The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-06-04
PURELY POIlITIcI
OUR P0LITIAL PENiL PUSHER GIVES Cav !;
THOUGHTS ON PROMINENT pOIIuc',1

ihSS iO"i '"' vi 'iS CiiuieS committed IN
are directly traceable to the drink habit g.
electing governor put into Office ma.
his seat to the money aud influence tb,,
men criminals By no means. Every u,.s
truly good man revots at the thought
With Georgia dry so near us and o,ho.
States wheeling into line for prohibition 49,, X
resultant concentration of whiskev g..
election in Florida, can we afford to boy.
who says, if was voting in Tampa =.
wet but if was voting in Eustis woud
Governor Folk, of Missouri saws tbo, i
question is the dominant issue in Amerc.
He says; The question in the minds ol b
of the United States today is the lio,m
Wherever you go throughout the whole con.
find the people talking, not the tariff, ius.,'
corporation matters, but of the liquor busiu.
Miss Minnie +. Neal, State President of u.
r. u. states positively that before the 6rs
the W. c. T. U. did not declare for any al
The issue is now, however, so clearly define T.
two candidates for governor to be in the SEED
mary so opposed in policy, that Miss Neal
ing the entire weight of her influence toward
ton, the prohibition candidate.
Because the Hon. Jno. N. c. Stockton has 4
that he can best conduct his campaign from nj,
quarters in Jacksonville some of the whisksy
would intimate that he has been shut up in Id
vile because his friends are afraid to have III
out and take the stump in his own behalf for N
would put his foot in his mouth every time be
it. No fear of that, Mr.. Stockton is able to hd
own against any man now appearing on the "a
in the interest of General Gilchrist.
1t is an open secret no longer denied, that a
tire whiskey element is working for GichrH
governor. Each saloon in the State is taxed 4
ing to the business done to help supply funds
present campaign. In every dry county in 'ht
free whiskey is sent with the definite advice I'D
whiskey is to be used in buying Gilchrst votes
out of the State, supplied by the whiskey dek
the nation, fund of $500, 00o has been sent
elect Gilchrist. Your votes tell the tale. wiz
have governor who owes his election
influences?
Many good people object % going into
Even temperance organizations have hestaed
clare for any candidates, owing TO this feeling
politics are dirty and unfit for the best people
ministers and the women to touch. When
good people know that it is no longer a quest
politics, but one of preserving our loved Stan
the dominion of the very worst element tna
entered it, (the whiskey men) then are they
with an overwhelming desire to aid in this
warfare, the driving out of the demons Of ing
ance that would possess the State Let every mo
influence, every good mans vote aid in tbs
that is now upon us. There is no hope for
ance legislation under governor who owes hS
ton to the whskey men of the State and
Gilchrlst cannot be elected governor except
votes OF the whiskey men and their money
ton IS the only hope ofthe State at this time
DO you know what it means to have go'e'
Florida who owes his seat to the whiskey
It means that every officer or Office holder
'hlef executive down to the justice of the Peg
reat with lenicncy every whiskey OFFENDED
'ur temperance laws 1t means that dry
annot enforce the rights given them by
means that instead-of an upward moral terde
which our good people are looking and prayp
emperance will envelope our fair State rau'
orrupt those in high places who would, unde'
be moral men? 1t means God only
low many heart aches of mothers and WV
egredation of homes, the cries of the chll4,