Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-24
Thursday, May "a, 1896.
HOKE SMITH.
ACROSTIC.

z# AcRosTIc.
Ills for honor-untainted, spotless, pure.
NO-for orator-his eloquence none truer.
E K-is for knowledge of ethics law, statecra1t
E-for Energy in fighting fraud and graft.
4 isis for Succession governor he'll be.
M-for Manifestation tricks and follles free
LIS for Idea-a salesman without blight
T-for Tre1ess, in battling for the right.
H-for Hero-for HOKE SMITH wins the tight!
They are actually sending men from the
AUnited States Senate to jail. Well, in olden
times thew sent the crowned heads to the
guillotine.
The Democrats OF Laurens county have
ertered their protest against the partisan
action of the state democratic committee, and
there are yet many counties to be heard from
In times like these it is strange that a cand1-
date should be afraid to leave his chance OF
election to the good white people of Georgia.
It looks like Mr. Howell has cold feet.-The
Madisonian.
No, Julia, Mr. Hoke Smith will not be COVER
nor this year. However he thinks he WILL
Darien Gazette.
Why, of course not Julia, his term will not
begin until January 1st What makes you so
impatient, Julia?
We hear something occasionally about
some people of Georgia being afraid to be called
organized democrats. There is no such thing,
to start with; but how about the candidate who
is afraid of the white people of Georga.-The
Madsonian.
We do not claim that every ad put in
county paper pays for itself and brings the ad-
vertser in dollars by the barrel, but we 90
claim that there are not many people who real
" have any conception of The tremendous pull
ing power of the county paper as an advertising
medium. Eek.
The Thomasve Press says that Clark
Howell said in the issue of Golfers Weekly of
IOctober S, 1904, that if the negro voter in the
south was eliminated that the whites would dl-
vide on political lines, and that he favored this as
being better for both white and black. The
Press wants to know if he holds this view still.
We would like to know if Clark won't ac-
cuse Hoke of stealing his thunder after while.
.-COrdele KAN BIER
We want to see the other gubernatorlal
candidates abandon the field and leave 1t to
Hoke Smith, because the people do not want
to see the political ugglers and hxers attempt
to Illustrate the popular will. 1t is so over
whe1ming that it would be crime, and knowing
that they will not stop short of committing
crime to defeat him, we want to see the oppor-
tunity for political iugglery eliminated from
che situation.
A witness before the House Judiciary Com
mittee at Washington, Monday, while testifying
as to- the insurance methods in New York,
the home of the great insurance companies,
gave some startling testimony
Why" he said, it was well conceded
fact that to be senator at Albany was worth
anywhere from $4,000 to 100000 year, and
that the money came largely from insurance
companies. This is no secret Every New
York man knows it. know it we'll"
Inspired by one of the largest and one OF
the most representative audiences Rev. W. L.
Wootten's bacalaureate effort Sunday evening
was one of the best that has been preached in
the Central Methodist church since its erection.
Supt. w. H. Klepper and the graduating class
occupied reserved seats, as the church auditorl-
: I'm was crowded far back into the Sunday
Stand were appropriately decorated for the