The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-10
A BRILLIANT CANVASS
FOR GOVERNOR JELKS
Dr.. Cunningham Makes Eloquent and Able Speeches
and Receives an Ovation in
East Alabama.
BY d. w. McIVER.

sponded Mrs ". that is easy and she
gave the lady the ride and after 1t was
completed, the lady alighted and thanked
Mrs. V. for her great kindness. but said
there is just one more thing l desire now
to make me happy, but | am afraid you
can't grant that / just want to be able
to stand on the sidewalk and see myself
go by in your carriage. That is the way
with Governor Johnston, he just wants
to be able to stand on Dexter Avenue and
see himself go by on his way to the Uni
ted States Senate. The Ex-Governor had
failed in his chief aspiration once, but
he still Rugged it to his bosom and hoped
yet to take the ride. He had been
aggrieved at the refusal of the State Con-
vention to endorse his administration and
was now asking the people to right that
wrong.
Some History.
The Doctor tells the history Of the races
how the Caucasian was and is greater
and above al-defines citizen, his re-
sponsibilities and duties under the gov
eminent and how the negro came to the
country and served as a slave--of the war
and how freedom and the right OF suff-
rage was conferred-how the fifteenth
amendment put the first restriction on the
State to regulate suffra ge-how the South
had lived under it-and when the effort
was being made to get around it by the
people of Alabama in the Convention
| how the North and the East had offered
no oppostion-the press was silent-the
I descendants of the old abolitionists were
| silent-and all the opposition at home
was from the Ex-Governor and his fol-
| lowers. He told how the negro was al
| lowed to vote at the North but not to
| work and how ii was proposed to let him
| ha
| a giant had placed a rock on child
| and gone off and left it and when it was
| attempted to remove it-another had OBJ
| jected-and how the objector was as gull
ty as the giant who had originally placed
the rock upon the South.
A Financier.
| The Doctor admitted that the eX-Gover-
| nor had made a good Governor. wise
| and an honest administration of the State
| government. He had never stolen any of
the States money. neither had Governor
4 Jelks and the Ex-Governor is not the only
| business man in the State capable of run
| ing the finances. He is not the only peb-
| BILE on the beach-he is not the only one
entitled to the privilege of writing his
| name all over the page with one big CAPT
| tai ]. He boasted of having found only
| $36 900 in the Treasury when he went in
| and left sos 900 hard dollars when he went
| out. Well. Governor Oates tells us that
| there were $4,000 on hand and gives the
| statement of the Treasurer to prove 1t
and yet he goes on making the same
| statement day after day. Then as to the
| hard dollars he left in the Treasury he
| doesn't tell that the people paid their
| taxes and are entitled to the credit of
| their being there. The statement of the
| Treasurer now shows that there are $780,,
| 0O0 N the Treasury nearly four hundred
| thousand more than The Ex-Governor left
| there and be gives Governor Jelks no
| credit for that. But the Ex-Governor says
nothing about his management OF the
! convict department, where he really did
have some opportunity to display some
! financial skill and ability. During the four
| years of the Johnston administration
there was paid into the State Treasury
from the convict department $1O2. 900 and
in the twenty months of the Sanford
Jelks administration the same departent
had paid into the Treasury $4,000 and
| that ough to be of some credi to Cover
| nor Jelks. The increase came from the
| hire of third class convicts that were put
| in the mills and other industries at $l4
month, twice as much as they brought in
the mines. The deIth rate had been mate
rally reduced.
The Ex-Governor recommends himself
mighty high" but he ought to give the
others some credit. too.
Why a Candidate.
The Doctor tells why he is a candidate
for Lieutenant Governor. The salary was
no inducement, the duties were not very
onerous or difficult He had only to pre-
side over the Senate and he believed he
was capable of doing that. He could
look dignifed ard go through the daily
routine of putting questions and hearing
votes, but there was some honor in the
office for he would be called Governor,
as nobody would take such a mouthful
and take the trouble to add the Lieuten-
ant-and that was worth something to n
man with the ambition and hope of be-
ing a real Governor some day. When
he helped make the Constitution and his
friends insisted that he should keep. pro-
tect and carry it into effect and stand
for It, Governor Jelks had stood by him
! when he needed friends in the Senate,
especially in his fight against the Jeffer-
son County Commissioners bill and was
always his close personal and political
friend and as he was already Governor he
knew of no good reason for taking it
away from him.
The Combinations.
But they say there are some combi-
nations in this fight. jerks and Cunning
|
look at them and see about that. If there
is any combination on my part, with the
Governor, it is the same kind of a dog
from the tip OF his nose to the end of his
tail. consistent and a natural dog, and
when the head barks the tail wags. in
perfect unison. But how about the other
ticket? 1t is a manufactured dog-made
to order at the Morris Hotel to catch
both sides, to take them going and "a
coming and between the bark and the
wag and the wag and the bark to be
able to satisfy both sides in the Consti-
tuition issue.
Other Points.
The doctor makes a most interesting
and instructive and entertaining speech
and is one of the most resourceful and
prolific of public speakers. He makes
many telhn eand salient points in his ar
gument, He tells what Governor Jelks
has done for the new ConStituton-hoU-
he has favored it all along-how he has
administered the State government hon
estly wisely and economically and how
perhaps when the Legislature meets he
will suggest reforms and measures that
will be of great benefit to the State and
how in the meantime he can only admin
lister the laws as he found the. He stands
for fair elections absolutely and une-
quivocallv and says that the stealing was
from necessity heretofore hut that in the
future it will be from choice and the
man who will steal a ballot is thief
In the past one white man in the black
belt was as much as four white men in
the white counties. There were thirteen
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