The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-04
PREDICTS VICTORY
FOR AMEhDME EN- ]

As have been requested by number
of friends in various portions OF the state
to express my opinion as to the results
of the election next Tuesday, please al
low me to do SO through your valuable
columns, and give my reasons for il.
There will be landslide towards the
prohibition amendment, and il will be
adopted by safe if not an overwhel-
ming majority. Representative citizens
from three dry counties said to me one
day last week that their respective sec
tions would roundup big majoritics as
against the saloon, and such reports are
coming in almost daily. One of the
most distinguished members of the last
legislature said to large audience in my
presence last week, that in his travels
through many counties in the interest OF
benevolent order he heard men ex-
press themselves on the subject, and
every one was in favor of the amend
ment. He said II was nearly the same
way in all the towns through which he
chanced to pass.
Sixty days ago the liquor men tried TO
create little confusion by talking local
option" and calling together in Jackson
vile "local option" crowd to stand for
the saloon. But when it was shown
that the "singularly pure" men and de
voted church members" as called by the
| Times Union, who met at the Aragon
Hotel were generally lined up with the
saloon in "local option" campaigns in
their respective counties, the mask was
removed from the whole thing. One
of those singular pure" local option
fellows in Dade county has since then
been working in the courts and through
the newspapers to keep bar-room with
! in one hundred feet OF the public school
building which has five hundred boys
and girls it it. Yes, he succeeded, and
suppose he is ''singularly pure" on that
account. Among those who have re-
Gently allied themselves with the pro-
hibition forces, is the editor of the
Sanford Herald, and this splendid paper
is now firing shot shof' into the ranks
of the enemy of our homes. l might
say that nearly all the business men OF
Sanford, as we'll as in many other enter
prising cities, have signed petition to
all of the citizens of the city and county
calling on them to vote the saloon out
of our fair state. The cry of the saloon
interest that the county has no right TO
"meddle" with the politics of another
county has indeed proved a boomerang.
The voters realize that if they cast a
vote for, or against the amendment they
are "meddling" with the affairs of
another county, and see no reason in so
"meddling" why they should line up
with saloon men and their interest
against the mothers, and wives, and
children in wet counties. They realize
that these wives and mothers are fasting
and praying for deliverance from the
awful curse of the saloon and in tender,
pleading voice, are crying TO their white
brothers in the dry counties for help in
this time of need. Whatever may be
the theories or preferences of these
white "brothers," in every dry precinct
in the state, they are going to line up
with their sisters and their children in
their helplessness and dependence in
preference to Manager Holt and his
horde of negro voters who are expected
to exert the balance of power in their
beer fumed centers.
On the night of the Sth of November
watch the count of white mems votes
among the splendid citizenship of the
rural sections and in our interior cities.
know nearly every foot of land in my
native state, and know how my broth
ers will vote on this liquor question.
Like myself they have many imperfec-
lions, but they will not be guilty of trea-
son to the home nor strike with theiI
vote the breast that nourished them.
might add that many of the colored men
on the farms and in the interior towns
and villages of the state will also vote
for the amendment on election day.
They know so we'll that the saloons are
the ruin of their sons who go TO the
cities to find employment. They are
going to vote against the saloons to protect
their boys when they are away from
home. Let the wives and mothers o.
the men who put home above the grog
gerry work and pray day and night, until
the votes are all in and there will be {
shout of victory throughout our fair
state on the night of November Sth.
EDW. F. LEY.
Miami, Fla. Nov. I'd, 1910.