The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-27
HE IS NOT ENDORSED BY HIS 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
 y Tennessee.

this little boy arrested for trespass and thrown into Jailf And is it not also a fact that Col. W. Fl. Denson secured the release of the boy. and instituted a suit for damages against Mr Conner or his Avondale Cotton Mill. and secured judg- ment for the little boy for q. 900 damages7
 A. Ask Col W. H. Denson. the boy attorney, whose address Is Birmingham. Alabama. k Q. Is 1t not a fact that Mr. Conner, on one occasion, suspected that one of the ladies employed In his cotton mill. (known as Corners Penitentiary'1, had small pox. and that he had a big burly negro to take this lady and place her in a 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
 Q. Did not Mir. Conner, in order to de :. rive al advantage over his competitors in the flour market of Birmingham, ship empty meal sacks branded Jim Dandy Mear' 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 neal rate, thus giving him an ad- vantage over his competitors in the Blr- minghani flour market of over ten cents per barrel?
 A. See the following affidavit:
 State of Tennessee.
 . County of Maury.
 Personally appeared before me, a No tary Public in and for the said State and County, J. M. Hunter, who states that in the year 1892 he was partner in the Maury Mills at Carters Creek, Tennes- that In Au1iaf 1Qo1 ha aald iy, Inc office 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 be 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 Carter's Creek, said sacks being branded "Jim Dandy Meal;" that said flour was shipped as meal on orders from said B. B. Conner to do so; that in making the shipment of flour as meal, 1t was as per said B. B. Corners order. Deponent states he made no suggestion concerning the misclassifi- 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 direct violation of the interstate commerce law?
 A. It was, most emphatically.
 c. 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 indi- vidual enterprises?
 A. The people of Alabama will answer that question at the polls on April lit