Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-06-17
The Citizen has said nothing, so far in the

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new county fight not because It could think OF
nothing to say but because it could see no good
results to be obtained by newspaper discus
sion which nearly always degenerates into
more or less bitter personal matter
If there is subscriber of the Citizen living
within the territorial limits of the proposed new
county of Northen who is not now, and at all
times has been in favor of such new county,
with Fitzgerald as it's capital, we never heard OF
him. The Citizen has about thirty subscribers
at and near Ocilla, and so far as we can learn
every one of them favors the new county scheme
so no newspaper talk on our part is necessary
there. Our readers at Whitley and Mystic are
in the same mental condition. Quite number
of subscribers live in and near lrwnville but we
realize the futty of attempting to show an lr-
winville that it is to his interests to enter
into an arrangement whereby the county Stte
will be last to his town.
The fact is the legislature is to decide the
question, the fight will be made in Atlanta and
not in Irwin county, and work and not mudsllng
is what will win the battle up there Its mighty
easy for the Citizen to write Editorials with a
better tinge and to indulge in personalities
that anger the opposition and do things we are
after wards ashame Of, but this is one time we
won't do it.-Fitzge raid Citizen.
Lest the truth become somewhat obscured,
and in order that we may understand each other
and the situation as we 60 along, it may be per-
fectly proper to review the above statement.
The Enterprise HAS had considerable to
say on new county matters, and we have not al
lowed il to degenerate into more or less bitter
personal matter"
number of citizens living within the ter
ritorial limits of the proposed new county of Nor
then, NOW, do not favor such new county, and
when we opened the campaign for the new
county in these columns there an alarming
number of people who had never seriously con-
sidered the matter, and who were ABSOLUTELY in
different about the proposition, but we are proud
to say that some of these very people are today
heart and soul workers for the new county.
1t is fact that when we opened the new
county campaign in the Enterprise that large
number of the citizens of this city and colony
had not the least faith in the movement and ex-
pressed to the writer dsinterestedness that
was extremely discouraging, but who now are
enthusiastic workers for, and believers in the
movement and their change of heart is AT
TRIBUrABLE TO ONE THING ALONE and that is our
efforts through these columns.
We have considerably more subscribers in
Oca than the Citizen claims and one of
them, one of the most prominent, wealthy and
influential citizens of the section, said to promi-
nent county man in the presence of his family,
last week, that the Enterprise and its Editor
were doing more for the good of Fitzgerald and
Irwin county than any other several agencies IN
the county.
Now, of course he put it too strong but we
mention the fact to stress the point that the
Enterprise is sowing sound seed in fallow
ground, aud the Citizen could have done good
work through it's Ocil1a list, and even through
it's Irwinville list, for the new county. There
are people at Irwlnville who favor the new coun-
ty and who are cooperating with u.s.
We grant the fact that the Legislature is
to decide the question, but the fight will be
made, is being made, and has been made in lr-
win county and work, not mud singing, has
practically won the fight.
We hope the Citizen will write no Editorials
with bitter tinge, indulge no personalities do
no thing that it will afterwards be ashamed of"
but that it will as a matter of common duty to
it's readers, advocate the establishment of the
county of Northen. We need every assistance
in reducing the local opposition to the minimum.
Nearly thousand tax payers and voters(white
male citizens 81 years of age) have signed the
petition for the new county, exactly forty-four
have refused 10 sign, of that number seven have
reconsidered reducing the number of refusals
to thrty-seven. With united, energetic, persis-
tent straightforward uncompromising, unself-
ish, patriotic, liberty-loving, cooperation of the
Enterprise the Citizen, the other local papers
and their readers, the result is assured.
We believe that success is ours, but until