Newspaper Page Text
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE
DOUGLAS. (jtORulA
ESTABLISHED 1H«8
Published Every Saturday By •
THE ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY
W. R. PRIER. Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE:
ONE YEAR SI.OO
SIX MONTHS .50
THREE MONTHS .25
Publishes The Legal Advertising Of The City Of Douglas,
Coffee County, And County Commissioners.
Entered as .second class matter at the postoffice at
Douglas, Ga., under the Act of Congress of
March 8, 1879.
PROF. POWELL SHOULD BE RE-ELECTED.
The Eleventh District Agricultural and Mechanical
School closes its year’s work this week and it has been
a most successful term.
Prof. Powell, the head of the school, has done some
most excellent work during the past few years which
have been the hardest years from a financial stand
point in the last decade or two. If he has made such
accomplishments under circumstances like these and
with conditions improving, what may we hope for in
the coming years, with him at the mast?
If anyone disbelieves this statement let him or her
go for him or herself to the school where Prof. Powell
-will gladly show them thru the buildings and farm and
they can note the improvements made, if they know
anything of the conditions existing a few years ago.
Prof. Powell and his able corps of teachers have work
ed faithfully all the year and while the attendance may
not have been as large as it should have been, that
is no fault of the faculty or head of the institution.
That fact is solely due to the financial condition of the
country.
The prospects for a great year in the school’s life
is booked for the coming year. Prof. Powell has prom
ises of a greatly increased patronage and the school is
now' in a position from every standpoint to give the
school children of the Eleventh district the service they
are entitled to.
The trustees of the school meet in Douglas next
Tuesday and we hope that they will elect Prof. Powell
for the coming year. Ke is entitled to it, if he wants
it, for he has spent two hard years here doing the best
possible service for the institution under existing con
ditions, and now that these conditions have improved,
we believe that the trustees should permit him to con
tinue in the work which he has held together and im
proved under the most trying circumstances.
The Enterprise is not advised as to whether Prof.
Powell is in position to accept or would accept the
place. He may have other plans, but we think that
the best interests of the school and the district would
be accomplished in the selection of Prof. Pow'ell for
the coming term.
0
“ • f P
BOWDEN SHUT OUT.
■ r At the recent meeting of the congressional execu
tive committee in Waycross, the Hon. Jet Bowden, a
candidate for congress, respectfully asked that com
mittee for ten minutes of its time to present his views
on the county unit plan, which he has all along advo
cated, makig this request after the sub-committee had
presented to he main body its report which recom
mended the plurality plan, and that main committee
politely, \vii.h great emphasis, shut Mr. Bowden out,
refusing to bear him or any other candidate.
We believe the committee should have permitted
Mr. Bowden to speak for a few minutes giving an
explanation of his plan, and that all partisanship should
have been eliminated at a gathering like this. The
committee belongs to the people and not to any one
candidate.
At this meeting some member of the committee
made a motion to exclude all populists from the meet
ing as spectators. This made one visitor mad and he
left, accepting the move as a direct slap at the old
time pops who were perhaps as honest in their devo
tions as some others. Outside of these incidents, the
meeting was harmonius, as the skids had been greased
and everything went thru on schedule time, taking on
no extras. In some cases where the rails have been
too well greased, a most disastrous wreck ensued be
fore the destination was reached. This train may be
an exception, but the aftermath is inevitable.
■ 0
We believe that President Wilson will be elected no
matter who the Republicans nominate at Chicago. If
it is to be Teddy straight, the democrats have the dope,
and there is no doubt but that he is the strongest man
the republicans have in the party. Ihe sign of the
times point to the probability that Roosevelt will be
nominated next month, if not by the G. O. P., then by
the Progressives. He is to be reckoned with and will
most probably dictate to this extent. But when he re
ceives the nomination of either party, he will have the
hardest fight he has ever encountered, and Teddy has
the bull-dog grip, but all indications point to a contin
uation of the present democratic administration, and
justly so.
0
Tom Watson has declared for Hugh Dorsey, saying
that he is for him “tooth and toe nail.” That’s
the usual way Tom advocates a fellow. He first gives
THE FIELD AGAINST DORSEY.
The gubernatorial race in Georgia is on. It is very
likely that all of the candidate# are in and that there
wil 1 i e no further entries. What started out to be a
tame affair promises to be one of the hardest fought
races Georgia has seen in many years. With the last
entry, Mr. Pottle, there seems to be some “pep” in the
race, and we believe that things will be lively for the
next four months.
There are four candidates in the field. Of course
at this stage of the game it is hard to form much of an
idea as to the relative strength of each of the candi
dates. Some of them have not yet issued their plat
forms, and if they had, it would be hard to form much
of an opinion as to the strength of the four men, this far
ahead of the primary which comes on September 12.
Gov. Harris was the first to throw his hat into the
ring. He asks the people for an endorsement of his
present term. Says that it is the custom to give a
governor a successive term. The prohibition people,
or rather the anti-saloon league, has endorsed the
present governor. He will probably get a majority of
the prohi vote in the state. He will likely get the con
federate veteran vote, although that is very small now.
Dr. Hardman makes the first announcement against
Gov. Harris. He was in the race two years go and
made a most excellent showing. He will get a part of
the prohibition vote, that part which fails to rally to
Gov. Harris. He is probably the most consistent prohi
of the bunch now running. It has been his life long
hobby. He is strong in his immediate section, has
made a tremendous success of his affairs, and is mak
ing the race as a business man’s candidate. He will
be to reckon with in the convention, alright.
The third candidate to announce is Hon. Hugh Dor
sey, the famous solicitor general of the Atlanta cir
cuit. Dorsey was urged two years ago to run but de
clined. He will have a large following and will make
a most spectacular race. The people have not yet
seen his platform which will not be issued for a few
weeks. After that has been handed the people, a large
percent of them will make up their minds as to Dorsey.
He is the unknown quantity of the quartette. It is
claimed that Joe Brown and Tom Watson will give him
their loyal support. The country weeklies appear to
be against him. Probably the Atlanta Constitution will
support him.
The last entry is Hon. Joe Pottle, of Milledgeville.
He is at present the solicitor general of the Ocmulgee
circuit. His platform is not yet out. He is one of the
ablest of the four, a polished orator, splendid lawyer,
and with business capacities to run the U. S. govern
ment. He is from the neck of the woods where Harris
and Hardman live, and we believe this announcement
tends to weaken the candidates for these two neighbors.
We do not believe that the old Joe Brown-Hoke
Smith lineup will be made an issue in this race. Some
of the rabids will of course let this direct them in mak
ing their selections. For their benefit we might add
that Gov. Harris has been on both sides of the Brown-
Smith lineup, as well as Dr. Hardman. Hugh Dorsey
is the only consistent anti-Hoke Smith candidate in the
bunch, while Joe Pottle is the dyed-in-the-wool Hoke
Smith man of the four. He has always fought the
Smith races and was floor leader for Hardwiek at the
Macon convention two years ago. So you have a Smith
ite and an anti-Smithite, and two who have been on
both sides of the question. However, we repeat, the
old factional lineup should not enter into this race, but
it will play its part, and you can put that in your pipe
and smoke it.
So there you are—take your choice.
At this time The Enterprise has not made its selec
tion. We want to wait and read the platforms of each
candidate, after which our policy wil! be determined.
The old lineup will in no way affect us in making up
our decision. There is plenty of material to select
from and the people won’t have to fret because of a
lack of material from which to make a choice.
However, we have reached this conclusion about the
race: We believe it is Dorsey against the field, or the
field against Dorsey, if you want to put it that way.
Wherever you find a Dorsey man, he is for him, first,
last and all the way. The general rule is that where
you find a Harris, Hardman or Pottle man, Dorsey is
never second choice with him. If he is a Hardman
man, he will take Harris or Pottle, but deliver him
from Dorsey. If he is Pottle, then give him Harris or
Hardman for second choice. For these reasons we con
clude that it is a race of Dorsey against the field, or,'
the field against Dorsey.
But the primary on September 12 will not deter
mine the matter. It will take the convention at Macon
to settle the question of who will be the next governor
of Georgia. There is no question but there will be a
dead-lock convention, for no one candidate will ever
get a majority of the delegates, that is, he won't go to
Macon with a majority. That is where, it seems to us.
the crimp will be put in Dorsey. He may go to the
convention with more delegates than any one of the
others, and it is likely that he will, but his hardest
battle will be there, where a combined anti-Dorsey vote
will bury him so deep that it will take some time to
dig him out.
0
No, we have not given up our fight to get the Far
mers’ Union headquarters open. There is a little lull
now, just for a reason. J. J. keeps mum but there is
a way to get him to speak out. and he is going to have
to say something in the next few weeks. The investi
gation work continues, and dope that will make J. J.
sit up and take notice is being prepared, not by us, but
by people who know some of the inside of the famous
organization whose present management is disgusting
the i c-cple of the state.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GA., MAY 27TH, 1916.
AT AUCTION
We will sell the Refrigerator in our window to
the highest bidder for cash. Its value is $32.50.
You may bid any amount. Place your bid in a
sealed envelope, and hand it to us before the
30th. The winner will be announced
JUNEIst
in
i| lj /
! Poflcsu«imfß
AEMOVABIt
lUfIT CONVENIENT ANJ
Ay SANIIASY WATER
\ COOIESOOES
\ NOT OECREASt
DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY
WHITE MOUNTAIN
Means Quality —It Is a WHITE MOUNTAIN
Watt-Holmes Hardware Co.
J. H. JORDAN, Manager Phone 74
YOUNG MAN
Have you heard /r ?\
the story of how
Jack Won GENEVIEVE?
If you haven’t, then take a tip—good
clothes turned the trick
Come in let us show you onr mag
nificent display of
GENTS’ FURNISHINGS
PETERSON
WSBt RELIMAN
c7[
TELEPHONE No. 28
SHIRTS