The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-22
THE TICK MEETING

F. r. Allison, president of the Allison Lamber company at Bellamy, sends The Age-Herald a letter which he found down in Sumter county and which he thinks is a good joke on his friend John Rogers. He thinks MT. Rogers friends and others in Sumter county will appreciate 1t and asks that it be published It is as fol- lows:
 Dear MT. Editor
 1 was powerful sorry 1 didn't git to be up there at Livingston with them tick fellows on the 18th. I ain't got no COW except one borrowed, but I am agin tnis here 'radication of the ticks. Them ticks Is the Palladium of our liberties. They Is the only Security we've got for our personal rights and Local Self-GoV- ernment." And you know that's what our fc fathers went barefooted in the winter time at Valley Forge and fought them Red Coats for. But aint it funny how easy some folks is fooled and don't know what they stand for? Now, you take our fo fathers: they went about howlin' and drawin' up resolutions about No Taxation Without Representation" when ali the time they was fightin' for Local achievement and didn't know it.
 Now, them fellows what is for the rad icatin' of the ticks, they is mostly the ones, WHO s SOl the EDWS. Anu we ici- lows who ain't got no cows is goin' to have a powerful hard job keepin' the Securities of our rights. I've been about right smart here lately, and I can't find no ticks nowhere hardly Most of the ticks I've seed is on that COW l got. There aln't no ticks hardly round near Cuba. York Gaston, Belamy. Belmont, Livingston. Sumterville, Geiger and Gains vile And there wouldn't been none at all if 1t hadn't been for John Rogers takin' our side and bluffin' off them tick Doctors by tellin them that nlne-tenths of the people didn't give d. for the law and adyisin' us not to pay no at tention to the law, but to stand up Tor our. rights and preserve the safeguard Of democracy. Where'd have been our liberties?
 But. even with all that, the ticks Is pretty sca'ce. They tell me there ain't none even on John Rogers cows. l don believe that. thought for l know he's too good a champion of the people and their votes to tell us not to give Q d. Tor the law and then not keep some Security Tor liberty on his own cows.
 Then. agn, they tell me his boys IS goin' off and gittn' educated. Now. MT. Rosers made a powerful speech down to Cuba not long ago agin the educatin' of the chilun. And l don't see how his bows can go agin their daddy's wishes and go off to school and stun ther heauS plum full of that nonsence. | tell you, 1T | was in his place I would git me a pole and walop 'em good Well. l guess It IS another case where a prophet Is without hclor in his own house.
 They tell me John Rogers give 1t to them 'radication fellows powerful heavy up there the other day. They say he said the fellows had no more business in that meetin than a sinner has In a Methodist conference. Now, l am Methodist myself. and I know he sho' is right. Sinners ain't got no business In sich a. place. But ain't 1t funny how ne knows everything, and especially sich thineso Now I ain't never seen him in a church conference.
 sho' would like to have been there ,to stood up with them for Mir. Johnson. They say everybody said they was goln' to support him except one fellow. I wonder what that one fellow thinks he's going to do by hisself again all that crowd? They say there was 300 up there and at least 50 more tick men in the county besides me who didn't go.
 Well. Mr. Editor, I will close for th1s time. as l aint much on writin' by sayla I am for them commissioners we nomi- mated. I'm for Joe Johnson for senator. I'm for John Rogers for Hobsons place. know we can elect em. because we tick fellows will stick together all over this county. And, finally, MT. Editor I'm with Mr Rogers agin education. because if vou educate the people you've done rad rted Prejudice and Passion, and witt, tnem would go the Securities of our lib- critics. Joe Johnson and John Rogers. Ycurs truly. A. COW BORROWER.