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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03
HOW TO ELECT DAVIS.

Every friend of Bob Davis should
make a point to vote in the decisive
primary next Tuesday, June It'll,
Mr.. Davis chief danger lies in the
possible lack of interest on the part
of the friends of good government,
who are his friends. His weakness
in the first primary was caused by
the over-contidence of his friends.
Now that the contest has narrowed
to a choice between man of proved
honesty and ability, and a political
freebooter and arrant demagogue, a
man whose public record is smirched
with questionable transactions, over
confidence should not be allowed to
give place to carelessness.
If Bob Davis gets the votes of his
friends his majority will be so great
as to sound the death-knell of the
graft idea in politics for the present
generation, at least. Appoint your
self a committee of one to vote for
Bob Davis, and then appoint your
self committee to secure at least
one other man to do the same thing.
That will make Bob Davis the
next governor of Florida, and it is
the only thing that will do it.
Hundreds of prominent men in all
parts of the state are now working
for Davis who were not doing any
thing before the first primary.
And many influential candidates
in the first primary, whose hands
were tied then have their hands
lOosed now.
Let every Putnam county friend of
Bob Davis see that his majority on
June 18th is even greater than on May
10th.
Remember
Bob Davis is to be your next gov
ernor. "You can't lose him"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03

vision in the constitution of the state
of Florida to the contrary notwith-
standing. The qualification of a rep
resentative. in congress are deter
mined by the provisions of the Unit
ed States constitution quoted by you.
l understand from your statement
that Mr.. Clark is eligible for regis
tration as a voter, and assume from
that that he has regained his citizen
in Florida.
While l am thus unreserved in the
expression of my opinion in reply to
the question propOunded by you, |
prefer that my name be not used or
quoted in the Florida contest. If it
were n matter in Georgia | would
have no hesitation in the publication
of my opinion upon the question in
volved, but us it is another state |
might be subject to adverse criticism
upon the ground that | am interfer-
ing in the local contest in Florida.
If you and your friend gather sutti-
cient confidence from my opinion it
is well and good but for the reason
mentioned | would prefer not to be
publicly quoted in Florida in connec-
ton with the question. | do not
think there is possible doubt rs to
the correctness of the opinion which
| have above expressed. With sin
cere regards, your friend,
CSigned) A. o. BACON.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03
VOTERS, BEWARE!

The friends of Senator TaliaferrO
are earnestly warned against the en-
IRENE danger of that over-cOnfidence
which has so often cost candidates a
humiliating defeat.
While we may all feel las we do
quite sure of his triumphant success,
that success can only be won by an
individual devotion to his cause on
the part of every one of his support
ers to the extent of getting out every
possible vote for him on the day of
election.
If his nomination appears to be
sure, then the same devO-
ton is quite as necessary, in order
that we may make his majority phe-
nomenal, and thus conclusively
demonstrate that his right to it is
as secure and positive as we have all
so enthusiastically claimed it to be.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03
THAT DlSPENsARY BILL.

Y. J. Appleyard of the Lake City
Index has for many years filled ac-
ceptibly the position of clerk of the
Florida senate. That place has Civ
ell him an intimate knowledge of
public men in the state. 1t has also
enabled HIM to get an inside view in
to many of the schemes that con-
stantly come before the Legislature.
1t is, therefore, by the book that he
speaks when he says:
The editor of the Index is thor
oughly conversant with the effort to
establish a dispensary in Florida.
No man had more to do with this
than Mr.. Broward.
The gentleman from Duval was to
name the chief dispenser under that
bill, and we believe we know the
man he had selected.
All this comes to us by reason of
the fact that Senator Kirk and Mr.,
Broward had II personal difficulty ON
the streets Of Jacksonville last week
each calling the other Il liar, and
both making threats, Il fight being
averted only by the Interference of
the outsiders.
DO we want a street brawler for
Governor? Well, not just yet.
There are some things about the
dispensary-its inside history-that
we shall likely give to the public.
A Pensacola dispenser of coin OF
the realm will be one of the charac-
tiers in the play.
This dispensary measure, which
came up in the Legislature of 1901, on
ly failed of becoming law because Il
small majority of senators voted
against it. 1t was one of the most
diabolically corrupt measures ever
sought to be incorporated into the
statute law of the state, in that it
contemplated carrying the whisky
traffic into every nook and corner of
the state, by officers Of the state.
1t was scheme whereby few I'M
scrupulous politicians expected to
wax rich and perpetuate themselves
in offices as debauchers OF the public.
Mr.. Broward was one of the chief
plotters in this dispcnsary scheme.
Indeed, his whole public career i'll
the legislature, has been that of a
man who regards public office as a
private snap,
His record as an advocate of the
dispensary, the insanity divorce bill,
and his votes to grant public lands to
railroads, stamp him as n grafter-a
man who regards a public office SIM
ply as an opportunity for public
plunde"
me News trusts that Editor APP
pleyard will be as good as his word
and give to the public something
that it does not now know of the Gin
side history" of that dispensary bill.
Opposed to Mr.. BrCward in the
race for governor is Robt. w. Davis,
whose public record is absolutely
clean-a man who regards public Of
flee as a public trust.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03
CLARK'S ELIGIBILITY.

The question of Frank CIark's elig-
Utility to n seat in congress has again
been raised, but in such manner as
to leave a large sized doubt regarding
the sincerely of the man who raises
it and gives the adverse opinion.
t was thought, after submitting
the question early in the campaign to
such eminent legal authority as Hon.
HOkc Smith, eX-secretary of the in
terror; Hon. Horatio Bisbee, ex-
member of congress. and Hon. w. A.
Blount of Pensacola, that the matter
had been settled to the satitfactiOn
of all, except, perhaps, the late Hon.
Jeems Alexander.
But this race for congress has set
tied to contest between J. NJ. Bars
and Frank Clark. The former. real
izing that he is already beaten, has
either by person or proxy, obtained a
contra opinion at the eleventh hour
from Il lawyer who is the known en-
envy of his opponent, in the desper-
ate, last-chance hope of stopping the
on-rush of votes for Frank Clark.
That opinion has been scattered
broadcast over the second congress
sional district. But it won't save
Mr.. Bars from defeat. 1t has too
much the complexion of desperate
political trick.
But Mr.. Clark has not been idle.
He has explained to voters the ami
mus back of that adverse "OpiniOn."
And he has secured other and expert
opinion to counterfeit las if it were
needcdJ the opinion of political bias
which could not be other than adj
verse to him.
If Frank Clark is the choice of a
voter for representative in congress
from this district, that voter need
not hesitate to vote his preferences
on the score of eligibility. To back
this statement the News gives the
following opinion of Hon. A o. Ba-
con, United States Senator from
Georgia and one of the most emf
nent lawyers in all the Southland,
and n recognized authority on con-
stitutiOnal law. Senator Bacon de-
clares emphatically and beyond
question that Frank Clark is elibible
to seat in congress. The opinion is
as follows:
Macon, Ca, May q, 1894 |
If my letter is published at same !
time publish this telegram that my !
opinion was given ON the law ques-
ton involved without reference to |
parties interested and with no inten-
ton to interfere in Florida contests.
(Signed) A. q. BACON.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03
Vim. A. RUSSELL. Editor
IDLE LANDS FOR IDLE MEN.

The only real help to man is that
which helps him to help himself.
"Three millions of poor people are
rotting and fostering in the tene-
ments of our great Cities says
Booth-Tucker of the Salvation
Army"
Their numbers increase with a
rapidity that threatens to make the
disease of pauperism as chronic and
severe in our land as in the oldest
civilizations of the eastern world.
There is also large and increas-
ing army of men with families not
actually in want, but who, in spite
of insessant labor and strict economy,
are unable to get ahead, to accumu-
late any property, to lazy up dollar
for old age.
Every philanthropic movement on
ly furnishes additional proof that
this condition cannot be remedied by
charity.
Fifty million dollars are now given
each year in the United States for
charity. 1t affords but temporary
relief. 1t only puts of from year to
year the real solution of the ques-
ton, while constantly rendering it
more complex and difficult.
Senator Hoar's bill in the late SEES
sion of the United States Senate,
aimed at relief of city poverty by
giving the poor an opportunity to go
to the country, to own little land,
and to work out their material sal
walton. The bill was based on the
principle that when an infectious di-
sease becomes fixed in n cOngested
community we take the people out of
it and put them under new and pure
conditions.
1t proposed that the public lands
of the great west should no longer
be given away in immense tracts to
wealthy corporations, but that they
should be c0lOnlZed by the poor;
that the government shall loan
money to poor families to enable
them to get to the land, to improve
it and to stock it, and that this loan
with the price of the land, shall be
paid in easy installments.
But the cry of paternalism was
raised. True. But paternalism is
precisely what pauperism requires.
The scheme is not visionary. 1t
has been tried. Booth Tucker of the
Salvation army has demonstrated its
successful application in coIony's in
California, Colorado and Ohio. The
plan works we'll. For several years
the government of New Zealand has
had the same principle in successful
operation.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03
NOnfederate Veterans.

Atlantic Coast Line has been named
the official route for the Florida United
Confederate Veterans, Nashville, Tenn,
June l4--l6. Choice of two routes: Via
Montgomery and L. q N. II r. Leave
Jacksonville s :05 p. m, arrive Mont
gomery sos a. m.-breakfast; leave
Mont gomery % q. m arrive Nashville
7:15. Via Dixie Flyer Route: Leave
jacksonville sos p. m, arrive Atlanta
Z :35 a. IN arrive Nashville :55 p. m.
Daylight ride north of Montgomery and
Atlanta, Reserve your sleeping car
space early. No other line can offer
such comfortable service. Agents At
lantic Coast Line will cheerfully furnish
all information.
W. H. Leahy, Division Passenger
Agent, Savannah, Ga.
F. G. Hoylston, Commercial Agent,
Jacksonville, Fla.
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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03

as a means of nominating candidates
for our offices it is imperative that
such tactics as Mr.. Broward pursued
should be rebuked in the Otf-start,
and the rebuke should be so unquali-
fed as to stand as lasting warning
to others who might be disposed to
use such methods. Tele-
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03

There is now little or no opposition
to Hon. r. w. Davis in south Flori-
da. He will get the solid vote cast
for d. H. Mays for governor and a
great majority of the votes of G. NJ.
Brown. Broward will never again
come so near being governor rs he
did on May 10. His gubernatolial
star set on that day, never to rise
again.-Gainesville Sun.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03

News received from all parts of the
state encourages the belief that Hon.
Robert w. Davis will be nominated
by a large majority at the second
primary.-Tampa Times.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03

The large number of people who
voted for Mr.. Broward In the last
campaign had evidently forgotten
how badly he used the office the
people of Duvul elected him to fill
some years ago. They evidently for
got that he pulled off prize fights and
OVERRIDE the law as sheriff until
Governor Mitchell had to remove
hIm-Tallahasseean.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03

Davis received 1876 votes in his
home county, Putnam, and Broward
So. In Duval, Broward's home
county, Davis received 2,05S, while
Broward had only l,065. Home in
dorsements are good arguments as to
the standing of men.-Miami Me
tropolis.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03
0NINNNAN%NN%N,%%NA%
: Tlpfida Editors on
: Bob Davis.

The friends of Hon. R. w. Davis
candidate for governor, are rallying
around his standard in manner
that insures victory on June T.
Gainesville Sun.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03

Col. Robert w. Davis has not been
connected in any way with a rail
road since his first term in congress,
and is under no obligations whatever
to any corporation in the state. AZ
ter thinking over the matter care
fully, you will decide that he is the
best man for governor,-Lakeland
SIM.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03

The Monticello News, Hon. d. H.
Mays home paper, which Loyalty
supported that gentleman for COVER
nor in the first primary, now sup
ports Hon. r. w. Davis. The News
says:
The News used about all of its am
munition in the fight for MAYS. 1t
failed.
One more shot and we are done.
The people are to choose in a sec
ond primary between Broward and
Davis. The News cannot support
Broward. He is a political free
booter who used unfair means in the
first campaign. He circulated I'M
true statements about Mays, which
he failed to retract, after promising
to do so. He voted for the Flagler
divorce law, and advocated the dis
pensary system. He is unsafe.
The News declares for Davis.
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Notice of application for Tax Deed un.
der section s of chapter 1888, Laws of

Notice of application for Tax Deed I'M
der section of chapter 1888, Laws of
Florida
Notice is hereby given that John W.
Miller, purchaser Of tax certificate No.
$50, dated the 9Th day of August, A. d.
1889, has filed said certificate in my
office, and has made application for tax
deed to issue in accordance with law.
Said certificate embraces the following
described property situated In Putnam
county, Florida, to-wit:
Sw / of Sc ! of Sc /, section 36, town
ship Y, range 27--l0 acres.
The said land being assessed at the
date of the issuance of such certificate
in the namo of Mclean. Unless said
certificate shall be redeemed ac-
cording to law, tax deed will issue there
on on the 2lst day of June, A. D.,
1904.
Witness my official signature and seal
this the 18th day of May, a. D: 1904
TSeal7 JOSEPH PRICE,
Clerk ct. ct. Putnam County, Florida.
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March u, 1904.

March II, 1904.
Col. Peter Francisco Smith, sos Pet
ers Building, Atlanta, Ga;
My Dear Colonel Smith:
Your letter of the 18th inst. is just
at hand. | have no hesitation what
ever in my opinion that your friend,
Mr.. Clark, is eligible to election as a
representative in congress, the pro-
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03
Notice Of application for Tax Deed un-

Notice of application for Tax Deed un-.
der Section of chapter 1888, Laws OF
Florida
Notice is hereby given that VIM.
Miller, purchaser of tax certificate No.
GAS, dated the LIST day of July, A. ID.
1901, has filed said certificate in my
office. and has made application for tax
deed to issue in accordance with law,
Said certificate embraces the following
described property situated in Putnam
county, Florida, tO-wit
Nv / of sw ! of ne ], section 4, town
ship Ii range 24--l0 acres.
The said land being assessed at the
date of the issuance of such certificate
in. the name of L. j. Neher. I'm
less said certificate shall be redeemed
according to law, tax deed will issue
thereon on the 2lst day of June, A.
D. 1904.
Witness my official signature and seal
this the 10th day of May, A. D: 1904.
ISeaI JOSEPH PRICE,
Clerk ct. Ct. of Putnam Co., Florida
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Administrator Notice.

In Court of County Judge in and n oL estate Of
County, Florida. In matter OF In ~ whom 4
VIM p. Wright, deceased. To an mai shall
may concern: Please take notlcr; i p wright
deceased' present my finai accounts s1I i and
cheers. to the County Judge for aPppiIstrstorOi
ask for formal discharge as ADM n,i ~ Noyea.
said estate ON Tuesday the end Iai time sod
Der, A. b., 1904, atga. m. AZ wiz ~
place you may % ii''e' HENRY SIRTs,saSL
Administrators OF the estate Of VIM r. ""
Deceased.
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If Mr.. Brown instead of Mr. Brow
ard had been second in the guberna-
torial race the very papers that are
now abusing Mr.. Brown would be
praising him and making appeals to
the old Confederate veterans and
others to vote for this brave and hon
est old Confederate soldier.
AS it is they are now abusing him
and appealing to the Confederate
veterans to turn their backs on Bob
Davis, himself a Confederate yeter-
an, and vote for Broward. who is al
most unknown as a public official.
We take it that it will be safer to
vote for Mr.. Davis, who for twenty
years or more has been in public life
in Florida and whose public record
is an open book. He started out
with the proposition, and remains
steadfastly by it, that if a single
questionable act of his can be pointed
out during his entire public career
that he will step down and out in
favor of his opponent.
This, it seems to us, is fair and
open proposition and if for twenty
years he has been faithful to the
trust reposed in him he will very
likely prove faithful to the end.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03

1t is predicted by many of the
best-posted men in Florida that
Judge r. w. Davis will win out
easily in the second primary with
Broward. Had Mr.. Brown or Mr..
Mays run second in the race for the
governorship the Telegraph would
not have felt disposed to become a
partisan champion of the interests of
Mr.. Davis as opposed to either one
of these excellent gentlemen, but
with Broward as the alternative we
believe we would not be serving the
best interests of our county and
state if we failed to give Judge Da-
Wis the most cordial support.
Robert w. Davis has back of him
a record of great usefulness in the
state legislature and in the national
congress, and is man of unques-
tionable ability and integrity. In
the present campaign, when the pri-
mary election system was being put
otis first full test, the great strength
of his character has been we'll shown
in the cleanliness of his campaign
methods. There has been no yield
ing to the temptation to meet innu-
endO and misrepresentation with
like weapons, but he has, even under
the most extreme prOvOcatiOn, pur-
sued course that must commend
him to the consideration of every
democrat who values honorable and
clean methods in politics.
On the other hand, Mr.. Broward,
who goes into the second primary
with Judge Davis, was heralded as a
candidate for the high office of gov
ernOr by flood of literature, in
which aspersions were cast upon the
integrity of Judge Davis, and an ap-
peal was made to prejudice. In his
speech in Starke Mr.. Broward de-
voted his entire time to criticism of
Judge Davis, and concluded with an
appeal to those present to vote for
him if they could, but if not, to vote
for one of the candidates other than
Davis. In making any such appeal
he showed plainly that the main OBJ
ject of his candidacy was to defeat
Judge Davis, and in the unwarrant-
ed charges that he made it was all
too plain that he was willing to stoop
to any means to accomplish that end.
If we are to preserve the primary
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STARVING SAILORS
RESCUED ON OCEAN
Steamer Finds Sailing Vessel
Drifting, With Death and
Disease i'm Command

NEW YORK, July pa pitfable
ship without a navigating officer, and
with a half-StarVed crew who had
neither food nor water when help came
to them, was brought here today by the
officers of the Hamburg American line
steamer Tenedos, which arrived from
the Levant.
When the Tenedos was north of the
Madeira islands on July she sighted
a sailing vessel showing signals of dis
tress and a short time later came up
with the Italian bark San Pietro bound
from Montevideo for Genoa with a cargo
of guano. When an officer from the
steamer was sent on board the bark g
exist.
A half-starved, thoroughly exhaust
ed crew stood helplessly about the
deck. The captain had died and had
been buried at sea, and the mate, the
only other person on the ship with
any knowledge of navigation, was ly-
ing at the point of death in the cabin
The store of provisions and water had
been completely exhausted. Hope had
been nearly abandoned when the Tene-
dos hove in sight.
After the sick mate had been attend
ed by the Tenedos' surgeon, plentiful
supply of provisions and water was
put on board the distressed bark, and
the steamers first officer and an able
seaman were detailed to assist in tax
ing her to her destination.