Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-09-05

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ignation of either member of the board the va
cancy shall be filled by the remaining members.
In the event of the resignation of both they will
probably resign one at time SO that the vacan-
cies may be filled legally.
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YOUR SPOTLESS MAYOR"
By Rev. Sam P. Jones'
Don't let Atlanta show herself lacking in ap-
probation before the world. Tell the world
how proud you are of your mayor, and that you
do appreciate the honors he p1ucked at Toledo
and placed on your beautiful brow and that you
will wear those honors as gracefully as they were
won by your spotless mayor. Act, gentlemen,
and act quick if you don't, the thing will react.
It's up to you, gentlemen, and the press and peo-
pie will keep it up to you for some years to come
if the thing reacts. Your acting must not be
for the purpose Of saving your life, but your
character.
A man who will get drunk and publicly
make an ass of himself is no more fit for mayor
or governor or president than hog is fit to pre-
side over parliament in heaven. The case you
have in hand, gentlemen, is not slip or sur
prise; it's what the doctors call an acute attack
on chronic trouble. How long would rail-
road put up with such an executive or any BUSH
ness interest or the Equitable Life Insurance
company?
got enough? belly full? if not, you ought to
belch and quit anyway.
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The Columbus Ledger (not on our exchange
list and we do not know it's editor) has review
ed the gubernatorial situation as it effects the
Georgia press. Among other things, it vouch-
safes the following information?
THE Fitzgerald Enterprise holds its
end up brave1y enough, but both The
Fitzgerald Citizen and The Daily Peo-
pie are opposed to Mr.. Smith, and GER
tain1y their influence is greater than
that exerted by the Enterprise, which,
from being an original bowler for south
Georgia candidate, became supporter
of Mr.. Smith in gratitude for an interior
department job"
There are peop1eso constituted that they can
not conceive of any higher motive than that sug-
gested by the Ledger. We have but little pa
thence and but slight respect for men who have
no higher ideals. The people who know this
editor personally, as we'll as the strangers who
read this paper regularly, understand our dis
position too we'll to believe that we are actuated
by any such motive as that suggested in the Co.
lumbus paper.
The election of Harry M. Atkinson as pres
ident of the Atlantic & Birmingham Railway
Company marks new epoch in the history of
that splendid and growing railway system.
While Mr.. Raoul, the retiring president is
one of the safest and most successful railroad
men in the south, he has arrived at that age at
which men lose the ardor and aggressiveness
that belongs to younger men and which is pos
sessed in marked degree by his successor.
Harry M. Atkinson is a synonym of ag.
"a
who know him. He is recognized as one of the
most capable of the south promoters, and that
he will do the very best that is possible with the
property that has been placed in his hands is not
doubted in any quarter.
The future of the Atlanta & Birmingham is
indeed promising, and no town on the line can
be more interested in its success than Fitzgerald,
for which the road has already done so much.