Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-07-27
WILL SEEK TO BUY A.B.&A RAILWAY FOR STATE
Wesley Walker Does
I! Not Want City Court
Says Would Cost Too Much and
Election To Be Held Too Soon
Fitzgerald, Ga. July 81, 1921.

Fitzgerald, Ga. July 81, 1921.
Fitzgerald Leader,
| notice our State Senator Hon.
Wiley Williams and our Representa-
tive Hon. T. ]. Luke has introduced
and will pass Bill establishing a
City Court. AS l understand this
Bill it will be submitted to the vot-
ers of the County to be ratified, To
this l say is right and fair. When
this court was abolished in 1915 by
myself it was done through the vote
of the people electing me to do the
job and | did it. 1t has been a bone
OF contention ever since then to re-
establish it and / was satisfied that
the present administration would es-
tabllsh it and they have done the
right thing to submit it to the people
as the voters know l have fought the
proposition from the start purely
from a financial, taxable standpoint
and now under the great financial
strain burden down so to speak with
taxes and more and more heaping I'D
on us every day that could be avoid
ed, Yet l made up my mind to say
nothing for or against the establish
ing of this court knowing full we'll
that the stand | have taken in the
past against this court has lost me
quite few friends that l regret hav-
ing lost but l was serving my county
tor the best interest of the people as
| saw it regardless of those friends
| lost. And I would not say one
one word but for the unfairness of
taking the advantage of the voters OF
the county in submitting it to them
practically on ten days notice. Why
take snap judgment on this impor-
tant proposition where the people are
so vitality interested and pull the
election off before the rural voters
of the county have time to know
anything about the election and q
handful of city voters possibly the
friends of the bill would be the only
ones to get their friends out to vote
To pull off this kind of stunt does
more harm than good and really rep
resents the court. A snap judgment
Court. Why not be fair with the
voters and give them a legal notice
OF thirty days and advertise the Bill
SO that the. voters will know just
what they are voting on. I dare gay
that most of the voters are intelli-
gent enough after having read the
Bill to cast their vote intelligently.
OF course 1 am always butting in
and possibly in someone's way but
just why don't know. Either a
natural born Kicker or a duty to
perform, Thirty days would be a
legal notice and the voters should
demand that and that the Bill be ad-
vertised.
Why should we be in such a hurry
to run this election over the people
in ten days notice. We have been
doing without this court for six
years and we have been getting
along all right. Of course we have
not been railroaded through court as
fast as some folks would possibly of
liked. Nor railroaded into the chain
gang as fast as we ought to be but
that hasn't nothing to do with Civ
ing us a square deal in casting our
vote on this Bill when the voters
have got to finance it by taxation.
If the advocates of this Bill wishes
to settle this for all time let them
be fair in the matter and then if it is
carried it will settle it. I have just
read a notice in The Fitzgerald
Leader where the Bill was introduced
in the Legislature last Tuesday and
calls for an election on the 10th day
of August.
The Bill is not yet passed and it
will take the rest of this week to get
the bill through and the governors
signature to it. Some hurry isn't it.
What will be the verdict at the polls