Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-05-16
:;That Fulton County Joe Brown Club.

+The idea of publishing the list of names of the
Fulton County Joe Brown club in various papers
thritout the state at great cost to Joe Brown, or
somebody backing his candidacy was good one
theYsthot. Had it not been that the list publish
ed was one of the most garing frauds ever known
of its kind the idea would have been good one
and made votes tor their man. But as it is it has
proven one of the greatest documents for making
votGs.fo Hoke Smith that has gone out over the
state.
Itwast the intention of the managers of Browns
campaign to lead every one to believe that HOkc
Smi$hswas everlastingly deserted by his next door
neighbors. 1t was the idea of the Brown cam
paign managers to convey the idea that at home
Smith wouldn't poll but few hundred votes for
the list published contained as many or nearly as
many names us would be voted at the primary.
The people of the state-the ones honestly
searching for enlightenment in this campaign-saw
thru the fraud at glance and many hundreds of
them, have come to the conclusion that they were
being fooled right along and that this attempt to
crab down their Threats faxed list of names was
a palpabe insult to their intelligence.
UnconsciousIy the Joe Brown campaign man
ayers uncovered their methods when they publish
ed that lst-they showed their hand and it was
NOT of Smith weakness in his home county but of
the Implicitly back of the opposition to his re cleo
tion--Brown's followers thruout the state have
been growing fewer in number.
The padded and misleading list Of names has
turned more than one man against Brown in Fitz-
gerald and Ben Hill county and more are following
every day as the facts are being brot to light
~
There is not another city in the state of Geor-
giat.And we doubt if there be one anywhere, with
thesame population that Fitzgerald has that can
boast of as clean morals as can this city, There
is DOT an open gambling house here and whatever
of this sort of thing there is going on is done in
such secretive manner that only the ones on the
closest terms of intimacy with the gamblers know
anything about it, There is not blind tiger in
the true sense OF the word. There is one or two
nggers of the lower class that traffic in sbooze'
but to such slight extent that their work is not
noticeable ito the general public There is one
sorry white man selling liquor on the sly and he
is patronized only by class white menand negroes
that have fallen down low in the scale of human
decency that only the color of their skins desig-
mates them. If anything the white skinned pa
trohs of the white skinned liquor dealer are sorrer
than their darker complexioned companions
;..We have an efficient police force and shrewd
active sheriff with conscientious deputies who are
trying to and who do keep order in the city and
county. They are to be commended for their work
and the citizenry OF Fitzgerald and Ben Hill county
deserve credit for the high moral tone of the com.
mopwealth, for it is their examples that sets the
standard and keeps it where it is
:. Fitzgerads citizens some years ago set out to
make this clean city and they have done it and
woe be unto any who endeavor to ''pu down the
fag.n
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We of the Sunny South are not apt to give
much thot to Iceland that little cold frozen country
way up north about the size of the state of Mis-
sissipp yet that little country ranks away ahead
of SOME of our great southern states in education
and morals. There is no jail in that country no
penitentiary, no court and only one policeman
There is not an illiterate on the island not child
tersEears of age but that read and write their
system of public schools are practically perfect
They have special seminaries and colleges several
goad:newspapers and printing establishment that
every. year publishes a number of excellent books
on various subjects.
Mot drop of alcoholic liquor is made on the
island and its 49, 900 people are total abstaiRers
They will not permit drop of liquor to be III ort.
cdSahd: yet Georgia IS being flooded with liter
lust now that states that in cold countries
aud u warm .cOnntgies beer.