Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-10-20
Pull for Fitzgerald or Pull Out
Governor Smiths Administration.

The election last week placed the people of
Georgia on record as endorsing Governor
Smiths administration
Two years ago when he first entered the CUB
ernatOrial arena, he started the disfranchise
ment issue, tho defeated for reelection him
self, his ideas ride safely in and receive the
universal support of every democrat in the
state. This is the climax of the Macon plat
form, and now the governor has done better
than even his friends expected for he has &C
complished in two years what was intended
for four years. This is record that any ad
ministration may we'll be proud. He went in
to Office little more than a year ago and now
we have on the statute books the laws that he
pleaded for in his campaigns-railrOad regu
lation and qualification of voters
Railroads no longer discriminate against the
general public by giving away thousands OF
dollars in transportation every year; the free
pass is gone The commission requires better
road beds, and the danger of wrecks has been
lessened The people travel at two cents per
mile and the railroads make just as much
money The convict lease system is now of
the past and Georgia will build a system of
public roads which will be the pride of the
south The state went dry and Georgia has
now state wide prohibition; the people ratified
the amendment to the constitution prescribing
the qualification of voters.
Any one of these great, magnificent admir-
able and overwhelming issues would make any
administration famous but when you crowd
them into the half term administration. it
challenges the respect and admiration of the
Governors most bitter enemy.
The ratification in the recent election should
be enough to commend the present administra-
tion to the people of the state, but when We
consider that it is, after all, merely the climax
to a series of wise legislation, the measure of
our appreciation becomes the greater.
The Macon platform of two years ago has
been carried out, the Governors pledges have
been redeemed and the people of Georgia are
proud of the record that he has accomplished.
Think of the signature of Hoke Smith being
to the following legislation: Free pass gone;
state prohibition; ride for two-cents; railroad
regulation; qualification of voters; convict
lease system dead
Well done thou good and faithful servant;
thou hast been faithful to the people of Georgia
and even now by the results of the recent cleo
tion to the people rise up and call thee blessed
by ratifying thy pet issue of Acknowledgement
and re electing thy pension commissioner, Mr..
Lindsey.
The reform promised has been delivered.
What now remains for the next administra
ton to do! We haven't monopoly on Pros
perity yet, and all of us like this mighty well.
The most dyspeptic relish it, anu epicureans
feast upon it; so just little more bread brown
ed on both sides next year if you please,
waiter!-Newnan News.
Pun for Fitzgerald
One of the inexplaipable things about certain
eorgia papers is their attitude towards the prohi
ition question-and evident antagonism to it
One of these papers published in its Sunday
1ition little more than column article headed
Prohibition Law Problem" from which we eliI
,e following paragraphs.
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