Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-08-14

The editor of the Fitzgerald Enterprise gets
his knocks, and so do those who knock him.
Macon County Citizen.
If editor Greer knew the character of the.
sources from whence come the knocks that this
editor gets he would not profame the space ia
his good paper by even a slight reference to
them. In the fight we have made against the vi
cious in this community for seven eventful
years, in the course of which we have found it
necessary to resort to physical punishment
more than once We have made some enemies,
a few of them bitter and vengeful, some sorry
white men" have set up in business with this
enmity as their principal asset
If they should wake up some morning and
find this feeling against the editor OF the Enter
prise gone, they would practically be out of bus
ness therefore it is to their purpose to keep
alive the feeling Certainly we have no inten-
ton of interfering with that program. We have
been unusually busy for several weeks and in
that time the dirty fellows have grown quite i'm
pudent, 80 much so, that we fear we shall have
to resort TO some radical means to bring them
to their senses. It all depends on whether we
find the time to spare from more useful i'm
man in fast automobile who is being pursued
by NANCY ours.
FITZGERALD, Ga Aug. 12.-Work at the A.
B. & A. shops here is temporarily suspended on
account of the action of the carpenters, brick
masons and common laborers, who sighed pc
tition for the removal of the present supern-
tendent of construction. When the petition
was presented the men we're informed that their
services were suspended, and that they would
be paid off Monday. Out of the 1876 men who
have been employed. 40 signed the petition,
and work is entirely suspended. The carpen-
ters, brickmasons and 1aborers are reported to
be union men.-Macon Telegraph
Yesterday several of the officers of the I'm
MON told the Enterprise that the above state
ment of the situation was approximately correct
Whatever the cause it is matter of gener-
al regret that the work is suspended. We ex-
pect to see the work resumed within short
while and pushed to completion. The machin-
cry is arriving and will be in place as soon as it
is possible to prepare the immense buildings,
and where we have few hundred laborers car
penters and brick layers there will be two or
three times as many machinists etc.
SUNDAYS Constitution contained several
pages of campaign twaddle that has the same
twang from the first sentence to the last line
1t was all evidently written by one man al
though it purports to be from many sections OF
the state. The author might have been travel
ing Con free pass) or he might have been in
a revolving chair in the Constitution Office. The
burden of his song was that Hoke Smith is
Closing ground". Now if he is looking for
something artling let him direct his wireless
toward this neck o. the woods and he will find
more Hoke Smith ground than he can possibly
fence and more Hoke Smith voters than he can
count between now and Aug. 22nd, when the
counting will be done in more reliable way
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Judge Arthur Gray Powell of Blakely is one
OF the Jurist of the state who is by common con-
sent slated for one of the three places on the
new court of appeals. Judge Powell looks more
like lad than learned lawyer, but he is adj
mittedly the best lawyer in his the Pataula)
circuit, and his high character and clean moral
life add to his qualification for the high place in
Georgia's new court. He is one of the most
popular young attorneys in the state and it is
generally conceded that he will be selected from
among many eminent aspirants as one OF the
three judges of the court of appeals.
The Rambler takes great pleasure in en-.
dorsing the candidacy of Hon. ]. E. Mercer for
railroad commissioner. Mr.. Mercer is editor
of the Fitzgerald Enterprise, one of the most
virile and ably edited newspapers in the state,
and whose fights for moral reform in its home
town has baen fhe CONNIE nf 0f the OreSS of the