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‘.;.’:’,‘ iok - Fitzgerald Enterprise. b BY THE TZGERALD PUBLISHING CO. e ‘ <' MERCER--Edfiol and Manager. his paper is published three times & week and F is worth %2.50 PER ANNUM Phat is our credit price. #Until further notice subscriptions will be taken - at ONE DOLLAR PFR ANNUM, WHEN PAID ¢IN ADVANCE. We have no choice in the mat " ter and leave it entirely with the gubscriber as i to whether he waits and pays $2.50, or advan . ces the dollar. The amounts are small and ex " pensive to collect. is why we allow the enor ..mous discount for cash subscriptions paid in ad ~ vance. ' We are entitled, under the law, to continue all subscriptions until full gsettlement is made. “ —________—__._—-—___—____—___—_____—____———_ i, & Saturday, May 26, 1906. S "Political Pulse Beats, Taken At Random Over the State. SMITH 101; HOWELL 8, POLL AT SO NORAVILLE. Sonoraville, Gordon County, Ga., May B. On May the 3rd there was an election in So noraville, Ga., for the 1026th district,’G. M. for a member to congress. While holding the elec tion we placed a box on the outside of ithe! court house door, and requested each voter to deposit a ticket in the Dox for his preference for gov ernor. Out of 128 votes cast there was: 101 for Hon. Hoke Smith; 8 for Howell; James M. Smith, Estill, Russell and Nunnally one each. We are satisfied that our district will almost go solid for the Hon. Hoke Smith. Three cheers for Hoke Smith! (Signed.) W. H. Mentyre, W. A. Shelton, D. H. Littlefield. SMITH 216; HOWELL 0, IN POLL ON STEAMER. Brunswick, Glenn County, Ga., May 9'— Polls were taken last night on the gubernator ial race on board the steamers Emmeline and Attaguin, the occasion of which was a moonlight excursion in honor of the visiting delegates to the Red Men’s annual convention now being held at Brunswick. The result was as follows: Hoke Smith 216, Russell 3, Estill 1, Non committal 6. . - (Signed.) : A. M. Zellmer, President Hoke Smith Club, Brunswick, Ga. J. S. Burns, Fairfax, Ga. SMITH 41; HOWELL 2, IN POLL AT VIC TORY. _ Victory, Carroll County, Ga., May 16. Hoke Smith 41; Howell 2; Russell 2, This is the result taken here. (Signed) - J.B. Word. Bowdon, Ga. R. F. D. No. 1. "SMITH 29; HOWELL 2, IN POLL AT WHIGHAM. Whigham, Grady County, Ga., May 15,~1 personally polled the town of Whigham, Grady county, for Governor this morning and found the following results: Hoke Smith 29, Estill 13, Howell 2, Nun nally 3. No One 3. (Signed) R. R. Terrell. SMITH 14, NON-COMMITTAL 1; IN POLL TAKEN AT CORNELIA. : Cornelia, Habersham County, Ga., May 1 —On taking a poll at the store of J. E. Barr in a crowd of fifteen we find fourteen for Hon. Hoke Smith and one non-committal. At the next store door, Cornelia Hardware Co., a poll was also taken where 5 gentlemen were talking and they were all for Hoke Smith. Habersham is overwhelmingly in the advance for the peo ple’s candidate. (Signed) J. W. McConnell, SMITH 42; HOWELL 1; POLL TAKEN AT LOWELL. i Lowell, Carroll County, Ga., May 15.—The following is the result of a poll taken here today for the candidates for Governor: Hoke Smith 42, Jim Smith 0, Dick Russell 3, Dy. Nunnally 4, Estill 2, Howell 1. " I certify that the above is correct. (Signed) John R. Spence, J. P, P. S.—ln my humble opinion Hoke Smith will carry this county at least five to one against the combined forces. sos _ 3. R. 5 SMITH 111, HOWELL 7; POLL AT BALL ; GROUND. Ball Ground, Cherokee county, Ga., May 14, —A ballot box was opened at this place Monday morning showing returns as follows: Hoke Smith 111, Howell 7, Russell 3, Nun naly 2, undecided 2. Cherokee county will vote almost solid for ‘Smith. ~ (Signed.) J. B. Roberts. PENDLETON WILL REGRET LT. A personal friend of Editor Oscar F. Mc- Rae, called our attention to the following edi torial arraignment of Editor Pendleton by the Editor of the Telfair Enterprise, and we like it so well, and believing that it would be read with profit by many of our subscribers, we reproduce it in full, “Nothing in the present campaign for gover nor in Georgia has surprised the Enterprise more than has the peculiar situation in which the Macon Telegraph has been found in the matter of democratic loyalty and the party pri mary pledge. “Until recently the Telegraph has generally kept its temper and met the arguments of those of the press with whom it disagreed in a candid and fair discussion onthe merits of the issue between them. But the present campaign has worked the telegraph into such a fever of excile ment that it imagines every democratic brother who enters its presence to be a fiend benton the dishonor or destruction{of the party unless such a visitor can show that he has his hands bound behind him and either wears the ring collar with a smile of pride or has a gag thrust be tween his teeth. “The Enterprise has not at any time asked that populists, prohibitionists and republicans who would come into the primary as wreckers and party cut-throats be invited into the white primary held ueder democratic management. Before the meeting of the state executivecom-= mittee we advocated allowing and inviting the participation in the democratic white primary of every white man in the state who would honest ly pledge hiwseli to abide the results and in good faith support the nomiaees of the primary in which he took part. We believe still that no harm would have come to the party by such an invitation, but that instead of weakening it would have tended to strengthen and build-up the democratic organization in Georgia. “But the issue between the Enterprigse and the Telegraph has been confined to the pledge of loyalty to two years in advance to the nation al party organizations is an outrage on the dem ocratic manhood of the state—that, with pres ent and past national party conditions and plate forms staring the democrats of Georgia in the face, a pledge of future loyalty to the national party organization, nesessitates the surrender of every principle in national matters andde mands blind loyalty to party name. We con tend that the state committee had no right to de mand of organized Georgia democrats sucha pledge to the national organization. “Our condemnation of theaction of the exe cutive committee for its recent action has been wholly because of the humiliating and danger ous outrage committed against the true and loyal organized democrats of the state. “We saw in that pledge of future Loyalty to the national party not the closing of the democratic state pri mary against the 23,000 podulists and independents who voted for Tom Watson in 1904, but an open attempt to drive out of the demo cratic primary thowusands of con scientious and life lond ordanized democrats. “Pendleton may take that pledge with the avowed purpose of bolting the national organiza tion before the next national election, and salve his conscience over with the sophistry that the bolters and himself are ‘‘our national democ racy.” But he will find that many democrats are unable to consider a pledge as loosely as he regards this one in its bearing on his action as an individual ‘‘democrat’”. In fact, we believe that so many of the pledgers will keep that pledge to the letter that Editor Pendleton would feel rather lonesome in the first election after his “national democracy” had been organized —should he bolt out before that pledge to the present national organized democracy is carried out. “1f Editor Pendleton feels justified in bolt ‘ing the national democratic party of 1908 after taking that pledge, we fail to seec why a former populist could be charged by him with dishonor or bad faith, for taking a like view and similar action in the matter. However the Enterprise believes that both the editor of the Telegraph and those former populists who go into the next primary skould keep the pledge in good faith and vote with the conglomerated national organization of which Hon. Clark Howeli is an executive committeeman—for that pledge is not oue of intention, but one of direct and uaquali fied promise. “phe Telegraph has no right to undertake to make the Enterprise responsible for the views and expressions of the Atlanta Journal, por for the views and actions of those who in 1904 voted for Tom Watson. As a matter of fact the Telegraph must have noticed that the Journal has kept absolutely quiet on that phase of the committee’s action to which the Enter prise has been objecting:—the injustice in re quiring democrats (not populists) to pledge blindly to support the national nominees and platform of over two years in the future. “The Telegraph may now dodge and squirm and misrepresent our sentiments and expres sions, and it may take the pledge with the in tention of disregarding it two years from now; but the day will come. and that shortiy, when the Telegraph will regret that it encouraged and defended the state democratic executive committee in its partisan and revolutionary ac tionin making that future loyalty pledge and forcing it down the throats of loyal and true Georgia white democrats. “That pledge rule was the work of real and powerful party wreckers, asthe near futurewill show if their purpose is not forestalled by the de termined action of the white demo crats of Geordia inthe approaching democratic white primary.’’ oM The Coffee County executive committee offers the following gentle rebuke to the state com mittee, “Voters not willing to take the pledge as prescribed by the state committee for the state primary may vote for representative and county officers by detaching that part of the ballot covered by the state primary. 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Or to JAS. P, COX, Agent, Ocilla, Ga. The umrprecedented weather together wit% Prof. Klepper’s illness made it practically im possible to hold the closing exercises of the graduating class of the high school as billed to take place at the opera house last night. Mo It is claimed that strawberries will cause insanity, The editor of the Enterprise has been eating them three times a day for several months. We do not know what connection that fact has with the announcement of the insanity theory. MR i The Howell men can vote for Estill and the Estill men can vote for Howell, or they can vote for the same man-it won’t matter here how they scatter or concentrate. Hoke Smith is going to carry Crisp county, sure Peter!—Cor dele Rambler. ® M Harry Stillwell Edwards who is the head of the republican machine in Georgia, at least he stands close to the administration, says the re publicans can not vote in the state primary, connot afford to vote as it commits them to the democratic party in national as well as state poli tics. E ] In the issue of October 5, 1904, of Collier’s Weekly, Mr. Clark Howell says: “With the negro vote eliminated, the white voters of the South would divide along political lines just as they did before the war, which would be in finite ly better for the white man and the negro as well.”’—Thomasville Press.