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l TUESDAY
THURSDAY
| SATURDAY
VOLUME XVII
2 The Presidential Candidates
We have avoided saying anything against any Democratic candi
date for President. What we have said for any of them has not been by
way of disparagement of any of them.
When men play politics they usually play unfairly. They adopt
the idiom that “All is fair in love and war,” but really it isn’t fair in poli
tics but is very harmful.
When Mr. Harmon was in Georgia several months ago, we met
him, talked with him and liked him. He would make a great president,
but we fear that he wouid be lenient with the trusts—the dreaded ene
mies of the “Common People.”
The things we have read about Mr. Underwood have impressed
us favorably. He is-a strong Southern Democrat.
b Speaker Champ Clark, .of Missouri, who appears to be the leading
Democratic candidate at present, is another distinguished American
that the Democrats could afford to trust with the banner this Summer.
! ‘Woodrow Wilson, the wonderfully popular and very strong Gov
ernor of New Jersey, seems to be pre-eminently fitted for the duties of -‘
the high office of President, and he certainly has very strong claims o
ioyal Georgians. :
He seems to be farthest from the ~trust” influences of all of the
candidates mentioned, and that is a paramount thought, if not an issue.
The strife that has arisen in Georgia is unfortunate. And the
campaign has degenerated into an ugly fight between old state factions.
We regret the necessity for admitting that harsh and unfair statements
‘have come from papexs and leading men on both sides, for there are only
¢wo sides in the four-sided contest, the alleged friends of three candi
dates have combined, for state reasons only. against Governor Woodrow
Wilson.
v They have failed to give any good reason why Mr. Wilson would
pot make a great President and the party a strong, if not the strongest
possible, candidate. :
Up to the present time the candidate on whom the opposition to
Governor Wilson has centered has not received a vote outside of his home
state, which might have been cast for a much weaker and less fit citizen
of that state. The vote of Alabama must at this time be considered in
the light of a compliment to a “favorite son.”
: Champ Clark seems to be the formidable foe of Woodrow Wilson,
and is probably as strong as any other man mentioned, and possibly his
greatest dread now is that the opposition will unite its scattered forces
against him, just as the friends-of the weaker candidates are now. com
bining in this state against Woodrow Wilson. ,
We have not one word to say against Mr. Underwood or any of
the other candidates mentioned, but it does seem that the sane and
reasonable thing for Georgia Democrats to do is to send a solid Wilson
Delegation to the Baltimore Convention, instructed to vote for Mr. Un
derwood if it should appear that in the contest between the stronger
candidates there was a chance to compromise on him.
STANDING OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
: Underwood Clark Harmon Wilson
SR 0 0 0
Arkansas— (In doubt between,
( ‘Clark and Wilson.) )
fMaine. ............coonnnn 0 0 4 8
8 201 0 0
E‘Oklahoma..fi... e 101 t 0 10
g"Mi550uri.................. 0 36 0 0
- North Dakota—(For Burke,
~ Wilson second choice.)
" Indiana— (For Marshall. . ..
Wilson second choice.)
N 36 0 0
Wisconsin . .........>}.. 0 2 0 24
22 104 4 e
+Kansas for Wilson on 2nd
et 20 20
L o iy 5 .
| 84 62
-11 Oklahoma for Wilson on
B s 10 10
| 74 72
- Farmers, Borrow From Us
: Borrow from us the money you will
need this Spring, instead of borrowing it
: from your merchant.
{' We want good farm accounts. We
" want the accounts of farmers who need
:- money in the Spring and who will be able
" to pay it back in the Fall. '
E. The Merchants, too, want good farm
f' accounts, but they prefer to sell the farm
~ ers for CASH, and will sell them CHEAPER
if they know they are going to get the cash.
Once you start borrowing from us,
. you’ll never go back to the old custom.
It’s the BEST way, so why not start it at
{. once?
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» FITZGERALD, GEORGIA
| The Bank for YOUR Savings. -
FITZGERALD ENTERPRISE
THRICE-A-WEEK
FTTZGERALD. GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1912
An Cbject Lesson For
The City Of Fitzgerald
The “wide-open” schedule lis
fast, fierce, all down gr:dde. The way
stations are trouble, vice and. law
lessness. The end of the runis the
jumping off place--Hell !
Let's profit by an object lesson
from .a neighboring city. It's the
sensible thing to do and we Insist
on it. | ; ;
Albany has been running wide
open, so far as the police depart
ment is concerned for some Yyears.
That's where Dr. Broughton was
assaulted for preaching the .u:uth.
Well, J. W. Walters, solicitor of
the city court, was a candidate for
re-clection and one (or more) of the
criminals who was prosecuted by
him, circulated, anonymously, a
letter containing a vile slan(.ler, in
which it was advised that it was
better to let the town run wide open.
One of the paragraphs of the
dirty letter read:
«Chief of Police, with the rule of leniency
rather than harshness, induce the stranger to
come within our midst to spend his loose change
rather than go to Atlanta, Macon and other large
places to part with it.
«Second: The present solicitor of the City
Court is absolutely lacking in the ability to dis
criminaie in the prosecution of offenses involv
ing the violation of matters that really tend to
bring to this City many people WHO COME FOR
THE PURPOSE OF SPENDING THEIR MONEY, and
in which event the mercharts of the City as a
whole are benefitted, what we need most is a
big town, a better town with LESS RESTRAINT.
It is known that there can be no city where
there cannot be at least one or two places where
gentlemen can congregate and play cards even
for small stakes.
These were vile, false accusations
against the young prosecuting at
torney. He was sensitive and proud;
he suffered under the stigma sever
al days, then put a bullet through
his heart. . |
The dead attorney’s father, one
of the most prominent in the state,
and a tried and true friend of the
writer,'Col. Jesse W. Walters, ap
pealed to his friends. Col. Walters
had published a call for a meet
ing in which he said:
«] have a message that I must give to you
from the silent grave of my dead boy and from
the-throbbing heart of his mother. I must give
you this message with my own conviction; then,
I shall ask your help in a fixed determined effort
for the uplift and betterment of Albany. Don’t
fail me, you good men, fathers, brothers, mothers,
wives and sisters of Albany. I shall meet you
without hate but with a fixed purpose in my
heart.”
They met him at the county court
house, and it was the most remark-
Judge J. B. Clements l
Candidate For The Legislature
Irwin County I
Judge J. B. Clements was in F itz-‘
gerald yesterday receiving the con
gratulations of his friends here on|
the prospect of his representing his
county in the next Legislature.
This is the 14th.year of ac
quaintance and warm personal
friendship between the editor of this
paper and Judge Clements, who we
found on the county bench'of Irwin
when we came here in January
1899. .
The Judge was handicapped with'
the office of county court Judge forl
7 or 8 years, and since the county
was divided and the court abolished
he has been hindered by sectional
strife in that county, and this has
been his first real opportunity to
make the race for Representative.
Otherwise he would have been in
the Legislature several years ago.
He will make a strong and influ
ential member of the House and
his people acapable Representative.
He is opposed by young Martin
Lee, a splendid and popular citizen,
but somewhat lacking in that fit
‘ness that comes from year's of ex
perience.
The Ladies’ Aid Society of the
First M. E. Churoh will serve dinner
at the W. .R. C. Hall Wednesday,
April 17th. Dinner 25 cents.
“WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO BRING THIS DEPOSIT TO THE
EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK,” we asked a new depositor recently.
He answered, ‘‘Because I hear so much of your unusual
strength, fair-mindedness and common sense dealings. 1 saw also
a long list of large depositors, who bank with you, and I thought if
they preferred THE EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK, I might wisely
do the same.” .
We frequently ask new depositors such questions as the above,
and from their frank and open answers we learn pqgltinly of the
high and increasing favor in which this Bank is held by the pubi!c.
This makes us more and more determined upon being a bank of
EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH RATING. :
We invite new accounts.
INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS.
THE EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK.
CAPITAL STOCK STRENGTH $200,000.00
DEPOSITS - - - - - - $400,000.00
able meeting ever held in Albany.
The crowd began to gather nearly
an hour before the time announced
and later comers fairly fought for
places where the speaker could be
heard. In the middle of his address
he was interrupted by an appeal
from the crowd outside to adjourn
to the open square that all might
hear him, but he replied that his
voice was too weak to enable him
to speak in the open air.
One of the statements which the anonymous
Jetter referred to made reference to Solicitor
Walter’s activity in the prosecution of gamblers
and appealed to the voters of the county to make
possible a “wide-open town.” Colonel Walters
took that expression: as a text for his speech.
He declared that the gamblers, the blind
tigers and the houses of the underworld must go.
He took up each of these evils in turn and declar
ed that they existed because the community kai
not had the courage to enforce the law. 3
*“This open door must close in Albany, he said. *I
want no rash act; I want no violence. i mean that the time
has come when the good people of Albany must band to
gether to fight these evils to the bitter end till they are
driven out to return no more. They shall not exist in
Albany.” :
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.X P .et 5 "
NUMBER 51
odd Fellows’ Grand Lodge
Meeting
The Grand Lodge of the 1.0.0. F.,
will convene in Gainesville, Ga., in
May next. The local Lodge have
appointed three of their number to
represent them, and who will work
and do all in their power to induce
the Grand Lodge to meet in Fitz~
gerald in May next year. The pros
pects are indeed very bright for the
next annual meeting.
The local Lodge have appointed a
committee of five to wait on our
business men and othersand solicit
funds necessary to defray the ex
penses of their efforts to secure the
next meeting of the Grand Lodge
here in 1913, which means the ini
tial step towards the establishment
of the Odd Fellows Home here in
Fitzgerald. Good people of -Fitz
gerald, do your duty.
lSpeclal Sale of Pattern Hats
t Mrs. Broughton, the new milliner,
will on Monday, April 15, close out
lher stock of pattern hats at and be
}low prices.
Attention!
For delicious Ice Creams, Sher
bets, Fancy Nut Sundaes, Froppee’s
Banana Splits and pure Soda Water.
Expert Service, visit City Drug Store.