The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-24

-oice that ranged from shout to a yhisper he lharangued against rail- 'oads, railroad rates. railroad attor- lews. Dr. Cunningham and things In general He seemed to be in perfect political frenzy. He said that Dr. Gun ningham, in a speech at Union Springs had said that 1t was with difficulty that he was able to find a friendly committee to which he might refer the elective Railroad Commission bill. MT. Conner said that he had been charged with ref1ecting on. legislators and he called on his audience to answer wheth- l CT or not the statements of pr. Cum | nlngham were not a reflection on the Senate.
 Control of the Legislature
 He then took up the charges that he , was endeaevoring to control the Leg | islature. He said the whole thing, the Governor, the Senate,i the Legislature, the whole thing is yours, and it takes | the whole thing to make a wheel. an l | if there is any part of 1t left out, hs can't do thing. He can't pass sin gle solitary law unless the Legislature | is with him, and yet he says he won't | lift up his voice single time pleading | with you to elect | Legislature along | his line, ana I say, gentlemen, If he don't do it he Is folly and a fraud" /" l (Applause.J
 l the press that in the election of Max Hamburger, Jr., and Fred L. Blackmon he had suffered a defeat. MT. Conner had spoken in both of these counties at time near the election. In ref erence to this he said: Tn these speeches Of mine. I have been accused of going to Mobile county and speak ing against one man and to Calhoun county and. speaking against one man IoH fC
 me. l say that both those men in Cal houn and Mobile county came squarely out on niy platform; not Comerism, not individualism. but on this great plat form of the people and of Democracy | because when you come to the last an alysis of it, it is Democracy and the man who won't stand on 1t and work
 for 1t Is not a true Democrat, l don'i
 care what his name may be-"
 He then lead his usual attack on Tht I Advertiser. He said that The Adver-
 tiser in a headline had declared that
 the effort of his to put the Georgia rate in force was radical. And still The Advertiser is supporting Dr. Cum ningham, who favors the Georgia rate | as a maximum He took this to mean
 that Dr. Cunningham was insiDcere tu | his proteststions for the same tseor- | gia rate.
 In speaking of charges made against | him in reference to the employment of i children, he said: "All of these state
 ments made against me trying to ere l ate friction on account of the cotton
 mills. let me tell you Doctor, you
 never diI more unstatesmaniike
 thing than that. Would you tell the | poor people of Alabama, where they
 should work and where they should not
 work? No you would not. The idea
 of taking these things and trying to
 SOW the seeds of prejudice. Doctor
 that is descending a long ways rom
 the high plane of statesmanshlp' !
 want to say to you, gentlemen that 1 am d cotton manufacturer.
 Conner and Child Labor.
 q have another question" he said in
 addressing Dr. Cunningham. What
 do you know about child labor? No
 thing. You don't know as much apout
 child labor as you know about lrels nS
 rates and you know you don hn'" ! anything about that. ,,;+,, 1 And again the bucolic person M witn l the flowing beard and the hamlhS ii"S. l s1outed "whee." "Gentlemen. II u l were possible to build 500oo spliiuts ] mill in every county in this State' then D | bid thy man God speed ana let h4tii | and do it." said Mir. Conner. .,,ar. He said that the thoughts WhISHa, Ia influencing the South against child Ia hor c3me from the East to keep tn South from competing with the East U cotton manufacture. He said that tn W
 same peop1e who were responsible Io
 the child labor agitation were respoI
 sibl for the private cars that go splis t
 ming from Washington to Booker VIZ. Nas.
 ingtou's institute and again the Whlsh
 cred and gayly nosed person ""hee"'