Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 16, 1914, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Tne fveainy {elegram Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoflce at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. i e s M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. SRR I A SR e SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Jue year 3ix montn~ Three montns Delivered anywhere within the \mits of the City ot Lakeland tor 10 cents a week. From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper ziving a resume of local matters —ciup cuaditions, county aftairs, etc. Sent anywhere tor $1.00 per year. e e ST s e s Always a good paper, the St. Pet- ersburg Times is now a much better one because it has become ‘‘one of us” as a member of the Associated Press. VR Fred De Berry says the Congres- sional Record is a joke, but if Fred should by some miracle ever get to Cengress we should expect to see him cvltivating an affectionate inti- macy with that “joke” and omitting no opportunity to get his speeches printed in its pages, L U The Orlando Sentinel says that Pleasant Holt succeeds ‘in spite of the many vilainous lies that are told about him.” Coming from so well informed a man as the editor of the Sentinel, this languaze is especially significant right now when Mr. Holt | is bewng talked about by his enemies as though he were a personally dis- reputable character merely because in sending oeut circular letters urg- ing citizens to register, two or three of them without intention ,on his part and by pure mischance found their way to negro firms in Jack- sonville. PRI GRS It is unfortunate that our public men sent to Washington to lezislate on large questions should be com- pelledd to spend o much of their time in petty squabbles over petty patronace; but there seems to be no esciape from it, for the appointive of- fices must be filled and there are so many of them that appointing powers must rely upon the recom- mendations of representatives and senators. Just now Senator DBryan and Congressman I’Kngle are in un ing hostility to who shonld be postmaster of Jacksonville and the result will show the, strongest “pull™ with ad minietration. Who the better fitfed for the job should be the only test but under our patronaze system the compromi as who has the is that simple and sensible rule doesn't g always work. 0 The dieesburg Commercial refers to the fact that in anti-bellum years when the South was powerful in Congress it was beeause Southern statesmen, who had demonstrated their ability and achieved national inflience were kept there by their constituents. The Commereial fur- ther says that Duncan 7. Fletcher is just that kind of man and wants to know what reagon there is why we shouldn't keep him in the Senate.' To this the Ocala Star replies with admirable pith and absolute truth:, “No reason at all except that anoth-! er man wants his job."” And., we] challenge any Stockton organ in the State to disprove this. —0 From the vigor and zeal displayed by Bro. John C. Trice in sending out literature to some of the Florida | papers designed to show that the sa- loon is too good an institution to be abolished by the people of Florida, we suspect that the liquor dealers in this State are apprehensive of an- other State-wide prohibition cam- paign and are trying to educate the ignorant masses in advance of that calamity. Or perhaps it is feared that the next Legislature may put a few more crimps in the saloons and public sentiment is to be against such cruelty. never go backward, educated Revolutions John. ooy » The late Senator Bacon, of Geor- gla, who died Saturday, was almost the last of the old timers in the Senate and during his nearly twenty years of service there proved himself a capable and courageous statesman. He was not brilliant, but he was honest, learned, sensible and conservative and there was nev- er the suspecion of unworthy mo- tives or low selfseeking in anything he did. He was in the best sense a useful] public servant and in his pri- vate no less than his public life he was an admirable example to all his colleagues. Georgia has had more brilliant men in the Senate, but nev- er oue more devoted to her interests, and the Senate itself never had a member who more worthily and sturdily maintained its best tradi- tions. he The freely upon the libel suit for $80,- 000 against the Pensacola Yournal. Ith'nt county to vote in the Demo- —————————————————rrr 1 p— State press is commenting That paper in the interest of tiia tax- payers printed certain things which seemed to get a half-hitch on parties who had a contract with the city or county, we forget which, for Hoing certain work, and said parties think they have been injured in their feel- ings, their reputation and their psychoiogy and suffered mental an- guish to an extent that. calls. for $80,000 of Journal money to curé the wound. Our libel laws seem more designed to foster and encourage the damage suit industry than to protect jnnocent pesgle againg}. injuyy by! ‘the press, and the Sahford Herald expresses a gemeral conviction among newspaper men when it says: “It is up ‘o the State press at the next meeting to frame a few bills for the protecion of newspaper men against the insidious methods of the grafters who now hide behind the laws that allow the editors to be haled into (ourt without a chance at retaliation.’ —_— IT WILL NOT HURT SENATOR FLETCHER No paper in the State would more unqualifiedly denounce any attempt to register negroes to vote in Demo- cratic primaries than the Telegram, but we know the game of politics too well to take snap judgment where grave charges are made and we always wait until all the facts are in before expressing an opinion. When Dixie charged that P. A. Holt of Jacksonville was seeking to secuie the registration of negroes in cratic primary presumably for the ! nomination of Senator Fletcher, we! ,waited until Mr. Holt could be heard | 'lmm for the story was unreasonable | {and we knew that Dixie was the en-; |emy of Senator Fletcher and \v:ls‘ douu., its best to defeat him. Mr. ' {Holt has spoken; we published his tletter recently in the Telegram, and ‘as we suspected from the first, he has shown himself absolutely inno- cent oi any purpose to outrage de- cency and defeat the candidate of his choice by seeking to register ne groes ip Jacksonville to vote as Dem- ocrats or to vote at all. Dixic is a mighty smart paper anil it knows how to play politics, but its obvious cffort in this case to hurt the senator Fletcher by the cause of Holt episode will make more vote for the senator in the end than it wili make votes against him. The masses always resent unfairness and they will Le fully informed this campaign ends of the adroit of fort strike lieclow the belt at ator Kletcher seeking to create the impression in his party that ne- gro itepublicans were being tered to secure his nomination. Holi's letter utterly destroys stance in the charge its authors without court, before to sen by rezis Mr. any anid leaves any case in And in this connection the tone of Mr. Holt's letter is to be strongly commended. right to the facts in the avoids offensive personalitios dllll()ll h he had much provocation to lose Mt goes ase, nis temper, and in calm and temperate swery, the charges anid thoroughly. On this point the Geala Star well says: “The Btar of Pleasant Holt that he knows how to play the game. The charges brought against him in the last few days would have ' caused one of these small fry poli-| ticians to throw forty fits. 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