Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 10, 1914, Page 4

. the . 3 EVE The Evening Yelegram Pu)lished every afternoon from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. F. HETUERINGTON, EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES BN VORE e e $5.00 Bix montn® . .. ....c.cieenne 2.50 Three MONTHS . . vooeveeneroe 25 within Delivered anywhere the Wmits of the City of Lakeland for 10 eents a week from the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newgpaper giving a resume of iocal matters crop conditions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. ducational “Und Humbugs,” certain features of the public school the Times-Union attacks system in Florida and says in the course of its article: “In educational matters, the State! of Florida is either dishonest or wasteful. If the teachers who get from $20 to $35 per month are worth more, it is dishonest not to pay them more. If they are worth more, they are not worth anything. It is folly to waste the time of children on a teacher not| worth more than $30 or $35 per| month.” We doubt this very seriously. There are innumerable grades of in telligence in this world and the limitations fixed by nature There are thou- mental are there to stay sands of children in this State who will no further along in ednca- tion than the three R's anyg it wonld be an publie money to be teachers to impart that quantity and quality of information 0 We notice that at the Democratic county executive Duval county in Jack- Pleasant A. get mexcusahle waste of employing high-priced meeting of committee of sonville last Saturday, Holt, a member of the introduced a resolution urzing upon the that it resolution providing that only white Democrats will be allowed to vote in the Democratic primary. Didn’t we see something recently in a Jack State committee pass a sonville paper calley Dixie to the ef- fect that this Mr. Holt was trying not | committee, | lm'rzlii«' primary How does the un- A GRATUITOUS SLANDER {lz-qm.i fact that Mr. Holt intro- | duced the above resolution consist M. F. Hetherington of Lakeland with the story in Dixie? tries to excuse the registration of ne- > :~'*U o s in Jacks ille. Well, I am Rube Allyn, of the Sarasota Sun, gla’ Pe.k county Demccrats are not 1ded the recent Gasparilla festi- ) like Hetherington. Polk county ics in Tampa and for the first | usually stands for the best there is time met some of the big men of in politics.—Dixie. Flerida Rube was impressed and Fhere can be neither justification for such a paragraph as without Nor cxcusi | the above, for it is utterly any foundation in fact or truth. The this to say: } refrain the fact has for officers larzest men physically the Union. Gover- Tramme] is not only an Adonis the way, 1 cannot lling attention to State only explanation we can charitably gratuitous and chagrin of make for such un- qualified slander is the Dixie at the defeat of of any State in its effort to a Ilercules—a very large, well|[injure the cause of Senator Fletcher proportione,; man. Mr., McRae is|by associating it with Pleasant Holt rezister Dixie's any) his alleged scheme to Jacksonville knowledge of the tact that the Tele- large man in fine phys- Appleyard @lso a ical condition, ang T. J. very negroes, and giant. the State printer, is also a | These three are a fine exhibit of {gram had been associated with some what Florida will do in growing fine [0f the best papers in Florida in men, and every one of them meas-|helping to defeat that effort. {ures up intellectually in proportion In order to completely expose the {to his gize." untruth in the paragraph quoted | ey above we reproduce below an edi The Tampa Times torial from the Telegram of Feh. 16 (think lightly of the Mex which statey the attitude of this pa- [as a fighter, and <a} per on the Holt episode, and in this editorial, and this alone, Dixie found i “We whipped the Mexicans back in the 40's with less than one-fourth | the only warrant it had for assert- is disposed to can soldier of their own force. The American |ing that the editor of the Telegram soldier of today is as good as he was, Was trying to excuse the registra- then; the Mexican is no better,” |tion of negroes in Jacksonville. We think the Times is mistaken, | Here is our article: | The Mexican soldier of today is a “No vpaper in the State \\'oulr!i very much better fighter than ht,-{mm‘p ungualifiedly denounce any at-; was in 1846, He was armed in al~|tompt to register negroes to vote in {most medieval fashion in those rlzu‘s,} Democratic primaries than the ']‘eln-'i Was steepegq in the ignorance of the gram, but we know the game of poli-i lowest peonage and cared little for tics too well to take snap judgment | the issue of the conflict. But he has where grave charges are made anrl} progressed with the times; is better, we always wait until all the f:u't.\1 armed, better informed and better|are in hefore expressing ap opinion. | commanded than in those fur'u\\'u,\‘f\\'hun Dixie charged chat P. A.I vears, and the very experience hejHolt of Jacksonville was seeking to has been having since the Diaz re-|secure the registration of negroes in Was largely taken terrors of war angq the panicky feel- recruit, and he will i very much better account of himself in another war with this country than he did m the first one thv-’th:n county to vote in the Demo-| cratic primary presumably for the nomination of Scnator Fletcher, waited until Mr. Holt could he hear,) from, for the story was un ‘l'wusrmuhlu and we knew that Dixie There is probably no finer body of [ was (he enemy of Senator I“Il'l('h('l‘% than lhv‘un\l was doing its best to defeat| the {him. Mr. Holt has spoken; we pub- in Mexico while Diaz was president, |lished his letter recently in the Tele- and a Mexican army composed of all | gram, and as we suspected from the oppose | first, he has shown himself absolute- | Eime away ing of the raw we glve fichting men in the world Mexican rorals who kept peace fuctions consolidated to American invaders would nbe mud»-“l.\' innocent of any purpose to out- fup to a very considerable extent of rage de cency and defeat the candi-| the type. . " | N N . soldiers of rurales Hu-ltlulv of his choice by seeking to reg- best. material in the world ill or-|ister negroes in Jacksonville to vote! | zanized, il fed, ill commanded, and|as Democrats or to vote at ll”., indifferent to its cause will put up|Dixie is a mighty smart paper and {a poor fight, but there won't be any|it knows how to play polities, but indifference to the eause when the|its obvious effort in this case to hurt [ Mexicans oppose American invasion|the cause of Senator Fletcher by theled assistant general solicitor of the P1 N R S e ) hone 169 10 :";1"“ ‘Yl]]_' irtt‘,lst.r.'ntn‘m t‘!" ';‘l”k lanyg those fellows will fight like|Holt episode will make more votes|l.ehigh Valley Railroad, with head-| d' B STREATE FRDYIe NBET0CS 10 YOe 1 Bie DOME |l eate, for the senator in the end than it]quarters in New York. | B a it SBORG Sl i S— = 18} R, U PR e, TR R I €| 4 3 vi [ 0 g2 ' . = 03 = 2 o fl b - .. o -3 - 03 The ladies of the city are inbited to attend our display of Millinery, Spring Suits and Gowns Wednesday and Thursday, March 11th and 12th NING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., MARCH 10, 1914. | gnaranteed by | vou s e e A will make votes azainst him. The masses always resent unfairness and th will be fully informed before this campaign ends of the adroit ef- fort to strike below the belt at Sen- ator Fletcher by seeking to the impression in his party that ne- being regis- gro Republicans v ‘ tered to secure his nomination. Mr. | Holt's letter utterly, destroys any | bstance in the charge and leaves court We need not multiply words on | subject. 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