The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-05-21
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MR.. DAVIS RECORD

Our clever young friend, Mr.. Chas.
E. Davis, candidate for Congress
against Mr.. Frank Clark in the sec
ond district, has been among US much
in the last few weeks on visits that
would have been, mutually pleasant
had there been no string tied to them
Mr.. Davis is charming lad and had
he gone after the suffragette vote
would have won it hands down. Why
he didn't try for it is unknown to US,
unless perhaps he was afraid it
might have lost him votes on the
other side.
Mr.. Davis has been busy during his
campaign trying to punch holes in the
record of his opponent. He has sue
ceeded a little better than Don Quix-
ote did in his tilt against windmills-
he has found one mistake in thirteen
years, and inserting his lance in the
hole thus left often he has swung
onto it until the genial Florida breeze
has lifted both he and Rosinante
clear from the ground.
To look at Mr.. Davis, so amiable il
he, so like a cat that has just consum-
ed canary, you wouldn't think he
had such thing as a record of his
own. Yet he has, and it is some re-
cord, too. If he should go to Con-
gress and make as many mistakes as
he has made in the egislature-well,
he would not be in any danger of
anybody contesting his third term,
for the people would never give hin.
a chance at second
Of all the counties of the district,
Marion is the one Mr.. Davis should
expect the least from. For when he
was here last week and the week be-
fore, expatiating on Frank Clark's
solitary error, he took good care not
to tell the voters of Marion that he
was willing helper in the attempt
by small and selfish bunch of poll
ticians to cut fifth of our county off
from the main body. However,, if you
will read page 1926, Journal of the
House, 1915, relating to the bill Gre
ating Bloxham county, you will see
that Mr.. Davis voted for the bill.
The citizens of Marion and Levy
counties have no reason to love any
body who supported this bill. This
county sent to represent it two of its
ex-commissioners, both well acquaint-
ed with all its affairs, yet Mr.. Davis
and his pals treated them as men I'M
worthy of consideration; they disre-
garded the rule of senatorial courtesy
toward the senator who represented
the district-they caused a lot of
trouble, expense and hard feeling,
and it is no fault of theirs that Mar
ion is not today a Topped and I'M
symmetrical county. If Mr.. Davis
had treated our representatives in the
legislature with proper respect in
1915, he might have had some reason
to come among us in 1913 smiling
and telling us what good friend he
would be to us if we helped to give
him Mr.. Clark's place in Congress. We
wonder why Mr.. Davis did not, while
at Romeo a few days ago, tell the
people of that loyal little precinct
how hard he had tried to help wrest
them from Marion. Had he forgotten,
or did he want others to forget? A
good many of those at Fairfield were
also from the contested precincts, but
Mr.. Davis never said "Bloxham"
once.
However, this is only our own
neighborhood matter. We might for
give if Mr.. Davis had shown himself
a statesman in all other things. But
did ne? The following record doesn't
read that way.
Mr.. Davis likes prohibition votes
in fact, he likes any votes, but now
that prohibition is in the saddle he
wants prohibitionists to think he is
their staunch friend. But we find
that when a member of the House in
1909 he voted against the prohibition
amendment. See pages 513, 514, 515,
SIC and SIT, Journal of 1909.
He also voted against house bill
125, being a bill to separate white
and negro prisoners and male and
female prisoners in the county jails
of the state. See page 927, Journal
of 1909.
III Tic SSsSAUu O1 1911 MI LAWS
voted against senate bill 120, the
same being a bill providing that in
suits on insurance policies a substan,
tial compliance with the terms and
conditions of such policies should be
deemed sufficient, and suits might be
maintained against the companies or
sureties on bonds required by Law
within the period prescribed by law
for bringing actions on promises in
writing, notwithstanding any provis-
ions to the contrary in insurance con-
tracts. This bill passed % to 2. See
page 730, Journal of 1911.
Mr.. Davis voted against senate bill