The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-20
THE SECOND PRIMARY
Three Friends" VIII Con-
teSt for LG0dIng P|0CGS
WITH DAVIS. THLIAFERRO AND CLARK
Forces are Rapidly Lining up for
the Decisive Battle on June 9TH.

In the primary election of May 10th
the following vote was cast for U. S.
Senator:
James 7. Talialerro...........,22,l ,l1g
JnO. n. G. St0cktOn.....,. ....l2, 7S3
w. 5. Jennings. s..............,.. $3.50
Wilkinson Call l................. LBS
1t will be seen that Senator Talia-
ferro has 20G votes more than the
combined vote Of Jennings and
Stockton. But as the vote for eX-
Senator Call must be reckoned with,
Taliaferro falls a little short of ma
jority. A plurality does not nOmi-
nate.
JnO. n. c. Stockton has the pTivi-
lege of entering the second primary.
He has availed himself of that priv
iIege against the wishes of his clos
est friends. He thinks-he will receive
the Jennings and Call vote. He will
get some of il. So will Taliaferro.
In Putnam county the chief lieu
tenant OF Gov. Jennings in the recent
primary was Hon. Benz. y. Calhoun.
1t was due to Col. Calhouns efforts
that Gov. Jennings received his sur
prising vote in this county. But Mr..
Calhoun now wears Taliaferro but
ton on his coat lapel. He talks and
is working for Senator TaliaferrO.
So are other prominent Jennings
workers in all parts of the state.
Senator Taliaferro's headquarters
in Jacksonville present an active APP
pearancc. His friends are flocking
to him in big punches from all over
the state and assuring him that his
victory on June 7th will be 50 over
whelming that the ring-leader of the
"Three Friends will require a long
time to locate himself politically.
FOR THE GOVERNORSHIP.
Napoleon b. Broward and Robert.
w. Davis will also fight the battle to
the finish, and from the way affairs
are shaping there can be little doubt
that Congressman Davis will win.
In the first primary Judge Davis
had no organization-no campaign
committee. 1t will be different now.
His second campaign was mapped
out and an organization effected last
Saturday. At the head of it is Hon.
F. J. Fearnside of this city, chair
man of the Second District Congress
sional committee-one of the shrewd-
est political managers in the state.
Under direction of this committee
Judge Davis will make an aggressive
campaign. The BrOward fairy tale
map will be soberly explained TO
people who were nisled by it.
Broward's shady public record will
be held up in the line-light so that
the people may know the manner of
man he is.
But that isn't all. Senator G. M,
Brown, who received nearly 5000
votes for governor. has come out
strongly for Davis, as so also will
Hon. D. H. Mays, who received SAL
votes for the same office.
Influential papers in all parts of
the state that, in the first primary,
were either neutral or advocates of
Mays and Brown, are now endorsing
Davis. The same can be said of
prominent men in all parts of the
state whose hands were tied in the
first primary. They are now Tor
Davis. To them the big, burly fill
buster is a ioke-a bigger joke than
they imagined.
The question now is, shall n de-
signing political trickster; a man
who was deposed from the Office of
sheriff of Duval county by Gov.
Mitchell for cause; a man who helped
to plan and who advocated and voted
for the inlquitous liquor dispensary--
shall he be made Governor of the
great state of Florida? Or shall the
place be assigned to that scholarly,
eloquent, and experienced states
man, Hon. RObt. w. Davis-a man
whose public record in the legisla-
ture and as Congressman is without
blot or blemish?
From the manner in which the in
telligent people are lining up, it is
safe to say that the next Governor
of Florida will be Robt. w. Davis,
and that his victory will be SO COM
plete as to put the political quietus
t. another of the designing "Three
Friends" of Jacksonville.
FOR CONGRESS-.
In the Congressional race the fight
will be between Hon. Frank Clark of
Lake City, and j. NJ. Bars of Jack
sonville.
In the first primary, though the op-
position to Bars was scattered
among four candidates, Clark led
Barrs by 800 votes. This opposition
to Bars will now unite on Clark and
he will undoubtedly go to Congress
over the remains of all that is left of
another of the ''Three Friends"
But then friends can still be friends,
even in defeat.
Vote for DAVIS, TALIAFERRO
and CLARK and let us be done with
demagogueism in Florida democrat
ic politics.