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Pratn Lnterprise.
¥ By THE
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i Saturday, January 20, 1906, &
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Blark now understands how ‘‘plain Dick”
after the Madison affair.
: ;- M A
“e‘g here was a time in Georgia politics when
irk Howell and Tom Watson stood in, and
jat was when we needed true democrats, That
B the only time in the memory of this writer
when the democracy of the state was in danger.
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' The editor of this paper has never been
.a Tom Watson democrat. For that reason
. we are in a position te criticise those half
. breed democrats of the nineties, who rebel
éat Tom Watson’s failure to stand by his old
* ally in politics, Clark Howell.
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The cotton picking machine has again made
. its appearence. There is one peculiarity about
~ the cotton pickers thathave beeninvented. They
. are nearly always tested after the cotton pick
ing season, when there is nothing to pick. We
want to see an October cotton picker, the Jan
‘uary brand has never proved a great success.
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The Enterprise is publishing today the
. announcment of Marcus Luke, Jr., for Clerk of
Superior Court. He is at the present time,
deputy clerk and is giving ample satisfaction,
which demortrates his capacity. He is a clean,
| high toned, worthy young man., There is prob
~ably nothing that could be said against him.
Our prediction is that it will take powerful hard
~ work to defeat him. We do not like to commit
_ourselves to any candidate for office at this
stage of the game, but we are almost of the opin
- jon that Marcus will win. .
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. The candidates are beginning to announce
- and we want to call attention to the fact that the
Enterprise has a record that would be interest
. ing for aspirantes to study. Those who patro
i nize our announcment colum are usually among
. the winners. Where there are twoannouncments
* for the same office we can not vouch for the elec
tion of more than one, but a reference to our files
. will disclose the fact that the lucky men have
their announcments published in the Enterprise.
| It costs the same(ss.oo) to announce now that it
| willcost a week before the election. Come
{%earl'y and avoid the rush, and bring the V.
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f The complaint is general that the Atlanta
* Journal cannot be found on the trains. Our
. attention has repeatedly been called to the cir
. cumstance. Yesterday, we wereon an A. & B.
. train and found it necessary to get off and trade
| for a Journal with a friend who had purchased
¢ from a local newsdealer. The “‘news butch” did
i not know why, but explained that the Journals
{ ‘‘did not come”. A traveling manon the same
| seat with us stated that he had found it impossi
* ble to buy a Journal recently, not only on the A.
. & B. trains but. also on the Central, Southern,
* Seaboard and Atlantic Coast Line. We have
_ written the Journal business office to know why;
. the railroad people donot seem to know. We
? are in noway interested in the Journal, but
- would like to be able to buy one when we cannot
5 get our mail, and since the matter has so often
i‘f been called to our attention, we are somewhat
. curious to understand the reason.
b : MR
It is laughable to witness the discomfiture
'~ of the Howellites at the awkward predicament
. in which the Columbus bomb(?) has placed
. their candidate.
- It is laughable from the standpoint of a
. Hoke Smith man, and we are that, intensely
_ that. :
Clark’s attempt at fraud in this instance at
. first startled us. We had believed and insisted
'ff;;_that he was above downright trickery in a poli
;_;;_l:Aical game in which he is assisted by some men
. who believe ‘‘everything is fair in war and
.~ politics.”
. The awkward manner in which Mr., Howell
| handled his bomb is really to his credit, in that
| it indicates that he is a novice. No doubt he
. was led into it by less scrupulous advisers.
© We trust that Clark has learned a lesson—
one of those life time lessons that will forever
. fortify him against the machinations of
- wicked friends. -
. The scheme tomake itappear at Columbus,
- when his friends were sympathizing with him,
he had rejected the friendship of the pop
hat Hoke Smith afterwards eager-
Fally mogepted the rejected terms was indeed a
. bomb, Our honest young friend was overcome
%@W‘” on and yielded, We trust that
o eeemawyers to Conter.
Nearly a dozen members of the local bar
met ir Col. Jay’s office last T'uesday afternoon
to discuss the auestion of a new circuit.
Col. Jay explained that he had been to Cor
dele and found the attorneys of - that county
practically unanimous on the question of a new
circait,and without difficulty they agreed on the
counties named in Tuesday’s Enterprise, to
wit: Crisp, Turner, Tift, Irwin, Coffee and
Wilcox. _ :
It was determined to call a meeting of the
bar of the six counties mentioned to meet at Fitz
gerald on the 25th. inst. as had been suggested
at the Cordele meeting. The 10-al bar will pre
pare to entertain the visiting attorneys between
trains on that day. The trains willarrive from
8:;30 to 11;20, the meeting will be held at 2 p. m,,
which will give two hours for luncheon at one of
the hotels of the city. :
So far as has been ascertained, there is not
one partical of opposition tothe new scheme
within the territory named and it isnot proba
ble there will be any from the outside since no
one will be effected except the solicitors general
of the different circuits and they are usually big
enough, broad enough and politic enough not to
permit their personal interest to influence to in
terfere with any measure or scheme so just and
reasonable.
The Enterprise shall be glad to see the
visiting attorneys here on the 25th. and we be
speak for each of them a kindly welcome,
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There is a suggestion, atleasta definite
proposition, to organize here a live stock compa
ny, with a capital of $lOO,OOO, to handle mules
and horses. The company will probably be
organized the coming summer, and large stone
stables, to be utilized as headquarters, erected
on the three lots now occupied by Luke and
Clements stables.
With such men as Marcus Luke, R. B.
Fletcher, R. V. Handley and J. C. Boney and
others, the husiness would be a tremendous
success.
The stock firms here now handle fifty or
sixty thousand dollars worth of mules and
horses and the new company would be organized
with a view to buving at such times and in such
quantities as would give a large- profit over the
prices now paid by local dealers and sell in car
load lots to South Georgia and Florida markets.
The scheme is a feasable one, thereisample
capital and capable men to handle the business.
' By all means we want to see the company
organized. : :
The young man of the Leader devotes con
siderable space to the bids for the city printing.
How a newspaper can afford to do work for the
city without charge seems to be beyond his ken,
or seems to be. This is not the first time the
Enterprise has done the work for nothing. We
have devoted our best efforts for six years in
the most faithful endeavors for the city without
rewad, or the hope thereof, except such reward
as comes from the confidence and esteem of the
most worthy and the decent people of the com
munity. Only last summer we spent a thous
and dollars worth of time and money in a single
instance—that of the new county fight—and
was refused, by the council, money that we
actually paid out for legal assistance and hund
reds for other expenses. This same council
might have been glad of an excuse for adopting,
as a city organ, some paper that is willing to
sell its independence for the favor. :
It is a matter of history that our tickets for
mayor and aldermen have been generally suc
cesflu, and it would be easy by a subservient
policy to have been absolutly independent and
confident in any competition before that body,
but we prefer not te crook the suple hinges
of the knee. It would destroy our power for
useful influence in the city government to be
put under the least obligation to any of them.
Some of our warmest personal friends are on the
city council, but we would not hesitate an in
stant should it become necessary, to criticise
any act of any of them or all of them. As
reasonable, honerable men they ought not to
expect, and probably do not expect anything
else at our hands.
There is nothing remarkable or unusual,or
unprecedented, we might say, in our bid for the
city printing. We have done much more, and !
expect to do a great deal more than all that for
Fitzgerald. We shall, during the term for
which the Enterprise has been chosen as city
organ, give our best and most earnest support
to the council for an honest and cconomical
(not parsimomious) administration, in which
we naturally expect the cooperation of the
Leader.
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The Constitution claims that Clark Howell
was actzally applauded in his Eastman speech.
It is said that the applause came "when Clark
made a strikingly witty comparison of Smith and
and McWhorter. The truth probably is some
body laughed and Clark took it for applause;
the presumption is Clark will have to get up
more enthusiam than he did at Eastman, if he is
gver elected governor. :
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