The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-09

tion in the ecunty's upper end. but there are no cares for the Cunninea nsa
 ham men to waste on the upper
 of Bibb. .. l.,
 pr. Cunningham when he arrived m Blocton this afternoon was met q. 'n
 depot by Dan McSpadden, Dr. V, ns Randall and J. B. Krenstmah. nn
 whom are enthusiastic Democrats Mr
 enthusiastic scunningham men. MI.
 Mcspadden is chairman of the Couns
 Executive Comm.ttee of Blob county He is A miner and has been hohoreo
 by his fellow miners with thelr con, ,, fidence and their esteem. pr. HanuA Hs Is not a physician but one of the ies spa
 ing dentists of this section or tne country. MT. Krenstman Is young
 merchant but well and popuIaIIs known in and around biccton' Tns committee escorted Dr. Cunning ham to tho Parker Hotel ana la.sl in the afternoon he was carried throusn t., West Blocton and introduced to these voters whom he did not already know.
 His reception was most enccurasl lns. When comment was made upon the. mo reception that was accorded pr Cuhs ningham Chairman McSfadden saio' Among the Miners.
 We expect to carry the county TOT him. Now if the mineral portion ol
 Bibb county Is any index to the whoie we will carry 1t by big mnJofity. But I am not so familiar with ths lower end of Bibp as l am with the upper end. But where I do know the sentiment I tell you 1t Is for Cunning ham.
 ~Riocton, Smith Hill and all the com munities about here are strong Ter Cunningham. I will undertake to say that the Lieutenant Governor VIII car, ry by a large majority every miners. beat in the county. You ask why IS tnis 1 I will tell you. The biggest vote in
 these beats will come from the min, CTS Now the miners of the mineral district are familiar with both the re- cord of Dr. Cunningham and MT. Co-
 mer. Both of them live right over there in Jefferson and we know tnelr attitude towards the working man. We know that MT. Conner has never car- | ried his own county for any once ne | ever offered for. We know that pr. | Cunningham has never failed to carry his home county for any oftce TOT which he has been a candidate This | for one thing shows the esteem Tn I which Dr. Cunningham and Mir, Conner
 are held by those who know them | best. 1 "The miners about here know that
 MT. Conner has fought the worklns l man and all the interests of the werk- ! ing man throughout his business life. | The miners know that Dr. Cunning
 ham has never opposed their interests | and they know that Ee is an able | broad and statesmanlike leader. You Il can take my word for 1t that these beats about here are going for pr | Cunningham"
 I pr. Randall when questioned about | t c activity of Dr. Cunningham s I friends, said:
 Il "Yes, they have been quite active I here and in the surrounding beats \ Partly as a result of this activity and loc of the RAnAFal change or the general revulsion of political sen timent these beats are decidedly for Cunningham This was not so month ago. The Conner men then were mak-
 ing their proudest boasts and the Gun T ningham men were not saying much
 then. But Mr. Conner is suffering the fate of all extremists. His following is leaving him. An extremist can stir up strife and discord for awhile and
 for awhile he can win a large follow
 ing, but as people begin to thing seri-
 ously that following drops away rom ] him.
 "In our section there has been re- markable change in sentiment. We are l familiar with the conditions In all : these mineral beats and we are abso- lutely confident that we are going to take them all by nice majorities. And
 these maJorities grow with every day
 lover on the Smith Hill settlement
 there are about seventy voters. Of these
 seventy voters more than nifty or them
 are for Cunningham and before me primary we expect more Of them to be with us. In eBat 10 there are apoul lis voters and at least 127 of them are with us now and before the prima-
 " more of them will be with us. we
 have reliable information from Piper
 Hargrove and Belle Ellen, and we are
 confident of a Cunningham majority
 in these beats. In short, there Is nc
 doubt but that Cunningham is going to carry every mineral beat in the
 county I. B. Krentsmar, talking of the sit' nation in and around Bibb, said: You wouldn't believe the amount change that has been going on In tnis section of Bibb if I told you about Ii. Why two months ago Conner might have carried this part of the county but not now. His followers are leav- ing him every day. Why, this very afternoon a prominent city official o' West Blocton called to me from across inc street, and said: Well, I am with vou from now on. I am going to vote For Cunning ngham.' This man has been one of the most ardent Conner men In Blocton. We really had no hopes oi getting him for Cunningham, but he had been thinking of the situation and 4 had decided to do the right thing. Some Changes.
 'Srhe most talkative man on the po- Iiticai situation that comes to Blocton is a travelling man who sells goods here every thirty days. Up until his l last trip here he was the hottest Co- I mer man I ever saw. But he was here few days ago and he was talking -u...su--u..-ua-u--------~