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HRMIV COUNTY PLjQGRfcSS. CAIRO, tiK'lltl.'lA. JUDGE .E E COX’S FRIENDS ASK HIS ELECTION TO ! corsjo i BECAUSE he has the qualifications of the real Statesman. BECAUSE he is worthy and in every way peculiar ly fitted for the office. BECAUSE the district needs as its representative a man that is young-, active, vigorous, courageous and possesses the ability equal to the responsibil ity 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 repre sentative who could in any crisis take care of the interest of his constituency on the floor of the house in debates or otherwise without having to depend upon colleagues. BECAUSE this great district, on account of its prestige, importance, and culture is •’entitled^ to a congressman whose ability, eloquence and states- ship makes him worthy of the mantle of Griggs or Roddenbery. Because he stands for those policies of govern ment 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 off. Because he favors restricted immigration. This is a party pledge that he asks to be carried out. He opppses the permitting to enter the United States unlimited hordes of irresponsible foreigners who may defy our laws and .contaminate our so ciety and civilization," and impair the opportunity of our laboring people for a fair wage earning. Because he opposes and would fight without com promise the iniquitous pension graft at Washing, ton 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 protect the nation’s dignity and honor, but 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 interests ..would be safe from the firing line and make further fabulous fortunes from the blood of the less fortunate'who carry the nation’s burden and fight its battles. 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 con gress 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'introduction of this bill served largely to arouse the antagonism of Mexico and has been largely the Cause of the near conflict with that country, which has already cost the government millions of dollars and some lives, and a serious conflict was narrowly averted. BECAUSE he opposes the bill introduced by the present congressman providing for the expendi ture of $6,000,000 of the peoples money for the construction of a canal to connect the Flint and Oc- mulgee rivers, a project which has been pro nounced by engineers and business men every-, where as a most impractical scheme and aprodi gal waste of money. Because he favors the enlargement of the rural route service in every county in tho district untii the remote sec tion of every county has been reached, and he favors, the use of the 845,000 per year saved the government by the recent re-arrangement of routes for enlargement of tho service, in stead of using this money for the payment of pensions to car riers who are displaced by the re-arrangement of routes. Becauss ho opposes the bill introduced in congress by the present congressman providing for tho payment of pen sions to those carriers who are displaced from service by re- - arrangement of routes. This attitude of Judge Cox cannot be cpnstrued ns an attack upon rural carriers, but all thinking people must consider it the best governmental policy. A pension measure of this kind must ncccssarilly 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 tho functions of a congressman are not limited to the distribution of patronage and tho exchange of pork barrel courtesies on tho part of congressmen. 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 ap propriation, that there are other important duties for a con gressman 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 becomes the congressman from this dis trict he will not havo to resort to m,ethods that many con gressman do who write speeches on measures that have long since befcn 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 guaran tee 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 ask his election upon his merits as a man and upon the merits of the issues that he re presents. .1