Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 6, 1913, Page 4

TOGE WONTH The tveming ielegram Published every afternoou from the Kentucky Ruilding, Lakeland, Fla, Eutored in the postoffice at Lake- #hd, Fiorida, as mail matter of the oL 18 M 7 HaTHE}NGTON, EDITOR HENEY RaCON. MANAGER. S R S A LR ORI SUBSCRIFTION RATKS: Oy vear G $6.00 [ 10 G0 G741 T R B e SN 2.50 MNREE MONUART (0 ils osfamionsss 1.2¢ Delivered anywhers wiinin the {imits of the ity of Lakeland for 1v MR ou %Beek frem the same ofiica 18 issued THE LAKELAND NEWS # week:v newspaper 2iving & resumne = Jocal matters, crop eoanditions, wianty affairg, oto Sept anywiers %6~ 81 04 ner ven TEE BURTEN OF PROOT NOT ON US fluence of Senator Fletcher with the [ Washinoton administration because | he was an Underwood man in l]mI Baltinore convention, the Teleeram | said that it had seen no evidence to that effect and didn’t believe that | President Wilson could be governed by motives so small and unworthy. To this the Sun replies as follows: “If Brother Hetherington has seen no evidence where Senator Fletcher {8 ‘shiort’ on influence in the matter of patronage at the disposal of the Wilson administration, wve advise him to thoronchly wipe his glasses with an old dollar bill, which is said to Me the best thing for such use. If Senator Fletcher has been in- strumental in having any of his fricrds, or at least political suport- ers, apnointed to an important of- fice, the Sun would like to have their names. If the senior senator is ‘long’ on influence in the way of patron- ! age at Washington, then it must have been used in Lehalf of men who opposed him in 1908, which we can- not believe.” TTARIEAGE | Not very many presidential ap- pointments have been made in Flor- ida thus far and the burden of proof fs not on us to show that Senator Fletcher has been Heprived of his just influence in such of them as have been made. It is for the Sun to do that, it having taken the af- firmative of the proposition. When we conecider the thousands of men who have heen and must he appoint- ed to office in all the forty-eicht States of the Union by the present administration we can well believe that the president has: neither time nor disposition to investizate the personal preferences of deleates to Baltimore before making those ap- pointments and that his only pur- pose in each case has been to select the best man for the office regard- less of whom his backer thought should have been the nominee of the party last summer. We doubt if Senator Fletcher thinks himself | short of his just influence in the White Housge. § It was cood to wake up this beau- tiful October morning and realize , that at last we wore living under the benion protection of a brand new | \Demm»r:»li" tariffl law revised dm\'n~] yard os the peonle demanded, A Ymendous Democratie promise has \n redeemed; a mihty I‘:\mm-r:llic? Ym has been ecarried ont—now ' \ st tioht in the boat and watch | ‘eet. Nothing wonder ul need 'l\-(l for richt away, for the A\ Will act slowly and it will we for it to reach and cure - Ils that have been fifty years fastened upon the country and have - become fihered into its economic | life. Under high protection the manufacturers have been favored at the expense of the peonle and plnto- cratic fortunes for the few have been built up; under a tarif revised downward the rights of the con- sumers have at last been given just coasideration, s il s The Gainesville Sun takes just pride in its dally State news col- umn which is undonbtedly one of the very best and freshest published by any paper in Florida, and that it | ghould protest acainst the act of other papers in clinpine that colvmn bodily without eredit is very natnra] and prorer. Sometimes the Tole. gram uses one or more of the Sn's State news ftems as “fillors” hostily clipped to justify a co'umn, hnt onr larceny has never cone to the ox- tent of swining “the whola cheese™ | and claiming it for our own. 1t takes hard work and cond work to prepare that colnmn and is entitled to full eredit for it, PSS SR Florida is protably building mara brick houses and brick streets anil preparing to bulld more brick cown- try roads than any State in the the Sun L] | AYHLETES TRAINING | . : 1 Answering a paracraph in the Gairesville 3un questioning the in- THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAYV ELAND, FLA FOR THE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSIIP smsfin 0oCT. 6, 1913 e e e e e | ‘Ihe picture shows Schwegler of the University of Pennsylvania football team tackling a flying dummy. The football teams in all of the blg colleges arz 2w hard at work trainire “a= the coming championship football games. South and yet it is said that the greater part of the 'brick are im- ported from other States. This is folly and lack of enterprise to be ashamed of. The Times-Union i covers the case in this paragraph: | “We are told Florida can't make firebrick. So we were once told | that Florida cream wouldn’t make butter and Florida couldn't grow turkeys and Florida cows could fur- nish only milk enouzh to grow a calf. We have the clay to make any quality of brick desired, but we lack the knowledee or the enterprise or the capital.” Tk el We sineerely reeret to learn of the death of Col. T. J. Laud Brown. He was a good man and a good friend to Florida, and before illness haid impaired his vitality he was one of the State's best boosters. He had brains, energy, good temper and op- timism and we could i1 afford to spare a man who combined those qualities in the service of his adopt- ed State. 0 Governor ‘I'rammen informs a cor- | respondent of the Tampa Times that he doesn't intend to call a special sesslon of the Legislature to cure the alleged defects in the redistrict- ing law and that under his interpre- | tation of that law congressmen elect- | ed from the four districts would be given their seats. And we suspect that the governor has reached a sound conclusicn on the subject. | —ee OCTOBER 6 IN HISTORY ‘ 1683—The first German immigrants arrive at Philadelphia. | 1784—First Protestant city. of Illinois, inaugurated. 1854—A. H. Reeder rived at Topeka. | 1892—Lord Alfred Tennyson, Eng- lish poet - laureate, died. Born Aug. 6, 1809. | 1904—Japanese gradually closing in on Port Arthur; Russian dead lie unburied. 1912—Town of Leon in Nicaragua, the last stronghold of the rev- olutionists, surrendered to the American forces. | {lative and judicial Episcopal gupporters of this movement a few convention met in New York 'questions like these: Ithority is the City Council to ho‘ 1818—8hadrach Bond, first governor 'aholished? By what authority will | !this proposed commission hereafter (Democrat) make ordinances or enforceable ree- first governor of Kaneas, ar- ylations? What is to become of the may hereafter be necessary? - . D MR, BLANTON THINKS GOM. FORM UNAUTHORIZED N ARAAAAANAAAAAAAA AANAAAA AAS | such arrests made? Before whom ' will such offendera ve tried and in what manner will they be punished r T say if you ask such questions as these, and many similar ones that Imight be asked, you will find that Lakeland, Fla., Oct. 6, 1913. Editor Evening Telegram: Kind- ly give me space for a few words to the voters of Lakeland regarding the proposed commission government. 1 cannot ask you for space suflicient to explain many reasons that arc necessary to make my views clear but will state little more than my conflusions. .Much confusion is likely to result if /the clection advertised for the Sth inst. should result favorably for | a commission government; bocuusc| the Legislature has never conferred necessary power for the government of our city by a commission. All legislative authority is vested in the Legislature of our State. The Leg- islature cannot delegate this author- ity. The reading of our charter pro- visions relating to a commission form of government will convince almost any one that our city can- not be governed under such provi- slons. The city cannot confer pow- er upon ‘itself, nor can it confer pow- er upon a commission. The idea that the City Council b yresolution can confer all the executive, legis- power upon a commission {s reauty absurd. The resolution that is being published is evidently a transcript or extracts taken from the charter of some com- mission governed city. It spenk.n as the voice of the Legislature rather than as that of a City Council. The City Council s even prescribing du- ties for the governor of the State. It cannot do this. If you ask the | By what au- board o fbond trustees? What is to be done when the issuance of bonds | What procedure is to be followed for the valid issnance and forf the enforce- ment of such bonds? How are taxes to be levied and who are to be the tax officers In whom is the police power to be vested? Is the pronosed | business manager to arrest persons for offenses azainst the city or have f you use our statioaery. of fine Linen with En- 'velopes to match. they cannot tell you. The way to | secure a commission form of govern- | ment s to definitely work out the | system desired and ask the Lerisla- | ture for such a chartér. The present | proposition is impracticable and | really impossible. 1 shall advise the | City Council that they are not abhol- | ished or superseded in the event H!»'[ election should be favorable; and ir§ they follow my advice any persons | Gi who might be elected commissioners at this proposed election are likely | to find themselves stalking around | Lakeland like blind horses in a hail | storm. I say this is all kindly feel- fng. I am not opposed to commis- sion form of government but I do | not like to see us take a step which I consider foolish at a time when our progress would be placed in such great jenpardy. Yours very truly, KELSEY BLANTON. e CORRESPONDENCE Willbe a pleasure when | See our superb stock LAKE PHARMACY. 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