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BN -2 chisement is ot a populist doctrine,
3 th the best informed and most intelligent
Bt may consistently favor it.
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i now comes Dr. G. A. Nunally, of New
ipresident of the Southern Female College,
f announces that ke is a candidate for gov
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ditor Mercer is tired of the pessimists and
fvants them abolished, yet it takes all kinds of
hings and people to make up this old world of
j v.,urs.-—-Bainbridge Search Light. .
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. No, no dear reader, nobody has any fears
: vb‘out Tom Watson disrupting the Democratic
party at this time. There was a time when
there was greattdanger. Of course we do not
have to tell you what gubernatorial candidate
g ve him the most encouragment in those peri
lous days. [ Wy
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Collier’'s Weekly in fighting the patent
edicine companies, is like Hoke Smith fight
ling the railrosds; after pulling them for all the
imoney they could has now turned traitor, and
this is a very poor kind of business.—Senoia
finterprise Gazette.
i Has the Enterprise Gazette been subsidized
by its medicine advertisments? Does it pro
‘ose to condone the wrongs because it has
fouched a pitance of a fee for service rendered?
fHas its prices for patent medicine advertis
iments been sufficent, not only to pay for the
gpace used but to subsidize the conscience of the
ipublisher? Editor Nolan's conception of a trai
tor is peculiar, to say the least.
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** ‘The strangest thing we have seen in Geoy
na‘ _politics, during the present campaign at
jeast, is an editorial in the Valdosta Times.
Mo us it is marvelously strange. We find it in
@ T'bursday’s Constitution, under the head “Trail
bf the politician,” We have always understood
hat the Times was what is known as a ‘sound
noney’’ paper, anti-populistic. The editor pic
jures the days that tried the souls and temper
pf democrats: :
3 " “The banks of the country were
¢ failing; mercantile enterprises went to
¢ the wall, like trees before a storm: cot
. ton was bringing 5 cents a pound; the
L women and children in the towns and
. country, in many instances, were half e
fed and balf clothed. It was a period of
& suffering, such as was not experienced
i since the close of the war.”
¢ And asks the question:
“Where stood Clark Howell, Hoke
¢ Smith and Tom Watson then?”
K And gives the answer:
E “Hoke Smith held his hands and
| ' voice against the efforts and cries of the
! masses for reform and relief. Clark
i . Howell, with his paper and pen, and
L with his daily and weekly publications,
. incessantly battled for the reforms nec
. essary for the relief of the masses.””
i Does the Times believe that what Mr. How
ell “‘incessantly battled for” was “NECEssArY for
the relief of the masses?” Isit possible that
even a rank populist can believe that, in the
light of history? Is it not an undeniable, indis
‘ufitable fact that the things Mr. Howell and Mr.
iWatson, et als., contended for failed utterly be
fore the people at the ballot box, and that im
mmediately following their failure and the adop
fion by congress of measures that Mr. Smith
Btood for, that the relief came? That unprece
m ented prosperity followed? Can it be possible
fhat the Valdosta Times has been converted to
vopulism, free-silverism, sub-treasuryism and
every other “ism” that threatenmed the demo
"ratic party in the times that it mentions?
. Hoke Smith vras right then, and he is right
mow.: This effort to inject Tom Watson and
populism into this campaign is a farcical sub
terfuge pure and simple. The real issues .are
foo important to be obscured by such discuss
jons as we fiad in many of the Howell papers.
The people of Georgia want reforms and they
will elect a reform candidate governor, and
Hoke Smith will be his name.
. There is another peculiarly pathetic sug
oestion in the editorial above refered to. The
editor of the Times pictures the white boys be
fween the plow Handles because the negro boys
yill all be found in school on -account of the dis
franchisement act. Just how the editor figures
fhat the negrd will be more able toattend.school
han the white boy, is a mystery. We fear that
Lfi” sis another bug-bear of the imagi
s:on. manufactured for political purposes.
i'l llm“ "Neéwnan News and Hawkinsville
Dispatch and News, some reference to the fact
that the Evening Call, published-at Griffin, has
accepted the city printing of that city free of
charge. The object of the Leader is obvious,
in view of the fact that the Eaterprise has done
precisely the same thing in Fitzgerand.
We quote below, in part, from the News
and the Dispatch:
“The Evening Call has the honor of
being Griffin’s official paper;.gnd honor is
all the Call gets in the deal, as it has agreed
to do the city’s advertising for nothing.
This is a fair sample of the business meth- -
ods that prevail in some newspaper offices.
Such methods are not only responsible for
most of the financial failures in counsry
newspaperdom, but make success more dif
ficult for those newspapers that attain suc
cess, by inculcating in the public mind the
public mind the idea that newspapers ought
to work for nothing.””—Newnan News. :
“This states the truth pretty fairly.
Obe great trouble about the country news
paper business is that too many men who
bave proved to be failures in other profes
sions or business lines engage in it. A
popular but very erroneous idea is that any
man can edit a newspaper. Another popu
lar and equally as erroneous idea is that a -
newspaper business will take care of itself.”
—Hawkinsville Dispatch and News.
In all kindness to the editor of the Leader,
we will call attention to the fact that while the
paper he publishes has been driven from pillar,
to post and its stock sold for a few cents on the
dollar, and had to do with mortgages and other
difficulties (which, of course, the present man
agement is not responsible for,) the Eoterprise
" has paid annually good div.dends to its stocks:
holders, paid off its force each week with
promptness and paid the editor and manager a
splendid salary.
Three times we have arranged with that
paper a reasonable agreement on the city print
ing question. Once only have we received a
settlement on that account, and we are prepar
ing to enter suit on the last contract, ~
We understand, of course, that Editor
Knapp is in no wise responsible, but we can not
be expected to take advice on the subject from
a paper with the record of the one he edits.
The truth is, we do not care to take any
considerable amount of advice from any source
as to the management of a newspaper. We have
had to fight the devil where his imps were in a
majority, and we have sacrificed business for
principle a thousand times, notwithstandingour
paper Stock has always been worth twp or
three to one. : 4
There will hardly be any more debates. be
tween Clark and Hoke. The friends of the
former are fixing it for him.—Moultrie Observer.
Mo ap T .
Clark says be perfers Hampto Tom, and
Hoke perfers Tom to Hamp. Itall depends
one taste—and which one you can get.—
Moultrie Observer.
Clark can get n(e)ither, but would be glad to
have (e)ither. :
: AR
The failures, two or three winters ago, that
was made by many of our citizens in the matter
of shade tree planting has had a bad effect on
the shade tree sentiment. We fear that it will
be a hard matter to ever work the people up .to
the point of again making the effort that was
made then to beautify the city’s streets. The
exceedingly dry spring that followed the tree
planting that would have made Fitzgerald beau
tiful this next summer, and which resulted in
the loss of at least two thirds of the trees plan
ted was indeed discouraging, but that would
not happen oace in twenty years. We say that
it is unfortunate because it has discouraged
those who were dispozed to beautify their prem
ises and the streets adjacent,
anoa
. Itis a childish act to answer an advocate of
civic righteousness with a demand to point out
the corruptionist. It is not oyr purposeor duty
to indict the grafters, or impeach the adminis
tration. It is enough to anticipate the con
ditions that exist in several of the states of the
union, (doubtless a large number of them,)sever
althat have been brought under the limelight of
investigation and into the cog wheels of pros
ecution. J
We think pretty well of the present
ad ministration, but we have been about the
capitol enough to know that the conditions are
ripe for the accomplishmeat of many ugly
things. We kaow, and every well informed man
in Georgia knows, that the campaign against
the lobby worked a wonderful change in the
capitol atmosphere during the last session of
the state legislature. We quote Gov. Folk, of Mo:
*‘Corporate domination of legislatures and
elections has been shown to exist to an amazing
extent. Itis yet bt made public what other
great concerns may have done, but the recent
insurance disclosures furnished some starling
information as to the methods of these compa
nies. It is an established fact that corporations
are the chief corruptors of our public life. The
creatures of the state have thus become the
most dangerous enemies of the state. That
sopething must be done to protect representa
tive government from being thwartea by the ‘
dominations of corporate influences is manifest.
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~ ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For STATE SENATOR
“We hereby announce Hon. J.
A.J. Henderson 3s a suitable
candidate for State%enator,fl‘hd
confidently ask for him thé sup
port of the voters of 'the/district
at the approaching priggary.
Many VoOTERS.
FOR OOMMISSIONER.
By the solicitation of friends and
on my own personal desire, I hereby
announce myself a candidate for
Oounty Commissioner an rcspeetfully
ask the support of the voters of the
county at the next primary. If elect
ed I promise to serve as to the best
of my ability, .and to give eaeh part
of the county }air and impartial sep”
vice, and all business shall Be prompt
ly attended to without fear r.t§vor.
Asking your support, I remals
Yours for the bestinterest of Irwin
County,
W. R. WALKER.
FOR TREARURER,
l I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for re-election to the
ffice of County Treasurer. .I
am grateful to the pepple of the
county who have honoyed me ;'gd
trusted me with thislimporfant
office, and it is at the eqtfit of
many prominent friemds fhat I
have decided to againistand for
election. Of course my candi
dacy is subject to the! }tje pri
mary to be held in the; gpring or
summer. &
Sincerely, |
: M. W. HoweLL.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE. 4 .
Dr. E. J. Dorminy, ®andidate
for representative Irwimgomt y,}
subject to the white primary.
FOR CLERK SUPERIOR COURT.
lam a candidate for thg office
of Clerk of the Superior &Qurt ;
Irwin County, subject jto tife
action of the primary, agpdjre
spectfully solicit the supp
the voters of said Count
Sincerely,
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Give your boys and girls, too,
tools and plenty of nails to ham
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