The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

of one item of this large disbursement! "Ninth-His chief appointment to office was that of Railroad Commissioners whose son is the special attorney of one of the most powerful roads inthe State.
 This is a great charge! When this Com missioner was appointed, the said son was not so employed. The conduct of son. if it should be bad. is not suf- ficient charge against father to require a revocation of the fathers commission.
 'Tenth-He turned out of office of As sistant Mine Inspector Samuel l.. Meigs, a Democrat, and the son of dead Con- federate soldier who was supporting a widowed mother and an invalid sister, having faithfully served but one term.
 The ex- turned out one-legged and one armed soldiers by the dozen. He ruth lessly cut them down until it was State scandal! In one instance. he turned out an ex-Confederate soldier who was a chaplain of convicts. putting a negro in his place. That old ex-Confederate Methodist preacher, is now back in his old I place.
 "Eleventh--He refused to declare for primary, and only yielded when coerced at the last moment by an irresistible public sentiment, led by Joseph F. John ston."
 The sentiment for a primary was led by the friends of the present Governor. The Democratic press, which is welnigh unanimous for him. created and led the sentiment. The Executive Committee, In which the ex-Governor had but one friend, ordered the primary at the pre- sent Governors warm insistence. The latter person has been for a primary twenty years in the public prints!
 "Twelfth-He had scarcely succeeded to the office of Governor before he became candidate for election, and has never given any reason why he should be elect ed, except hs accidental succession.' "Thirteenth-His campaign managers confess his weakness by making no claims as to his qualified ations for Governor oth- CT than that he is a friend of the Con- stitution."
 Neither one of these numbers speak the truth.
 "Fourteenth-He now declines to meet his competitor and discuss before the peo pie the real issues of the campaign, but attempts to hide himself behind the new Constitution"
 He is a pretty fellow to complain! He ran away from Oates through the Sena- torial fight, and from MT. Clarke in 1896 "Fifteenth-Governor Jelks insisted that negroes be allowed to a vote in a Demo- cratic primary"
 This is untrue and Governor Johnston, who has repeated the story on the stump has had opportunity to learn better. It has been denied. It is untrue. He is not only opposed to them in the primaries, but has proven that he is opposed to them in any large number at the polls. In this respect, occupying q different po- sition from Governor Johnston, the pres ent Governor has worked for years to re- form the suffrage. As the result. 100000 negroes have been stricken from the poll lists!
 "Sixteenth-Jelks, at the head of the Board of Assessors, reduced the valua- | ton for taxation placed on the Southern Railroad by $50S, S,o00.'
 Governor Jelks and the Board of As sessors raised the assssmen on railroads | s, 900. 600 over the figures at which they stood when Governor Johnston went out of office! The figures were printed in the papers. The Governor knows, and The Alatamian knows.
 "Seventeenth-Jelks killed bill in the Senate which provided for an amendment to the Constitution allowing the taxes paid by white men to be applied to white schools and negro taxes to negro schools" Senate Journal, extra session, 1889. page 5s).
 There is not single lawyer in the last Constitutional Convention where this
 
 the proposition. It would not stand in the courts, Governor Johnston knows this and The Alabamian knows it.
 "EghteeEth--Mr Jelks opp sed and help ed defeat bill drawn by Governor John ston. which would have secured fair pri- mary elections in Alabama. This was in the year 1899, Has Jelks changed? Will he approve a bill providing for fair pri- maries at the next session of the Legis- | 4I,A, ,nI 1899 page 5S
 He speaks of the special session called by him to defeat suffrage reform. That session cost the State something like $15, GOO. and set back the white mans movement three years; Governor Johnston and his mouthpiece. The Alabamian, ought to have more discretion than to allude to the special session. It is loaded.
 "Nineteenth-The act of February g, 1899, whereby the revenue for public schools was increased and 10 per cent tax to be applied solely to schools, was levied on all property, was violently op- posed by Jeks. Failing in his efforts against the bill, he cast his vote against it's final passage" Senate Journal, 1898 and 1899 page 1ll5).
 This is the checkiest thing in the whole Johnston program. The ex-Governor re- peats this thing on the stump. The facts are these: Governor JOnnStons sent TOT the Finance Committee The whole body VI ent down into his office. Senator Mead or at it's head. and the Governor turned to this committee, of which the present Governor was a member. and begged the committee to kill this bHl He was ami mated and warmed up, said the State could not stand it. The schools in general appropriation bill had already had large incre SC and that this bill must not pass" He moreover said: If you don't kill it in the Senate, I will veto it when it comes down here" Parading himself as friend of the schools, and fighting the present Governor on the one mill tax bill is one of the cheekiest and most impudent things that has made an appearance in this campaign. or is likely ever to appear in any campaign. And the Governor has not forgotten the visit of the Finance Committee. He recalls 1t when this story is told and when his pa per prints 1t The members of the Finance Committee wee: Senators Maador, M ttEews. Moody, Thompson, Jelks. Nunrellae. Horton, Windham, Case, Lyons, Deems of Shelby. Everyone of them will recall the visit.
 "Twenticth-In the first years after Governor Johnston left the ffine the ex- penses and appropriations exceeded oss receipts by about $150.000 Governor Jelks does not touch on this fact in his recent open letter Do you agree with him when he says that a deficit is not in sight If he intends to pursue this policy of spend ing more of the States money than 1t re- ceives from all sources?"
 Here is irlDudence He held up the dis