The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-14

We are face 10 face with it right here l in this court room.s If some man should the jury. he would put him iie in jaii in ma | coneeaiment.. comes these corpprations ballot of Alabama. and what t is the the diff iii ference between buying the ballot of Alabama and buying 8 jury of Ala goes up throughout these United states. when you talk about these insurance companies putting up money to buy the here n omr os Own m midst and by ns our own avn 1 people. comes this vast corporation. and with money taxed from you att tempts to buy the ballots of Alabama | to vote against yourselves
 This is the most serious thing that ever happened in our State. There cesannot cannot bs anything more serious than ey over the State to buy yod. and tt was not concealed There was no at tempt at cQneealment. know a man prominent men in the State. who. told l me himself that he was given the funds to control Jefferson G unty and a tirts- use as much as he could
 Think of one of the omst prominent citizens of the State making such q fanwe havefgone down with such rule. ss this and if we. the citizens of the State; cannot get together; and take
 
 we ought not to be citizens of the | State. but we ought to go to Tusca- ioosa, or go to Washington. one or the other--I mean to the asylum over If they buy our ballot that we should recast the Constitution, because you get rid of the negro vote and the ire | sponsible vote; if they buy the ballot of Alabama. we should reeast 1t or we should black dur faces and kink our hair and go to the co1ored schools of the land because we don't deserve to | have Caucasian schools (AppIause.)
 your mandhoode What was t the e result of it? Notwithstanding tlfs mopev was used. and understand 1t was Eve | pay you who thought1essiv went into that great business. thoughtlessly I must put it, because. ca4not think bought a man thoushtiessly. but tiioge of you who thoughtlessly arraigned yourselves with them. | wouTd caution Know the result of the election I want to say to you that the z6.2o0 ma iority was tim-dandy. endorsement. that I apprsciate it most highly. more confidence in my feilowmen; A with greater t trust @ in ai the e great epis heart m of the people of Alabama; and that vote came back from the remotest dis- ff2 ba the he raral parts We i
 Not only did they put up money. but most bitter Think of What thes sad ably fair citizen: try to take the right eoa ss n e seye ta s ds she n s o After that election I commenced suit against several papers and against tho Far0aG Fsdry n for msnte Rs T wss ts ySa sobs t5s through the town just down here. and there was a doctor around here said dent see sfohaS how Lam am going to get around you. He said it looks bad Weil up here at Robbins. I made a talk up there and sscs man sraof come me, up and peered in my look @ like a bad bad man. Well. they 4H 'R had i cousin. a MT. Dickert. that I h had had to do some work on khe Avondaie mill railroad track. Iitfie side track we haS Ssd doWn sred there to After he had done 1t money that belonged to the railroad, and represented to him that 1t was all coan ssh o aord sas & to aSe s as sses 0S onsy ss road road and aa told him if he didn't take that he would die a poor man. They telegraphed that the day before the election. clean across this State: he lished far and wide. I was perfectly horror-struck at first. thought 1t wa was purely 2 fake, I didn't think any. down to ask Mir. Jim Smith where he that in here; MT, Defuniak Is tho Is the man. that jim dandy afidavit man of the L. & N Railroad; he ought not to make an affidavit unless he had better information than that. I went down to The Age-Herald office, and he said that was brought in here by Mir. Defuniak. and MT. Jones Moore. Mir. of the Birmingham Southern. a Fraii- is on your cowmittee of the, State, re. Defunlak; I went to Jones's office and asked where did you get that. he says I got that from Stark He is Superin- went around to. MT. Stark, .aad said, where did you get that? He said, 1t came from a section master on our such talk as that and I reported it to MT. Jones Moore and he Wrought him t1o. in here. and I carried hin to MT; the stenographer of Jones Moore, and this lady who was in their employ, they fixed up their affidavit. I then found friend of mine>and I got in buggy. and we took him to one side and asked him-he didn't know me-asked him,
 
 affidavit that you made. He said. I didn't make any affidavit; he said, but you did. it was in the paper" He said. "You are talking about the one in the paperT he said. that was padded
 Are you cousin Of MT. Conner" ho said. do you know him?" He said. T have seen him a time or two in pass ing Didn't you say you were his cousin? ,No sir: sad had an you are B. B. Eomers first cousin. and they fixed that paper up and teie- graphed 1t all over the Srate aud pub lished 1t the day before the election" There you are Now sued for libel. Now, gentlemen it was two years and then It came up on what Is called the pleadings" You lawyers know what that means. What was the answer to that suit? Not that 1t was true. Not that there was scihtilla of fact about connected. with that. if there had been railroad man in the hearing ot my voice today that don't know 1t was im- possible, and gentlecen, there wasn't a man today that credited that story no didn't know It was impossible: that bill would have had to come to me through the supefintendent or through the reg ular billing office of the railroad, had had to make a report to the superin- tendent, and the superintendent had to send the bill into the office and it had to come to pre in the regular way and in our office it would have had to be signed by me before It was payable, come through the Secretary. I sent to my brother. said. Do you know any man named Dickert in our family? No, sir. Ever hear of him? No, sir Any Kin to usT No; sir; In their answers.