The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-14

Cr Crvur years ago, ue1ls taa crea test
 railroad lawyers in the State; who--I
 sometimes tell this anecdoteCCn. is onc one
 of.the snartest men m taiS Remember
 what 1 said about my brotners amT.e ots,ns
 ago. A-gentIeman went 10 ms omce s
 and asked where Colonel Fannhe thc LesislatnMre. re What Is he doing at the Legislature? and the porter : saae:
 ,Eoss, dont you yb,eT know ne Now auHs we we A aii know he did anybody knows that; and when he came down to Birmingham and
 we sfartes to make tn dsis saItIe ng for ah the railroads, and gave his help and mad. the fight all along the line; and i,1 did 1 that in the very hrst meeung. apTu. 1s,. 1 the second fight, and they organized | through the State, getting every sin, gle. solitary grafter that they could
 ton might be; not only doing that, but doing that most ignoble of all thing~. l and that was bruta1ly bullying all of | to ' vote against themselves in the,r | State--a most radical wrong l under | stand back there even then. they were going to vote them as one solid | phalanx against the people of the State; and those grand old men recognized and refused to iegaiize and materialize and stood for their State and their peo- pie. Where they take this $500.000,
 nU5peyat money to buy buy @ YOU with. but they can not give 15 cents to reduce yoiir freight rates Plenty of money for eieotIou, but not a dollar for reduction Donf Gentlemen. we have come down from
 that position What IS that position
 today. that they are going ;s to run uf thsi- tsa bama run theii politics they have come i down to the position of saying. l am going to run your taxes, and your state fight all along the line. into saving. am going to stay out of your politics.
 and let you run 1t. Is that differ
 their big men. came to me few days ago and said: T am for you" I am glad to have you. come get in the boat going to keep at. the tiller.
 Don't you see how things are going?
 Say we have not advanced. We have do not take hold of this question. from
 one end of the State to the other, from
 the rural districts clean through and
 this very issue will tell you. you will
 be derelict to your dut.1 no matter what your condition may be. or who
 young you 'In men % of the Sta State. the % patriotism of the State. I will tell you in all can
 dor that we have gone along In this
 1t it"l Is you yours; we are trying to protect
 this state. gentlemen. not only as to your freight rate. but as said there by
 want sa sti to take this State and turn it over
 eminent. I will tell you there Is your
 ssountry: and will hat tell y9u a,ur great eat
 very same line that we are. going;
 Texas has gone there, Illinois, Iowa: Missouri, Georgia, North Carolina. and and take your country? Win you go over and do 1t? It is yours. Or. will
 your like. for this same old crowd 10 come and dictate to you whom you
 snail nominate and electr VIII you do
 1t? I said awhile ago am appealing 10 you as jury, not my jury. but your
 these men say Cunningham brough'
 Conner where he is Why do they say
 that? They know, gentlemen. that
 until the cows come home, until you
 got your rights. you Know they Know
 it. (Applause.) And they do not be-
 believe 1t. Let me tell you one or two
 little stories and l will quit the speech
 mot that have finished for haven't.
 sometimes use this figure. It was
 a long time a question how the buffa-
 loes weathered the storms: how they
 rSi travelling tps Sue eiSshs Saw ssyofmf dd.
 ing up, and he saw a. herd of buffalo,
 and they were formed in shape like
 lot got In front and the other bulls
 lined along down on the outside spd
 the cows and calves on the inside. The
 instance is the farmers. is the business
 men; the bull are your politicians Gen.
 tlemen. l want to say to yo'i that thev
 have reversed this condition; they have
 stationed the cows and the calves on
 the outside and they are on the inside
 fattening on the fat of the land.
 Let as me teli i you you this other Hg story, % that
 will illustrate that too. You have
 heard this, Major Spence. We used to
 have at the college a man who eamc
 China. and he lectured to us on what
 he had seen. He said on one occa sion
 erything dried up, the country was full of dust they. prayed to the gods to send rain and no rain came; Finally
 what n mass meeting is. 1 do-you all have heard of mass-meetings. The
 mLss-meetng decided that the gods suffering, that they were in the cool
 places III the temple and didn't know
 what was going on outside. And they and take them out in the streets and drag them through the dust and dras some of the pain. off of them and take people. 1 can stop right there. because you can all sec the application of that. They said they did 1t. and dragged LlltIH out anu put NAciu paCh. Ite SdlQ that night there was q big rain.
 Now, gentlemen. don't you see that il l some of our politicians could be l brought out to meet these rates. they | do not know what q freight rate is,, some of them, they don't know what'l We pay; l am told that they increased | the charge on cotton Lorth of Tusca- 1 loosa To cents q hundred without an pro vocation; then am told that your | river has been blce. ed up. that while | spont on your locks. to open your river | you cannot take anything here and l ship 1t out. l was asked the questio:i, | ,.suppose you were the Governor of the Legislature to pass, to give them n l lower freight rate. and protect them against the increase of the entire State | rate; l told them If l had to make q | freight rate from every little crossing | in Alabama. give tEem that. gentIe- ! men. ana you nave got protection ror i, this State forever, such as few states available, make your water available, make your rlver carry something other chan what is carried on the pike oI railfoad, and every tiver in the State ranruad in the state has made a talk to the people at Florence on the Tennessee river. They could haul 1 nUthing there and ship it out, tho rate more than 1t is from Memphis through shetheld through Alabama, and the rate from Decatur through Alabama is more than IL Is from Nashville through Decatur through Alabama. Think of standing such as that. When General Jackson. standing on the shores of the tennessee river. just before the Creek war. when preparing to march. he says, '"rhere VIII he great city here" That