Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-02-15
WHO HAS BEEN "LIBELoUs" IN georgia.

il? Quite as ''libe1ous'' as the other statemen
that THE party is rotten" and let's bury it,
don't you think?
But, as to the part The Telegraph is play
ing in this same, the Darien Gazette, who's
opinions we have no doubt our Fitzgerald con
temporary respects, has another view OF tn
case. Speaking of the very matter under re
view it says:
1.-THE old reliable Macon Telegraph
is determined to keep the record
ftraight and it is now in position
to do that thing. The Telegraph
knows all the political humbuRs and
srauds and doesn'l mind exposing them,
either" Y
We are sure that that is not '1ibelous."
The Charlotte N. C. Observer, edited b
Hon. D. A. Tompkns, Democrat of notions
reputation, necessarily an impartial observe
the very article which our Fitzgeral
conte mporary condemns, as follows:
The Macon, Ga , Telegraph ia of the opin-
ion that it is ''about time TO protest against
those beastly cartoons which are appearing
respectively in the Atlanta Journal and the
Atlanta Oonstitutlon-cartoons holding up to
rdicule and scor1 NJ Howell e and d 5iS cfG w.
son by the other" The Macon paper thinks
it sorry ept ctace In what ought to be o de-
cent contest in a Democratic primary, and
proceeds:
Mr. Watson decides to contest the governor
ship With him in the October election will the
Journal be able to swallow its own cartoons
and support Mr.. Howell W.T. hFa pleasant coun-
tenanct? 1t will be more than ordinaryevery
ION the other hand, suppose Mr.. Boke
Smith 10 nominated, and the Laird o MonntAin
Top becomes his chief fugleman and die-lesder
with disposition to do the McDuh actto the
vanquished, viii Mr. Howell be able TO gup it
aid own without a vince?
Next the plan to disband the Democratic
party by denying it's name in the primary, this
personal, political and newspaper feud ts do.
ing most harm to the State Democracy, which
is a very large part of the state. It is an at
temrt to line up Georgia in two feudal bands
with rapiers and shields, and with lairds
o'mountain tops, and CROSS bones and skulls
in the valleys. Isn't it a fine smelling, savory
mess2'' - = -
The cartoons referred to, which appear al
most daily in the Atlanta Journal and the At.
lanta Constitution are anything but creditable
to these papers; indeed, they are along the
same line the disgusting teeth pictures OF
President Roosevelt which the New York Jour-
nal turned out during the laet campaign and
which many southern papers reproduced In
their columns. These Georgia cartoons, how
in plain English about the two Atlanta candi-
dates for governor by the Journal and the Con.
sttution 1t would bs only just retribution II
the Democrats of Georgia shoud choose neith-
er Of the Atlanta provided the candidates
themselves are responsible for the action OF
the newspapers, and in the case of one OF them
Atlanta fight resembles yellow journal cam
paign more than it does race in a Democrat
ic primary between two prominent citizens.
Now, will an impartial public say that Il
Tele graph is more unfair than the Fltzgera1
Enterprise. We think not.-Macon TELEGRAPH
The Telegraph takes advantage of our cri
icism to say great deal about Watson and vel
little about its Inconsistency and unfairness.
We have never been Watson man ia pc
tics, (tho we have read his books with pleasul
and proft,) and NO man knows that better tina
does the able editor of The Telegraph.
We have not been mis1ed by the misrepr
sensations of those who charge candidate Hol
Smith with anything undemocratic, dishonorab
or unusual in connection with the populist lea
err
The only time in the history of our sta
politics that Mr.. Watson, or his party, eve
gave any real trouble, the editor of The Tel
graph, the editor of the ENTERPRISE and Hol
Smith stood together ard stubborn1y agains
him and his politics, and editor Howell ga,
them more comfort than any man in the Den
ocratic party. .
Editor Tompkins, of the Charlotte OF
server. does not more heartily approve the pr
test of The Telegraph against the cartoon
in the Journal and Constitution than does Ii
editor of the Enterprise. We characterized
a. TIMELY PROTEST, but
The unfairness exhibited by The Tele
graph in it's protest" clearly discovers the ne
cessity for a timely protest" against its trea
ment of the leading candidate in this campaign
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