The Prescott daily news., 1910-03-29
TO THE VOTERS OF
 NEVADA COUNTY

! the paper, 1 will write a little. 1 am J. H. Rogers, Nurseryman and Farmer candidate for iSep
 resentative for Nevada county, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. 1 am the son of J. P. Rogers, better known as Apple-tree Rogers; 1 am a bud from the same old tree, and if you will give me a chance | will blossom in the New State house and will bear fruit as fine as apples of my sire. Will the choir please sing, Tn the shade of the of the old apple tree" /"
 1 was raised on the same place where l now live, in the south east corner of Nevada county; 1 am 55 years old and am riding from daylight until dark, but cannot see everyone, but will see all that can; and as our people have not asked for favors of the kind in years, l think now is my time, and if the voters will stay by me l am sure to go. 1 weot to my first school in 1861, to a good lady teacher and today l 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 the old book is not bothered much until the preacher comes, of course.
 Well, 1 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. 1 want name that my children will be proud of in days to come. l want to get to the top round of the lad der, or 1 want to get so high that 1 can write my name on the top round. Yes, 1 am the only son of old Appletree Rogers as he is called by some, and l 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 more willing to help the poor and to help build up churches and schools than he was. I was the first to announce, and 1 fully beleive 1 will be the first to go up for representative. l think 1 am fully qualified. I am not a school teacher, either, al though 1 took out certificate as
 principal to teach district school at one time in my life, but as 1 did not like that kind of in door confinement, 1 never ap- piled again. And 1 am not an edi- tor either. once belonged to the Grange Wheel, then to the the Alliance, and am now member of the Farmers Union, in good standing, and am a member of the church.
 Well, I am not going to make any fight against any of my opponents, for l suppose they are all gentlemen, for l have got all 1 can do to see after Rog- CTS, although 1 have never met all of them, but 1 shall vote for any one of them if they should get the highest vote. Now, brother, you want to know where 1 was during the last rourd of the canvass? We'll, l will tell you
 1 was at home working like slave. shipping out my nursery stock that had to go the first of March or would lose one or Two hundred dollars Now, 1 would have been willing to have lost $25 to have been with the boys, but I could not afford to lose one or two hum dred Now 1 know any of you would have done just like did, under the cir cumstances. left Camden at o'clock on the 18th and was in Mt. Moriah at o'clock on the 18th and that days ride was rest to me considering what I had gone through with for two weeks, and if it had not been for mv daughter 1 would not have been out as soon as l am, Tor she stayed right by my side and tied, and wired, and labeled trees all the time God bless a womal; they are jewels on this earth and are worth