The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-06-05
ARE TH= CHARGES AGAINST Gil
CHRIST TRUE7

feat AIr. Stockton for this office,
wayfsring man, though a fool, would
know that the methods they are
charged with pursuing would have
precisely the opposite effect.
In the dry counties in Florida tn
Ani-Saloon Leagues have an alerc
and active organization, and sending
a jug of liquor into said counties
with the compliments of Albert W.
Gilchrist," would be like a red flag
Haunted in the eyes of an infuriatei
bull.
ANY child would know that if Mr..
Gilchrist wanted TO win votes in those
counties it would not be the proper
thing TO do, and despite which this Is
what Mr.. Gilchrist, through the Lii
QuOr Dealers Association, is charged
with doing, notwithstanding the fact
ne has been on the side of temperance
all the days of his life.
If the liquor dealers are doing this
&c almost amounts TO insanity. Yet
this is the charge. II really sounds
like a plot gotten up by the enemy,
especially when we are reminded that
the opposition is composed of adrOit
politicians, and graduated in Jackson
vile factiOnal politics.
Ii is also charged that the liquor
dealers have sent into Florida the
dazzling sum of three hundred and
sixty thousand dollars with which 20
corrupt the white democratic voters
and carry the state for General Gil
christ.
This sum of money could not be used
in Florida to corrupt the voters with
out its being found out, and as a
great majority of the white democrat
&c voters Of Florida are high minded
men, men who are above price, il
would seem that the whiskey dealers
have done a very foolish thing if they
have done what is charged against
them.
is it being used? We are positive
that it is not in evidence in General
Gilchrist's headquarters, and we are
equally as positive that he and his
most intimate friends deny the charge
in toto.
And why should a man be thrown
into a position and among company
where he does not belong, and during
all the years of his life has been a
total stranger?
In his private life General Gilchrist
is strictly a temperate and a temper
ance man, and the record of his pub
lie life has all been along that line
He is not a habitue of the barrooms
and never during the course of his
whole life has he consOrted with that
element.
The following is his public record
along the lines of temperance, taker
from the Starke Telegraph:
The real Gilchrist is a moral, hon
orable man. and so far as prohibition
Is concerned is the only one of the
three candidates for governor who
has a record on the issue that dates
hack of the opening of the present
campaign.
When DeSOto county went dry sew
eral years ago the Punta Gorda vot
ing precinct gave the largest dry ma
jority in the county. Mr.. Gilchris
lives at Punta Gorda, and his neigh
bOrs say that the large dry majority
In that precinct was largely due t,
his personal efforts in favor of prOhi
bition. These neighbors of his thinl
pretty well of him, too. Out of 30
Of them who voted for governor on tn.
18th inst, 217 voted for him.
In the house of representatives il
1905. Mr.. Baker of Clay county, intro
duced a prohibition constitutions
amendment The amendment wa.
house joint resolution No. 364. Her,
is the record of the proceedings on tn,
resolution on Wednesday, May 81
UOurnal page No. 1864:
House Joint Resolution No. 364:
Proposing an amendment TO Section
OF Article 19 of the Constitution o
the State of Florida and to add Sec
ton 5 of Article l9 of the Constitu
ton of the State of Florida thereto:
Was taken up and read a secon,
time in full
Mr.. Avery moved that House Join
Resolution No. S64 be indefnitel,
postponed.
A roll call being ordered the vot
was:
Yeas-Messrs. Avery. Bradshaw
Brown, Buckman. Campbell. Carleton
Dorman, Dupont, Floyd, Hall, Jewell
Johnston. Melton. Olmstead, oven
Persons, Sistrunk, Smith of Volusia
Sparkman. Taylor of Gadsden, Taylo
Of HfllSbOrOugh. hartmann. Wells