Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-12
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EXPOSITION PROMOTERS WISH
TO SECURE BACKING OF ST.
AUGUSTINE MEMBER OF COM
MISSION-DECISION WILL Be-
MADE TOMORROW.

A large delegation of citizens went
over to st. Augustine this morning
to confer with Hon. W. A. McWil-
liams, a member of the centennial
exposition commission, with a view
to securing his support of Palatka's
application for the location of the
exposition site.
An effort will also be made to get
Mr.. McWilliams to urge that the
session of the commission tomorrow
be thrown open to such towns that
may desire to make application, and
who have not heretofore had hear
ing. 1t is pointed out that Jack
sonville and Pensacola have already
had hearing, and that neither of
them sufficiently impressed the conf
mission to a selection of cite.
The Palatka committee takes the
position that so long as the commits
-sion is to start all over again it is
rothing but fair and proper that any
new applicant for the site, with hon
est and serious intentions, be given
an opportunity to be heard.
Pensacola Is Going.
A big delegation Of Pensacola citi-
zens will journey to Jacksonville to-
morrow to appear before the commits
sion, provided the commission will
hear them. Pensacola has already
had two Or three chances at pouring
talk into the commission and it is
highly probable that they will not be
given another opportunity. The
| West Floridians rather minimize Pa
latka's chances for receiving the
award. The Pensacola Journal of
Tuesday had the following:
Chairman Hancock of the eXecu-
tive committee, Felo McAllister, S. H.
Cross, and other workers, were busy
yesterday getting funds for sending
! delegation of influential men to
Jacksonville next Saturday. 1t is
believed that the Palatka delegates
will ask that an open meeting be held
so that they may present their
claims, in which case the Pensacola
people want to be ready to reiterate
their demands and choke off any at
tempt on the part of Jacksonville or
any other city to slide in.
"There seems to be little doubt in
the minds Of local workers as to the
final success of Pensacola's fight. It
is believed that an attempt will be
made to shunt the show somewhere
else, or to call it off entirely, but it
is also believed that the attempts
will fail. Senator McWilliams is
understood to be firmly hooked up
with Hon. John B. Jones and 1T is
thought that Chairman Brorein has
Pensacola leanings, now that the four
: fairs proposition is out of the way.
= From reports brought back from
e St. Augustine by the committed
/ Commissioner McWilliams is not
4 ''hooked up" with Hon. Jones, Of Pen
sacola, and has no decided Pensacola
leanings. Mr.. McWilliams did moi
commit himself to any extent, but tins
members of the committee are inclin
t ed to the belief that he does not ia
,or Pensacola, but is rather oppose:
to locating the exposition so far away
: from the main body of the state.
: Those named on the committee tt
= confer with Mr.. McWilliams, BY
e President de Montmollin, of the Bus
1 mess Mems Association, were: G. R
: Hilty, W. G. Tilghman, Goode NJ
v Guerry, H. o. Hamm, H. P. Norwich
e E. NJ. Earnest, ], V. Walton, ]. c
!, Calhoun, R ]. Hancock, Edward Fer
n reI, DR.. L. W. Warren, ]. ]. Muir
r ply, Morris Cochrane, H S Wilson, ]
E Mobley, A H. Selle, Charles Burt