The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-02-11
KNEW NOTHING OF
RESOLUTION PLANS
Governor First Read of
Committees Action In
Newspaper.

}. newspaper.
Tallahassee, Jan. 30.-Governo
d Trammell tonight made public tn
: following communication addressed t
/. the Tampa Times relative to an al
: ticle published in their Saturday
a issue:
o Tampa Times, Tampa, Florida:
S notice in your issue of yesterday tina
: the Chairman of the State Democratic
: Executive Committee is quoted a!
: saying. in substance that was pres
i ent when the committee was consid
, ering, and when it adopted the 'Stur.
; kie' resolution, that | made no oh.
lection to the resolution, but seemed
to acquiesce in what was done. II
Mr.. Raney made such statement he
made statement that is absolutely
erroneous and unsupported by the
facts.
"In the first place, while I was in
Jacksonville on the day the commit
tee met. l did not at anytime go to
or attend meetings of the committee
Neither Mr.. Raney nor any one else
saw me in the committee room.
never knew that such resolution was
even proposed or so much as thought
of until the committee had adopted
the resolution and had adjourned. Mr..
Raney must have Senator Bryan in
mind, as he was present and has,
over his own signature, said he ap-
proved OF the resolution at the time.
Read Notice in Paper.
"The information of such resolu-
tion and the action of the committee
was brought to my attention for the
first time only few moments before
J left Jacksonville on the train leav-
ing there at o'clock in the afternoon
for Tallahassee. AS was taking the
train I purchased a paper containing
the resolution. Immediately upon
reading | expressed to friends on the
train my disapproval of sections four
and five. This | can prove by Hon !
Fred P. Cone, Captain R. E. Rose and
others who were on the train. The
very next morning made plain to a I
number at the Capitol my opposition
to said sections of the resolution, and
denounced the manner in which it had
been railroaded through the commit
tee without it having been considered
Or requested by the members of the
Democratic party, except the few pol
ticians who had engineered the
scheme.
"Since the meeting of the, commit
Tee | have continued daily to oppose =,
sections four and five of
The resolution and shall continue to
10 SO until the polls close on June 6. .
The idea of me being present and ac-
luiescing in the resolution is prepos-
,erous. Those back of the scheme
very conspicuously avoided letting me
know anything of what was going +;
IN, just as they kept it supreme Sc
ret from the rank and file of the :,
Democratic party until the PROPOSE
ION had been put over They we'll j
Knew would not approve any such |
'ttempt to disfranchise large num-
,er of our good Democrats.
Wants Committee Reconvened.
within my rights and privileges as
Democrat, as an American citizen,
have urged that the committee
hould reconvene and rescind sections
our and five of the resolution and
hen if majority of the committee
o desire let them submit the new I
ests for adoption or rejection by the I
ote of the white Democrats quail i
led to vote as Democrats under the /!
anne requirements prescribed here !
ofore for Democrats in this State.
"Mr Raney within his privilege has
pposed such plan and urged his OBJ !
ections upon the members of the
and the public. His re- !:
eated oppositnon to the committee |
econvening has impressed many I
hat he would not call the committee 5
ogether even if requested by a ma >
ority. He had never said that he i
'ould or would not, so far as l know, I
nd for this reason I sent him a tel
gram asking him the direct question.
did not think it necessary to make
n argument in behalf of reconvening .
l my message but Mr.. Raney, in his l.
nswer, deemed it proper to make an =
rgument in opposition to another IL
leeting. Mr.. Raney is at liberty to :,
ublish my wire and his reply. Had II II
lr. Raney in the outset said, as T
hartman of the committee, he would !, Il
econvene the committee upon re. :,
uest of the majority, although he y u
'as opposed to meeting again, then L
ne large number of the committee
'ho have favored reconvening would
ave felt their request for another
leeting would be entertained; but
is persistent opposition and his fail d
re until very recently to say he lie
ould reconvene upon the request of
majority has impressed many that "
was useless to make such request T
him. | am glad he has expressed p,
is Willingness to call the committee id
pom the request of a majority" re
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gainSt the tax commission soon Of