The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-01-23
PALATKA EDIT0R'S
RACE FOR SENATOR
Receives Strong Approval at
Home and From Pr0mi-
nent State PaperS.

| d CdiLuludte Ill JilS approaching DeIflO-
cratic primaries, for the office of
State Senator from this, the Twenty
sixth Senatorial District, has been
much gratitied this week at the strong
endorsement his candidacy has re-
ceived at the hands of the people
from all parts of the county. Calls
have been made on him from promi-
nent democrats from more than
dozen county precincts and men prom
inent in business, agriculture and in
horticultural pursuits have given him
to understand that his candidacy
meets with approval. Some of this
has. come from unexpected sources and
is thereby doubly gratifying.
Seven representative men from West
Putnam county precincts have ten
dered him their aid in securing the
vote of their respective precincts, and
others from otLer sections of the coun-
ty have assured him of substantial
support from their neighborhoods.
Many prominent men from the pc
ninsula end of the county have assured
him that the peninsula would give
him a big majority over any candi-
dates who might appear. This is also
true regarding number of the Pa
latka precincts.
In addition to these tenders of home
endorsement came letters from other
sections Of the State containing best
wishes for his success. These are
valuable only as showing the impress
sion made by the recipient on some
of Florida's most substantial citizens
while serving in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
Editor Frank L. Mayes, generally
conceded by the press of Florida to
be its most brilliant exponent of pro-
gressive measures, said editorially in
the Pensacola Journal of Monday last
"We note that W. A. Russell of
Crescent City, Putnam county, has
announced for state senator from
the 26th district, subject to the ac-
tion of the coming Democratic pri-
mary. The Journal hopes that Mr..
Russell may be elected without oppo-
sition. He is a progressive Demo-
crat whose service in the house long
since placed him among the leaders
of that body and marked him as one
of the safest and ablest legislators
who ever sat at Tallahassee. Mr..
Russell's policies are the policies ap-
proved by the vast majority of the
people of Florida and exemplified
in the political life of Woodrow Will
son and William J. Bryan. He is
the logical man for state senator
from the 26th district and his can
didacy will be accompanied by the
best wishes for success on the part
of thousands of progressive Demo-
Gratis all over the state"
Senator H. H. McCreary, editor of
the Gainesville Sun, endorses the can
didacy of the Putnam county candi- |
date as follows:
Gainesville Sun. Jan. goth, 1914.
"W. A. Russell, editor of the Pa
latka News, is a candidate for the
State Senate from Putnam county.
He has twice represented his coun-
ty in the lower house and is in
every way qualified for the position
he asks at the hands Of the people
of Putnam county"
The Sanford Herald, one of the liv-
Iiest papers in all Florida, and whose
editor is known in all parts of the
State as boomer for his county and
all Florida, says editorially in the
Herald of the goth inst:
Hon. W. A. Russell, editor of the
Palatka News, member of the state
legislature, president of the Florida
Press Association and affectionate-
ly termed "Bill" by the boys who
know him best will be a candidate
for the state senate for Putnam
county in the primary and it goes
without saying that he will be elect
ed for no better man or one more
honest in his convictions ever at
tended the Florida legislature than
Bill Russell, and Putnam county will
make no mistake in electing him to
the senate. And then in the natural
order of things the man who makes
a good representative and has learn
ed wisdom ard law making in the
lower house should progress and
take a term in the senate, if he so
desires. In our own Nineteenth
there is a gentleman's agreement
to let the different counties compos-
ing the district take turns in sup
plyirg the state senator. Orange
county had an able representative
in Hon. Louis C. Massey for two
terms, Osceola county followed with
Senator Donegan, the present able
senator who will serve another term
and then the new county-Semi-
mole county should be represented
and what better man to represent |
them than Hon. Forest Lake, the
present representative who has the
experience and the ability to make
a good senator and one who will
shed honor and lustre upon the
Nineteenth district. 1t is early to
make predictions, only it is fitting
time to make comparisons and the
idea of The Herald is to make SEN
ators out of good representatives
and send men to both houses who
have experience in framing not only
good laws but who frame them in
the proper manner which means
something to the tax payer of Flor
ida.
"The Herald hereby endorses Rus
sell of Putnam and Lake of Semi
mole for the state senate, both good
and capable men.
To be perfectly fair with any can
didates who may have, or who expect
to announce for this office, The Palat-
ka News will reproduce any comments
made by the press of Florida concern
iner thai,. candidacy