The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-11-02

sent to Florida a number of thous.
ands of dollars to be expended a.
gainst him. Recently in Punta
Gorda, he placed this amount al
$1S0,000.00. | don't suppose that
Cardinal Gibbons has ever heard
of Cats or Knott either. Recent.
ly at Kissimmee, Knott, while
speaking happened to observe
Cats in the audience, Thereup
on, he asked Cats for his author
ity for such statements. Gait,
made no reply.
Suppose Cats were elected gov
ernor of Florida, what harm could
he do to the Catholics? Under
the Constitution they are secure in
their religious beliefs. No law
colud be passed affecting their lib
erty or property which would not
affect the liberty and property of
Protestants.
Practically all the officers are
nominated in the primary or elect
ed in the general election. A gov
ernor has the appointment of a
number of notary publics. Every
bank has one or two notary pub
lies. If one of the banks employ
ees happened to be a Catholic or
if any one else sh""'d happen be
Catholic and desired to be no
tary, Cats could refuse to appoint
him. What other harm could he
do to Catholics?
Explanation of Second Choice
Vote-Fully a Third of the
Democrats Refuse to Vote it,
Not Understanding lit is
Natural that Fully a Third of
the Inspectors did Not Uuder-
stand it, Some Said They did
Not Understand the Tally Sheet
In order for a second choice
vote to count, the voter must have
cast his first choice vote for one
of the losing candidates for COVER
nor. The object of the law was
to combine the former two pri-
maries into one. When We had !
two primaries the voter who cast
his first choice vote for Hudson,
Farris or Wood would in the sec
ond primary have to cast what
was really his second choice vote
for Cats or Knott, the two hight
men for the first primary and who
would be the only ones in the sec
ond primary.
Therefore, in order for second
choice vote to count in the combin-
ed primary the voter must have
cast his first choice vote for one
of the three losing candidates and
his second choice votes for either
Cats or Knott, ,~one of the two
high candidates. A second choice
vote could not possibly initiate
against the voters first choice
vote. Yet, fully third of the
white Democratic voters of t'lori-
da refused to vote a second choice
vote, many Of them thinking that
to do so would initiate against
their first choice vote.
Is it not natural to assume that
fully one third of the inspectors
did not understand the second
choice vote? In addition to that
observe the errors in the tally
sheets of certain precincts which
the inspectors themselves stated
were due to their ignorance of the
manner Of correctly tallying sec
ond choice votes. Many of III
votes which Cats received erron-
eously in the tally Of the second
choice votes, in the original tally,
were due to the fact that Cats
name was alphabetically placed
Immediately to the right of the
names of the candidates. The
inspectors themselves said, on the
recount, that such was the cause
of the errors.
Knott, a Coward, if He Had Not
Insisted that the Votes of the
People be Properly Counted
Religious Prejudice and Preju-
dice Against President Wilson.
Some say that Knott has dis
rupted the Democratic party by
that the expressed vote
of the people be counted as the
people wished it to be done. Had |
he not done so, he would have
been a coward and unworthy of
the respect of any one. Today, |
a gentleman from another county
told me that on the day after the
June primary he told Knott s
brother in Tampa how Knott had
lost several second choice votes in
his precinct. From such accum-
ulated evidence Knott had reason
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