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e principle-l It's the principle upon which, i! you nee fit to elect--

we, I": going to work.
L It in my conviction that in the legielztnre of 1943 our constant
use earnest endeavor mat be to fit state texetion and regulation
to the tedeml picture. Bottom new and them Ming-ton will be
pointing a picture upon the canton of our daily liven. Bare and
there on that picture they are 39113 to leave 0. Ice .plncee where they
I'cn't touch rt all, or who're they fill touch Only lightly.

to 11-2 to fit our otet'e needs into those blank;

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A: the present time we are receiving a. mibattmtial income from
the 79 otntc gasoline tax. even though gasoline eels: have steadily
mapped. That in a pretty good tax. I an Hot in fever of reducing
it. But mpmee the Federal government deoidee to increase itc tea:
from 1 to 8:. Such a thing in pccoihle. no den tell in these time 2
131' would then be open to pammaeion that the state statement should
'et le'ect reduce its gasoline tax.

It is not my intention to leave you with the idea. that I w: in
{ever of reducing the gas tax. I do not menu to tell you that I an in
favor or raising or lowering any tax. mt I do mt to impress upon
in that uybccndoot in the 1943 legislature, if you ohonld elect me,
mil not be guidec by precinct: m: I now might namely, igxtornntly
end deoeitfully mire, but by what seem: to no, in 19%. to be ten-the
beet tnt'creet of Florida and E-arion County, always bearing in r:in
at the federal government does and what you tell me you neat.

that denlo with one side of government-mthe tmtion-ecney count;

in. Let us: devote an: attention, for just a. consent, to the other aim-

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In the latter get of 1938 I not to 243112115113 m get: 0 job. Af-
ter trying for a. month I was offered three Jobs in one any. i'heee three
Jobs paid different mm. and 1': took 1m job that paid the 1m
money. I took a Job in the Matronora office because it offered me
(1 chance to do the thing I had gm there to do.

btiret they put so to work a: the 1:th, operating a machine.
But after a little while they I. I'm auditor. Sty 30b m to see to
it that the accounts of on: captroiler rere- nlmye in balance with than
"of the treasurer. Every month. II! hands, iers penned ovary
cheat paid by the State at Florida, exceptaohool teacher's ehecke. Lo
tranche panned I luau-nod tram memory the eatery-of almost every employee
of the State of Florida. I could tell you, at e one notice, how amok
saucy was spent for tracing exponsn, ne'- oeri, hunting, office 331.-
mt, and 10521 fees, and to when than me were) paid. more was no
enoret of state fimooo recorded on books: am In. not 18.16 hm hater:
a; me.

In 1940, having learned 3.11 it no my More to learn. 1 am no "
3y 10b. 0n the some day, a "grommet-ire of the attorney-Genern's a

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office offered an a Job as assistant gome'y general. but'I'ref'gz
few can mm- be red me again1 mm have that re-akin: u- so
take the Job. Inow I returned here to my ham to am a place axon;

the people I m born among and had grown up nun.

n1 me: things I tell you, not to bout, but us one hope that
unbelieve that there otnnda before you a. young those |
deans 12 to serve you, and who it mega-ed to earn you well. I have.
been educated in manna: and he. I have -:3.1 the mime a:

anon use, and I tune the dollar- and-cents of you: 301mm. 1m. ram:

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'63 web of the that that ho in an ingicpandcnt bus-inset: mm, and
.119.- bean one {or 14 yous. I have never been anything else. In 1933

at. the Unitarclty or Florian 1 in opening a dining room nerng
130 male three than n m, for $3.60 per veex. 3e gave these boys
:11 the potato and W any" could eat. '.
You will mar may tugs mid m promises of voting against tuna,
but you knot am: I knew that the only my to anon taxes in to reduce
0390:1965. I knot what tho-moo are, who .-roo01vca tpom and who





pay: than, and until you put into ornoo a nun who man thus focus and
an; the ability 3nd guts to not upon than, your men till nova:- be

loan-ad,
min, then, u say platform than, than", 13 my promise. and the

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only grout-o I turn to auto: nan, by your graham. I go to the L

Manama in 1943, 1 113.1 do the very boot that I can. Il
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