) bill which 1s count; STRONG E | {lowing cadorsement 1o Entered in the postofiice at Lake- i Representative Brown i 1 land, Flerida, as mail matter of the will introduce in the L second class, provide the voting pris islature to cne for many — citizens kept away from home on M F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR.!election day: E T “The News beliv s that the Legis-| HENRY BACON, Manager. lature will pass th (11l which Repre- ! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | sentative Brown o1 Polk connty will introduce to ailow ¢ who are un- L LR $5.00 avoidably away from home on elee- Six months .. .. ...... ve 280 A G e T Three months ........ .o 136 iy sroosittan, - Backed. by Delivered anywhere within the | ...\, ., tice. As lons limits of the City of Lakeland as a man |l s of makina for 10 cents a week. [his will kuown bllot box = ithere is no reason why he shonld not 'he allowed to have his vote recorded If he can make his wishes known by From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS # weekly newspaper giving a re- sume of local matters, crop condi, tions, county affairs, etc. Sent any- where for $:.00 per year. marking Lis ballot and sending it in a letter there is no fundamental dit- terence between this method and gu-l ing to the polls to mark his ballot, provided that proof of qualification A to vote is furnished. We understand ! THE SENTIMENT IS that Representative Brown's billpru~! NOT SUBSIDING. vides that the ballot that is mailed i will be counted if it is accompanied The prohibitionists are busy again | Y poll tax receipts and registration | certificates. This requirement is sufficient. There would be no chance for fraud or repeating because no man could secure more than one reg- | istration certificate. “To prevent the possibility of re- peating by a man moving from one |¢‘ounl,v to another it might be a good {ilea to require’ registration omcersi carrying the county. We hear much i o notify registration officers in the | from anti-prohibition sources to the [ counties of former residence when- effect that the prohibition wave is ¢"eT & man changes his voting place, from one county to another, so that | th name could be stricken from the | RELLHNG registration books whenever a vnlvr] leaves one county and takes up resi- denee in gnother eounty. It wonld in Marion county, where the saloon | still hoids the fort, and announce their purpose to start another local option campaign as soon as the pre- They hope to have the election before the liminaries can be arranged. summer is over and feel confident of receding all over the count 1 public sentiment 18 again what they call “normal™ on this is- sl ir by zetting normal is meant also be a good idea to allow a man ral aequiescence o the liquor to mail his vote whenever Le is un- trad! Laven't been able to see it There isn't as much furore now alle to 2o to the polls on aceonnt of nere Ish RE 1 I " i e and enthusiasm on the surface as a VINCss, ol fow yoars aco, but the prohibition | TThere arve hundreds of traveline ] 801 [,," ent rins in deeper channels R and others in Florida who ave! than ever and its resolute purpose to unavoidably prevented from voting crorswhere ficht the lguor traffic to under our preseut election laws, Rep- . fluish shows 1o signs of rvelaxing, | tesentative Brown's bl will give We notice that in quite a number of | these men the vivht which they should have had years ago. “wet” and ey elections in \;|-‘ rions parts of the middle west very If the Brown bill is passed, Flor- recently the prohibitionists have ida will not be the first State to have seorcd notable victories, t s idle PU¢h @ law. o Several of the western | sutes allow votes to 2o by mail, and the plan waorked satisfactorily wherever it has been tried. 1t is not a fad and neither is it one of the latest things out in the line of po- litical novelties. It is a good hill, te talk about the anti-liquor senti- | ment subsiding so long as the evil fruits of the liguor traflic itsell are so mueh in evidencee. More and more all over the nation is conviction on this issue quietly spreading and hadening against a business whose | Governor Trammell has endorsed recular and stupendons toll of death the principle embodied in the brown and ruin and sin and sorrow and | M1 avd we helieve that nearly all of poverty and crime is offset by not the newspapers of the State will have has one redeeming feature, not one uge- APProved it before the Legislature | ful service to organized soclety. | meets —_——— | RS S Dean Spencer, the Episcopal | Mijor Butler, of the Inverness churchman, residing in Orlando, is Chronicle, is feeding high these days, interesting himself in the matter of | This is from the last issue of the ex- establishing a reservation for tho:""“"l""f paper he edits: i Seminole Indians in the southern| “Just hefore noon C. E. Fitz pre- part of the State where they will be Sthted us with a ne opossum, fat secure against the encroachments of |and juicy, which Mrs. Giddens pre- | the whites, vs there are nnw‘ll""""l for us in a manner that would 8iX hundred of these Indians in Flor. | make any South Carolinian ida, a hezzerly remnant, indeed, of ' NMs lips. Dr. Miller a great and mighty tribe, hut twenty | With a fine radish and we enjoyed it | He s SMack presented us years azo, according to the census, |19 the utmost. To cap the elimay, thtere were only two hundred .,f‘ W S, Young presented us with a fine them. The slow increase, the Dean | licad of lettuce and a quart of strs herries raised on his place, that wer par excellence No use in asking us where we stored these nice edi- Suflice it to say they wece all devoured on the installment plan and lowed each Seminole to have two,#ny who says we were not filled up wives, an Indian and a negro. But KNOWs not whereof he speaks the custom of having negro wives| ~“We call the major's attention 1 has heen done away with, and there | the fact that William J. Bryan, b are only six members of the entire |his own public confession, fairly Seminole race in Florida with alien [dotes on radishes, and with Major blood in their veins. Butler feeling the same way toward o that noble tuber, we have a common The Kissimmee Gazette is one of | &round upon which he and Mr. Bry- the strong weekly papers of the State ' a0 can get together and under the which endorses the recommendation | 8enial influence of that epicurian of Governor Trammell that a law be | delight find also a common platform passed giving qualified voters of cer-|in their politics. A touch of nature tain classes necessarily away from jMakes the whole world kin, and in home on election day the privilege orflhis instance the succulent radish voting. The “sure method of identi- ' furnishes the obvious touch. fication” to which the Gazette refers has heen fully provided for in the! Hats off to Lateland. She is put bill which Representative Brown of |ting her wires underground. Start- this county will introduce at theiing off right, and a good start, is next session of the Legislature. Says [ rth a good deal.-—Ocala Banner. the Cazette: i The example of Lakeland in this “The present method of requiring respect seems to have “caught on,’ a man to vote in his home pr cinet for many of the State papers are or not at all operates in an unsatls- | making favorable comment on this factory way upon many men who |l notable step in the line of progress. will exercise their right to vote at | New York has buried all of her all reasonable hazards. Tt sometimes wire s, Lakeland is doing so, and with costs a man a considerable sum to vo these home to vote, and we all know that prove the thing feasible we expect this is a rule with many men Oth- Jacksonsille, Tampa and other citi»= ers are compelled to gacrifice their cenerally (o follow in our footsteps votes heeange they can neither afford to take the time nor snend the money | to do so when an clection day finds them in some place remote to their | s homes. If some surc method of iden- tification conld be estalliched so that frand wonld be absolutely imposei- | the question of whether they wanted ble we should like to sce Govermor @ constitutinn ] convention. Un- Trammell's recommendation enacted dcubtedly sentiment for a new con- into law.” stitution is saining in Florida. 8a2Vs, is owing to the fact that two- thirds of all the children born in the tribe are males, and latterly the In- dians do not mix with other races Formerly, the governing council al- bles | —_— two conspicuous instances to J — Parkhill to lead the new constitution wa | surprised if the next | uld pass the joint hmit to the people resolutiors 1t 1HE £VENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA,, MARCH 17, 1913, One of the calamitous features of modern avtomo ile eivilization is the drunken chuutie ;v whose disastrous "““‘ . GGy €D 1D eyesy wdlk inconsiderate person, which provides both fine and imprisonment for him if he is causht at the steering wheel under the intluence of liquor, In that condition he is liable to do as much damace as a dynamite bomb or a train with a drunken engincer, and he ought to be discouraged into reform or out of existence by ade- uate lezislation. We have him here in Florida, more than a plenty of him, and the next Legislature should take care of his case without delay. work in the a ccate is someihing ~ 1 ) {v:s thun llll‘,:hf:lI':in‘l.i\’f‘l‘luss 01'. wvar ;: ‘,.fé \\ - : itself. New York Las just passed a q \ i § luw protecting itsell against this § ./fi llt o i > 7/ (9 [39 érr : Cmane I they &_g{s'_l_s b};br \ in our beller - R STt The Fort Myers Press has reached the second anniversary of its life as a daily and we congratulate our sprightly corntemporar upon the event. The Daily Press is a good pa- L AN O per, tilling its field admirably, and it is the best advertisement for Fort Myers to the outside world s e From the companionship of an egotist, good lord deliver us.—Mi- ami Metropolis. And yet there are times when peo- ple of the self-effacing kind get on our nerves, and we almost yearn for the robust egotist who thinks well of himself and believes that he counts largely in the sum of life. 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[=] Result: School property © worth $25,000 on the north € side; school property worth € §$25,000 on the south side. =} If necessary, let the bond Q issue pe for $60,000 instead L of $50,000, distributed in the © same proportion as outlined £ above. =1 Isn’t this a just, reasonable & and fair proposition? o BOVOQOQAVODVGOOO MRS. FRANCES F. NOYES B SR JOSEPH LeVAY | Louisville & Nashville R. R. Offers the Best Service to Chicago—St. Louis Cincinnati—Louisville—Indianapolis Cleveland—Grand Rapids with direct connections to Detroit and Toledo South Atlantic Limited fi':’rOOOOOOO“QOOOOOOC’OO-QOO‘?{C- Montgomery Route Lv. Jacksonville - . 8:15pm. Lv. Jacksonville . . 8:15pm. Ar. Cincinnati - - 8:50 pm. Ar. Montgomery - 8:50 am. Ar. Cleveland - . 7:15am. Ar. Birmingham - 12:10 pm. Ar. Grand Rapids - . 6:50 am. Ar. Nashville - - 7:40 pm. Ar. Louisville . . 9:00 pm. Ar. St. Louis -+ - . 7:40 am. Ar. Indianapolis . . 1:50 am. Ar. Chicago . - 9:38am. Dixie Limited Dixie Flyer Lv. 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Black The piano that away is in our show window 1+ ‘sx-(-ctlon‘ We want .hn\e a chance to win | Beginning Monday w: to give $100 worth of jiuno with every $1 spent at our sti: crockery ware, consisting '2,000 to select from Ve an to give special prices for one woid This saves you big moncy and = you a big chance at the plan A Received 60 dozen 1 quart fruit jars 160 dozen 1 pint fruit jars 6 barrels jelly glasses 6 cases fruit jar rubbers Let us supply your wants oA In Transit We have a car of American wrajps wire fencing on the road and *an %’ terest you in prices. Ao Now On Display We have ten barrels of glus«sr® tought direct from factory ou ‘¥ play at our store, consisting o 47 and light fce tea tumblers. *:1*f sets, finger bowls, grapefrui® 17 heavy bottom glasses for ho™ vice and many other selectivi: ’ s will bear inspection Make our store your head: for your wants. A lLakeland Hardware | & Plumbing