Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-07-30
sOfficial Organ Of Ben Hill County.
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1908.

.seSenator Brock resign. This advice is good
's WIN h'o' p" for Fitzgerald ., Pull Out
e7sWarm Springs promises to be the most popu
larfesort in close proximity with fitzgerald. 1t is
SAID to be ideal place for rest and recuperation
sr Fun Cor FITZGERALD or Pull Out
IL With the Kimbal Hohse poker game and the
charges against Senator Brock the present legisla
ture is making reputation that may need bolst-
'rIRs Pun 70. y ~.2 ., Pun GU.
sssProsperty is knocking at the door, and
il is only few of the grumblers and chronic
7sCreheads who seem disposed to deny her en-
eSRance Fortunately, however prosperity I'M
ike opportunity, knocks more than once
Savannah Morning News.
~. Pull for FITZGERALD or Pull Out.
aeThe evidence that is being published in con-
n66SiOn with the Convict Lease system is indeed
staxtling. Il We knew that Georgia politics was
getting ripe for graft before the celebrated cam
paign of Hoke Smiths, but we never believed that
aesNal graft and rascality had been practced by
state officials
Pull for Fitzgerald
1.-THE latest and most interesting reports in rail
road circles is to the effect that the N. G. & ST. L.
Railway Co., is to get the A. B. & A. road. The N.
Crs& st. L. has been out off from it's port connec
ton by the purchase of tho Central of Georgia by
the Illinois Central Although no official confirm
ati9n or denial has deem made it is believed that
these plans will be carried out in a short time.
90 Pull for Fitzgerald ., Phil Ont
The affair at Ocilla this week has made an i'm
I~Is
the crimnally inclined negro will profit by the les
ISf54g We congratulate Sheriff McInnis and Irwin
a.ScOlAtyS shat there no lynching We have too
asInany unlawful killings of that kind. The prompt
HCtlQRUf the Governor in sending the Fitzgerald
militia. probably had something to do with that
result
'''' Our good friend, Charles j. Shipp is display
ing grief at the failure OF the Democratic Commit
s,tse to agree to Watson's scheme to deliver Geor
ga's electoral vote to him. We fail to understan
why democratic eector should give his vote to
: the candidate of another party
Brother Shipp of course is a Topulst, as he
mas right to be- and Watson has right to be,
but as. Populists he is not in any wise entitled
Ito Democratic consideration.
Mr.. Watson should be left severely alone by
all but his loyal Populist partisans. We believe
&hRt ne has cylinder petered OUT at least we
hope he has for we have never admired him or had
the slightert confidence in his claims of patriotism.
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Pull for Fitzgerald or Out
7D The Convict Lease and Prison Commission in
,teStigaton that has been undertaken by the legis
AatWre at last has developed the sort of evidence
that We hoped would not be forth coming
Wehaye deplored thesystem because the plan
itself is wrong, but we had hoped that the MANY
stories of cruelty and barbarism, hunger and filth
were the unreliable statements of those who might
have sinister motives, andwhie we understood that
nnGarlthe system there great opportunities for
corruption and graft, we hoped that all those who
had been in charge of the affairs had held
themselves aloof from down right graft and corrup
ton.
In all of this we have evidently been mistak
en-. The disclosures are horrifying as to the treat
ment the states prisoners and the evidences of
graft, fraud and corruption are unmistakable and
involve men who ought to have known better,
men Ebo stand high in the state. Even an ex GOV.
efnor of the state is hopelesSly besmirched
with the stain that will not come off,
We have known enough of the affairs of the
Sate to realize that there opportunity for the
temptation of men in high office but we had
eved that down right graft was simply mat
that threatened but had not been INDUCED.
Z The whole thing seems to have been rotten
rpm the core and the shell of outside appearances
was almost punctured with the rotteness from