Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-06-01

[PolitIcaI Advertising.


"a
Solicitor last fell, / have had three
candidates against me, who have
been busy canyassing in the. district
On account Of the duties OF the Of
Ace it has been impossible for me
to personally visit the voters.
1t seems to be the custom that
when a man is ia Office, it is the
proper thing to Islander 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 q
the State Senate, in 1921, that ] was
"a high tax man. They do not go
further and tell that I advocated and
helped pass the bill to take State
taxes off of the land, and that adj
yocated and helped pass the bill Civ
ing $500 personal property exemp-
ton, 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-
slature 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 was at homo living easy and
making money, when, as matter
of fact, for nearly two years, | clos.
ed my office and gave my time t.
the service OF the government, as,
sisting in every way ! could to car
ry on the war work. which, at that
time, was considered necessary.
These are only afew Of the many
charges which have been made
against me, and which, are q
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 ting
best of my ability, and with such
success that my opponents do mol
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 a case for the de
fendant who was charged with the
violation Of the liquor laws, having
always given my services freely Z
the prosecution of such cases, buf
always declining to accept q fe'
from defendant in any such cases
I, therefore, confidently ask thu
voters Of the district to pay no at
ltention to the false, slanderous AMI
misleading report which have beel
circulated about me, as they ar
absolutely untrue and that by givinJ
me their vote that | may be re-nom
mated for a full term, and assur
them that the office Of solicitor vii
be conducted hairly and impartial
ly, and as it should be.
/ M. w. NASH.
Hamlet, n. C.