The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-01
CUNNINGHAM IS
 AT THE CAPITAL Spends Day Talking Politics to
 to Old Friends WILL MAKE SPEECH SOON In Which He Defines Exactly Where He Stands on Questions Before
 the People at the Pres
 ent Time.
WILL MAKE SPEECH SOON

Montgomery, August 3.-(speciaL)- Lieutenant Governor R. M. Cunningham will make a speech in few days, prob ably at his home town. Ensley, in which he will give his position on the various political questions now before the peo- pie of the state. He announced this much to the correspondent of this paper at noon today. Dr. Cunningham has been an an- nounced candidate for the gubernatorial nomination for some months.
 Lieutenant Governor Cunningham came to Montgomery this morning to pay a visit to Governor Jelks and to meet his numerous friends in the city, where he served for eleven months as governor, during the absence of Governor Jelks. He went at once to the capitol and spent half an hour in conversation with the governor and his private secretary, J. Kirk Jackson. Later he went down town and had lunch with several friends. whom he met on the way
 It was at the cafe that the newspaper man saw the lieutenant governor. He was very reticent about what he came to the city for, saying that he was down to see his friends. He did not dis cuss his talk with the governor, nor would he allow himself to be quoted on the question of an extra SC bson of the legis- lature, more than to say that he once went on record as to what he would have done under certain cosditons, Noth- ing came from his lips to indicate whether he thought there existed now anything like the conditions that might have in- duced him to act.
 Will Make Address.
 You may say this for me- finally vouchsafed the states vice executive, as he pulled long bone out of a juicy piece of pompano. T will, in a few days, make speech, probably at my home in Ensley. though l am not sure about the place in which l will give to the public my po- sition on all the matters about which the people of the state are at this time concerned. It will be a full and free dis oussion of all that the public has taken for serious thought and 1 am sure there will be no chance to mistake where stand. I am going to make speech at Prattville September T. at the laying of the corner stone of the new court house of Autauga county, but there will be no politics about 1t. That. to my mind. is not the kind of occasion for airing politi- cal opinions or loading up on the peo- pie the private opinions on state issues that l or any other man may have" Met Many Friends.
 l By a coincidence several well known men of the state were in the dining room of F'lening's re1taurant when Lieutenant Governor Cunningham walked in and he was given a hearty reception. Among them was the editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, W. W. Screws who recently put his paper in hearty endorsement for Cunningham for governor Others were Commissioner of Agriculture Poole and Col. Jesse Stallings ,erstwhile congress- man from this district and said to be friend of B. B. Conner for the chief execu- tiveship of the state. All expressed the greatest pleasure at seeing the genial doctor back at the capital again.
 Let me tell you fellows something, said the doctor as he shook hands with County Health Officer Pitts, who had come in with Major Screws T am a working man now I have been as busy a doctor as you would care to see for some time and have not been able to talk as much politics as I would like to. It Is a case of work with me these days, though look too heal.ny to indicate any excess effort at any time.'
 Talked Mosquito.
 The Lieutenant GoVernOr ana UT. tltts branched off into a discussion of the fever question and the ever present mos quito theory, and the laymen were out of it after that. Dr. Pitts rallied him pretty hard about the Birmingham quar- antine but the Ensley physician stood nobly to his city and county, though making good argument to uphold what they saw fit to do.
 It is pretty well established that Dr. l l. -f.<.~ other than to make his friends happy at seeing him During the afternoon he met several of his friends and 1t Is pre- sumed discussed the situation all along the line so far as politics go. He left for home on the night train, seemingly happy over the results of his visit. He was told by several here that they were for him for governor and were going to do everything possible to elect him.