The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-07
(Communicated.)

|l Communicated
 Editor Advertiser:
 IT communica tion in the morning paper captioned. Tt Is useless" Is one Of the kind that brings on more talk It related to me.
 II Now I am supposed to have no right or reply In Democratic paper and l can't help but think the writer Is en- dowed with that element of valor that Is very commend1ble in one who Is doubly bold when he thinks his op- ponent's hands aret tied.
 Sometimes nom de pllme misleads as to authorship, but sometimes in spite of nom de plume. self lauda- | tion betrays the author.
 l will write over my full name. And here's my kind of valor.-y-In few days I will publish some speaking ap. pointments and invite my old friend (Col. WileyD to join me in discussing the matters in my Announcement II Now listen: I know that the Colonel is an ornate speaker. an. eloquent orator, a great and distinguished man. He is my friend. I like his speech, q believe he uses the same one he was accustomed to make in 1892.
 I am but a plain, blunt farmer. with out little snatches of poetry, but mean to invite the Colonel to the ap- pointments and give him more than l half the time.
 | candidly believe that one who poses as a Democratic candidate for Con gress and brazenly claims to be the '.Mordecai in the Kings gate'-closer and nearer to the Reppubiican Presi. | dent than the Presidents chosen party l friends, will need little ex ra time ! to epxlain to his Democratic friends | (who are going to vote for mel now It | is that he can blow hot and cold out | of the same mouth"
 In my own feeble way. I intend 10 dwell on the fact (gathered from lead in Democrats) that a poor man cam not run as a candidate in Demo. cratic Primary" The Colonel may wan, l to explain how that is, I shall accord him a little extra time for that
 l If I don't forget it mean to tell .ne people, at every speaking place. tna' district, at somebody's sugsest.on' s, district at somebody's suggestion, ii | ad one thousand dollars as an entrahIe foe to the nominating Primary. r Colonel Wiley is positive that run sae I Hall, of Montgemry, had Una. the fixed to keep Col. Wiley out o, the race if will be a pleasuIe 10 heai pner eycoriate the aforesaid Ha .hn eor this tnexcusable attack upon con r,ebt of a poor man 10 seeA 1oroo- arass,onal nomination from the so,ight eratic Party. It will be sucn a Ti, ha to listen to that excoriat,'n n,ore time.
 .na .o to give the Colonel more 'i nj,n- poun" traid that may have to an of
 somewhat against the .ha r,ochine in party politics. a S,a1 el1 knows of any one "ho ns ,o @s,anhine" and had sense ehous ton rsa if" I feel like yield,ns thn n, nnre minutes of my time to teil o rnav re- patriot. It oaTine occasions, to in 1 those who do not know ~ ., loi u, Wiley is in favor or the cheap Noio ,aI,or in the world-to pc in'.o s'oad to compete with the W." VIII tSe r,an of our country. As tnls an I cheering news to the iapoins so l,t- thihn lime to acknowledge ms .o @ ,-s to those who are to De piess
 ..h .ata 1oyer wages for their apPreeta- t;on of his good intentions nn5
 AZ speech. November Sth; @ isvo yvith
 The Colonel is so out oL i. ,ohor" Ii Governor Conner on the t, ,;n,,tes hus,ness he should have a 1ew mn .a,,
 utra to show how wrong ana uhoehi- II ocratic Governor Conner IS: ,,
 As,er telling of my chivalrous ln-
 .ions towards Colonel Wiley, l now want to say that 1t comes "i'a poo grace from my distinguishea ,.aosI ] ssthe "Mordecai" of the Repupilcahs' tthe to discredit me because, for sooth the friends of the King nave i'ioa,v and voluntarily endorsed my
 is he has, at any time recently since ! nv announcement, sought, peseeu' m nort,ned any Republican Tor ms sup hort. he should not blame me II ! a' se, if without asking. Perhaps ll say Ute with al modesty) these men whom ha nrofesses to despise have discovered in roe (as he admits he nasl HahS II admirable traits of character.
 perhaps (who knowsO one or the most admirable traits in my charaGten is the disposition to warn my ieiio" | citizens against wrong. The paid lawyer may represent one n,ho has been politically defrauded. ln the courts, but 1t Is nauseatins' uitei | wards to hear him claiming creoi' anu votes fer legal services It comes vt" noor grace from Democratic cahui- l date. to be lauding himself TOT repre- l senting persons in the courts WHO "eie "defraud.d" by his party. | Ah- if would be more to his credlt a. a citizen and a patriot, If his party l was "defrau1ins" the people ht tne noiIs of their blood bought rights ana political privileges" to have joined the reople against such puphc enemy as ndnoits his party to he, It seems to me (though l am poor Juoee ii, such things) that a party champion could be better employed than In ln- discreetlv stabbing his party with de- | tails of his pe-fidy. while he nauseous- lv tells of ths wrongs of the "misnameo | Populists" in the effort to discredlt one who labored with them stfovc with them. suffered with them. q | heen told by an observant old lady | that there Is but one bird that befouls its own nest.) , l Rural free delivery is a blessing to the people; I love to speak of 1t; and I love to tell the people that all the blessings of the system comes 10 us' in q prime measure. not through brii- lliant patriots who appeared tor wrong ed and "defrauded" Populists in the lcourts, but from that eminent ana lcourageous Populist who stood With the people through evil. as well as good report"-Thomas E. Watson
 And. now comes self laudation with a vengeance in the fair minded peo- nle of Pike, Crenshaw, Butler ana lConecuh counties were quick 10 rccos- lnize and appreciate the unselfish but galIant fight Colonel Wiley made for white supremacy and clean politics.
 If had been writing that commit nication, cit is useless,l would nave Jeff ont the above quotation. I'm afraid I would have had in mind the "clean politics" of last March. when | some one said something about the lConeressional Committee being some hodv's machine with an animation that the owner of the machine would he something like the wayfaring man if he didn't use 1t. From the Demo