Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-11-04

primary and on those of the county executive
committees in selecting delegates to the next
state convention, than on the votes of the white
people of Georgia.
The state executive committee is expected,
in the first place. to put such restrictions on the
participant in this primary as will bind him not
only to support the nominees of the primary IN
which he casts his ballot, but to support all NOM
inees and stand by all actions Of the democratic
machine" even where he has no remote or I'M
mediate voice in the matters decided on.
In the second place, Mr.. Howell and his
political hackers expect the state executive COM
mittee to prescribe such regulations for the
nomination of governor and state house omcers
as will throw their nominations into the sta1e
convention, and practically take it out OF the
primary, while the people are lett TO DeneVe
thew have selected the nominee by the ballots
cast in the primary.
It is expected that the selection of delegates
in the state convention (the men who WILL nave
absolute power in nominating candidate Tor
governor) will be left under deceptive restrlc-
tons in the hands of the several county ezecu-
tive committees in the state.
It is fact we'll known to the politicians OF
the state that the county executive committees
are not elected Nv the people, but by few' very
few ;r+erested citizens "a each community; ana
that the selection is made in many cases ~ {"
snap meeting of fifteen or twenty minutes
ton, with everything cut and dried beforehand.
From the nature and circumstances OF
their selection, the county executive COMMITTEE
men may generally be depended on to look
after the interests of and to carry out the wills
of those who place them in power-whlch means
the wills of the very few who got to the prec1n-
cts and voted for them when a county execu-
tive committeeman was to be chosen.
Mr.. Howell, we believe expects the usual
amount of rope to be given these county execu-
tive committees in the selection of state con-
vention delegates, and he expects his friends
to see to it that his interests are provided for
carefully and to the very limit of the discretion
airy powers vested in the county executive COM
mittees.
But the Enterprise hopes that the people
and the state executive committee will become so
aroused to justice and fair-play that all such
subterfuges, tricks and manipu1ations will be
barred from our next gubernatorial and state
house nominations in Georgia
We hope also that the masses of the people
in each county will take an activ. and Interested
part in the selection of county executive COM
mitteemen in every district in every county in
the state when the time comes for their selec-
tion-we hope the masses will wake up aud use
the power that rests in them
The politicians have been trusted with
these matters too much and too long already.
The Enterprise is willing to trust the NOM
inaton of every elective official in this state to
the white people of the state.
We stand for a white primary which will
take in every white voter who will honestly
pledge himself to stand by the nominees and the
decisions of the primary in which he asks to
cast his ballot.
No other kind of white primary will stand
long upheld by the intelligence and ideas of
Justice of the people of Georgia. Telfair Enter
prise.
An editor in town of 90 inhabitants, SO
years old, (not the inha btants, the town cheers
the hopes of his local readers with the following
lines: In looking for sound location, never
pick boomy town, take one OF steady growth
healthy and with future prospects," We pre-
sumo he intended to emphasize the word fu-
ture. Fitzgerald Enterprise.
The paragraph sneeringly referred to. by
this mighty knight, leader of leaders and speak
er of speakers, before being bobbed as it ap-
pears above was explanatory, and conveyed just
exactly what it was intended for.
Irwiuville may be 90 years old, or older.
The older the better. It may have gone dead
ninety-nine thousand ninety-nine hundred and