The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-16

Circuit Court had been scheduled for the day of the speaking. but because one of the leading attorneys had been kept away by illness, Judge Brewer was ccmpelle1 to adjourn court on Monday. On that day. however, there were eight Icandidatfs present. who addressed tne voters of Taliapoosa. Tn view of the adjournment of the court. some of pr. Cunning hams friends were afraid that
 there would be some dif1culty In secur-
 Ing e. wd to hear him in the middle
 of a hot day in August. But there was
 no ground for their fears. The wish
 to hear Dr. Cunningham discuss sths
 issues of the campaign--the interest In
 his personality fight. is gen- eral. The voters of Taliapoosa had the
 same desire to hear him as the voters of other counties manifested when they heard he was cci.'ng.
 So when Hon. J. c. Maxwell rose to introduce the speaker. a large crowd hsG assembled in the court room. The crowi was warm towards Dr. Cum nineEam, too. It was cordial in Its The Cunningham men saw in Him a good omen. for Alexander City is con sidered to have a smaller majority for Cunningham than any other of the towns of the county There seems to
 be no doubt in tho minds of the citi- zens that the town will give Cunning
 ham a safe majority.e but they do not think that the m atority will be propor- tionately as large as those Dr. Cum
 ningham will receive from Dadeville and Camp Hill.
 Dr. Cunningham was at his best. He delivered a convincing. vote win ming speech, and he gave his hearers, as he always does, new ideas and new
 thoughts on the campaign.
 He had 8 word or two of spirit and Ire for Franks White and The Bir- rningham News. He charged them with deliberately and knowingly mis- representing him and misreprssenting lhis record for the effect it would
 have on public sentiment and political opinion. He showed his hearers where this misrepresentation had been made and he showed them that it had
 been made deliberately and knowing | ly.
 You have been told. fsllow citi- zens. that I am the candidate of the raiiroads.' said Dr. Cunningham, pointing hts Hnger at his attentive au- dience. "That is not true. Not one iota of evidence has been introduced to substantiate that charge, and tell you that am not the candidate
 of any corporation. any person or any interest. Some of you may believe I tons. If you do you have been de- ceived and have been wronged." "The Birmingham News and Frank s. White have charged that voted against the Langdon bill providing for a Railroad Commission in 1881. | Went Around the Truth. l They knew the truth when they made that charge. And when they
 made 1t they deliberately went around the truth. They knew the record, for they had examined 1t. yet they pre- | ferred to send it out in a false and | garbled form. They knew ahat | had voted for the Langdon bill as ! long as it provided for Commission that could do somsthingr-that could revise rates and they knew that cpposed the bill when 1t provided for | the force of an advisory Commission. Now when ahey accuse me before ths people of Alabama of opposing the bill creating Railroad Commission they are guilty of deception and have the right to ask you to rsbuke such deception"
 pr. Cunningham took occasion, too to give another thrust at Frank B, white before the occasion was over IThe Lieutenant Governor in every speech is resertlng the garbled way in which his record bas been sent out by Frank S. White and The Birmtng. ham News. Tn explaining the record he had made on the question of reg ulating railroads by law, pr. Gun ningham described the scene in which he cast the voae in the Senate which saved the life of the Electiva Rail. lroad Commission bill
 'The vote was a tie." he said, 'I' stood IS to ib on the amendment of post. | ponfng tn eeiection from 1904
 to 1906. If an elective railroad com.
 missioner is a good thing in 1906. why