The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09

Clanton, Jan S.-(Special. )--Candi- date for Governor B. B. Conner spoke here on Saturday. Wien MT. Conner arrived at the Court House, farmers meeting was in progress, after the ad- journment of which MT. Conner deliv- eeed his speech. The attendance was small, numbering probably about a hun dred A Street Fair was in proggess and the majority of the people seemed to care more for the lurIng voices or the fakirs than the eloquence or MT Conner. After the speaking MT. Conner spent the afternoon shaking hands with the people. going to Montgomery on the 5:30 train in the afternoon.
 Speech of B. B. Conner, Delivered at
 CIanten, Ala, Jan. Q, 1906.
 Ladies and Gentlemen:
 have been very much interested in the meeting that preceded this, your
 say to you before commencing that, notwithstanding I am q stranger Tn your county-this is the first time ! through many times on the road. but this is the first time I have ever met you face to face, and it affords me great pleasure to do so-II feel that l am and you know what 1t was. you stood by me and stood by me as men; stood py me when I needed it and l thank you, I thank you indeed. It was a great kindness you did me in those days and it required manhood to do it. Chiffon County gave me majority at that time and I thank you before com mencing this meeting that you did SO
 have in my hand and feel that it will be appropriate to read it now, copy of The Age Herald of No November h lines, The Farmer Is after all the Ruler of the World It stated the wealth produced by the farmer in 1905 and says the farmer is the ruler of the world: Now, there are two statements. One IS correct and one is incorrect The far- mer did produce this immense wealth that's a hard. harsh statement, but how much is the farmer in politics of the country today. How much is the farm CTS voice heard and how much weight does it carry when he lifts 1t in the in- terest of the politics of the country to- day, either in Alabama or the politics s575,ooO.oOO of cotton, That is one and a half times as much gold as is pro duced in the world. I say to you that in Alabama you bring into the United duced in the United States. In Ala bama take -our own cotton produced Tn the past year. 1t was worth about ss5, 1000. 900. They used to tell you that you sold on a silver basis. You sold your cotton to them on silver basis, and you took it back from them on the on gold basis and you bring into the United States more gold than Is brought here by your mines. l say more, It IS nearly as much You were just talk ing about your resolution, how to keep up the price. Of course the way to do it is to get together. I am farmer and was very much interested in what your President said just now. We are making for sale some 1,50O gallons or syrup and, gentlemen, we have got our plantation divided up into many miles Of fence. Unless you did that, you would be making notes and mortgages. And by the way, while we are on notes and mortgages, you know that they say that Alabama is a very prosperous State. They base that on the fact that you have at last been able to pay your old waiver notes and mortgages, You don't know what prosperity is It has never been given to the cotton farmers of Alabama to taste prosperity,
 I sometimes allude to the farmers oI Alabama as "hill billies." For fear will lose caste, will say that am ''hill billie" Do you know what a "hili billy" is? It is what Abraham. the father of the faithful, was. He was A hill billy" Don't you recollect that when he and Lot were standing on the Mount a discussion came up as to how they would get along together. and Abraham said Lot. take your choice,' and Lot selected Sodom and Gomorrah and said II will go there" and 1t wasn't but a short time before the hill billy had to go and take Lot back to