The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-04-23
SENATORIAL BATTLE NOW ON
TEN CANDIDATES AFTER THE sENA-
ToRIAL ToaA.
The Tall Call Column Tewers Over
Ali The Fight at Tallahassee Com
menoed Tuesday Gorning-The
Vote in Detail.

Tuesday was the day on which the
legislature Of Florida was to commence
balloting for United States senator to
succeed Senator Call, and after the
first vote had been taken it was seen
that the senior senator of Florida was
IN every sense very live corps, not
withsjanding the little one-horse pa
pers throughout the state fave been
yelling themselves hoarse for the past
few months that "Call was dead"
AT noon of the day above-mention.
ed, as soon as Speaker Mays announce
ed that the time had arrived when it
became the duty of the Florida legis-
iature to elect United States senator,
Mr.. Christie, of Leon, arose and placed
in nomination in the house the name
of Mr.. George p. Raney, followed by
Colonel Pope. of Duval, who placed in
nomination the name of Senator Will
kinson Call. Mr.. Pope declared that
this was to be battle royal, and in
an eloquent manner gave notice that
the Call forces were in the fight
to stay. Representative Morgan, of
Putnam, nominated Hon. r. A. Bur-
ford, while Mr.. W. X. Zewadski
placed before the house the name of
Judge w. A. Hooker. Mr.. Harris, of
Munroe, nominated Colonel Chipley.
Messrs. Morgan, of Hamilton. Linton,
OF Madison, Stockton and Carlisle Sec
onded the nomination of Call; Mr.
Rice seconded Raney; Owens and Full
ton seconded the nomination of
Hooker; Thayer and Robertson Sec
onded the nomination of Chipley. Mr..
Potter (rep.), of Dade, nominated Mr..
Horatie Bisbee, but Mr.. Carter, of St.
Johns, his fellow-republican, paid his
tribute to Call. Mr.. Wolff, of Polk, in
recognition Of the patience and long
suffering of the Israelites, nominated
Morris Dzialynski, of Jacksonville,
This closed the nominating speeches,
and DR. Bynum, the venerable chief
clerk, proceeded with the roll-call,
which resulted as follows:
Call, 2S; Chipley, IS; Hooker, 10;
Raney, 8; Burford, 4; scattering, s.
total, 81. Not voting, l.
In the senate Senator Dougherty
nominated Col. Chipley, seconded by
Senator Reeves; Senator Bitch, of
Levy, named Senator Call, and was
seconded by Senator J. Z. Broome, of
Gadsden; Senator Fred Myers named
Judge Raney, seconded by Senator
Carson, and Senator McLin, of Lake,
nominated Judge Hooker.
The vote of the senate was: Chip
ley, s; Raney, s; Call, s; Burford, 3;
Hooker, .; Mabry, ?; Davis, total,
%. Not voting, ,.
The total vote of the two houses for
each of the candidates was as follows:
VOTE IN DETAIL.
Call, SO; Chipley, "a; Raney, IA;
Hooker, u; Butord, 7; Mabry, Z;
Davis, /; Horatio Bisbee, /; Morris
Dzialynski, /; Mckay, 1.
These were divided as follows:
For Call-Blitch, of Levy; Broome,
Crosby, Roberts, Thomas, in the SEN
ate; Baker, Bates, Bethel, Blanton,
Bunch, Burnsed, Canty, Carlisle, Car
ter, Crumpton, Frisbee, Hardy,
Hendry, of Taylor; Lewis, Linton,
McCreary, Morgan, of Hamilton; Pc
lot, Pedrick, Pope, Rawls, Rouse,
Shepherd, of Liberty; Stockton, Wall,
Wall, of Putnam; Ward and Wilson
--33.
For Chipley-Perrenot, Dougherty,
Fuller, Gaillard, Hartridge, Palmer,
of the eleventh; Peacock, Reeves,
Mays, Ragget, Ballantine, Cobb, Ellis,
Harris, Hyer, Richbourg, Robertson,
Shepherd, of Orange; Spencer, Street,
Thayer, Watson, Williams and Young
PA.
For Raney-B Bailey, Carson, Clark,
Daniel, Dimick, Myers, Phipps and
Wadsworth, of the senate; Chaires,
Christie, Dees, Fielding, Lamar and
Rice-l4.
For Hocker-McLin and Williams,
of the senate; Cox, Dyal, Fulton. Hen
dry, of Lee; Owens, Sloan, Stanford,
Turner, Whitner and Zewadski-l2.
For Barber, Bitch, of Ma
rion. and Hooker, of the Senate; Aver,
Dupree, Morgan, of Putnam, and Mo-
bley-7.
For Mahry-Adams and Bynum-2,
For r. w. Davis-Darby-l.
For Dzialynski-Wolff-l.
For McKay-McCall-l.
For Horatio Bisbee-Potter l.
The vote was somewhat of sur
prise to the friends of both Call and
Chipley, as neither polled as many
votes as their friends claimed for
them. The greatest surprise in the
vote was the strength developed by
Hon. II. A. Burford, who received sew
under the circumstances, while the
friends of Judge Hooker were more
than pleased with the strength he
showed on the first ballot.
Only one vote was taken Tuesday,
the joint session adjourning until
Wednesday noon.
Wednesdays ballot was practically
the same, save that Call gained one
vote from the Hooker forces, while
DIR. f.. S. Grill, of Putnam county, re-
ceived the one vote given Col. Davis
the previous day.
There was no material change in the
vote Thursday. Burford lost two
votes and Call one, the remainder be-
ing scattered, somewhat in the nature
of complimentaries or as encourage
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