The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-18
.PALATKA CATTS|STAS
ORGANIZE A CLUB
On Wednesday Night for
Campaign Purposes
Thirty Members.

There were exactly seventy-two
people in the Putnam county court
house on Wednesday night when the
crowd was at high tide. Not all of
them were Cats sympathizers; some
went to scoff, and then sneaked away
through the outer darkness through
droves of blind mosquitoes to pray
for forgiveness and deliverance.
The organization began at the back
and moved toward the front. The
officers were elected and the COM
mittees appointed first, then the
club was formed. Of the number
present about 80 enrolled as members
of the club.
The meeting was called to order by
Mr.. c. R. Poole, tall slender young
man with pleasant face and most
affable manners. He told of the OBJ
ject of the meeting and how impor-
tant it was to the State to uphold he
nomination of the Reverend Sidney J.
Cats. Mr. Poole then asked that
temporary officers be named, with
result that C. F. Crandall was elected
temporary chairman, and Mr.. Poole
temporary secretary.
On motion of H. F. Uric the tenn
porary organization was made perma-
nent, the organization to be known as
the Cats Democratic Campaign Club.
His motion was carried unanimously
with a show of enthusiasm and ap-
plause.
Mr.. Poole then presented a plan of
organization, a plan evidently having
the approval of the State Cats Com
mittee. There is to be an executive
committee of six, one of whom shall
be selected by the committee as chair
man; a publicity committee and fl
nance committee. This committee is
also to select a man from each pre-
cinct to look after campaign matters
in his precinct.
The following committees were then
elected
Executive Committee-T. E. Strange
E. E. Dodge, H. F. Uric, H. M. Fearn-
side, E. J. Price, H. E. Hightower.
Publicity Committee-C. R. Poole,
Rev. S. Grady and L. A. Davis.
Rev. S. Grady suggested that in
naming the finance committee care
should be taken and that not all men,
bers should be from the city but that
the country precincts should be well
represented on the committee. This
committee was then made up with the
following gentlemen:
Finance Committee-Ed. M. Earn
est, C. H. Price, H. M. Fearnside, R.
F. Rigdon, C. F. Crandall, E. R. Con-
way, Alfred Abshier, I. z. ELENA, B.
G. Tanner.
C. R. Poole was elected secretary of
the club and C. H. Price, treasurer.
Mr.. C. F. Crandall, of the Perry
Peach Farms, was chosen president of
the club. Mr.. Crandall has not been
long in the county, being northern
gentleman of education who has in
vested in the county and who is going
to do his part to make it blossom as
the rose.
Then an invitation was given to
those present to come forward and
join the club. About 30 responded,
among them being some socialists,
some republicans and the balance
democrats of doubtful party loyalty.
Mr.. Norwich, not a citizen of the
United States, was received into the
bosom of the club at the cost of a
dollar and is now numbered among
| the elect.
The papers of the city, with the
exception of the Advocate and the
Morning Post, were severely scored
by Mr.. Notes, bridge tender for the
Florida East Coast Railway. He
placed special emphasis on the editor
of The Palatka News for telling the
truth Though truth is not what Mr..
Notes called it) concerning the Cats
campaign methods and the Cats him.
self
As The News has heretofore re-
marked, it considers the organization
of Cats club at this time as move
ment toward independentism. The
News will wait until all the evidence =,
is in, then if Mr.. Cats is declared the
nominee by the votes of the demo-
cratic people of the State, he will have !
the support of this paper. The News
is an organization paper-democratic
and has always waged war on in
dependentism and mixed politics. And
it will continue so to do until there
comes a real upheaval that destroys
the party and leaves in its place
something that stands for constitu-
tional Americanism.