The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-25
 THE C0MER CATECH|SM Prepared by Democratic Conservative Club ("Pro Bono Publieo.'') The Birmingham Man. Contrary to His Gus tom, is Spending Much Money. NE IS NOT ENDORSED BY MS HOME PEOPLE Hopes to Be Elected By Stirring Up Hatred Against the Railroads of
 Alabama A Matter of Meal Which Is Sworn to By Citizen of the State of
 Tennessee.
TOT ENDORSED BY MS

this little boy arrested for trespass and thrown into jafi? And is 1t not also a fact that Col. W. H. Denson secured the release of the boy, and instituted a suit for damages against Mir. Conner or his Avondale Cotton Mill, and secured tudg- ment for the little boy for 5000 damages?
 A. Ask Col. W. H. Denson. the boys attorney. whose address is Birmingham. Alabama.
 o. Is 1t not fact that MT. Conner, on one occasion, suspected that one of the ladies employed in the cotton mill. Cknown as Corners PenitentiaFy), had small pox, and that he had & big burly negro to take this lady and place her in cart during extremely indictment wealth. CT, and haul her, thus exposed, to the pest house, and that this lady died from the exposure?
 A Ask the Birmingham labor unions.
 o. Did not MT. Conner, in order to de- rive an advantage over his competitors in the flour market of Birmingham, ship empty meal sacks branded Jim Dandy Meal to Carter's Creek, Tennessee, and have these meal sacks filled with the flour which he had purchased at Carter's Creek. Tennessee, and shipped to him at Birmingham as meal at the meal weight and meal rate, thus giving him an ad- vantage over his competitors in the Bir- minghanl flour market of over ten cents per barrel?
 A. See the following afidavit:
 State of Tennessee,
 County of Maury.
 Personally appeared before me, a No tary Public in and for the said State and County, J. H. Hunter, who states that in the year 1892, he was a partner in the Maury Mills at Carter's Creek, Tennes- hot E,, {. l.. NH,n offlce of the Maury Mills at Carter's Creek, to B. B. Conner, of Birmingham. Alabama who came there for the purpose of purchasing flour, nine cars of flour: that arrangements were made by said B. B. Conner whereby the flour was to bo shipped in meal sacks to be furnished by said B. B. Conner; that said sacks were furnished by B. B. Conner and shipped by him from Birmingham to Carters Creek, said sacks being branded Jim Dandy Meal;" that said flour was shipped as meal on orders from said B. B. Conner 10 do so; that in making the shipment of flour as meal, 1t was as per said B. B. Corners order. Opponent states he made no suggestion concerning the mis-classifi- cation or under billing. but simply car ried out the instructions which he had from the purchaser. B. B. Conner; that the flour was sold f. o. b. cars at the mill, and therefore any benefits that might have accrued by reason of mis- classification and under-billIng were in favor of the purchaser. and of no bene- fit whatever to the seller.
 (Signed) J. M. Hunter.
 Subscribed and sworn to this 22nd day of March. 1904.
 (Seal) (Signed) F. M Ricketts.
 Notary Public, Maury County. Tenn.
 Q. Was not this false classification and false billing a direct violation of the interstate commerce law?
 A. It was. most emphatically.
 O. Do you not think that Mir Conner by this process. showed a great deal of originality in the matter of reducing freight rates? Is not this method of re- ducing freight rates unique? Would Mir. Conner. if elected President of the Rail- road Commission, resort to such ques- tionable methods in behalf of his indl- vidual enterprises?
 A. The people of Alabama will answer that question at the polls on April 11th