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"HURSDAY, MAY .29, 1906,
9 Eaterprise deplores the tendency to
S it the progress of the city’s development
9 eriering with the improvements absolutely
@sary to the success of the enterprises on
@k we so largely depend for our present pros-
Wy and future advancement and growth.
Qbst before we have done with the congratu
s and felicitation incident to the establish
¢ o the great A., B. &A. shops, we are con-
Ped with a spirit of rebellion against the
Mpany that has done and is doing so much
AFitzgerald. ;
@We do not believe that any citizen or tax
; ;should be required or expected to sustain
> eat actual damages to property without a
@ber remuneration. We have always believed
ihall always insist on the protection of the
ts of the least and humblest ‘tax payer, but
e is a remedy, a better remedy, and more
@onable remedy than that remedy which is
& on opposition to the expansion of the rail-
W interests that are growing up about our
Wressive city.
vfzratitude is said to be the greatest of
{certainly it is the most common of human
esses, and if the council hesitates to grant
failroad reasonable privileges by whick it
kove access to the shop site we have recent-
Wrchased and donated’ to them, it will not
' s the heighth of inconcistency but a blund
&t every property owner in the city should
shamed of.
@We are right now figuring on making room
g our city and through our streets for a
line of railroad. and one that will add
dßher half million dollars, immediately, to our
Evalues.
| We must not foster a spirit of spite against
gilroad companies.
Without them Chicago would be a marsh
psting place for birds that fly over Lake
ligan. '
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The way Hoke Smith’s strength is “‘wan
-8 is alarming to the political tricksters and
§ the railroad attorneys figuring.
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Pitzgerald is going to make a hard fight
‘new county. We hope she will get it, and
it Ben Hill.—Cordele Rambler.
We will name it Ben Hill, all right, that is
allow the legislature to do that. Weare
rßen Hill county.
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We are printing today a short story of
ferald, published in Monday’s Constitution,
fen by Col. Clayton Jay. Its beautiful dic
and Mr. Jay’s tactful statement of the case
short article stamps him as a smooth and
g writer. The article was written off
g at his typewriter and without any prepar
|of data. Don’t fail to read it. o
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A Washington story says statistics show
ithere are more than 700 Joseph Benson
pkers in the Southern states and every one
jem is a pickaninny. Senator Foraker is
Boreat anti-Jim Crow statesman of Congress,
fin recognition of his efforts to give the neg
je right to ride with white people, a number
groes of the South have honored the Ohio
for by naming their offspring for him.
Benator must indeed feel honored.
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Judge Kennedy opened the regular May
fon of the City Court yesterday morning,
iptly at ten o’clock. The civil docket was
gst taken up and Solicitor McDonald was
Lwith quite a list of cases. The following
f was called. Alex Schmitz, Geo. F. Mc
fad, Darius Nelson, J. G. Rowe, J. E. Tur-
L J. B. Seanor, J. M. Barentine,J. M. Haynes,
*Armantrout, D. L. Martin, M. H. Grover
LH. M. Warren.
| Winnie Rountree was chief spectator.
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| There is a strong sentiment in favor of
cfing Pearly Mclnnis to fill the unexpired
mof his father as sheriff. He has been look
after the duties of the office during his fath
_ st illness . and is considered quite compe-
Bd worthy.
periff Handley is spoken of in connec
o ‘the long term. If he consents #Pmake
gace, he will, in all probability, be elected
- ay other aspirant that might appear. He
OFFIOE EONgermow than whea he was elected
CAMP OF WHITE TENTS HAS BEEN
TRANSFORMED INTO WONDERFUL BITY
Fitzgerald, in Irwin County, an Object Lesson of
Georgia’s Progress, Becomes in Ten Years
a City of 10,000 Population,
Col. Clayton Jay, in Atlanta Constitution.
Fitzgerald, Ga., May 27.—Georgians of the
cities and those who live on cultivated farms in
the red hills, s they sit in their cosy homes
are wont to think of pioneer days and magic
cities as things of the far past, and, even then,
not associated with Georgia, but the prairie
west.
Yet within a few days’ ride from their
doors, the builders of cities have been at work
and have labored so silently and so well that, al
most unknowingly, there have arisen with the
past generation half a score of cities that bid
fair to rival the most prosperous of the south.
The wiregrass has been the scene of action.
Turpentine stills and saw mill hamlets have
given place to clustering blocks of brick and
stone, with paved streets and handsome resi
dences. The paths of the wild cattle have wid
ened into well worked highways, and a web of
railroads have appeared s quickly spun and so
closely drawn that it resembles the work of a
giant spider that has labored over night.
The entire section spoken of should excite
the admiration of the country. HKach town
stands as an amazing record of the enterprise
and aggressiveness of its energetic citizenry.
The most wonderful of the whole number
is the city of Fitzgerald.
Many people in the north end of the state
and of Alabama and Tennessee will remember
the continual stream of whitened wagons that
poured over the hills and southward during the
fall and winter of 1895, This was the begining
of Fitzgerald. Founded by P. H. Fitzgerald,
of Indiana, and located by Ex-Governor North
en in the virgin pine forests of Irwin county, it
began its career without a railroad. Two short
lines entered the town the following summer of
1896, and the 2,000 settlers, with renewed
energy, bowed to their tasks.
There is a field for a novelist here. Vol
umes could be written of the upward struggle
against odds; the pleasures, the sufferings that
came t{o these campfire people, for in those days
itwas but a hugh camp of tent and bark, lighted
at night by hundreds of rosin-soaked stumps.
But let this be passed over. It is the city of to
day that demands attention and that strikes
with wonder the returning wanderer who was
familiar with the country a decade ago.
WHO MAKE UP ITS CITIZENS.
As a colony city for old soldiers and seek
ers of milder winters, the impression may have
spread among the unknowing that it is an
asylum for the aged and invalid, a winter resort
a socialistic community. Itis a home for the
soldier, in that several thousand veterans of the
blue and gray, peacefully gathered, live at
ease from the proceeds of their small orchards
and truck lands; a winter resort, in that hund
reds of solid and substantial citizens from the
north and west take refuge thro the cold months
and socialistic, in that the heart and hand of
every man jo'ns with his neighbors in the com
mon welfare and up-building of the community.
It is metropolitan, composed of many people of
many ideas but all are focused oan one central
object—a greater and better Fitzgerald. The
brain and brawn of Georgia's sons stands with
the foremost in the development of this new
city, at least 50 per cent of the inhabitants
being of native birth. Each county in the state
has supplied its quota. Most of these have
been young men, who came to build their for
tunes, and well have they succeeded. It is the
most noticeable fact tovisitors that theinterests
of the town are in the hands, for the greater
part of young men.
And truly these young men have builded
wisely. Fitzgerald is a manufacturing town,
and these are the men who made it so. The
latest achievement is the securing of the large
shops now being erected by the Atlanta, Bir
mingham and Atlantic Railroad Company, which
will cost over $500,000 and cover more ground
than any in the south outside of Richmond, Va.
Two hundred acres were given the railroad for
a shop site.
Throughout the day the sound of hammer
and saw and the whir of machinery never cease
and the throbbing dynamos pulsate with the
heart of night.
The city proper covers a territory a mile
and a quarter square, beautifully laid off in
streets and avenues, with a wide drive sur
rounding the whole. The trees planted by the
early colonists are assuming large proportions,
and a pleasing view is presented from the top
of any tall building. The suburbancountry is
as pretty as any in the south. Forty thousand
acres have been divided into small tracts by the
company, and most of these are now occupied
and in a state of high cultivation. Ample lanes
were laid off for the convenience of the tract
men and these now afford pleasant driveways to
the inhabitants of the city.
The population of the colony consists of
about 10,000 people, 5,000 of whom live within
the limits of Fitzgerald. .
The healthiest of climates, a hearty, indust
rious people, converging railroads, numbers of
industries and unlimited farming resources
give the backbone to a city that will be heard
from henceforth in Georgia history.
A HOKE SMITH CONVERT.
The Economist editorially has not espoused
the cause nor expressed its preference for any
candidate for governor up to this time. On ac
count of the candidacy of Judge Russell, who is
a citizen of Jackson county and a personal friend
of the editor of this paper, we have refrained
from advocating any one of the gentleman in
our columns, as we naturally would have prefer
red giving him our support, and would gladly
have done this if there had been no issues in
volved and no higher motive to guide us than
simply personal preference and county pride.
But all candidates and thioking men who
have watched and kept up with the developments
of the present campaign, and who have studied
it from purely patriotic motives, wishing to see
the best interest of all the people of Georgia
subserved are irresistibly led to the support of
Hon. Hoke Smith,
Every action of the manipulators, who have
been controlling Georgia for years, aided and
abetted by the powerful influences backing
them, shows clearly and beyond doubt their de
termination to dictate and direct, if possible,
the policy of the state in their own interest and
to the detriment of all others. This palicy is
so plain that no man can fail to see it. Hon.
Hoke Smith is espousing the cause of the pece
is boldly and fearlessly, making an open and
manly fight in their bebalf, exposing the manie
pulators of rottenness and corruption. All the
forces opposed to the people ruling, opposed to
pure and undefiled Democracy, are fighting him
with a bitterness that should arouse the free
and untrammeled voters of the state to action
and to a sense of duty in thi< perilous hour,
When grave issues are iavolved no paper
should be afraid to express its honest convic
tions and tell how it stands and for whom it
stands. Often thisis not a pleasant duty, be
cause it may estrange friendships of long stand
jog. But feeling as we do, viewing the cam
paign from every standpoiant, we could not be
true to our convictions and to what we honestly
conceive to be to the best interest of our state
to do otherwise, and shall therefore give Hoke
Smith our earnest support.—The Jackson Econ
omist.
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Pull for F itzgerald or pull out.
Professional Cards
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D B. WARE,
: Physician and Burgeon,
eneral Practice Solicited. Special atten
tion to Genito-Urinary and Rectal Diseases
Office in Sanitarium Block,
Fitsgerald, Georgle,
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DR. BE. J. DORMINY,
Phyeician and Surgeos, :
Office upstairs in the Emgire bundtné, Cor
Grant and Ceatral [Kitsgerald, Ga.
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L 8. ORBORNEF,
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Physician and Burgeon
| Office:— Empire Buildicg.
Restdence scutb end of Grant Bt. Fitzgerald
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[& G A TOWNSEND.
| OSTEOPATHIO PHYSICIAN,
Office Davis Block, opposite P. O.
OFriCE HOURS-9to 12 a. m, Ito4p. m.
Lk BA it es s B
‘“n E. V. BALL,
FITZGERALD, GA,
Specialist in Diseaces of the
Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat, end Chest
Hours: 8a m. tos p. m. Bunday, 7 tofa m
OFFICE: NEW HOLTZENDORF BUILDING
, O. WUSSELL. :
. Physician and Surgeon,
Jii:e in Philips Block, over Gelders
S.ure. General practice solicited.
neain) attention to Obstetrics and diseases
women and children. Oharges reasonable.
CorBegERGE el gl e e et SN
DR. E. A. RUSSELL,
Physician and Surgeon
Office up stairs in Hansen Build
irg. Office Hours—B to 12; 2to 4.
Special Attention to Diseases
of Eye, Nose, Throat and Ear.
DR.J H. POWELL.
EYE, EAR, -NOSE AND THROAT
OFFICE 315-16 CENTURY BLDG.
ATLANTA, - GEORGIA.
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J.J. HENDLEY. T. P. JONES.
HENDLEY & JONES ;
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First door west National Bank.
Annual Seashore Excursion
VIA .
Atlanta, Birmmgham
& Atlantic Railroad.
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Brunswick, St. Simons
Cumberland Island,
JUNE 5, 1906.
Special train will leave Fitzgerald 11.10 a. m.
Is the Fare for the Round Trip. = Tickets good
to return to and including June 10th
on all regular trains.
A great opportunity to visit the sea
- shore and enjoy a delightful out
ing at a small cost.
H. C. McFADDEN, J. G. KNAPP,
General Passenger Agt., Commercial Agt.
Atlanta, Ga. Fitzgerald, Ga.
«.NEW $2.00 A DAY HOTEL..
The Drummer’s Home
9
ABBEVILLE, GEORGIA.
Conveniently located for Fitzgerald folk changing cars
at Abbeville, hotel being on a high elevation just across
the track and exactly opposite union depot. A good meal
for 50c and a pleasant place to await your train. Don’t
worry about the yelpiog negroes at the station, but come
right over. You will be glad you came.
LADIES ESPECIALLY INVITED.
Who Are “Prominent Democrais?”
The great and good Macon Telegraph says:
““We are for no man., We are for the Demo
cratic party. Men are not on trial.” Then the
Telegraph goes right on trying to try men.
The Telegraph has done little else in this cam
paign, and in most of the trials the Telegraph
is judge, jury and prosecuting attorney.
The Telegraph charges that ‘“Hoke Smith
and the Atlanta Journal are linked up with Tom
Watson in the crusade against the Democratic
party. They abuse every prominent democrat
ia the state, etc.”
That is not only abuse, but misrepresen
tation. The allegations are not true. The
Telegraph knows that Watson and Smith are
not linked up any more than Hoke Smith and a
vast majority of the white men of the state are
linked up. Mr. Watson regards Mr. Smith as
the best man of the candidates announced for
governor of Georgia, and a majority of the good
white pzople of the state feel the same way
about it, and to that extent they are ‘‘linked up”
and it looks like they are going to stay “linked
up” until Mr. Smith is nominated and elected.
If anybody were to insinuate that Pendleton and
Hanson were ‘‘linked up,’”’ Pendleton would re
sent it, but they are ‘'linked up” against Smith,
just like Tom Watson and a large number of
democrats are “‘linked up” with Hoke Smith.
They do not abuse every prominent demo
crat in the state. What does Editor Pendleton
call a “prominent democrat?’ Is it only those
democrats who have formed a coalition with the
corporation attorneys to rule or ruin the party..
. Would be glad to have Editor Pendleton give us
bis definition of ‘‘prominent democrats.”
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Let those who are democrats stand up on
the democratic party side.—Macon Telegraph,
We are standing up right there. It's the
only side we ever stood on or ever expect to
stand on. Our name is legion as you will see
on August 22ad, and standing up on the demo~
cratic party’s side we will see that the demo
cratic organijzation of the state is wrested from
the hands of the corporation hirelings and lobe
byists before the party ia the state is overtaken
by the disgrace that we read about in other
states where people waited too long and permit
ted the party minipulators to go too far.