The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-21


 matter where 1t is. and I will give you a law fair to all and giving every man a square deal, and that's what wo are fighting for. We are fighting for a
 law that gives every man a square
 deal'
 ''The cupidity of man." he declared. "has never been measured. What a man considers his just and equitable share, if left to himself, no man has found out. You can't find out say you can measure to the north pole, you can measure to the stars. You can even count tho milky way bat when 1t comes to measuring what man consid- CTS his share. that hasn't been found out"
 The state tax, he said, is about three
 million dollars. The railroads tax on
 Alabama is twenty-eisnt million dol- l lars, nine times as much.
 Referring to his former campaign, he | said: What kind Of race did they
 make against me? straight, manly
 race. or did they use debauchery and violent attacks that if they had been of consequence would have destroyed ! this great State of ours?"
 He repeated his charge that S500,O00 was used to buy the electorate of Ala | bama. He spoke of The Atlanta News | incident, and said: To-day John Temple | Graves one of the finest editors in the
 land, had his paper bought out from 1 under him. Qulcksand was put under his paper. By whom? By competition, by a competitor seeking to run a fair press? No, but by the railroads. What business had they to take money from | the people to buy papers with? You know In Atlanta they framed the under girders for the papers, to stop the papers against them and have editori-
 ais for them teaching you that you are I hat Anr,se kanA aInf rs | that you are fools for making this
 clamor. that all this rate business Is l right"
 | Again he said, "Who can go through l tlfis great campaign of ours two years ago and say where the railroad money began and where 1t ended2 They say
 am attacking the press. When I say am not. I say that the power that | Is using this great method of convey ing news to you be left alone and that power with no law to hold 1t makes
 q danger for the people of the State" 1 He made his usual rate comparisons
 and declared that the restriction of | freight rates by law did not interfere with the building of roads as was
 shown by the experience of Texas. He | said that in the commission he could do nothing and again referred to the commission as.a spike team with Co., mer as the, lead horse pulling and the others against him, and said that the 1 fight had been transferred from the l people to the Legislature E They say let Conner stay where he
 is. Governor Cunningham now says he Is in favor of our whole project | He has gone much further than I have gone. He says let's have a rate better | than the Georgia rate. All that have 1 contended for is something equivalent
 to the Georgia rate. The Advertiser
 says I am a dangerous man. Go back wonder when I was running for Com
 missioner They said lf I was elected
 would destroy the railroads; that l
 would keep the railroads from being
 built anywhere in the State That l
 would take them up and throw them in
 the creek; that the property of the
 State would Sc set back for years. But
 today they say let Conner stay where
 he is."
 He repeated that four years ago
 pr. Cunningham refused to express
 himself and two years ago ran away
 to Europe to avoid the issue, and said, But now he says he favors the whole 1 thing and has taken our platform and
 ran away with 1t. and carried 1t to 1 those people that have fought us from l the beginning to the railroads the poli- | tlcians environed by the railroads, and says you leave Conner where he is, and | let us take this thing and pass 1t. He urged the people to elect their | ow@ Legislature and to go down 10 | Montgomery with q broom and sweep the railroad lobby out. He referred to railroad magnates as grand dukes. and i said that country that leaves its peo- pie to the eupidity of any trust or any | power on earth that can tax them that | country will go to serfdom and the trust
 magnates will go to grand dukes. Concluding, he said. "I don't believe | that any man could take hold of these
 rates and make hls own rates and all
 this folderol about trying to mako a Conner rate is nonsense. am trying | to make a low rate and every thing I l have said to you is as straight as a
 shingie and comes from wisdom, wis., dom from the study of It."