The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-03
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Robert w. Davis
For Governor.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
That tripaitite alliance of editors
who, for manifest reasons, are striv-
ing to array the common people OF
Florida against Robert w. Davis on
the specious preteXt that he is in
sympathy with trusts and the tool OF
corporations, have undertaken a big
task.
Fortunately Mr.. Davis public ser
vice is matter of record. Better
still, his sympathies are everywhere
known to chord perfectly with the
masses. He is one of the people
the peoples candidate.
But in so far as this editorial trio
is concerned, it is more than sus-
pected that if Mr.. Davis absolutely
clean record was enrolled on parch-
ment in inch-high Roman letters and
Il copy presented to each of them
attested by the Clerk and signed by
the Speaker of the American House
of Representative, they would pro-
nOunce the record a lie and the sig
nature a forgery-and simply be-
cause they have determined to do
their utmost to mislead the people.
"There are none so blind as those
who will not see."
Mr.. Davis entered public life in
1896, when he was nominated at San
ford as the democratic candidate for
Congress from the second district
In accepting that nomination he
promised the assembled delegates
that he would be true to the trust re-
posed in him and that he would
stand by the people. He was tri F.
umphatly elected over his republi-
can opponent. Three times since
has he been UNANIMOUSLY nominated
to succeed himself. In the last cam
paign he was the unanimous choice
of the primary.
Has Mr.. Davis been true to his
Sanford pledge? He has. His
record shows it.
The thousands who heard him in
the campaign of 1896 and again in
1900 know how ardently and earnest
ly he pleaded the cause of demOcra-
cy and how deyOtedly he stood by
Mr.. Bryan.
During his congressional career
his every vote upon all the great
questions involved in those memora-
BILE campaigns, has been true to the
promises be made the people.
His record is an open book and in
that open book there is not a single
utterance, not IL vote in Congress,
that did not have its inspiration in
genuine sympathy for the common
people, among whom he was raised
and of whom he is one.
Not only has he kept the faith and
been loyal to the people, but he has
been active in their interests, SER
wing his district and the state with
consummate ability. 1t is said that
If he had desired to remain in Con-
gress he would have had no oppOsi-
tion. But he did not so desire. His
ambition is to be Governor and in
our humble judgment he will be by
the largest majority ever given to
candidate in Florida.
The Jasper News is right when it
says that "the vile innuendoes of the
Madison Recorder (and our worthy
contemporary might have added the
names of the balance of the tripar-
tite schemers) against this worthy
and noble scion of the people of
Florida should receive the strongest
ocratic journal and voter in the
state"
Rob't. w. Davis was plow-boy in
his youth, a soldier in the Confeder-
ate army while yet mere lad, and
then, among an impoverished people
in a land devastated by war, he rose
by his own unaided strength and
force of character to Il ranking place
in the Congress of the United States.
He has been faithful Congressman.
He will make a wise, patriotic and
honest Governor.
That at least is the opinion of his
own townSpeOple without u dissent
ing voice, and what can be said of
his townspeople can also be said of the
people of his county and the congress
slonal district he has served 50 long
and so faithfully.