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ter November 7 1905
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THE DAILY DEMOCRAT will be
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j States pastage prepaid for 500
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r The President will be In Memphis
tomorrow where the jDeep Waterway
Convention wilLbejrfn session and
Governor BronLnho with about a
< wren other Coverihirs is with tho
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R orators of the occasion I
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The community which denies its
children ample educational advant
ages is guilty ok a tgligonce for
pbexcuse
which there can bkpo excuse Quincy
boasts of its wealTiL but it cannot
I with any basis iif triWi boast of its
wisdom If it Is jrefusingas is reported
j ed a large j oportion of its child
I ren the benefits of education merely I I
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Some of he papersare re trying to
bring Frank ayes of the Pensacola
Journal into t e rfte as a candidate
I for Governor ink is an allround
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jolly good fell ut we opine that
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he is too btyry makng his Journal
one of thebest and ibost readable
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I dally papws in the Soikh to waste
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an time effort and money in getting
Into the political game Madison
New Enterprise
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I Conflicting reports were at first
sent out of the result of the prohibi j
I 1 tIon election in Franklin county but
the accurate returns hOW that the
r county went wit by the very small I
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majority of 21 s IJ e Carrabelle
precinct h wove voted tdryrr by
tho handson majority tf o K 92 and
I iI under the lav the ISqjfor traffic is
I abolished in that precinct Apala
i chicola went wet of course II
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I The DeLand News says that the I
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State Railroad Commission should
either compel thffL N railroad to i I
adopt the threec t fare or hand j
their resignation t the Governor j
Thats mighty plait talk but who j
1 I can blame the News Think of four
cents a mile do a railroad in this
I aiilroad
i State with twoVfcons prevailing in
t many of the othir qi and the
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+ r railroad holdin themselves in big
i luck whe they l Jre aUleyto keep the
cI 1 I I rate at thre en c least the peo
I pie of Florida are entitled to know j
why the excessive
fourcent rate con <
I I tinues to be charged by the L N
There may be a sufficient reason for
It but we cant suspect UK nature
Give us light on the subject i
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A Hungarian count with an un I
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pronouncable name is announced as
the latest success in the American
matrimonial market r lie has captur
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ed or is about to ten million Am
erican dOllars mll one of the Vander
bIlt girls goes with the trade as a I
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necessary attachment She is Miss
t Gladys daughter ohthe I
Ot late Cornelius I
Vanderbilt who was the son of the I
late William H Vanderbllt who was
the man who obse j
observed once upon a I
time The people lee d d This i
referred to the American st
Anerican people not j
the European no fes for William It j
doubtless had thfe
prescience even
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then to realize hat with plenty of
money the Vanderbilt stock would I
I ultimately get Into good society over j
t in Europe on a fair xchango of dol
lars for titles And + yet old Great 1
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Grandpa Vanderbilt used to call him j
self VanderbIlt fugthe J
the absence of an i
educated accentand keep a ferry i
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> where he put folks across the river j
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for a dime a head
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WHY NOT A PENAL COLONY I
State Senator Gorman of Mary
land suggests that the Philippine Is
lands be used as a penal colony to
which negro criminals from the Unit
ed States should be deported There
is abundant merit in the suggestion
and if we could ever get the Repub
lican States of the Union to disso
ciate the negro from the preposterous
sentimentalism created by such
agencies as Uncle Toms Cabin
and look at him with the eyes of
common sense just as he is we be I
lieve that the Gorman suggestion i
would be adopted and that soon i
The question of negro criminality in
this country is assuming fearful pro
portions and our penal system is very
far short of being successful The
chain gang and the convict camp
have largely lost their terrors for
negro lawbreakers From these gangs
and camps every month in the year
great numbers of convicts are being
released thoroughly hardened in depravity
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pravity and lynch more dangerous
criminals than xvjien they went there
They imIllediately l gin to prey upon
the public roving like wild beasts
through the country loafing in gangs
around the towns and ities plunged
in every foriuVpf vice corrupting I
large numbers T opyoung fc negroes who
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look up to them as heroes and perpe
trating crime without hesitation x from
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murder and rape to petty larceny as
their haseanstiiictsanaj proi pt This
criminal negro populat bn isfgrowing
rapidly in everj Southi rn State and
beyond the possibility pf reform as
most of them are to taeep them in
our midst it to create and encourage
conditions that are bad enough now
and will ultimately be of the most
frightful character There Is but one
practicable solution and that is to de
port thCiu to a penal colony as Eng
land has been doing with her dan
gerous criminals foi generations The
great body of our Southern negroes
are peaceable and la w biding and
fairly industrious and it is as im
portant to their future as that of the
whites that this increasing horde of
black criminals should be shipped out
of the country instead of being allow
ed to remain here a source of danger
to the whole South and a black
cloud over every Southern home This
proposition should get into Southern
politics and the issue should be press
ed incessantly until the whole country
is made to realize that it is both rae
tloable and necessary
Ve understand that there is going
to be a 1et or dry campaign in
Marion couiiW pretty soon and from
the local color ns of the Ocala Star of
Wednesday Wt takethe following
neat little argument for prohibition
although the Star not on that side
of the issue
Only four + hit t men before his
honor this morfungX Booze was the
cause of theMSappearunce Three of
them were aggravate cases Two
were arrested for
attempting to carve
up the inmates of west nd and one
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for clearing out a saloon with the
proprietors pistol These festivities
cost the participants high but then
the way of the transgressor is hard
The result in the Escambia
county
prohibition election in which the will I
of a clear white majority I
was defeat
ed by a purchased
negro vote makes
a strong point for John S Beard in
his attack on the validity of the
Fifteenth i
Amendment to the Federal
Constitution In his speech in the
State Senate last spring on his pro
posed amendment to disfranchise the
negro Mr Beard aid
You think you have got rid of
the negro in your elections
By means
of the white primary Writ as long as
the white citizens re
are united you
have perhaps for a time done so But
mark you this The time will come II
when some great issue arises on
which the white people will be di
vided Each side
will then strive to
secure the negro vote and the negro
holding the balance of power will de
term in e the result
That is just what happened in I
Penacola last Tuesday The saloon I
element paid the poll tax for but
dreds of
negro voters who
never pay
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any taxes at all and this herd crowd
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ed to the polls and defeated the will i
of a white majority In Texas there
is a law which prohibits the payment
of one mans poll tax by another
That law is strictly lenforced with
the result that i ne efforts of the
I saloon keepers to buy jfiegro voter
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en masse inXprohibitiofl elections by
paying their poll tax have been completely
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pletely blocked very much in the in
terest of good government and law
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I ful majorities We need that kind of
a law in Florida j
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The boom of Joe Folk of Missouri i
elfor President has reached Florida
I and settled down in Marion county I
j where it hopes to grow and strength
j en and possibly capture the State
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I delegation to the National Democratic i j
Convention next year An address j
has been issued to the Democratic i
voters of the county signed by a T
number of leading citizens endorsing
Governor Folk in strong terms aryl j
calling for a meeting at Ocala Ooto 4
I ber 7th to organfcte a Folk club This t r
is at it should beXPublic sentiment i 4
in the South as to the next Dtfmoi
cratic nominee jar President is fn a j
chaotic condition it is time that j
it should begin to crystalize No man I 4
is authorized to speak for the South j i1
nor even for Florida on this issue for i 4 s
no man knows what the majority J
sentiment really is The only way to lj
find out is by some such practical i j
step as that taken in Marion county i 4
find Governor Folk is a pretty good5
candidate to start with But there I
are others and we suspect that he < 2
hind and above and over them all in I
the end will loom the stalwart per
sonality of W J Bryan who will
walk off with the gate receipts j
as a <
usual and lead us into that undis j
covered land lying beyond the Ides of
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