Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-02-20
Tuesday, February 20, 1906. .
A Letter To Good Men Only.

wish to call your attention to the Seventh
anniversary of the Georgia Industrial Home for
,omeless and frendess children. which will
occur on February the 22nd, and TO solicit from
8ou Birthday Contribution. Any amount will
be gratefully received and will be contrlbu-
ton towards one of the greatest and most prom
Using charities ever brought to the attention of
tie people of Georgia
Our situation briefly stated is this: One
hundred and fifty children to be sheltered. fed,
clothed, educated and trained relig1ously,
. morally and industrially. Hundreds of others,
now perisbing in the sloughs of restitution,
look to as their only source OF hope The
great ne ed which gave birth to the Home has
now come into full view and urges its claim upon
our sympathy and generosity more strongly
than eyer before.
In the presence of this great need and great
opportunity, most earnestly appeal to you tor
help, confident of receiving hearty and liberal
response.
Hoping to have an early reply, and thank
ing you in advance, am, Yours for humanity,
J.R. Gum.
Generi Manager.
Smith "a; HI well, Poll In Meriwether.
urday there we're thirty-seven white men, all of
Meriwether county, and after the shoot vote
on the governors race taken of the thirty
seven. Result:
Hoke Smith, "a; Clark Howell 8.
The crowd was not selected at ALT was
the white men of the ommunity-about five
miles square
The Constitution is sent to me IN exchange,
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Yours truly,
GEO w. JENKINS.
Little Joe Brown is contributing consider
able to the merriment and success of the Hoke
Smith campaign. Little Joe is what is known
in hawkology ioedarter.
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And Clark has changed his tune. Some
body-has written him another speech The
necessity for which it was not at all difficult to
discern from the effect the old one seemed to
have on his hearers.
Some boys up in Pike county had goose
dinner. just how much of flock of geese was
present is not stated. At any rate Candidate
Howell has undertaken to ride iuto the guberna-
torial chair hugging the necks OF the geese
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We unders tand from rumors that the best
people of Ocllla are contemp plating running
Uncle Dan T. Paulk, formerly citizen of this
city, but who has recently moved into the Ocllla
district, for the their commissioner. Ocilla
could scarcely find better man to represent
them and the entire county on the board.
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John A. Mccall is dead. Until few brief
weeks ago he was one of the foremost characters
in financial circles of Americas great metropo-
lis. Honored and respected in that great trade
center. Investigation of his record and man
agement of one of the greatest financial institu-
tons, not only cast cloud all over his life his
tory but doubtless brought on his early death.
In a very broad column in Sundays Atlanta
Journal, in large type, mentions some of the
tricks that the ring politicians will resort to de-
fend the popular choice in the next state con-
venton.
Of course ''money will be used freely;
free passes will float around all over the state;
promises of appointment to Office, railroad jobs,
and other inducements will be used .unsparlng-
w. and the very sanctity of the ballot box itself
will be invaded, unless a watchful eye is kept
upon hsdepository of peoples sovereign will"
but that is not all, the Journal has left out the
most i'm portant of all the tricks that will be re-
sorted to.
The bold play the coupd' etat that will be at
tempted in all the wet counties with suthcent
Little will be