Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-04-07


Brown boom grows like snowballs, " says
the Macon telegraph EAnd likewise it melteth,
remarks the Sparta Ishmealte Yea, verify, as
ina hot place.
Pull for Fitzgerald o Pull Out
The cotton planters are yelping across the
sunny fields of Georgia every day of this beautiful
sun spring weather There is every probability
that too much cotton will be planted this year.
Pull for Fitzgerald o Pull Out
DO the people of Georgia appreciate the fact
that the black voter is no longer factor IN state
politics?
That the free pass is no more the power
about the legislative halls?
THAT the saloons has disappeared from the
state?
THAT whiskeys corrupting influence is no
longer power in our halls of justice and learning!
Pull for Fitzgerald o Pull
"a citizen of Irwin county," answering "a
laboring man in the OciIla STAR" closes his very
sensible letter with the following paragraph:
NV friend want to say to you the servant
is not greater than his Lord, and Mr. Smith
could not have been governor if the people OF
Georgia had not made him So and he did all
in his power to have enacted the laws that
majority of the people demanded, and if he
has not the confidence of the money power 1t
is because that he followed the peoples IN
structions Are you going to retrogade or go
forward Who was it that made the first at
tack on the railroads? Was it not the farm
ers and shippers of this state? Did not the
farmers demand the abolition of the free pass
system and twocent mileage rate? Give cred
it to whom credit is due, gentlemen.
One who stands for fair play.
A CITIZEN OF IRWIN COUNTY.
Full for Fitzgerald or Pull Out
Joe Brown was reared in railroad office.
His father was d railroad man. Joe has never
known anything but railroad business from
the railroad stand point. That he was preJu-
diced to the railroad side of the question while
he was railroad commissioner was apparent to
everyone who read his famous "cards' and dis
senting opinions. For this reason Hoke Smith
dispensed with his services on the commission.
The present reduced rate put into effect
over his protest. For business incapaclty his
own brothers and sisters had him discharged
from the administration of his fathers estate.
One of his own neghbors says that tits doubt
full if he ever earned dollar i'll his life except
what he drew in salaries Yet this is the
''business' man who aspires to give the PEG
pie of Georgia ''business'' administration.
He could not manage his fathers estate, but
he thinks the people of Georgia are ready to
to place in his hands the affairs of this Empire
State of the South. Oh! Joey!-Campbell
News.
Pull for Fitzgerald or Pull Out.
In the matter of selecting a congressman,
Fitzgerald at this time has more than the mere
within of personal choice to consider The two can
didates are men of high character, which settles
that very important question of decent representa-
ton then we come squarey to the question of the
most expedient thing for Fitzgerald and Ben Hill
county to do
We have the highest personal regard for Mr..
Hughes, and we believe he would be as faithful to
the interest of Ben Hill and this community as
representative could be, but Mr. Lewis already
has in hand the very important matters of a
Soldiers Home and government building. There
two sessions of congress in which he will par
ticpate, whether elected or not, if he should be
turned down by this county, he could not serve us
with the same good heart and zeal that would
actuate him if he heartily endorsed by Ben
Hill voters June 4th. Then, if he should be re-
elected (Which seems probable) and if the people
of this county failed to give him good majority,
it would be hard for us to press him for the favols
that we expect at his hands, relative to measures
which we so much need.
We believe that he or Mr. Hughes would do