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1 TKte PENSACOLA JOURNAL, WEDNESDAYvMORNIN G, APRIL 24, IBI2. LI BALDW! ITERESTED IH LID CANAL MUCH INTEREST EVINCED IN PROMISING PROJECT AT MEET ING WHICH WAS HELD AT BAY MINETTE MONDAY. Special to The Journal. Bay Mlnette, Ala., April 23. Mrs. Jlav.de Wood Henry, field secretary of the Mississippi-to-Atlantic Waterway Association. - held a meeting: with a number of the most prominent men of this nla.ce last evening in the court house for the purpose of explaining; the I plans of the association in promuuus th,. canal through the southern states, and particularly with connection to the canal through the southern end of this ccunty, and the benefits to be derived from the canal when completed. The meeting: was not called until late In the afternoon and a number of men who are Interested in the move ment were not in town, but those who were present readily saw the great benefits to be derived by the county from the canal and are heartily In fa Tor of pushing the canal to comple tion. 1 Mrs. Henry Is engaged In an active Individual campaign and is creating a great deal of enthusiasm over' the movement. The fact that the canal ha been completed in several places and that fully a dozen appropriations have been made for the various links of the canal, and the further fact that tbe connecting link through Baldwin county Is the center of the firing line at the present time and that many other appropriations are hinged on the efforts of this county, makes the mat ter all the more important and the Citizens are responding nicely, that the matter may be pushed through. Senators Bankhead and Johnson ha,v been In back of the movement since It was launched and are actively co-operating with Senator Fletcher in an endeavor to get through the appro priation and the amendment to the lill for that purpose has already been Introduced, according to Mrs. Henry. Mrs. Henry explained that the canal through the lower end of the county was a part of the Inter-Coastal Canal from Maine to the Rio Grande, nearly ail of which is recommendedfand many sections of which are now nnder con struction, including a part of the gulf coast section. The canal, she states, 1 destined to connect 19 states and to give 45,000,000 people a chance to ex change their products of the farms, mines and factories, at a rate of from 1-6 to 1 1-6 of railroad rates. The en tire length of the canal will be 3,850 miles and will extend all along the coast line and will save not only freight, but time, life and property as opposed to the open ocean route. - In connection with the canal through the lower end of the icountry. it is learned that much less money will be needed In accordance with the dis tance across the county than in most ' other cases, ' owing to the grand natural waterways which are found in th proposed route of the canal. The fact that It will be necessary to actual ly dig only about six miles of canal, the remainder of the distance across th county being traversed through lakes and rivers, makes the burden of putting in the canal much lighter on Baldwin county residents than on many of the counties through which it must pass. Mrs. Henry commented upon the marvelous growth of the county through the past four years, and since her last visit here. She states that the growth has been astounding and that where when she was in the county before, nothing but woods was . found and where the land was believed to be practically worthless, there are now to be found fine farms of the richest sort with phenomenal crops growing on them. She also stated that the class of people who were locating l.i the county are those who will build up the county and who do things. She stated that it would not be a long time before it would be known whether or not these progress ive peoplewho in many instances haul their products as far as sixteen miles to marketing places or to places where transportation is reached, shall be assisted in their work by the canal r or wnetner their progress shall be hindered by not having the proper means of transportation ' and proper shipping facilities. s Mrs. Henry will doubtless work here several days more in the interest of the canal and hold a meeting for the Spring Humors Come to most people and cause manj troubles, pimples, bolls and othei eruptions, besides loss of appetite, that tired feeling, biliousness, lndigestlor and headache. The sooner you get rid or them the better, and the way to get rid of therr and to build up the system la to tak- Hood's Sarsaparilh The Spring Medicine par excellence as shown by unequal ed, radical and permanent cures. Get It today in usual liquid form or chocolated tablets known as Sarsatabs. purpose of bringing all the citizens to gether at one time, and will doubtless receive the hearty co-operation of all the citizens. She has already sent in more than twenty petitions with thou sands of names from the county of those who are In favor of the move ment, and herjjersonal work wl only b to back urthe petitioners and push the matter forth without delay. May be just the thing you need, G. & W. Livertonic, a substitute for calomel. AH druggists. GBL FOSTER IS ENDORSED BV OFFICERS LOCAL MILITARY MEN ASK THE VOTERS OF STATE TO RETURN ADJUTANT GENERAL FOSTER, INCUMBENT BELIEVE IT BE BEST FOR SERVICE TO STAT 5. To the Voters of Florida: We, the officers and men of Compa nies "M" and "I," 15 th Infantry. National Guard of Florida, in order to preserve In the guard that high standard of ef ficiency and to secure for ourselves that fair, Just, and impartial adminis tration of an office of such paramount importance to tne guard and to the safety of the citizens of this great commonwealth do hereby recommend and urge upon every voter in this state the necessity of voting for J. C. R. Foster for the office of Adjutant General. Foster, the military eenius who now controls with such a master mlndhe military forces of the state, General Foster Is a tireless worker In the Interest of the militia In this state and has endeared himself to the hearts of the soldier boys by his deep tenderness and consideration of them and. by his untiring efforts and nerse- verence which has resulted In raising the Florida guards to the high stand ard of efficiency that exists today. We therefore deem it a great honor and a still greater pleasure to again recommend to the people of Florida for Adjutant general the man who is Justly styled "The father of the Na tional Guard of Florida," J. Clifford R. Foster, to whom we pledge our votes and our heartiest support. (Signed) W WALTER ACKER. JR.. Captain 1st Inf. N. G. F. Comdg. Co. M. (Signed) CLEMENT BLOUNT. Capt. 1st Inf. N. G. F. Comdg Co. I. BRATT SCHOOL CLOSES ON 30 EXERCISES WILL TAKE PLACE SATURDAY DINNER WILL BE SERVED AND CANDIDATES ARE INVITED. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. School No. 85. situated at Bratt, Fla., Precinct No. 33. will close the last of this month, April 30. The exer cises will be held on Saturday, April 27th. There will be a basket picnic and speaking after the exercises of the children are over. This will be one of the best opportunities of the whole primary campaign to meet the voters In the northwestern section of the county, possibly a fish chowder will be given on the bill of fare. We would like to have all of the candidates with us. It being only three days before the election, they should not fail to attend. Teams can be hired at Canoe or At more, Ala., that will deliver you on the grounds in about one and one-half hours. This school has made a fine record and all the patrons who have their children's welfare at heart, have given support by sending the children regu larly. The continuous rain is holding planting back somewhat, but when it ceases the more energy will be ex erted to get planting over. The warm ground will be better than if seeds were in now. The average of cotton will be cut considerable in this sec tion, and more attention given to corn, sugar cane, potatoes, etc. Politics are at a warm degree now and choices are hard to make, 'particu larly In the offices where three or more are running. This will be voting by the yard at any rate from the length pf the ballot. With special Invitation to The Jour nal to be with us on the 27th, we guar antee a pleasant occasion to all. ft VALUABLE SUGGESTION IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. ..- j1 r M. E. MOREY Candidate for County taissiensr, District 4. Says : 1911 taxes on property which I own In this county exceeded $200.00. I want end expect to own more property here but I do not enjoy paying the high r-.te of taxes now imposed. It tends to crush out the desire to buy. own and improve property. I want to get or. the inside I want to bs your f'ounty Commissioner and if the bur dn on you and me Is not lightened. I will know the reason why. and let you knew. It Is now conceded by physicians that the kidneys should have more at tention as they control the other or gans to a remarkable degree and do n tremendous amount of work In re moving the poisons and waste matter from the system by filtering the blood. During the winter months especially, when we live an Indoor life, the kid neys should receive some assistance when needed, as we take less exercise, drink less water and often eat more rich heavy food, thereby forcing the kidneys to do more work than Nature intended. Evidence of kidney troub'.o, such as lame back. Inability to hold urine, smarting or burning, brick-dust or sediment, sallow complexions, rheu matisms may be" weak or Irregular heart action," warns you that your kidneys rtequire help immediately to avoid morVserious trouble. An herbal medicine containing no minerals or opiates has the most heal ing influence. An Ideal herbal com pound that has had most remarkable success as a kidney and bladder rem edy is Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. You may receive a sample bottle of Swamp-Root by mall, absolutely free. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Blngham ton, N. Y and mention the Pensacola Dally Journal. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. The Miami metropolis wants to see Claude L'Engle With his fearless tongue, his unswerving loyalty to the common people, his aggressive at titude toward despotism and crooked dealings in public life Go to Washington as Florida's first Congressman from the State-at-large (Editorial from the Miami Metropolis.) The Metropolis Does Not Endorse Toomer. Some one has been sending over the state, a newspaper clipping credited to the Metropolis, endorsing the candidacy of Col. William M. Toomer, who has entered the race for congress from the state-at-large. The article first appeared in the Jacksonville Metropolis and this paper republished it the fol lowing day as matter of news and credited it to the Jacksonville paper. The Miami Metropolis not only does not en dorse Mr. Toomer as a candidate, but considers that his election would be a disastrous thing for the people of Florida. His platform is boldly republican and his backing is found among powerful money interests by whom, it is hoped, he may be carried into this important office. For too long have the people of Florida been asked to send the servants of plutocracy to Wash ington. The time has arrived for a radical change, and together, with a large majority of the real Democrats of this State, the Metropolis wants to see Claude L'Engle, with his fearless tongue, his unswerving loyalty to the common people, his- aggressive attitude toward despotism and crooked dealing in public life, go to Washing ton as Florida's first congressman from the state-at-large. Col. William M. Toomer would never serve the best interests of Florida POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. RftiltoGD Anuswers ADD Attacks obd DUis' 4Bodl oadls aired! Conwicft Sasggass Tainnrn PGairas Produces Figures Against Unsupported Statements of Opponents Talks Plainly About Other Candidates f I have said that Trammell is a professional politician. I based the statement on these facts: He has FAVORED everything he thought the people wanted, without knowing how to get them; he has spent most of his life in one office running for another; he FAVORS one policy in one place and OPPOSES it in another; he warns the people against eleventh hour charges and proceeds at the eleventh hour to make charges; he misrepresents facts, tries to play tricks with figures, and gets rattled when he discovers that people are finding him out. I say these things about him and I offer here the proof: Watson, too, is something of a professional when it comes to misrepresentations which is a tame word with which to describe what he has done. But I am too busy to shoot snowbirds with gatling guns. Watson is not a factor in this race. Reason: The organization which ordinarily would have supported him ceased to be an organization two years ago. So far I haven't caught Gibbons misrepresenting anything, and the only criticism I'll pass on him is to call attention to one plank in his platform, which platform, by the way, he had foresight enough to encir cle with a heavy black border. The plank referred to is one in which he advocates working the convicts on roads, opposes the State receiving any benefit from the labor of the convicts, but favors supporting the fam ily of the convict. Queer logic for a man of gubernatorial size. , WORKING CONVICTS ON ROADS Trammell says in the Gainesville Sun, of .April 10, that placing the convicts on roads will not increase taxation. Let us see: The State has two ways of raising money. 1 By taxes. 2 By hire or other em ployment of convicts. If you do not hire, or otherwise employ the convicts so they will bring a revenue to the State, then taxes MUST be resorted to. Is that plain? If put on the roads they produce no revenue, therefore, you lose the revenue they" NOW produce. We can't let them starve or go naked or sleep on the ground, therefore we must feed, clothe and house them. That will cost SOME money. Is that plain? WHAT IT WILL COST Figured on 1,000 convicts (there are, I am informed, about 1,600) we lost $281,600 now received. I am also authoritatively informed, and I challenge denial of the fact, that the cost of maintenance of 1,000 convicts will be $250,000 annually., 1,000 convicts can build, according to the road builders, about 350 miles of road per year. There are several kinds of roads. They say that $5,000per mile for all expenses ex clusive of convict labor will build nly an average road. Then you have a total annual expense on one thous and convicts of $2,281,600. To raise this, TAXES MUST BE INCREASED MORE THAN 12 MILLS, so that if your taxes now are $5.00, they will then be nearly $10. Anybody can figure this out as well as I have done, yet Trammell says working the convicts on roads will not increase taxation. You be the judge. TRAR1M ELLEXPERT FENCE STRADDLER Trammell FAVORS forty-two different propositions, yet he has not offered you a single concrete plan which will enable youto get even one of them. Such tactics are always employed by professionals who think they can. fool the people. Trammell telegraphed the State Good Roads Association, which met in Jacksonville April 16th, an endorsement of the State Highway Commission Bill they advocate, and gets off in the woods, where a State Highway is not popular, and claims to be opposed to it. This was in Taylor county. This chronic seeker after office, and the emoluments thereof, also claims to be a great friend of the laborer. Yet he would not hesitate to put over a thousand convicts in direct competition with FREE labor. This man says of himself that he will "in the future, as he has always done in the past, champion the cause of the people and fight their battles." I challenged him once, face to face, to name the time and place he had raised his voice in behalf of any people's candidate, or anyone except himself, and he sat perfectly quiet. The people ought to be careful about accepting Trammell's promises. You know he made a grand stand play at doing all the legal work for the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund got himself written up in the papers, etc., and later SUGGESTED and VQTED for the resolution under which Mr. Ellis now draws $2500 a year for doing the work. IGNORANCE, FEAR OR HUIIIBUGGERY WHICH? In the advertisement already referred to Trammell asserts, without giving a single item or figure, that "Milton's plan for a convict cane farm and sugar factory will increase taxes about eight mills to get ready for experimenting in cane growing." That is absolutely false. I have stated from the beginning, and have made no other statement, that I proposed to place part of the convicts in the Bradford county farm (already purchased by the State for that purpose) to raise supplies for the other convicts who will be trans ferred to the State's land in the Everglades as rapidly as expediency permits. The equipment would, of course, cost money. I propose to handle that as Louisiana did. Buy the equipment on credit and pay for it out of the profits. . This same Trammell has been a member of the Board having the drainage of the Everglades in charge, since January, 1909, and now says he doesn't know whether cane can bcproduced in the Ever glades. Has he been too busy running for another office to inform himself? I do not ask you to believe me about it.- Remember, Trammell admits that he does not know. He can inform himself, as I did, by con sulting such witnesses as Doctor Wiley, State Chemist Rose, Mr. Walter Comfort of the Huyler-Comfort Candy Company, and many others who have taken the trouble to find out by actual experiment. If sick, do you go to a lawyer? If in jail, would you send for a doctor to get you out? If you want expert advice about -sugar cane and farm lands, will you take it from Park Trammell, or from a chemist and food pro duct expert of international reputation, or from a former manager of the Disston Sugar Company, or from a member of a large corporation which proposes to produce in the Everglades the sugar necessary to run its candy and ice cream factories? And just here let me explain about the Disston Company. Thev all say it failed. It certainly did. Captain Rose, who was manager of it, in an article published inhe Jacksonville Metropolis, Nov. 24, 1911, says : "The failure at St. Cloud was not caused by climate, soil or quality of cane, as no richer cane nor larger tonnage is made in Cuba than was made at St. Cloud and South Port, in the same county on re claimed muck landand is still being made on the same and similar lands in the same locality. The failure was caused: First By extravagance. Second By ignorance of proper methods of culture and manufacture and neglect of drainage. Third By want of proper business methods on the part of the company and its managers. Fourth, and the most importantBy speculation, by turning a legitimate agricultural and manufac turing enterprise into a joint stock speculation concern." Is Captain Rose or Trammell the better qualified to tell these facts? ' DELIBERATE MISSTATEMENT I quote again from Trammell's advertisement. He says: "Louisiana's convict cane farms have made no such profits as the figures set forth in, Mr. Milton's literature. The facts show but bare wages for the convicts." A considerable part of the cane in Louisiana last vear was killed by frost, reducing the profits to "bare wages." NO CANE WOULD BE INJURED BY FROST IN THE EVERGLADES. This information was before Mr. Trammell. Why did he not state it instead of deliberately trying to deceive the people? PRACTICAL QUESTIONS? If a man owned the land that will produce sugar cane, could get the labor for the cost of mainten ance merely, could raise a produce of which the consumption in the United States exceeds the production by One Hundred and Ninety-Five Million Dollars, what WOULD YOU CALL THAT MAN IF HE RE FUSED TO FARM HIS LAND? If a man owned One Million Two Hundred Thousand acres of land and couldn't possibly utilize even the Two Hundred Thousand, and had a chance to enhance the value of the million by inaugurating a great industry, what would you call that man if he delierately refused to inaugurate the industry? If, as the government reports showwe have 752,619 people and they each consume 79.87 pounds of sugar, which is worth at wholesale in New York 4.97 cents per pound, and if we send out of Florida every year for sugar more than Three Million Dollars, don't you think we might as well keep that Three Million in Florida? If Watson, Gibbons and Trammell are devoting their speeches and most of their literature to futile efforts to answer, and to the abuse of Milton's proposition, don't you think the proposition must be pretty sound, and that Milton s victory is imminent? V