Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-08-16
The Cordele Circuit is a fact.

Circuit, Cordele, to include the counties of Dooy
Crisp, Wilcox, Irwin and Ben Hill had passed
with handsome majority. The new circuit
will work quite change in our Superior Court
officers.
Judge Whipple and representative J. T
Hill are regarded as candidates for the Judge
ship and representative Max e. Laud has beer
mentioned in that connection.
Col. d. B. Jay is candidate for solicitor
without proba bty of opposition. His active
interest in behalf of the new circuit together
with his unsefish devotion to the new county
cause has given him claim on the people that
will not in all probability be contested
Tuesday afternoon an old time friend and a
pretty good fellow came to the Enterprise Office
paid small amount of arrearages and stopped
bis paper, we asked what his grievance was
and he said we had taken a bout half his business
away from him, that since the saloons had closed
(2H days. he had not done more than half as
much business as before He is a hackman
and we believe he told the truth, but his test is
not good one, it's too short, besides he did not
stop to to think that an honest and indust -ous
man can do other things for living. The
people are making as much money now as
they ever did and they will spend it, if not
for whiskey and hack fare for other things
and our friend can get his share of it as easy as
when he hauled people to and from the saloons.
We do not want to monopo]ize the honors
and trust that we shall not be given the credit
for closing the saloons. Too many honors be-
come burdensome Mr.. Wilcox, it should be
remembered, had hand in the conspiracy, in
deed we had been laying the blame on him.
We roget to lose subscriber especially if
he is good citizen, but we know from exper-
fence that two or more come for every one lost
in good cause.
We have no word of bitterness for any man
who differs with us on the great moral question
of open saloons, many of them are honest, tho
the great strength of the whiskey party is
grounded in the immense profits that grow out
of the traffic, many of the very best men who
are willing to tolerate the sale of the stuff that
damns mems souls would be prohibtionist but
for the money that comes as county and city
revenues and private profits.
We shall not be deferred by the loss of a
subscriber, or several of them. The company
that publishes this paper and pays the writer a
vate gain but for the public good, and we are
doing our dead level best.
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The spectacle of scores of Atlanta Attorneys
volunteering to defend Hon Hoke Smith in the
case brought by the man of Dempsy at the
instigation of a brother of one of the cam
didates opposing Mr.. Smith for governor is in
deed tribute to that man and a singing re-
buke to Attorney Albert Howell who induced
the fellow Dempsy (who was locked up in the
police barracks, the day he brought the suit, for
disorderly conduct in a low dive on Decatur
street, to bring the suit Some of the attorneys
favor Mr.. Howells candidacy as against Mr..
Smith.
One of the most prominentofth the 76 lawyers
offering their services to Mr.. Smith wrote as
follows:
August 10, 1906
Hon. Hoke Smith, Atlanta, Ca,
My Dear Sir: Ihave practiced law at the
same bar with you for over quarter of cen.
fury. have been opposite counsel to you in
many important cases. have been associated
with you in some holly contested litigation.
regard you as an able lawyer and I have never
known you to do or couutenance an unprofess-
ional act read the petition filed against you
by Mr. Dempsey and I not only do not believe
there is any truth in his charges but so far as I
personally or professionally know nothing in
your career as an attorney or citizen would war.
rant suspicion that you could be guilty of
what has been charged against your profession
al conduct. When Mr.. Howell's name was first
mentioned as candidate for governor l voluu.
teered to vote for him and intend to do so, but