The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-08
Texation and Mr.. Lyle.

TeXatiOn and Mr.. Lyle.
EDITOR PALATKA News:
also am glad to see the ball of Taxa
ton" set in motion again, and l propose
to keep it rolling until it rebounds and
one side or the other calls enough, or
quietly leaves the field. To begin with,
it is raised on one side for political gain
and political ends. The ball opened
prematurely by the publication of the H.
r. Lyle letter, to the Rural Californian,
by the Florida AgricuIturist and by THE
NEW. In that letter he asserts positively:
"In this part of Florida, (refering to Put
nam County, no regard is paid to the val
ue of the grove K \ The asses
sor's book will plainly show the politics
of nine-tenths of the tax payers here
We are cleaned out by
the county commissioners" &c. In an
swer to your editorial on that letter. he
(H. R. Lyle writes March 18th. II
mailed in the San Mateo post office,
similar charges to the county paper in
November, 1888, | think" and charges
in either H. r. Lyle or Thomas Hind
letters of partisan bias" "cOwardly rob
berry" discrimination against republi-
cans" &c, and the last charge of G. w
Lyle of May 23d, of present dishonest
application" " leads me to invite, request,
demand that H. r. Lyle, G. w. Lyle or
Thomas Hind prove what they charge,
and let the public at large know if Put
nam county has set of commissioners
as would be a disgrace to any civilized
community.
OF the one who was so badly CLEANED
out by the county commissioners" [ sta
ted in my letter to THE News of March
Goth, that II. R. Lyle did not even pay
a poll tax in this county-it has not been
denied and any person can see that | sta
ted facts, by yexamination of the tax book
for 1888 in the collectors office If he
Uyle) pays nothing to the county, how
much was he cleaned out of? He must
be a philanthropist, and if am not
greatly mistaken Florida history shows
too many of such men to her own sorrow
| mailed similar charges to the county
paper in November. 1888 | Think Does
he think he mailed the charges, or does
he think it was to the county paper he
mailed them; please think it up and state
facts, and give the public something
more than your word FOR it.
Instead of replying to G. w. Lyle on
present dishonest application of Florida
laws" | will look into G. W. Lyle's
present honest application in his tax re-
turn for the last year 1SS3) and equalize
from the records in the county clerk s
office his C. w. Lyle's) returns of prop
erty for 1888 are for % acres of land in
San Mateo and 1000 acres of land in the
Hernandez Grant; of the latter | have
nothing to say, and at present will take
San Nateo property, from the record at
date of March 1st, 1888, the commence
ment of the state fiscal year.
/. % 13-100 acres of land in San Mateo
decided to G. w. Lyle from--dated
March 2d 1882. Recorded in Book 0,
Page 1.-The abOveis a river front lot and
contains valuable orange grove, but it
is not taxed to G. w. Lyle,
9 81 acres in San MateO decided to g.
w. Lyle efrom--dated April 23d, 1868.
Recorded in Book G, Page 316.
3. 5 70-100 acres in San Mateo decided
to G.. w. Lyle efrom--dated June cath
1886. Recorded in Book G, Page SO. OF
the I'd and 3D., 80 7O-1O0 acres, G. w.
Lyle returns % acres or in other words
as the sum total, G.. w. Lyle returns tC
the assessor 25 acres for taxation out OF
62 S3-lOO acres of valuable land in San
Mateo that he owned in fee simple on the
LIST OF March, 1888 and comes before the
puohc as man injured by the dishonest
commissioners of Putnam county,
THINK he would be the one to put buttons
INTO the contribution box and sanctimo
niously groan.
Individually Yours.