The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-03

but, MT. Nesbitt. many of our people have not seen Mir Conner at close range, and they like Zaccheus of old. are up tree for an explanation of his queer They know that after o ~~aat beating of tom-toms by his faithful in this red paint and attired in anger, went | on the war-path in our county to se- cure my senatorial scalp with which cause l had absolutely refused to fol- low him on the trial or to recognize | him as being any more than an ordi-
 The first Conner pow-wow was he'd at Whistler, thrivins town five miles to the north, where the chief spoke. as did Mayor Walsh nav distinguish gentlemen. all of whom I assure you, MT. Nesbitt, have been overwhelmingly defeated every time they have gene before the people for any office of prom when they had concluded the un- 1 gracious act of makinT lny chances money" as one of Mir Corners local | organs hilariously announced he would do, the crowd called on me.
 In part, in my opening remarks. I My friends, until this hour. have 1 not been fighting MT. Conner, but Mir. have brought him down from Birming- ham to tour Mobile county against me, and here and now say to him and to the Conner club. limited: Lay on Mo- Dun, lay on MeDuff; and damned be he who first cries. hold! enough?' Now, fellow Democrats. when MT. Conner invades Mobile county, whip in roll of dictator. he should enlighten us on some subjects other than rail- road rates. I am sorry that our mill. you workingmen whether or not he will some day cease to pauperize his employees in Jefferson county.
 T regret that he has not informed 1 you that the day Is coming when he will cease to trample under foot the union principles for which you men of Whistler stand; I had hoped that the Avondale cotton mills. would say that the time is near when he would cease to grow. rich and fat upon the we would Il stop top coining money | out teofp'tth of the flesh and blood of little childrenr
 Now. MT. Nesbitt. your friend MT. me at the Whistler meeting when the above reference to his child labor record was greeted bv prolonged cheers. Why did he not then refute my state that was in in erroff Had he ha done @ so would have pulled from my pocket copy of the Labor Advoeate. official published in stone's throw of MT. Corners home and read therefrom the following terrific arraignmenti
 eous is somsr fs has seen % sneR ShHsG to wass ms 1t the enmitv of the laborlng class of this state. Mr: Conner for years was the head and front of the fght to al. but for his opposition to the child la- bor law years ago the young and ln- nooent children would have been pros friends all over Alabama to fight this self seeker, who has grown rich and fat upon the ili-paid toll of the work we have an opportunity to show our strength; so now let's nut forever in 'the Background this most arbitrary with which to fight the masses Con trast $60.000 home that he has upon NAbob' hill for his children with the children in Who has Daid for this place? The labor of babies at 10 cents per day and the sweat Of poor women t Mo5s 5S Psc Pscps Sss a hs ssas nfsts sss s do not go to the polls and light In the oopsn against this incarnation of sell
 I note, MT. Nesbitt. that you fail 10 refer to MT. Reilly's statement that, much has been said in the newspapers of the Avondaie mills People eu- side of the city limits, during the win. ter months were for some years e charge or the United Charities of HiF"
 You say that you taka # for grant ed that would not tIatAStionally puh- fish and give editorial sunpoFt 10 un- true statements calculated to do Mr: Conner an injustice to which I would say that nothing could he further from my desire, and wera E-4" Se so ! would be unworthy of the trust and oopiv dence so generously bestowed upon me by my people. In the fuItheFAnee 2k the cause of Dr. Cunningham. thfcasS my papsc and on the RtUu0n for the next few weeks. need but to use edito- per which so emohaticaliy declared that "Dr. CunninRhAm Is the hrayegt man in Alahama-a1l honor to hims" and here and there an extract from the Journal. 1t appears. can give the oths CT Alabama papers cards and spades in dealing with MT. ConaaR and hts rec" ord on child labor.
 Yours truly,
 Max Hamburger, IT.