Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-07-01
SOME STRIKING SENTENCES
FROM HOKE SMITHS SPEECH.
From Fridays Atlanta journal.

address that is destined to ring through the
state during the whole contest.
It is the key note of the present political
situation, and outlined the principles for which
the people of Georgia have called on him to run
for governor in their name.
The following is brief summary of the
main points in his speech:
However much / would have preferred TO
give my time to private interests, since have
accepted your flag / am ready to bear 1t where
the fight grows thickest. / shall neither ask
nor give quarter 1t is no case for compromise.
We must enter the fight with every bridge be-
hind us burned, determiud to win "a complete
victory.
The fight must now be made against the
domination of party machinery by railroad poll
ticians.
Nominations must be made for state house
officers in white primaries under the Australian
ballot system by majority VOTE
No foreign corporation or nonresident should
be allowed to operate railroads in Georgia
Railroads must be taxed as other taxpayers
Our laws as to lobbying must be broaden
ed and enforced.
The Georgia railroad commissioners must
be elected by the people and must protect the
public in transportation matters against over
charges and against tyranuical misconduct. 1t
is fight for the reconquest of the state by the
people.
We have no law preventing railroad corpora
tons and other special classes furnishing money
from paving the expenses of candidates. That
this has been done no one doubts. How high
up in the line of Office holders we have accepted
such aid will not undertake to say.
The GROWING proof of the com binatons be-
tween the railroad politicians and the ring came
in the tender of place upon the supreme court
bench to Judge Hamilton McWhoter, the chief
political representative of the Southern railroads
styled the advisory board" The state would
have risen in arms had he accepted. OF course,
there must have been an understanding that he
would decline the rendered Office. This leaves
the transaction one which shows Governor Ter
rell and Judge Nc Whorter triding with the sane
tity of position the highest court of the state.
1t is not surprising that the people of Geor7
gia are revolving at the possibility of continuing
the ring in control by electing to the office of
governor the man whom they have slated for the
succession.
wish to disclaim all hostility to railroads.
They are the great arteries of trade, but they
fail to give proper life to the business of our
state when they impose Unjust burdens.
Our present legislature is fresh from the
people and is composed of men of high character.
trust they may act upon these measures dur
ing the present summer.
I trust they will pass act which will make
lobbying include all efforts of employed agents
to approach legislators in private
hope they will prohibit the pass business
at once and provide severe penalties to prevent
it. We should give those who with us in the
legislature all possible support. We should help
them pass all the legislation we advocate.
If am elected governor the third house will
not sit in Atlanta, and the rights of the people
shall be guarded at every point
urge the passage at once of an amendment
to the constitution of our state which will pre-
vent the possibility of danger from the negro
vote.
/ feel that the governor cannot give too much
sympathy and time to encouraging and stmuat-
ing the progress of educational work in the state.
Horance Mann did more for Massachusetts than
Daniel Webster.
This is to be contest between the people
on one side, and the railroads and favored class
es on the other.
Our enemies we'll know who is their candid
ate. Just watch the railroads and the ring.
See who they really help. They will make no
mistake about who they want.
THE OK knows bis owner and the ass his
masters crib.'