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. Tuesday, May 8, 1906, S
: F} disfranchisers on the state committee
jven us a few pointers on disfranchisment
Selves. .
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Mr. Howell knows by this time that Irwin
bt solid for him as it was thought to be last
pk, thought it is inviting missionary ground.
Deilla Star.
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| Now wouldn’t Hoke be delighted to meet
~lark once more on the stump. Wonder if
trainer McWhorter wouldn’t be willing to let
him have one more opportunity.
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. We are offiering a reward of a hundred
ithousand dollars for the man who will arrange
lwith Hamilton McWhorter & Co. a date for
their little man Clark to meet Hoke Smith on the
‘'stump one more time,
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. The action of the state democratic commit
tec makes one thing clear, as clear as the noon
jday sky, and that is that the things charged
lagainst the ring candidate and their backers
lare founded in facts, real stern serious facts,
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i Mr. S, D. Parsons and others came in this
imorning on the Seaboard train from Abbeville,
tand naturally talked some politics and it was de
¢ided to take a poll of the nine gentlemen in the
icoach, with the following result:
. Hoke Smith 7; Russell 1; Howell 1.
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. Wedonot question the committee’s rights,
(if official authority is called right,) to formu
late rules for the guidance of the party, but
Lf_s a_democrat who never voted an other ticket,
we havea right to say what we think of their
;tion. .
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3 “Executive” means to execute. Then why
did the state Democratic Executive Committee
change one of the party rules or laws in regard
to eligibility of voters? That committee was
elected to execute the laws of the party, not to
make them, clse its pame is a misnomer. The
State democratic convention is or should be the
law making power for the party.—Ocilla Star.
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- Some of the Clark Howell newspapers in
South Georgia are getting red in the face and
hot under their collars trying to boost Col. Es
till for the governorship, but their efforts are
vain. The Hoke Smith voters in South Georgia
can’t be cajoled into supporting the genial Colo
nel this time.—Newnan News.
; For the North Georgia people they use
candidate Jim Smith, or Judge Dick Russell for
about the same purposes.
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It seems that the opposition to Hoke Smith’s
c_andidaéy in the state, which has been so solict
ous abont the negro, is willing to do some dis
franchising onits own hook the way it put it
on to “the po white trash.” Clark Howell, Hamp
McWorther, et als will have some difficulty in
making it clear why they are so anxious
about negro disfranchisment and at the' same
time so willing to disfranchise thirty thousand
white voters at one swoop.
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Fitzgerald Chamber of Commerce is out
for business. Itishandling now in a system
atic and business like way a brand new railroad
proposition that looks good to us, It will not do
any geod to publish details, and the best service
the Enteprise can render its readers is to re
frain from the publication of unnecessary de
tails, But we are willing to wager several hund
red thousand dollars against any man’s pocket
change that Fitzgerald will have a new and inde
pendent R. R, line in less than twelve months.
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Hon. Clark did not meet with the commit
tee but his ‘‘sperit” was there just the same.—
QOcilla Star.
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The puny opposition to the New Couunty is
not'supposed torest long for as we have said be
fore while it is weak and puny thereis a fever
ish activity that is menacing to our rights. Al
ready we hear the suggestion that it would be
better to wait and move the court house to Fitz
erald than tocut the county.. Of course, no
well informed man believes that the court
house can be moved from Irwinville in forty
years, the people who talk it do not believe, but
it is the next and perhaps the last scheme of the
piiny opposition to get the people here divided
on the question, .Our only chance of escape
from the court-house-in-the-woods is the new
* county and this talk of court house removal_is
Often—very often we hear or see it stated
that the negro children of this country are
more eager for an’ education than the poor
white children are. The detestable theorvis
being made to do service in the present guber
natorial campaign. What can be more disgust
‘ing or revolting to the self respecting white
man than this base argument?
We knotw that the negro schools are full,
that a large percentage of the negro childrenin
Georgia are attending the public shools, but wye
have not the slightest respect for the opinion of
the man who insiststhat it is a result of a great
er desire for education than characterizes the
average poor white child. They are not more
eager togo toschool, but less eager to go to work.
The negro is indolent by nature. They don’ttake
kinkly to manual labor and the school houseis
a convenient refuge, shool houses built by white
men, school teachers paid by the taxes of the
white people afford them at least a pleasant
means of escape from the plow handles and the
hoe.
We are not guessing at a theory, we know
from personal observation and experience
whereof we asseverate. The forty-five years of
our life have been spentin a section of the coun=
try where the population is evenly divided be
tween the two races, and our opportunity for ob
serving and knowing the truth about the matter
entitles us to an opinion independent of any
man’s theory. We have no patience with the
man who, knowing these truths,is willing for
political purposes to accept the suggestion from
a theorist that the poot whites of Georgia, (t 2
purest American blood on the centinent) are in
different about the important question of educa
tion as compared with the children of the ex
slaves brought only a few generations ago by
New England slave traders from the jungles of
Africa.
The poor white children of Georgia are all
right, they are imbued with the loftiest aspira
tions, they'are eager for education and higher
attainments, and will in the future, as they have
in the past furnish history with many illustri
ous examples.
Those who have been silly enough to use
this argument for political purposesin the pres
ent gubernatorial campaign will be ashamed of
it before the close of the term of the governor
to be elected this year. -
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Mr. G. A. Cone, of Wilcox county, is in the
city today, and while he is not soliciting Irwin
county votes, it is a fact that he has recently an
with a fair prospect of election to that responsi
ble position. He is a highly respected church
man and school teacher, which indicate his capa
bilities and worthiness.
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“Bright Ben” Russell, of the Bainbrige
Qearch Light, ina column devoted to the state
primary, a defense of the state committee’s ac
tion, makes clear the one point that this isa dem
ocratic contest within the democratic household
and that as democrats they have the right to
exclude everything but democrats, but “Bright
Ben" falls down in his logic when he likeas the
party toa particular christian church. He says:
“what would become of the Baptist church if
the doctrine of immersion was to be decided by
Methdists?” and states that they can manage
their own matters justas the Baptists, Pres
byterians, and Methodists all do.”” Let’s carry
“Bright Ben’s’’ theory toits last analysis and
set us Wp in Georgia, a sound money democratic
party, that’s the Baptist church;a free silver
democratic party, that’s the Episcopal church;
a government ownership democratic party, that
the.Presyterian church; a disfranchisment dem
ocratic party, that’s the M. E.church south.
Now will “Bright Ben’’ proceed to tell us what
would become of the party of the people, the
party of the white menof the south. If his Bap
tist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopalian
rule should be strictly adhered to?
As a Methodist, we would invite them all,
Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Episco
paliaus, into the great christian household.
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The first complete map of the colony do
main showing the streams, railroads, roads and
school houses, corrected from the field notes
taken by Mr. H. G. Taylor has jus! been issued
together with the corrected map of the city
showing railroads, school reserves, parks etc,
blue prints 3} feet square for sale at the En
terprise office. These maps have been made
and corrected at a large expense.,, and
copyrighted $5OO per pair while they last.
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“It seems there are quite a number of the
people in Ocilla who oppose the new county
movement, without realizing it,”” said a shrewd
observer to us Monday. ‘‘They vote straw bal
lots for Smith or Howell without thinking how
such action may be used agaiust the new coun
ty, at the June session of the legislature at
which time the fate of the new county will most
likely be decided.”’ Be careful’ fellow-citizens.
Continued vigilance is the price of—the new
county,—Qcilla Star,
Bah! Hanlon, don't print such foolishness,
Hoke Smith, Clark Howell, or any other decent
man will respect the people of Ocllla, or any
other community more for expressing them
selves openly and above board.
Youth’s Roseate & %
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View of the- &&%
Future »w Q¥
D.J. BREWER
of the Uniged States Supreme Couri S
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T is one of the weaknesses, and yet one of the comforts of
youth, that it does not wholly realize the RESPONSIBILI
TIES OF «LIVING. The young look forward on life as
something reaching far into the distance, rich in beautiful ex
periences, crowned with joys and successes. Life has its
vast range from highest joy to deepest sorrow, and the responsibilities
of living reach in the one direction as much as in the other.
Life is not a mere collection of frivolities, nor a long routine of
moaning and sorrow, but A MASS OF VARIED EXPERI
ENCES, each teaching its own lesson and together fashionimg the
character we take with us into the great hereafter. Therefore, take it
neither flippantly nor sadly, but EARNESTLY, as something given
to us to be made use of both for self and others.
It is one of the pleasures of youth that its pictures of the future
are visions of beauty. Every young man and young woman has day
-dreams, as we say, builds air castles and thinks of all that is coming
¢s filled with joy. He would be reluctant to disclose these visions to
others; he would be afraid of being laughed at. So called practical
men would smile at the folly of many of them.
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Well, one thing is sure: In all these visions there is PURITY.
No young man or young woman in his or her day dreams, in his or her
picture of the future, beholds a life of crime or shame. It is to themh
something good and true and pure. It is unfortunate, it is sad, that
as the young grow up into manhood and womanhood and mingle in
‘business and society, in the strifes and toils of the world, so many of
these bright visions pass away. b :
~ In appealing to an audience of the young in this country one can
not but realize that he is talking to those who are the makers of the
country’s destiny. In a monarchy, where there is some hereditary
ruler who manages all the affairs of state, determines the policy of the
nation, the great masses have comparatively little influence. But here
WE ARE ALL RULERS, and we who find the silver hair coming
onto our heads know that we soon shall pass away and the young men
come forward to work out the destiny of the nation. There is no one
of us but loves his country; no one but looks upon its past history
with pride, glories in the fact that he is an American citizen, and,
glorying in that fact, looks forward to the future of the nation in the
faith and the hope that that future WILL BE EVEN GRANDER
and more magnificent than its past. We see today the wonderful
things which have been accomplished, and we dream what will be.
NATION IS A PART OF THEIR DUTY AND ONE OF THEIR RE.
SPONSIBILITIES IN LIFE, MUST CERTAINLY WISH THAT THOSE
THINGS SHALL PREVAIL WHICH MAKE FOR ITS ‘HIGHEST GOOD.
How Education
Affects Housekeeping
By Rev. I“TADISON C. PETERS, Pastor of Church of the Epiphany, New York
CHfl state of life into which it has pleased God to call our:
daighters is plainly for the most part that which entails the
duies of the housekeeper and the ITOME MAXER, and
forthose duties the learning acquired in the schools often
does much t¢ UNFIT - them.
The resullof this unfitness in the foundation education is seen in.
the extravagai habits of our modern housekeeping, the ignorant
waste where thyoung lady finds herself unable to teach and direct her
servant in casesyhere she is not required to do the actual work her
self; and, wearyiy of her attempts to be queen of her own household,
ghe allows her lile kingdom to live WITHOUT A HEAD. Her'
husband finds thathe expense of married life is far greater than he
had anticipated anthe comfort less. As the expenditures increase he
sees that his hard wk on one side is only to supply the MEANS OF
'WASTEFULNESion the other side and that his children are grow
ing up with notions’ life which NOTHING can satisfy.
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I believe in the Yher education of women, but let their training
send them out into 1 world always as interested in making rooms
pleasant and the fooslatable as a bonnet artistic; in working a
handsome daily homey, 45 5 piece of embroidery or playing a har-.
mony of household disjtjong as s symphony of Beethoven ; in trans
lating the temperamennq tastes of 4 household as a comedy of
Aristophanes and in TERPRETING THE MOODS OF AY
HUSBAND as those o, of the heroes of the Tliad, '
e eeeieeeeeseemeemasests N 3
Erroneous Views of
- Imortant Questions.
By FELIX ADLE.. ~ Culturist, New York City
OUNG men and \o, 500 wrong when they believe that
their own EIUONT, TARPINEER i ¢ inest jupor
tant part of amar, 000 of marriage is to keep
the flame of humsg, burnjng, and when that is done a
successful marriage has bee, . ¢ Not only should the fiame be
kept burning, but it should .. . burn brightly. BETTER
OFFSPRING should be Stri"or, and health should be considered.
An unofficial eensorship o press and drama is needed by the
public. If the educated classes Sk posahis Whe. ide Bited to ko
would guide the LESS FAV.p, classes by their advice, such
books as Bernard Shaw's would gan ;:hey e
At present the “first classes, 4 “gpper set” owe their posk- ‘
tion merely to wealth. How mu,, . il e i blacakicn aad ,
refinement placed them there! |
HOW, MUCH BETTER IT WOk ir, msTEAD OF SETTING |
THE FASHIONS~IN CLOTHES, T ET TH.E FASHIONS IN LIT
ERATURE AND THAT THIS Ml?,w“ INTELLIGENTLY FUL- ‘
FILLED! g aton et - x
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Professional Cardsfi
D B. WARE, ;
: Physician and Surgeon,
eneral Practice. Solicited. Bpecial atten
tion to Genito-Orinary and Rectal Diseases
Office in Banitarium Block,
« Fitsgerald, Georgis.
DR. B. J. DORMINY,
Physician and Surgeon,
Office upstairs in the Emgire bufldin&, Cor,
Grant and Central. Hitsgerald, Gs.
L. 8. OSBORNE, :
Phyesician and Surgeon,
Office:—Empire Building.
Residence south end of Grant Bt, Fitsgerald
DR E. V. BALL,
FITZGERALD, GA.,
Bpecialist in Diseases of the
Eye, BEar, Nose, Tkroat, and Chest
Hours: Ba.m. tO6 p. m. Bunday, 7 to &a. m.
OFFICE: OOR. MAIN & MAGNOLIA BTB,
J 0. FUBSELL,
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Physician and Surgeon,
Ofice in Phillips Block, over Gelders
Store. General practice solicited.
peoial attention to Obsatetrics and diseases
women and children. Oharges reasonable.
DR. E. A. RUSSELL,
Physician and Surgeon
Office up stairs in Hansen *Build
iog. Office Hours—SB to 12; 2to 4.
Special Attention to Diseases
of Eye, Nose, Throat and Ear.
DR. D. F. THOMPSON.
FITZGERALD, GRORGIA.
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.
e el BRUss e R
DR.J H. POWELL.
EYE, EAR, -NOSE AND THROAT
OFFICE 315-16 CENTURY BLDG.
ATLANTA, - GEORGIA.
* 11. J. HENDLEY. 7. P. JONES.
| HENDLEY & JONES
, DENTISTS.
| First door west National Bank.
OTIS H. ELKINS,
| Attorney at Law.
HANSEN BOCK, FITZGERALD
I am prepared to vlace loans on improved
farm lands at 6 per cett.
BELTON JAY CLAYTON JAY
JAY & JAY,
! Attorneys-ar-Law,
Hansen Block. Fitzgerald, Ga.
o g e e R ey
ALEX J. MCDONALD, . H.J. QUINCEY,
Fitzgerald, Ga. Ocilla, Ga.’
McDONALD & QUINCEY,
Attorneys At Law,
OrricEs—Drew Bldg.j . Fitzgemald, Ga
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J.\W. HAYGOOD. BLDRIDGE CUTTS
HAYGOOD & COTTS,
ATTORNBYS-AT-LA‘W’.Z
OrFriczs-~Goodman Block,
& Fitzgerald. Ge« rgin
B. J. REID,
Attorney-at-Law.
OrricE—Phillips Block.
FIrzGERALD, - - GEORGIA.
CURRAN R. ELLIS,
Architect,
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OFFICES: 4-5-6 ELLIS BLDG
Macon, Georgia. '
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BIISIGIN-S JEWBITY diore
414 South Maln Street.
Cleaning Watches s e 150
‘Watch Mainepring5........cc........... 750
Cleaning Olocks, 1 day 50c, 8 day 75¢
Clock Mainsprings, 1 day.............. 50¢
Clock Mainsprings, 8day............. Ts¢
COrystals and Hands each ..............__lo¢
All other werk in proportion and
warranted.
H. WETTSTEIN,
First Established Jewelét in
Fitzgersit,