The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-08
any more about Coosa County. It is safely for Cunningham.
 Committee Was Active.

safely for Cunningham
 Committee Was Active.
 The arrangements for the speaking and the dinner were admirably made. An intelligent committee took pains to have the whole aaiffr so arranged that there would be no hitch or confusion, nently successful So complete were the details and so interested was the committed in having the day pass off successfully that preparations were plimentary and honorary escort Of thirty or more voters on horseback in buggies. If he had come to Coosa County by the Central Railroad. This, ninsham came to Equality by way of Montgomery and Wetumpka
 Hon, John Mccain, late Senator from this District. presided over the big for there were two of them. before the speaking. Ex-Governor Joseph F. Johnston came down from Birmingham to deliver an address. Former Con- advertised for a political address. but up to the time pr. Cunninghams party left in the middle of the afternoon, Mir. Stallings had not arrived. In setting forth the purposes of the meeting and In introducing the speakers Mir. Me Cain made two or three happy little speeches
 pr. Cunningham, as at Reform. drew the attention of his hearers to the pe- culiar political situation in Alabama, and questioned the sincerity of MT. Conner and his committee. He had just given his own splendid record on the question of rate reform, covering period of twenty-five years. when he said:
 No doubt, my friends, you recall the vote of Senators Morgan and Pettus on the Hepburn bill, bill for rate re- form and one which we all favor No nIIpSfinng the rafrfnffana inc singleness of purpose of Senators Nor gan and Pettus. But If Mir. Conner and the committee which is looking -af- ter his political fortunes, is sincere Senators who would agree with them on the rate question. Moreover. my friends, Congress alone can regulate interstate rates and interstate matters commerce in Alabama. Notwithstand- ing my clear record upon the rate question Mir Conner and his committee have centered their energies in oppos- ing me. Why, my friends? BecessJe stand between him and the consumma- tion of his ambition to be Governor of Alabama"
 After Birmingham Newx.
 Dr. Cunningham alluded with some warmth to the misfepresentation to which he had been subject during the campaign. He spoke particularly Of the charges made by The Birmingham kSCNSs anu &dpldtn GEdHA D. W HltGs who sought to show that pr. Cunning ham had opposed any sort of a rail- road commission.
 This half truth" declared Dr. Gun ningharn. "has been scattered broadcast over the State with no other purpose than the injury of my candidacy for Governor. The whole truth has been suppressed the half truth circulated, other purpose than to beat my capdi- dacy apd help Mir. Corners. The men who circulated those statements knew the full truth. They knew that a few pages back the record would show that I voted for a Railroad Commission with power to fix and regulate rates. They knew that ] had voted for a man datory commission and they knew that the sort of a commission I op- posed and voted against was the farce of an advisory commission.
 "I lay before you my friends. the un- fairness and the injustice of any such campaign methods and I appeal to you. the. people of Alabama. to rebuke such
 The present Child Labor law Dr. Cunningham denounced as a "humbug." He didn't know that lt was being vio- lated every day, but he said T believe that it is. He promised his hearers that if he were elected Governor he would use the power to see that an ade- quate and efficient child labor law should be passed.
 didn't go around looking for viola tions of the Child Labor law when I was Governor" said Dr. Cunningham. MT. Conner ought to know that the Governor of Alabama is not detective He has something else to do besides poking his nose in cotton mills to see If the law is being violated"
 Governor Johnst0n Speaks.
 When Dr. Cunningham had completed his address, ex-Governor Joseph F. Johnston was presented to the audience, which he addressed in speech of an hour.