The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-31
CAME OF RRAe.
Conner Followers Seek to Bolster Cause
 by Gross Exaggerations.

Conner Followers Seek to HolSfeR Chuhe by Gross Exaggerations. , coiumbiana, July 30, 1s06.--Hon; J. R. White, president Cunningham Club, Columbiana, has written the following letter to the Columbiana Sentinel, which win appear in this weeks issue of that paper:
 Editor Sentinel:
 The following letter appeared in The Birmingham News of July 26th. shelby An Right for D. B. Conner. Editor of The Brmingham News:
 Sri see SO much In the Cunningham papers. over the state about Shelby County being Oyerws%psy % orssr dr .hs the true situation in shelby. When Q Co eies cIss which a I states that pr. cunninFhqm hps this County with "dowu All pull" ne ne knoWs sns, quite nMs well if this is true sample of all that the 0unnlngham forces are claiming throughout the state Corners @Ses @Sss he snS sMeSt A the entire state from the siS iIes familiar @ with the sitnatioa in Shelby to eiain that Cunningham Is the fayortte or its people shows tnat ne is ln hsct ana 1na,d lS err rake for instance CoIumbiana beat, the strongest Cunningham beat in the eoun- some TWO months ago. and after eoihg out and getting all that could De scraped UP ses eoSa Ssaa Of sa'so somsaSns SS ike sko veIsrs Take if you please. the northern end Qf the county. around caIcis. and Corner has 1t snornous crowd that met at that place to hear Conner on the soth inst. something so aSso iSs GSstor EsSss has % sooa but esfsst siis { for at esisra consr Is away in Thsrs can be no doubt that in HsatF 2. 2, 1T. 2 h 6, 1s. and z Conner easily leeas: s,,t. State ~ are s' to be ssassd by the claims in Shelby County Cunningham could have at 10 time since he entered the ssc9aa ams me
 The people are not going to be fooled at that this is the supreme moment when the people Of this great state are making an earnest fight for themselves against the nisruie of the railroad oiigarchy And the people ae going to stand for their FlGhtE keep sturdy front to the firing line: They ed that they win not support cause that places more firmly about their 'necks for all time to come the gaIling yoke of railroad domination and dictation.
 When the , people speak on tns s.sss s1th ,ss ct voice of anarchists or desfruci siists,x as some. would have us believe. but 8E will he power given them Sy the constitutlons of both state and nation to preserve their liberties and enforce sSSt5ssSs sgoIsS J HAxNrs
 coiumbiana. July 2S. 1906
 To those who are. really acquainted with the political conditions in this county, the above letter Is really ''moosin" to say the least of 1t.
 For the benefit of the reading public I desire to analyze some of the state ments made by Mr. Haynes, for If he has followed the teachings Of his Alma. Mater, there is something radically wrong with Clay countys method of teaching arithmetic, or he has become so thoroughly inocculated with the doctrine, as expOunded by The Bir- 'mingham News, that he. tco. sees double. Take for instance, his state ment that in "Columbiana beat (Box n, the strongest Cunningham beat in the county" that in the organization of Cunningham Club, land in get ting all that could be scraped up they could enlist only sixty-five members in beat of something like 450 voters. Here Is where MT. Haynes arithmetic plays him tricks. He would leave the impression that there are 450 Dem ocratic voters in Coiumbiana beat, when the fact of the matter is. there are not that many voters In the beat counting Democrats, Republicans and Populists. Figures will not lie, espe- ciRiiy fl they are ofiiciak Here Is the official vote of columblana beat Box 1, for Probate Judge in the last cleo tion-4lsO4: A. P. Lopgshore, populist. total vote of 256 In Box i; Shelby McMillan e9--a total of s95 votes for