The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-14
4 POLITICAL SERMON.

Carolina, and possibly in Florida and
other states.-Blair.
We thus see the calculations of
the republicans. We know that
offers have been made to hand over
our state to the enemy in return for
a specified sum of money. Let the
warning be needed in time. They
do not expect to buy democrats, but
with the dollars they will attempt to
excite divisions in our camp. To
every sorehead, campaign funds
will be furnished for an independent
canvass, and to every Indifferent
voter inducements will be held out
to stay at home. A thorough and
exhaustive canvass of the state will
be made, and all personal claims will
be subordinated to the grand attempt
to give the state over to the "tatooed
man."
Since the war, as no other people
in the world have done, the south
has stood "solid." The few of her
children who deserted her have been
branded with scorn, and for many
of them love and admiration has
been turned to loathing equally
strong. Mosby and Longstreet wiped
out years of honorable service by an
act which made of each q Benedict
Arnold; scorn is unutterably inten-
sified for desertiOn in our season of
utmost need. Shall the glorious
company of sisters be broken just as
the light of dawn begins to CLEAN
through the mists of doubt and
light up hopefully our weary eyes +?
He that endurcth to the end, 10 he
shall see the political salvation of
the land endeared to us by the blood
Of patriots and the pure lives of no
bic men consistent in life and death
to the claim of principle.
Florida may be all important in
counting the electoral vote; upon
our unwearied diligence may turn
the question as to whether the Blaine
of a thousand unsavory recolIections
or the gallant Cleveland shall sit in
! the White House Bring out every
man; see to it that he is registered;
have his naturalization papers pre-
pared, and set down in black and
white his residence. Let the chair
man of committees know exactly
where to write for information, and
have at least one man in each pre-
cinct willing at all times to furnish
it. Let the clubs meet to consult,
not to argue; let committees be APP
pointed to get satisfaction on moot
ed points and to interview and con-
vince the doubtful. Prolonged dis
cussions will only excite iealousies
and provoke wearisome talk; ask
your speakers to curtail themselves
on club nights. If information is
asked keep the speaker to the point
or appoint a committee to make a
definite report.
Now citizens of Putnam, we con-
stitute a part of the state upon
which the fate of the general gov
eminent may rest. Besides we have
duties peculiar to us. AS Florida
is one of the battle-ground in a ma
tiOnal contest, so Putnam is particu-
larry a debatable county. The bal
ance of power with us, is held by
an element which will look more to
the character of our candidates than
to the platforms enunciated at Chi
cago. Upon the election IN Putnam
may depend the complexion of Wilk.
Calls successor. Let every friend
of Senator Call'realize that upon his
individual efforts may turn our abil-
ity to return one Of Florida's most
gifted sons with all the profits OF
prolonged experience and familiari-
ty with the minute duties of his
high trust instead of a newman
who will misrepresent the State of
Florida even as Bisbee does. "Once
more to the breach, dear friends,
once more"