The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-31
Great Crowd Hears Candi- date For Governor. shows He is Not . Man of One Idea, By Review of His Career in
 Politics and Exposition
 of His Beliefs.
BY WILL T. STEPHAN.

BY WILL T. STEPHAN.
 wetumpka. Oct. so-(special Cor respondence. .)-Lieutenant- Governor K.
 M. Cunningham today came among ms old neighbors and presented ms Cduul | dacy for Governor to a crowd that packed the court house from door to | door and from window to window.
 As at Union Springs last Friday, pr.
 Cunningham devoted the ma9or portion of his address to discussion or tne
 necessity for freight rate adjustment
 In Alabama, and the best means to
 bring about the necessary reforms, put in admitting and discussing the rate
 as the Pe'me
 was unwilling to appear before his au- | dience as a "one-idea man. He ably argued other questions bearing upon the State, the convict question, the necessity for the abolition of the pres Il ent county convict system, the vital T question of having white people live on the farms of the State, whether they are natives or desirable immigrants. having a fellowship of language. a l fellowship of habits and a fellowship the State, the improvement of the edu- | cational system of the State and the maintenance of the present appropria- | tion to old Confederate soldiers.
 And, face to face with his old neigh | bors, he went back and reviewed his | public record, showing his continued | contention for twenty years. for a Rail i road Commission with '.plenary pow CTS" and his rejection of the farce, the humbug, called an advisory conmis- sion."
 He spoke of the fight he had made in the Legislature of 1881 for the Lang don bill, establishing a Commission with plenary powers, bill which was | finally lost with. as he described him | self. "a little country doctor with his | first suit of store-bought clothes, fight Il n followed | legislative record up to the Senate of l 1s96, when he was supporter and | advocate of the Boykin bill for an cleo brought the review up until the last l Legislature, in which, as President of the Senate, he had within his hands the | power to kill, for four years, the cleo | tive Commission by referring the bill | to an unfriendiy committee. but which. by his act, lived and became law. l Now, my friends" he asked earnest ly. what was the politics to play when that bill came up to me for reference and when I knew that by referring It to a committee known to oppose 1t l | cord have killed it? I tell you the
 bill killed as 1t would have been done | by other hands than my own, and | Knowing the popularity of the elective Railroad Commission to have postpon ed the fight until this present campaign and made that issue my issue. But the man who is placed in a high position | a position of trust and who plays the
 opportunities of that office for poll \ tics. Is unworthy of honor and un-
 " fhe Orienai Mir. Jacobs.
 | And having shown his clear record for freight rate regulation Dr. Gun friends, I am the original MT. Jacobs on this question. The people who said I have Jumped on the Conner band wagon are evidently not familiar with | tho raCnrd that tG wrtffan i'm a ute books. You will recall that be- fore leaving the office of Governor to which I was called for eleven months lCommission urging action on freight lreduction and suggesting that if there was doubt about the power of the called together for the purpose of ad- busting rates. In that letter pointed out that under our new constitution there could be no doubt as to the pow. CT of the Legislature to fix rate. be, cause it was clearly and distinctly lconferred by the constitution. It was pointed out in that letter that if tn, as to the ability of the Legislature
 to delegate its rate making powers
 to the Commission,. that the Legis' lature could be called together and tho
 roads put into classes for which
 maximum rate should be fixed.
 MT. Conner since that letter was
 He, too. has now said that the Iegis. lature by it's plainly set forth power, under the terms of the constitution can SC classify railroad and so fix maximum
 rate. But remember. on this question was the original MT. Jacobs" Tn, Doctor took ocasion to reiterate his statement that in the event vacancy in the ofhce of United States Senator he would call for a primary, if he wai Governor.
 The campaign between MT. Come, and Dr. Cunningham up until today bid fair t0 be 1 sort Of AlnhnnSa nf Gaston affair, each lowing and compli menting the other. But one time al
 least in the address of the Lieutenan
 Governor today, keen: if good natur,
 thrust was made at MT. Conner. Tn, speaker was giving an account of hi. stewardship to the public and recount
 which may affect the present cam
 paign: At the end he said. T hay,
 served my party for thirty years ant ability. Some services, which | thinl
 have rendered. have recounted here And in addition to them. I entered tn,
 1t was inaugurated in 1896 and kep up the fight until it had been won ant the new constitution had been promul
 gated. The stain of dishonest cleo. of Alabama. There no longer remain.
 cd the necessity. for the questionable
 methods by which white supremacy
 was maintained. I honor the men who
 followed those methods only by which
 white supremacy could be maintained The men who followed them then were
 patriots. then, and the man who would return to them today is a thief
 But where was Mir. Conner during
 all this time? Probably he was mai :.
 ing l,400 bales of cotton on his big plantation for which he thought, whei he went to sell, that 20 cents a pound
 was fair price, or buying 10000 bales | of cotton for his cotton mills for which
 when he goes to buy he thinks cents | a pound is enough.
 1t was court day at wetumpka
 Judge s. l.. Brewer had come from his Tuskegee home to preside over the | regular term of the Elmore County Circuit Court. At the request of fl number of Dr. Cunningham's promi- nent supporters. Judge Brewer agreed l to postpone the. opening of court for an | hour to give the assembled people an l opportunity of hearing discussion of the issues of the campaign.
 ! Great Crowd on Hand.
 A great crowd was in attendance
 Every foot of sitting room in the court room was put to use and additional chairs were brought in. Notwithstand-
 ing this, scores of people had to stand