Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-06-08
CAPITAL REMOVAL
DELEGATESCOMING
HERE ON TUESDAY
Two Hundred Expected
to Attend Statewide
Convention
PROMINENT SPEAKERS
Invitations Issued to the
Leading Citizens of
Peninsula

Plans have been completed by Ac-
| ting Secretary j. w. Hart, of the As
sociation for Removal of the State
Capital of Florida for the convention
which will be held here next Tuesday,
at which time the board of directors,
as well as the convention, will hold
sessions to perpetuate the campaign
to secure the submission of the mat
| ter of capital removal the point in
the state most convenien and econo-
mical the greatst number.
| Prominent speakers who have been
invited to address the convention are
Hon. Perry G. Wall, of Tampa, Hon
Sam Harris, of st. Petersburg and
Hon. j. j. Parrish, from Titusville.
In addition to these all of the newly
elected legislators in the peninsular
counties have been invited to be pre-
sent, and some of them have already
accepted. Friedrich Van Roy, of Cit
rus county, just nominated for the
legislature from that county, has ad-
vised Secretary Hart that he will be
here Monday evening.
The board of directors is made up
of the presidents from each coun-
ty. This board will meet Tuesday
morning at the Court House here at
10 o'clock. At 2:30 Tuesday after
noon the convention will meet at the
court house and the recommendations
of the board of directors will be TAX
en- up.
1t is recognized that one Of the first
things to be done is to fully educate
the people of Florida that the organi-
zation was not formed for the purpose
Of locating the state capital, but rath.
er hat the peple of the state might
be given an opportunity to express
their wishes at the polls. The meth
Iod of arriving at this would be the
offering of constitutional amend
ment to be ratified at the polls in the
regular way, and prescribing the me-
thod by which the site shall be finally
determined upon.
Jacksonville Stands Aloof
The Jacksonville Chamber Of Com
merce has declined, through its presi-
dent, Hal P Adair, to be represented
at any of these meetings, Mr. Adair
taking the position that his attend,
arce would be aiken to mean that
Jacksonville favors capial removal,
while, as a matter OF fact, Jackson
IyilIe is neutral. Mr.. Adair also said
chat if reapportionment was being
urged as a means to secure favorable
action on the submission of a consti
tutiOnal amendment to the people for
capital removal he thought reappor-
ttionment would suffer thereby. In
other words, il is regarded in the pc
liEsuiar section, Mr.. Adair would
withhold from the people the right
Ito eXp1ess themselves by the ballot
on proposition in which there is 50
muga interest.
A In letter TO Mr. Adair Mr.. Hart
Seeks to correct an impression which
nh. Adair seems to have as to the
! purposes of the Association, in which
he says:
"The sole object of the Capital Re
moVal Association is to determine
whether the majority of the citizens
Ct Florida want the Capital removed.
You cannot confuse location with this
issue. Every member of the Associa-
tion is bound to its principles, which
clearlyy stand out as having no inter
est in where the Capital is removed
to, but as l have stated they are
bound together to get an expression
las to whether or not the majority
want the Capital removed. On that
issue there is absolutely no room for
neutrality. q.
"If as you contend, you do not care
to offend the sensibilities of any part
of Florida then I must in perfect
frankness say to you that there are
several sections of the state that do
no understand a point you made in an
address before the Rotary Club of
Jacksonville, that while you favored
reapportionment, and you thought it
would carry, that you had some mis-
givings of the amendment carrying if