The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-04-09
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state or Florida.
Marion County. @
Before the undersigned authority.
personally appeared r. f. Pritchett.
who being first duly sworn, deposes
and says: That he had pledged him.
self TO s. T. Sistrunk. to both vote ana
| work for S. T. Sistrunk's nomination
for clerk of the circuit court in the
1908 primary. and that he so stated to
4. h Nugent when the latter came TO
him for support. some months before
the 1908 primary. Nugent telling him
that he expected to be q candidate In
nsne approaching primaries; that al
though Nugent was neighbor and
personal friend living in the same
town and meeting him almost daily on
friendly terms. that Nugent said
i nothing at any time as to any change
IN. his plans and that the first knowl-
edge that he, the said Pritchett. had
that Nugent would not be candidate
Tor clerk in the 1908 primary came to
MIN, not from Nugent, but from s. r.
Sistrunk; that S. T. Sistrunk told him
in Ocala that he had taken p. III Nu-
gent out with him in his buggy for
the express purpose of talking over
politics: and that he had arranged
with the said Nugent not to be cam
didate for clerk in 1908.
That this statement of Sistrunk
was made to him, Pritchett, in Ocala
in the early part OF 1908, and before
the primary election.
T. e. Pritchett
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this the 9Th day of April. 1912.
(SeaD c. w. Quick.
| Notary Public with Seal
onY feyvnfc cf0
Do you really suppose that Mr.. s. T.
lSistrunk would have ever given me
any pledge IL I had told him that
practically had no chances OF election
in 1908? Would he have done Il IL /
had made him the propositions that he
says ! did and he had rejected them
as he says he did? Do you think that
any grown man would not only sign
but copy and sign as plain a document
as his pledge and not know fully
what he was doing? And IL he did, do
you think that such a man is compe-
| tent to be clerk?
Months before the primary I wrote
him open letters in the county news
papers and he purposely wafteds until
just before the primary to go into q
discussion of them
Mr.. T. E. Pritchetts affidavit is clear
Years before Mr.. S. T. Sistrunk own
ed an acre of land in this county. so
far as 1 know, i was farmer and tax
payer here. Equally with the gentle
man. have contributed to the sup
port Of churches, schools and charity.
but have not seen At to parade that
fact publicly. 1 brought from Louis
lana and spent I'm this county far more
! m nm I Of q
and the gentleman himself has spent
outside OF this county more money
than 1 have. / say that the whole
proposition for me to put on my can
didacy for clerks office from 1908 to
1912, came from S. T. Sistrunk HIM
self, unsolicited by me, and that I re-
fused to agree to do so until / got
something more tangible than Mr..
Sistrunks word. Talk about slurs on
his character. etc, is simply political
capital
| The two small groves that Mr. Sis
trunk speaks of are insignificant parts
of his property. Unless he has re-
icentIy sold it, he has one-fifth in
terest in nearly one hundred acres OF
grove below Sarasota. far outside OF
the county where he says he Is spend
ing all of his money. When his two
small SfOVeS-pOOF little thln&S-
were out in the cold, where was my
grove and Albert Forts grove at Moss
Bluff and the groves OF other men who
had to make a living without an 5000
clerks job? What does all this twad-
die amount to, anyway? He. pledged
his personal honor not to run in 1912
and for value received and now hIs
bond is due.
| I want to say with all emphasis.
publicly, that my private life Is a..
straight as that of S. T. Sistrunk: that
my official record will surely bear
comparison with that of the gentle
man and that he has held office long
enough. / solicit your votes.
| Yours truly.
P. H. Nugent-