Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-04-14
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produce, on the question of the
position of the Enter prise and
Ocilla Dispatch and the. several
candidates for the legislature, OF
the question of prohibition.
He affects not to understand
the position of, at least, some OF
those mentioned, the Enterprise
in particular, on the important
issue of the present campaign.
If the Enterprise is under
stood on any question, it is GER
tainly clear to every sane mlnd
that we are opposed to the sale,
especially to the open saloon.
Avowedly opposed to the sale, and
being of sane mind, we naturally
favor any measure that tends to
prohibit or curtai1 the traffic, and
on the same ground we favor the
man who most nearly represents
prohibition, a man who has IN
his past life always stood against
the sale, a man who promises
now to be guided by those who
oppose the sale in whatever steps
he takes for it's suppression.
It became expedient, apparent
ly necessary, for the prohibition
candidate in this mpaign to an
nounce publicly that he was will
ing to be guided by the wishes OF
the majority of the opponents OF
open saloons in whatever legisla-
ton he undertook on the subject.
Everybody who has sense enough
to know jack rabbit from bob
tail cur, knows that the candi-
date we favor is eternally and
unalterably opposed to the sale
of whiskey in any form; that the
best efforts of his life have been
against the sale. but as a reason
able man, he is willing to leave
the question of just what steps
he will take against the sale, in
his official capacity, to those who
are assisting in the campaign
against it. We think that
this not only shows tact
as a politician, but shows a
spirit of fairness in his willing
ness to be governed by the wishes
and the wisdom of those who are
striving for the same high end,
but may differ as to the method
of obtaining the same.
The writer for a long time
baked at being called a prohibit
ZIONIST because we did not want
to be classed with the prohibition
cranks, for, early in life we learn
ed that a prohibition crank could
be more sorts of a damphpoo1 in
the same space of time than any
other race of idiots on the face of
the earth, and when one of these
old imbeciles comes around us
with a lot of tweedle-dee and
tweedle-dum, twaddle and palav-
err, we feel like subscribing to
a stock company for the manu-
facture of kicking machines.
Evidently the fool killer has
been guilty of a serious derelic-
ton and we hold him responsible
for the longevity of several old
fosslswhose purile gable is fatal
to the hush in every campaign,
but who never vote for prohibit
ton, for the reason that it is not
seasoned exactly according to
their peculiar taste.
Again, lest we forget, the En-
terprise is for prohibition first,
for prohibition last, and for pro-
hibition all the time, and we are
not going to vote with the saloon
crowd, simply because we inn
agine that our candidate may
differ with us in the matter of
simple details, and we have no
patience with men who spout
prohibition year in and year out,
but who have no more sense than
to become the tools of saloon men
at every election.