The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-21
SPOKE AT WEDOWEE
CANDIDATE CONFER TELLS THE
 STORY OF HIS LIFE.
Seems To Be At Less when Address sing Audiences in Towns Which Are Not On a Rail-
 road

Wedowee, Feb. 20.--(Speciaf.---Cand date Conner spoke here today. Court was in session and & trial in prcgr ess when MT. Conner arrived, but Judge Brewer adjourned the court for three hours to allow the candidate to speak Mir. Corners remarks received close at- tentIon and at the close he was loudly applauded.
 He opened his address by declaring himself in favor of education. and again told the story of his life Amon& other things he said:
 T consumed my share Of the estate going to school, and I have never TO. gretted 1t, and I tell you fathers, all of you, and I tell you young men, that you have got to fix your heads. Today the uppermost question tn Alabama is the farmer. l say further that the farmer pays the freight, and when you 20 deeper down in 1t, the farmer pays the balance of 1t. He is the ground work and the basis of our government, and that government that doesn't look after the farmer and surround him with the utmost care, that government Is wrong because he is the basis of this world, of this great American world of ours. It Is the farmer and don't you think it's not for minute. Last year the farmers of America made six billion, four hundred and fifteen million dollars worth of stuff and the paper went on to state that the farmer was the ruler of the world, and am accused of striking class agaist class and arousing class prejudice when say the farmer rules nothing"
 In speaking of the cotton situation. he said:
 q made a talk there in Lawrence county last fall and that talk was made to the farmers and my text was dime pound or no sale. If you don't sell how can they buy, It takes i've to make a trade. If you don't go under how can they go under. If the farmers will get together, stand together and die together, then you are safe. If you get together and stand together. then the markets of the world are ours. You will be the richest people on Gods green earth if you just do it. If you don't do it, then your brooches will be patched behind forever"
 He referred to Jacobs ladder, and said the ladder Of life runs ID and you must ascend 1t by climbing the rungs one at time, not two"
 He advocated the diversifleatIon of crops and said:
 Take a diversified crop and the land gets better. and in five years you can raise more cotton than if you had planted cotton altogether. Lets see about education, I believe in education"
 He stated that he believed in diver sified education, as the knowledge of single thing was of no beneht and the more the student studied the broad CT the mind, and study created muscles kof the mind.
 If you expect to make anything out of your Iife," he said, you have got to attain excellence by Climbing up. That very minute you begin not to care, that very minute your work is getting harder. you haven't made an easier life. You have made harder life"
 He told the story of Esau and Ja- cob and said not only Esau sold his brightright flo ra mess of pottage. but that spirit is abroad in Alabama today and many a man in Alabama Is sell ing his brightright for q mess of pot tage.
 He made his usual reference to the Hill Billies" citing Abraham as the first hill billy.
 Tt is the boy of the hills that goes down in the city ana strikes hands with conditions there and forms new blood and injects that blood which as been purified for years and years in the hills into the life of the city and takes care of it ana saves it," he de- clared.
 He said back in 1874 we asked you to strike hands and save the white mans party and you did Before get through with this talk will make another request of you. and that is that you strike hands with us in this year 1906. to make, this state of ours a free mans state"
 Referring to the legislature. he said
 You are farmers ana are fair men and farmers are always fair men. You give me a law made by that class. no