Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-01-27

Golfers Weekly in fighting the patent
medicine compa MES, is like Hoke Smith fight
ing the ralrosds; after pulling them for all the
money they could has now turned traitor, and
e this is a very poor kind of business.-Senoa
Enterprise Gazette.
Has the Enterprise Gazette been subsidized
by it's medicine advertisements? Does it pro-
pose to condone the wrongs because 1t has
#touched pitance of fee for service rendered!
Has its prices for patent medicine advertise
ments been sufficient, not only to pay for the
space used but to subsidize the conscience of the
publisher? Editor Nolan's conception of trail
tor is peculiar, to say the least.
The strangest thing we have seen in Geof-
ga politics. during the present campaign at
least, is an editorial in the Valdosta Times.
Il TO us it is marvelous1y strange. We find it in
Thursdays Constitution, under the head Trail
i of the politician" We have always understood
that the Times was what is known as Sound
money" paper. anti-populistic. The editor pic
lures the days that tried the souls and temper
of democrats:
The banks of the country we're
failing; mercantile enterprises went to
the WALL like trees before storm: cot
ton bringing , cents pOunQ; tue
women and children in the towns and =
country, in many instances, were half
fed and half clothed 1t was period OF
suffering, such was not experienced
since the close of the war"
And asks the question:
''Where stood Clark Howell, Hoke
Smith and Tom Watson them"
And gives the answer:
"Hoke Smith held his hands and
voice against the efforts and cries OF the
masses for reform and relief Clark
Howell with his paper and pen, and
n with his daily and weekly publications,
necessarily battled for the reforms nee
essary for the relief of the Masses
Does the Times believe that what Mr.. How
ell necessarily battled for'' NECESSARY for
\ the relief of the masses?" Is it possible that
\ even a rank populst believe that, in the
light of history? Is it not an undeniabe, lnd1s-
putab1e fact that the things Mr.. Howell and Mr..
Watson, eft ais, commended for failed utterly be-
fore the people at the ballot box, and that i'm
mediately following their failure and the adop-
tion by congress of measures that Mr. Smith
stood for, that the relief came? That unprece-
dented prosperity followed? Can it be possible
\ that the Vsldosta Times has been converted to
Rpopulsm, free-silverism, sub-treasuryism and
every other ism that threatened the demo-
cratic party in the times that it mentions?
Hoke Smith right then, and he is right
now. This effort to inject Tom Watson and
populism into this campaign is a farcical sub
|terfuge pure and simple. The real issues are
too important to be obscured by such discuss
ions as we find in many of the Howell papers.
The people of Georgia want reforms and they
will elect reform candidate governor, and
Hoke Smith will be his name.
There is another peculiarly pathetic sug-
scestion in the editorial above referred to. The
editor of the Times pictures the white boys be-
tween the plow handles because the negro boys
will all be found in school on account OF the dis
act. Just how the editor figures
that the negro will be more able to attend school
than the Write boy. is mystery. We fear that
zhis picture is another bug-bear OF the lmagi-
alton. manufactured for political purposes.