Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-03-03

Irwin county politics will be interesting for
the next six or eight years. Now watch the old
county heave forward.-Ocilla Star.
The Springfeld Ohio mob and the holding
VI of an Illinois town by band of five armed
robbers proclaims loudly for the civilizing in
fluences of the day in those benighted commun-
tiles.
The cigar manufacturers are making capt.
tai of the gubernatorial campaign. The Hoke
Smith" cigar is being sold all over the state and
Smith supporters are putting them in the face
of all Observation-Disclosures Observer.
If there is a county in the district that
wants the rotation system changed let it wait
till it's time to furnish the senator arrives, then
let it contend for the change. To do otherwise
is to invite unfavorable CRITICS m.-Oc lila Star.
Dublin special to the Atlanta Constitution
gives that paper the opportunity of naking
head line capital out of the suggestion
that an ex-populist representative from that
county has announced for the State Senate.
We have never been much of a populist
but we know of no law or rule of politics that
forbids an ex-populist aspiring to Office.
The people of Irwinville made effort to
get joint debate between Hoke Smith and
Clark Howell for court week. Mr.. Smith, OF
course accepted promptly He said he would
like to come to Irwinville and meet Mr.. Howell,
but not so with Clark, he had not forgotten Co
lumbus and never will as for that matter. They
do saw that Irwin is for Hoke and we are pre-
pared to believe it.
The Grady County Times is published at
Cairo and is for Jim Smith for Governor. The
red hottest Jim Smith paper in South Georgia,
perhaps the only one, but it appears the bus-
ness men of Cairo are not following the lead of
that good paper. Mr.. T. W. Wood, promi-
nent merchant prepared ballot box and gave
each business man the chance to vote secretly for
his preference for governor. When the box was
opened there were just three votes for Farmer
Jim Smith, two for RUSSELL one for Nunnally,
eleven for Howell, twenty for Estill, and thirty
one for Hoke Smith, nearly many as all the
other five.
It is not new thought but Thursday
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vantages of prompt response.
The Enterprise would have insisted long
ago on some means of prompt response, but for
the fact that we dread the other extreme, and
extremes usually follow each other in matters of
this kind. Fitzgerald not afford an extrava-
giant paid department, nor an expensive equip
ment-we do not need either. What we need is
plenty of good hose nozzles and wrenches and
means of getting the same prom pity to the near
est hydrant to the fire. A good horse with the
proper means of attaching him instantly to the
hose wagon is the important thing. To keep
the horse and two necessary men would be
quite little item of expense but not extrava-
giant in view of the protection afforded. The
present fire company organization ought to be
maintained and two sa1aried men selected with
a view to business only. We mention this be-
cause it is so easy to pervert the whole propo-
sition into two or three private snaps. We
want no pensioners nor ward healers-not select
ed for their political pull, but for pulling the
reius over good horse, and to be right handy
about il. The present fire company organiza-
f;on could do the work with that sort OF as
sistance and protect much more of city than
Fitzgerald is at present.