Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-13

is going and that is to find out what everybody
thinks about it and Judging by that sign it really
locks like Bryan.
Tuu .or FITZGERALD
John ID. Rockefeller offered the Joel Chandler
Harris Memorial Association 81, 900 with the pro,
vision that $40, 900 more be raised. The Assocla-
ton rejected the Offer it had not been proposed
to raise any stipulated amount for the memorial.
But Mr.. Rockefeller often ties string toa gift.
A few days ago he visited the Ohio farm house
that was the home of his boyhood. He found it
occupied by an old German couple, who informed
him that there mOrtage OF 5000 upon the
property. Mr.. Rockefeller gave the housewife Sl
and the mortgage will be lifted when the couple
can raise 1899 more.
TO Fitzgerald o
The Enterprise wants thousand colonIstS
fresh from the west and north. One way to get
them is to put them to thinking about this colony
the most successful one that has been started
in the south. The most prosperous city OF its
size One way to get them thinking abotut it, is to
get them to reading the Fitzgerald papers
We have lots of readers who after reading
the paper wrap it up and mail it to their friends
WIN u one C0uG stamp Oh IL. NJ" VIC h1V0 Z"
special offer to make to the public spirited readers
of the Enterprise who are interested enough to
send the papers to friends in the north.
For the cost of the one cent stamps we will
mail the paper, fresh and clean from our office.
In other words we make special offer of
81. So per annum to home subscribers who want to
furnish the paper to their friends out side of
the county. this will give an opportunity to
North Georgia and middle people also.
PS. Don't forget that we furnish the paper,
mail it regularly from the office for exactly the
cost of the stamps, 1876 papers for $156 This
offer is good till October 3oth.
Pull for Fitzgerald or
The nagging, annoying, playhouse spirit that
is being shown by some of the enemies of l1okc
Smith and the friends of the convict lease system
is disgrace to our state and people.
Any effort to fix the responsibility of an extra
session and it's expense on Governor Smith is moth
ing less than retaliative effort of the friends of
convict slavery
Hoke Smith is defeated canddate-very
true He is much more he is still Governor of
Georgia and as much is doing his duty toward
leaving the name of his state freer from disgrace
than he found it,
Hoke Smith was not The Georgan's candid
ate for denomination. We have no candidates.
We didn't like many of the methods Candidate
Smith used in his campaign and we suggested as
much. But one of the peasantest things to MS in
connection with the convict lease fight has been
the opportunity that was offered of fighting side
by side with man who probably had counted us
an enemy, and of showing him that we fight for
principals, not men, and that we will go our full
length to help him in any good cause.
We have stood on own bottom. We have
kept free from entanglements. We have asked no
favors and have tried to do the right as God has
given us to see it. We seek no patronage nor tav-
ors at Hoke Smiths hands, but we say unhesitat-
ingly that the people of Georgia are with him in
the convict lease fight, and we will welcome an
extra session and any other reasonable expense he
puts Georgia to- to drive out the element that has
fattened on the blood OF the state
1t is bugaboo-it is chids play to try to
scare up the people of this state that may be in
CURED to putan end to system of graft and muir
countabe human lives.
Don't worry about the past, governor. Don't
look to see who they are, but drive every last one
the thieves and murders over the border lines of
the state of Georgia, and if you never live to do
another official act in tie Empire State of the
South, your name will be graved on the tablets of
history in letters so deep that the tooth of time
will never erase them
Settle it without the extra session, if you can,