The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-11
COMER CHAINS STATE DEMOCRATIC
 COMMITTEE TO HIS POLITICAL CHARIOT

LC IULlllNAL NIlAMOl Sixth District--John Mckinley. James Mitchell
 Seventh District-w. P. Jordan. H. A. Whorley.
 Eighth D.strict-o. Kyle. Earle i Smith.
 Ninth District--J. P. rillman. P. M. Huey
 MIR. CoMER CALLED OUT. | While the Convention was awaiting the reports from the committee meet ings, Congressman J. T. Hefiin moved that the Convention hear from the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, B. B. Conner. Again pandemonium reign ed for a few minutes. and then anoth : CT motion was passed to appoint a com mittee of nine to conduct him to the stand.
 In accordance with this. the fol- lowing were named to act as Mir. Co., mer's escort: A. l.. Lyons, c. w. Pratt. M. S. Smith. R. E. Steiner. H B. Foster, N. F. Renfro, J. H. Wallace, F.. s. White and J. H. Waller. Mir. Conner came down the aisle of the Auditorium. arm and arm with Con- gressman Hefiin, with the remainder of | the committee following. He was cheer eu aS he passeu pShoie eho SohsSn ton.
 | Chairman Barnes introduced him as that fighting Democrat, your nominee | for Governor. Hon. B. B. Conner"
 T want to assure you. gentlemen of I the convention said Mir. Conner, that I appreciate this endorsement more deeply than I can tell. The endorse pent that you have given me feel deeply. I don't take it as personal It ! rf Traa pVp . an endorsement of the issues stand for. You have not labored for me. but yuo have labored with me and along side of me.
 'I want to tell yod. gentlemen. that we have no grievances. we have no lhatreds. We have fought fight with in the party and fight with fellow Democrats. The figh. we have fought has been a fight for a great principle. for the same thing. Search my speech es, search the speech I made at Tus- csloosa and Blue Springs and compare what you find there with the prfnci- ples and platform of my opponent. It doesnt matter who you voted for. you voted for those principles we stand for"
 MT. Conner took up the expression that had been made In which 1t was Ideclared that the Executive Committee should only be changed over the po- Ilitical dead bodies of the Cunningham men. He saw no reason for any such fight inasmuch as both sides had stood Tor the same principle.
 "YoI will adopt a Democratic plat form" said MT. Conner. and T have no doubt that 1t will embody the princi- rles sor which we labor. No Democrat ic platform will upheld the principle of a trust. A trust Is a combination to uphold prices and extort the money of the people. l ask you not to givs me as my party assistants, the agents of the trusts.
 q have been conservative in this fight. have only Insisted that the people should be protected. That is the greatest principle for which we stand. Let US strike hands to carry out that great principle. I have been called a dictator. but tell you am only insisting on carrying out what the people have voted for.
 My majority In this fight was 21,- 400. I call that first rate. It was al- most as good as a Jim Dandy matori- ty. But the majority of the people was 94,000. Then shouldn't the people get the benefit of their majority. Some of you say that the Legislature ought co be a Conner Legislature. No, 1t ought to be a Legislature of the peo- pie. -
 'T have been criticized for my stand on the Executive Committee. l Insist that the Executive Committee should be in sympathy with the people. In this work don't want to be coupled with that man who has gone about corrupting Legislatures and conven- tions and using influences for the cor poration he represents. object to | putting the legislative agents of the trusts on the committee, that is to make your party law. By the eternal if you are going to link me with such men as that you have made a mistake. You | should have left me at home. l T don't mean that a man is neces- sorily immoral. or corrupt because he represents a corporation, but he cannot serve the trusts and the people at the same time"
 MT. Conner went into other subjects, l endorsing a more liberal pension law | for Confederate soldiers, and announe- Ing in favor of immigration, but saying that he was opposed to the introduf- ton of cheap and coolie labor in Ala bama He spoke, too, for child la- bor law for the protection of human life in Alabama, and said that he had Irever opposed such legislation.
 And I want corporations in Ala bama," said MT. Conner. but edon't want corporations if they have to be | built on cross ties and the people g | rights When corporation uses money to corrupt the lawmakers the people should remember that the mon ev that is being used is money taken from the people They say that Ala bama has sufficient laws for the con- troI of the railroads. but why is 1t that the rates are so much higher and the tax values on railroad property so much lower in Alabama"
 MT. Conner declared that the Legis- lature should be made to make the present rates of Alabama the maximum rates. and that would prevent the is- | suanca of injunctfons which might stop the progress of rate reform. He Insisted that the Legislature should also pass a law fixing the Georgia ra e on 100 items.
 He closed by saying, "The ad.alnis- tration starts out with the sympathy of the people. It should have the sym pathy of the Legislature and the sympathy of those who make the party laws"
 BRANDON MAKES SPEECH. | General w. w. Brandon, the nominee for State Auditor. was then called up- on. In part General Brandon said:
 MT. Chairman and gentlemen of the Democratic Convention of Alabama: l desire to say l speak from a heart that knows not the alphabet of forgetful- ness when I thank you for your en- dorsement of ne
 'It has been said I had no platform. I wish to say that stand upon the platform which the Democrats adopt l I Gel