The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-09

ton and that opposition has not ceased to this moment.
 Did he say at McDonald's Theatre I'm surprised that they forgot to put
 in the new Constitution, Section |, that Joseph F. Johnston shall never hold any | office. It would have carried unani-
 mously, especially if it could have ap- piled to the United States Senate" Did
 he say that? He was thus trying too show that the entire membership composing that great Convention were his political enemies because he had with his mighty arm dared to openly stop proceedings looking to the assembling of just such a body. Because the bulletin boards over | the State did not contain cards looking | to the vindicatIon of his claims and the advancement of his aims he shows himself to be the aVoWed enemy of the people S great relief from negro suffrage. | ton at McDonald's.
 They say that its friends should put the new Constitution into operation. Is it so weak that it can be handled only by friends? Is it such a puny infant that it | must have a mother to hold it to her bosom? We need not eSe friends of the | Constitution, but friends of the people to put it into operation"
 In that Montgomery speech he first l shows us that he has an abiding enmity against the Constitutional Convention.
 and holds every individual delegate that | composed that body to be his political enemy.
 And in the second he tries to show that | the promoters and defenders of the new | Constitution are trying to pay -he mother | act by holding the ''puny infant to their | bosom for nourishment But he indulges | in faith that pretends to believe he is predestined to be Governor of Alabama l | suppose for the purpose of furnishing the
 proper nourishment for this 'puny in- | fant" the new Constitution. But from
 that breast it will receive the
 sour mash of hate and for those who | seek to defend it sad long four years of waiting to again rid the State of a
 hindrance to it's political, social and | financial progress.
 | Now as to the last thing shown in that | Montgomery speech. He seeks to impress | the white men who cant read that this
 vote is all the. one they will ever have
 unless he is elected Governor of Alabama
 and if h is, it will be a most important | thing to elect a legislature to act in harmony with him. Under the new Con | stitution no man can vote unless he has | some education after this year and | essary that a Legislature be chosen that | vii advance schools" Oh, how bad he | wants to select Legislature for he says. | speaking of that "puny infant" "All the | old Constitution, which was preserved, | is good. The parts I recommended good | and two or three others are good. I pro- l pose to give it a fair trial and amend 1t when necessary. I am sorry for man
 
 with such lot of little things to keep up | campaign thunder on such as The Acci- | dent. And the present Governor, the first | to violate the letter and spirit of the new | Constitution, by seeking to succeed him | self as Governor" He attacks the admin | stration of Governor Jelks by seeking to | show his own greatness and the Cover norS inSigniticance by placing himSen above his own mark and tryin gto sink | Governor Jelks into a wave that does | not exist. A man who makes the claims | to such strength of character as does Joseph F. Johnston ought to find him self above such methods as he is putting
 into use. Why did he not stand correct ed by the card of MT. Boyd who made l his mistake known to Johnstons paper, yet we see him on a horse only sixteen | hands, but he is trying to proportion him | self so he can be enabled to swear that | the horse is sixteen feet high. Will the voters of Alabama look into matters as | they are and vote accordingly?
 Only Voter.