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VOLUME I.
PALATKA, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JUNE 17. 1884.
NUMBER )5.
fiOV. BLOXHAM'S REPLY.
in:
ANSWERS THE CIIAllOKS
MADK RY GOV. IUKV.
The Personal Relations Rot worn the
Two Tlio Circumstances Ijo.ulintf
to Rloxliam'H Nomination, in
lSO-Tho Jacksonville
Conference.
Tallahassee, Fla., Juno 13th,
To the Editor or Die Times-Union:
In accordunDo with my telegram to
you of June 11th, I will now answer
Governor Drew'n "interview" as pub
lished in your issue of that date. I make
it over my own signature, in order that
there shall le no doubt as to my reply.
Governor Drew says: "Gentlemen in
Mr. Rloxham's interest came here to me,
and no doubt forming a shrewd guess
from my personal relations to Mr. Blox
ham, asked me the question direct, 'If I
would support Mr. Bloxham, if nomi
nated?' " Governor Drew answered them
that he would not support me if I were
nominated. This is the first intimation
that I could notice that Governor Drew's
personal relations with myself were not
pleasant. A portion of Governor Drew's
family have lxen my welcome guests
since I have lieoti Governor. He has fre
quently extended to myself and family
cordial invitations to visit his home and
family since that time. We have fre
quently met and extended to each other
friendly personal greetings. I received
from him as late as the 19th day of last
April, In'ing less than two months ago, a
most kind and cordial letter. Hence. I
can but express my great surprise and as
tonishment when he announces substan
tially that our "personol relations"' are
such as he indicates.
He states that gentlemen approached
him in my interest to secure from him
the declaration that he would not sup
port me, and then used his reply against
him. If any gentlemen approached
Governor Drew in my interest it was
without my knowledge. But as they
doubtless resido in Jacksonville, they can
peak for themselves. So far as my in
formation goes, this statement of Gov
ernor Drew's is entirely incorrect.
Governor Drew also makes the follow
ing statement: "Some time after this
there appeared in the Savannah Morning
cwh nn interview had between Mr.
Kloxham and a reporter of that paper in
which Mr. Bloxham was made to say
that ho would never consent to become a
candidate for Gov ernor while my name
was in the field. He came into my office
bringing the paper, and, handing it to
me, asked what I thought of the article.
I said : 'C Jovernor, you put it pretty
strong." He struck quite an attitude,
drew his hand across his forehead, and
said, -Ingratitude shall never he written
on my brow; I will sufTer my right arm
to lie. cutoif liefore I wi'1 allow my name
to lie used against yours.'"
It is a fact, and one well known to my
most intimate friends of that period, that
I did not desire to be a candidate for
Governor in 1RS0; but I preferred, if I
was to hold any office, that it should be
that of Secretary cf State. It is not true
that I went in Governor Drew's office
with a copy of the Savannah News, as
stated by him. Nor is it true that I
made the remarks which he attributes to
me as having loen made on that occa
sion. While unwilling for any one to
think that there was an absence from me
of that naturally kind feeling which any
gentleman, occupying the position which
I did in the democratic party, would
have for one occupying the relation
which Governor Drew then held to the
same party, for the office he appointed
me to, I felt then, and still feel, that such
appointment was attributable far more
to the iHisition held by me in that party,
on account of a life-long membership
and services to it, than any jiorsonal pre
ference of Governor Drew for me. I do
not maan to say that others have not
served the party as faithfully and well
as I have, or were not more worthy of
the position; but the kind feeling of that
party towards me. on account of my ser
vices, had leen previously, and has leen
subsequently manifested in the most un
questionable manner: and I hold that
appointments to office are properly made
(qualifications I oing considered) in recog
nition of services, and not as a gratifica
tion for personal preference, and that no
pe'-';oi appointed under such circum
stanc' : owes any trammeling debts of
gratitude to the person appointing.
Governor Drew says: "There were
statements going alout the country that
Mr. Bloxham, nevertheless, would lx a
candidate; a prominent citizen of Madi
son county had just written me to assure
me that this was so. I wrote in reply,
just after this interview, that it was im
jKissible, and repeated some of the state
ments Mr. Bloxham had just made to
me. My correspondent wrote in reply
that Bloxham's assertions were wholly
false, as Captain Dyke and others of his
friends at Tallahassee had just written
letters to citizens there that Bloxham's
name would le presented to the conven
tion." As to what "Captain Dyke and others
of my friends" wrote I never knew. I
never saw c,ne of the letters. I do know, j
Rowvver, that Captain Dyke nd myself f
differed .materially in 1SS0 on this sub- !
ject, he always contending that my name
was at least more available than Gov.
Drew's as a candidate. But I always
protested against his making any effort
for my nomination, as I did not desire it.
This was never concealed from any one.
I do not recollect that Governor Drew
ever said to me that if I desired the nom
ination he would not allow his name to
be used. His actions then and feelings
are inconsistent with any idea of such
personal sacrifice. If he made such of
fer and I actually desired the nomina
tion, why was his olfer not accepted?
Governor Drew, continuing, says:
"The matter appeared so wholly strange
that my friends determined upon having
an explicit understanding with Mr. Blox
ham. Thej' met here in Jacksonville
and invited Mr. Bloxham to meet with
them. Among ray friends present at
that interview were Gen. Jesse J. Fin
ley, Hon. P. P. Bishop, Capt. J. L. In
glis and others. Mr. Bloxham came, and
some of his personal friends were present
lieside, and. after full consultation, Mr.
Bloxham promised that he would publish
a card in the Union, positively refusing
the use of his name in the convention,
or, if upon more mature consideration he
thought it a better way, he would give
Hon. George P. Raney a letter to that
effect, at Tallahassee, to be carried to
Gainesville and read to the convention.
Mr. Raney was the recognized leader of
my friends in the convention. This oc
curred three or four days before the
nominating convention at Gainesville."
A more incorrect statement could not
be made. The truth is as follows: Not
desiring the nomination myself, and
feeling that Governor Drew was not the
man to run. I went to him as a friend
and advised him to abandon the idea. I
urged upon him that he had the honors,
he did not require the emoluments, and
if he became a candidate he would lie
subjected to a great deal of personal
abuse. I offered then and there to sign
an agreement with him thdt our names
should not go liefore the convention. He
seemed to take rather favorably to the
suggestion. We went so far as to dis
cuss General Finley as an available can
didate. Governor Drew stated that he
would go to Jacksonville, and that if he
still thought favorably of the idea he
would telegraph me to come there. He
went, and telegraphed me to come. I
received no invitation, as he states in fto
above extract, from any of his friends to
meet them there. I had no conference
there with Governor Drew at which
either General Finley or Captain Inglis
was present. Mr. Bishop and myself
held in Mr. Bishop's room a conference.
Mr. Bishop's idea was that Gov. Drew
should remain in the field and be nomi
nated. This was a surprise to me in
view of what had taken place letween
Governor Drew and myself at Tallahas
see, as just stated. I told Mr. Bishop, as
I had olten told others, that I was not a
candidate, and did not des;,-e to be.
Seeing that the purpose for which I
had come to Jacksonville had failed, or,
at least, did not seem to 1x3 contemplated
by Governor Drew's friend, the confer
ence was closed, and I left the city and
crossed the river, and spent the after
noon and night with Judge Van Valken
burg. Upon my return to the city next morn
ing, I was astonished to learn from
prominent citizens that Governor Drew
had stated that he would not support me
if I were nominated. Finding that Gov.
Drew was thus, after my effoic to avoid,
by secu'-ing the nomination of a third
party, any unpleasantness between us.
or our friends, making wa" upon me, I
felt I was no longer called upon to re
fuse to yield to the desire entertained by
a majority of the democratic party for
my nomination, and I determined to let
the matter take its course, without mak
ing, on my part, any effort in the premi
ses. And, if my memory is not very
much at fault. Governor Drew in a card
published in the Jacksonville Union, a
day or two liefore the convention, de
clared that, unless it was the real desire
of the democrat 'c party that he should
receive the nomination, he did not wish
to lie considered as seeking it.
I regret very much that Governor
Drew has forced me to make this appear
ance in public print. I had rested under the
lielief that he entertained no such feel
ing against me as would permit the at
tack he has made. He says he supported
me as the nominee of the democratic
party in 1880. He makes no charge per
sonal to himself which does not antedate
that support. He complains that I have
declared that I was not a candidate for
nomination bv the Pensacola convention.
I 1 mve so declured, and it is true. I am
not vain enough to assume that I am a
necessity to the democratic party. I
shall give my unqualified support to
whomsoever the party (to which I have
given the liest services of mv life, how
ever light they may weigh iy comparison
with those of others) may nominate as its
candidate for Governor. "
I shall not again trouble the public re
garding this matter. As it is simpir a
jvrsonal assault, made on me by Gov.
Drew, I make no counter charges. I
want peace and harmony in the 'demo
cratic ranks. The development of our
State and her future progress rests with
the continuation of democrasic rnle. Let
us do nothing to hazard our success, but
everything to heal dissensions, and thus
secure victory.
ery respect fnily.
w. D. Bloxham.
STATE PRESS.
Ocala, by private subscription, has pur
chased a hook and ladder truck.
Dempeej' Blake, one of the oldest citi-
j zens of Gainesville, died a few days ago.
The railroad shops in Tallahassee have
j resumed the system of ten hours work
j a day.
j A forest fire in Orange county last
! week destroyed about $500 worth of
j property.
i The scarcity of drinking water at Key
i West is Incoming a serious matter to the
j citizens of the place.
There is but one sago palm in bloom on
the Halifax- coast, and that is in W. W.
Wilder's yard at Daytona.
The experiments made having proved
satisfactory, the palmetto factory at
Sanford will soon be started.
Last week was the tenth week of the
Methodist revival at Orlando. Many
are being brought into the church.
Mr. Allison, of Quincy, after gathering
a crop of Irish potatoes from a piece of
land, has planted it in Cuba tobacco.
The name of J. E. Young, Esq., of
Pensacola. has been added to that of
probable Congressional candidates in the
First district.
There was a cowhiding scrape in Key
West last week between two Cubans. J.
Estroda, editor of the Propaganda, was
struck a few blows with a cowhide by
E. Parodi.
A number of neat and handsome cot
tages are being erected at Enterprise.
Tester Clark is erecting a building that
will contain seven store rooms, and
Thayer & Sauls a large store.
Strangers hunting in Volusia county,
shoot deer, and think they have not hurt
them because they do not fall at the
crack of the gun. Four deer were re
cently found dead in the woods near
where they were shot a week liefore in
that county.
The Spring, of Green Cove, says: "On
Wednesday and Thursday a sale of the
effects of C. II. Moss, grocer, took place
under a writ of attachment in favor of
the firm of Wightman & Christopher, of
Jacksonville. After the sale, Moss was
arrested on a charge of carrying off s'k
barrels of flour and a sewing machine,
and was bound over in the sum of $'-200,
by Justice Baadiu. for his appearance at
the next term of the Circuit Court to an
swer the charge.
Fernandina Mirror: "Mr. Cone, of
Coneville, in this county, brought to the
Mirror office on the 24th, an interesting
exhibit in reference to silk culture. On
a few small palmetto leaves there were
hundreds of silk cocoons, interspersed
like fruit on a tree, about the size of a
i large pecan, and of all shades of color.
Mr. Cone is engaged in raising cocoons
for market, and is quite satisfied with
the success he has met. The cocoons are
fed on the morns multicaulus or Chinese
mulbeiry, and are shipped in bulk to
New Orlerns. where a remunerative price
is obtained.
A special to the Jacksonville Herald of
Saturday from Pensacola says : "Mr. D.
F. Sullivan, the millionaire lumberman
and merchant, and undoubtedly the
wealthiest man in Florida, dropped dead
at his home a few moments since. The
First National Bank, of which he was
president, has closed its doors and is
draped in mourning. This melancholy
event casts a heavy mantle of gloom over
this community." The Herald says edi
torially; "Mr. Daniel F. Sullivan was by
far the wealthiest citizen of West Flori
da, and an invaluable citizen to the
State in many respects. He was presi
dent of the First National Bank of Pen
sacola, did an immense export lumber
business, built and owned the splendid
opera house in that city, as well as many
other fine buildings, and was, by reason
of his splendid business capacity and
great public spirit and enterprise, a most
valued and unusually esteemed citizen.
His loss to our sister city of the West is
almost irreparable, lie was in the full
prime of life."
Rocio, a colored Cuban, who was con
victed of murder at the last term of the
State Circuit Court, was executed on Fri
day last, at Key West. The murdered
man was also a Cuban. The crime origi
nated in a gambling quarrel. Recio de
nied the offence for which he was hanged
but acknowledged having commited
three murders in Cuba. He said the vic
tims were all Spaniards. The prisoner
on the scaffold called to several friend in
the crowd after lieing hound. He asked
for a Kittle of wine and a cigarette, and
took his drink with the greatest coolness
and apparent relish, inviting the jail offi
cials to join him. Upon their declining,
he took a second glass, dropped the
cigarette from his lips, and said that he
was ready. Another Cuban, convicted
in the same term for a murder equally as
cold-bhxxled and unprovoked, had pre
viously hanged himself in his cell. He
was also to htve leen executed on Fri
dav. Candidate Loan is a Methodist, and of
him a Methodist clergyman in Boston
said the other day that he joined the
church hy telegraph and was liaptized liy
photograph.
Creinntim is an established usage in
Japan, the oldest empire in the world.-
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
i BEN.J. PUTNAM CAI.HOIX. IRVING GILL1S.
I W.M. LOWNDES CALHOl'X.
i Callioun, Ci illirn fc Callioxin,
ATTOHNEY-AT-LAW
j PALATKA, FLORIDA.
: Special attention paid to Insurance. Heal Es
; tate and Collection of Claims. Will practice in
; Stare ami Federal courts.
.A. W. HOYSDOX,
att o i; iv i: V-AT-LAW
Olliee opposite St. John's Hotel,
Lemon Street,
Pat.atka, Fla.
Al1 TOKN EY-AT-LAW
Agent for Sale anil Purchase of
FLORIDA I. A IV 1 H
Pai.atka, Feoiuoa.
Notary Public State of Florida.
XV. II. WIG(J,
AT T O If IV 13 Y-AT-LAW
Office Lemon St., Mann's Building-, Upstairs.
Pai.atka, Fi.ohida.
PALATKA HOTELS.
Q11AJIA3PH HOTEL.
S. (1 HA 1 1 AM, Proprietor.
Cornel- Lemon and Water streets,
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
rjM 1 1 Wi;srm)HHLAM).
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
White Sri.i'nrit Watkh, Hot ash Coed
St r.ein K Paths.
Pus meets ali t in ins and sr earners.
open ai.e the yeah.
AltltJZV HOlT-ii:,
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
AdiJTtton. hunt laStstimmor of forty-five nit mis.
AeeoiTtlnoikitions for anO quests.
Open December 15. 1883.
LAHK1X & ALLEN, Proprietors.
l)l,TNAM IIOUSi:,
1 December to May.
PALATKA, V LA.
rijNvlS-i)Il MOTin..
V V Dec. t May. JACKSON V 1 LLB, FfcA.
TeQUINOX HOITf-iT:.
lU .kumv Oct., MANCHE&TIX V..
Ho Do-s Taken. F- H. OKVIS.
PTTNAM COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Olliee hours, in a. m. to : p. m.
.IrsTiCE Coi;i'.T First Monday in eack
nirtntli. IShn.i. HAiuiisiiN,
Count v J udjre.
J. H. MERRYDAY,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER,
Corner Oak and Fourth Streets,
A.. ,J. I SI AC II t SOS,
NURSERYMEN
PALATKA, FLORIDA..
A LL FRUITS GROWN SUITED TO THIS
-V climate. Catalogue free.
CIIAS. K. SS3IITII,
Fresh Meats and Poultry
AlAvays on IIuimI nt
SMITH'S STAND
On AVater Street.
HARRY HEATH
Practical Watchmaker Engraver
pAN FU1UN1PH ANY WATCH MADE 31
-J kt cent lower than any house in the stall".
Call and see. Can lie found at the music store
opposite St. John's Hotel, lA'rnon street, Pa
latka, Florida.
READY FOR THE
OSQUITOES
I have just received a' laiMsIIolof
UITO NETS
DIFFERENT STYLE. ALSO
FIFTY PIECES NEW PATTERNS
-OF-
0
oor lanii
AT 10W PRICES.
WAINUT, ASH & PAINTED
I CHAMBER SUITS
1
i
A FULL 'ASSORTMENT.
i.
B. L.LILfENTHAL
MOSQ
-A-T I. JCOBSOlsrS
Oil
ONLY FIRST-GLASS--
lilllllllllli XI PIITC HI
PAYING REGULAR PRICES,
CHEAPER THAN AT OTHER PLACES FOR COST. COME AND
SEE FOR YOURSELF.
IMS!
jus
WHOLKSALH AND
Hardware
ETT..
A FULL AND ( till Pf.ETE
ardware an
c
WE ASK AN INSPECTION OF OUR STOCK.
GRIFFIN'S BRICK BLOCK, CORNER
PALATKA,
B. F. McGRAW & SON,
Buffalo Bluff Hurs'y
ALL ORANGE STOCK
From Sour to the Best Varieties
ONF" VARIETY OF
STIiAV1tl:itlSIl'
VIZ:
FEDERAL POINT, OR
FLORIDA FOUNDLING
ICE CREAM AND
LEMONADE
WliltVKI) DAILY
BY
H. A. Meyer & Go
A full and complete line of
GROCERIES
Will 1h? kept on hand.
BEEAD
will lie served twice a day with Waj?onsaiid
H. A. MEYEH will do his own lwtkintr in fu
ture. '
Putatka. Fla., March 24,
WILLIAM F. FORWARD,
PIONEEK ICE IIOIJ!-;!':
1 AND DEPOT FOR
Hay, Grain, Feed, Lime, Plaster,
BRICK, CEMENT, LAT1I, Etc,
Established m 1W. HeM's Brick Block, front
ing wharf, PALATKA, FLA.
rmemnnr
w a ui mining,
UKTAIL DFALKRS IN
Groceries,
ETC.
LINK OF KVKYT1I l.VJ IN THE
FRONT AND LEMON STREETS
lX.OIJIlA.
LARGEST PUBLISHING HOUSE
ft
RED CROSS PRESS. '
Warren, Thayer & Co.,
Steam Book & Job
PRINTERS
REID STREET, PALATKA, FLORIDA.
HA VINO FITTED UP AN ENTIRELY
new office, we are prepared todo nil kind
of I look mid .loli printing. Hook HiiidjnB
.'tf-reotypinyr, Kuyi a iny, etc.
Our facilities are mjurptied ,y finy office
H,':,,U'- W,; hnvc th(J "'y Uhrotmit ic
l i s- in 1 ionda, printing-any numlier of ;ol-
OtM nt. nun iiiit.riinti ..I.... ....(.. ,.: ...
.,.,. ,-....,1, nmv UIU uin y luuiroiui
i 1 lcket Press and Numbering Attachment.
i leneih nil nour.
Calland see us. Estimates on all clnwos of
work . cheerfully furnished. A trial order will
satisfy all that we can do the x-st work done
in the state.
WARREN, THAYER & CO.,
Heid street, near Putnam House.
PIANOS! ORGANS!
31 usi;il Iiit i-iiiix'iit m tiiitl
SEWING MACHINES,
OJic-iip rr t'asli and in EitHy
terms of payment when sold on install
ment plan. 1 buy direct from manufacturer
an. I tru e my customer teriettts of commiwiiotm
paid to "Agents."
I $5.00 to $25.00 Saved! I!
I Machines and Orirans shipped to any railroad
depot or steamboat landing within fifty nii!
I of Palatka. with privilege of examination and
! return at my expense tree of cost, if not per
j lectly satisfactory.
C. F. SULZNER,
"ii'M 01ty"3ItiHi Store,
CALHOUN BLOCK. Lemon Ptreet.
(TKEEFE & M'KINLAY,
Machinists, Boilermakers and
Blacksmiths.
'7EPAIHIN; SI'ECIAJLLY ATTKXHED
kit to. Nov tori teeoi'i hira-i rit&Zrvrr
tioiurht and Void. Krrt'int't'M supplies ehc-fto.
Corner Heid and Second strtt-ts.
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