Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 4, 1913, Page 4

1 S o [ 5 The Evening Telegraim B ——————— e e e e Published every afternoon from the PR Entercd in the postofiice at Lake- wad, Florida, as mail matter of the pocnd cisas. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. M s i et BUBSCRIFITIUN RATES: DR YEAT . ..overvens, eneess.$6.00 fiz months .... vaes B0 Fhree months .. 126 Delivered anywbere within the fmits of the City of Lakeland for 10 Pouts a week. From the same offica 18 {ssued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekiy newspaper giving 8 resume o1 local matters, crop conditions, pounty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. The various State elections today will mostly go off on local and State fssues and will be no test of public| approval or disapproval of the na-! tional administration. Tn Pennsyl- | vania, for instance, the big issue is the proposed issue of $530,000,000 in State bonds to build and improve public hichways and this question is in no wise related to party politics. SOOI S Colonel Roosevelt’s pet Progressive, Hon. Mr. Bird, is running for gov- ernor of Massachusetts on what the Colonel considers a model Pro-ressive platform, and the result of the elec- ‘10“111?9'9 today will g“’: us a p"‘-:“lylopportunity to pay mearly double' Tennessee is sixty-one, and has been |let out to the lowest bidder. All this/ good line on the stren2th of the Col-{gs4 hyt offercd a resolution that the prominent in Democratic circles for | Work should be under the direct su- onel’s new party in New England. He; also has aother pet Progressive run- ning for governor of New Jersey. —0 The death of Charley Gates adds’ another to the glittering list of "rl(‘h-: est widows in the worll,” a com»any of ladice known as ood snhenders and whose advent into widowhood is no- ted v 11 ocatigfaction oy scedy Euro- pean nobles who are long on titles n and ancestry anid short on cash mar’ ol cotteast weeh this array of resn'ondont widows is old ‘unt lHet- tie Green, the very richestof them ali, wiho dress ard a ten dollar bonnet and keeps her millions rolling like a snowbhall. Aunt Hettie has her mer- its, but we prefer the other kind, P | a resty bluek bombazine ' The exciting news from Mexico ghon!d not divert our patriotic at- tention from the fact that Governor Trarme'l has requested all able- bodicd Floridians of the male sex to put in a good day’s work on the pub- Kentucky PRuilding, Lakeland, Fla. ISS MARION HOLLINS M MR, RIGGING REPLIES 10 WAYOR ERIOH Mr. Editor: 1f the mayor had, made a plain staiement of fact he | would not Lave had any controversy with me, but it is just his failure to do this that hes called for all thisj taik between us. I am nct the n\un§ who has run into print with all my/| § official and unofiicial acts, but wheu: : a boy I never could see another boy | walk around with a chip on his! shoulder without knocking it off eve if 1 got licked for it, and the mayor’s attitude in the Telegram on one or| two occasions was a little too much | for me and the old boyhood habit re- turned, for which I beg pardon of the reading public. The mayor seems to be a persistent sort of a body and every time I knock his chip off he welks around on me or some one else a while and puts that chip right back on his shoulder or gets him a new one. This time he has punched me in the short ribs a few times and put that same old chip back on his shoulder. 50 1 will gee if I can knock it off again. The mayor's memory is not ' g0 bad but that he will remember that the Council, the mayor, the com- missioners, all bands, and the cook|of America's women golfers, reached were in a friendly discussion of ways the finals in the recent championship and means to find out from the Su-{tournament, only to be defeated by Miss Marion Holling, one of the best preme Court who was to run the city{ Miss Gladys Ravenscroft ot Eng sovernment nest yegp. The attor-/land 00000000 neys and their fees came up as a mat- TODAY’'S BIRTHDAY HONORS ter of course. The mayor will re- member that 1 did not jump at the —_— Congressman John A. Moon, of matter be referred to acommittee and many years. He is a lawyer by pro- if the city attorney and Mr. Tucker, fession; was three times appointed would not do the work at a reason~:and twice elected jud~e of the fourth able price then to employ other at-'judicial district of Tennessee. He torneys. If 1 had had any idea the was elected to the Fifty-fifth Con- mayor had the inside information gress and re-elected to the Fifty- that he says he on attorneys’ sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eizht, foes, I would have included in the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Six- n thet the mayor be named as tv-gecond and Sixty-third Congresses. committee of one to arrange the! ces, My moticn Wid not set a €ees pyaeking that old chip off his shoul e iL was insisted that the qon ho il put it right back azain, ter should he setiled at onee. MY xow g¢ (o commission government 1 Council remarked ihat this .“”i't am sure that a majority, if not all, mizht cost the eity $2,000, ¢ INCW w0 qin who voted for the attorneys that the bond trusfors, S0 navor at? fooe pie as honestly and earnestly in the Council had just been seirved with a notice that they should not pay to the people who paved our streets the money due them Dbecauge their at- torneys at Arcailia claimed more than 1d doliars as a fee for a suit Dbefore the Supreme favor of the commission form of gov- ernment as is the mayor, and some of them did not wait until the going was easy to get on the commission _government band wagon, but the mayor Will doubtless remember that a tho frie THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, NOV. 4, 1913. it made no ereat difterence with him! Court, and he had a perfect rizht to le very cantious about getting the city into a lawguit unless the cost was determined beforehand. The since he “could be elected mayor by about the same majority that he re- ceived as commissioner at large.” Is it yet possible to . differ from the [P IR, SOUTHARD GIVES a&. HiS PLATFORM, .~ Lakeland, Fla., Nov. 4, 1913, To the Voters in the Feurth Ward, and Lakecland at Large: Gentlemuen—As there Las been an | impression circulated by some of m;‘i‘ opponents to the effect that in case’ I am elected as councilman from the! s Fourth Ward I will not give this of-' i fice my undivided attention, therefore 1 am writing this letter to set you, straight. Should you elect me to represent you in this ward I will promise to serve you to the very best of my ability. As to the plank in my plat- form I believe you all want a better and more economicar city govern- ment. Or, in other words, want something to show for your money spent. I am of the opinion that our) city can be successfully handled with; fewer employes. [Tt certainly can be| done if they work; if they do not; work, we do not want them at any price. I believe our electric lizht and wa- ter plant can be made to yield bet-‘ ter results, althouch the present re- < g S WA e | & L SILVER PALAGE & 1 sults are good, but they can be made . iy even better. There is no reason why | %o N Ty SRR R T with a slight expenditure our run-; ..uus i 2 o A AT IO o T S ORI S 50 1 Y ning expenses cannot be reduced 2 25 pe . Th uld ) i theh, 68 T Al eS¢ L E have the agency for the famous ! cast my vote for this improvement. . ¢ Cadillac Automobiles, Roadsters, Four, Five and Seven-Passenger Touring Regarding the street improvements Cars. De- I belleve in livinz up to our charter, livered three Five-Passengers Cars last have specifications drawn up for alll leity work by the city engineer, and | week. One each to Mrs, L. W. Cowcery, and Mr, E. H. Youngs, of Lakeland, and one to Hon. E. E. Skipper, of Bariow. p SN Can make prompt celivery, pervision of our city engincer. I do | not believe the city can get the re- !sults it is entitled to, or any show :fur the expenditure of its money | ? When the Council lets the job to one! 3 "of the members. If the law be looked' "into you will find this act alone is| criminal. | # 1 believe in free seweraze at all| I times, but the user chould pay actnal | cost for connection. Tn recard to the of the sewer ranze,i their buckets ghould be taken care of by the eity with a elizht raise in the if there isu't enouzh money < available, Let us all help carry this’ “res,tubes afld L thCl‘ gOOds burden until we can have sewer con- | ¢ i nection with every residence inside ln the hUtomObile “ne Lakeland Automobile & Supply Co. 2 S R o parties ontside - Get our prices on cars, | I am in favor of gettinz the sewer connection to them as soon as pos- | sible. l As to the extension of the electric’ light lines and water mai to our peonle, get the actual service EFREIE SO RO AST BB GRN I e B AT o Nl B L s, get them to them. Spend less money on friend- RN ' day follow the example of the gover- lic roads of Florida on Friday, Nov., 21. Prevare to mobilize, fellow citi- zens! And this compels us to ask If the governor of Florisla will on that mayor will remember that he did have a great deal to do with employ- ing the attorneys, that he employed one of them in fact and agreed that the Couneil had to pay him not $50 nor of Missouri and the governor of Arkansas, don his overalls, shoulder his ghovel, proceed to the field of lab- or and chow how roads are made? In the absence of testimony, we assume torney 2ot whatever that might be. was not bashful about telling the Council so. The mayor will remem- that he will, Iber that the Council has never before ) Sesesamboet 'had to ask him for reasons for his There has been no vacillation oF ,hiniong; he has always had the full- timid indecision on the part of Presi-'oo yco of the floor and has never don't Wilson in his attitnde ‘wwnrd‘l'ailnd to express himself fully and :4‘;"';: ‘frm::(:hizm;'\r:(;:\v(-‘lr:"(llsf‘::‘r\t:{ freely—save this one time when $300 % g $ Ll hav sav ity dential title founded in assassination, ‘:):li”::;teh:f;nm u]z:“w‘::rk:(;u;t and the climax comes today In the g0 of yg to let us know he had not mews from Washington that the you5 1t 411, But what is the use cf presidert has informed Huerta in ef- fect that he must step down and out —_ it diplomatic relations between the two countries are to be maintained. Huerta's refusal to do g0 would not necessarily mean war, but it would get up a dangerous condition that miztt make it ary for onr troons to crogs the Rio Crande. We guspect that Huerta has been bluf- fine, and now that his bluff has been called, that fact in connecticn with the continued success of the Carran- ga rebels in the field is likely to lead to the resienation of the dictator. Events are moving ranidlv in Mevico and stitrin2 news from that quarter may be expeeted any hour. L One of the noteworthy thineg abont prohilition is that while manv cood eitizens, iealous of their personal iib- erty, or more specifcally eveatine, their personal thirst, first view it with alarm and contemplate it with horror, after a reasonable exverience of it come to consider 1t the normal state o orderly organized society and wonder how they got alon2 so long without it. Every prohibition town in the country where the law is en- forced, will give this testimony. Just pow the bibulous brizade over in Mi- ami fee's that a cataclysm hns strock that town, and life is hardly worth the livineg; but this egeason of acute despair will pass away, a centle mel- ancholy will succeed, and in time as a saloonless Miami rises from the ruin wroneht by the ruthless demon of prohibition, there will be more than reluctant acquiescerce in the pew cordition and general satisfac- tion will follow. Even amongz the greatest eufferers there will be the compensating thought that Jackson- ville and Tampa are not too far away and the express company is still do- ing business. ner ese turer wants to replace the: Cancing. FOR MEN, WOM And here is a precaution: is that of the originator because they are worth it and trademark on the toe the genuine. $1.50 to $3 Williamso nor $150 but as much as the city r*- The mayor will remember that he | cross-country walking, golf, tennis, baseball and yile)!/ f 7 olepraof [fasierg AND CHILDREN tor of guaranteed hose, the hose that are guaranteed anteed Lo wear six months, “FASHION SHOP FOR MEN" Our police department is, I think, fairly good, but it can be improved jand will Le if my vote will count for ¢ ¥ | ship and extend more lines, ‘ mayor in some things and not be op-‘ posed to commission government or junfriendly to the mavor. { | The mayor will find me always anVthizs. ' Iready to dispute with him when I be-| [T also believe in a straizht salary lieve him to be wrong and equally for all city empleyes—no side lines. ! ready to apologize if T find myself in Every city employe should be as error, so T will beg his pardon in ad- much interested in keeping the run- vance for a thought that I had that ning expenses down as any other citi- [ possibly the mayor had a reason for Zen. If he is not, you may rest as- 'not telling the Counctl about that cured he is an expensive man to have 1$50 fee proposition and probably the at any price. There is no reason price was made for certain conditions WhY an employe should not take a i,(,“]y and should not have been made direct interest in and be as faithful {public since the mayor was going to tO the city’'s welfare as he would be see that the conditions should never if he were in your employ. 1f he is come about, Begging pardon again not, it is his move, don't keep a gzood for having such thoughts, I remain Man out of a job as there are plenty yours for all the truth. who will work and do it right. [ N. A. RIGGINS. As in any other work, a city em- ne—== | ploye should bte subject to discharze upon thirty days' notice for failing to perform his duty, { | Coming back to the object of this letter, I will explain why 1 did not serve you rezularly when on the Council in 1911 and 1912, In 1911 my attenddance to Coun:il meetin~s were rerular and on each of my com- mittees I worked faithfully—as every member can certify. | | In rezard to my second vear, T r'nf explain this and you will all a~ree f\\'i(h me in the end. I was emnloved by one of the larcest manufacturing !companies in the State of Georsia s consulting encineer by the doy until :thr‘ work was completed. 1 did not |know then how lone it won'd take |to complete their work, in fact, they cid not know themselves. The re- sult was I was away from my Coun- cil duties much lon~er than was ex- pected. Ilowever, it was with no in- tentions on my part to fail in per- {forminy my dnties as councilman. | In conclusion, 1 will say, if voun ;M(\(‘t me as your renresentative from the Fourth ward, I propose ard will select say ten or more men of the eiti- {zens from gaid ward each month and rconsnlt with them as to the best wav of handling all such questions as will arise. Honinz my views will meet with your approval, I am Very truly yours, 1425 G. E. SOUTHARD. JOYLAND PARK | AT LAKE PARKER GOOD FISH- {ING, GOOD BOATING, COLD {DRINKS, LUNCH ROOM, TWO |HOURS RIDE ON LAUNCH FOR ONLY 25 CENTS. PROMPT SERV- /ICE, COURTEOUS TREATMENT, Il REASONABLE PRICES. MOONEY B8 SeheSiEl) 'BROS., PROPS. P, 0. BOX 32. 1393 b I \ [t 53! the“6 months’ guaranteed wear as an €x- tra advantage. Den't think that Hole- proof are guaranteed just in the heels and toes. Lvery stitch i3 protected. If they rip, it they tear, if a single thread treaks—any- where —the manuiac. These hose will stand (4 An T, T e e i [ T 3 m. S0 EN L) The signature, Gaxoink of Holeproot—the orizina- 2 e e s . Lock for that signaturc of the hose, tor i. ‘dentifies U0 & 06X €. sk pal s, gt are n-Moore (0. (LVLLIUGE U S ags vy | (1 Unless You krow Where to Buy he Cost of Living is Grea t"i;, IF YOU KNOW The selection will be the best The variety unmatched The quality unsurpassed Theprice the lowest All these you find at our store Just trade with us This settles the question of living Best Butter, perpduni..-.........- N ] RIS 13 Bugar, 17 pounds ...... Cottolene, 10 pound pails. ......... Cottolene, 4-pound pails........... sesrsisrensy B8 4 pounds Snowdrift Lard. senssmesase ey e §0 #nowdrift, 10-pound pails......... O 6 | 8 cans family size Cream .........q seeee oo conens B 8 cans baby size Cream........oo000 soeee oy vueen. BB 1.2 barrel best Floar ........o0.0o---- TR % | ] 12 pounds best Flour.......coo0 ovv viy ovunn.,, 40 Octagon Soap, 8 for .....ccccovevute 2onne vr vreens BB Ground Coffee, perpound ... ... ... ..... .. ] ¥ gallons Keroseme ............... ... ... .. .... 48 \E- G. TWEEDELL