The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-03-23
PLATFORM OF
]. H. ROGERS

Well, as there is so many tina t
want to hear from me throug h
the paper | will write little. |
am J. H. Rogers, nursery man
and farmer, and candidate for
Representative of Nevada county
subject to the action OF the
democratic primary. | am the
son of J. P, better known as
Appletree Rogers; | am bud
from the same old tree and if
you will give me chance | will
blossom in the new Statehouse
and will bear you fruit as fine as
apples Of my sire. Will the choir
please sing In the shade of the
old apple tree. "
was raised on the same place
where | now live, in the south
east corner of Nevada county. |
am SIS years old and am riding
from daylight until dark but can
not see everyone but will see all
that | can, and as our people
have not asked for favors of the
kind in years, | think now is my
time and if the voters will stay
by me, | am sure to go. | went
to my first school in 1861, 70
good lady teacher and to-day |
still have my tickets Of reward
of good lessons and good behavior
and money could not buy them.
I keep them, perhaps. in the old
family Bible and you know that
is safe place, as that old book
is not bothered much till the
preacher comes, of course.
Well, | am working hard for a
good name. My mother, God
bless her, taught me from child
hood that a good name was
worth more than gold. | want
a name that my children will be
proud of in days to come: !
want to get to the top round of
the ladder. or | want to get so
high that | can write my name
upon the top round. Yes, | am
the only son of old Appletree
Rogers, as he is called by some,
and | am proud of it, too, for he
did more than any man of his
age to introduce good fruit in
Nevada county and there was no
one who was more willing to
help the poor and to help build
up churches and schools than he
was. | was the first to announce
and | fully believe | will be the
first to go up for representative.
think | am fully qualified. |
am not school teacher either,
although | took out a certificate
as principal to teach a District
school at one time in my life, but
as | did not like that kind of in
door confinement never applied
again. And | am not an editor,
either. once belonged to the
Grange Wheel, then the Alliance,
and am now a member of the
Farmers Union in good stand
ing and am a member of the
church. A
Well, | am not going to
make any fight against any OF
my opponents for | suppose
they are al gentlemen, for
have got all | can do to see
after Rogers, although | have
never met all of them but | shall
vote for any one of them if they
should get the highest vote.
Now. brother you want to know
where | was during the last
round of the canvass. Well, |
will tell you. | was at home
working like slave, shipping
out my nursery stock that had to
90 the first of March or | would
lose One or Two Hundred dollars.
Now, | would have been willing
to have lost $500 to have
been with the boys. but could
not afford to lose One or Two
Hundred. Now, | know any of
you would have done just like |
did under the circumstances. |
left Camden at five o'clock on
the 18th and was in Mt. Moriah
at five o'clock on the 10th and
that days ride was a rest to me
considering what | had gone
through with for two weeks ard
if it had not been for my daugh-
ter | would not have been out as
soon as | am for she stayed right
by my side and tied, and wired,
and labeled trees all the time.
God bless a woman, they are
Jewels on this earth and are
worth their weight in gold.
want to make an appeal to
the old soldiers. Dear old
Soldiers, you remember that dear
pirl Of twenty wears that stood