The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-24
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adulterated anarchy? What would the country be If they who, administer its affairs should be above their consti- tGtional and statutory obligations. What indeed. And yet this man asks for my suIport-asks u sane people to make him Governor.
 In the matter of consistency, The Advertiser can take care of itself: do not appear here to defend 1t. Under normal conditions. in taking care of itself il would also take care of those whose consistency is assailed along with it's own; but this is campaign conceived in prejudice, premeditated and fostered vigorously and unceasing- iy, it's chief exponent hoping to be its chief beneficiary. Its inception was yeers ago, as MT. Conner tells us, about 1885, believe, when his hostile activ- ity against railroads began. I recall the period. and also his failure to do anything if he tried to, although I do not recall him as conspicuous entity in the short-lived anti-railroad fuss and feathers of those days, for was in that campaign some myself, and "won out" However. he may have done much--to destroy the success of his contention, just as he Is doing now. But let that be as it may: what I started to say is that Mir Conner attacks The Advertiser as an individual. and not as represent ing any opposing sentiment outside of it's office. For this reason I come for ward, and modestly, trust, to tell the
  Conner so sarcastically condemns is the real thing, and most creditable to those who posses it. Of course the people know this, but there is nothing like, making it public. I want MT. Conner. to know that the people know it, and l want the people to know that MT. Co., mer knows they know 1t. There's noth-s ing like mutual understanding.
 Mir Conner might be the foremost of epicures, and tell us to an analytical niceity of the astronomical virtue aad value of each rare condiment compos- ing a favorite dish; but Ln epicure is not always a chef, and we are quite sure that if My. Conner should attempt to prepare the dish, he would make nor's ofice Same thing exactly. MT, Conner may hold forth eloquently, or frienziedly, rather, on the prosperity to come to the State and the people but it would be poor State whose only asset would be below -pront freight rates. MT. Conner should be embalmed alive so that we might pre- greatest anti-statesman. He may not know that he is a demagogue Qndeed, if taken out of his purely private bus, charged with the responsibility Of knowing what he is,) but he is a past master in the art of that delectable fig- ure He could give his most illustrious
 
 spades. and then beat them with one hand tied behind him. And prejudice. is the imperial joker that he uses to turn the trick. In the meridian of an the State never had he tells us, dear people that we are robbed and iinpov- erished by the railroads. the agencies asses enough to believe him. He turns every condition to his own account. The source of least profit to the rail- roads he uses to his own advantage by not telling 1t all, as when he cites that the Birmingham district alone af- lords more tonnage than the whole State of Georgia. But why does he stop there? Is it unconscious misrep- resentation? ignorance? or is it vol untary withholding of the fact that while the Birmingham district does pro vide such tonnage 1t is at less profit Georgia, and on this account, on ac- count of the very low rate at which this business is handled, Birmingham is enabled to compete with the iron price of pig-iron. If MT Conner doesn't know this he isn't fit to be Governor on a railroad hate issue If he does know it he isn't fit to be Governor on reasons why MT. Conner is not entitled to consideration for office by the people of Alabama. The reasons are so nu- merous in fact that I haven't time at this sitting to catalogue them.
 As president of a gas plant, bank cotton mill, or proprietor of a large brand of meal. I would say to MT. Co., mer, Good boy! Call on me-" But when, 1einonstrable from his utter ances, he lays bare his unfitness for office and appeals to me in bad gram mar and worse logic to support him for Governor or my State? WheW!
 Dear Advertiser and dear people.
 Truly,
 M. M Brannan.
 P. S-I don't own any railroads.
 NJ. NJ. B.
 PIP. S-No railroad own me. But didn't they make Birmingham and that piece of property on which MT Conner paid taxes ct valuation of S17.000, and which he sold for s4O,O00? Didn't they?
 NJ. M. B.