The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-07
FRIENDLY CLASH BETWEEN
PROHIBITIONISTS AND ANTS
Latter Objected to Chang
ing Voting Place in
Precinct =
THIS OCCURRED AT - MEET
ING OF COUNTY COM SION
ERS TO SELECT CLERk e AND
INSPECTORS AND DESIt TE
POLLING PLACES. =

The first clash (and it was not an
unpleasant one) to occur between the
prohibitioniSts and the anti-prohibd-
tioniSts, was that Of last night, when
the vets objected to a change being
made in the voting place in precinct
No. II, which was being advocated by
President Mcmillan, of the Prohibit
ton League, before the county COM
m1SsiOnerS. Mr. Mcmillan desired
the polling place to be changed To the
corner of Chase and CeVaIlos streets,
from the corner of Alcaniz and Inten-
dencia streets, and during the discus
sion the liquor men advanced the
claim that the prohibitionists were en-
deavOring to shut out the laboring
vote. or at least that portion of it
employed at the navy yard and in the
bay. This was denied by President
Mcmillan, who said the object was to
provide better place for the ladies'
and children, who would be about the
polling places on election day, where
upon c. F. Schad made the statement
that the ladies and children ought not
to mix up in politics of the county.
To Select Managers.
When the board convened at 1880
o'clock last night for the purpose of
selecting clerks and inspectors of the
special election of October /, there
were present Chairman Merritt, pre-
siding, and Commissioners Clopton,
Davis, Roberts and Steward.
The chairman stated the object, and
also that the two delegates present,
one from the prohibitionists and the
liquor dealers, would be given the OPP
pOrtunity of naming two of the four
officials at each precinct. President
Mcmillan, of the Prohibition League,
and Mitch Jacoby, of the liquor deal
ers, represented their respective asso-
Citations, and as the precincts were
called Mr.. JacOby would name the
first two men and Mr. Mcmillan the
second two. In this manner, it re-
.quired only a short time to secure
clerks and inspectors for the twenty
three precincts, and these names were
afterwards approved by the commits
sioners. The names of each of the
clerks and inspectors appears else
where in The Journal
Polling Places.
The commissioners then called the
precincts in order and designated the
was the desire to have the polling
was ordered located at the old Rob-
erts place
When precinct No. IL, in the city,
was reached, President MCMILLAN
stated that it was the desire of the
Prohibition League to have the vot-
ing place changed from the old place
at the corner of AlcaHiz and Intenden-
cha streets to the corner of Cevallos
and Chase streets.
A Protest Made.
The delegation of liquor men i'm
mediately entered a protest They
claimed that for many years the vot-
ing place in No. II had been at the
corner of AlcaniZ and Intendencia
streets, and that every voter knew it's
location. To change it, they claimed,
would cause many not to vote
Fred Schad stated that the location
advocated by President Mcmillan was
behind st. Miohael's cemetery, and
would be very inconvenfent TO the
voters. He said the men working in
the bay did not get ashore until after
5 O'Clock, and the hundreds employed
at the navy yard did not reach the
city until nearly 6 O'Clock. and II
would be an impossibility for these
men to go such distance and reach
there in time to vote.
Mitch Jacoby claimed that it APP
peared 70 be the desire Of the Pro-
hibitionists to keep the laboring men
from voting by locating the precinct
in such a place.
For Women and Children.
President Mcmillan denied that
such was the intention, as they de-
sired all to cast their vote. but that
the change was desired for the reason
that il would be a better place for
the women and children, who would
be at the polling places On election
day in large numbers.
When he made this statement Fred
Schad rose and said that polling
places were no place for women and
children. and that they should not mix
up in county politics.
Continuing, President Mcmillan
said that The polling places should
be centrally located, and that while
he upper portion of precinct No IL
had been growing for years, and had
been greatly extended, that the poll
ng place had remained IN the lower
section.
Continued to Precinct IS.
The commissioners did not come to
decision at the time, but passed n
precinct No. Is Mr.. Mcmillan sail
t was the desire to have this poll.