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prald Euterprise.
BY THE
RALD PUBLISHING CO.
PUBLISHED THRICE-A-WEEK:
DAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY.
@ ONE DOLLAR.
i Thursday, April 12, 1906, &
" e congratulate Fitzgerald, Ocilla,
f B the large majority of the people of the
Nty on the status of the county cam
t“*" yn. The little opposition! to the new
f' finty has been very active, but its efforts
#¥ muddy the political waters has aborted.
e will go to Atlanta next summer with
factically three representatives on the
Found who will fight with zeal and eathus
jusm for the creation of the new county.
FHon. B. E. Wilcox, author of the bill, will
| push it with all the zeal that characterizes
his intense nature. Hon. J. A. J. Hender-
Eson, who will be the senator elect, will go
to Atlanta, as he did last session, and give
kepresentative Wilcox all of the support
“and encouragment at his command, and
“representative elect E. J. Dorminey will
reinforce them with all the enthusiasm
~and tact of which he is capable. With
“sucha bzcking, *who doubts the result?
nge will not undertake to express how
gratified we feel at the failue of the mach
_inations instituted by the anti-new county
_ people.
. The Davis block will soon be ready for the
sof. It will be a handsome building. Contrac
)r Hayes is doing himself proud on the job.
MR
Oi. J, L. Boynton of Calhoun County in a sign
statement used the following strong truth,
g:*m is . nothing if he has po enemies. I
yave some and am proud of them. May God
gss them.
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" The news dispatches indicate that the pres
-3t eruption of Mt. Vesuvious is the most terri
-816 in history. Thousands have lost their
spes and many towns some of them larger than
_ Jtzgerald, have been burried in the ashes.
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We are going to hear Hoke Smith speak on
e 20th, but unless we eat some loco weed in
le m eantime, we do not expect to be converted
bhis platform in its entirety.—Thomasville
imes Enterprise.
* We bad got the impression that our Thom
ville contemporary’s objecticn to Hoke Smith
as largely personal and if that be true we do
it expect him to get enthused or locoed.
W A
. The luscious strawberry is expected in the
arket this week. It will probably be two or
ree weeks before the first car load is shipped
Fitzgerald Enterprise.
. It makes our mouth water to think of editor
Wercer's prospects “Um, um, um.”—Monte
llo News.
¢ We invite the whole Penn family including
rs. Penn, the Misses Penn and Tom Penn of
¢ News to come to Fitzgerald and enjoy the
Bcious fruit with us.
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t Atlanta’s anti-spitting ordinance is now
ipg rigidly enforced. At first, the public was
pen a chance to realize what it meant and ac
mmodate itself to the situation. Now it is appl
fig the penelty to desperatly dirty and persis
atly filthy citizens who have never approached
ar enough to decency to understand how
lenesiveit is to descent people to be confronted
by where with the filthy ambier saliva or flim,
it onto side walks or floors. The expecttc
ing habit is disagreable and repulsive.
M
¢ Some unfortunate society lady of Rome
lorgia may bz brought to the bar of justice as
example and tosettle the questionof “‘what is
mbling” Judge Fite, of the Rome curcuit,
d to his Grand Jury last Monday
¢ “‘So, gentlemen, I charge you that it is your
ty to investigate this matter, and return true
lls against ali persons who may be found to
ve played cards for a prize—money or other
ings of value, whether furnished by themselves
lanother, and this court will try to take care
ihe law.
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' The many unlikely predictions, unaccountab
extravagant things that are being said by the
pers that oppose Hoke Smith remind us of
e very same spirit, the very same tactics, the
Ty same blatant assertions that characterized
€ last campaign in Geopgia. The same
"}’ ers-that are now endulging all sorts of fool
predictions about the result of the Guberna
ial primary were two years ago engaged in
ling us about how Jim Griggs would head
We delegation to the St. Louis convention and
. % Hearst in nomination, efc.
The people who stayed at home last sum
mer when the New County figsht was being
made in Atlanta do not know all of the particu
lars, alltho we have given some of the particulars
of that campaipn and the reason for the failure to
land the New County of Northen at that session.
We have published in the Enterprise and every
body interested understands that on the opening
day of the session there was a warm contest on
between twenty three localities in Georgia. Most
of our readers know that finally after several
weeks of hard work the joint legislative commit
tee decided that sixteen of the competing com
munities were entitled to new counties—had
overcome opposition and demonstrated to the
committee that they had sufficient area to carve
from and to include in the New County, aad
that there was sufficient tax values and
population on both sides of the New County line
to justify the legislature in creating the New
County after coasideriag the g-owth aad pro
gress of the sections.
Fitzgerald was oce of the sixteen commun
ities that made the showing andit is notclaimed
that any of them made a better statistical show
ing, and few of them bad weaker opposition
from within the county.
When the committee came to decide which
eight of the 16 should have the counties, the
question of merit was to some extent lost sight
of and it became more of a matter of competi
tion between friends and politicians. It was in
sisted often that as the commmitte had decided
that there were sixteen worthy applicants that
the question of merit had beed settled. When
the committee came to a vote, it is a mat
ter of history that it was evenly divided be
tween Cordele and Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald’s New County had a friend who
was absent, (Mathews of Houston county )
He had been called to the bed side of his sick
mother. The tie vote was a dead lock of the
committee. We wired for our absent friend
urging bim to return to the capital before the
next sitting of the committee. The secret had
leaked out, Cordele was active, Atlanta was full
of her friends and advocates. They had the help
of able and shrewd attorneys, the advantage of
a well planned campaign, they had gone to Atlan
ta prepared for the frav. Tact, (xperience and
good judgment as well as a means of getting in
formation were all important. The three of us
who represented Fitzgerald realized that all
that was necessary was tohold our strength
as already expressed in the vote of the commit
tee and secure the presence of the absent com
mitteeman we had every reason to believe was
favorable to Fitzgerald, The members
could not be approached directly—the greatest
tact was necessary, only familiar friends could
afford to more than mention the subject. The
members of the committee were honorable men,
they were not for sale and arguments and eyi
dence were not permisable except in open ses
sion of the committee. Of course, some of them
were almost partisan in their freindship for
Fitzgerald and others as stroagly favorable to
Cordele, but where the committee was so evenly
divided it can be easily understood how some
of the Committeemen simply favored one place
as against the other recognizing the almost
equal merits of the two, sucha committeman, the
friends of Cordele found out, he had been favor
ably impressed with Fitzgerald's proposition
from the start and had stood loyally by us, al
though he had no prejudice against Cordele. He
believed they were entitled alike to a New Coun
to. Many weeks of the session had been ex
hausted in the work, the opposition to the New
Counties was predicting that the whole scheme
would fail—that no new counties would be crea
ted at that session. The committeeman was
not willicg to jeopardize the total result, the
dead lock must be broken. He preferred
Fitzgerald to Cordele, to be sure, but he was
persuaded that it was his duty to avoid the dis
astrous results that threatened, and coasented
to change his vote. Promised a friend of
Cordele that he would. When the committee
met again Fitzgerald’s absent friend had re
turned from his mother’s sick bed and cast his
vote for Fitzgerald, but we had lost one, our
competitors, Cordele, had gained one, and beat
us by the one vote. Nobody was to blame, no
one could be censured, Cordele diserved to win,
she had fought nobly in a righteous cause, the
only chance she had made good.
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There is beginning to be a little talk of the
Howell men of Crisp county offoring their sup
portto Col. Estill. A blind man can see that
Hoke has Clark beat here, and it is probable
that they will give Col. Estill a chance. This
would be bad judgmect as Clark Howell is
stronger here than Col. Estill aad will carry
more votes than any man in the race against
Hoke. :
Well, we notice that the Estill supporters
are growing ia Crisp county, and every recruit
that we have seen goes from the Howell forces.
We do not know of a single man who has
left the Smith ranks to go to Estill. Does it
mean that the Howell forces are demoralized
and are flocking to new leaders? Well, this will
prove a great mistake, for Howell is stronger
than any candidate except Hoke Smith in this
county. Votiog for Estill is a useless dodge.—
Cordele Rambler.
Estill is stronger in this county than Mr.
Howell. But we have yet seen no indications of
c¢ondolidatidg on either.
Bigger Yields
’ A given number of acres fertilized with Farmers’ Bone produce a
greater yield of cotton, than the same acreage with ordinary fertilizer.
Farmers’ Bone does more than that. It makes it possible to reduce
the acreage and increase the yield. Try it this year. The man
who uses
’ Made With Fish @ec
has twenty-one years of fertilizer experience back of him. Over
13,000 carloads of Royster fertilizers were used on the crops of 1905.
This volume of business stamps Farmers’ Bone the best.
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For Sale:—A five rcom hnuse
and two lots. Joquire at this
office.
Smoke the‘‘Made in Fitzgerald”
kind. They are the best smok
ers. f.
PROPERTY WANTED.
We wish to buy about 100 city lots,
vacant or improved. If youn have
any bargains to offer. please call.
We have sowme go:d property to
scH on eady terms,
' COOX & CO.
Office {u Dréw Bldg:, up ftairs. Mch 20«1m
LARGE
English Berkshires
I have for sale a lot of choice pigs from register.d stock, I also
have eggs for sa'e from best straias of 8. C, Brown Leghorns,
at $1 00 per 15. Call and «ee or write for prices and particulars.
FITZGERALD, GA. 2t¢vBt_ 331 C. E. RICHREY.
Your Spring and Sum
mer outfit of this popular
brands of two and three
piece Suits and Trousers
are waiting for you at
your dealer’s store.
Don’t pat off your pur
chases. Your wide awake
neighbors are already fit
ting themselves out---you
can’t afford to be behind
the season.
Your dealer ordered
this Clothing for YOU,
and you will be pleased
with his selection.
Remember the Name
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