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TAMPA WEEKLY TRIBUNE. CLARK STILL IN ACTION. sibly be devised by thoughtless law- j. J. titm aX.

J. IE Weekly Tribune PUBLISHED By Tho 4IBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY un Building Corner Tampa and Twiggs Streets never heard of him any more than it is the fault of 79,999,900 of the 80,000,000 people of the United States that they have, never heard of Editor Russell. SCATTERING SAGE'S MONEY At the present rate of philanthropy, it is estimated that it will take 1 the widow of Russell Sage about five years to give away the fortune of 165.000,-000 which her husband built up in 50 years. An examination of the various philanthropies of the financier's widow reveals the fact that in the past three years she has been giving away the cash that her late husband gathered together at the rate of $125,000 a day. This remarkable system of charity has been discovered through the investigation which is now being conducted by the Russell Sage foundation, endowed by Mrs.

Sage with into the feasibility of a universal worklngmen's insurance scheme. The men investigating this proposition are Dr. Lee K. Frankel, a proml-Hebrew philanthropist of New York, and Miles M. Dawson, a leading actuary- When they make their report, it is regarded as not at all improbable that Mrs.

Sage, in conjunction with a Tampa Must Win This Prize--Get Busy At Once On next Friday, June 18. the organization committee of the Florida Citrus Exchange will meet in this city for the purpose of perfecting the details of the exchange and also for the purpose of selecting permanent headquarters for the exchange. A great many people of Tampa have been deluding themselves with the mistaken but thoroughly agreeable idea that Tampa is sure to be designated as the headquarters for the exchange and that it is not necessary to put forth any special effort to obtain this great advantage for this city. "Why," they say, "Tampa is the only possible place for it. Aren't we right in the center of the orange-growing section, didn't the movement start here and will not the great majority of the growers demand that Tampa be selected?" The Tribune doesn't know so much about this charming combination of circumstances.

It must be remembered that, in this day and time, big things like the headquarters Of the associated citrus-fruit growers of a State do not "drop off the Christmas tree," but they cannot be attained without hard work and lots of it especially when there are cities of enterprise and resource in the State that take a notion that they would like to have the headquarters themselves. The Tribune does know that Tampa will not get the headquarters of the Florida Citrus Exchange without a struggle and it also knows that the opposition has beaten Tampa to the field and is already exerting its utmost endeavors to capture the prize. Jacksonville has moved In the matter with its accustomed enterprise and promptness and it is known that the Board of Trade of that city has appointed a committee composed of its leading business men to canvass the situation and present Jacksonville's claims to the members of the organization committee. This commitee will be in Tampa next Friday, if not a day or two in advance, and will-be prepared to submit to the committee a proposition that will be very attractive. Jacksonville wants the exchange headquarters and, in furtherance of that desire, Jacksonville will not allow a single thing to go unsaid or a single inducement to go unoffered.

And what has Tampa done in he matter? Not a meeting: not a committee; not a suggestion of organized effort to obtain one of the biggest "boosts' that has come within our reach in many years. Do the people, the business people of Tampa, realize Just what the headquarters of the Florida Citrus Exchange will bring to the city which secures it? Let us figure a bit. In the first place, the exchange headquarters will call for office-accommodations equal to one floor of the American National Bank building, with a clerical force, during the shipping season, numbering at least twenty. It will call for large warehouse accommodations, because under the system proposed to be adopted, the purchases of crate material, paper, necessary to the handling of the crop, will be done by trainload and carload lots and extensive warehouse room will be needed. Again, the manager of each sub-exchange In the State, and there will be many of these, will be required to visit the headquarters and report at least once each week; and the growers themselves will find frequent occasion for visiting headquarters, either on business of their own with the exchange or to get an idea of how the new plan is working.

And then, the fact that practically every orange and grape-fruit sold In the State of Florida will be handled through the headquarters, means that between 1100,000 and in cash will be handled In this city EVERY DAT during the shipping season. The enormous advantage of this matter to the business interests of Tampa can be readily seen and understood when the vast scope of the enterprise is considered. Is it strange that Jacksonville has moved so earnestly in the matter and that it proposes to exert every effort to obtain this great advantage for itself? And is It not incumbent upon Tampa to assert itself at this Juncture and to see that the headquarters of the Florida Citrus Exchange are located at the logical point? The Tribune would stir the people of Tampa to action on this matter. Undoubtedly, the prevailing sentiment of the orange-growers and doubtless of the organization committee which will decide the question is favorable to Tampa for geographical and other reasons. But what will these friends of Tampa be able to say or do should Jacksonville make its usual liberal offers while the business interests of Tampa are silent? Will it not be the part of common sense for them to forsake Tampa, Tampa being blind to its own Interests, and go to Jacksonville, where they are wanted, and where attractive inducements are offered them? The vital Importance of this matter cannot be overestimated and the Tribune would urge that some action be taken by the people of Tampa AT ONCE.

The Board of Trade, with all the co-operation, organized or individual it can enlist, ought to begin work TODAY so that Tampa will be prepared, when the committee comes here next Friday, to meet any proposition that Jacksonville may make, to demonstrate to the growers that Tampa is the logical and proper point for their headquarters. This done, The Tribune feels assured that Tampa will win the prize. But, unless something Is done, the citizens of Tampa are going to observe the very humiliating spectacle of Jacksonville carrying away without opposition a prize worth millions of dollars to this city. START THE WORK TODAY. THIS IS ANOTHER OF THOSE PUBLIC MOVEMENTS IN WHICH EVERY CITIZEN MUST STAND AND STRIVE TOGETHER.

NEXT FRIDAY IS THE DAY AND THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE. The Tribune upheld and defended Representative Frank Clark in his recent "scrap" with the Florida Legisla ture, incident to his expression of his honest opinion on the dangers of continued Bryan domination of the Democratic party. Mr. Clark, while his remarks on this and kindred subjects, could not be re- garded as strictly orthodox from an 'organization Democratic" standpoint. certainly voiced the views of thous ands of Democrats throughout the country and the ease with which he established the soundness of his posi tion when he was permitted the privi- lege of addressing the Legislature and with which he hurled the peculiar Frank Clark brand of defiance into the teeth of his political enemies in and out of that bods', demonstrated that he was not an orator without a good cause.

Since Mr. Clark's return to Wash- ingion, ne nas continued to express nis opinion or Bryan ism and he has gained considerable notoriety through- out the country as a Democrat who doesn't hesitate to manifest disapproval of some of the features of Democracy acordlng to present ideas. One of the first things Mr. Clark did on his return from the Florida battleground, which, by the way, he left decorated with the mangled re mains of Jim Alexander and others who envy him his position and influ ence, was to have inserted in the Con. gressional Record the speech which he delivered to the Florida Legislature, when the late but not lamented move- ment to censure him oi tr xunes seems to rensn a portion of this speech and reprints it, as follows: "I understand that there wai a I speech read here the other day made by my friend.

Ollie James Did von cvpr sM nm-? iV home or you who were at the Den- ver convention saw Ollie. He is a broad, elegant, large fine gentleman. He is a little over six feet, weierhs pruuauiy zta to zdo pounds, tie is a tremendous physical success. "And Ollie speech was read. Ollie is an enthusiastic follower of the "peerless, and let me tell you what his leader ship, and those like him, has done In Kentucky.

"Kentucky, from my earliest recol- lection, nas ever Been a state as safely Democratic as Geor gia or Texas. No state in the union was safer, and yet under the leader ship of Ollie James and his associates they have tonight four Republican representatives in congress, a Repub lican governor sits in the state house ot Frankfort, and a Republican sena- tor sits In the senate chamber In Washington and answers to the name of Kentucky. That's Mr. Bryan's leadership. That's the leadership of Mr.

James." A THE SHAME OF THE STATE. Another session of the Florida Leg islature has gone on the imperishable records as falling to adopt a measure for state unuormity or textDooKs, a law which has been demanded by the overwhelming sentiment of the people of this State for years, which is broached at each session of the Legls- lature, fought by the so-called book trust at every session and defeated at every session. This time, although It appeared for a time that State uniformity would score its long-delayed triumph, and substitute measures, calculated only to stave off the real desires of the peo- pie, were voted down by both houses, the end desired by the book trust was attained by having each house pass a different State uniformity bill, both failing of concurrence through the lack of time in the grand closing rush of the session. The unfailing regularity with which the interests of the parents of school children in Florida have been subor dinated to the rapacity of the book trust has furnished a continued story of shame in the legislative history of of this trust upon the people ought to The book trust lobby is one of the most dangerous that ever existed at Tallahassee, because it does not stop short of enlisting the efforts of the educators of the children of Florida, men who are paid by the State to teach in its schools, in its nefarious service. A list of the men who are actually HIRED and PAID by the American Book Company to prevent enact- ment of State uniformity legislation by the Florida Legislature would cause a gasp of astonishment In every quarter of the commonwealth.

Talk about publishing lists of railroad passes. Such a list is indeed trifling in its import and insignificant in its dis closures compared to the revelation that would be made if a list of the EMPLOYEES of the book trust could be authoritatively obtained and print ed. ANYTHING DOING? The Tribune has been waiting with some degree of interest the announce ment of some movement on the part of the officials or the citizens of Tal- lahassee toward the identification, ar rest and prosecution of members of I the mob which so disgraced that city and the State of Florida last week by lynching a negro murderer who was have been hanged five days later. As The Tribune has previously re- marked, one such lynching as that perpetrated by this Tallahassee mob, absolutely without provocation or ex- cuse, does more to place a false con- structlon upon Southern conduct, to deter immigration, to throw a damper rr, Southern industrial nrosoects. fortify our enemies and to silence our friends, than anything that could pos- lessness or malicious criminality.

That outbreak at Tallahassee, so un called-for in its blind passion, its dis regard of court and officials, so insulting- to the Governor who had used his utmost endeavors to appease public indignation in this case by bringing the murderer to prompt trial and prompt conviction, so devoid of the ordinary dictates of orderly and civi- lized society, has and will do Florida more damage than the studied efforts of its upbuilders. Its promoters, its press and its good people can overcome in years. As an example of the impression which such lawless acts convey to the outside world, here is an extract from an editorial on the subject ap- pearing in the Washington Herald: A negro was recently taken from a Florida Jail and lynched, notwithstand ing the fact that he had been tried for the murder that he was alleged to have to be hanged. Moreover, his sentence was to have been executed in five dayB. There was no fault to find with the conduct of his trial.

He was promptly arraigned when caught, tried in order and with due regard to decor ous and decent procedure, and would have been in his grave and out of the way within ninety days of the time the crime was committed and, mark you the crime was not even the "usual" one; it was murder. What, consciously or unconsciously, was the isolated motive behind the mob's das tardly work? It had no excuse what ever along the usually proclaimed lines. There was surely no unseemly delay of the law to complain of. No further appeal to the courts was con templated, the governor even had an- nouncea that ne would not seek to in terfere with the execution of the death sentence scheduled to be carried out in less than one week's time. The one lone motive behind it all was the mob's inclination to show its contempt of the law its willingness to repudiate the law's authority upon the slightest pretext For the reason that nothing can so effectively check such bad impressions as the punishment of the perpetrators of the outraze.

The Tribune hODes that the officials of Leon county will lose no time In devoting their best efforts to this end; and the Governor should back these officials, if they so proceed, with all the power, civil and military, of the State, if it should be required. 4 TAFT ON THE POPE President Taft gave a vivid picture of Pope Leo XIII in the course of his recent address before the Congress of Roman Catholic missionaries. He was describing his visit to the Vatican a few ag the representative of TT .4, the Philippine friar lands question. "I had the honor of being received by Leo XIII," said the President, "pne of the greatest Popes that ever sat in that chair, and a man of such high intellectual character, such broad abil- ities that shan aiways congratulate myseif on having had the opportunity to come into his presence and meet him nad 8Upp08ed he, at 92 years, wa8 rather a 'lay figure' at the head of the church and that we should be turned over to the cardinals who really rondncted rhurrh matters. Rut mv mind was quickly disabused on that point, for as soon as I was brought into his presence I found a most alert old gentleman, quick in movement, quick in intellectual appreciation of what was sal(J.

to him and intensely interested in the subject which it was my honor and my opportunity to pre sent. "After an address had been made to him for some 30 minutes he responded in French for 15 or 20 minutes, show- ing tnat he had caught all the points that were ma(je. that he was fullv alive to the importance of the issue and that ne proposed to have a good deal to say about how that issue should be settled." Speaking of the failure to reach a definite agreement at Rome, the President told how the Pope expressed his disappointment, but he delegated one of his agents to the Philippines and the matter was finally adjusted. And the President added that the question as subsequently settled was satisfac tory to both sides, "so that there is not today in the islands an existing ques tionno as Governor Wright was in the habit of calling them that can rise to trouble either the civil or the church government in these islands." SUCH 18 FAME The Palatka News is very much an noyed at the conduct of the Jackson Ville Times-Union and The Tribune in prlnting Pastor Russell's sermons ev ery week. The News says: "No live newspaper would ever give so much space to stuff from an unknown with out being well paid for It." Pastor Russell, the world-famous pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, will doubtless be greatly cast down to learn that he is "an unknown" to the Palatka News.

Intelligent newspaper men ev erywhere will also doubtless feel some surprise that the Times-Union and The Tribune receive pay for printing these sermons, while other less fortunate newspapers have to pay a good, round sum for the privilege of using them. Pastor Russell may not be quite as well-known as Editor Russell of the Palatka News, but he has succeeded, at least, in holding the pastorate of what is probably the foremost church in the world and in securing a oongre- gation limited only by the bounds of I civilization. His sermons may not ap I peal to the Palatka News but they do appeal to millions of readers in every country on the globe and they are so highly appreciated by the readers of I The Tribune that letters come in every day or two from Tribune subscribers, to'urirlnir that thev be continued as a regular feature. It is not the fault of Pastor Buntll that Editor Russell has ABOUT THE TRIBUNE "A Fine Showing." Starke Telegraph: The Tampa Tribune made a tine showing for its home county in its Hillsborough county editon. A Department Arcadia Champion: The Tampa Tribune will shortly start a department in their excellent paper given up to the orange growing industry and other agricultural subjects.

"Semper Paratis" Pensacola Journal: The motto of the Tampa Tribune should be "semper paratis," which being translated with reasonable liberality, means "Johnnie on the spot." No sooner have the citrus fruit people adjournec tner convention held in the South Florida city than the Tribune announces that it is going to incorporate a special department in its broad pages, under expert management, which will be devoted to the state's great fruit industry. This is the kind of enterprise which makes the individual who undertakes it flourish like a green bay tree- and lends growth and strength to every interest falling under its influence. PERFUME OF LIMBURGER A prominent cigar manufacturer was talking to a friend yesterday morning. The conversation drifted to the dull times. His friend said he thought things would be better after the tariff was settled, because the goods in the old country are better and the help much cheaper.

The manufacturer said that put him in mind of what a Dutchman said to him the other day: "The limburger cheese is not the same in this country as in Germany, because they knock the perfume out of it as they do with everything else in this country." 4 IN MEMORIAM Plant City Courier: Somebody was responsible for the failure of the state uniform text-book bill and the people of Florida should never rest until they have run the guilty parties down. Every man, who by any means assisted in defeating this bill is a party to the biggest piece of highway robbery ever perpetrated against the people of the state. "Disgusted" Inverness Chronicle: The legislature has adjourned, but the laws will have to be published as is usually done after adjournment before one can tell which have passed, and were signed by the governor. Such a conglomeration of mysterious accounts of dlsposi- tlon of'bills was never known before, and It will take a successful puzzle solver to determine Just what bills have become laws. We became so thoroughly disguster with the whole business that we quit publishing legislative proceedings long before the adjournment, although we had a special correspondent in Tallahassee.

"A Thing of the P.sf Qulncy Times: The legislature of 1909 is now a thing of the past as far as the assemblying of legisators is concerned. It is not a thing of the past, however, as far as the public Is concerned. It must take its place in history along with the good and the bad. There were many excellent measures that were killed. The freak bills were in evidence, as they have always been, always will be.

IN MEMORIAM 4. 4 4 "Easily Identified" Jasper News: The man who break into the legislature with paucity of brain and constipation of ideas can be easily identified by his denunciation of railroads, or the Times-Union. 1 4 Compared" Gainesville Sun: The people are criticising the legislature for having done nothing during the past sixty days session. This criticism is nothing, however, compared to the "cussing" the members would have had administered to them had some of the pending bills been enacted into law. "Not Unwept" Pensacola Journal: The legislature, as claimed by the Jacksonville Times-Union in a cartoon, may have gone out "unhonored and unsung," but not unwept.

At least it did one or two things which brought tears in abundance to many eyes, and not only was there weeping but likewise gnashing of teeth. "A Wiser Thino" Fort Meade Observer: It costs the state $85,000 to hold this legislative session, but Judging from the work accomplished, it would have been a wiser thing for the state to have paid the State Fair premiums and suspended the circus at Tallahassee for an indefinite time. 4 "Forced to Quit" Jacksonville Floridian: Oh. what a glorious blessing is a constitution! The sixty days' limit expired last night and the legislature was forced to adjourn. We will all breathe easier and life up our voices in thankfulness to Gcd and the conftMutlon.

4 4.4-4' 4- 4- 4' 4. FLORIDA'S HALL OF FAME .4,4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4,4.4.4. Powell And so the Irrepressible Editor Powell is on his way back to Florida. He tried northern California, and gave it up. He tried Petersburg.

and hoped there was something better. He has tried southern California, and now thinks he is satisfied thatr Florida is positively the best, and back he comes, with kitchen furniture and all, to stay. We're thinking Powell won't be satisfied this side of the heavenly abode. Orlando Reporter-Star. Alexandei Hon.

James Alexander of Volusia county announced on the floor of the house a few ago that he would retire from political life after the adjournment of the present session of the legislature. It is also announced that Hon. R. Hudson Burr will retire at the conclusion of hia present term as railroad commissioner: Starke Telegraph. And several others, if they do not retire voluntarily, will be retired.

Ocala Banner. Major General Wood, who was an ordinary practicing physician and a very ordinary one that, when he was discovered by Theodore Roosevelt, is now the senior ranking officer of the United States army. He evidently lrnnu'9 Tinur to write th nrBSprictiori Jaj auccesa. LLACB F. 3TOVALL.

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j. iVhat has become of Harry 'Thaw? 4. Woe to him that is alone when he leth German. 4- the killing of Callahan, the Ken-sky feudist put a bullet in the right ice. j.

Seattle's fair was ready on time. In it id an exception to all previous shows. 1 What Is a Havana cigar?" asks the ver Post. The Havana cigar was; Tampa cigar IS. Six thousand persons are burned to ath In the United States every year, atewide prohibition of fire! Governor Gilchrist manifests a rare crimination in selecting: the proper dees for his veto signatures.

A lot of store sale3 that were planned pnths ago are Just now materializ- I- iiic bus. Jiuwituaya are worm He. it would be worth many millions of liars to this city to have E. H. Har- nan interested in deeper water for impa.

An engineer who knows how to keep iwn fuel bills Is hard to find. A -lbune want ad. will get you the man need. A coachman in whose care you can ust your good horse will offer his rvices. if you use a Tribune "Help anted" ad.

The nearest approach to the overdue ja serpent story this season is that the Galveston fish tnat saved a ship. 1 A You can manage property with the Mitlnual help of Tribune want adver- sing. Without it, you will bungle the badly. bear must be exerted to the utmost make Tampa headquarters for the -ange-growers. It is all right for a miser to keep sere his "stock in trade," but its ilghty poor policy for the merchant, wise, advertise.

"Mack" Cathcart and Henry Wat- have helped to make Vicksburg imous. Both attended the Lee monu- lent unveiling there. What can be accomplished toward union depot by a conference between ail road officials and city officials? lerelytt play for more time. 4 "vftiat would this city be without Its I res? What would the Tribune be Te without its store ads? One would i about as Interesting as the other. Good cltlxens will have an opportun- ty to show the mettle that is in them ext Friday, when tne Citrus fc.xcnange eadquarters matter is to be set- fled.

One of the old veterans attending the lemphis reunion died from drinking loo mucn waier. Bjmpmii.v ne rought It on himself. And in Mem-hls too! A rhanee of venue to Putnam coun- has been grainted at Gainesville in he case of D. M. Davidson and James kllev.

charged with the murder of W. r. Sellars, formerly a police officer of fampa. who was pssassinatea at jugn Springs. The trial will begin at Pa-jatka June 21.

i- Editor Tyler wants to know what Kr-nrifii" told the Tribune tnat psy chasthenic" means "soul-strength." Unfortunately, it was inconvenient to ap ply to Editor Tyler for information fit the time, so we consultec tne sec- Knd-best authority, one oan weo-Uer. We wish it distinctly understood that both the Tribune and Mr. Abater are subiect to correction at the hands of Brother Tyler, and we hwait his answer I Jacksonville Is generally given credit Tor being a lively, if not a "fast" town, and we positively refuse to believe the scurrilous story now being circulated by the rural press to the effect that Jacksonville policeman had to use an automobile to catch a one-legged hegro. If the story be true, however, fwe must ascribe the unfortunate occurrence to the fact that the negro was the only "made in Jacksonville" article figuring in the affair and that the automobile and the policeman were Jxth imported from less rapid towns- number of leading employers throughout the country, will institute a real worklngmen's Insurance under government supervision, and probably compulsory with the toilers. Throughout all the philanthropies of Mrs.

Sage there appears the desire not so much to relieve poverty and suffering as to relieve the causes of these evils; and in this the vast for tune of the late millionaire will not be expended in vain, if it produce anything like approximate results. 5. ONE HUNDRED MILLION Tampa cigar shipments for the pres ent year have passed the one hundred million mark. The figures of the busi ness continue to be gratifying. Up to June 5, the shipments for the current year amounted to 100,810,000 cigars.

Up to June 5 of last year, the total shipments were only 79,930,000 cigars. The increase this year over last year to that date was 20,880,000. As attested by the government reve nue figures, the tobacco importations have been greater thus far this year than in the banner cigar year, 1907. The sales of cigar stamps (internal revenue) upon which the sales of ci gars may be best computed, have not reached the figures of 1907 but are much ahead of 1908. In every respect, the showing made by the cigar Industry this year is a matter of congratulation.

BLAME NAVY YARD PLAN Naval line officers who oppose the Newberry scheme of yard and depart mental organization have dealt the in novation a blow In reporting that it has been responsible for the delay in completing repairs on the battleships and thus delaying the summer maneuvers. The date of rendezvous in Hamp ton Roads has been postponed from June 15 to June 27, with the probability that four of the sixteen battleships will not be able to join the fleet before July 6. Admiral Schroeder, in a tele gram from the New York yard to the Navy Department, recommended that the assembling of the ships be postponed until June 29, but after a confer ence of bureau chiefs it was decided to require them to leave the yards June 25. Several flag officers of the fleet, line bureau chiefs and commandants of certain yards state that the 'general manager," or "chief technical assistants" scheme, as already in force, is responsible for most of the delay. SEABOARD'S NEW PRESIDENT Tampa is more than ordinarily In terested In the announcement that C.

H. Hlx is to succeed W. A. Garrett as President of the Seaboard Air Line, effective June 30. Mr.

Hlx is well-known in this city, having visited It on numerous occasions as General Superintendent of the Seaboard. He is about 45 years of age, and began his connection with the road as a station telegraph opera tor. From thishe became train dispatcher and then trainmaster. This led to his promotion to the position of Division Superintendent and then to General Superintendent. He is a native of Nelson county, Virginia, 4.

BARTOW'S RECEPTION Bartow is preparing for a grand reception in honor of Its new courthouse and the people of Florida are Invited to visit the hustling little city on that occasion to help celebrate the achievement. Polk county deserves much credit for Its progressive spirit, as evidenced by the handsome structure whleh it has erected for the accommodation of its courts and county officials. And Bartow will do itself proud in the celebration arranged. FOR THE GROWERS The Growers Department is inaugurated in this week's issue of the Weekly Tribune, conducted by James McComb, a gentleman of wide and intimcate acquaintance with the fruit and vegetable interests of Florida. I It is the aim of the Tribune to make this department of its weekly edition Indispensable to the growers of Florida and it will appreciate the aid of the growers In making it a complete and reliable medium for the exchange of helpful ideas and for the promotion of the new organization movement which has Just been inaugurated by them.

The subscription price of the Weekly Tribuno is only $1 a year and tills rate will not be increased with the addition this Important feature, Mr. Fitzgerald has been replying that he hasn't been asked for any advice, that he in't the minority leader, and that Clark is the man to see. To which the rejoinder is that Clark re- fuses to have anything to do with com- mittee assignments. Then Fitzgerald shrugs his shoulders and admits that there Is nothing he can do about it. But the impression prevails, not- withstanding, that Fitzgerald 'can do a this State and the men who are re-great deal more with the Speaker than 1 sponsible for the chicanery and dou-can be accomplished by any other ble-deallng which perpetuates the hold Democrat.

Gentlemen who would not for the world bo accused of disloyalty be condemned and effectually con-to the nominal leader, and who a few demned. THE NEXT HOUSE LEADER The question of Democratic leadership in the House is promising to be right Interesting, says a Washington story. The Democrats have designated Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri, as their floor-leader. Speaker Cannon has designated Hon.

John J. Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, as the Democratic leader, and there is some difference in opinion whether the Speaker's choice or the Democratic caucus man is going to do the leading. When John Sharp Williams was Democratic leader, he and Speaker Cannon were great friends. The Speaker, In naming committees, commissioned Williams to make all the minority designations, which was a great privilege and a great embarrassment to Mr. Williams.

A good many Democrats never liked the plan; they didn't care to become partners in the Republican organisation, and they didn't entirely approve of the chummy relations between Mr. Williams and the chair. In fact, Clark was rather the champion of this sentiment. anfwhen Williams retired and he was elected leader It was very well understood that a new regime was to come in. Mr.

Clark early announced, what had been understood in advance, that he would not undertake to name the minority members of committees, and the snub was handed back promptly from the camp of the Speaker, with the suggestion that Mr. Clark needn't get huffy; nobody had asked him to make up the minority side of the committees; the Speaker was amply able to do it. So, pursuant to this program, the Speaker named Mr. Fitzgerald a member of the Rules Committee, despite that Fitzgerald was peculiarly objectionable to Clark, by reason of leading a minority of Democrats into the Cannon camp during the great contest over the rules at the opening of the special session. This recognition designated Fitzgerald as the Speaker's favorite on the Democratic side, and recently ambitious members of the minority, anxious about their committee assignments, have been approaching the Brooklyn man with the suggestion that a kind word from him to the Speaker would help them attain their ambitions.

weeks ago were very angry over the course Fitzgerald had taken in the rules fight, are now taking opportunity by the forelock, and improving their relations with Fitzgerald, on the theory that If he's to be the Speaker's Democratic adviser, why, its just as well to maintain amicable relations. There are all kinds of opinions about Mr. Clark's course, but on the whole he is strong with his party members. They think that the era of good feel ing between Cannon and Williams wasn't very helpful to a militant Democracy and that some real fighting now and then would be helpful In Impressing upon the country that there are some real differences between the two great parties. Speaker Cannon, according lo present report, Is going to name the House committees before the close of the present session, and it is expected that there will be some very decided reorganizations of the Democratic side to them.

The Republican aspirants for good things are especially active and concerned. About the only people who are giving themselves no concern whatever are the Republican insurgents. They know what they have coming and they are sweetly content. I' Tampa Is the logical place for the headquarters of Florida Citrus Ex- rtVi on i i thA ivifiro foM that i 1 a lofftpal" isn't srotne to win thp nri without some effort behind it. A high government official has ruletj that whiskey is whiskey.

He must "ifJL, ff. .1. floatins- around thes riav We have had the strawberry and orflarm.r-ndnnwefnrea.het..hn iil termelon beauty..