The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-03
WHY HE FAVORS JIM GRIGGS

and a bill came up to put revenue
stamps on cotton receipts, twenty
five cents on each receipt, who look
ed after our interests then? Die
anybody petition congress? No! Be
fore we knew it that tax was about
to be put on. J. M. Griggs of the
Second district was watching, and
began laying plans to keep it off
and when in caucus he asked the
southern congressman to help him
make the fight many of our best men
said it was useless. One man, son
of Georgia, said, Il will help you, -
and they appeared before the COM
mittee and asked for a hearing, and
the committee gave them fifteen
minutes. In his speech J. M. Griggs
won the committee over, and they
accepted the amendment that he was
pulling for, and by so doing saved
the south $2,O0O,000, for there were
eight or nine million bales of cotton
made that year. Who did this?
J. NJ. Griggs of Georgia. Who shar-
ed the benefit? The entire south.
! Then he has secured for the Sec
, ond district it's share of everything.
Consult the records, and you will
see he is the friend of all, and has
ever filled the place with honor
Some of our friends remind me of
people who never appreciate their
health until they get sick
Now, if we were so unfortunate as
to change for a man whose only
qualification is to make Temperance
lectures, and some negro was about
to be appointed to a position that our
son wanted we would then look
back and wish that we had Jim
Griggs. | am a prOhibttiOnist, but |
do pray that | may never reach the
place where | will think that is the
only problem there is to solve. When
Mr. Griggs opponent spoke in our
court house he wanted to refresh
our minds with the fact that he help
ed us get prohibition. Voters, who
OF you will rise and say that he con-
verified you from wet to dry? I no.
tice North Carolina has gone dry
Did he go up there and stump the
state by districts and put whiskey
out? No, he was here making
house to house canvass to defeat
Grlggs? Those people voted right
without his being there to tell them
how to vote. Are we more ignorant
than they? No! Georgia, the Empire
State of the South, has sons who are
not inferior to those of North Car
DINA, l am sure.
l am for Griggs because he is for
the south, and democracy; also for
the people, from the wealthiest to
the poorest. and because he has such
la big heart.
| want man who does not refer
to the rain, which is controlled by
the God of heaven, as being the
smile Of his coming; one who will
not promise to do too much, but one
who will do all he promises. and
] more besides. This Mr.. Griggs has
done.
Now, these are a few of the reas-
ons why | am going to vote for Jim
Griggs on June 4th.
Now, to his friends I say: Don't
swap. Some men are swapping with
every man they can, and have swamp
ed many times-Will swap with me
for my choice for governor, and with
you for yours; my choice for sole.
itor, and you for yours, and so on.
My vote is not priced that way.
In conclusion I will say have re-
ceived no compensation to write
this. | have not seen Judge Griggs
since last winter. l have not heard
from him only through the press.
and a package of garden seed that
was no larger than | have been re-
ceiying all along. Neither did I re-
ceive post card, nor do / care if
did not, for the rabbits have not
bothered the vegetables grown from
these seed. | have never taken much
stock in politics-am only a little
farmer and a democrat of the grand
: old county of Terrell, which produces
more cotton to the square acre than
l any county in the state, and has
} the best national material in the
state. For .wenty years I have been
a voter in Terrell and a tiller of the
soil, and have never received a penny
from the government for services
FARMER.