The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-10-28

80 ''oA' WV HOiiUVloH VI 6uOu
votes, and these elements of society are
recognized as having judicial power with
a right to exercise a binding and con-
trolling judgment in their own cases as
To their own rights and qualifications as
electors, our State will soon he turned
into a pandcmonium. Fortunately this
is not the law
Our committees claimed in the last
State election that persons convicted of
larceny before the County and Justices
Courts when the amount involved was
less than twenty dollars in value were
thereby disqualified from voting. This
was disputed by our opponents and eff
forts were made to get this class of
offenders to the polls, and we have reason
to believe that in some parts Of the State
many OF them were allowed to vote. The
Supreme Court has since passed upon this
question mandamus was applied for
to compel the Clerk in Duval county to
register a thief, 90 convicted, and the ap-
plication was denied, and the view of the
law maintained by our party leaders was
sustained. This decision will justify all
election officers in denying the right to
register and vote to this class of disquali-
fled persons They IRE not legal voters.
We urge upon all election officers to
discountcnance and prevent iraud-no
matter what shape it assumes--no matter
who attempts to perpetratc IT. Let such
an influence be thrown around every
precinct in the State as will ensure fair
election and an honest declaration of the
result.
And YOU owe it to yourselves and the
country not to he inundated into the
commission of illegal acts by threats Of
Interested parties to harasS you with
prosecutions before the United States
Courts The dav Of political persecution
in this State has passed. The criminal
laws are enacted to punish those who per-
perpctrate crime, not those who try to
prevent it, and the Presiding Judges will
not allow a fair-minded officer to suffer be-
he tries to keep fraud out of the
ballot box, and holds a fair and honest
1t should be remembered by the people
that they are also to vote upon the ques'
ton of calling a Constitutional Conven-
ton. and as the Pensacola Convention
declared in fa>or of the movement, it is
our duty to call attention to it. Bear in
mind that it requires mai ority of all the
votes cast to carry this measure. A
blank vote ia practically vote against it.
Those who favor the calling Of the Con-
vention must have upon their tickets the
words-E For Couue,tion.
And now, tcllowcitiz"ns, the time for de-
cisivc action draws near he at your posts
ON the 4th day of November, ready to vote
for Reform and Good Government in State
and Nation. There is much f." encourage us.
rho elections already held in Alabama,
Arkansas. Georgia. Maine, Ohio, ermont
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and West Virginia show that our party
friends all over the country arc MAINTAIN
inc their ground in spite OF the great odds
thew have had TO contend against in some
If these States and there is every lndlca-
ton of victory for our cause IN Novcm-
her Cleveland and Hendricks will IN all
human probability be elected. Let us
see to it that Florida gives them her cleo
toral vote, and sends Senator and two
Representatives to Congress to support
the new Administration and let US con-
tinue the blessings Of an honest, economl-
cal. liberal and progressive State Govern
ment to Florida by the election of Perry
and Mabry and Conservative Leglsla-
ture.
5. PASCO, Chairman,
B. +. CALHOUN,
w. ID. CHIPLEY,