Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-05-25
NASH FOR SOLICITOR
Political Advertising.)
To the Democratic Voters of the 18th
Judicial District.

JuulClal OlStI1Ct.
Ever since my appointment as
Solicitor last fall, have had three
candidates against me, who have
been busy canvassing in the district.
On account of the duties of the Of
fee it has been impossible for me
to personally visit the voters.
1t seems to be the custom that
when man is in office, it is the
proper thing to SANDER and misrep-
resent him, and in my case, the Gus
tom has been fully carried out.
In one part of the district, where
there is an agitation about taxes,
they tell that when a member of
the State Senate, in 1921, that was
a high tax man. They do not go
further and tell that advocated and
helped pass the bill to take State
taxes off of the land, and that / adj
vocated and helped pass the bill CIV
ing $500 personal property exemp-
tion,. to all tax payers. These two
items did more to reduce the taxes
OF the poorer class than anything
else that has been done in any legis-
lature in the history of the State.
In another section | was criticised
by one of the candidates for settling
a case, which saved the county sew
eral hundred dollars in cost. 1t was
stated that had sold out in order
to get the support of some lawyers
+, appearing in the case on the other
side. They were not fair enough to
state that the same party making
the charges appeared with the State
for the private prosecution and that
when the matter of settlement was
being considered, this same candi-
date Wrote to me and recommended
the settlement and stated that the
same should be made.
Another candidate charges that
during the entire time of the war,
that l was at home living easy and
making money, when, as a matter
of fact, for nearly two years, l clos.
ed my office and gave my time to
the service of the government, as
sisting in every way | could to car
| fy on the war work, which, at that
time, was considered necessary.
These are only a few of the many
charges which have been made
against me, and which, are OF
|course, only used for campaign pur-
poses. They are all unfair and
made with the intent to deceive the
public, and to hurt me in my cam
paign for denomination.
Since my appointment as solicitor
| have prosecuted all cases to the
best of my ability, and with such
success that my opponents do not
charge that ! am not capable of fill
| ing the office as it should be. Every
class of cases which have come be-
fore me have been prosecuted, but
there is no one class which is TAX
ing more time, and which is larger
in number than any other class and
that is the prosecution of the viola
ton of the liquor laws.
For the twenty-five years, which !
have been practicing law, have
never appeared in case for the de-
PENDANT who was charged with the
violation of the liquor laws, having
always given my services freely to
the prosecution of such cases, but
always declining to accept fee
from a defendant in any such cases.
!, therefore, confidently ask the
voters of the district to pay no at
tention to the false, slanderous and
misleading report which have been
circulated about me, as they are
absolutely untrue and that by giving
me their vote that may be re-nom-
mated for a full term, and assure
them that the office of solicitor will
be conducted fairly and impartial
ly, and as it should be.
M. w. NASH.
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