The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-22

from personal motives votes for eth Il
of the other candidates for this nigh
Office, but it does ask them to con
slider well the motives of the men
who are seeking Senator Taliaferro's Is
roIitical undolng. 1t also asks these
voters what they can hope to accom-
plish for Florida through either OF
the other men who are hot after the
job? 1t is sometimes well to let well
enough alone. This appears to be
one of those times.
Those few prohibition party people
in the country who are charging that
democratic politicians and party
readers dare not take Il stand against
the licensed liquor traffic are re-
Spectfully requested to give thought
TO the example of Senator Arthur L.
| Williams vi Nassau county; this
state. Mr.. Williams has within the
past 10 day S resigned the senatorship
OIL the ground that he IS not in ae-
cord with the majority wishes of his
constituents as expressed in the re
cent wet and dry" election in h )
county. Nassau county went ''WeL.n
Mr.. Williams, who, by the way, is
the chairman of the. state demo-
cratic executive committee and
somewhat of IL party leader, vigo-
rously opposed the licensed saloon
in his county, and because the MAJ
Jorlty OF his people opposed him, re-
signed. Ihls tact is mentioned SIM
| ply to show that there is no incon-
sisLency in Florida in being at the
same time an orthodox democrat and
sLallulng squarely III opposition to
the liquor iniquity.
Hon. w. H. Ellis, state auditor
and candidate for encouragement,
was II visitor i'll Palatka last week
aud while here made many warm
friends. Mr.. Ellis is one of the
cleanest men in public life in Florida
anu Is lawyer OF conspicuous
1olllCy' ne Is making d vigorous
can Vass lor nomination 10 tne aGtor-
hey SeIeralshlp ana IL Is being iree-
~ Pteolcted over the state that he
Will pe an easy winner
1t is now stated that William ].
Bryan will soon come to Florida to
do a little spellbinding in the inter-
ests OF pure and undetiled democra-
cy in general and William Tecumseh
sherman Jennings IN particular
Inc act VIII not tehd to popularlze
tne sllVer-tonged NeDraskah III
florlda, lof Whlie ne is IN MANY re-
spect an Ideal democrat ana mas,
perhaps the largest persona loilow-
ing OF any OF the great natiohal lead
ers, there are thousands VINO are go
ing 10 Dalk on cousin sherman
Hon. Frank Clark has mailed to
each democratic voter in the Second
congressional district q neat PAM
phlet containing his platform, his
Lake City speech, a brief sketch of
life, and a batch of press clippings
wbi n snooL fovorobIv of -his oandi-
TanU RT"n fThn docnmanf @ NJ @ nuah9 % to- to do
%"oSS f1InrI, senti,onn+ ;s o.row,nrr
r. HOIi III ,ontr 10 ne U tIIa d;ntmio4 20 "a SIU"5 ,
IN annltioI i, r., 70 " no rn " roliotin ~, III ~
nnr'inntior l,l%I mon NV P''e 80
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i. non. JallleS r.. btooilie canultiaI5 lIi5
tpl secretary Vi st'tIe ilas PuDllsilgu
y J'le lolioWeI ~ reply W ms criclcs, "
utEsse4 10 IllG eolIoi Vi Cile JacAsoii-
Nllle MetroPoiis'
In your issue of the l4th | lind q
communication signed Justice"
which charges me with saying that
the 'records in the office OF the Sec
retary of State are in q deplorable
Justice no doubt,
was moved to write the article from
the circular letter of the
Secretary of State recently mailed to
Democratic voters of Florida, in
which he says: u have been in
formed by several friends thai Hon.
James e. BroOme, candidate for Sec
retary OF State, on several occasions
has said to various persons that the
office (meaning the office of Secre-
tary of State) and the papers and
records (meaning the papers and rec
ords of said otiice) are in a deplora-
BILE condition. "Justice" certainly
cannot approve the act of even so
gentleman as the Secre-
tary of State in mailing to Demo-
cratic voters of Florida such litera-
Jure, based only on hearsay testi-
mony. Does not Justice" think
that it would have been more credita-
BILE and more manly had Hon. HI.
Clay Crawford written and ascer-
tanned direct from me the facts in
5he case before issuing his letter to
5he people on information received
from his several friends" Remem-
Der the maxim: words carried are
generally miscOnstrued, misinterpre-
ed, magnified and distorted Never
nave | said or even implied that the
papers and records in the office of
he Secretary of State were in a de-
)lorable condition. Neither did
he State agents in making their re-