The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-25
CUNNINGHAM
 IN BIRMINGHAM


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 anna. He was a man in whom Jef-
 In County took special pride. and
 who was every inch a man. The
 Id went wild at the mention of the
 Cunningham. He introduced
 Earle Pettus as representative Of
 young Democracy of North Ala
 h, and Mir. Pettus, who is very pop
 in Birmingham. because of his
 nresque fight to save the life or
 Williams. was given great wei :
 [. Pettus pictured the marvellous ad-
 ke made by the Birmingham dis
 saving that 1t was probably with
 parallel in the history of the world.
 pictured, too, the splendid prosper
 Iurevailing over the state of Ala
 a and he declared that now was
 line for a man to pitch campaign
 hidted upon a calamity howl. lie
 redted the attacks made upon the
 senleaders of the Democratic party
 AlaIana. He deprecated any at
 Int h show that these men who had
 In called to their high place by Dem
 atic voters of the State were com
 cent tools of the corporations. He
 d that the fight two years ago was
 bn an Issue between the corporations
 J the people. .,,a
 lThe man who said he went into tne
 ht as the representative of the peo-
 was elected. He was elected upon
 definite pledge to remedy the con
 tons which he complained of. The onIe nut him at a post of honor and 1 trust to do certain things, but he lw sees a better office with larger hary ahead and he proposes to desert e post in which the people had placed i'm for a better one.
 Deserti0n of His Post.
 "What would happen, fellow clti- kns.e said MT. Pettus. If in time ot lar the sentinel who had been placed g his general at certain post 10 Ib an important thing, should ignore |Es orders and attempt to go off to a lore comfortable and a better piacef |ke would be shot"
 we are going to shoot Conner with Inr votes Monday" somebody called Iut from the gallery, and the audience aughed and cheered the remark. MT. Pettus called Mir. Conner to task nr his attempt to have the present Iectite RaiIroad Commission law de- Jared unconstitutional in his efforts IS have himself elected Governor. His alIing in an outside lawyer to give |n opinion as to its constitutionaiity Instead of receiving that opsaion from he Attorney General. the proper oft- |Ial. was criticised by Mir. Pettus as |ha of the most astonishing things of |Ehfch a public oficial had ever been |l,lltv in Alabama. He pictured MT. |bmer as a man of inordinate arnbi- on and he fancied him as saying to peopIe of Alabama: Tt won't do me to remain as State officer, |lr the State has only to do with IS sr cent. railroad business, while the hited States can regulate S5 per cent.
 it. Send me to the United States hate. where I can regulate that S5 lr cent.
 twill you do it?" asked the speaker. kod forbid that the ttime should come hen all the virtue, all the patriotism. the ability Is concentrated In one hn. If, that time has come we had tter become Russianized and elect Czar But Tam opposed to the cleo bn of Mir. Conner as the Czar."
 Judge Richardson was presented as e representative of the young De- bcracy of South Alabama, one who buld stand at the right hand of Cum hgham as Pettus stood to his left. }. too. was given splendid ovation he came forward. Any friend of \. As btion from that crowd Judge Rich ison was hoarse from his recent joint bcussion with Captain Hobson. but went after Mir. Conner and the po- ical enemies of Cunningham as bugh his voice was at its best, which was not But the Montgomery ora F made a great hit with the audi ce. They wanted something hot and hgery, and they got it. For one thing, Edge Richardson continually empha- ted MT. Corners local reputation of ing a hard man in business and of ring for nobody's interests except e interests of Conner. He was say E that a friend of his had estimated at Mr. Conner was spending probably p0,000 to be elected Governor and he as asking If some of the corporations the State were not putting up some that money For MT. Conner is ingy man." Judge Richardson drawl-
 out. and the crowd laughed and leered for couple of minutes. Always For Conner.
 fsNobody ever saw the anatomy of kmer rise in the atmosphere without was in the interesr of Comer.' said 'ldge Richardson. Nobody ever saw sn raise his hand except to help B. B. Inner. Where was 8. B. Conner when at young and green country doctor, skenty-six years ago, was voting and sbrking for a Railroad Commission lat would regulate freight rates in 5labama? I'll tell you wheer he was. Is was down at the little station of sSmer advancing to negroes and mak- I g at least twenty-five per cent out of Hem. Where was B. B. Conner when Issell M. Cunningham. in 1896, was 8hding his splendid ability to the cause l white supremacy and beginning the Tint which ended with the new consti- I IItion? I'll tell you where he was. He as down at Montgomery lobbying for I bill that would exempt his cotton ElIls from taxation. What was B. B. sImer doing at the last Legislature? , was lobbying for bill which would blrmit him to work the young and Ilpless oherubs of poor white people his mill and pile up part of that FiIlion dollar fortune of his. Every lhere, fellow citizens, everywhere you le him at the same thing working for B. Conner and working for him pne.
 lin no uncertain way. Judge Richard |n had hls say about The Birmingham ews and it's editor, whom he called hinreal Not-In-Yet Rhodes" The edi- rial insinuating that Dr. Cunningham ias contemplating withdrawing from e race, Judge Richardson denounced unfair, unjust and untrue. And the Ian who wrote 1t, fellow citizens, said ldge Richardson, knew when he irote it that 1t was unfair, misleading, he knew that 1t vas untrue tell