The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-07

price of cotton if they will stand to- gether.
 Tn this labor question if gives you an opportunity of diversifying your crops. It takes more labor to work cottan than any crop on earth, so in- stead of demanding cheap labor, why don't you carry out your resolution and diversity your crops and make of yourselves an independent people? You made 14,000,009 bales of cotton this year, and the report is that you are preparing more cotton lands. All this talk about danger when you get to- gether is nonsense. Because the rule of the people Is safe and the rule of the cliques and trusts Is dangerous.
 T favor, too. local option, that the people should vote on the question of whether you want prohibition or dis pensary or saloon. That is Democracy. When I was running two years ago I had against me the railroads of the State, the politicians in a great measure and in Q large measure the newspapers. My friend Mir. White thought l was crank, an anarchist and one of the most dangerous men that ever walked across the fields of Alabama. MT. White wouldn't print our literature. He wouldn't print It for money. He sent 1t back and said he didn't print such stuff as that.
 fAAUIHGE we never COulG kGL the poll list of Lawrence County. We never reached you in any of that mass of education, and 1t was education, be- cause it showed you exactly where you stood in these great measures on that list of education. I spent $S.0o0 and tried to get it to every one of you '
 Referring to the last camr aign and the railroads he said:
 Don't yo1 know they did things that sny man in this country or in this State chould go before the grand jury and tndtct them for high crimes and nis, lemeanors? They tried to debauch the whole State ani buy the ballot. They sent out money without limit They tell me some $500,00O. Where did they got 1t from you and such as you all over this State. They taxed you to get money, to hire you to come back and vote against yourselves"
 He also referred to the Howell smith campaign in Georgia and the aI- legged fifty thousand dollar loan to Smith by the railroads in the election two years ago. He said: Tt Is said they used something like seventy-five thousand dollars for paid attempts in the press of Alabama teaching YOU that 1t was to your interest to vote for John V. Smith. and vote against me. They took seventy-five thousand dollars of your money to teach you to vote against yourselves. In that cam paign two years ago it is charged that can't show the paper that got twen- ty thousand dollars for their part of that campaign. Would 1t be correct question to ask some of the papers of Alabama to print what they did get? Don't you think 1t would be a correct question for Alabama to know how much of your money the railroads spent In that campaign and you have got a right to know. They published all those things and fought me as man was never fought before. don't think the like was ever seen before fin the State and trust 1t will never be seen again"
 MT. Conner made his same compari- sons of rates and remarks as to con ditions In other States with lower freight rates. He earnestly advocated the election of a peoples legislature and paid his usual respect to the rail- road lawyer and his colleagues in the commission.
 Referring to Dr. Cunningham, he said Cunningham has gone farther than I have. He actually says we must have a lower freight rate than Georgia has. He has out Comered Conner. That crowd that has fought this measure all the time says lets take Cunningham and let Conner stay where he is. His platform Is all right. It couldn't be better. The Montgomery Advertiser said of me before I was elected I would set back prosperity in the State that I would take up the
 ailroads and thrown them in the ditch.
 5ince Cunningham has gone further man have ever gone, they have taken him to their bosom. and say he Is a safe and sound man, can you trust him. Can they do it? If they do they should get on their knees and beg my pardon for all those hard things they said about me. If they do, the papers and politicians who were against us should say Conner was right Consis- tency, thou art a jewel. Cunningham
 is all right, but his crowd Is all wrong,
 That's whats the matteR This is not I Cunninghamish and not Comerism. | It Is Free Manism.
 He urged the people to read his Tuscaloosa speech which he said ex-. plained the situation fully. MT. Co., mer was listened to with attention and was frequently applauded.