The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-10-04
There is General Satisfaction
Over Result.

with the SINKING OF Jne sun on Moi
day night of the present week, and
as the ballot was a short one the re-
suit CT the vote in each precinct was
quickly told. The result in Palatka
was known before the supper hour,
and by 80 six country pre- cincts had
sent returns. These, with the Pa
latka vote made it only a question as
to the size of the majority against
the saloons.
Other precincts came in later and
by noon of Tuesday the result in
each precinct was known.
1t was a lively day in Palatka
with perfect order and good feeling.
There were few if any quarrels, or
hot words, and no brawls. The
liquor dealers worked hard. They
entered the contest in the morning
full of confidence. This gave way to
anxiety by 10 o'clock, and by noon
to a feeling which verged on hope
lessness. When the first two or
three wards in Palatka were an
nounced the saloon advocates had
given up hope and gracefully ac-
knowledged defeat.
The anti-saloon workers entered
the fight with confidence in the
morning, which gave place to moral
certainty by noon and to accepted
fact by three o'clock in the after
noon. Scores of white men voted an
open ballot. They wanted their po-
sition known beyond question of fu.
ture doubt.
The liquor men are disappointed.
They had what they believed to be
adequate and positive assurances of
success. They had paid money for
the bulk of these assurances. They
made the mistake of placing conf
dence in the purchasable vote, a
vote which history has known to be
not stable quantity among native
Americans of Anglo-SaXon origin
(and that's what the bulk of white
voters in Putnam county are.) 1t is
a vote that doesn't stay bought. The
confidence of the liquor men in the
negro vote, however, was not mis-
placed. They reckoned with a host
and the host stayed.
The anti-saloon men spent no
money except for legitimate cam
paign purposes. They appealed to
reason, to conscience, to patriotism.
They showed the liquor traffic up in
its true light from a moral and an
economic standpoint. They made
an aggressive campaign of this sort
and kept clean and good-natured.
They won and are thankful.
The following is the vote by pre-
cincts
No. l-Crescent City, for selling,
35; against 81; majority against, %.
No. 2-Georgetown, for selling, II;
against 8; majority for, 6.
No. 3-Norwalk. For selling, 2;
against, 10; majority against g.
No. 4-Welaka. For selling 4
against, "a; majority against 30.
No. 5-Como. For sellingl; against
Is; majority against 10.
No. 6-Pomona. For selling 6;
against, 20; majority against IA.
No. 7-Satsuma Nights. For sell
ing 7; against, 10; majority against 3.
No. 8-San Mateo. For selling 8;
against, II; majority against 8.
No. 9-East Palatka. For selling
%; against, I; majority for Is.
No. lO-Federal Point. For sell
ing 8; against, Z; majority for 2.
No. 11-Palatka Heights. For sell
ing 81; against, 81; tie vote.
No. 12- Ward l Palatka. For sell
ing II; against, As; majority against,
20,
No. 13-Ward Palatka. For sell
ing s.; against selling 20; majority
against 81.
No. 14-Ward Palatka. For sell
ing 20; against selling 20; majority
against 8.
Nc. 15-Ward Palatka. For SELL
ing II; against selling 2l; majority
against 10.
No 16-Interlachen. For selling
"a; against, %; majority for |.
No. 17-Monroe's Mills. For sell
ing 2; against selling "a; majority
against %.
No. lS-Baldwin. For selling %;
against, "a; majority against 8.
No. 19-Grandin. For selling 4;
against, 80; majority against 26.
No. 2O-Bannerville. For selling
10; against, %; majority against 10,
No. 2l-Bostwick. For selling 2;
against, "a; majority against %.
No. 22--Francis, For selling Il;
against, SO: majority against ~,
No. 23-Ward Palatka. For SELL
ing 8; against selling 10; majority
against l.
No "a Ward Palatka. For SELL
ing 60; against selling IA; majority
for selling 46.
No. 25-Ward Z Palatka. For SELL
ing 80; against selling %; majority
for selling9.
No. 26-Hollister. For selling 8;
against, %; majority against 20.
No. 27-Florahome. For selling 3 ;
against, 10; majority against II.
The total vote of the county was
1923, of which 3S7 were for selling and
64l were against selling-a majority
of 254 votes against selling.
All the white wards in Palatka-1,
2, 3, and 5-gave substantial major
tiles against. WardsiX is almost to-
tally negro, and ward seven is mixed.
1t is thus easy to show how the ne
gro voted in Palatka. The total vote
in the city was 329, of which l57 were
for selling, and l72 were against, Civ
ing total majority of 10 against
selling.
Two years ago Palatka gave ma
jority of lS4 for the "wets." 1t will
thus be seen that the "drys" have
made gain of 1893 votes i'll the city
alone.
The ladies of the w. G. II. Uin
this city took Il deep interest in the
election and during the week preced-
ing held daily afternoon prayer ser
vice at the Presbyte church. On
election day these good women met