The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-17
Makes Speeches in Troy
 and Brundidge.
Friends of the Lieatenaat Governor Claim That He VIII Carry the County in the Pri-
 mary August 27.
BY L. F. wooDRUEF.


 Troy, July 1e.-tspecial Correspond. once. )-Just as pr. Cunningham found conditions in Geneva, Houston and Coffee Counties, so he found them m the goodiy county of Pike.
 Saturday he made flying trip tc Mouteomery's neighbor and delivered two effective addresses, which his friends claim. and his friends are many in Pike, clsnched a handsome majority for him August 27
 The doctor candidate spoke at Troy Saturday morning Even MT. Corners most staunch friends make no claims of carrying the populous capital oi the county. Whatever claims they make are founded on Mir. Comers sup posed strength in the country beats;
 MT. Comer's friends always clalm the country. You fellers may have us in town. but just watch the country beats,' is a favorite slogan of the satellites of him with the money bags. A careful investigation generally proves, however that these assertions have the same foundation as the people Fas to their strength over the State, and that foundation is built or a eonvenient imagination and good ly amount of that not to be despised commodity which our slang creators have chosen to call hot air
 The claim makers of the Conner col- umn must have been reading the conn ic papers. who for the purpose of making one laugh. chooses to picture the rural resident as man suscepti- ble to the various forms of gulf and fraud practiced by the supposedly wiser sons of the city.
 A copntryman, especially soutneast Alabama countryman, is just as well informed as the average man of the cities.
 And as to politics. the candidates and the issues, why, the reader of the weekly paper knows more in a minute than the people who look first for the Harry Thaw story, will learn during a campaign. So you will find that tho vast majority of the men of the farms have carefully studied the issues ana when they do-well. you'd just as vel count them for Cunningham.
 Pike County is naturally Cunning ham county. Troy is the educationa centre of southeast Alabama. The presence of the State Normal College Of Troy. has caused practically every body in the county to be interested in school teachers and their interests
 to this rule there are few exceptions are strong working body for thu
 Ensley physician. The school teach CTS have good reason to espouse thu i cause of Dr. Cunningham.
 For a quarter of century he hal been leader in the fight for the edu.
 cation of the boys and girls of tht
 State. In fact. there is no man, no | directly connected with an education. al institution, who has fought harder and more effectively for the publi, school system. in all Alabama thar Dr. Cunningham.
 The Ensley candidate got his start | in life in an eld-held school house as |
 young pedagogue. It was for his worl
 in that school that he received the few 1 dollars that enabled him to take
 course of lectures to prepare himset I for the profession of a physician ! Those few lectures and hard study en. abled Doctor Cunningham to pass tho ] examination of the State Medical BoarC and gave to Alabama one of the mos distinguished men of the medical pro fession ever in it's boundaries. Ever when he had attained distinction as . physician Dr. Cunningham didn't forge his school teaching proclivitles and fo'
 years he has been a member of the lee l turing faculty of the Birmingham Med 1 teal College.
 Naturally he is interested in eduea. tion and even more naturally are edu- cators interested in him. He has madS education one of the leading issues oi
 his campaign and he has promised tt recommend that large part of ti.f surplus in the State treasury be devot- | ed to the common schools.
 His opponent on the other hant passes up education in brief para | graph, saying that he favors a greater l fund for the common schools. MT | Conner may be an honest advocate o better things for the schools, N doubt he is. No reasonable man l | against this proposition.
 l But the educators look over the ofn cial record of Alabama's legislation ant they always find that Dr. Cunningham l took more than an ordinary interest Il | educational affairs His record IS writ ten in the archives of Alabama. MT | Conner simply promises. Then nor
 than once Dr. Cunningham has heel called on to use his powers of orator!
 and argument in favor of the one mi
 school tax and his speeches. have eve
 wrought good results for education n II
 this State. Small wonder that in sec
 tions where education is of the mos I