The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
SOME CLOSING WORDS.

Before another issue of The Adver- tiser reaches many of Its readers the battle of ballots will have begun and the contest for the highest ofice Tn Alabama will be closed except for cast ing and counting the votes. Every indication points to fair eiection and that is as it should be. We do not | want MT. Conner or pr. Cunningham to 20 into office with the slightest taint of fraud on his title. If MT. Conner gets a majority of the votes let us have no cause t, doubt that the vote represents the sentiment of the Democratic people of Alabama and let all submit to that decision.
 But we do not believe that MT. Co., l mer will get majority, for we be- Ifeye that the voters of Alabama have the intelligence and the patriotism to choose the man hest fitted for Gov ernor and that man is Russell M. Cunningham. He is a man of high character, sound conservatism, wide
 information and well-balanced intel 1 lectual capacity. He is not brag- gart or a blusterer. He has not been going about the State telling people of the great things he has accom- plished nor does he claim that he is the only man qualified to be Governor. He is not a man of one idea and that an impossible one to accomplish through the executive office.
 Dr. Cunningham has been tried in various positions and has left cred itable record in all of them. He has shown hireself 2 genuine friend to the people of Alabama and of the best in- terests of the State. He has not con- fined himself to the single proposition of waging war on corporations. He has not tried to make the people be- iieye that the railroads are their greatest enemies. He has shown be- yond the shadow of doubt that he fa- vors railroad regulation md not rail- road destruction. He realizes, as all thinking men should do, that the rail- roads have been one of the greatest factors in building np our State. and that their assistance and good will are necessary to our prosperity. His ftheory is not railroad destruction but railroad regulation so that these nee- essary corporations and those who use
 them may have justice and that no hurt may come to any class or com
 munity or individual.
 Why should the voters Of Alabama
 turn away from a man thus fitted and
 qualified and cast their votes for one
 who is almost directly the reverse?
 Mir. Conner has done nothing to prove
 his fitness for the high oftice to which
 he aspires, nor has he accomplished
 anything that would place the people
 under obligations to him. He has
 made a success as a business man.
 The burden of his campaign has been
 boastfuIness of himself. abuse Of rail-
 roads and other corporate interests
 and extravagant claims regarding
 what he will do if elected. most of
 which claims are utterly impossible.
 In no respect is he the man for Gov
 ernor.
 Thousands of our readers will reae } this before the voting begins and WI beg them to think carefully of thu high responsibility resting on them , and of their duty to the State. Whili . we have good reason for believing tna pr. Cunningham will be elected tha does not mean that his friends shoult . cease their efforts. Much can be don' on election day, and done fairly an, 7 Iegitimately. There Is no call for an! crooked work and there should b' none. Let all who want the best mai B for Governor put In one day for Gun . ninKham and make his. majority sucl { that no one can dispute the result : Give one day to righteous cause an you will never regret it.
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