The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-15
BOTH SIDES OF
CONTROVERSY
WORKING HARD
Question on the Levying of
Special Taxation to BE
Decided.
OPPONENTS TO PROJECT
HELD RALLY LAST NIGHT
Should Be d State and Not a
County Institution, Speak
er Stated.

The election to determine whether or
not two-mill tax for the establishment
of tuberculosis sanatorium in Escam-
bia county will be levied is to be held
today and every elector who was quail
fled to vote in the general election in
November is eligible to vote today. The
polls will open at s o'clock this morning
and will close at sunset, which is at 5:57
o'clock
Ballot boxes have been placed in the
voting places in each precinct, which are
the same as for all elections, and il is
expected that all clerks and inspectors
will lie ready at the opening hour. 1t
is expected that the vote will be un-
usually heavy for an election OF this
kind because both those who are in favcr
Of the sanatorium and those who are
opposed to it are working hard TO get
out the voters.
Tourist Club Denies.
L. A. Enos. Of Chicago, president of
the Tourist club stated to The Journal
last night that the resolution favoring
the sanatorium and purporting to come
from the Tourist club had never been
acted upon by that organization and had
not even come before the club.
State Director Hixon of the Anti-Tu-
bercuosis association, asked for a state
ment of his side OF the affair, and said
that the resolution was brought up at Il
gathering of tourists at. an entertainment
at the Big Zion Baptist church on Jack
son-st Sunday afternoon and was passed
by the tourists at that meeting, Vice
Frssident Cox presiding The tourists
had been invited to hear the negro sing
ers and the entertainment being es-
pecially for the Tourist club. it was
considered that the tourists present had
a right to act.
Mass Meeting is Held.
Opponents of the sanatorium plan held
a mass meeting at Mallory Court last
night. DR.. Clarence z. Hutchinson and
win II. Watson spoke to about $50
people on the merits of the sanatorium
law and the uselessness of a sanatorium
in Escambia county. Max L. Bear pre-
sided.
Mr.. bear asked if there We're any
persons in the audience who desired to
speak in favor of the sanatorium and
on receiving no response announced DR.
Hutchinson as the first speaker DIR.
Hutchinson said that he was a member
of the county anti-tuberculosis associa-
tion and was one of those who petitioned
for the election which is being held to-
day, but that study of the law had con-
vinced him that it would be a bad thing
for the county if the election carried
LII HUTCHINSON RAISED a number or
points which he said were against the
sanatorium. among them being that the
climate here is not favorable to the
treatment of tuberculosis, another that
the navy had abandoned the treatment
of men here, a third that patients could
not be required to remain in the sana-
torium, and fourth that the commission
with the direction of the
would be a political body.
Watson Opposes SanatorIum.
VIII II. Watson was the second speak
er. He attacked the law which permit
ted persons not taxpayers to vote on
questions of taxation which the prop-
erty owners would have to pay and
flayed what he termed "peripatetic pro-
moters who go about the country making
a living by promoting such affairs as
this" He declared that the citizens Of
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