The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-09

The following address to the Demo- crats of Alabama has been issued by the Cunningham Club of Ensley;
 Ensley. Ala. July 6, 1908. To the Democratic Voters Of Alabama;
 The Cunningham Club at Ensley. or- ganized for the purpose of promoting the candidacy of pr. R. M. Cunning ham, Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, for the Democratic nomination to the once of Governor, take this means of respectfully commenting him to your favorable consideration. He has no campaign committee, nor campaign fund, and we, his fellow citizens and neighbors, are anxious. to the best Of our ability. to assist him in procuring the nomination.
 Hope, Lawrence county, Alabama, in August, 1855. He was reared on lit- tie farm in the vicinity of Mount Hope. He received common school educa- tion. studied medicine. and has been engaged in its practice since 1875. He has had all the honors of his prafes- sion. having been president of the Jeff ferson County Medical Society, the Ala ibama Medical Association. and of the Tri-State Medical Association of Ala 3bama. Georgia and Tennessee. and ora ter of the Medical Association of Ala lbama. and is now professor of Princi- pies and Practice of Medicine in the Birmingham Medical College. In 1880 land 1881. he represented Franklin lccunty in the Legislature. From physician of the State penitentiary at Wetumpka In 1886 and 1887 and 1898 and 1899, he was senator from the county of Jefferson, and was president Of the Senate, session 1898 and 1899. In 1901, was a member of the Consti- tptional Convention from the senatorial district of the county of Jefferson, In 1902. was elected Lieutenant Gov ernor, and presided over the Senate ae ex-ofhcio president of that body. session of 1903. From the latter part of April, 1904. until the 18th of March. 1905, he administered the office of Gov ernor during the absence of the Gov ernor from the State.
 In presenting his candidacy to you, we present you a candidate with re- cord. From this record, we call atten- tion to the following:
 White Supremacy.
 He has always stood for white su- premacy, and recognizing the nacessi- ty for fair and honest election. con- sistently supported the policy of a Con- stttuticnal Convention for the purpose fof eliminating the negro vote. and the establishment of Q white electorate lp the State.
 l Education.
 1 He has advocated and supported all measures providing better education
 
 proving the system in appropriations therefor, and in the constitutional Con- Eveltion he advocated the provision al- flowing the several counties to levy a ten cent tax on the $100, for tho icommon schools of the county, and that made the unit. He has also given much of his time In eanvassing the State in the interest of education, and of the importance to the people of the counties of levying this tax for the benefit of their common schools
 e Moral Questions.
 He has consistently supported legis- 7ation in the interest of morality. for the regulation of the liquor traffic up. cn the principle of local option, for the maintepanos of the sanetity of the Sab- bath, and for the prohibition of gamb- Hing and pool ssiling.
 He has supported legislation provid- Dng for the regulation of child labor in lmanufactories, for the protection of miners, providing for the better iD- Epection of mines. and for the reguia- hion of the payment of wages in cer- hain counties of the mineral district of ths State. and to make wages prefer red claims against corporations. Convict System.
 In this he was an early and success ful refo-mer. Under his administra- tion as physician of the penitentiaFy, in cooperation with other officials of the State. there was great reform in the convict system of the State, in the Improvement of the sanitation of pris- ons, in the regulation of work and in the treatment of the stick. He has consistently opposed the lease system | end the County convict system, and has advocated exclusive State control of the conviets of the State. In 1S96 he Introduced a bill in the Senate which bill passed that body, providing for the abolition of the lease system and of the | County convict system, and estaolisn- ing A system wholly under the control of the State. This bill provided that the State should limit the number ot convicts to be assigned to mines, and