The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-02-17
A STATE CONVENTION
Held in Palatka by the Florida
Republicans
NOMINATE AND REsoLUTE
Give the Democratic Party "Par-
ticular Fits To Contest
for Chief State Offices

The Herald has many subscrib-
ers who are Republicans and
they pay their debts and other
wise behave as excellent citizens.
1t is, therefore, due them that
The Herald should give space to
the proceedings of their state and
district conventions which met in
Palatka on Wednesday of last
week. The resolutions adopted
by them are also given below, and
The Herald cordially disapproyes
of them.
The nominations made are as
follows:
For governor, George w. Allen
of Key West.
For United States senator, w.
r. O'Neal of Orlando.
Congress, First district, Henry
| w. Bishop Of Eustis.
! Congress, Second district, Judge
William Gober of Ocala.
Congress, Third district, f. E.
Miller, Pensacola.
Congress, Fourth district, ID. T.
Gerow of Jacksonville.
Delegates were elected to the
Republican National convention,
which will meet in Chicago June
II, as follows; at large-Henry S.
lChubb, Princeton; z. I. Bielby,
DeLand; Joseph Il. Lee, Jackson
vile; M, B. Macfarlane, Tampa
First district-G. w. Bean, Tam
pa; Second district-L. C. Lynch,
Gainesville; Third district-W.
H.. Northrup, Pensacola; Fourth
district-W. r, O'Neal, Orlando.
The delegates go uninstructed,
Most, if not all of the nominees
are men of high character.
The resolutions adopted give
the Democratic party particular
fits" as witness:
"Be it resolved, by the Repub-
Ilicans of the state of Florida, in
state convention assembled, that
we condemn the present vacillat-
ing, free trade, treasury depict
ing, deficit making, note writing,
extravagant Mexican fasco demo-
cratic administration. The dem
ocratic party solemnly promised
protection to all American citi-
zens at home and abroad, and in
fulfillment of their promise our
countrymen are murdered and
robbed in Mexico, and are bonn
Ibarded and drowned on the high
seas. The democratic party
promised and campaigned on the
issue, that if elected, they would
pass such tariff and other laws as
would cause a great reduction In
the price of living. Yet the mar
ket reports of the necessities and
comforts of life show that after
the passage of the Underwood
tariff law therefore eight months
prior to the European war, there
was no reduction whatever, there
by confessing their utter inability
, to keep this pledge.
"The democratic party voclf'
erously charged the republican
| party with extravaganza in ap'
p propriating the public funds OF
8 the treasury and promised strict
, economy in all public expendi'
lures. Yet the last democratic
congress, with the concurrence o1
: a democratic president, expended
! one hundred and seventy-sever
million dollars more than the last
/ republican congress. The demo
I cratic party promised a sterr
prosecution of so-called trusts
: and their record on such prosecu
tions is absolute failure, and thu
h attorney general of the Unitec
n States a short time ago issued
@ statement, which amounted to
v proclamation, that the so-callet
: trusts had nothing to fear from
: the administration. The demo
|. cratic party promised, under tn.
p operation of a democratic tarlt
law, wider opportunity anC
greater blessings for both capita
$ and labor. Yet it is a fact be
! yond contradiction, that the eigh
: months operation of the Under
|. wood tariff law, and before tn
! European conflict there commend
; ed a terrible commercial stagna
s ton, financial operations wer
brought to a standstill and labo
h was thrown out of employment /
g the great manufacturing center
of the country, and but for th