Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-22
P.:ll for Fitzgerald or Pull Out.

very contemplate imputation on the political
honesty of the supporters of Hokc Smith i'll the
last primary. In an editorial discussing the
sources Of strength Of the Hearst party the Geor-
gian uses a clipping from Golfers to show that the
Independent League candidate for governor of
Massachusetts drew his vote largely from democrat
ic party Then it comments as follows:
"Ofc course this will be largely true in Georgia,
too. Some hundred thousand votes were cast in
the primary for Mr. Smith The regular nominee
was MI Brown. No doubt many men, ncensed
by the defeat of their candidate and generally dis
gruntIed, will turn to this opportunity to vote a
gainst Mr.. Brown. This may carry with it support
for other than the regular democratic presidential
nominee-and democracy is the sufferer, as usual. y
If the Georgian has kept itself posted on cur
rent political matters it must know that the above
is a dsreputable attack On the political faith of a
set of men whose democracy in the past has been
unquestoncd and whose conduct in the future will
be above reproach
But just to give Georgian few facts as to the
democracy Of the supporters Of Mr.. Smith and Mr..
Brown, we will dig up few things
Whose supporters it that endcayOrcd to
rape the electoral vote of Georgia in favor of Tom
Watson?
Watson himself in the last issue of his
Jeersonan says he would have gotten the electoral
vote of Georgia this year it had not been for the
fight made by the Hoke Smith gang. Watson
should be pretty good authority i'll this NATTER
and The News would advise the Georgian to read
what he has to say on the subject in his last weeks
edition. While he does it in spirit Of meanness
and pique heaping up commentator in his abuse,
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national democracy in Georgia this year in the
HOke Smith camp.
1t is generally conceded that Watson brought
to the Joe Brown strength in the last primar
twenty thousand votes?
Is the Watson following going to support the
democratic ticket in October and November?
This will be a falling off in the vote Of Mr..
Bryan and Mr.. Brown that the Georgian cannot in
the most ordinary form of good attribu tie to
disgrunted followers of Hoke Smith
Then again, such eminent republicans as Ma
jor Hanson, Judge Speer United States Marshal
George White, Postmaster Edwards and all the
other republican leaders of this section ardent
supporters of MI Brown against Mr.. Smith.
The News supposes the same was true in other
parts of Georgia and one republican official boasts
that bis party contributed ten thousand votes to
the election Of Mr.. Brown.
Are these republicans going to support the
democracy in the fall of the year, although they
took part in its coucils in the spring?
Not on the life of the Georgian, and here is
another democratic falling off that Mr. Seeley can
not in common honesty attribute to the Hoke
Smith people in the fall.
The democracy of the Hoke Smith crowd has
not been questioned.
Is Bill West, who has been explaining his
democratic position since he came home from
Denver a Hoke Smith man?
Is Judge Saffod who stood out for Watson
for weeks and he a demcratc elector, too, Hoke
Smith man!
Are any the others who have been recently
whipped into line by public opinion Hoke Smith
men?
This paper does not pretend to say that all who
voted for Mr.. Smith will remain true to democracy
this fall, but as q general proposition the Smith
men have proved their democracy long before the
Georgian's owner was resident Of Georgia and
before his paper began to enlighten the democrats
as to their duty.
The Georgian's reproach of the Smith following's
democracy is disreputable to degree, and un-
worthy of high minded newspaper.
The News supported Mr.. Smith and distinctly
resents any aspersions of its democracy, which is
older and more indigenous to the soil than the
brand the Georgian faunts.
The News dislikes to rake up these old sores
but the ultra pious position of the Georgian in