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tJudge Russell has dropped a bone to grab
i shadow.
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I “Plain Dick” is running well with the How
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' Col. Estill says “no debates for me.” And
iCol, Estillis too old for foolishness.
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The Nashville Herald’s special edition of
the 19th is a credit, not only to Editor Sweat
but to his town. The illustrations are immense.
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It is the field against Hoke Smith. A blind
man can see Mc Whorter’s moves on the chess
board. Hoke is holding his own against the
group, and has the whole gang on the run.—
Cordele Rambler.
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In our announcment column may be found
the statement by many voters of the announc
ment of Hon. J. A. J. Henderson for the office
of state senator. We do not know who the
“many voters”’ are, but the announcment comes
to us through responsible hands. We have not
recently talked with Mr. Henderson on the sub
ject. Some weeks ago he thought it would be
in the nature of a business sacrifice to stand for
election. “Many Voters” have discovered a
stropg candidate. Mr. Henderson is probably
the stropgest man in the county. He bas
been guilty of many generous acts in
recent years. He is a broad and. capable
man, eminently successful, a man whose char
acter and reputation is growing and developing
with this rapidly developing section. If he
leaves the matter to ‘‘many voters”, that is if he
allows the use of his name in the primary, ‘he
will be avery hard man to beat. .
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%’ Let the Curfew Ring,
. Yesterday a couple of girls anda boy
_came to the Enterprise office to know if the fol
. lowing clipping refered to them:
. “Tlike to see a brave mother that will guard
\her children, tHat will stand by her children.
. You parents let the devil in the shape of a hu
‘man being or dude come into your home to mar
.. the lives of your daughters. You turn your
. children doose at the age of ten years, and at the
. age of fifteen they have gone to hell. I will be
;,’glad to see the time when the curfew bell will
i gug in evéry hamlet in this country.”
I . We had never seen the quotation before and
. could not say whoit refered to. It wsa published
:in last Thursday’s paper. Mother Enterprise
“had clipped it from the preacher Will Sunday’s
| sayings and had failed to credit it, except with
" quotations,
::;; It is very good doctrine and the kind that
"we would like to preach to every boy and girl
" within our reach and every mother of every boy
" and girl that ever heard of the Enterprise. We
| regret that anybody should assume that it fits
| their case, and if it does we trust they will see
the error of their way and heed the admonition
.of the base ball preacher, Will Sunday.
.. Now as to the curfew.
- Wewould like to hear the curfew ring
L again. It may not be needed in every hamlet as
i.:is suggested by the prea(cher above quoted, but
"it is needed in Fitzgerald and we do not believe
. that there is a decent man or woman in the city
. who does not favor it. Thelaw is in the city
. books and should be respected. We ask the
f attention of Mayor Paulk. It rests with him.
|We hope that he will see that it is his duty to
L have the curfew ring at 8 o’clock every night,
Lor 8:30 as the law may read.
.. If there is objection to the curfew we want
Lto hear it. These columns are opern for any
F protest from any respectable source.
i Let the curfew ring—tonight.
g A Mayor Paulk it’s up to you.
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E Col. Estill will not take the South Georgia
vote from Hoke Smith.— Cordele Rambler.
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¢ Supposea lawyer prosecuting a railroad, af
er haviog drawn the jury finds that each jury
imon has a free railrcad pass in his pocket,
. would that Jawyer feel safe to risk his case
£ with that jury? Unless that lawyer was cour
(ting defeat he certainly would not. Can the
i people of Georgia expect impartial service from
e legislatnre as long as the members travel
; bsolntely free passes, threby putting them
fives under obligations to the railroads. The
dawyer can’t understand how a partial jury can
fender animparia|l verdict.—Thomasville Enter
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. . "‘.".‘ bot lur politics, and demurs at our
* way of stating the case, and expatiates on what
it terms our inconsistency, at length, as follows:
BOTH HOT AND COLD.
Editor Mercer, who thinks he is whooping
‘em up for Hoke Smith down bis way, says in
one sentence
“that the common people have made up
our minds to put a man imoffice that will
disjoint the slate-making apparatus.
and to send men to the legislature who
will shake loose from the old ship of
stalc the barnacles of corporate greed
and corrupting iofluence.” .
Tom Watson could not have said more in
arraigning the democracy of Georgia. KEditor
Mercer could not utter a more direct charge of’
wholesale corruption and graft against all our
previous legislators and public officials, who
alone are responsible for whatever condition
now exists in this state. His man Smith will
“shake the old state loose from the barmnacles
of corporate greed and corrupting influence.”
But like bis man Smith, he fails to point out who
the barnacles are as well as neglects to desig
nate the corruptionists.
The inconsistency of this charge is shown
by Editor Mercer in the very next sentence of
his corrupt characterization of the public official
of Georgia and the former legislators. Read
" what he says in the next sentence: :
“While it is true that Georgia has es
caped the harvest of graft and corrup
tion that has disgraced 8o many state
governments very recently.” etc
If Georgia has escaped the corruption of
other states, why go aside to insinuate that she
has not. Why make a charge and retraction in
the same breath.? ~
. If Editor Mcrcer will specify wherein therc
has been corruption on the part of any etate
offizial from governor down in the past adminis--
trations of Georgia, or which member of the
general assembly has been corrupt, we will jcin
him in removing a mantle of honor so unworth
ily worn, We will go as far as he to have such
a person not only removed from office, but held
up to the scorn of all honorable men. If our
legislators in the past have been corrupt they
deserve to be excoriated and and anathematized
and we will join Editor Mercer and Hoke Smith
in exposing the corruption and dishonorable
deeds.
But, did not Hoke Smith help to put Terrell
into office and at the time when Dupont Guerry
was running for governor on a platform that
Smith has now partly preempted? Why sucha
sudden conversion on the part of Mr. Smith?
Having been a member of the cabinet, we 'will
not accuse him of not baving cut his wisdom
teeth, yet we can not understand why he could |
not have disccvered some of this corruption
when Guerry was running for office? Joe
Terrell had been in politics for quite a while,
and why could not Smith have had the oppor
tunity to learn of some of his alleged corruption
and havé supported another man for office?
What influence (or when did this divine 'in=
spiration visit him) bas made Mr. Smith see
things so differently now from all his future
life? He can not excuse or explain by saying
““that wise men often change their views, while
fools never,” for Mr. Smith’s change involves a
change of conscience also.
No one should insinunate a thing reflecting
upon every wman who ever had anything to do
with the government of the state unless he
stands ready to make his charges good when
called on. The aforesaid ‘‘common people” are
also ™uir people” and ‘‘intelligent people” and
desire sometimes to be ‘‘shown"” before they
take much stock in charges without specifica
tions. A part of the people can not be fooled
by such methods.
Far better, Brother Mercer, not to say a
thing than ever to have to retract it, but to feel
compelled to do so in the very nextsentence you
are in danger of being likened to the man in the
fable which follows:
THE SATYR AND THE TRAVELER,
““A poor man traveling in the depth of winter
through a dreary forest, no inn to receive him,
no human creature to befriend or comfort him,
was in danger of being starved to death. At
last, howevey, he came to the cave of a Satyr,
where he entreated leave to rest a while, and
shelter himself from the inclemency of the
weather. The Satyr very civilly complied with
his request. The man had ao sooner entered,
than he began to blow his fingers. His host,
surprised at the novelty of the action, was cur
ious to know the meaning of it. Ido it, said the
Traveler, to warm my frozen joints, which are
benumbed with cold. Presently the Satyr hav
ing prepared a mess of hot gruel to refresh his
guest, the man found it necessary to blow his
porridge, too. What, ing uired the Satyr, is
not your gruel hot enough? Yes, replied the
Traveler, too hot; and I blow it to make it cool
er. Do you so? quoth the Satyr; then get out of
my cave as fast as you can, for I desire to have -
po communication with a creature that blows
hot and cold with the same breath.”
Now we submit that the ‘‘poor man" was
more of a philosopher than the satyr, and the
satyr evidently outclasses our Cochran con
temporary in that particular. |
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