The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-13
MIR. CoMrR,s DENUNCIArIoNs.

When MT. Conner made speech at | Union Springs he was very severe in | his arraignment of past Democratic administrations. Some of our friends | there wrote that the report of our cor respondent mildly stated the way in | which Mir. Conner indulged in his con- to declare that the report did him in- l justice. At Luverne his speech was of such a character as to delight the soul of the leading South Alabama Populist, Hon. J. c. Fonville, and he rushed into print to return thaaks to MT. Conner for his excoriations of the Democratic
 Party. Wherever Mir. Conner went the
 Houston down to date were the objects
 of his wrath and scorn.
 In his speech at Tuscaloosa, refer
 ring to his efforts to have d certain
 bill passed, he said:
 We got them before the Legislature, and who was the Speaker of the House in Alabama-in this great matter where we had to fight through the tfese railroads in their conduct to- wards you-who was the Speaker of the House? Colonel Alfred Tunstall railroad attorney. Whom did he put had to go? As I understand it, every single solitary man in the House who was opposed to it. Think of that, Think of that. Every single solitary 1t was my understanding of the mem bers that were on that committee. We got the House elected for it, for the purpose of adjusting and adjudicating Il. .s- AA1s thraa ap,nea on the committee, and we could not get a report snd the bill referred. Now be it remembered that the last House of Representatives was politi- l calfy composed of Democrats to such an extent as to make it practically Democratic. That Democratic major ity, by an immehse majority, saw prop | CT to elect MT. Tunstall Speaker, and Mir Conner comes along and arraigns 1 him and nearly the whole House as being the creatures of the corpora tions The bill to which he was re- ferring in the above extract from his
 Tuscaloosa speech was referred to the Corpor ations Committee and 1t is that
 committee which he arraigns as being untrue to trusts because it would not favorably report a measure which he wanted them to pass. Everybody dis i honest who will not obey my dictum
 seems to be the Conner doctrine, as expounded by him.
 Now who composed that Corpora tions Committee. as appointed by MT. Tunstall. Here they are in full: George H. Parker of CulIman; Charles
 Allmon of Marion, John A. Lusk of Marshall, Dr. Jay of Conecuh, H. C.. Thach of Limestone, w. w. Callahan
 of Morgan. Francis Hoffman of Mo-
 bile, Hubert Davis of Etowah. G. A.
 Joiner of Talladega, A. W. Fucker of Elmore, Tyler Goodwin of Montgom- cry, Tom Arlington of Montgomery, B. deG. Waddell of Russell.
 MT. Parker the Chairman is an ardent
 supporter of MT. Conner, although he Is denounced by the latter in his speeches as an enemy of the people. l Of course we do not mean that he sin gles out Mir. Parker or anybody else l individually but takes them collect | ively for not reporting his pet meas ure. The three leading anti-corpora- ton men of the House, and so recog- l nized, were Messrs. Joiner of Talla- dega, Lusk of Marshall and Hoffman of Mobile Two of them are today | avowed supporters of MT. Conner for Governor and all three of them were on the Corporations Committee whicn MT Conner denounces for not lowing to his imperous will and doing what
 he wanted them to do. Of the other
 members of the committee only one.
 MT. Waddell of Russell, was in any
 way connected with railroads as at
 torney and he only in a local capacity for the Central of Georgia. Every body knows that this connection with
 railroad would not for one moment
 have swerved him from proper dis charge of his duty. MT. Conner has
 gotten so in the habit of charging
 bad motives and wrong "environment"
 against all who do not agree with
 him, that it is fair to conclude that
 he does not believe anybody has the
 right to an opinion not strictly in ac- cord with what he thinks ought to be
 done. Is such a man the kind of man
 to whom this great State should en-
 trust the administration of it's affairs?
 
 President Harrisons interview is con
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