The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-26
COMER AT ANNISTON
CANDIDATE SPEAKS TO A LARGE
 AUDIENCE.
Usual Talk Was Made But Crowd seemed to be With Speaker and eceived Him With En-
 thusiagm.

Anniston, March, 2b,-lSpeclal.)- )--A crowded to between 500 and 800 people greeted Candidate Conner here Friday This was perhaps one of the most rep resentative audiences Mir. Conner has yet had. The meeting was an en- thusiastie one and applause was frequent and spontaneous. The candi- date spoke for two hours and halt during which time he seemed to have the people with him and the usual shuffiing Of feet and departures from seats was not apparent.
 Mir. Conner was introduced by Capt A. w. Bell as the next governor of Alabama In his introduction. MT. Bell said I've have with us today man who is the leader of this reform and the only man so far as know, that has dared to stand by and contend for q square deal for the people of Alabama from the railroads.
 In opening, Mir. Conner thanked the chairman for his introduction and said that in 1885 and 1890 he cast his lot here under the firm name of Conner and Trapp. When I was here in 1885 and 9O," he said, T was prominently tdeptt- fled with the Methodist Church and had a Sunday School class. In that class was my friend Joe Willett. but you might not think that he was. Tom Kilby was in that class. but you might not Lnlnk nB Wdb- lAis AN6A4bJ WG9 AAA that class, and you might say judging from them, that I did not discharge my duty" .5-
 MT. Conner paid 8 Nributes to the farmer of Alabama saying, You take out the farming business and you have got no business left Some of you say "how about the cotton mills and the Even these depend upon the farmer, IL Is your product and
 - ...-...-..Asnv, tLot v,,oIroa all fhraa things necessary. So take 1t that any policy anywhere that is not based on the welfare of the farmer in this country is on false basis" The of 1t all. he declared, rested 1n the farmer.
 He made his usual argument for education, immigration and the care of he old soldier.
 Referring to the old soldier, he said, Go out here and see the shafts erected o the memory of the gallant Pelham; lot the dead Pelham but the living. ind look at those great words that seneral Lee said to the world Let the natchless Pelham live and not die" hey fought, he said, for states rights | nd the people today are fighting for eople's rights. Not with nlusket and | all, not with bayonet but with the allot."
 As to immigration he said: T don't rant to be misunderstood on the inn ligration matter. It is one of most importance today. We need more la or, It seems. than we have got. Ev- ry man who works labor has the lea that he must get labor as eheapiy 5 he can. No State can prosper with leap labor. Labor is the many, the ca of the farmer to have cheap labor nd high priced product, but the thing
 impossible. You don't have cheap bor and high-priced product. High -iced product necessarily goes with gh- h-priced labor and you give me 'untry anywhere, don't care where, ith cheap labor and they are building ,wn Instead of up. I have said In all y talks that we ought to make the 'nditions such that the people will lit going out of the State"
 Mr. Conner referred to the days when 3 was a merchant in Anniston and id that there was where the rail. ad rate agitation in Alabama first arted. Some people. he stated, said lat back in 1880 the fight was first arted, and so it was, in the Legis- ture," he said. "but in 1885 In the fight was the first light know anything of for a commission eight rate. We found in 1885 tn your sry own town that you had a freight Ite very much increased as soon as
 crossed the Georgia line and upon
 rther examination we found that 1t me from law; that Alabama had an ivtsory law and an advisory commits on and Georgia had a mandatory law i'd a mandatory commission"
 The speaker made his usual freight
 te comparisons and paid his respects
 the railroad attorney My brother
 a railroad attorney" he said. They re nice mon and smart men and as pod men as you have got. The rail- ,ads wouldn't hire them if they were 1t But if they do hire them, they ecome agents of the railroad. and hen you elect that kind of a man as Iur Representative. as your legislator as your Senator. you put 1t into the lnds of the railroads to make your W and you see how incongruous that ould be-" Speaking of his brother, , said. T would not vote for hIm
 be a legislator. That would be brother though he be. we told him time and AFs;n that if 'u onfer for the LeSls'+:ure, I will ,te against you"
 His argument on the freight rate le5tion was as usual, showing the me comparisons between the rates in sorgia and Alabama, which he said Id never been attacked. H