Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-03-11

Ocilla, The Star"
Long and brightly may it shine.
His friends and neighbors will subscribe for
it and read it, not only for the love they bear the
editor, but for the good they will get out of its
we'll edited columns
It NAV be that South Georgia has no man
capable and worthy of the high office of COVER
nor. We are not willing, however, to admit as
much, vet we know of no other good reason why
the largest and best end of the state should not
furnish a chief executive, at least, once in half
a century.
The ENTERPRISE does not publish scandals
or the details of horrors, nothing to please the
morbidly inclined, whose appetites we prefer to
discourage but there is family not far distant
from the city-a shan e1ess woman and daught-
er--whose badgering is becoming intolerable,
their audacity alarming and their influence most
deplorable in it's results. Their hope of secure
ty from molestation, prosecution, and bausb-
ment from the community is based on the inn
probability of the risk of exposure by their vic
Tins. We hope that this indefinite notice will
be sufficient warning and serve the purpose of
Kidding the community of these dangerous per-
although we cannot afford to go into details in
this paper.
We favor new county, not for the single
reason that it will be great thing for Fitzger-
aid, which is within itself all sufficient but for
the further reason that it will be better for all
of the territory involved. There time
when old Irwin extended from Pulaski to the
40
east of the present county site, when court and
j1ry, lawyers and litigants journeyed two or
three days crossing unbridged streams to at
tend two days session of court, all this within
the memory of men now living.
With a smaller county, one that is IN the
minds of the men that are working for a new
county for Fitzgerald, public roads will be bet
ter, streams will be bridged and the enormous
expense and inconvenience of long pilgrimages
to court will become "reminiscences.
Not every man in Fitzgerald is pulling for
Fitzgerald but are pulling Cor at least think
they are pu1ling) the wool over the eyes of those
who would pull for Fitzgerald Fitzgerald En-
terprse.
There are other places where like con-
diton exists as in Fitzgerald. 'Bootcking the
powers tnaL De, Is not necessarily IOT
the town. More frequently it is sure sign
that you are trying to hide something and this
certainly never built up town or anything else.
When city authorities do commendable work, it
is proper for all good citizens-wbo really desire
to pull for the town'-tolay aside petty differ
ences and praise the good deeds. When city
authorities fall short of doing their full duty,
the private or public citizens is dere1ict in his
duty if he does not thunder forth from the
house tops the warning. There is no corrupt
power under the sun stand the light of pub
LEGATION" nor clean administration that will OBJ
ject to criticsm.-Ft. Gaines Recorder.
The greatest pleasure we get out OF edit
ing the Enterprise, not excepting little
salary of $50 per month, il that derived from
the encomiums that come TO day after day
printed, written and orally.-Fitzgerad Enter
prise.
Great Scott! Bro. Mercer, we have always
admired your straight forward and fearless
stand in dealing with all matters edirorially or
otherwise, but must say fear greatly that
you have overstepped the bounds of-et US say
prudence any how-wben you acknowledge pub
Ideally to such magnificent salary-Bryan En-
terprise.
We fear our neighbor does not understand
what service is expected aud rendered for the
salary. We not only devote three to six hours
per day to the work OF editing the paper, but we
are supposed 10 take heaps of abuse. There
was time when we took the chances of being
mobbed or assassinated, but now the opposing
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