The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-04-09
v. c. 7. j. WORK
Here. . Pretty Kettle of Fish
Jacksonville. March II. 1910

Jacksonville, March IL, 1910.
Mr.. W. II. Price. Mariana. Fla:
Dear Mr. PRICE, beg TO acknowl-
edge receipt of your favor OF Feb.
2sth. / have been out of the city for
over a week
Please let me know the situation in
regard to the state senator.
You know / promised to help Will
son to the extent of FIVE hundred dol
lars Cs50o.00). Part of this money is
to come from the race track i have
paid him one hundred dollars: / still
feel obligated TO the extent OF $4,000.
1T SEEMS TO Me THAT THE
PROPER PLACE FOR SOME OF THIS
MONEY TO GO Is TO PAY POLL
TAXES WON'T SOME OF 1T BE
SPENT THIS WAY? Please let me
know about this.
If any of this money is spent for
poll taxes. won't that also help w. (.
+. Smith? The best way to help a
friend is to get his friends qualified so
they can vote for him.
How many poll taxes have been paid
up to date in your county?
How many persons are there around
Mariana and other precincts in the
| county, who Will not pay their own poll
! taxes, who would vote against the
amendment. and probably also for
Smith and Wilson. WHOM WE CAN
PAY?
| Can you pay these in bulk TO the
/ tax collector? Please don't answer this
| off hand. but find out from him. My
| opinion is he is going to track 'hc .aw
! If this is so, how can you use this
money to pay poH-taXes?
! It is almost a superhuman effort 10
collar a man and take him up To the
| tax collectors office and see that he
turns the two dollar bill you give him
over to the tax collector That is the
way we are having to do it here. Is
! il practical in your county?
/ Please talk with Lewis and let me
hear from YOU. Some solution must
! he found.
| Also look up the law and give me
be paid in bulk by other persons for
J other people after the primary &c
! qualify them in the general election.
/ Nothing il more serious or impor-
| tant in this campaign than this ques-
ton, and | beg you to please give the
| matter careful consideration and in
| vestigation. and then let me hear from
. you. With kindest regards.
! Yours cordially.
I T. y. Holt.
The above letter written by Pleasant
| y. Holt of Jacksonville, manager fol
the liquor interests in the wet and dry
fight now being waged in Florida. and
I which he never expected TO be made
/ public, tells the tale. They have the
| dough" and are out to spend il any
.1ll L.
law distinctly declares that "a mar
must pay his own poll tax: 1T cannot be
paid for him by another''-and yet Mr.
Holt wants to take the money coming
from the race track and pay the pol
| tax of any man who will vote agains
the amendment"
We are told that the saloon Is 4 Law
| abiding institution and that its rep
| resentatives are men of strict bushes
principles, and law abiding citizens.
1t is a gross insult to the manhoot
of Florida to assume that il =; pur
! chasable, that the holy responsibility
of the ballot is to he bought by Mr.
Holt or any other man with none!
supplied by race track gambling ant
the barter in human lives and los
souls. Mr.. Holt further says that i,
| take him up to the tax collectors Of
flee and see that he turns the two dol
lar bill you give him over to the ia!
collector"
Men of Florida, Will yen submit Il
the control of gang" VINO emDlo!
such low. illegal, contemplate meth
DDS? They pirate of personal libert:-.
and yet Mr.. Holt says they collar {
man and take him" whithersoever they
will. Shakespeare tells of an ambition
that o'erleaps itself and falls on tn.
other side. This, we think, Mr.. Hol
has done.
There is no depth of depravity, NJ
pit of hell too fathomless for the liquor
interests to sound If by so doing they
can keep our loved and beautiful Flor
ida in the clutches of the liquor demon
But Gods in the heaven" and tn.
Christian manhood of our state is OIL
watch, and thank God they can no
be bought.
We women will continue TO pray anC
to plead with every voter for the hap
piness of our hearthstones and thu
safety Of our children and right viii
win the day"
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