The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-05-15
Ex-coNeREssMAN DAUeHERTY
HITS BACK

is that On pages eighteen and nineteen
of a pamphlet headed Announce.
ment," which you said you had writ.
ten, and which has been scattered
over the state, is TO be found the fol-
lowing:
Hon. w. B. Lamar, one of our pres
ent members of congress, who is nov
q candidate for United States sena-
tor, and who has for more than TWEEN
ty years occupied public Office, ami
who has for a number of years been
considered TO be a man whose sympa-
thies were with the masses, now has
supporting him Hon. Chas. Daugherty.
Mr.. E. J. TRAY, Mr. Spottswood, Ma
jOr Healey and all the other persons
who usually do very active work for
the East Coast Railroad in politics,
etc"
Except in so far as the fact that /
am supporting Mr.. Lamar IS concern
ed, that statement as applying to me
Is false i'm TOTO. When a man is a
candidate for public office a public
statement concerning him should CON
tain nothing but the truth. A state
ment made by a candidate in the in
terest of his candidacy and affecting
any other person. N any way, should
contain nothing but the truth. n
this case you have not observed that
rule. Having made the statement.
and the truth of il having been denied,
you should now produce the proof o.
its truthfulness or admit its falsity /
challenge you to produce the proof
that / usually did very active work
for the Florida East Coast Railroad
i'm politics"
There are other statements in that
pamphlet which if not so wholly false
are equally as misleading as the one
cited. As they refer almost entirely
TO public matters, they will be cOnsid-
cred as the campaign progresses, and
I will give the reasons for my sup
port Of Mr.. Lamar as against you. 7
shall also endeavOr TO give this, ami
succeeding letters as much publicity
as you have given your pamphlet.
Respectfully
CHAS. DAUGHERTY.
Port Orange. Fla, May 9. 1908.
Hon. JnO. n. c. Stockton. Jack Onyille.
Florida:
Dear Sir-YOu are candidate be
fore the white people of this state
who are democrats fO- the nomina-
tiOn as their candidate for the high
office Of governor. Wk,n q man Lays
claim to the possession of a good
quality and asks people 10 believe that
ne is what he pretends TO be, as h.
pleads his cause. Lis consistency be
comes the ess ence Of his plea. You
seem TO realize this, for You frequent
~ use the words consistent and
consistency" in what you call your
platform" If a mans actions are
and have been, in accordance with his
speech and plea he is said TO be con
sistent, and Is trusted and commend
ed accordingly. Ii his acts are, a.
have been, at variance 18th his words,
he is looked upOn os a hypOcrite. Is
pecially is this Ire in politics, aEj il
is well TIT IL should De so, for this
reason: Men, "self-mad ," men and
"self-made" candidates for office pun
forward claims which are neither bias
ed upon consistency nor founded upon
facts. The claim has been and is now
being put forward by YOU and by 9th
ers i'm the interest of Y ur candidacy.
that YOU have always been a demo
. crat. A democrat has been well defn-
ed to be "a man who acquiesces in
the will of the majority of his party,
and who supports its nominees" Ii
. that definition is in any wise cOrTccc
il has not applied 10 you. When the
, contest was one between democrats
and republicans i'm this country and
i'm this state, you said before the cleo.
ton that you would not, and after
the election that you did not vote the
straight and whole democratic ticket
but have been quoted as having said
that you would vote for Joe Lee, who
was and i sa republican. and negro
before you would vote for one of the
nominees Uf the democratic party. The
only state Office 10 which you have
ever succeeded in being elected was 70
that of representative in the legisla
ture from Duval county. Then you
ran on what was called at the time an
independent" or straight out" tick
ct. In your platform and biography
thereo attached. copies of which have
-, -oossara1 Ovar the state or