The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
FROM MONTGOMERY CUNNINGHAM SENDS
 FINAL MESSAGE TO VOTERS OF ALABAMA

fcontinued from Page one.l hold his once, and to maintain the au- thorfty of the office, rather than to at- tempt to weaken the authority which he is sworn to exert"
 Incensisteney of Conner.
 The speaker attacked the character of Candidate Conner. The people had the keynote to it. he said. in utterances started out as a reformer. In South Alabama he had expressed himself as wanting to see twenty cent cotton. In North Alabama. as a mill owner. he wanted five cent cotton.
 There is the keynote" he said. im- pressively, self interest, first. last and always"
 Referring to railroad rates, MT. Pet- tus declared the Railroad Commission is the only body to effect rate legisla- ton. The Governor cannot do 1t. He cannot make laws. The people of Ala bama, he said. would have come to a pretty pass when all the knowledge of the State should be locked up in the breast of B. B. Conner. | I've do not need Czar in Alabama" declared Mir. Pettus.
 He prophesied that if Mir. Conner were made Governor 1t would not be four years before he would be a candidate for United States Senator. Mir. Conner had declared, he said, that eighty five per cent of rate legislation fell under the control of Congress. while only nf- teen per cent came under the jurisdic- ton of the State Commission. Now, he wanted to be Governor as a step toward rciug to Congress, where. he, he alone. might take the 'corporate interests by the throat and put an end to aeir existence
 What Is MT. Corners position on child labor?" he asked. You know the bill now in force, which we reacn- ed by agreement in which MT Conner ha5 4 strong influence. is so emascu- lated that it means nothing.
 ~The State of Alabama he said, had favored cotton mills enough m urohibiting taxation. Now the State needs a law forbidding the employment of the little white children In the cot ton mills.
 so far as railroad rate legislation was concerned, the only objection the sneaker had ever heard raised to Cunningham was that he went toe far in his demands on the railroads Conner had started out on the Georgia rate, then he wanted another tate
 And now" said the speaker, Iii takes a man versed in mental gym nAstics to know where Conner f1es stand" This remark was greeted with a burst of laughter and applause which lasted several minutes, pre- venting the continuance of ais speech
 Referring to Dr. Cunningham. M- Pettus said that he was man whose record in public matters has been clear since 1881 when he first entered the noIiticaI field. He had been fighting for the State when Conner was work ing negroes in his fields, white children fs-x orx,f frtf n Ad he was getting discriminative rates. he said.
 NO one can question the sincerity oS nr. Cunningham. Not a charge can he brought against his record. Ths truth is that he was making record for rate legislation before Conner was ever political factor. He Las gone out as the peerless knight Of the De. mocracy of the State. He has fought for Democracy. He has had no slush fund, he has not flooded the State with his literature, he is the candidate of the people, and he is marching on to victory on next Monday"
 Cheered for Cunningham.
 when the young Limestone attorney sat down. the crowd broke into cheers which prevented S. H. Dent, Jr..s th' chaIrnnan of the meeting, from his in troduction of Dr. Cunningham for period of several minutes. The wild est enthusiasm was apparent Tn .nt crowd, and the cheers were repeated agaln and again for the Ensley candi' date
 Montgomery County, said solicitor Dent. had demonstrated the turning o inc tide which was setting Cunning hanward The people of thea State ev' erywhere were responding to the hlgi ideal which Dr. Cunningham had sai' at the beginning of the campaign ouBh to be maintained. The people Of tn State were demonstrating that they ol' not want a man of one idea cover nor Cunningham represented ever ideaI which appealed to men of whit skins and straight hair. He presente the present Lieutenant Governor as tn next Governor of Alabama
 when the Doctor candidate arose t respond to the cheers which greete the mention of his name. he showed n trace of the fatigue which the cam paiwn had brought to him. In atti tuae, energy and the tone of his voice he was as fresh as when he first too inc stump months ago. He began b saving that the occasion was signth cant to him in more than one way was the 51st anniversary of his birth day. He had been born Tn the countr of Lawrence fifty-one years before. Au gust had always been memordoi
 
 August, he had received hls certincat Id practice medicine In the State O Alabama in August, he had been mar ried in August, had been elected to th State Senate in the same month, ha been nominated for Cover nor in August, and on the 27th or Au gust he would be nominated to th CSovernorship of the State by the peo pie.
 Record Not Challenged.
 On the 23rd of last September, n said, he had announced his candldac for the Governorship of the State. that time there had been no other can diadte in the field. He believed at tn time his record would nominate hir without opposition. and that no oppo sition could develop unless 1t would D in challenge of his record. On tn contrary while opposition had arise his record had never been challenged
 He told of the increase in the rank oe his candidacy since the begipnin of the campaign.
 q have been in sixty-three of tn sfxty-seven counties of the State,' h said. when I commenced my candi dacy, it was a frost. I thought ther was no chance. But have seen m sdherents grow and as there have bee additions to my ranks, there have bee dccimations in the ranks of Conner have watched my following increas' until I believe that on day after tomor row it will be strong enough to regis ter a triumph for pure politics In tn State.
 Difference in Candidates.
 "In an honorable way I have tried show the difference between me an my opponent The fight against m