The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-24

the Governor of alabama. the papers of the State. and the Congressman.
 In closing. Mir. Smith called his hearers' attention to the fact that while Mir. Conner was charging Colonel Tunstall witn' being the father of two railroad, at torneys. Mir. Conner is himself the broth CT of the division counsel of the Central Iof Georgia. The crowd applauded this attack.
 MT. Conner replied in an hour and fif- teen minutes. He began with a review of the fight for what he termed lower freight rates, and the abolition of the free pass. He recounted the State meeting of the Commercial and Industrial Association of Alabama at Gadsden two years. He told how he had clipped in c speech on the railroads while the association was discussing good roads. He explained a resolution which he had introduced Gads- den had a delegation of fifteen members to that association, two of whom were railroad attorneys. The Gadsden delega- ton voted thirteen for the resolution and two against it.
 He went deep into the history of his crusade, beginning with the term of Gov ernor Jones, and passing down to the con- stitutional convention. and the last Leg islature
 sAASesA0 &A8NC st48 0R0&tcs We passed law for an election of Railroad Commission concluded Mir. Co Iner, T didn't pass the law, and no one man passed the law. It was your fight, and you won your fight. Shall you be de- prived of your victory? The issue is made and it is before you. It is. shall the railroads control the State or shall the State control everything in Alabamaf "
 MT. Conner declared that the Governors of Alabama had made it the practice to appoint men on the Railroad Commission who had been useful to them without re- gard to their fitness Mir. Conner alluded to the difficulties which he had encoun- tered in pressing his fight for an elective Railroad Commission before the Consti. tutional Convention
 The Committee which had that ordi. nance. MT. Conner said, had been appoint. ed by the President of the Constitutional Convention. who was a railroad attorney, and three-fourths of It's members were railroad attorneys.
 And I understand" said Mfr. Conner, turning to his opponent. ''that while we were carving on that fight for more pow CT and an elective railroad commission, MT Smith came out in an interview in The Montgomery Advertiser saying that the Commission did not need more power. Did you say 1t? ask you, did you say it.'
 did" replied Mir. Smith.
 Adr. Conner then made the most personal attack of his campaign upon the members of the Railroad Commission.
 There is Colonel Tunstall," said MT. Conner. He has been on the Commis. sion for fifteen years. He is a politician pure and simple. He was appointed by Governor Jones, and he was reappolnted hV fAnUArnf,y nat0a hat kha ate turned him down because of his un- fitness. He was reappointed by the pres- ent Governor of Alabama. one paper say- Ing the appointment was made for his fu- tufe political ambition. If this member of the Commission has ever done any thing beyond drawing his salary never heard of it. Mir. Sanders was a railroad attorney when he was appointed. He has no record. When Mir. Smith was appoint ed he never knew anything about rates. and before get through expect to prove ne doesn't know anything nov z
 Cheers for C6meE.
 Mir. Corners adherents cheered long and loud at this, Mir. Conner said that 1t was charged that he was prejudiced against the railroads. He asserted that this was not true. But that men who had been prejudiced in favQR of the rail- road had been appointed o1F the tCommIs- sion and what is sauce for the goose as sauce. said Mir. Conner. for the gander.
 In his reply MT. Smith pointed out that Mir. Conner had not denied that the con- sumers of the -four in Birmingham. Selma and Montgomery had 1t hauled cheaper than those of places similarly situated in Georgia. He declared that Mir. Conner was mistaken fin saying that he was in Buffalo when the light was made in the Constttutional Convention to have put in the constitution the para graph of the Georgia constitution in reference to railroads, Mir. Smith said the committee's report was made in his office and on his typewriter and that he helped the committee make out the re- port He ended llIs argument with an appeal for fairness and justice.