The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-02

| igencies of political necessity and cannot
win, What the politician has Joined to-
gether let the people put asunder
His opposition to former Governor John
ston was not personal, DR.. Cunningham
declared. He had voted for Captain
Johnston in 1894 and again in 1886. But
Governor Johnston had departed from
what he believed to be right He had ad-
vocated the new Constitution and he had
turned upon 1t. In that the speaker de-
clared he had convicted himself OF either
an error of judgment or of insincerity:.
Then DR.. Cunningham came to the
matter of business administrations" He
said Governor Johnston had claimed
much honor for himself as business
Governor. Governor Jelks and Governor
Johnston, he said, had both, perhaps.
made good business Governors; AS to the
claim of Governor Johnston, there was
difference of opinion between Johnston
and Oates Oates he s said do aa not e
DR.. Cunningham took up the ngures IN
the reports of the Convict Department.
and contrasted the administration OF tnat
jerks, and showed that from the leasing
of the convicts the State of Alabama,
under Governor jerks, was receiving
much higher rate for each convict tnan
was paid in by the contractors when
Johnston was Governor. He called upon
President Carmichael of the Convict Bu-
reau to substantiate his assertion that IN
the past twenty-five months more money
from the Convict Department than was
received from that department during
the entire four years of the johnston al
ministraton. President Carmichael nod
ded his head In approval of this state
ment.
AS to the claims Governor Johnston
made for himself of pre-eminent business
sagacity, the speaker declared that the
jerks administration equalled in credit in
every particular that of the Johnston
administration.
Dr.. Cunningham protested against third
termism
us Governor Johnston to serve con-
tinuously? he asked. lis there no other
man in Alabama competent to fill the
Governors chair? Good heavens" he de-
clared, when am l to get in?"
An earnest voice from the audience an
swered promptly. Next time"
The Ensley orator then took up the dis.
pensary question which, he said, had
been Injected into the campaign. He said
he had a legislative record on that ques,
ton and added, by their fruits we shall
know them"
These are my views, continued III,
Cunningham deliberately and they have
always been my views. Give to the peo-
pie of each community what they want
prohibition or no prohibition, high license
or no high license. When the dispepsary
bill was before the Senate / voted with
the Senator from Montgomery to strike
Montgomery from the provisions of the
bill. 1 voted with the Senator from Bar
bour to strike Barbour County from the
bill and l voted with other Senators TO
strike other counties from the bill.
when the bill was up" DR.. Cunning
ham went on, II held in my hand pc
tition from $500 voters. bona fide citi-
zens of Jefferson County, asking for a
dispensary in that county. L had told
them that l would give the people OF the
county what they wanted. WHAT was
to do? Lie? No; The right hand might
wither the left hand not raise and the
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth
but would keep my word. The people
of Jefferson County may hold me respon-
sibIe for what l did but the people OF
Montgomery County cannot, for l gave
them what they wanted"
Then DR.. Cunningham sprung sur
prise on some persons in the audience.
LAS to a dispensary," he declared
slowly, under the charge and control
of the State, paying tbs profits into the
State treasury am opposed to 1t.
This emphatic expression against a
State dispensary was applaudod
He alluded touchingly to the loyalty and
support that Governor jerks had given
him. He spoke feeingly of the friendship
| be.we en- them which he said was that OF
| Damon and Pythias.
DR.. Cunningham said he was running
for the Office of Lieutenant Governor
| because people from the Gulf to the Ten
nessee line had told MIN that he ought
| to do 1t on the issue of the triumphant
| vindication of the new Constitution. He
| was taking an active part in the cam
| paign, he said, out of the loyalty and
| gratitude to the friends who had stood
| at his side when he was fighting the bat
| ties of the people of his county. He
would do any honorable thing, he said,
| to gain a single vote for William Dorsey
Jelks.
At the conclusion of DR.. Cunningham $
| address a large number of persons
| crowded upon the stage to congratulate
| the two eloquent speakers of the evening.