Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-03-10
AT THE "LICK-LOG."

vtes US no to the licklog, and we should have
earlier but for the fact that the invi-
tation escaped our notice.
We cannot quote fully the column Invitation
contained in the Dispatch and News, but it will
serve our purpose quite as we'll to quote para
graph.
Let's first admit that all the candidates for
governor aud all the saloon men in the state
are local optonists. thea there is no issue there.
The Dispatch and News invites US to 60
to Atlanta. in the following paragraph
Nov, Brother Mercer, if you are SIM
cerely DESTROYS of getting right on this
whiskey question, and believe 10 temper.
ance and prohibition and the like, we APP
point you a committee of one to go to At.
lanta There you will 6od an elegant hotel,
called bv name the Piedmont This hotel,
by common report, largely belongs to Hoke
Smith. In this hotel las above set out and
described as to location aud ownership, "a.
there is barroom-a place where whiskey
is sold and at whose tables, in the grill room
and in the dining room, whiskey is sold and
served. This bar is most dazzling to we
fellows of the sticks, and it is said to com.
port with such like elegant PLACES through.
out the country, indicating much fore
thought in its planning. After YOU have
entered this elegant barroom-tor such 1t
undoubted is-in the center you will see
a divau, from which arises onyx pedestal,
on the very ito of which IS a marble Statu-
ary representing a nude woman holding
atoft bunch of what has been decided to
be muscadines If you cannot locate her
by this desert ption ask the fellow with the o.,
white apron on-the bar-keeper, and be will
tell YOU from what angle YOU get the
best view. She is vulgarly called The
GAL" but don't mind that. S1e's peach " r.,
Il that the click log" referred to in your
invitation, Tarver? p
We confess that we are sincerely deslrous
of STAYING right on the whiskey question. We
GOT right early in the game, and have always
believed in temperance and prohibition.
We are largely indebted to Editor Tarver
for our conception of the elegance of the bar
and its most attractive appointments. We have
been guest at the hotel, enjoyed its comfortable
bed rooms. it's gratifying menu and exceptional
service, but have never seen the celebrated bar,
nor the "gal" When we are 10 Atlanta again we
will look up the place, more to ascertain 1t the
editor of the Dispatch and News has been faith
full in his description than for any other pur-
pose. s.
Now, as to Mr.. Smiths connection with the
Pied mont bar, we want to go on record as
gia, unbiased in his opinions and with half the
Intelligence of the editor of the Dispatch and
News, who does not know that all this Piedmont
bar talk we hear so much of, was originated and
is kept alive for the sole purpose of exciting the
pleasure of those who dislike Mr.. Smith, and
with the hope that some very ignorant people
might be influenced by it.
Now let's see what the facts are, and see if
the editor of the Dispatch and News is not con-
victed by his own words.
The Piedmont hotel does not largely be-
long to H ike Smith. 1t is true that he owns
a minority interest. 1t is also true that he pro-
tested against the bar.room feature; at least his
partners have stated in public print that he
did, aud the proof that they did not say so for
political purposes is borne out by the fact stated
in the same card, that they did not favor his
candidacy for Governor.
Mr.. Smith is not responsible for the instl-
tuition of the bar in the Piedmont. He says so,
his partners say 50, and no honest man
doubts it, or has expressed doubt OF it. We
insist that his action in protesting against this
usual and almost necessary feature of grand
hotel~is unusual, and there is not prohibitions
ist in the state that could have done more than
Mr.. Smith did in this matter. Everybody with
Intelligence believes it, and the only excuse,
other than those above mentioned for its use in
this campaign consists in the fact that they
have nothing better to use against the winning
candidate.
The Dispatch and News Is convicted again
by it's own words when it admits that there is
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