Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-11-08

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The circumstances were these: A
man who was a gambler had shot
another person in the same line of
business-that is, the other person
was gambler also. Our hero, Hoke,
then just admitted to the bar, assis-
ted in the prosecution of the gambler;
and the way he waded into that
homicide was caution. He made
various remarks about his associates
and these caused the vow of death
to be made against the intrepid
Hoke. then at the mature age of
twenty-five. What Hoke did has
been related above in a most graph
ic manner; and suffice it to say Hoke
was not killed at that particular
time nor since. This proves that
courage is its own reward.
They have just elected Hoke gov
ernor of Georgia again, for the sec
ond time out of three opportunities
to confer this distinction. Once he
ran against Clark Howell, editor Of
the Atlanta Constitution, and won.
Once hefran against Little Joe Brown
and lost; and again he ran and wip-
ed up Georgia with Little Joe. That
was just recently. Wherefore, safe
and secure in the governors chair
for this present term. Ioke can now
turn his attention to the United
States senatorship, which, they say
in Georgia, is what he has in mind
and whereby the Honorable Agus-
tus Octavius Bacon and the Honor
able Alexander Stephens Clay,
present incumbents, are more or less
on pins and needles
Hoke has been a big man in Geor-
gia for a good many years, but he
first blossomed into national figure
in 1893, when he was made Secre-
of the Interior by president Cleve-
land. Hoke served three years or
scuh matter and then held it to
be his duty to the Democratic party
to give a series of sharp staccato
cheers for free silver, end resign
He practiced law until 1905, when
he began campaign for governor
against Clark Howell that hasn't
stopped echoing yet. Being an ar
dent friend of the plain people, Hoke
took the antirailroad end of the fight,
there being more or less railroading
in the politics of Georgia or politics
in the railroading, whichever you
prefer; and he whooped it up back
ward and forward, crisscross, cater
cornered, up and down and through
that commonwealth outlining new
and complete set of reforms he in
tended to put into immediate effect.
He won and he began work to get
his reform laws made. He was rea-
sonably successful; butMhen it came
time for the next campaign he found
opposed to him Little Joe Brown, a
railroad commissioner whom Hoke
had fired incontinently. Little Joe
won and Hoke went back to the
practice Of the law. Gubernatorial
campaigns begin early in Georgia
that is, as soon as one governor is
elected the campaign for the election
Of the next one starts. Georgia is
always in the throes of a gubena-
torial campaign.
Brown was a candidate for re-
election and it was given ont that
Hoke wouIdn'trun. However, Hoke
presently thought it over and jump
ed in and reversed things. He de-
feated Brown and is to be governor
again
Hoke is a large, urbane person,
who stands a couple Of i3caes more
than six feet in height and is prom
inently upholstered with about two
hundred fifty pounds of meat. He
is an orator of the most approved
Southern style and he can weep over
the wrongs of the people for twenty
four hours day-weep with his voice
you know, not with his eyes. He
has been after the railroads ever
since he used to win damage suits
for them. Also, the railroads have
been after him; but Hoke seems to