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-T* -.nagMi-iMi— Judge E. E. Cox's Eriends Ask •• His Election to Congress BECAUSE he has the qualifications of the real stateman. BECAUSE he is worthy and in every way peculiarly fitted for the office. BECAUSE the district needs as its representative a man that is young, active, vigorous, courageous and pos sesses the ability equal to the responsibility of the office. BECAUSE he is of the people and his sympathies and interests are identified with his district and he knows the needs of his constituency. BECAUSE in him the district would have a representa tive who could in any crisis take care ol the interest of his constituency on the lloor of the house in debates or other wise without having to depend upon colleagues. BECAUSE this great district, on account of its pres tige, importance, and culture is entitled to a congressman whose ability, eloquence and statesmanship make him worthy of the m.intle of Griggs or Roddenbory. BECAUSE he stands for those policies of government that means the making lighter the burdens of the common people and would take up the work along this line where the late Judge Roddenbery left it olf. BECAUSE he favors restricted immigration. This is a party pledge that he asks to be carried out. He opposes the permitting to enter the United States unlimited hordes of irresponsible foreigners who nmy defy our laws and con taminate ouf^ociety and civilization, and impair the oppor tunity of our laboring people for a fair wage earning. BECAUSE he opposes and would fight without com promise the iniquitous pension graft at Washington that has been the means of pouring billions of dollars of the people’s money into the pockets of the northern pension grabbers while southern soldiers have been impoverished by this graft. BECAUSE he favors a reasonable preparedness to pro tect the nation’s dignity and honor, hut opposes the policy of government that would spend billions of dollars for war measures that would serve to bring war for the common people to fight while the munitions manufacturers and other tnterests would be safe from the firing line and make fur ther fabulous fortunes from the blood of the^less fortunate who carry the nation’s burden and fight its l attles. BECAUSE he opposes the bill introduced by the pres ent congressman providing for the expenditure of $6,000,- 000 of the peoples money for the construction of a canal to connect the Flint and Ocmulgee rivers, a project which has been pronounced by engineers and business men every where as a most impractical scheme and a prodigal waste of money. JUDGE E. E. COX Candidate For Congress He is Young, and Active, Able and Loyal, Brilliant and Eloquent, a Real Statesman, and Would Reflect Credit Upon His District. Vote For Him! BECAUSE he opposes the bill introduced in congress by the present congressman providing for the acquirement of Mexico by purchase, treaty or conquest for the purpose of giving that country to the negroes. The point has wisely been made by some statesman that the unfortunate intro- duction of this bill served largely to arouse the antagonism of Mexicans and has been largely the cause of the near con flict with that country, which has already cost the govern ment millions of dollars and and some lives, and a serious conflict was narrowly averted. BECAUSE he favors the enlargement of the rural route service in every county in the district until the remote sec tions of every county has been reached, and he favors the use of the $45,000 per year saved the government by the recent re-arrangement of routes for enlargement of the ser vice, instead of using this money for the payment of pen sions to carriers who are displayed by the re-arrangement of routes. BECAUSE he opposes the bill introduced in congress by the present congressman provided for the payment of pen sions to those carriers who are displaced from service by re-arrangement of routes. This attitude of Judge Cox can not be construed as an attack upon rural carriers, but all thinking people must consider it the best governmental policy. A pension measure of this kind must necessarily be a dangerous precedent and would lead to an endless list of pensions. Judge Cox advocates a large reduction and not an increase in the government’s pension budget. BECAUSE he believes that public office is a public trust and that the functions of a congressman are not limited to the distribution of patronage and the exchange of pork barrel courtesies on the part of members of congress. He maintains that while every congressman should look well after the matters of his district, placing patronage wisely, and not bartering it for the support of political enemies, and securing all needed appropriations, that there are other important duties for a congressman to perform and issues to be settled that affect the weal of the entire people and that the congressman from the second district of Georgia should have as much activity and influences in the dealing with these vital questions as does any congressman from New York, Missouri or any other State. If Judge Cox be comes the congressman from this district he will not have to resort to methods that many congressman do who write speeches on measures that have long since been settled and mail these out to their constituents for political purposes under the mailing privilege allowed by the government, when such speeches have never been delivered. This is a wrong practice and Judge Cox’s friends will guarantee that he will not resort to it and assure the public that he will always be fair and frank with his constituents. They commend his candidacy to the voters of the Second District and his election upon his merits as a man and upon the merits of the issues that he represents.