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Gre LEADER-ENTER PRISE Published Every Tuesday and Friday by THE LEADER PUBLISHING COMPANY SSIDOR. GELDERS, .. ..... :cctciencoconiosnnrrrsincanse eiieseienooo. Managing Editor RANE BEABWELL. ... (i codseiies Gikess’s waaltiininaraniotsipndisias ....City Editer ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR Entered at the Postoffice at Fitzgerald, as Second-Class Mail Matter, under Actof Congress of March 18,1879, Olfiéial Organ of Ben Hill County and City of Fitzgerald fi__w—#”__‘—‘__’————-“—“#”w“fl__—_———_“"“'mw—-;———“—d_—_— Street Paving Bond Election Carried Tod W Democrats in Republican states are shouting for Wilson, whilst one by one. the Southern States are lining up for Underwood. e et Jack Slaton is fortunate in the opponents he has. It looks like taking candy from the baby. The people generally, so view the situa tion. It's a walk-over. Fitzgerald's May Fete, Commencement Exercises, Chatauqua, Fourth of July Celebration, and the Ben Hill County Fair. Everybody pul! to gether and watch Fitzgerald grow. Better Country Schools, Free School Books and better paid teach ers in the rural districts will help the children grow into better m n and women. Let’s fit them for the practical life, not through incon greous tableau or dramatic efforts at the close of the year, but by efficient daily instruction by efficienv teachers. As the labor, so at Jeast the Teacher is worthy of his hire—and prompt payment for his services is due him. Our special School tax was voted to improve the Rural Schools, pay the teachers, sufficient to warrant efficiency. Two Well-Known Hebrews Before he was of age Isidor Straus was sent to France a Confeder ate agent and accomplished his mission with credit.-Nashville Tennes seean. ; This little known histo.y in the life one of the Titanic's Georgia-born vietims calls to mind the well-known fact that another Jew , Judah P. BRenjamin, was one of the ablest and most resourceful members of the Confederate cabinet.—Savannah Press. ; Mr. Straus was a German by birth, but Georgia raised. The Delay Of The Law Lawyers and Judges, originally interested in the case of the Colony Company’s Receivership have passed into the Beyond, witness es, defendants and plaintiffs have joined the silent majority since the first steps were taken that placed the Colony Company into the keep ing of the Courts of Irwin County. The assets of the Company, long since have been disbursed and largely consumed by litigation. Law yers for the defense and prosecution have reaped a harvest, but there must be a final end to all things, good and bad. * At the last term of Ben Hill Saperior Ccurt, in the case of De- Lang ettal vs, the Colony Receivers, Atmréeys for the plainviff, Hay good and Cutts announced that they had ceased their connection with the case: the Cow had .gone dry. This practically ciosed the cele brated case. After twelve years: of incessant litigation, costing thousands of doliars, the Receivers of the Colony Company are judi cially declared free from any of the alleged wrong-doing, upon which this litigation was based, There is probably no parallel case in the Courts of Georgia where so much legal ingenuity has been resorted to, to compell innocent parties to spend their own money to prove their legal ownership to rightfully gotten property. The Colony generally, will be pleased with the outcome of this case. Graduating Exercises At Court House. The Graduating Exercises will be held Friday night at the court bouse, when the graduates of 1912 will receive diplomas. The bacca laureate address wil be delivered by the State School. Commission ‘er, M. L. Brittamn and the gener al public is invited to be present, The teachers of the rural schools are especially invited to attend the exercises. Following is the pro Beginning Wednesday May ISth. : 25¢, 35¢, 50c Glass Pitchers 15¢, Agate and Enamel ware values to 50c¢, 10, values to $l, 19¢ We have received a new shipment of the new shadow lace bands which we are selling at special sale prices. : Remember every day is special sale day at the Surprise store. ® ® e ® The -+ Surprise - Store Near Post Office South Main Street : . : : £ Lo : H. GARBER, Manager gram: Music, Kssay by Herman Martin, *‘De lay—lt’s Results.” Essav by Mark Mathis, ’;‘Am 1 My Brother’s Keeper.” Issay by Linda Jones, ‘A Twentieth Century Crusade,” Music, Address, Hon, M. L. Brittain. Musie. ; Delivery of Diplamas, Mr. J. E. Turner. Benediction. > i e ; ' . : Watson Says He Needs No Advice. Writes Caustic Letter--Says Let Wilson Counties Have Their Delegates. Hon. Thomas E. Watson has written a card to the Atlanta Journal in reply to its editorial references to him as a probable delegate to the Baltimore convention and the impression that he was about to be “over thrown" by the Underwood supporters. Tle following are parts of the letter: ; : In your issue appears a cartoon in which lam pictured asa hound dog. ; : On your editorial page I am described as being considered more despisable than a yellow dog. ; You call upon the Underwood leaders in Georgia to recognize and reward my service, without which, you allege, their victory could not have been won. Of all papers, yours can most appropriately make that demand. Your sense of humor must be growing weak, or memory hqs failed you. ‘ How did you treat me after the election of 19067 Everybody knew that the platform which carried your candidate into the governor's mansion was framed by me. Everyb)dy knew that the disfranchisement issues was the cause of our success. Everybody knew that the disiran rchisement plank grew out of the speech made by me at the capitol on ‘the night of September 1, 1904. { To swing the 90,000 Populists to your candidate required the ‘hardest fighting I had done since 1892. Thousands of them it was im possible to convince. They had no confidence in your man. His con version was toeo sudden and too coincident with his running for office. Nevertheless, we swept the field—and then what did you do? You published an editorial in which you demonstrated to your thorough sat isfaction that your victory could have easily been gained without my assistance, That was a graceful, tactful, sensible and genercus thing to do— wasn't it? The Underwood leaders have not been guilty of anything so stupid and so ungratefuil. ; ‘You more than intimate that there was buying and selling in the recent campaign. You refer to the “trade.” You have never failed, in any campaign where we were on opposite sides, to accuse me of making “deals.” : Did I make any in 1906 when I was tricked into supporting your candidate? If so, tell the pesple what it was. Did I make any in 1908 when I opposed your man? If so, ask J. B. Smith to tell you what it was. He is on your- side now, and he is at liberty to tell you all he knows. Did I make any deal in 1911 when Gov. Joe Brown was re-elected? Ask Ulm and J. R. Smith; they know, if any body does. You have repeatedly accused me of making "deals” with Repub licans to divide th.e electoral vote of Georgia. You have done this at the eleventh hour,” too late for refutation. There never was the slightest foundation for those accusations—from which I have had to suffer, God knows hoew much, injury. . If you could have had your way, I would now be a disgraced man, without following and without influence- You even insinuate that I was “bought” in this campaign. s Up to this time I have not received one dellar of Underwood’s money. You refcr to my charde concerning Wilson and Bocker Washing ton, as “wholly malicious fabrication,” flung into the campaign at “the eleventh hour.” You are mistaken. The files of The Jeffersonian will show that the charge was made several weeks before May 1, and, there fore, the Wilson managers had the amplest time for denial and disproof. They could have telephoned over to Booker at Tuskeegee, and could have telegraphed Gov. Wilson. ' The charge was made in good faith, based on what I and others remembered of the stories carried in the Northern newspapers in the spring of 1911. You have no proof to the contrary save the governor of New Jersey’s word. and the governor of New Jersey stood convicted in the Harvey-Watterson episode, of being a wilful and deliberate falsifier. He llso told a deliberate untruth in regard to the applications for the Carnegie pension, and he was caught in it, as he was in the Harvey-Watterson incident. Any American Governor who was quick to sign a bill which abol ished civil marriage in an American state, is so unrespeakbly false to American ideals and institutions that one might say that he reeks with perfidy, treachery, mendacity. Young Woodrow Wilson did that; and New Jersey no longer tolerates the civil marriage. It is true that I found fault with the Underwood management for being so shy of me, on ac count of religious matters. | While thousands of my fellow citizens are incensed about that, it should have borne in mind that our people are too fair-minded to hold Underwood responsible for my writings upon_} subjects wholly foreign to the campaign. When we see Baltimore go for Roosefelt, after Cardinal Gibbons l had publicly requested his people to support Taft—the Mason and Uni-' tarian—we might very well understand that all religious denominations divide at the polls. Your palpable effort to create dissension in the Underwood ranks will fail miserably. Whatever differences may at present prevail ‘will be harmonized among ourselves, We need none of your advice nor support, We will manage, somehow, to get along without either. It-is our habit here of late, to do so. We have done you up to the queen’s taste. We have sent your machine to the scrap, heap. The days of your insolent’ and aristocratic Rule-or-Ruin committee are numbered. The days of your Smith, your Arnold, your Wright and your Hardwick, are numbered. - And i* the Underwood leaders will heed my advice, they will dis. regard the absurd undemocratic rule of the absurd executive committee and will allow the Wilson counties to be represented by Wilson delegates Any other course strikes at the root of representative government. : May Queen Contest Closes, » Little Ethel Beall Is Chosen, The voting contest for Queen of the May Pole closed last night at eight o’clock, Miss Ethel Beall, the pretty little davghter oi Mr. and Mrs. Harold Beall receiving the largest number of votes, There were. only six contestants for the hobor of Queen of the Childrea’s May Festival, which takes place Thursday, next, but the rivalry between them was very keen and the friends of each little girl worked diligent ly for her. Each vote registered means tive cents for the Third Ward School Library and the teachers who inaugurated the contest will realize a neat sum which will greatly benefit the Library, Following is the standing of the contestants at the close of the contest last night: M Bt e Borethy Thurmond ... 5. . . ' ..i. i ilaiiil sey 9de BERlain Diokey . L i e e e RR R 313 R ey i e G Mutanrot Wise | .. e e vt el S 200 BIE Pagobur. (.. i oicuoii o oi i R 236 . The parade on Thursday afterncon will form in iront of the Jessamine Hotel at five o’clock and march down to the corner of Main and Central, from there to the corner of Central and (rant, up Grant to the corner of Pine, from there down Pine to the Grand Opera House, where the crowning of the May Queen and the Mav Pule Dance take place, Admission to the Opera House will be 10ct. The prizes to be awarded in the Chiicrer’s Fete are as follows: First prize for most artistically decorated Boy’s wheel —Base bali ) and bat. Second prize for Bov’s Wheel—Base Ball Glove. First prize for Girl’s Bievele—3s2.so, Second prize for Girl’s Bieycle—Silver Puree, First Prize for Bov’s Play vehicle—%2.so Second prize for Bov’s Piav vehicle— Fine straw hat. First Prize for Girl’s Play Vehicle—Large Doll. Second: 2 o 8 e o Ivory Fan. Kirst Prize for Boy’s Best Play Float—a watch, Second ** i o L 8 o K a red whip. First Prize for Girls ¢8 £ i a Uroquer det. - Sacond. ¢ “ e - ¢ a hand painted pin, ‘;\mong‘ j:he_do:mrs are: Kirst National Bank, Exchange National Bank, M. W. Garbutt, Simon Brothers, Watt Holmes Hardware Co., r}flz’lm‘; Candy Kitc}':en. MeCarty Johnstooe Co.. Wm.: R. Bowen, Russel! Brothers, Johnson Hardware Co., and A. B. Cook, = - GOING - TRAVELLING Put a Pair of Qur - Shoes in Your Bag | There’s nothing like a change of footwear for easing feet tired with the wear and tear of travel. And there’s ne footwear so well able to ease tired feet as that which bears our label. ; All shoes resemble each ether when they are nestling ir a box. It's only when you put them into service that the weakness crop up. That’s why it pays to buy at a safe store. When you purchase shoes of us you are guaranteed comfort, style and wear. Let us fit your feet for vacation time with the Patrician. Fitzgerald, Ga. |