The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-14
COMER'S SPEECH
 AT TUSCALOOSA
too.tinued from P.se Nine.)

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 plead with you. that let us take them
 at their word We We. will say. yes 1t; we will go down there with State
 the whole thing bound in oAe. sdlid
 Sou ss at your % word, @ and 1gp' go down @ thsre se that. reasonable and riKht? Th{re,, yen ss Your m RaiPoaa hp se @ sl, friendly to your Railroad Commission, that is the thing for you to do. You Trht sags now s9s yoqg og at are eapss pasyns s | millions and haifTn year more than you should be charged: f you can save ,n ,nas orla, in two years; then m # Is your duty not. to. do. then. to take your Legisia- ture along down there and pass a rea- sona5ie secss frsisht rate and pyt t into
 It is: And If you do not do 1t, you will
 be derelict in your duty. I don't care I am askedVby some. papers if I dare come out and say to the people of Ala bama. that if you would not elect a Legislature that would help carry this l not .nlv said if before, but repeat now. and forever: If you do not elect Legislature. 1T you do not elect q idea. leave me ai home. I don't want 1t. l (Applause.) It Is a. great honor td be your Governor. it would be a great ing tob. ! do not want ant your your five | thousand dollars a year if could not he of service to you I would not want your honor if I could not render you a | And with thespeople of Alabama go- l Ing all together. If I cannot write
 or iso fau1s ss s tss ss ay in hs ss ys AiabaHa has freed the people of Ala pama from railroad control ,:nd nut it's people the railroads and everything say. leave me at home. and mean it
 too. gentlemen. mean 1t: It is face to are aaee yem wfh asns s1u It s y9r What What are you going to do about t? Are you xoinR to elect the railroads man for your representative. or are you going resentative? Now. waich? Are you going to elect men with railroad en u,ronment; mso m; or a, are you going to elect Which are you going to do? Do nor make any mistake about it.; you can | not afford 1t; don't fool with 1t; you | gerous. Here Is where pr. Cunningham and ] l diirer on that very thing--right there. speech. which maas as rest S rhRelsaeEs here, Es | says to you: T am one of those who believe that the Governor should con  such limitations of his office, etc. etc. Now. gentlemen. don't you see how he nmlnss ngFe Ii arGnn1 Gis1, WI wsat % have said se straight through there and there If no- where else. that he has made himself not the man for this job unless you Don't you see it? What good could he do in carrying out this great question With railr2ad Legislature? Gentle men of the State of Alabama we have run this. State one-half for the rail- 1 road and one-half for the people. ar two-thirds for the railroad and one- cannot afford 1t; you % cannot affnrd vt. it' 1 You have got to take the State and run it for the people. and that. includes tho roads come in. as they have been do- Ing; guibbiing in. your affairs and your | iegislation, It is dangerous in tho tue Lords sake. don't q atteh,ptt eti if fod don aGt l do It. You have got to elect your men, you have. got to do 1t, and be certain vo,,r eieoe nolicses te risnt men men to hod up ] want to tell you right straight out nov, straight from the shoulder. have n.hntning .hs1l m to do with yonr affairs, name lining to you the 1anser of doing cer- ! simply ma"'t out the line for " yofi which you should run on Then. gen- tiemen; like we marked down hero that night to the double. quick with . certain Colonel that is your duty, not mine. and he should carry you straight Q the line. no matter what may be Another thing. Tn that speech he said | he made these appointments back vnn- ter or rather he made those votes old politicaI friends. Don't you zee That when he was fighting vour fight l ne was eoing a~einst the interests of Gentlemen: that is the reason an, here | today is because of the environu1 entS l around Dr.. Cunningham. the environ reut that Is dangerous How can hc over that crowd and nass 1t? He could l not do 1t to save his life, mot to sarA | his life.
 have beer accused of saving that | The Advertiser has told a hundred lies | on me, l never said sol do not ever say anything like that. and I say here of April. two years ago. She last issue before the elet ion. and what is 1t?
 aaSSneaksr here read from the, pansr., say there is $500 worth of advertisinx In that paper paid hv the railroad. and here Is that same Dickert colsln piece. what is the next piece of The AdvAr-
 User? There 1t is--that is right after the decision of the Commission in this ruled with the railroads nj Alahama and decided against lowering the frs,Tht rate. Here Is what they say.
 
 vertiser headed "A Majority of the Commission Declines to Support | Conner"
 And he goes on to say--that was this | spring: Cunningham comes out"-I have never gone so far as to say we I should have a lower freight rate than Georgia. yet he has said so that he diagnosis we shall have lower freight rate than Georgia. That is what hc says. and yet here Is The Advertiser comes out and endorses him and says he Is conservative man. and they are
 their bosom; he Is a conservative man, and we are fol him. And they go fur ther than that and say that Conner should say where he Is. Here Is a pa- per that two years and a half ago sent or used tens of thousands of lines say Ing I should not be elected to this place because l would destroy the railroads of the State in year; that same paper comes out today and says Conner has the statute, there is his place; not only me back in those days-I won't call any names-of It's destruction, as want ing to pick up the railroads and throw man in the State should vote against me. those same men today say. Conner | should stay here he is, Conner should stay where he is. Why? Why have they ehanged? Why have they gone gerous back there In other years, should stay where am. Do you know? Because they know that where I am I can do nothing; that where am I am | helpless. They know it. Let me They say l have accomplished nothinsi they say I have made this fight with big hullabaloo. and trial and noih- Ing been done I want to say to you ini