Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-05-23
It's all over but the counting.

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It's. all over but the counting.
Tom Platt was not such an old fool after all.
OF course Atlanta claims to have started that
third term BOOM H..
In keeping with the weather the campaign
grows hotter. *z
And now it seems that Mr.. Brown rented
proportion saloon purposes 3sx..4.s~
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All right boys,zyou ate eating beef itAlay but
it will be crow feast June for the Brswnies,
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Coyngtoehas fallen a victim to the yAtlanta
spirit in wa5$asshe too, has placed tax ofSlOO
on near beer. I ~
''No, no. bud says the BroAton Journal.
eve don't need to boost your business just to get
. something to fill up with. 1t requires the tneed-
+ full"
The bonds the bonds We must have the
bonds. We will have the governor aud other
County or not But we must have the bonds.
Let every man do his duty. ':s->=>
The Augusta Chronicle, Macon Telegraph
and a few lesser lights are trying to keep life
in the Joe Brown ranks, and they have blOwed
|. so hard to initiate the boom that the bellows
. ripped and the whole thing is cOllapsing, while
Goveror Smith goes marching Oh to greater
victory than ever.-LaGrange Reporter.
One of the most eloquent, at least convinc
ing speeches we have heard on the gubernatoria
question is the shortest to witt:
cat least 50 u of the preachers of the state
favor one candidate for governor while at least
65M of the eX-SalOOn men of the state favor the
other candidate. Yot take your choice cast your
ballot and abide your result,
The Joe Brown columns Of the Leader does
the associate editor of this paper an injustice when
they state that he is not resident of the state for
he is Before coming to Fitzgerald he owned and
operated newspaper in Liberty county, was q
resident later of Fulton county where he was en-
F. titled to vote until coming to Fitzgerald. We
mention these things only that those not knowing
us may be put straight as to our citizenship. =
The farmers of the cotton belt seem to be de
termincd to exert themselves in reducing the cot
ton crop. Whether or not blowing up a percent
age of the crop is wise is matter that will decide
itself next fall. If however, the farmers will get
to planting more diyersifdely we are of the opin-
ion that then the southern states will be indeed
benefited. The time seems to have arrived when
the farmers Of the country as whole have decided
to throw off the yoke of bondage that Wall street
manipulators have placed upon them and made
them carry for so many years There is no reason
why the farmer should not dictate the price he
shall sell his product for. He is the best judge
to the worth of the artclee he produces and not
the ''cotton exchange" of New York or the ''wheat
pit" of Chicago.
The Atlanta Georgian comments OH the recent
action of the farmers as follows
No movement inaugurated in this country is
ofdeeper significance than the plan of the Far
mers' Union to curtail the cotton output, and
bring to the men who produce it living wage
upon the fruit of their endeavOr.
Begun quietly and without publicity wide
spread movement was inaugurated early in
May by the national organization, thru it's
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