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My friends, as£est or you are well aware, thoughout this
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campaign there has been e continuous effort to make it appear as
though the race for the legislature between my Opponent and myself
was a contest between experience and inexperience, because of the
feet that my Opponent is some 10 years older than I, and because he
has served for one term as the representative from this county. It
is my purpose, this afternoon, to'donvince you that age is no yard-
! stick or ability, and that more preparation is required to make an
able representative than a punctual attendance at one session of the
legislature.
Let me deal, first, with the question or age. "111 it not be a
satisfactbry answer to any doubts that you may entertain on that score
it I can demonstrate that my opSpnent himself has by his own actions
proven that he considers a mag-or any years not only able to represent
. the people, but qualified to be the leader or the House of Representatives
i tself. 'Exactly that is the case. The Speaker of the House in 1941,
L and the acknowledged leader of all groups there, was Dan McCarty.
Dan had the support, and won the praise, or my opponent._ And that same
Den McCarty, who attended the University of Florida at that same time
that I did, was no older in 19u1 than I will be in 19u3.
To me it would seem that no further proof oh that score eculd
be desired. Yet in passing I might call to your attentig the facts
that William Pitt was prime minister of England at the age of 21, and
that Alexander the Great conquered the known world, and died, at the
age of 31. The careers of these men are historical evidence that
ability, and not age, are the standard of achievement.
I So let us pass, for one moment more, to the matter of real
iimportance -- ability to serve you.
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I {t is of vital importance that you remember that you will not
so to the polls toeorrmv to select a man to build a house, or to run
a farm, or to run a saunill, but a man to run your government, and
that regardless of how much a candidate may know about building,
farming, or sawmills, or any other trade, unless he has the ability
v tguao his knowledge to promote? legislative action for the benefit or
y'.- biotecmnty and state, his knowledge is worthless. My Opponentrecently
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from calling it to your attention. You know, or course, that
' he was chairman of the hotel committees! the .Houae of Representatives
in 19%. You have also probably heard or the troubles which the
operators of. boarding houses, tourist cabins and rooming houses are
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within the field or the hotel cdnnittee. It is not my purpose to
place the blame for those. law! on the shoulders or any one sh, but
it is nevertheless true that my opponent, who operated-g-hotel and
theretore knows about hotels and their competitors, was-{unable to use
his knowledge to promote legislative action which could have prevented
than this trouble. '
r It has always been my ambition to serve you in the legislature,
)and with that in mind I have devoted many hours to the study of
Wt and its problems. Equally important if the feet that, by
iorking as an auditor in the Comptroller's Office in Tsihassee, I
have gained a knowledge of the actual operation of the government
agencies ler: regulate so much or our lives, and spend so many or our
dollars. Further, as a lawyer and accountant it has been my business
to deal with all kinda of private busineaes. Finally, as a lawyer
it has been my business to study the laws by which we are governed.
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so are Mfuorm for believing I can serve you.
t The campaign 19 ilmoetbver. It has not; been possible to see and
1 \ with each or you, because I dldqgot have the money to cover the
t ezuny'tboiwshlyo and could not afford to leave my'busineae as much
as would have been necessary. That 13 my regret, whether I in
or loco. .1 .
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