The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-03


 unfarniIisrity with such incidents ny re- iating the story of Poke Miller's perform regiment to move up to. the .colors and as consequence .the ranIp.rts were taken ena the enemy completely routed, for wnlcn relation the speaker received loud applause by this Convention. l wonder where was the Colonel, or commanding oHicer Of that regiment, when that illit- crate youth. a private In tie ranks made that regiment charge and carry the rampsrfs or a fort, Fattine the enemy behind and with .'the -amparts t. light? MT Knox donbtiess read tha, story in De Frees book. CT dime novel, Any man who has had experience in hat tie knows that 1t never occurred as he
 His dramatic account of another fear less boy-scidier's death in VirWiria. is more probably correct. as he may have expired after the battle The gentleman admitted when interrupted that did not intend to assert the equality Of the races. Then why did he have recourse to such a iawyer-like argument when there could be no reply to him, rather than thu lofty pleading. sharp. practice of ibe. lawyer. His speech aside from the criticisms l have made was. 1t must be confessed, an able presentation of his side of the question then under discussion. But why did the Convention order thousands of his and other speeches made on that side published in pamphlet at the States ex- ps 1ents ad and refuse to haee @1M pablised H in K manner my speech and thuye CT h~,. delegates who spoke on the same side as myself of this great question if they de- stituents-are the ultimate judges of whct Is right. I know that Cardinal Richelieu was right when he said, that Yst spthihs Ing ;sssssds nsasss sdHs ike r"ss. should be withheld from from them. emu They ha are our masters nNrMpT,oMs and we are ,ss'r se',4..'.
 No change whatever Is r,ade ie, t. new consttution. The. article stands just as in the ola. This is I co aseau or or IT. restriction M attached to the enabling one man. who by way o1 amendm- nt, stuck on the proposition that no change should be made in the exemption ;a", believing that this would be popular and gain votes in favor of the Convention. lIn my Judgment there Is no enc article in the old Constitution more in need of re- D.ained to the people, ali conceded It. It Is utterly unequal in its provisions and unjust in many respects. It could have Of that foolish provision in the platfor n Of the Democratic party not a single change was made.
 EDUCATION
 Liberal and permanent appropriations are made in this article of Lne new Con- stitution. Its provi ions generally are god: doubt the wisdom of the pr: sssooo to the state sePe0pr'aHn niTerst% out of the taxes when that institution has the means if properly utilized, inue- come as it should great university, and be the pride of the State
 MuN ICIPAL AND PRIVATE COR
 PORATIONS.
 This article Of the rev. Constitution is much better and defines the lights and duties of such corporations mere closely than does the pI esent Constitution, and decidedly conmendable. The authority Of cities and towns to issue bonds and provide for the payment thereof is much better guarded and defined than in the present Constitution.
 FREE PASSES ON RAILROADS.
 l was greatly impressed at the outcome After all the protests and great noise made against the free pass evil by the newspapers and others and the stacks
 sanst it. the rrovion in ns the neW con stitution is worse than that in the pres ert Constitution. The great newspa pers seem satisfied and the petitions ceased to tion, Section 9 of Article AIV, deni $ the right to any railroad or o-her trans portation company to grant free passes, other than as sold t'Si to other 1T people, us to any member of the Legislature or to any person holding office under this State. etc. The defect with that always has been that the Legislature never would provide any penalty for its violation. The new Constitution limits the prohibition to members of the Legislature and all That applies from the Chief Justice ali the way down to and incuding Justices of the Peace and Notaries Public exer- cising judicial Jurisdiction. The Judges of PrOhatet RaeiSfers in Chancery, County Commissioners and the intendent, or Mayor, of town or city, Recorders and Police Judges. None of these can accept and use free pass, or pass or ticket bought at a reduced price without mourning the risk of being fined not oyer five dollars, and of being while the Sheriff, County Treasurer, Tax Assessor and Collector can lawfully re- ceive and use such passes. So. too, can the railroads all give passes to the Gov ernor, Secretary of State. Auditor, Treas urer and Attorney General. These off, cers are eX-offieio, tn. Tax Assessors of all the railroads, properties. of their rolling stock. and of the telegraph and telephone lines throughout the State, amounting to many millions of dollars in value; and all the count -es through which them for county taxes at the figures given by the Governors board. under the present Constitution 1t is illegal for the Governor, or any ot the-e officials to use passes. but the new Constitution makes 1t legal for them to take and use all the free passes they cal 8 t and they can and will get them from eFery ' railroad in the sta.e. Toe new Consti-, | tuition aftlxes no penalty to giving out this so-called legislative and judicial poison. The penalty is on the fool whl ] takes the poison. If the free pass bu l. ness be an evil and it can only be such on the principle or the Lo. d pa, e ., Lead us not into telnpta ion, then 1t | should apply to all Sta-e oi4lcials or t1 none. It would have be en mum better to have stricken it out q the tolsti H. tion altogether than to have made it as it l is, With the number Of railroad lawyers | who were delegates and the position they | held in the Convention l kno s that noth- l ing could be done on the subject boxing to the eradication of the sJ-calleo f.'e5 1 pass evil. 1t is certainly more oujevt- | ionable as it stands in lh. new Con titu- tion than in the old.
 l MT President I deem 1t my duty to my | constituents and to my friends ia tnil l Convention to make known my position on tht question of the ratinc4tio of Uni. Constitution.
 After the consideration with which the measures have proposed and advocated betcre this boy anu the disposition thereof. were I selfish enough to desire ! to make political capital out of it, my | way would have been clear, but, sir a | proper regard for the pledges l made to the people, controls my acion. 1 have l for years favored . ConStitu. .ional Con- ] Vention, and when canvassing and speaking to the people this year, 1 found | against the call. To induce them to vot for it. I pledged them in every one of the addresses l delivered, that if they would vote to call a Convention. a d if 1t did | tuition than that of ls7o. t.lat l would vote and speak against it's ratification. l This made it a matter of conscience with me to make a close comparison of the