Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-02-21

Pull for Fitzgerald or pull out.
If we were pulling for Cutler we would pull
out from Fitzgerald.
Nichols is to have bank. A meeting will
be held~this week for that purpose.
To Hon. W. S. West of Lowndes:-Are you
"our sort of folks in politics and inclinations'
with Frank M. Potts ct ais?
That letter from Frank Potts to Hon. w.
S. West, published in Sundays paper. is
enough to damn any man in Georgia politics.
We have nothing on earth against cigarettes
and we do not know any cigarette smoker that
] we bear any ill will, but we are poison against
Cigarette smoking.
All ready damned is the municipal admins
tration under which bar rooms brothels and
gambling hells multiply, and churches, schools
and humane societies decline.
In noticing what Mr.. Osborne did to the
candidates the state press seems to have over
interested in discouraging the lobbyists
Sixty per cent of the Texas counties, eighty
1 per cent of the Georgia counties, ninety per
cent of Mississippi counties and Tennessee, ex-
cepting eight cities, have voted out the saloons.
The Fitzgerald Enterprise carries bright
and strong editorial page in every issue, and the
\ paper is published three times a week. The
page is credit to Georgia ism.-Craw-
4 fordvil1e Democrat.
We have not received copy of the esteem
ed Atlanta Constitution for several days. We
trust that expressed hope that South
Georgia would furnish the next Governor has
not estranged our neighbor.
Some weeks ago Billie Osborne rasped his
ungrateful friend, Hon. w. S. West of Lowndes,
until the hide raw in places. Now he
comes with letter in last Sundays papers that
II Is like rubbing salt in the sores.
Of course the continued cold and wet wealth
II has made it impossible for farmers to pillow
their land and farming operations are little
ample time to prepare for planting. The earli-
les. planted crops are not always the BEST
Large, cumbersome, unwie1dly counties,
with poor roads and slipshod government, are
relics of past age. In this modern day of pro-
gress counties should be small and thickly pop
ulated, county sites easy of access and roads
macadamized. This is one of the why
Tifton wants new county.-Tifton Gazette.
The Atlanta Constitution hit below the belt
Ia its effort to deceive the public in the matter
of advertising for Theodore H. Price refused by
The Journal. The Constitution made mistake
ID the first place in accepting the business Every
paper published in the cotton belt should OPP
pose Mr.. Price and his ilk in their efforts to
keep down the price of cotton.
T. w. Hanlon is no longer editor of the
Della Dispatch. The board of directors has
leased the paper to ex-Mayor ]. J. Walker
and Colonel Upton. We welcome Colonies
Walker and Upton to the fourth estate
are looking for. They have good field. but
their pecuniary success depends somewhat on
he liber atty of the Ocilla advertisers.
Col. T. H. Estill will run for governor when
The time comes and he will surprise the State as
Emuch as he did few years ago. There are
rome that would gladly shelve him and every
her confederate soldier, but they are not in the
gsarity. Of course, being a confederate
EsHk3sn, does uot anfit1e him alone to the poyer-