The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-05
FARMERS OF MONTGOMERY ENTERTAINED
sas /, 500 PERSONS AT THEIR ANNUAL BARBECUE

! H. Holt. Barachias; J. T. Cone. stra-
ia; j. I. Brown. city; c. P. Hardaway.
J city; Walter r. Brassell Sawyer; e. B.
! Bettes, r. F. d. No. 3; f. ". Pool,
! K. F. d. No. 3; ]. J. Rutter. city; a.
, b. Dismukes. Edgewood; II. Murrell,
Hope Hull; +. B. Chestnut. Hope Hull;
q. T. Thrasher. Hope Hull; H. NJ
Cobb. Edgewood; J. J. Dismukes.
Edgewood; B. B. Carter. Morgansville:
w. G. Norman, Fleta; r. l.. Sears.
Montgomery; N. s. wadsworth, Pratt
Vile; Robert Caraway. city; ]. NJ.
Handy. Mt. Meigs; w. E. Middleton.
Showdown; j. d. Clarke, city.
The business session having been
completed an adjournment for few
minutes was taken. The assembled
crowd was entertained with some ex-
cellent music by Professor Davidson's
orchestra.
Governor introduced.
At II o'clock the assembly was again
called to order. Governor Cunning
ham and Colonel Harvie Jordan had
in the meantime assembled the stage.
Governor Cunningham was present.
ed to the crowd by President Hough-
! ton. The Association. he said. was to
be congratulated for many things. 1t
was to be congratulated, Mr.. Hough-
| ton said, for the strength and import
ance of its membership and for the
place It filled In Montgomery County.
The work of the Association, he said.
as 1t was reflected In the daily papers
had attracted great attention in other
sections of Alabama and he received
| many letters concerning II.
The Association. he said. was to be
congratulated upon the fact that 1t
was to be addressed by the Lieutenant
and Acting Governor of Alabama. Gov
ernor Cunningham's interest in agri-
culture, he said had never been doubt
ed.
Mr.. Houghton told of the Governors
early life upon q farm in North Ala
bama. 1t was small farm he said
where the Governor endured all the
hardships of country boy and parti-
cipated in his pleasures.
I'VE know of the success he achieved
since he left the farm said Mr..
Houghton. but 1t Is left to our imagl-
nation to know what would have be-
come of him IL he had remained upon
the farm"
Cunningham's Voice strong.
The Governor was greeted by a burst
of applause as he stepped to the front
of the stage. He was in good voice
and every syllable he uttered was
heard in@the rear of the theatre audi
torium. Except his preliminary re-
marks his address was written out.
From typewriter sheets he read what
he wanted to say to the assembled
crowd. His enunciation was so clear
and his reading was emphasized by
so much oratorical emphasis that the at
tention of his hearers never wavered.
He held their interest from beginning
to end. While there may have been
those who might not have felt a per-
sonal interest in the scientific treat
ment of soil and plants as presented
by the Governor, his Evolutionary gifts
invested the supposedly dry subject
with whatever interest it lacked.
The Governors well known sense of
humor appeared only in his preliminary
remarks. In responding to President
Houghton's illusions to his early life
on the farm the Governor said that for
nine years when he toiled on the farm
his only interests were agricultural.
Now its different said the Govern
or, according to the cartoonist my only
agricultural interest is sitting on a
big watermelon and keeping the bad
boys from it..
7He spoke briefly of his life upon the
Franklin county farm. He remember
ed that he envied the sons of the plan
tiers" who went off to college. His own
people being only farmers he could
not afford that luxury. After all he
was convinced, however. that the in
fluence of the Christian God fearing
home in which his boyhood was spent
was better basis for success than
a collegiate education. .s,
1 He announced that he had prepared
a typewritte naddress which his hear
ers would find tiresome. He gave
them permission to go to sleep during
its reading If the so desired.
Put GOOIe To Sleep.
"All of you can go to sleep If you
want to except Commissioner Poole"
II read this address to him in my Of
flee yesterday and he went sound asleep
during the reading. He has had his
nap and now he must stay awake to
the end"
The Governors address dealt partic-
ularly with principles of scientific
farming as applied to the preparations
of the soil and care of the growing
plants. He enlarged upon the benefits
that would come to the farmer who
studied the soil and the required caro-
for plant life.
When he had concluded Commission
er of Agriculture r. r. Poole came for
ward to present Col. Harvie Jordan of
Monticell, Ga, to the Alabama audi
ence. Mr.. Poole took occasion to com
pliment the Montgomery Agricultural
being felt all over Alabama. He found
that the success of the association in
Montgomery had made II easier for
him to organize similar associations in
other cities of Alabama.
1T gives me great pleasure, he said,
to be able to inform you that the out
look for a glorious crop in Alabama is
very bright"
He praised the address of the Gov
ernor and ventured the opinion that
the recent cartoon in The Advertiser
was intended to represent the Govern
or as guarding the agricultural inter
ests of the State.
1t gave him great pleasure, he said
to present the next spekaer who had
perhaps done as much as any one man
for the farmers of the country. He
had been honored again and again by
the farmers of his State and the farm
ers Of his country. lie was now Presi-
dent of the National Farmers Congress-
a member of the Georgia Senate and
President of the Georgia Farmers Pro-
tective Association.
II Col. JOFdan's Speech.
i Colonel Jordan was given a warm
and cordial greeting. He makes
fine appearance before an audience
His audience looks with favor upon
Colonel Jordan before he has uttered a
| word. He gives n dark clean cut and
aquiline appearance His black hair
has not yet begun to silver and there
is no tinge of gray to his black mus