Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-17
WHAT HAS WATSON TO DO WITH
DEMOCRACY


democratic nomination for governor. We
would like to ask the News question similar
TO the one propounded by it, What has Mr..
Watson to do with this campaign! In other
words, is he an issue; if so, why!
If we recollect Alright, both OF the leading
candidates desired Mr.. Watson's support IN
this race. Mr. Howell wrote a personal letter
the purpose of which was to get this support.
If this is not true, the News will please correct
ia. When Mr.. Watson decided to support Mr..
Smith he addressed letter to those of his ex-
followers who were in the democratic party
uroino them to vote against Mr.. Howell and
for Mr.. Smith. similar message was address
ed to them in an editorial in his magazine. with
this Mr. Watson became silent He spoke no
other word until he was attacked by Mr.. How
ell. Now we wish 10 ask another question:
Has not Mr. Watson or any other citizen OF
Georgia the right and privilege to express
preference for candidates regardless of the
party to which he belongs? Mr.. Watson sought
to influence democrats to support Mr. Smith
Is not this but the exercise OF free speech
guaranteed in the Constitution OF the United
States? Let him influence whomsoever he will,
who can say him nay?
Mr. Watson is of a right not an issue IN
this campaign. He was made so by the con-
scious and deliberate act of Mr. Howell and his
cohorts. A wayfaring man, tho he be fool
(and a-runnin0 can see that Mr.. Howell did not
desire to discuss the issues of reform squarely
and looked about him for campaign slogan, and
that Mr.. Watson was chosen, Mr.. Watson was
abused most numerically. He arose and de-
Tended himself. The vast ma jorty of the cltl-
zens of Georgia saw through Mr.. Howell's abuse
of him and their sympathy was and is with Mr.
Watson. Clark's slogan hurt rather than help
ed his cause. 1t was an error in political iudg-
ment Clark mixed the DOSE now let him
swallow it without the yelping either of him
self or his supporters, including the News.
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Miss Ena Cain, editress of the Quitman
Free Press, some of the brightestlittle woman in
the state and she has never married because
she is not old enough to assume the dignihed
responsibilities of matron, but has reached
that interesting age when she can write enter
tainingly on the question of matrmony. In the
following short editorial she takes to task GER
tain preacher who looked beyond the circle
of his acquaintance for wife:
ADVERTISING FOR A WIFE.
A preacher at Ashburn has had an expert
ence which will probably seriously discourage
his matrimonial aspirations. And it is
perience which makes him proper subject for
advice.
He answered the advertisement of Yankee
person who said she wanted loving husband.
The correspondence resulted in an engagement
and the lady said she would come to Georgia to
be married if the Parson would send her $50
for railway fare to Georgia.
Thirty dollars is no more than thirty cents
to man in love and he sent it. But the lady
did not come and investigation developed the
fact that he was only one of many who had
been taken in by this siren of the matrimonial
paper, who had gotten railroad fare from all of
them aud lived at home on it. She was arrest
ed for fraudulent use of the males, or mails.
We will not enter into discussion of the
matter; there is only one point to be discussed
here. 1t is a point that often comes up in the
newspapers and is to the effect that people
should patronize home industries. We are
often advised not to order goods from the big
mail order houses of the north; that doing
so impoverishes enterprise at home. And this
unfortunate incident serves to bring forward
the idea that getting wife by mail is of piece
with mail order purchases, and far more uncer-
tain. There must certainly be manageable
young ladies in Ashburn of at least average at
fractions; all women are alike with few slight
variation, and the idea that any man there
shonld be driven to seek wife in a strange
place like Pennsylvania is undeserved re-