Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-06-11

Only few more weeks left in which to make
returns for state and county taxes.
There is road work enough in Georgia to keep
every able bodied convict busy hundred years.
We hope that the suggestion OfTOm Watson's
name in connection with the vice presidency will
not be taken seriously.
While it is dry in some sections of Georgia,
floods are destroying thousands Of property in
Kansas and Texas.
No, Joe Terrell will not fill Senator Bacon's
soat in the senate. Some of the speculations along
that line are ridiculous.
Cotton is worth III cents in Georgia and crops
promise bountiful harvest There is but little
room for the crOaker or the lOafer
HAs anybody noticed that there have been no
assaults in Georgia since prohibition was obtained
Turn back to the records made in June year ago,
two years ago, three, FOUR FIVE and six years ago
and say if we are not compensated Thousand
times over, taking nothing else intoaccount.
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The state convention which meets in Atlanta
ON the 23rd instant will have number of promi-
nent newspaper men almost every delegation we
have seen a list of has the name of the newspaper
men. Editor Loyless of Richmond, Editor Per-
ham of WaycroSs Editor Stanley of Dublin,
Editor Harvard of Hawkinsvie are among the
prominent newspaper men already named.
The average annual rain fall is about thirty
inches on land and is estimated to be about thirty
six inches on the SEAS On this basis it is calcula
ted that the total weight amounts to tour hundred
and sixty four million millions of tons, or more
than fifty three thousand million tons per hour, so
that it will be seen that old Sol quite busy lift
ing water with which to refresh the earth, and
there are people ungrateful enough to complain
that it is dry in Georgia
The present convict leases expire next April
and the legislature will within the next thirty
or forty days determine whether convicts shall be
again leased to private parties or worked on the
public roads.
It is just possible that the road plan will have
to be perfected by degrees and for time, at least
part of the convicts may be leased for mining and
.sawmill purposes. In case they are, the leases
ought to be made direct with the people who will
work the cOnvicts under contract that will ex.
pire at the instance of the state authorities.
1.-THE people paid high tribute to them
selve in passing through as warm campaign
as the one which has Just closed without
single personal collision, so far as we are
awsre.-Exchange.
They should pay tribute to prohibition, or
what is more to the point to people who are res.
ponsibIe for prohibition.
There were some exceptions to the rule of So
briefly and decency. In some instances liquor was
used and vote buying practiced, but they were
isolated instances 1t was Georgia's ceaneSt cleo.
ton.
There can be no excuse for second primary
on June IL to decide the question of who shall be
the partys candidate for Prison Commissioner.
The expense would be ten times the salary of the
Office, besides we are having too many elections.
The people are tired of them.
Capt Wiley Williams of Columbus has more
than q, 900 votes between him and the next near
est man and ought to be declared without further
expense or hazard, the nominee.
The writer was delegate to the convention
that promulgated the rule and was present at the
meeting of the state committee that adopted the
Ian for holding second primary on the IL of
June, was candidate for the Office in question and
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