The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-21
C0NER AT PULLMAN
LARGE AUDIENCE LISTENS TO CAN
 DFDATE FOR GOVERNOR.
Nnyw if Railroads Have Right to Charge Demurrage, People Have flight to Collect for Fail-
 ure to Furnish Cars.


 Cullnlan, March 20.--(Special. )-- Candidate Conner spoke yesterday to large audience, tho Court House bcing crowded and d number of persons hav- ing to stand. His address was well re- ceived and applause was frequent. The candidate was introduced by J. B. Brown, who, in the course of his re marks, said: When he came to Gull man two years ago, the politicians were afraid of him; and, by the way, was the only ono they could get to intro duce him. They were not afraid be- cause of bis personality, but because of tho principles he represented. Things have changed since then. Everybody IS for Comer-that is. most everybody except The Advertiser,' and she is go- ing to be for him after the 27th of August. If they don't, they wilt have to do like they did back there when W. J. Bryan was nominated for Pres idsut--she will have to bolt and go somewhere elss-
 Mir. Brown said there were two class es of Democracy, --the Hamiltonian and the Jeff CTS aniam. The first, he said, was the power so control a majority of the people by a few, and the other rspresents the. peopIe themselves. He referred to the action of the Demo- cratic Executive Committee and said: s'They have gone down and said that ll felHgence enough 70 select the officers who deela-e the laws of the people.
 Tn order to carry out their scheme, a& I scs 1t, they call a primary Tor Governor and a convention for the Su- preme. Court Judges. and say you have sense enough to elect your Governor. but not sense enough to elect your judges"
 Mir. Conner, in opening his address, advocated education of the youth of the State as far as the economy of the state will admit. Alabama. he said stands very low in the list of States They tell me IL stands three from the lowest" He made an earn est argument in favor of schools. say iug that the schools should not he con nncd 10 the cities, towns and villages. but should go as far tack in the woods as children grow.
 He also favored the cid soldier, It is right, he said. to put flowers on the graves of the dead. but we should also care for the living They fought for State's rights. They fought for Js rk sonian- ] Jeffersonicu Detaocracy,---that power which says to every man. no matter. who, you can't tax us without our consent and without our law, and that's what we are fighting for today"
 immigration and local option ne also favored. making his customary argu' m ant on those subjects.
 He referred to the fight of 1874 with the negro ballot and said. While we have been fighting that, there has been a burrow going under us like mole in corn hill That is the railroad power. It has been going under the vital principles of Democracy. You have within your State today a power striking at the very root of your gov ernment, the every vitality of the State. for the purpose of controlling 1t and taxing you as it secs proper, and thset power is the railroad power. which has combined into a trust. and capital and trust are the most dangerous things that every tackled a government
 Mir Conner made his usual argument against the railroad lawyer in politics and again referred to his associates on the commission. He referred to his platform as being Lower freight rates equitable car service rules and prompt he said that he frequently receives re- quests for aid in settlement of claimt ranging from three months to two years old. One time" he said, T took mp claim from Fcrt Deposit that { gentleman sent me that had been run ing for eighteen months. I forwarded it to the trafhc manager and said fl the claim is just give the man hii money; 1t isn't right. He said they made the check out a long time ago but had forgotten the mans address The people can sue, but 1t takes months to obtain a verdict and even then, il smaIl claims, when the claimant has paid his attorney. there is nothing left He advocated that claims be settled ir reasonable time. say thirty or sixty days "Te railroads be stated. have facetiously said that there is no finei stock on earth than a cross between a piny woods COW and a railroad loco motive"
 As to car service, the candidate de. clared that if the railroads have tho right to charge demurrage for failure to remove goods within a specific time, which he said was right. the peo. pie should have the same right tC charge the railroads for failure to fur nish cars. The mind of man." he de clsred. cant conceive a law too strong to surround the people from the en- croachment of the trusts" He referred to his effort to have the legislature pass the Texas law, "and what did tho last legislature of Alabama do? They said drastic. It's all right for Texa, but 1t Is too drastic for Alabama. w ought to get on our knees and pra! God every night that we will nevc have another man in this State of our that will use the word drastic when i comes to making a law to protect tn people"
 He made his usual rate comparison, using his dissenting opinion in the in vestigation before the commission, say ing, The railroads have copy of tni and The Advertiser has copy of thi: and no one has ever denied this state Tnent." The Advertiser, he says, is oi the other side of the issue.
 What a man will charge when h has the power of making his price, h said, cannot be known. You cal measure everything, but what man cal go into a mans head and measure wha he will have for his share if left ti