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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? First National Bank » 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.” : i e % .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.