Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-02-10

Below we give a sample instance of the
taking that is being done by Howell's friends
to off act the numerous straw votes that lndl.
c.te Hoke Smiths lead in every section Of the
8 ate:
"ANOTHER RING ORGAN
CAMPAIGN FAKE NAILED.
ITO the Atlanta Journal:
''There appeared an article in Saturdays
issue of the Atlanta Constitution, which reads
as follows:
'susPs1s1NG FIND IN HoKE SMITH
BALLOT BOX AT MA HVILLE.
Nashville, Ca Feb 2-Attorney
w. II Smith a leader among the Hoke
Smith faction here, prepared ballot
box and canvassed the business section
of the town this morning for the pur-
pose of demonstrating the facr, as be
stated it, that Nashville is overwhelm-
ingfy fer Heke for governor.
"Col. Smith passed all around Edi-
tor Albert Sweat, of the Herald, and
County Clerk J. D. Lovett and other
weil-known supporters Of Clark Howell
without Offering to let them vote. lie
urged others to vote. Only
resident, travelling man named Cooper,
from Augusta, who expressed himself
as being IN favor of Hoke, voted in the
election. Whcn the vote was counted
it was found that Clark Howell had %,
Hoke Smith %, and Dr.. Nunally l.
1.-The Hokeites here have been
claiming N ashve for Hoke for some
time, and the m ck election OF today
was distressful revelation 10 HEM"
Replying to same have this to say: do
not know the instigator of this Infamous scheme
and after ascerta,ning the very low and base
motive which prompted it, do not care to learu
Il prepared ballot box stated by the
unknown writer above referred TO, and voted all
the leading citizens OF the town; not tor the pur
= Lo fa%S &hoh hxYIila
was for Hoke Smith, tor I. together with all
of NashvlA, were fully appIs OF that tact;
but did it hon st and fairly and IN straIghte
forward mann-r Or tue purpose OF demonSt rat
ing how much in the overwhelming m J)rlty ne
was.
passed around the distinguished editor, bert
Sweat and J. D. Lovett, 10 ballotting the town,
and that the result was % tor Howell, IS Tor
Smith and for Nunav, desire to say that the
true result was Al for Smith, 70 for Howell and
2 for Estlll.
Wherefore, the statement was not only at
variance with the truth, but are lies OF the deep.
est dye, absolutely void of all coloring # truth,
which | am prepared to prove when the proper
time comes. l must say that cannot under
stand what the writer expected to accomplish
bv the publication of such an arl1cle, tor GER
tainlv he hould have knowo that the only place
it could have aft cted Na>hv lie, and surely
he should have known equally as Well that every"
BODY here won d know it lie.
II cant see where it does any good lie
when everybody knows it is lie. Some sins
have a seeming compensation aplogy-a
a present gratfcation of some sort, but lie has
none.
mot only did the distinguished editor. Mr..
Sweat, and County Clerk J. d. Lovett have
chance to vote, which opportunity they not only.
readily accepted, but ia addition to voting them.
Selves Mr. Sweat voted by proxy for two young
men who are both said to be under 81 years of
age and have every reason to believe 1t is true;
being intimately acquainted with the young men
myself.
mo. Howell didn't carry Nashville, and I
sincerely hope that there is no prospect of such
a deplorabe thing happening in the good old
state of Georgia and especially in Berrien coun-
ty and in our thriving little town of Na>hvlle.
For nv greatest desire is to be delivered from
rings and rules that can swallow perjury like
water, digest forgery as readily as Graham
bread, convert black iuto white truth into false
hood good into evil, innocence into crime, and
metamorphose everything which stands lp the
current of it's polluted and polluting breath.
wv R SMITH.
"P. Sat the request of some of my
closest friends, I decided not TO offer the result
of the vote for publication, and would not have
done so had it not been for the appearance of an
untrue statement of the result in the Constitu-
tion."
In the bets that are offered the odds are on
Hoke Smith In the straw votes that are taken
ports we get from near by and distant parts or
:~Is hoe 0l,o Sn1fh ia