Cleveland County herald., 1918-05-23

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kind if | am elected and We can
have roads that we will be proud
of and none of us hurt either. =
That in plain English that any
school child can understand is
my positive stand on the road
question and | am not as has
been falsely reported a Dark
horse" candidate of any click or
set of men to violate my sacred
pledge to the people and force
something on this County that
the majority of the voters and
land owners do not want.
Further more | believe that
Cleveland County is entitled to
help from the State in perman-
emily making dumps across our
principal Creek bottoms to the
County seat and am egotistic
enough to think that as your
Representative that | can get
the State to give us a dollar for
for every dollar we spend in
money or labor of men and teams
to grade up and gravel our Creek
bottom roads and you can pin
that statement in your hat and
see if | am able to make good.
Our Auto tax was taken away
from us in the last Legislature
and we can get that back and
more to if we go after it right
and not vote Road Bonds either.
The Stock Law.
Again some of my opposition
has advertised free of charge
that | will have a stock law
passed and ruin a lot of farmers
in Cleveland County and my
answer is emphatic and plain on
that question. We advertise to
the world in our land business
that Cleveland County is Free
Range country and do you think
| have so little business sense
that | would cut my own nose
off to spite my face?
Some folks are in favor of a
stock law for they keep their
stock under their own fences
but | find that there are thou
sands upon thousands of acres
of good open range in this Coun-
ty yet and as long as only about
one fifth of the land in the Coun-
ty is under fence | will never be
in favor of a stock law neither
will the majority Of the vot-
ers of the County be in favor of
it and again | think have sense
enough to know when we are
ready for a stock law when the
majority of the voters and land
owners put their name on petit
ton for stock law to frame it
for them and get it passed and
not until they do.
Markets for Farm Products
Cleveland County has ready
market for just one item and
that is Cotton and Cotton seed
any farmer any day in the year
can sell one bale or a thousand
with reasonable assurance that
he is getting all it is worth.
Any other product is a gamble
for we can glut the local market
in most any town in the county
in an hour if we try to market
anything else that we raise and
we as farmers are to blame for
it ourselves.
Farmers in most all other
counties in the United States
have woke up and organized
marketing associations so that
the merchants at home or distant
buyers can intelligently handle
our products and pay us top
market prices and | propose if
elected your representative to
organize farmers Union and
Stock Growers association and
know we have brains enough
to 90 at it in a business like way
and get what is coming to us and
double our profits by raising q
greater diversity of crops anC
build up our land at the same
time.
Just as sure as the boil weevi
and German war keep up Ions
enough we will find ourselve:
where we will have to raise more
stock and other things as well az
cotton and get market for it Oh
starve and | will never believe
that we haven't good sens
enough to get together and in
telligently solve this problem
and lot of others that will make
us prosperous and happy peo-
pie and put Cleveland County on
the map where we belong and
be proud of the day that we did
it.
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