Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-09-08

Aug. 10th, 1906.
Hon. ]. E. Mercer
Fitzgerald, Ga,
NV dear Sir: Your letter received. have
kept track of the bill and my impression is that
the Senate Amendment has not yet been concur
red in by the House. What about this:
To my mind it will be impossible or rather
impractical for the Com mittee to take any action
in the matter at present All the blanks have
been prepared and sent out, the off cial form of
ballot published &c. Only twelve days now re-
main until the primary The Committee could
not anticipate the passage of the BILL With re-
CARDS am, Yours truly
MI. YEoMANs.
This letter was was written in answer to an
inquiry as to whether the names of the cand1-
dates for Railroad Commissioned would appear
on the ballots used in the state primary. 1t IS
no fault of the State Convention that the Cand1-
date for Railroad Commissioner was not voted
for at the primary. The matter was entirely IN
the hands of the old executive committee (sald
10 be inimical to the influences that controlled
the Macon Convention.) The committee, how
ever was helpless in the matter. The trouble
was that the law was nat passed and approved
early enough for the State primary. The Ma
con Convention would have been glad to have the
Democratic candidate for Railroad Commission
er voted on at the primary but that appears to
have been impossible and the men composing
Macon Convention we're in no wise responsible
for that fact. It simply adopted the wisest
course in the emergency-certainly it was the
highest Democratic authority and Mr.. McLen-
don is as much the Democratic Candidate for
Railroad Commissioner as William A. Wright is
the Democratic candidate for Controller Gener-
al, or w. B. Merit, the party's candidate for
State School Com missioner ,and every Democrat
in the state is as much bound, as he would
be to vote for w. G. Brantly for Governor had
he been the nominee of the convention as re-
suit of dead lock so often predictedin the cam
paign.
We predict that Mr.. Crenshaw will get the
cold shoulder from the Democratic hosts of
Georgia on Oct 3rd.
The Crystal Botting Works, Mr.. A. J. Brig
man, proprietor has for number of years been
bottling what they call, lager brew" The la
bel on each bottle is as follows:
'In summer and winter drink sparkling and
refreshing lager brew, non-Alcoholic, but tastes
like beer Notice: Contents of this bottle not
liable to tax. Per decision of U. S. Revenue de-
partnent April 25th, 1906 Crystal Bottliug
Works, Fitzgerald, Ca, Lager Brew extract
made only by the Afri-Kola Co. Atlanta, Ga"
Since the closing of the Saloons Deputy
Sheriff Fountain and others have concluded that
it is too near substitute for lager beer aud
sample of the brew has been sent to state chem
ist for analysis. IF it is found to contain more
alcohol than the law permits, the Crystal Bott-
ling Works will be prohibited manufacturing
aud selling the brew.
We have examined bottle and while we are
not great Judge of such matters, our guess is
that the analysis will show up all right and that
there will be no further interference with the
Bottling Works
While we have not the slightest apprehen-
sion that the Ben Hill county amendment will
not be adopted practically unanimously by the
voters of Georgia, we want to call the attention
of our exchanges to the very important matter,
to US, and ask their kind assistance 10 bringing
it to the attention of the voters 10 their respect
i've counties
Certainly there will be no objection urged
to matter so just and reasonable and one in
which so many people are greatly interested
with absolutely no local opposition.
Ben Hill county will be one of the best in
the state and above the average in area popula-
ton and wealth.
Atlanta folk are burning 12H cent kerosene
just now the result of war on the Standard
Oil COMPANY an independent con cern.