Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1889 — FLORIDA SOLONS. [ARTICLE]

FLORIDA SOLONS.

The Speaker of the House Urges a Change in the Mode of National Election. The Florida legislature met in regular session at Tallahassee. Gen. J. B. Wall of Tampa was choosen president of the senate and Dr. J. J . Gaskins of Starke speaker of the house. In taking his seat the latter made a brief speech, in which he said: “I cannot believe it was ever the intention of Jefferson that any man receiving a maiority of the votes of the whole people should not take the position of President of tho United States. Yet the startling fact confronts us that Cleveland received 93,000 more votes than his opponent and still is not President. It is the duty of the Florida Legislature to inquire into and correct this defeet in the national organism in so far as it can.” The sentiment was greeted by wild applause, and it is regarded in Tallahassee as the first State gun fired in behalf of the popular election of President.