Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-18
Thursday, January 10, 1906. >
Speaking of red apple damns," how about
rk's Columbus bomb!

Mr. Smith says no one would recognize Mr..
3nwell.s printed speech and the one he deliver
q as being the same. They were entirely diff
erent.-Dublin Times.
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Mr.. Howell wrote out his Columbus speech
and gave it to the press the day of the Colum bus
q debate What was printed in the papers as his
speech and what he really said, is so different
that the average voter would not know it 1t he
should meet it in the road.-Covington Enter
prise.
If the populist are barred from participa-
ton in the state primary, and all OF those VINO
leaned strongly to populism in the days when
populism actually menaced the democratic
party of the state, Candidate Howell could not
muster corpora1s guard. He would not be
\ eligible himself to vote.
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Every charge the ring crowd has made
against Hoke Smith has only served to strength
en- him with the thinking people of the state.
-Covington Enterprise.
The Constitution states that Mr.. Howell
1. will meet Mr.. Smith in every section OF the
state, which is exactly what he has been asked
to do.-Dublin Times.
And which is exactly what Mr.. Howell will
not do.
When Tom Watson was talking about
vagabond democracy there were vagabonds IN
the democratic party who gave Mr.. Watson con-
siderable consolation.
Does any body remember who the vagabond
democrates were? Can any reader of the
Enterprise recall any great Georgia daily that
was tainted with populism in those days? we
are not calling names but recalling clrcum-
stances.
It is aughabe to hear the Howell men talk
about beating Hoke Smith. They tell you all
about how strong M. Smith, is and how many
votes Estill will take away from Smith, and
that Dick Russell is so poor that the poor folks
will help him, and how all of them together will
get enough votes to control the convention al
4 though Hoke may have more than any one OF
them.
Nobody believes that any one of the candi-
dates is as strong as Hoke.--Thomasvlle Press.
1t looks at present. to disintererested OBJ"
server, (and this paper is almost if not entirely
such) that Hoke Smith is going to be the next
governor. He has following that will be hard
to overcome. The straw votes that nave Deeu
taken indicate that the class of people who gath
err around public places are for him overwhelm-
ingly. The business are supporting him.
The populist vote will go to him almost unani-
mously.
Of course that silent majority living in the
3 rural communities remains to be heard from,
further than the accepted theory that ex-popu-
lists, mostly country folks are for Smith
Moultre Observer.
Chuckle-C-h-u-c-k-l-e- laugh in broken
manner, expressing inward derison.) That's
what we frequently do when we read some OF
our South West Georgia exchanges defense OF
Clark Howell against the populist.
Oh! How we'll do we member-certainly
we shall never forget the warm populist days
of the nineties days that tried democratic souls
in Georgia When these same fddlers female
CANNES barked to the tune of Tom Wisconsin
and populism, when they literally stifded self
respecting democrats with the doctrines that
were positively nauseatng to every man that
loved democracy and despised demagogy.
Chuckle, of course chuckle, when we
pick up one of these funky sheets that cries
out now in angry protest against Watson and
populist interference. Is it any wonder that 1t
brings back to US the dark days when these
scamps, these same pusilanimous political
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