The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-07-17
RECALL PETITIONS
COMING FAST SAYS
CHAIRMANT.L.GANT
Yesterday Was the Banner
Day for Their Receipt
Headquarters Are Opened
and its Phone No. is 1856.

Yesterday was the b4nrer day Stree
the inauguration of the movement for
a. recall campaign said Chairman
Cant last night. Yesterday morning 5
mail brought him an arm full of pc
tions and three -fourths of them IA
vored the recall election Every trip
to the postoffice afterwards netted an
arm full of letters and Mr.. Cant be-
lieVes that there will be no trouble ex-
perienced in getting the necessary
number of signers to the petition.
Recall headquarters were opened
yesterday on the second floor of the
Thiesen building and a force of young
ladies. assisted by some men, worked
on the 100 letters which had been
piled up in the postoffice and could
not be delivered for lack of the proper
addresses. About two hundred of these
were mailed out last night the proper
addresses having been secured and
the carriers will deliver them this
morning. Sir, Cant wants the petitions
placed in the hands of every qualified
voter in the city and he wants all Of
them to express their sentiment.
whether for or against a recall cleo
ton.
PHONE is NO. 3ss
A telephone was installed in the
headquarters yesterday and its num-
her is 3S6. If parties who desire the
petitions will phone there and give
dress a set Of the cards will be mailed
to them, together with a stamped en-
velope for the return.
Mr.. Cant wants to close UP the
campaign as early as possible, and
has directed all those who have petit
tions in addition TO the individual
cards to turn them in at headquarters
not later than Saturday night at 6
o'clock.
LADIES ARE INTERESTED.
That the ladies are much interested
in the outcome of the campaign for d
recall election is attested by the num-
Der of letters received by Mr.. Cant.
One lady, whose name is withheld, re
Gently sent the recall cards OK with
the statement that her husband is
dead, but that were he alive he would
surely sign the recall petitions.
Yesterday another lady, who resides
on East Hill and has invested in some
property. wrote the chairman q
lengthy letter, in which she said. in
part: IT am not a hypocrite and
therefore, would like to express my
appreciation of the good work IN
which you are engaged and in which
all good citizens should be interested.
am not a defeated candidate, but
have invested some money in Pensa
cola real estate and therefore l am
interested in its prosperity.
mo intelligent person who has read
the daily newspaper or who has
talked with reputable citizens can now
fail OF realize the manner in which
the city is governed, especially after
reading the latest ordinance and land
grant agreement.
Having learned when | first came
to Pensa cola something about these
old Spanish land grants / employed
a lawyer to look up the abstracts and
make sure the title to the property
[ bought, therefore l am not & sore
head on this account
Chairmna Cant last night said:
There is one thing l would like you
would impress upon the voters. If
any Of them have the recall cards
please return them to me, whether or
not they are signed. We want them
hack and thus get an expression from
the people Send them in today