Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-05

Secretary of State Cook said this afternoon that
such actin WILL BRING ABOUT A CONDIT-
ION OF AFFAIRS NEVER BEFORE EX-
PERIENCED IN GEORGIA and he thinks
there is no doubt about the fact that 1t will re-
suit in much confusion.
The amended law requires that the names
shall be furnished on the election blanks thirty
days before the election if it is practical Tor the
Secretary of State to do so. The provision re-
curing the furnishing ofnames If practicable it
is considered removes the possibility of vltiatng
the election. 1t is felt here there is no doubt
about getting the names to every county In the
state in full and ample time-at least twenty
days before the election, and the election blanks
can easily be furnished within the prescribed
thirty days.
WOODWARD DENoUNcEs ACTION.
Mayor Woodward, who says both Hoke
Smith and Clark Howell are his political enemies
this afternoon denounces the state committees
action in prescribing the pledge at the head
of the ticket and the voter is an organized Demo-
Graf. The Mayor says this is an insult to the
people of Georgia. Hesays it is arbitrary, un-
warranted and against the best interests of the
state.
VIEWS OF INDEPENDENT PAPERS.
The Georgian edtorially declares this after
noon that Clark Howell can hardly be charged
with responsibility for this qualification in any
degree BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT
MANY OF HIS SUPPORTERS IN THE
VARIOUS LARGE CITIES THROUGHOUT
THE STATE ARE DEMOCRAT IN STATE
POLITICS AND REPUBLICAN IN NAT
IONAL POLITICS, and it lis mott natural to
suppose he would take any hand in debarring
these from the primary.
There appears to be a general impression
to the effect that this qualification prescribed
for the voters in the printed pledge on the tick
ct is going to have little, if any effect.
Politicians generally believe the Popust,
or at least so per cent, of them, will vote. IN the
primary anyhow, pledge or no pledge, and that
the of action the committee will make them
even more determined to do so.
Yes the populist will vote but there are
enough-quite.a suficency of rock-ribbed true
and tried democrats who will vote the Hoke
Smith ticket to nominate him for governor
by majority, that will startle the machine
politicians and put the corporation hirelings
to thinking.
The Atlanta Georgian in Criticising the &C.
ton of the state committee says in part:
If the simple pledge to support the nom-
nee has been sufficient safegard to Democrat
ic integrity and to Democrtic principles in three
general campaiges, the only reasons which
thoughtful men can give for drawing the lines
tightly in this eqnally safe campaign are these:
First. The Democratic Executive Com
mittee in its ma jority vote favored thecandidacy
of one of the aspirants for governor in prefer
ence to all the rest, and was willing, for the
sake of obliging and helping that one candidate
now, to repudiate the rules and regulations of
other executive committees which have been
indicated in previous elections.
"Or, second. The Democratic Executive
Committee of today is partisan in it's rancor-
Gus opposition to one of the political candidates
in this campaign that they willing now to re-
pudiate the precedents and ruler of past COM
mittees in order to hamper and handicap in
every way the will of the general white voters,
in making that candidate their nominee for gov.
ernor.
"Or, third. The present Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee is either directly or Indirect
ly so much influenced by the will and the wish
of the great transportation companies and other
corporations, whose keen preference is known
in this compaign, that, without regard 10 the
personal interests of any candidate, they have
revolutionzed and repudiated Democratic pre-
cedent and policies of past committees in order
to adapt themselves to the will and the wish
and the interest of the corporations as the COR
porations see it in this campaign"
Whatever the motives of the committee. the