The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-08-22
CALLS FOR A CORRECTION

Editor Star: In your weekly issue
of Friday, Is inst, you make the state
ment that Mr.. Cats with a high
priced manager, expensive headquar
tiers, must have robust campaign
fund, and in all probability is being
financed by the Guardians of Liberty,
who are doing their best to defeat
Woodrow Wilson and will vote for
republican electors in the national
election.
1t seems to me that these state,
ments are rather extravagant to say
the least. If you will go to Jackson
vile and visit the Cats headquarters
you will find the floors bare, with
few cheap chairs. Three or four
tables without covers, the typewriter
and two or three men and one or two
women, none of whom have drawn
cent except the typewriter.
Compare, if you please, this head
quarters with the large spacious
rooms, beautiful plush carpets and
rugs, mahogany desks, large COM
Portable desk chairs, etc., at Mr..
Knots headquarters.
The Guardians of Liberty are con.
tributing nicely to Mr.. Cats cam
paign fund, but not nearly so much
as is going in from hundreds who
are not members of the organization.
Some six weeks ago received sew
eral letters and saw quite a number
of men who told me that, Mr.. Knots
friends were industriously circulat-
ing the statement 20 the effect that
both Mr.. Cats and the Guardians OF
Liberty were going to knife Mr.. Will
] son and try and land Florida in the
republican column. / believed that
this was being done for the sole pur-
pose of trying to draw votes from Mr..
Cats and create sympathy for Mr..
Knott.
Knowing the sentiment of our or
ganization in Florida, we proposed a
statement which was published over
my signatude as State Guardian and
j. v. Burke, as state secretary, to
the effect that of the ninety per cent
of democrats in our state organization
that to a man they were doing all
they could not only for Mr.. Wilson'S
election, but also for every democrat
ic nominee in Florida.
The other ten per cent. who were
not democrats would support then
choice, as they have a right to do.
I have been voting for "a years
during that time / have not failed to
vote in every democratic primary and
general election and have never bolt
ed a democratic nominee.
IL any democrat in Florida has a
better record than this it is only be-
cause he is older than I.
| Mr.. Editor, | am sure you do not
wish to do any one an injustice, and
until you know of some Guardian OF
Liberty who is democrat fighting
Mr.. Wilson, hope you will not again
make the charge, that we are working
for his defeat. J. S. Bitch
/ $50
Mr.. Bitch can obtain space in the
Star at any time, and anyone whose
actions the Star comments on is al
ways entitled to reply.
We have never seen the headquar-
tiers of either Mr.. Cats or Mr.. Knott
but we are perfectly willing to take
Mr.. Blitch's word for the condition OF
either or both. However, we must
remind Mr.. Bitch of one thing
Goode Query, one of the smartest
newspaper men in the state, is pub
licity manager for Cats. Mr.. Query
can obtain a good salary from any
leading newspaper in Florida any
time he is willing to take a position
with one. We are quite sure he isn't
working for his health, neither is he
working for his love of Cats. We
doubt that he is working for a cen,
less than $50 week. And he is plac-