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itzoerald Enterprise.
BY THE
[GERALD PUBLISHING CO.
§ MERCER oo s Edtiot and Managet,
| PUBLISHED THRICE-A-WEEK:
JESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY.
¥ ONE DOLILAR.
. Saturday, April 14, 1906, &
g A Correction,
‘1 desire to correct a statement made by
n. B. E. Wilcox in a letter recently published
' the Fitzgerald Enterprise. He makes me
f “Should you fail, with the assistance of
riends to the measure, to pass the bill (new
sounty,) I could not hope to follow you and gain
Wwictory on the heel of two succeeded defeats.”
F Mr. Wilcox misquotes me, and has inform
ed me that he would make correction.
I say now that if lam elected and our rep
| resentative is favorable to the new county
. measure, we can almost beyond the possibility
* of doubt pass the bill at the 1907 session of the
| legislature, should it fail to become a law this
b year.
I say further that if I am defeated in the
? primary, I shall none the less continue to work,
; with unabted zeal, for the new county for Fitz
. gorald until it is an assured fact.
But Iseenoreason why Mr. Wilcox, with
" the assistance of the friends of the measure,
i- cannot secure the new county this year.
I wish to deny, empbhatically, being one of
. the candidates whom Mr. Wilcox says were
brought out by six men in the secret session.
. lam in the race for senator at the instance of a
. number of good men, who are loyally support
| ing me. -
Yours truly,
: J. A.J. Henderson.
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- Damned already is the candidate who has
. ever misrepresented, ridiculed or abused the
peerless Henry G. Turner, so far as Wiregrass
- Georgia is concerned.
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E - We want to see a return tothe Pendletonian
. editorialsin the columns of the Macon Telegraph.
: We have almost quit reading that paper be-
Eg- cause of the great change that seems to have
~ taken place in the politics of its editor.
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. There have been about 330 voters register
. ed at Irwinville, about 800 at Fitzgerald. We
_have not heard from the other precincts. It is
" is thought the registration will reach above
- 2,ooo.—Ocilla Star, '
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3 It is hard to tell which of the two is drunker
. on politics, The Fitzgerald Enterprise or The
| Cordele Rambler.—Dispatch and News.
. Itisequally as difficult to determine which
| is the more locoed, the Times Enterprise of
' Thomasville, or the Dispatch an d| News of
. Hawkinsville. :
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. Ed Callaway, one of the best known news
" paper men that ever travelled in South Georgia,
. and one of the very best citizens of the Empire
' State of the South, pure hearted, patriotic, and
yet always conservative, was here yesterday
' representing the great and good Macon Tele
| graph. He isnot a Hoke Smith man, but he
. 8o often comes in contact with friends of the
. people’s candidate that he takes things philsophi
| cally and is prepared to get along the best he
" can with Governor Hoke Smith,
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i The Fitzgerald Enterprise jumps on The
' Americus Times- Recorder on account of an
L article which originally appearcd in these col
" umns and was appropriated by The Times-Re
. corder without credit. Our paragraphs are
: warm stuff and better credit them and avoid
the hhereafter.—-Ha.wkinsville News and Dis
patch.
. Out of respect to the Sumter County petti
"coat, we were the least bit timid and did not
| jump hard. If we had suspected that Joe Tarv
‘er was in the least responsible, we would have
‘lambasted him- good and hard.
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.j Greene and Gaynor, two grafters of nation
‘al renown, who stole enough money from the
- government to make it interesting for the high
. priced lawyers, have been convicted after a
lapse of seven years, seven years of torture per
“haps, to the fugitives who were trying to keep
_out of the clutches of the law by the liberal use
of the swag they had taken. They made good
‘their escape into Canada, and it required sever
. years to get them back this side cf the St.
awrence. District Attorney Marion Erwin
‘_ has made a national reputation in the prosecut
‘,Qn' of the case. They went so far as to have
| the fugitive kidpnaped in Montreal, but were in
tercepted by the Canadian government after an
“exciting boat race just before they landed on
United States soil. The men will serve their
four year’s sentence in the national penitentiary.
obody doubts their guilt, or that they deserv-
Is It “Rule or Ruin?”’
Hon. B. E. Wilcox has, in the Fitzgerald
Enterprise of last Tuesday, a letter which, in at
least one particular, seems to us extraordinary.
He feels assured that he will pass the high li- |
cense bill for Irwin next June, but fears that the
new county, if it should be created, would lose
the benefit of that law unless he is succeeded
by a prohibitionist. If a majority of the voters
of the (to be) new county are in favor of high
license, or prohibition, the new county will be
dry, it matters not who may succeed Mr. Wil
cox—they will vote it dry the first opportunity.
“Wet or dry”’ is not an issue in this cam
paign, that issue was decided two years ago by
the election of Mr. Wilcox, and it does not
seem to us to be wise, on his part, to seek to
force high license, liquor or any other legislation
upon a county not yet created. It should be
left to the people themselves to decide such
matters, after the organization of the-new coun
ty. %
Mr. Wilcox was elected to represent Irwin
county, and we believe he is doing so faithfully
and to the best of his ability; but when he seeks
to’inject a new issue into a campaign about to
close for the avowed purpose of extending his
‘high license bill to a prospective county, and |
which, per consequence, he is arrogating to
himself the performance of a duty certainly not
contemplated by those who elected him, and as
certainly savoring of an attempt to interfere
in the gaovernment of another county, and it not
yet born! Apd the pcople themselves cannot
but feel that their ability to govern their new
county, if creatcd, is gravely doubted -by our
representative.
There are but two issues in this campaign,
and there is great danger to the best interests’
of the whole county in bringing in another at
this time, having for its purpose the regulation
of the liquor traffic in a county not yet made,
The two issues are: ‘A new county,” and “No
new court house at Irwinville.”—Ocilla Star.
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Not a Mud Slinger
The Savannah Press devotes more than a
column of its editorial page to Hoke Smith’s
speech at Waynesboro. It seemsto be a fair
and impartial account of the situation in Burk
County. The Editor of the Press evidently
has been taking what the Atlanta Constitution
says about Hoke Smith’s propensity to sling
mud in his campaign speeches as the truth, for
he seems to be surprised at the lack of bitter
ness and mud-slinging in the Waynesboro
speech. :
The editor of the Advocate-Democrat has
been under the impression ever since he first
heard Mr. Smith that Hoke Smith is not the
slanderer but, rather if anything, is the sland
ered. The editor of this paper bas twice heard
Mr. Smith since the campaign began—once in
the early part of last fall, and again more receat
ly. Both times there were criticisms of some
conditions that need to be changed;, but these
criticisms were made in a dignified manner
and there was nothing savoring of a ‘“‘campaign
of traduction” or the semblance of mud-sling
ing. Mr. Smith appeals to the reason of his
hearers; points out reforms that need to be insti
tuted, and suggests in what manner a better
condition can be brought about.—Advocate-
Democrat.
No, Hoke Smith is not a mud-slinger. No
man in the state can be more disgusted with
the campaign of mud that has deenliterally forc
ed on him, than he is. He refrained as long as
forbearance could in any wise be considered a
virtue, and he is nowas respectful to his hot
headed antagonists as it is possible to be.
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It is not thought—in Irwinville—that Fitz
gerald stands the least chance of getting'a new
county. She came within one vote of getting it
last summer.—Qcilla Star.
Yes, came withia one vote. We had that vote,
but for an unavoidable occurence, the desper
ateillness of the mother of the member who
cast the vote, we would have won on the first
ballot of the committee. Think of what the
sentiment would have been if Mr. Mathews of
Houston,a members of the comwittee had been
at the meeting and voted, as he did at last, for
Fitzgerald. Has it ever occured to you, dear
reader, what the difference in public sentiment
would have been, how the fellows who now harp
about FAILURE would have suag the praises
of those who worked so industriously and un
selfishly for Northen County. Supposé the gcod
mother of Representative Mathews had ‘kept in
good health, and the representalive consequent
ly stayed in Atlanta and voted with the commit
tee on its first ballot, can you imagine what the
effect would have been if the news flashed over
the wires to Fitzrerald had read “WE WON ON
THE FIRST BALLOT.” Ia that event those
who had worked for the county would have been
lionized. Nothing succeeds like success.
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Mystic, it is said, wants a voting precinct.
She needs it, and, we hope, will get it, There
is plentyof teritory there for another militia
district,and there caa b 2 no go>l reason assign
ed why one should not be created.—Ocilla Star,
Very correct, and we will see that she gets
it. £
Fitzgerald has secured the machine shops
of the Atlantic and Birmingham railrcad. We
fear the worst for Editor Mercer. He cannot
stznd the railroads and their corrupting ioflu
ence and even $30,000 to $40,000 dumped into
Fitzgerald every month may cause him to have
still worse ‘‘night horses’. If they keep on
bringing railroads to Fitzgerald Brother Mer
cer will take his departure via. the stage coach
route.—Hawkinsville News and Dispatch.
Our Hawkinsville neighbor has got his esti
mate of the Editor of the Enterprise sized up by
a measure that he uses for people nearer
home, The Editor of the Enterprise went af
ter the shops. We have been trying to clear
away the corrupting influence preparatory for
the coming of the shops and we are proud to
report we have succeeded fairly well in the pre
paration as well ag the acquisition.
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Pull for Fitzgerald or pull out.
Anticipating the demands of Greater Fitz
gerald, we have opened a
MEAT AND VEGETABLE MARKKT
| AT 112 EAST PINE STREET,
having moved from our former Grant Street location.
We have equipped our Market with Every Conven
ience to keep All Kinds of———— .
Meat and Vegetables,
Potk, Veal, Mutton, Beef, Sausages and
Dressed Poultry, Tomatoes, Strawber
berries, Celery, Radishes, Lettuce, As
paragus, New Potatoes and Onions.
‘ Butter, Eggs, Bread and flakes.l
Bring us your Poultry, Eggs and Vegetables. We can
Handle Them. '
U. C. V. REUNION
APRIL 25-27, 1906.
REDUCED RATES AND QUICK SCHEDULES VIA.
. SEABOARD
AIR LINE RAILWAY.
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Tickets will be sold April 22, 23 and 24. and will be limited for return until April 30,
. and by depositing ticket with joint agent and payaent of 50 cents, same will be extended
for return until may 21, 1906. : ;
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Only line haviog through cars to Montgomery, where direct connection is made with L. &
N. R. R. through LIMITED train, carrying Puliman Sleeping and Diniog Cars. ;
ONLY ONE NIGHT ENROUTE,
Full ioformation upon application to your nearest Ticket Agent, or Address CHARLES
F. STEWART, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Savannah, Ga.
Terrell county, the home of Congressman
James M. Griggs, Hon. O. B. Stevens and tke
latter’s son-in-law, Hon M. J. Youmans, Chair
man of the State Democratic Executive Commits
tee, is overwhelmingly for Hoke Smith. That
fact was clearly evidenced in the recent mass
meeting held in Dawson. The meeting was
dominated by Hoke Smith’s supporters; Hoke
Smith men were elected chairman and secretary
of the meeting, and the chairmanand a majority
of the members of the county executive commit
tee elected by the mass meeting, are Hoke
Smith men. The distinguished gentlemen
mentioned above are not supposed to be support
ing Hoke Smith enthusiastically, but the plain
people and business men of Terrell county have
a preference for Smith.—Newman News.
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If you find a knocker, knock him and
charge it to the Enterprise.