The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-01
CONFER AT VERNON
CANDIDATE DECLARES HE HAS
 BEEN WE'LL ADVERTISED.
says the Railroads Spent S7E,O0O in Maying Him Knowu to the People. Usual Argument On
 Freight Rates.

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 Vernon, Feb. 2S--(speciaI)-- candi- date Conner addressed an audience at the court house here today Judge
 Sprott adjourned court for two hours i to allow him to be heard. He was in- i troduced by MT. John $. stone and was we'll received; though the applause i ton he said:
 1 The speaker who introduced me
 says was well known throughout ] Alabama: and so I am. I reckon 1 have been the most advertised man in ! the State. 1t was said that something [ like sev entY-five thousand dollars was
 spent by the railroads to advertise me i two years ago. 1 don't reckon there | had ever been anything like It before and trust there never will be any | thing like 1t again; because 1t shows you that there was condition oi I things that is quite a bit dangerous ir this State" ,
 | Four years ago he said he made here the third speech he ever made 1 coming from Sulligent here, and q 1 don't think ever saw a hotter day
 We spoke In this room. commencing
 about one o'clock. but when we first
 came Tn was over in MT NeSmith's | office. He introduced me to some
 gentlemen In his office and overheard one gentleman ask Is there .anythins l in it. and he said not thing. 1t was i that kind of introduction I had. We f got g. crowd and I made a talk and
 that talk carried conviction in Lamar County, because you nili-biilies recog- | nized that you had sense enough to elect railroad commissioner or any other man whom you, had to have te | serve you t ft | At that time MT NeSmith, not the one over here, was running for the
 Senate. and I want to give due credit
 to MT. NeSmlth and 1t was great hon or to him because in that great fight
 In the house he stood by you and ii was compliment that. he stood by | you as he did stand by you, because that was Q meeting of the Legislature I that tried mems souls
 | He made ms usual reference to the ! hill -biflies'' and the doodle blowers
 and said, When you two strike hands
 there's not mucn left and you take the farmers of that section; take the
 business men there and here, and strike hands, then the government is yours; | its your country. They say of me when 1 say to you lets get together
 and stand together; that this is the 1 peoples government they say am
 talking Populism, They say l am get
 ting one class against another class Nothing is further from the fact, be- cause If you take the people l men,
 tioned you have got the state: all that you have iett is a few mechanical politicians hanging around Tor graft
 or something eise.'
 | Referring to the split In tine party
 he said: Tt took many good people out of the Democratic party of Ala bama, when we most needed you and
 needed your help." and repeated his
 statement that fights In the party
 should be fought out within the party and not on the outside.
 '"The Democratic party says we are opposed to trusts and they go fur ther than that I an quoting from the St. Louis platform and say that the I railroads should De controlled in theii | charges against the people of the
 State. You take that gigantic fight
 In Washington in which 354 members
 of the House voted for the very issue
 1 am talking to you about--364 for ii
 and seven against it.
 "In the Senate today is being waged
 ona of the most gigantic. fights eyer
 seen In this government, and that Is whether the railroads of the United Istates shall control your States or
 whether the people shall do It."
 He repeated Mir Upderwood's state lment that this measure would not pass Ithe Senate because there were too Inlany railroad lawyers there, but said,
 Tt looks today. notwithstanding the great fight those environed men are lputting up against the people of the country. 1t looks like the power of the