Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-09-21

is frantica1ly afraid Col. Estll will get into the
race.-Tifton Gazette.
You are right John. we are expecting to be
disappointed by Mr.. Estills announcement.
Ordinarily we are an Estl man. We have not,
and we will not have, one word to say against
him. We understand that he has right to run,
but it will not be hard for the editor OF the Ga
zette to understand that our objection to his cam
didacy at this time is based on the wish to see
the issues and the candidates now before the
public have fair showing at the polls-F1tz-
gerald Enterprise.
Taking the above for text the Herald de-
sires to saw that the special issue in South Geor-
pia is South Georgia man for our next COVER
nor, provided he is the peer of all the other can
didates, and no South Georgia man can afford to
suk in his tent when we have such a man IN the
field From time which runneth back almost
past the the memory of the present generation,
South Georgia has begged and pleaded for rec
IGNITION at the hands of our North Georgia
friends. The political history of the state shows
that we have never had it. Continuously and
studious1y we have been ignored. Our Just and
reasona BILE claims have been treated with silence
or promptly turned down. Scarcely crust IN
the way if political preference has been thrown
us, and this, too in the face of the fact that
South Georgia has been more solldly democratic
than North Georgia and we have offered for pre-
ferment somo of the best and bra1n1est men. In
this grand old commonwealth. In the days that
tried mems souls when Editor Mercer, of the
Fitzgerald Enterprise, was bareheaded and
barefooted boy catching tadpoles in the mud
holes of Terrell county, South Georgia could al
WAYS be counted on to do more than her share OF
the fighting in the desperate conflict with scala
wags, carpet baggers and negroes.
Our votes and our majorities were neces-
sary to deliver the state from the rule of robbers
and renegades. We did whole duty then
and we have continued from that day to stand
o1x1 NV ho 1orfxy md to
Herald is pleased to note that in many sections
Of North Georgia the people are disposed to do
us Justice. Let us give them one more good
chance and by standing solidly together, show
them that this time, we are terribly in earnest
A solid and united front in South Georgia will
Just as surely give us the next governor, and as
good one as the state has had since Bullock
was ouSted, as that the sun will rise tomorrow
morning. The candidate will be forthcoming
and he will be the peer of any man whose can
didacy has been mentioned IN this connection.
Shall we then supinely give up the struggle and
allow ourselves to be overridden in future as in
the past, or shall we stand to our colors and our
section and win glorious victory or go down
gloriously fighting for the right?-Waycross
Herald.
During our red hot campaign for South
Georgia candidate, the editor of this Herald was
looking towards Atlanta. Finally when it be-
came apparent to us that the real battle would
be between the two Atlanta candidates and the
very important issues they represent, we found
it necessary to make choice, and did so with
out hesitation. 1t was we'll understood that one
candidate was the candidate of the railroads and
the organized politicians who had made the
states politics study and business and who
had been accus toned to determine, years in adj
vance who should be the candidate for governor
or other high office. The other candidate, rep
resents the opposition to this regime-the peo-
pies candidate Immediately yeritable ground
swell in favor of the latter candidate swept the
state Then it was that the friends of the rail-
road candidate began to realize the necessity for
other candidates and compiled tons, and encour-
age other announcements. To state il plain it
Clark Howell, and without any intention to re-
fleet in the slightest degree on the venerable and
honorable editor of the Herald, the Importance
of Mr.. Estill's candidacy began to manifest
itself through the erstwhile friends of Mr. How
ell.
We believe that Mr.. Estill's candidacy is
considered necessary to Hoke Smiths defeat,
but we do not mean by the statement that there
are not plenty of good Estill men, loyal and true,
who care not one whit for Mr.. Howell or Mr..
Smith. Indeed if such was not the case then
the importance to Mr.. Howell of Mr.. Smiths
candidacy would fail.
We are unwilling to admit that Editor Per-
ham, or any other South Georgian. has higher
regard for Mr.. Estil1, as a man or for his rights