Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-06
IS IGNORANCE REALLY BLISS?
The Blakely Reporter says this:

The Blakely Reporter says this:
''Of one thing Mr.. Watson ought to feel safe
the support of The Macon Telegraph.
Whether it will be worth anything to him for
the making of votes is another question"
And the MOntezuma Record says this:
'"Tom Watsons plan to have the Georgia
electoral vote cast for him for President on
the Populist ticket, will hardly meet with
much favor by the Democrats. He might
now get the support of The Macon Telegraph"
Tt is difficult to understand what these
brethren are driving at. Both of them are
probably sore because The Telegraph did not
follow them in the recent State primary. Mel
ther of them are now supporting the Democratic
nominee for governor-at least no word can be
found after diligent search in their columns
indicating loyalty to the State Democracy. On
the crontrary, they speak only in slight
ing and belttling way about the Democratic
nominee. We will follow these boys next
time, if they lead in the right direction
If the people who write such paragraphs as
the two quoted above would read the newspa-
pers particularly The Telegraph, they would
be- saved from many foolish sayings, and
would be spared the reproof of their more in
telligent readers. In the case of the proposed
Watson alliance they would have known that
while other newspapers were probably wait"
ing to see how the suggestion "took" with the
people, The Telegraph was the first paper in
the State to advise against it; because it would
produce endless complications and do no good
not that Bryan is any better Democrat than
Watson, but for the sake of Regularity" and
~ hiah
is greater and better than Bryan or Watson;
and alas for the sake of the platform on which
Bryan stands this year-not perfected plat
form, but the best one of the three on which
he has made the race for Presi lent-Macon
Telegraph.
BRYAN IS better Democrat than Watson
indeed large majority of the Democrats in th'
country believe him to be the best Democrat in al
The United States and Watson is not Democrat
1t all.
He is an enemy that the Democrats must
lefeat Pendleton probably thinks Watson is the
pest Democrat. We have seen the time when ht
to think that rampant Republicans
we're better Democrats than the leaders of the
party; but because PendletOn appears
% think so, is no reason why it is true or that he
eally believes it. But the Macon Telegraph Editor
continually harps on what he terms loyalty to
he estate Democracy" Pendleton knows, if he
Knows anything, that we have no state democracy,
t is all national democracy. We are willing to
,rant that if we had enough Pendetons and papers
ike the Telegraph we would have state democ,
acy and strenuous contests with the enemies of the
,arty, but Pendleton and his paper have been
Usually with a hopeless minority, and the fact
hat he favored the successful candidate for govern
II in the recent state primary does not change the
ruth of the assertion. The Telegraph and it's
editor are still in hopeless minority in matters
,olitical in this state.
The failure |of the Blakely Reporter, the
Iontezuma Record, Fitzgerald Enterprise or any
Their paper to enthuse over Joe Brown, is no cvi
ence of party disloyalty. Ii there was opposition