Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-05-07
THURSDAY, MAY T. 1908.

MP pOckeG-SO 10 SPEAK
Thegpresent peach crop is estimated at six
+ thousand carloads for Georgia alone.
What on earth does any Railroad Company
want with any newspaper stock?
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'as',.7i Sunday Dispatch, Alvin Roberts editor,
s13fis anew and third paper for Cordee. The paper
5as will not conflict with either the Rambler nor the
@14 Sentinel Success to it.
"GiYe the Merry Widow hat rest ;" remarks
an exchange. That's all right pardner, but it
won't give you lest if you sit between two of
them on buggy ride. We know.
County Commissioners of Dougherty County
- have called for election for bonds June 4th
- Thirty thousand dollars for the purchase of road
machinery and for road building
Chatham County has organized a Law and
Order League. There was a time when such an
institution was necessary in Fitzgerald, and it did
great work. The organization is intact vet, but
there has been little for it to do in many months
A remarkable circumstance has occurred in
Schley county, in which the grand jury met
transacted the business before it and did not
find single true bill against law breaker
The jury tells the for this in the fol-
lowing:
sA~s ,-ss 'We congratulate the citizens of Schley
az county upon the fact that not single
s.. - ~ case has been presented to us at this term
of court that would warrant a bill and we
bGt attribute same largely to the effect of
state prohibition. Coffee County News
'r'> They say prohibition DOESN'T etc., but itdoes.
a4is
:: 50 names of Cordele people appear in the
ctt Fulton County Joe Brown club
- ~ The Fitzgerald contingent has not been check
ed Florida is more largely represented than either
Cordee or Fitzgerald and the cemeteries are said
f to havea better representation than the commun-
sa-2@%< ity represented in the great list
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One of the Objectionable features of the heated
political campaign is the opportunity it offers
sorry white men to appear in print. In the hope
sof attracting attention some cheap stick in nearly
ses,> every community finds to the columns of
papers thru the prejudice of the publisher who is
willing to publish anything that appears to be
xo favorable to his candidate regardless of the stand
ing or qualification of the author, who, it some
times turns out is embecile or laughing stock
among those who know him.
s.A "Cut out graft!' that has been the slogan of
the American people fora number of years and
yet when Hoke Smith follows out his instructions
= from the people of Georgia and cuts out graft
from the state capital there is a big how to do
about it-by some.
But let's see who it is that is making all this
- noise In opposition to Smith
yYr It's the corporations who are prevented from
sending lobbyists to the legislative halls with pockets
- full OF passes to be used to corrupt legislation
@sazS It's the brewers who are compelled to keep
their hands off of Georgias policies.
IS % It's the distiers who cannot hope under Hoke
Smiths regime to name ''their man" by the un-
lawful use of money that they may ''buy Georgia"
and control her.
It's the gambler in stocks and futures, the
s'bg" fellows who deal in watered stock and imagi-
nary cotton to the detriment of the merchant and
farmer
It's all of that class VIII ich loves corruption
Sd and hates decency That class who for years have
dealt dishonesty in the products of the peoples
brains and hands, Who take something and give
in return worse than nothing.
There are many law abiding and righteous
menrFho have been fooled in this campaign to be.
eiye that this is untrue-but daily some of them