The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-08

is going to be built up by home money" said MT. Andrew. you are going to get left. We have got to get foreign capital interested here.'
 With modern hotel he said Montgom- cry would thrive and prosper if for no other reason than that Montgomery was the third healthiest city in the world.
 He advocated the construction and sup port of new industries put said that this would neve. be -.3--- t..4-1 foreign capi- tai was inte!eo, ..l ms connection he read an i.. uIiturIal from yester- days AOs-
 The ..,. .-.y.y proposition, he said, v-&H { ., .y.. o-.e. but 1t was being allowed :. laa trouble is, asserted the speak t... that the property holders who have l.ot. should contribute to the fund as well as the merchants.
 Believes in Blowing.
 T believe in a town blowing its own horn," said MT. Andrew, Look at At lanta. Why, if Atlanta had the natural advantages of Montgomery the city would have a million inhabitants"
 The annexation of Sle suburbs, Mir Andrew said, was the uppermost question in the minds of the people.
 That question is not up to me-" said the speaker, tits up to the present city administration. I will say that if I am elected Mayor, if there is any money left in the treasury I will see that it Is spent on improvements in the suburbs. The people in the suburbs should receive just as good treatment as the inhabitants of any other part of Montgomery"
 If there ever was any time in the city s history" he added, when the whole time of a man was required to success fully run the city government that time is now No man has a right to accept the office of Mayor and devote ten hours of a day to his private business and one hour day to the business of the city"
 The time had come, MT. Andrew said, when the Mayor of Montgomery had to have a backbone as big as telegraph pole.
 Mayor who would stand dlctation from any man or any set of men, MT. Andrew said.
 Will Not Buy Office.
 q have been told" said MT. Andrew, that could not be elected Mayor unless T bought my way. I'll not do it. I'll go down in defeat before I'll go around in the bottoms debauching mems souls by buying their votes"
 He denounced as an 'fnfernal v " 'rn statement which, he said, had lr by a city employe that he W.
 friend to labor. He said that hJ ! himself worn. overalls and had been 6 machInest in his early life. Some of the best friends he had were laboring men. It was useless. he said, for a city em- ploye, or anybody else. to spread such a lie because the labor people of Montgom- cry were going to vote for him anyhow, | because he was one of them. Que of the greatest menaces to the city, he said. was the vagrants and loafers that blocked the sidewalks and lived off the stealings from the white folk. It should be stopped. he said.
 And if I am elected Mayor of Mont | gomery," he declared. '1f the vagrancy l laws are not effective I am going to have | effective vagrancy laws made. l am go- irg to clear the streets of these negroes. I am going to pave our streets with the labor of these negroes, and you can't stop me"
 saloonkeepers Charitable. He said that he took DO stock in the denunciation of the barkeepers of Mont gomery. Some of the most charitable mer of the city were saloon keepers, he said