The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13
MACON COUNTY VOTERS
 GREET DIR. CUNNINGHAM

cratic voters or the State, nc reaa briefly from 1t and answered the mis- | leading statements that 1t contained. | Frank E White says here" said pr. Cunningham, that have jumped upon the Conner band wagon. You should know the truth and b ythe truth you should judge me, fellow citizens. What | is the truth? Mfr. Conner admits that he d.d not begin the fight for more equitable freight rates in Alabama un- | til 1885. 1 began that light five years previously and the record shows 1t. l voted for the Langdon bill as long as it contaln ed a provision giving the Commission the right to revise and | fix rates. snd voted against the bill when the bill was 90 amended that it provided for the farce of a Railroad Commission that could do nothing but advise.
 Frank $. White sars that I did not vote for tho Iangdon bill when it was before the House When Frank g.. I White wrote that sentence he knew what the truth was and he wilfully overlook 1 cd it. You may not have searched the records, fellow citiEens. but Frank s. White searched the records and he knew. He knew that I voted for the bill in it's original form when 1t pro- vided for a Commission that could do something. He knew that l opposed | the conference report when 1t was brought back in the House making the advisory Commission which Alabama l had from 1881 to 1908. He knew that T voted against the Langdon bill when she conference report was adopted so that the Commission could do nothing bu. advice the railroads to be good. The man who believes in an advisory lCommission, who believes that the farce we have had for all these years Is a good thing, has the right to criticise my actions, but the man who believes In a Commission that can act. that can do things. must endorse that action. l "You may remember fellow citizens, lthat during the consideration in the last Legislature of the elective Rail- road Commission there was a tie vote. | The friends of the bill were energeti- caily striving to keep the bill from be- | ink amended inasmuch as they feared If | the kiii once got into conference tha. 1t would be killed or emasculated. | The tie vote came up on the proposi- ton Of postponing the election of Com missioners from 1904 until 1908. was -Goveror and presiding officer of the Senate. with no vote ex- | lcept in a case of tie.
 I "when this tic was announced Il was the most intense. the most solemn moment ever saw in my legis. lative career. Above me the galleries were flled with people. Friends and enemies on the floor of the Senate leaned forward to hear what my vott would be and the drop of pin coult have been heard. I etrented the Eecre' tary to call the name of the Lieutenan Governor. When he called out MT I Cunningham" 1 voted against tht amendment and wild shout went uI from the galleries from the floor ol the Senate and from the crowd out 1T the lobbies And fellow citizens abov, all that applause could have beer heard the triumphant shout of Frani s. White"
 Record and Waite.
 r He now comes forward and sayi that I have no record on the question of rate reform. There is the recort
 my friends. There is fiat contradtc ton between the record and betweei
 the misrepresentation contained il this circular. Such methods are mos lunjust and most unfair and I call upoi
 you to rebuke such unfair and repre-
 hensible methods"
 Walter Chester, a leading druggis
 gave 1t as his opinion that the strengt
 of Dr. Cunningham had been minimiz
 ed and the strength of Mir. Commer ex
 agserated.
 There are & lot of Cunningham
 votes around here, a whole lot O
 thern," said Mir Chester. This talk 0
 Conner having everything in Notasuls' and in all this section is nothing bu talk. Some of the Conner men reall!
 believed it, but the Conner men in thi heat know better. They have fount out how strong Dr. Cunningham is.
 As he was leaving the school build ing pr. Cunningham was stopped a the door and introduced to A. D. Nunn who was waiting for an opportunity tt say;
 "Doctor, I have five sons. They art
 all voters and all of them ere Cunning ham men. We are all going to vot'
 together and we only hope that on'
 vote will help put you where yot
 belonE."
 one of the most gratifying features
 of the meeting was the in whicl
 the farmers who were present at th'
 m mseting came forward to pledge Dr
 Cunningham their support and to giv'
 him hearty wishes for success. l
 seemed as though all who were pre-
 sent crowded around him when thu
 meeting was over.
 After a quick lunch Dr. Cunningham
 was driven through the country iron
 NotasuIga to Tuskegee in the carriage
 of pr LudiA Johnson. The Tuskege'
 meeting was scheduled for two o'clocl
 in the afternoon. but under the cir
 cumstances 1t was found impossible t
 meet the arrangement at the appointed
 horr. It was four o'clock before thi party coming from Notasulga drove in
 to TuskeSee. "A crowd had been wait
 ing to hear Dr. Cunningham, some o
 whom had driven from sixteen t'
 eighteen miles in the country. Som'
 of them had to leave on their long