Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-06-25

In figuring on the disposition of the states
convicts there is one thing that it might be well
enough to bear in mind, and that is that with pro
hibition their number will grow beautifully less.
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Governor Smith, believes that the railroad
domination will lead to railroad ownership. The
people rule and will strike down Caesar Oh sys-
tenn. They will for time, but not always stand
for despotism Railroad regulation is better for
the railroads and certainly best for the people.
The editor of the Enterprre is tickled to death
at more than one thing that was done in the state
convention this week.
The rejection of Watson comes fourth in the
list of good things including the endorsement of
prohibition and of disfranchisment and the anti
pass law.
The only plank in the new state platform to
which there can be even slight objection from our
standpoint is the one in reference to the re-Orga
nization of the railroad commission. Everybody
understands the animus and no unprejudice man
believes that there is good reason foIS the recon-
mendation, and the best informed people seriously
doubt that it will bring any good result We very
much doubt that the change will ever be made.
The near.beer people WILL or have already
brought down their heads the con demnaton
that always follows the abuse of privilege. The
saloon men of Georgia brought on prohibition by
wanton disregard of the law and public senti,
ment. In the communities where disreputable
people undertake to vend the light beverage and
occasionally get in little that is not light sell
it to boys and otherwise disregard the rights of
others the people rise up in righteous Indignation
and smite them. The license is going on in many
Georgia towns and the legislature will be forced
sooner or later to make the sale crime
Yesterdays Atlanta Journal greeted the state
convention with big, broad, generous editorial
t'In the excitement incident to the recent cleo
ton we lost reserve seat cupon, and hence can
not claim the privilege of sitting under the drip
pings of the sanctuary, but as cheerful member
of the body polite and devoted citizen of the
commonwealth, we are interested in the proceed
ings of the state convention which is now in ses-
sion.
"a furtve survey of the delegates, as gathered
from the hotel lobbies and at the doorway which
leads to the Shekinah, excites our wonder that so
many good men could have gone wrong, and we
are constrained to believe that the counties in
naming their delegates have put their best foot
foremost. There are visible signs of boots and
horns, no lingering breath of birthstone as they
pass Indeed they have breadth of brow which
usually accompanies breadth of view and the most
dilligent observation has failed to reveal anything
which looked like conspiracy to overthrow the
established forms of government.
owe are not making any effort to conceal the
fact that it teels queer out here in the anti room
IL that's the right way to spell it, Our only con-
solatiOu is the fact that if all friends were
take something more exact than show of hands
to see which gathering was the larger.
Sand that isn't ALL
1--WE have smile on face as broad as the
mantle of charity and patriotism which rises
superior to factional oscillations the peak lifts
its head above the storm, but this sunny DISPOSE
@iOn isn't going to dazzle the clarity of vision
md while we keep one eye on this convention, we
hall keep the other on the best interests of the
people,
ssW hen the convention is over and the platform
and the candidate put forward by the
been duly elected, we shall continue to
Jew the situation with impartial vigilance
There are about hundred thousand voters in
Georgia who have indicated that they viii do the
ne thing, so we are by no means as lonely as we
90 be. !,