The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-14

was such shouting as was caused that day in the old Capitol of Ala,oamaii i,oi wonXt WogX saY cali aat any yne name-passes around with a little crooked stick--I reckon you recognize the picture. that at all things-they say that he went around like a wild rabbit that he didn't know what on earth had happened. Then on. and the House called for that bill: the Committee had not acted; they ealed for 1t to be brought out or S the the Senate. and they took three sena, iprsnSrS tt that were Wer little bit dou6tfuiMrid- ing in a private car to New. Orleans, and when they came back they were W1t with 'Hf this saiis list % to show you what we have got to fight against. what Is coercing you. When they came back. vote was awful close that day. We had to amend our bill; we couldn't pass the Texas bill. 1t was too drastic, 1t they got through the fence. but would not cross over, they were little Dit timid; they were little pit timid Go
 member, in that great march he start ed out. and how he dropped them by
 ten thousand and ten thousand nd and ten ten who would stand firm, I believe, some few who had crossed the branch, drink.
 s ydn they wsnt Msn to rea read down knS Sar
 Here is where he makes his first crack
 In favor of the people. and I commend
 R% for Just it. hsf it was and n Sa Tss TSsy hss
 tinkered with our men. they were not
 the same. and he united the vote. and
 then he left it to triendiy eomidel9 9rIendl9
 committee in the Senate. You are Ala
 bamians and stand here at the foot of
 ho n
 Committee. for the Senate of Alabama
 to refer to conserve their interests. ate had to seek for a friendly commit tee to which this great Dill snSuid sta3s 9s over that last night-found great diff
 fcultv in finding a committee that was
 friendly to tn" people. The man Wno by, railroad attorney at Mobile. MY:
 Goldsby was nice man. put ne naa
 the, enviTonment of the lzIse 0Iner cTo@G; ossr the President of the Senate-in coming to you, when he sought the committee
 of the Ssnate oo,,S Shqmfer refer this great hiii every single solitary committee of that Senate should have been your friends
 that was your tbst Statf aid 0ofb 0ot belong toj | these great railroad corporations tha1 were then controlling. according to thY | Governors own statement.controllinG | every committee in it nearly. That is the danger of it. That has been the | way if has been. my brother said l awhile ago it all depends on how to | attack that condition. take 1t by the 1 throat and wrest 1t out. and put your l own crowd there, because your own | crowd is safe and sane. and the other | is dangerous. .L ou there and so close the vote that one ! man his vote was necessary. but that | nieht he was too drunk to move. too l drunk to sit up, couldn't stand up. He l was put in cab and carried to the | Senate Chamber of Alabama, supported | info his seat and there, sprawled over | his desk, in drunken stupor, to walt l vote aeainst his own people when the 1 lime came they went In and shook him: | "Set un. 1t is time to voter' He stag | rered to his feet, saving. MT: Presi- | dent wait awhile I want whack at | this thing vet" That was, in the state | House of Alabama. gentlemen, that was | in inc State House of Alabama. and the | great question at issue was one tnat ] carried the very people of Alabama | these great corporations in their ex- | fortionate rates and the rules they | were making to control the people Of | Alabama. We just did carry it, Just
 Gaming on down-I am skipping '
 hean I remember-that is not the bill
 we want to carry: this is not the btll 1 you ought to have. This ls not me
 bII vou must have provided vou in-
 lend to carry your liberty, and intend 10 carry what is necessary to preserve
 you against extortion or corrupt prac.
 (COntinued on Pare NAne.1