The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-04
BUSINESS MEN OF
JACKSONVILLE
Appeal to Dry Counties to Help
Carry Statewide Amend
ment.
Helpless Under Domination of Whisky
Trust.

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Helpless Under Domination of Whisky
Trust.
The organized liquor interests of Jack
sonville have been representing to the
people of Florida that the "business in
terests" of that city were opposed to the
statewide prohibition amendment; that
the adoption OF the amendment would
injure the business of the city.
The appeal which follows, signed by
many of the foremost business men of
Jacksonville, refutes that statement of
the liquor trust in most emphatic man.
ner. Read it. Here it is:
Jacksonville, Oct. 20, 1910.
TO THE VOTERS OF THE DRY
COUNTIES OF FLORIDA
The men whose names are signed 10
this appeal are business men, profes-
sional men and laboring men of the City
of Jacksonville.
This appeal is made direct TO the dry
counties of Florida for help in the
State wide contest now on-help 10 save
US from the concentrated power of the
Whiskey and Beer Interests OF America.
We are helpless under local option.
We cannot redeem ourselves from the
curse of the domination, in our political,
social and industrial life, of the Whiskey
Trust and the Brewery Combine.
There are thousands of men in this
city who will vote for the amendment;
although many citizens for motives sat-
isfactory TO themselves will vote other
wise. Arrayed with the latter class we
find the saloon and vicious elements
driven from the dry counties of the
State and the neighboring dry states and
Large Negro Vote Between Four and
Five Thousan6 Qualified by the Whis-
key Interests. These Refugees and Me-
groes Hold the Balance of Power in Du-
val County and make up the Majority Of
the Vote That Will be Cast Against the
Amendment.
Ii is humiliating TO us, as citizens OF
this splendid Southern city, that we are
made the dumping ground of an idle,
vagrant and often vicious mass, driven
out of our sister Southern cities when
they outlawed the saloon.
Ii is humiliating TO us to feel that the
foreign Whiskey Trust and Brewery
Combine have made our city the point
from which the dry counties of Florida
and all the dry lower South are flooded
with liquor.
We denounce the false cry of local
self-government" for Jacksonville as a
fraud, miserable device of liquor poll
ticians and liquor interests TO try TO de-
ceive the people of Florida.
Prohibition has been good in your
dry counties. We want it here. Ii
cense issued anywhere in the state is is
sued by the state. The licensed Saloon
is an enemy of morality, and impedi-
ment to social progress, and has no justi-
lication for existence.
We, Therefore, Appeal to you to Join
With US and Together Vote out the Evil
on November 8, 1910.
NAMES AND BUSINESS.
Arthur T. Williams, Real Estate;
w. C. Powell, Banker;
Montcalm Broward, Pilot;
A. D. Stevens, President Merrill-Stevens
Tohn IL. Powell, Naval Stores Factor;
P. M. Ulsch, Wholesale Lumber;
C. C. Bettes, Druggist;
]. A. Crawford, Real Estate;
]. H. McLaurin, Wholesale Grocer;
lanes D. Baker, Wholesale Grocer;
w. Frazier Jones, Wholesale Lumber;
VII. Snyder, Druggist;
J. N. Taylor, M. D.;
A. H, Smell, Grocer;
B. w. Blount, Naval Stores;
N. G. Wade, Timber;
E. C. Long, Capitalist;
G. S. Baxter & Co., Lumber & Cross
| ties.
Geo. E. Chase, Ship Chandler;
A. T. Chappell, Ship Chandler;
ID. M. Flynn, Naval Stores Factor;
IN. B. Archibald, Attorney;
]. H. Gay, Paint Manufacturer;
The Reed E. LaMance Co. Contr'S;
NJ. Ellison, Merchant
Rhodes -Futch- Collins Co., Furniture;
G. E. Pickard, Real Estate;
H. H. Simmons, Real Estate;
Louis |. Stephens, Jeweler;
w. w. Smith, Prop. Windle Hotel.
C. B. Smith, Prop. Windle Hotel;
C. Brinkley, Real Estate;
C. G. Ward, Life and Accident lns.
H. B. Shaw;
Van C. Swearingen, Attorney;
E. o. Painter, Fertilizers;
C. F. Cole Shoe Co. Shoes;
C. w. Earring, Wholesale Grocer;
C. w. BartleSon, Wholesale Grocer;
Thos. V. Porter, Real Estate;
John D. Baker, Wholesale Grocer;
Iohn Price, Ex-Sheriff Duval County;
w. H. Sibley, NJ. D.;
w. H. Clark, Naval Stores;
John E. Harris, Naval Stores Factor;
, Frank f. Wood, Whole Dry-GoodS;
R. B. Bullard, Naval Stores Factor;
D. NJ. Flynn, Naval Stores Factor;
L. L. Meggs, Naval Stores Factor;
! T. M. Lipscombe, Sewing Machines;
+. o. Miller, Pianos and Organs;
o. S. Albritton, Insurance;
lanes Douglas, The Florida Review;
, A. P. Lane, Piano Tuning and Repair;
I f. l.. Ley, House furnishings
w. S. Gasque, Grocer;
ID. C. Maner, Manf'S Agent;
, w. T. Moody, Grocer;
]. B. Warnock, Merchant;
D. R. Johnson, Merchant;
]. V. Burke, Lumber;
e ]. H. Rogers, Merchant;
E l.. K. Riley, Wholesale Grocer; :.
IF. G. Johnson, Wholesale Dry-Good'
!. C. Thomas, Merchant;
4. L. Stringfellow, Wholesale Grocer
+ ]. B. Lewis, Wholesale Grocer;
: w. L. Lewis, Wholesale Grocer;
' las. eL Lasseter, Wholesale Grocer;
: c. NJ Lewis, Wholesale Grocer;
:. ID. H. Mcmillan, Naval Stores;
/ A. G. Thompson, Wholesale Grocer;
/. w. K. BartleSon, Wholesale Grocer;
| ]. S. Allen;
r w. r. Thompson, Naval Stores;
v Charles w. Kinne, Real Estate;
n F. NJ. Griffing, Nursery Stock;
w. c. Warrington, Real Estate;
C. d. Rinehart, Attorney;
II, w. White, Editor Fraternal Record;
NJ A. Brown Ex-Sheriff Duval Count,
w. T. Simmons, Boots and Shoes;
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