The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-23
.CUNNINGHAM'S SUPPORTERS
 SAY SUMTER IS FOR HIM

ham men are only saying that they are going to carry Sumter County. They are not claiming that they will take the county with Top sided majority, but they do say that the county Is go- ing Cunninghan's way and by a ma jority sufficient to satisfy the most exacting.
 Tn the past two months Dr. Cunning ham has made great strides In Sumter During the time that he was at his home in Ensely. quietly attending to his practice and preparing for the present arfuous summer campaign. the Conner men exultantly circulated the report that he had retired from the race. Naturally the present situation, wherein the Cunningham men are growing confident and aggressive. IS not at all to their liking.
 Tn the campaign two years ago sum ter County presented a strong anomly. The town beats went for Conner ana the county heats went for smith. Tn many other instances the results were the other way. It has been believed that MT. Conner was stronger In the county heats than in the towns. nut there in Sumter the county beats did net line up behind the Jefferson Coun. ty candidate In the race for Railroad Commission.
 Towns Not For Conner.
 Tn this race. whatever the county beats are, the town beats are not TOT Mir. Conner. There is good big vote at Cuba, the center of the vegetable growing district There Is only one opinion about this vote. It Is for pr. Cunningham. The Cunningham men are claiming 1t by vote of to l.
 Mir Conner is stronger at York than he Is at Cuba, but the Cunningham supporters are not uneasy about the re suite Thoy are confident Of carrying the beat, but with no overwhelming majority.
 An interesting phase of the situa- ton is that the big vegetable raisers and shippers about these two places are Cunningham supporters. At Cuba, Mcssowan, the man who has made such success at vegetable raising Is staunch supporter of pr. Cunningham, and no less so than Frank Holman of York, the largest strawberry and vegetable grower of the section. For that mat ter none of the vegetable growers about York and Cuba are taking any stock this year in the Conner campaign.
 Tn Livingston beat some of the most Intelligent Lnd influential men are earn estly at work in the interest of Dr. Cunningham, and with confidence.
 In the fight for President of the Rail- road Commissioner Conner took the county over Smith by small majority. But tben no larger majority Is looked for one way or the other in Sumter, in- asmuch as the registered vote is less than 1000.
 Chairman Tom Seals of the County Democratic Executive Committee met Dr. Cunningham today on his arrival at Livingston and throughout the day had charge of him. The two visited practically all of the stores and shops of the little city and met the voters of the city on the sidewalks or at their work.
 Mir Seals was confident of the Gun ninghan strength.
 County will Re Close.
 'It will ba close in the county" said Mr. Seals, but Cunningham will carry it. The county of course is split ur over this race for Governor and the majority is not going to be large. Dr. Cunningham. has been gaining rapidly in the last two months. There Is nc doubt that voters have been coming steadily to him. It is a significant fact that every lawyer in Sumter County with one exception is for Cunningham and that all county officials except two have declared for him. And of these two only one has announced for MT Conner. It Is significant, too, that ths two nominees for the Legislature from Sumter County will vote for Dr. Cum ningham.
 Men experienced in politics have in various portions of the State, beer puzzled to explain the rapid growth O the Cunningham sentiment, They hav not been able to understand the de fections from Mir. Corners standard That there has ben such a change such a remarkable change, is not de nied. The most commonly accepted reason for it is that the people hav been disappointed in MT. Corners cours os President of the Railroad Commis sion, in his ambition to leave that offic to step into a higher one. They hay heen disappointed to find that wha they thought was a crusade to rigb wrongs, was only common hunt fo office. uncommon only in the way fl which the ambition was disguised.
 Aroused to this fact many of tn staunchest supporters of MT. Come when he was a candidate before are hi frank political opponents now. The are telling him that they put him i the offlce of the Railroad Commissio | to right wrongs and that he ought t stay there until he has done his worl Some of them are telling him this quit emphaticaIly in letters. Others tel him so when he approaches them fo | their support.
 l 1dpIdln w. A. V. Jones was one W1 supported MT. Conner three years agC | but who is opposed to the candidac which proposes to take him out oe tn ! Commissioner office and put him fl the Governors office Captain Jone | for many years was Circuit Clerk O | Sumter county. He is now an exten | sive planter and at the age ot 77 con | tinues to take an active interest i | political affairs.
 Captain Jones Talks.
 "On his recent kip through Sumte county" said Capfhin Jones. Mir ca i mer came to see me. told him tha 1 I voSd for him in his last race, bu | that l was not for him now tol
 him. we put you in the office of Rail
 road Commissioner and you ought {
 stay there. That's the place for you
 I do not know whether he liked tha
 frank talk, but that is the way I fel He was put in there to cary out a puI
 pose. to do something, and that I thin
 he should do."
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