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? fair minded man in Georgia will deny
the state committee has made a griev
mistake by following the radical lead of
iton McWhorter.
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PT'he state democratic committee did not act
he party but rather against a certain candi
g, or foraparticular candidate. The peo-
SO unders}and it and will rebuke it.
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| The Chamber of Commerce, that is the offi.
#s and executive committee, held an impor
jat meeting at Col. Jay’s office Thursday after
bon. There’s business doing. Fitzgerald’s
sigess, at that.
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® Martin V. Calvin was defeated for the legis~
%fihture in Richmond county by a purality of
‘eighteen votes, His defeat is a distinct loss to
the state. He was one of the best men in pub
lic life in Georgia. ;
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" We want to see Chief Smith get out his dog
Egun before the weather gets warmer. We have
E-mai‘erial enough here *for- a hundred cases of
gfig_b_'x_g_si,m‘,’?e“ appeal to him in the name of a
idog-ridden flea-bitten humanity.
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i ' Wiley Whitley Sr., James Barnes and Wm.
. Williams have just completed the division of the
| Reason Dorminy estate between the widow and
tfour minor children. The farm, one of the best
lin the county, has been surveved and plated by
Surveyor Barnes and the allotments made.
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. The Fitzgerald people are togetheron the new
icounty proposition. We predict success for these
ipeople. [Fitzgerald really needs a new county,
Anyway. People in Cordele know how to sym
pathize with an active town that furnishes lots
of litigation and yet is eight or ten miles from a
county seat.—Cordele Rambler.
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.. Hamilton McWhorter’s fine Itallian hand is
00 much in evidence in state politics, but his
ast bold feat of leader-ship has been recorded.
e has reached the limit as a political fixer.
Why, yes that pledge is all right, We are glad
famp thoughtabout it. Then it was so thought
]l of Hamp to give us plenty time to make it
jnanimous for Hoke.
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# ' The easiest thing in the world is to con
"ue to harp about sanitary conditions in the
pring time. The talk of sanitation isabout as
ommon as the birds chirp and too often attracts
jbout the same amount of attention. We are in
ead earnest about the matter when we appeal
b the mayor and his sanitary committee,to give
s all the protection that we are entitled to,
ght now, next week will be too late to start
then the start can be made today.
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{ The clear headed, fair minded, C. B.
Hlen of the Moultrie Observer closes a timely
terial on the action of the state committee in
s paper with the following language:
b “Itisa time for democratic leaders and
irty officials to sit steady, pilot wisely and
ger clear of the breakers. It is nota time for
jibbling, trifling and trickery. :
| “The committee should have met quietly,
bne and, said but little and. then adjourned.
B action does not meet the approval of a ma-
Brity of the democrats of the state.
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i Judge Callaway of the State Democratic
MBommittce in advocating his scheme for the ex
usion of populists votes, stated that twenty
iree thousand populists had voted asa party
W the last National election. The Judge might
@Rvc gone further and stated that there were
| @vice that many populists a few years ago and
@t they had returned to’ the democratic party
fere they belong and where they are needed
d wanted by every white man’s man in the
rty, and it is the highest democratic duty to
,= e them back into the party.
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. The Savannah Morning News says that
he aim of the committee was clearly to pro
gt the party.” In the same editorial it quotes
mitteeman E. H. Callaway as saying in his
. Peech before the committee that if the demo
- ffatic party is to survive, it must have an or
i @nization and must be national in its scope,
_‘ )w the national democratic party is 2 minori
. ¥ty and if it were possible to secure a Calla
| iy'in each state ““to protect the party’’ we
be practically certain to remain in the
g . A slap in the face for those who knock at
r door is a safe guard against any great
ywth, but the boys born into the party would
protected at least against republican and
ulists contamination, and that is something
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Smith paper, states so clearly the main truths
in connection with the action of the State Demo
cratic Committee that we give it to the readers
of the Enterprise for their thoughtfull consider
ation.
Atlanta, May 2.—Secretary of the State
Cook CONCURS IN THE VIEW of Attorney
General Hart to the effect that THE LATE
DATE OF THE STATE CONVENTION
MAKES IT IMPRACTICAL OR IMPOSSI
BLE FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
TO FURNISH TO THE ORDINARY OF
EACH COUNTY THE NAMES OF ALL
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES WITH
IN THIRTY DAYS BEFORE THE DATE
OF THE REGULAR STATE ELECTION.
Secretary of State Cook said this afternoon that
such actin WILL BRING ABOUT A CONDIT
ION OF AFFAIRS NEVER BEFORE EX
PERIENCED IN GEORGIA and he thinks
there is no doubt about the fact that it will re
sult in much confussion.
The amended law requires that the names
shall be furnished on the election blanks thirty
days before the election if it is practical for the
Secretary of State to do so. The provision re
quiring. the furnishing of names if practicable, it
is considered, removes the possibility of vitiating
the election. Itis felt here there i§ no doubt
about getting the names to every county in the
state in full and ample time—at least twenty
days b&fore the election, and the election blanks
can easily be furnished within the prescribed
thirty days.
Woopwarp DENOUNCES ACTION,
Mayor Woodward, who says both Hoke
Smith and Clark Howell are his political enemies
this afternoon denounces the state committee’s
action in prescribing the pledge at the head
of the ticket and the voter is an organized Demo
crat. The Mayor says this is an insult to the
people of Georgia, He!says it is arbitrary, un
warranted and against the best interests of the
state.
Views or INDEPENDENT PAPERS,
The Georgian editorially declares this after
noon that Clark Howell can hardly be charged
with responsibility for this qualification in any
degree BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT
MANY OF HIS SUPPORTERS IN THE
VARIOUS LARGE CITIES THROUGHOUT
THE STATE ARE DEMOCRAT IN STATE
POLITICS AND REPUBLICAN IN NAT
IONAL POLITICS, and it is not) natural to
suppose he would take any hand in debarring
these from the primary.
There appears to be a general impression
to the effect that -this gualification prescribed
for the voters 'in the printed pledge on the tick
et is going to have little, if any effect.
Politicians generally believe the Populist,
or at least 80 per cent, of them, will vote. in the
primary anybow, pledge or no pledge, and that
the of action the committee will make them
even more determined to do so.
Yes the populist will vote but there are
enough—quitela sufficency of rock-ribbed, true
and tried democrats who will vote the Hoke
Smith ticket: to nominate him for governor
by a majority, that will startle the machine
politicians and put the corporation hirelings
to thinking.
The Atlanta Georgian in Criticising the ac
tion of the state committee says in part:
*lf the simple pledge to support the nomi
nee has been a sufficient safegard to Democrat
ic integrity and to Democrtic principles in three
general campaiges, the only reasons which
thoughtful men can give for drawing the lines
tightly in this eqnally safe campaign are these:
“First. The Democratic Executive Com
mittee in its majority vote favored the!candidacy
of one of the aspirantsfor governor in prefer
ence to all the rest, and was willing, for the
sake of obliging and helping that one candidate
now, to repudiate the rules and regulations of
other executive committees which have been
vindicated in previous elections.
“Or, second. The Democratic Executive
Committee of today 1s so partisan in its rancor
ous opposition to one of the political candidates
in this campaign that they are willing now to re
pudiate the precedents and ruler of past com
mittees in order to hamper and bandicap in
every way the will of the general white voters,
in making that candidate their nominee for gov
ernor.
“Or, third. The present Democratic Ex
ecutive Commiitee is either directly or indirect
ly so much influenced by the will and the wish
of the great transportation companies and other
corporations, whose keen prefcrence is known
in this compaign, that, without regard to the
personal interests of any candidate, they have
revolutionized and repudiated Democratic pre
cedent and policies of past committees in order
to adapt themselves to the will and the wish
and the interest of the corporations as the cor
porations see it in this campaign.” _
Whatever the motives of the commitiee, the
effect of its action will be to give Hoke Smith an
absolute sinch on governorship.
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If you find a knocker, knock him and
charge it fo the Entergrise,
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False , st
Teaching | &sN|| B & MR
of the g @fi"’k\ :
“Realists” || /S |> ™ ||
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AN is much the same as he was a thousand years ago, ‘
The same elemental passions, ambitions and appetites
obtain. THEY ARE THE SAME AS THOSE OF
THE ANIMALS. Science has brought us to realize
this, and our peep into the workshop of nature has had
a tendency to brufalize humanity.
Our knowledge that man is only one of the company of brutes has
led small men to teach that man IN ALL THINGS is merely a
prute. In their desire to unify the world they have jumped at the
conclusion that man is no different from the other creatures that ten
ant the earth. In their passion to show him as a beast philosophers
and authors have reveled in vice and depravity, calling it REALISM.
The French are the worst in this. They have a facility of lan
guage which enables them to speak glibly of things which could not be
mentioned in any other tongue. Their literature destroys their home
life, and virtue is regarded as something rudimentary—an arrested de
velopment. THEY KNOW NO MORAL LAW.
The excuse advanced by Bernard Shaw and others that the books
are written with good intentions will not suffice. They are pandering
to the LOWEST in man.
Society is drifting without a compass. It is a period of transition.
The old canons are gone, and the new ones have not yet been found.
The latest announcement of modern philosophy is that you may do
what you want to, but DON’T GET CAUGHT AT IT. If you do,
commit suicide. In this philosophy of brutality you have an explana
tion for the fact that literature always paints life as a struggle between
the forces of desire and duty. »
NEVER BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAS
THERE SO GREAT A NEED OF MASTERS—MEN WHO WILL IN
TERPRET LIFE IN TERMS OF SANITY AND SANCTITY, OF DUTY
AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Writers should see life in its brightest aspects and have no right
continually to present it in its lower forms. The “naturalists” preach
the right of a woman to sever EVERY TIE which binds her to her
husband when she feels a stronger love for another man. The French
life of today is the best example of its baleful results.
Ibsen, in “The Doll’s House,” strikes a false note and falls far
short of solving the problem, the “woman problem,” which he at
tempts to do. Sudermann mirrors. perfectly the BRUTALIZED
SPIRIT OF MODERN LITERATURE.
Nietsche, the German disciple of materialism, or of COMMER
CIALISM, as we call it in America, preaches that the world will be
long to the strong men—men like Bismarck and Napoleo}.
Absolute Uniformity In
Freight Rates Is Not
Contemplated by the Statute
By Professor HUGO R. MEYER of Chicago University
OR eighteen years we, have had in force the act to regulate
commerce, which forbids mot all discrimination, but only
UNDUE AND UNJUST discrimination. Under that
statute the federal courts have sustained every great American
railway rate practice brought before them for adjudication. More
than that, very rarely, indeed, have the federal courts condemned even
the SPECIFIC rates which had been made under the rate practices
in question. There have been taken to the federal courts forty-five
cases in which the railways have failed to obey the order of the inter
state commerce commission to desist from charging the rate which the
‘commission had held to be unlawful. Thirty-five of those cases have
been decided, and in thirty-two of those cases the federal courts have
held that the order of the commission had been unlawful because based
upon an erroneous construction of the law or upon an ERRONEOUS
WEIGHING of the evidence. :
The federal courts have construed the act to regulate commerce
and have weighed the evidence in cases brought before them under
that act in accordance with the assumption that “commerce” in its
largest sense must be deemed to be one of the most important subjects
of legislation, and an intention to promote and facilitate it and not to
hamper or destroy it is naturally to be attributed to congress. The
very terms of the statute, that charges must be “reasonable,” that dis
crimination must not be “unjust,” and that preference or advantage
to any particular person, firm, corporation or locality must not be
“undue” or “unreasonable,” necessarily imply that STRICT UNI
FORMITY IS NOT TO BE ENFORCED, but that all circum
stances and conditions which reasonable men would regard as affecting
the welfare of the carrying companies and of the producers, shippers
and consumers should be considered.
AND THIS SHOULD BE DETERMINED BY A TRIBUNAL AP
POINTED TO CARRY INTO EFFECT AND ENFORCE THE PRO
VISIONS OF THE ACT.
“All China Wants Is Fair Play”
By N. POON CHEW, Chinese Editor, San Francisco
TAUGHT my children to sing the American hymm, “My
Country, *Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty,” but I came to
; find out that this was a fiction ; that it meant liberty only FOR
SOME, for a few. Where is the American sense of justice
when you damn us for sending back to China to our dear ones wham
we would not leave to starve when your }aws will not permit us o
bring them here? ALL WE WANT IS FAIR PLAY. And le¢
me say that the Chinese empire of the futare shall be better than the
empire of today. Who shall say that sonze day all these perseentions
may not come back to plague their persecators?
BRUSH ASIDE THE COBWEBS OF IGNORANCE AND SELFISH
NESS AND EN.TER THE PERFECT L AND OF BROTHERHOOD" AND
YOU WILL SEE UNDER THE YELLO AW ‘SKIN THE IMAGE OF' TME
COMMON FATHER, = el s wnisha
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D B. WARRE,
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Physician and Surgeon,
eneral Practice Solicited. Bpecial atten
sicn t 0 Genito-Urinary and Rectal Diseasges
Office in Banitarium Blook,
Fitsgerald, Georgis,
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DB. H. J. DORMINY, .
Physician and Surgeon,
Office upstairs in the Bmflre bufldina, Oor,
Grant and Central. tsgerald, Ga.
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L. 8. OBBORNE,
Physician and Burgeon,
Office:—Empire Building.
Residence south end of Grant Bt, Fitsgerald
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DR. E. V. BALL,
FITZGERALD, GA.
Specialist in Diseases of the
Bye, Ear, Nose, Throat, and Chest
Hours: 8 a.m.tosp. m. Bunday,7 to§a. m.
OFFIOE: COR. MAIN & MAGNOLIA a7B.
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I Q. FUBSELL,
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Omice in Phillips Block, over Gelders
Store. General practice solicited.
pecial attention to Obstetrics and diseases
~ women and children. Oharges reasonable.
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DR. E. A. RUSSELL,
Physician and Surgeon
Office up stairs in Hansen Build
isg, Office Hours—3B to 12; 2to 4.
Special Attention to Diseases
of Eye, Nose, Throat and Ear.
DR- Do F- THOMPSON.
FITZGRRALD, G HORGIA.
Offices— 3 and 4, Twyman Block,
near Post Office.
Residence—32B North Main St.
Special Attention to
Obstetric Practice.
OFFICE HOURS—9 to 11 and 2 to 4.
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EYE, EAR, ‘NOSE AND THROAT
OFFICE 315316 CENTURY BLDG.
AT_ANTA, - GEORGIA.
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J. J. HENDLEY. 1. P. JONES.
' HENDLEY & JONES
DENTISTS.
\First door west National Bank.
~ OTIS H. ELKINS,
- Attorney at Law.
HANSEN BOCK, FITZGERALD
[ am prepared to place loans on improved
farm lands at 6 per cent.
BELTON JAY COLAYTON JAY
JAY & JAY,
‘ Attorneys-at-Luw,
Hansen Block. Fitzgerald, Ga.
ALEX J. M¢cDONALD, .H.J. QUINCEY,
Fitzgerald, Ga. Ocilla, Ga."
McDONALD & QUINCEY,
Attorneys At Law,
OFFlCES—idrew Bldz.} . Fitzgerald, Ga
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J. W. HAYGOOD. ELDRIDGE CUTTS
HAYGOOD & COTTS,
ATTORMNEYS-AT-LAW.
OrrioEs--Goodmas Block.
Fitzgerald. Georgin
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B. J. REID,
Attorney-at-Law.
Orrice—Phillips Block.
FrrzceraLd, = = GEORGIA.
CURRAN R. ELLIS,
~Architect,
OFFICES: 4-5-6 ELLIS BLDG
Macon, Georgia.
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