The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-07-21
KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON.


gave a certificate of nomination for
governor to the Rev. Sidney Cats -
Rome Howled and the Heathen
Ragged.
Also some people imagined vain
thing.
Wien the Supreme Court IN Mon
day denied the writ Of prohibition
asked for by Rev. Sidney j. C1ttS,
and granted W. V. Knott's petition
for an alternative writ of mandamus
ordering a recount of the vote N
Putnam county
The C4t..istas shrieked!
And the righteous man cried with
Job. Even today is my complaint
bitter: My stroke is heavier than
my grooming
Billy Parker. when told the news
said: "Oh, man, you're spoofng me"
(Billy was in PalatkaO
Now as every body has made a
noise-all have relieved themselves
let us get down to the root of the
matter in all seriousness and see
where we are at.
The Lake City Index says: Sidney
]. Cats is the democratic nominee
for governor of Florida. The PEO-
PIE and not the COURTS are to set
flo This s. If Cats is
not allowed his place. the people are
going to run him and elect him
any way. He is the nominee, and
a failure to elect him means dis
ruption of the party"
The News agrees that "the people
and not the courts" shall settle this
matter.
That was Mr.. Knott's idea when he
asked for a recount of the vote IN
certain precincts of the State where
he had evidence that the inspectors
had FAILED TO COUNT, or to prop
erIy TABULATE. all the votes. 1t
is the voice of the people that Mr..
Knott has asked for.
BY opposing this recount Mr., Cats,
with his certificate of nomination IN
his inside pocket, is satisfied. He
doesn't want to run any risk of los
ing this certificate, therefore his op-
position to recount.
If Mr.. Cats really wants the peo-
pie to "settle this" why oppose-why
fight IN honest attempt to ascertain
the will Of he people?
Here in Putnam county it is known
that in several precincts the second
choice votes were not counted at
and that in others they were not prop
erlv tabulated. A recount and re-
tabuIation of the votes as they were
cast by the PEOPLE is all that is de-
sired This recount and retabula-
ton will be done under the supervls-
ion of the original inspectors and
clerks of the primary. The ballot
boxes will not be STUFFED" The re-
count will be conducted under the
supervision of the courts, and the Will
of the PEOPLE will settle the mat
ter at issue. Mr. Cats has nothing
to fear, unless it is defeat. Certain
" he doesn't want the nomination un-
less he has been given it by the votes
of the PEOPLE!
All this cry of fraud is just so
much "yalIcr dogism' running riot.
The thr at of the Lake City Index
that "if Cats is not allowed MS
place. the people are going to run him
and elect him anyway is probably
not an idle one. 1t shows that at
least one Cats mouthpiece in it's
frenzy les renounced orderly proceed
ure through the courts and a willing
ness to adopt mob methods.
As for The News, it believes in the
integrity of our courts; it believes al
so in the people
And it does not believe that the
courts are antogonistic to the people,
nor the people to the courts.
If the real voice of the people as
registered on June 9Th last, and
which the court is simply trying to as
certain, designates the Rev. Sidney J.
Cats as the democratic nominee for
governor, then The News wi, 81
Sidney J. Cats.
But it isn't going to jump on his
band wagon until the thing starts on
the regular road to Tallahassee.
In the meantime it would advise
you to keep your shirt on, advise it
also intends to appropriate to its own
needs.
Tallahassee has put the booster
spirit in half the towns of the State