The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-04
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 We don't really know whether B. B. Conner is most of 2ochondrfac or monomaniac. The first has some re- lation to health. and seems to be unduly anxious about the health of the dear people of Alabama. They are in a bad way, as he sees it. and he is the only physician that can save them. If that were unfortunately true the people would be in bad way. for this doctor couldn't cure them.
 But the other word fits him and his condition best One definition of mo- nomania is mental Arrangement or insanity confined to one idea or to a limited range of subjects" That hits Conner off as nicely as if the man who wrote it had just been examining into his mental and physical conformation. He is so full of railroad wheels and cranks that little else can find the way through his head. To his disor- dered imagination there is a train loaded with rail. oad attorneys sweep ing around every curve and just ready to run over and crash the lives out of Il the people. Not that he is in any individual danger. He knows too well how to manage freight bills and bills of 1ading to let the wicked railroads do him much harm. His whole busi- ness life has been closely identified with them and he has been prosperous beyond most men in Alabama. It's the dear people who are not sharp enough to dodge and nulfffy rate extortions that he Is so badly worried about.
 Bought by the railroads" is the charge he makes against the press of Alabama. Sometimes h, varies it with hired by me corpo tions." as The Andalusia News tells us of his talk down there. Every newspaper that refuses to :.owl for him is either bought or hired by railroads and oth- CT corporations. Perhaps 1t may not be much of a compliment to say it, but the newspapers of Alabama are as fair and upright and independent in their business and politics as Mir. Conner is. And his wholesale charges of venality. corruption and coward ice against the Alabama press ought
 
 the newspapers of the State. He should undergo some sort of a re- gime that will enable him to see and think of something else than railroads and their alleged v1llainies. He also needs some change of hea. that will in more of the spirit of charity, for those who dare to disa yree with him, than now has a lodgment there.
 And so deeply has this gangrene of suspicion eaten into him that he can not spare his own family. In one of own brother was a candidate for the Legislature, he would not vote for him, because he is a railroad attor- ney. and could not be trusted to do justice to the people as against the railroads-in plain words, he would be hired by the corporations" to be- tray the people.
 That brother stands so we'll in the erAimation of his fellow men as a man and a Christian that the Bap- lists 0. Alabama have made him Pres | ident of their State Convention. Is | 1t probable, is 1t even thinkable, that the great religious denomination to which this gentleman belongs would so honor a man who would show him. self so weak and corrupt as to sell his influence as a man and his duty as a law-maker to the corporations?
 And this is the sort of man who expects or hopes that the people of Alabama will make him Governor; a man so dominated by one idea that he can not see around it; so filled with suspicion that he regards as dishon- est and venal all who do not agree with him, and so overmastered by prejudice that he could not be even expected to do justice to the rail- roads that have done so i-.uch to make Alabama a great State. The man who aspires to the office of Governor of Alabama should be charitable and broad minded enough to see some good in others and should be fair and liberal enough to do justice to all the varied interests of the State Mr