Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-06-12
TUESDAY, JUNE II, 1906.
CONTROVERSIAL.


photograph taken by cheap kodak and a
cheaper kodaker. (who slipped up behind
negro standing on a lumber pile to snap his
little 80 cent Instrument and letter, that is
said to have accompa panied the picture to Atlanta,
that was as untruthfu1 as the picture was mis-
leading, and as the author of both is unreliable
We wired the Atlanta Journal of our amaze
ment at the publication and that it was lie
without excuse and unreasonable in its tabrl-
cation.
One of the mistatements contained in the let
ter was that, But two hundred and fifty seven
men we're present" In Sundays Constitution
COth) a signed statement, signed by number
of Fitzgerald men of alleged prominence, relieves
us of the responsibility of proving the state
ment false. These more or less prominent
citizens, who put themselves on record in the
guessing contest, have our thanks for relieving
us of the odious duty of proving the falsehood.
AS to the question of veracity, their guess
or estimate being matter of Judgment ana
not of fact is not sufficiently definite for pred1
eating so serious question. We were after the
liar who pretends to have counted the people
present
Now as to the truth. The speaker
faced the intersection of two broad streets
where the suns rays were intense. The crowd
sought protection under the awnings and pro-
tected upper porches of the buildings on the
four corners, and the shade trees at the rear OF
the platform, after filling every seat provided in
front of the speaker. 1t was crowd difficult to
estimate but it was large enough to satisfy Mr..
Smith and to please his supporters in this COM
munity and in the county, which is sure to send
TT11ra O...s$ II Jo1o 4o% ba~ tim
In our first account of the occasion, we dep
recated the conditions referred to-the hour
Immediately after dinner, excessively hot wealth
err no protection for the audience and but little
for the speaker.
But outside of these insignificant circum-
stances Mr.. Smiths reception here was an
ovation. He was greeted with sincere enthusi-
asm by a large number of loyal supporters who
made his visit pleasant one, and ever lntelll'
gent man is astonished and every decent man is
is disguised at the effort to put different light
on his visit to Fitzgerald.
This editor explained to Mr.. Smith that
the greater part of the sicky opposition to him
here was a result of our espousal of his cause.
That on account of our personal unpopular1ty
with certain class of people, to whom we are
not always comforting, he would lose some votes,
but not enough to jeopardize the vote of the
county.
In addition to our warfare on immortality,
we take sides in politics. and that always creates
antagonism. We might add by way of paren-
theses that we have usually been on the win
ming side and we feel quite confident that the
present gubernatorial campaign will not prove
an exception to that rule.
The picture and the report were mislead-
ing and false as hundreds of eye witnesses will
attest This simple statement is sufficient for
every honest man who knows the writer.
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Get busy at something useful.
The editorials in the Macon Telegraph are
broader than they used to be, mechanically
Outman Free Press.
Yes double-column in breadth.
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They do say that the greatest ovation ever
given political speaker in Georgia that
given Hoke Smith at the close of the Joint de-
bate at the auditorium in Atlanta Friday eve
ming.
Sundays Constitution was significantly
silent on the Joint debate. Clark IS good
boy and he has our sympathy for allowing those
ugly ring tricksters and corporation lobbyists to
8 bush him into any such fray.
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1t is said that there were actually over two
hundred, fifty seven Smith men (estimated) in
in the auditorium in Atlanta, Friday night. 1t
r uas not OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES count, how
aupef. lust a plain estimate.
erred as
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