The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-24

accept the findings of the commisslon as prima facie evidence and the burden | is on the railroads to show that IL IS wrong. And If the appeal to a higner court, then the lower court must TX a bond oe security to cover any costs | or damages that may accrue to the petitioner. There is ample authority and power for the railroad commits , sion to regulate railroad rates in the State of Alabama. (Applause.) Dr. Cunningham told of his rearing m A farm and later his education ana practice as a doctor. He said ne was d good physician. He explained that al, though he had been very successluI nractitioner, he was still poor man and that he was making his campaign m his own funds and would accept nor a dollar from any person or corpora | tion. He said that he was running on | facts and not promises. He asked ms hearers to study his ppublic record ana carefully read his printed platform | .arhe Ideals that controlled me peioIe will control me in the future. Ana II had the choice now 10 ',id those ideals and eb elected. Woulu nrefer 10 maintain them to the greatest of my ability and be defeated. pr. Cunningham closed amid great applauJe from his supporters.
 | Theer was lull of a few seconds MT. Conner had been seated at the lett | of the chairman, smiling sardonicall! | no wand then through the remarks oi | Dr. Cunningham, and at every tnlu
 at .himself. he replenfsher the stock or lemon drops in his mouth with 'oexet rous rapidity. During Dr. Cunning hams remarks. he twice asked TOT | water. At each time, MT. Comer eagerly served him. When the Lieu. l tenant Governor concluded his first | address, however, MT. Conner pecoh'c- | apparently nervous. when ne was | briefly introduced by Chairman sam. | ford. he quickly sprang to his reel ana with the eagerness of a tige" to do battel he began his remarks. dwell ling onIy a few seconds In thanking | the audience for the uprorous greeting with which he was welcomed. he tm- mediately began his onfall on pr. Gun ming.
 Says the Doctor is Rich He scoffed the idea that his opponent
 was poor man. Standing in front oi pr. Cunningham, with eyes glaring and
 his first pounding the judges bench
 with excitable strenuousity, he de- clared that pr. Cunningham for some years had a practice for corporation which paid him about $12.000 a year
 He said that if he had not saved enough to make an aggressive campaign out
 of this income. it was his own fault
 and no one was to blame but him.
 self "There's not a single doctor In
 the State of Alabama who won't be glad
 to day to swap places with him. Ills
 income. I understood, lies between $l,-
 800 and S2,000 q month, and if you
 can figure poverty out of that, l don
 know"
 knock him out" Knock him out.
 yelled an old farmer with white beard
 and glowing nose, and there was vel
 from the Conner faction. The Railroad
 Commissioner then told of his success
 as Il farmer. a merchant and manu-
 facturer. and said that the things that
 he had learned of business and govern
 ment were learned in that most val
 uable or all schools. the school Of
 experience.
 Tn speaker then said that rate
 regulation was the predominant issue
 not only before Alabama, but oeIore
 the United States, and he declared that
 Dr Cunningham was firing at It with
 q shot gun instead of using rifle. lie
 went through his usual comparisons
 between the Georgia and Alabama
 rates and paid his invariable respests
 70 railroad attorneys, John V. Shiltn
 and the campaign in which he deteateu
 MT. Smith for Railroad C0mmissioner'
 Turning to Dr. Cunningham. he ask
 cd him when he began his tight Tor
 railroad rate legislation. pr. Cunning
 had replied in 1883. Turning to the audience again, Mir. Coner sald' Tn that fight he didn't make many marks
 You would have to take spy glass 10 see where he fought them.
 Throughout this part of the discus sion MT. Conner was seemingly opIlV- innE tn his sntirA surreundin9s T" Q