The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-14
COMER'S SPEECH
 AT TUSCALOOSA
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fight, we went before the nfiIt nfiIIoatr tr~ thts mission of Alabama. and listen " sni' ssnsi' aanfiemen. We went before the Ra,i, Ris road Commission. of Alahama ahd eor- o what? We ns asksai ssieS l9r for Aia tRs peopis of Alabama on this side of the ,n nhs sawe ue the same class of railroads the d sam in charges that gna ,msntysfsYe had Seen ~ years. We ssSed for it; we were entitled to It. we should have had it. I made ,., q spe1ecni Ips1kai ana sor si1 daeg hours; anss am not going to talk trsiiroad s kSa rates ef Illinois of Iowa, ,,nd of aiabama, bo and put them ddwp side by Side. side by side. And. gentlemen all of thosA> States. to all intents ana pra- a- rards the freedom of the States, but m aiI of those States there was one that stood out more prominent than 1aha the otni and . that prominence consists, gentlemen, in . inc highness of your rates as com pared to theirs: taking the sane ssats ra,,s ns soad oad rate ns e was s Increased anywhere from
 sT,ya tG fa,s sSnarss sSns se per wss YOU stand it; because. gentlemen. our politicians have allowed it.. They say Alabama when say that. I do not do it. when I say that. I mean, though. gentlemen. not to attack their integ.. thsaS they had had fallen into a system that was wrong. and as wrong as 1t could be; so wrong that the staNe of Alabama has 1t could have saved. If you das remsmber, 1sat we had that great body Of death tnat was tied to Our necks like the aloa- ner, the negro. to be considered by tho State convention. People did not un, ao derstand: They had not come race uo face with the issue. they did not un- derstard. it was never brought to you, @ you didn't think about it; it was only after had spent that @ eight attensinn tnensaima Educating you with 1t, that you came along just where you stood.
 SGw tSoss aI in tSem ihe iti We Ssorkt@ We're turned. down. We were
 turned sad down That oy tbe ehe peopie of Alabama could not get those rates because the conditions were different come 10 investigate conditions. and what was the condition in Alabama so different from that of Georgia, against the State, this committee could not tell you: we VI: f95sra afabsma nai make H less tonnage than $50 n Georgia?. Gentlemen. are yoh you %ehn- sina- Der Der as that, that 425 people of you can .n of Georgia? Do you think that ,s,r is rsa, sas last last year we had $50 bales of eotton to to the railroad mile. Georgia, S35. You all know what bale or cotton o. n,,ly Tepreo tho hale of cotton itself but everything that it takes to make bale of cotton, all those things thaf t,ons coe vet o we had sSo and Georgia s35. I come to inves- tigate and the Birmingham district @ . whole whole state of Georgia. The Blrring- ham % district, I am told, furnishes more freight than Carolina and % Georgia tb}u Pe' [ reiterate gentlemen! It is your pol iticians that caused this state or ai. fairs. Now that sounds ssfsh; that that knew it; I do not believe they knew the conditions. You take today what
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 pers. what is going through the mouths of ail these men? Why. railroad state mens t1dns msn they they care ean fo do the
 ing, by the smartest men that can write them. to furnish your papers prs and nd you are wrong in these grepat, gpit,t de- es mands that we are making in behalI ot the They se G9n1rey T they eTery go m theSe great rates they made two and a hall years ago, who did have to fightg rate, equitable car service rules and prompt payment of claims. Tn other words gentlemen, insisted that Ala than we have got. That's right. in- sisted that the car service rules should be made for both sides, that what is rar service for one man under one con sdition is car service for the other man nnder the same conditionSs In other words what Is sauce sauce fTT %hate .ne rgiebt gieibste . said. gentlemen. that your claim should be paid promptly; that's right; You You have to pay feb ebod yGdr pay for yours be
 fore it is six. eight. fifteen or twenty years old. or what not Sometimes tines announced then. What was the re- suit? Every politician in the State "as WhvY had I attacked them? The pa. pers of the State were against me, ana ! was sometimes sorry that they were not that I did not appreciate that they were a great factor. not that l did not appreciate their help, not that I did not need their help; but. gentle
 men it was for tnt this rsasoa tSs down ano psase sometimes they quote me very wrong. if I was sorry at all, it vas for tnis' for every single line, and making the copy We could not do 1t. we dld not have the money. so if they were fot see? As far as dollars and cents were concerned. they were not in it.
 I speak of this in all candor. and all like Them better than they like me; buteveTy single one of them that that came .,It; could have gotten by being on the oth- CT side, and the press is poor. They are not rich, they are poor. They need this money I say that for those that were with us. not that love them less. but I love them more. I want to see those succeed; see? I mean kindness 10 them. that's right, and when they came out for me, they were losing money, that money the other fellow made that race and the politicians, the papers and the railroads were against me They got It,, gentlemen: Do you recollect that race? I did not there was nobody else to make ths coioneI Lowe were the only ones that csroe out in 1t, and both of them, ac- nordine 10 their own statement. leaned towards the conservative side. You all know what that Is. Now gentlemen, here Is the cream or the issue. n IheH the money that was necessary, with every dollar that could be used. as they said Justly. The supply was not lfm- neI; New we here today see Mir Tillman from south Carolina, asking congress ! to investigate the great question oI ! how much money and what money was maid into the Republican fund Dy tne cornorations, and we see that he IS not even asking what was paid py the banks and we see how we are alarmed at the great money that was paid out hv the life insurance companies to SC ci1re corporate control of the iegisIa- lures and corporate control or the Ohi-
 we aii see 1t in Alabama Here are
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