The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27

1 is as progressive and prosperous as any state fin the south and has Increased more rapidly than Georgia. Q.-Is it possible that Mr. Conner is right in his claim that all the governors of Alabama for twenty years have been inefficient and untrustworthy and unable to protect the interests of the people? A.-No. MT. Comer's claim is untrue and absurd Alabama in the past twenty years has had many governors who were brave and true men and friends of the people and without special business interests to serve such as MT. Conner has. It is far safer and more just to rely on and believe in the fidelity of the pubic men of Ala bama who have fought for her in war and cared for and uplifted her in peace than to rely on the interested state ments of a selfish man like Mir. Conner, who has always devoted himself exelu- sive1y to advancing his private interests.
 of MT. Conner were president of the railroad commission, and the railroads would give him special rates, lower than the rates given to the general public, for his grist mill at Birmingham and for his Avondale cotton mills, and for the products of his farm in Barbour coun- ty, would that satisfy him?
 Al don't know; but 1t has been sug- gested by those who know MT. Conner intimately, that he has never been satis- fled with anything since he reached mans estate, and that if In his power to do so, he would revise the Decalogue and amend the Lords Prayer.
 | Q.-Is it, or not, a fact that when MT. Conner was conducting a mercatile bus- ness in Aniston, he had a private con tract with a certain railroad, by which he obtained great concessions in freight rates, over his competitors, and that he sold out his business there to Col S. B.
 Trapp, who by reason of his inability to obtain the special concessions which had been accorded to MT. Conner, failed in business?
 Ask Col. s. B. Trapp | Q.-Is it not a fact that MT. Conner dis charged a little boy who had ben work ing in his cotton mill at Birmingham. and when the little boy returned to the cotton mill to get the wages which were due
 
 boy arrested for trespass and thrown into jail? And is 1t not also a fact that Col. ". H. Denson secured the release of the boy, and instituted a suit for damages against MT. Conner or his Avondale Cot ton Mill, and secured a judgment for the little boy for 5000 damages? Ask Col. W. H. Denson. Q.-Is it not fact that MT. Conner, on one occasion, suspected that one of the ladies employed in his cotton mill OSnown as "Comer's Penitentiary"). had small pox, and that he had a big burly negro to take this lady and place her in a cart during extremely indictment weather, | 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 1 the flour market of Birmingham, ship l empty meal sacks branded JIM DANDY | MEAL" to Carter's Creek. Tenn, and have these meal sacks filled with flour which he had purchased at Carters Creek. Tenn. and shipped to him at Bir- mingham at the meal weight and meal rate?
 1 A.-Ask Mir J M. Hunter, who was al the time of this fraudulent practice, the manager of the Mauray Mills at Carters | Creek Tenn, but who Is now running mill at Mt Pleasant, Tenn. Also ask Col. E. A. deFuniak, the general agent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad com pany at Birmingham, Ala. ! Q.-Do you not think that MT. Conner. | by this process. shows a great deal of | originality in the matter of reducing freight rates? Is not this method of re- ducing freight rates unique? Would MT. Conner if elected president of the rail- road commission, resort to such question: able methods in behalf of his individual enterprises?
 A.-The people of Alabama will answer this question at the polls on April Il. O-Has MT. Conner contributed to the First Methodist church of Birmingham all the money out of which the railroad company was defrauded by the shipment of flour as meal from Carter's Creek Tenn? If not. is it likely that his consci- ence will some day smite him, and that he will deposit this money in the 'consci- ence fund?'
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