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Why Mercer Should Be Elect:d To
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Congress from the Third District
E. L, Rainey in Dawson News,
The candidacy of John R. Mercer for Congress from the Third
district of Georgia seems to be bothering some of tte editors. One
of the brethern has recently come forward with a large-sized
piece of writing in which, by a lack-logic process of elimination, he
proceeds to show that there is only one “*logical” candidate in the race,
and that is—well, not Mr, Merecer.
He says that Mr. Mercer’s “‘principal argument why he should
be elected is the fact that he is a farmer, and a good one.” Then he
proceeds to hand out quite a tidy little bunch of advice to Mr, Mercer
and the folks in general. He says:
*‘His calling (farming) 1s an honorable one, and perhaps the most
important in the whole wide world. Mr, Mercer seems to think that
there are too many lawyers in Congress already. Perhapsso. There
are also too many lawvcers running farms—folks call ’em ‘near farm
ers.’” We venture to say that more good farmers have been spoiled by
being drawn into more attractive pursuits than men of all other call
ings. Thatls one great trouble with the agricultural conditions
throughout the nation today; good farmers are too few. Mr. Mercer
should continue in his chosen vocation, in which he has met with so
much success, and by practical example lead his neighbors to a higher
standard of farm manipulation.”
You are right Mr. Editor, Good farmers are too few. That’s
‘what Mr, Mercer thit ks. And you need not worry about Mr. Mercer
not sticking to farming. One of his cherised aims and most definite
plans is to continue to demonstrate to his community that farming
rightly carried on is not only a beneficence to the farmer himself, but
a source of economic salvation to the country in general Mr. Mer
cer dces not propose to throw away a lifetime of h:rd-won experience
in which he has proved that the safe and sane sort of farming is a
payiog propositicn from every point of view.
If he goes to Congrees, as he hopes to do, he will go with the fixed
idea of devoting his time and energies to just the very thing that our
friend suggests—namely, the advancement of the interests of farming
people generally, and those of the Third district in particular,
Mr. Mercer has been a constructive worker, and he has liberally
passed on his ideas to his neichbors. He has labored both by precept
and example to better the quality of the agricultural achievements of
his community. There’s no reason on earth why he should stop being
a farmer. He doesn’t want to quit. He loves the soil and the pleas
ant fruits of his labor, He is not the kind of a man who, to literalize
a familiar metaphor, having put his hand to the plow wants to look
back,
Look back? Notatall. Mr. Mercer's idea is to look forward.
That’s exactly why he is running for Congress. He looks for
ward to the time when the interests shall pnot be able to put their
haods into the people’s treasury and grab greedily what they want.
He looks te the time when the government shall, by the right kind of
encouragement, training and stimulus, see to it that the great agricul
tural classes shall have their due and the opportunity.
You are right, brother, when you say that we need good farmers,
We need them more than we need any other ciass of developers. Dut
we are never going to get them unless the government, lays a firm and
steady hand on Lbe abuses that have fleeced the farming classes of
their rights, We shall never have the geuveral turping to agriculture
as a life-work that the resources ef our country demaund until the law
making bodies see to it that there is the proper protection, legislation
and encouragemert for the farmer.
Farmer Mercer does not claim superior. merit over his opponents.
He is a modest man, and is perfectly willing to bave his record speak
for him. Neither does he decry his opponerts. But he does claim
that he knows thoroughly the needs and the interests of the people of
the Third district. He is familiar with the conditions existing in this
splendid block of agricultural and business territory. If heis elected
he will do all in his power to promote and further these interests.
Mr. Mercer does not believe that the agricultural classes of this
country have had fair and equitable recognition in the apportionment
of congressional honors. The records show that there 1s only one far
mer from Georgia in Congress—Hon. Dudiey M, Hughes—and he has
made good. It is not that Mr. Mercer thinks there are too many law
vers in Congress, but too few farmers. He does not ask for the votes
of the people just because he is a farmer. e does not expect to ve
elected just on that ground. Far from it. He asks the privilege and
seeks the honor of representing the Third district for the good that he
can do in securing for his constituency tne legislation and recognition
that are its due.
There are those who cannot think of the farmer as a type of the
wide-awake, thinking American. They still look for hayseed in his
hair, and expect him to blow out the gas. They are behind the times.
these would be critics, They baven’t kept up with the facts. They
don’t seem to know that while he has been plowing he has been think
ing. While he has been tilling the broad acres he has been subsoil
ing his mind, and making ready for the reception of dynamic ideas,
This is the type of farmer Mr. Mercer represents. He is a map
of unimpeachable integrity, and his devotion to the cause committed
to his keeping would be of a kina to stand the heaviest tests.
Mr. Mercer will be an honor to the Third district and a vote for
him means a vote for the right man.
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TEE LEADER ENTEKFRISE, TUESDAY, JULY 30 1912.
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HON. A. 0. BLALOCK OF FAYETTE
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Hon. Emmett Cabiness of Oglethorpe
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missioner.
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h's county and senatorial district in
the Georgia legislature almost con
tinuously for the past twenty years,
and has made a record for himself
as a representative of the pecple and
their best interests, second to no
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is especially fitted for the position to
which he aspires. He has an army of
friends all over the state who are
actively interested in his election,
and, if elected, the department over
which he will preside will have a
most capable and efficient head.
The farmers of the state are vi
tally concerned in one of the meas
ures before the present legislature,
championed by Senator Blalock, the
bill being known as the “pure fertili
zer bill.” This measure provides that
cinders, sand and other substance of
no commercial value shall not consti
tute any part of the commercial fer
tilizers offered for sale in this state.
‘The passage and enforcement of this
bill would save the farmers of Geor
gia not less than five million dellars
annually in freight, sacking, hauling
!and distributing. This amount seems
Elarge, but, when it is realized that
}525,000,000 are paid for fertilizers an
| nually, then figuring one-fifth—or
lfrom 400 to 500 pounds of worthless
' filler having no plant food, in each
ton—it is evident that this estimate
is approximately correct.
The fertilizer trust is now, as al
ways, actively fighting any wmeasure
to raise the standard of fertilizers,
whereby worthless substances can he
eliminated. The small mixers, who
are not using worthless fillers, are
generally for this measure. If Sena
tor Blalock is elected commissioner of
agriculture, he will see that this
measure is thoroughly enforced, as
well as giving to the office a practical,
pusiness administration. This office
Iwas created especially for the pro
tection and benefit of the farmers.
I During Senator Blalock’s service in
the general assembly, he has favor
ed the pensioning of all Confederate
soldiers, being the author of the bill
pensioning the widows of Confederate
soldiers, and he stands for the liberal
and prompt Payment of teachers of
the public schools. .
Hon. Emmett Cabiness is a “hog
and hominy” farmer, who believes in
and practices raising at home every
thing for the support of man and ani
mal—corn, cats, wheat and hay. As
president of the State Farmers' Un
ion, he actively aided the formation
of Boys’ Corn Clubs all over the
state, and is one of the successful
farmers of Georgia.
He is a member of the agricultural
committee of the house, and was the
author of the bill which was so stren
uously opposed at the last session
by the fertilizer trust, providing that
phe different ingredients of all fertili
zers offered for sale in this state
lshould be printed or branded on each
sack or tag. Representative Cabi
‘ness and Senator Blalock are using
‘their best efforts to pass measures
insuring the people pure fertilizers
in this state. As the consumer pays
a tax of more than $lOO,OOO annually
for the inspection of fertilizers,
Messrs. Blalock and Cabiness believe
that the farmers are entitled to the
most rigid inspection of fertilizers
cold in Georgia, thus guaranteeing
that the farmer wiil get what he
buys.
A. O. ELALCCK SPEAKS TO
LARGE CROWD AT DALTON.
Dalton, Ga., July 22.—(Special.)~—
Senator A. O. Blaloek of Fayette coun
ty spoke at the courthouse here to
day to a large number of practical
farmers, and outlned his plan upon
which he is running for commissioner
of agriculture for the state of Geor
gia.
The gist of Senator Blalock’s argu
ment was that, if elected, he would do
ali within his power to raise the
standard of fertilizer which costs the
farmers of Georgia such an immense
sum, and to prevent the shipping of
garbage from large cities into Geor
gia to be sold to farmers as fertilizer
and endangering them with disease.
Sale of Unreturned Lands,
GrorciaA—BeN HiLn County.
Notice is hereby given that on
the first Tuesday in October, 1912,
at the court house door in Fitzgerald,
Georgia, within the ’egal hours of
sale, the undersigned will offer for
sale and sell to the highest bidder
for cash, the following unreturned
lands for the taxes due Ben Hill
county and the State of Georgia for
the year 1911. Said lands are lie in
Ben Hill county, Georgia, and are
described as follows:
FITZGERALD.
Lot. Square. Block. Amt.
12 2 1 96
9 3 1 A4B
10 s 1 A4B
11 3 1 A 8
12 3 1 .64
3 12 2 2.08
6 4 3 96
5 4 3 20.16
1 il 3 16
2 6 3 16
3 11 3 32
4 11 % 22
8 11 3 32
6 11 3 32
7 11 3 A4B
8 11 3 .16
9 11 3 .16
10 11 | 3 .16
11 11 3 16
12 11 3 16
13 11 3 16
14 11 3 16
15 11 3 16
16 11 3 16
6 15 3 89
5 = 35 ¥ 32
4 15 3 32
3 15 3 o 2
2 15 3 .38
1 B 3 1.44
11 13 4 1.12
8 15 S 3.20
4 8 T 392
13 12 11 8.32
- 4 8 12 16
12 1 13 38
16 5 13 e
B 5 13 32
g 8 13 64
s 7 14 11.£0
} 6 7 14 9.60
T 7 14 57.60
; 5 10 16 16
6 10 i 8 16
7 10 16 16
8 10 16 16
10 g 16 7.68
Of the City of Fitzgerald accord
ing to the platifand survey of said
city, of file in the office of the clerk
of the superior court.
WESTWGOD SECTION.
Lot. Square Amt,
36 26 A 9
145 : 129 19
45 26 19
54 26 .19
146 129 19
Of what is known as Westweod,
according to the plat and survey of
said Westwood, of file in the office
of the clerk of the superior court.
NELSON’S ADDITION.
Lot. Sec. Amt.
16 98
17 80
Of what is known as Nelson’s Ad
dition, according to the plat and sur
vey of said tracts of file in ihe office
of the clerk of the superior court.
JOSEY’S ADDITION. 1
18 282
Of what is known as Josey’s Ad-.
dition, according to the plat and sur
vey of said tract of file in the office
of the clerk of the superior court.
WILLIAMS' ADDITION.
2 } 80
5-acre tract No. 1124 !
Of what is known as Williams’
Addition, according to the plat and
survey of said tract of file in the
office of the clerk of the superior
court.
WINONA HEIGHTS ADDITION.
Lot. Square. Block. Amt.
12 7 .80
Of what is known as Winona
'Heights, according to the plat and
survey of said tracts west of the
City of Fitzgerald, of file in the office
of the clerk of the superior court.
BEN HILL COUNTY.
Acres. Lot. Dist. Sub. No. Amt
5 - 264 4 1439 190
5 91 3 1208 1.90
According to the plat and survey
of the American Tribune Soldier’s
Colony Company, of file in the office
of the clerk of the superior court of
Ben Hill county.
This July 1, 1912!
J. W. NORRIS, |
Sheriff Ben Hill County Georgia.
How to Destroy Ants
The following suggestion as to
bow to destroy ants appears in the
current issue of Farm and Fire
side:
“The best and easiest method 1
have ever found for destroying
ants, whether they are in the house
or on the lawn, isto take a large
sponge, wet it and sift fine sugar
all over it and lay 1t in the place
that is infested. The ants will
soon fill the sponge. Take it and
sink it in a pail of water; they will
then leave the sponge and rise to
the top of the water and can easily
be destroved. Sprinkie more
sugar on the sponge and put it in
place again. This repeated a few
times will soon enable the house
wife to destroy all the ants.”
List of Jurors for July Term
of City Court.
T. M. Parson
H. M, Warren
R. J. Bishop
J. S. McCall
C, S. Cummings
John Gray ' :
J. S. Ellington -
Geo. F. Gray
1. Goldenberg
C. E. Baker
S. P, Dykes .
J. R, Mercer
T. M. Griffin
J. D. Minix
Fred Land
R. E. Ashley
Cov Brown
T. J. Luke
G. G. Reeves
J. B. Seanor
M. D, Meyers
D. T. Paulk
W. O. Miller
C. M. Booker
N. B. Andrews
R. W. MeLendon
T, J. Griffin
J. D. Halt
¥, W. Harris
Byrd Mobley Jr,
M. L. Hobbs
J, B. Butts
J. M. Griner
J. M. Smith
Sam E. Booker
Jd. D. Mashburn
W. J. Stone
J. W. Morris
T. W. Williams.
' W. 0. REECE & SONS,
Commercial Nurserymen
FITZGERALD, GA.
Pecan Groves sold and planted ; also
a general line of Fruit and Orange
trees, Hedges and Ornamental trees,
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Pool is for sale, provided a sale
can be effected between now and
September first, but after that
date, if not sold, it will no longer
be on the market, If interested
call on J. W. Manbeck. ST-tf.
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