The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-25

about the 10 per cent railroad rate which
the state regulates amounting to much,
but that If you want them fixed right
send me to the tinted States senate
where I can regulate the other IS per
cent,
Child Labor.
You know that child labor is On issue
IN this campaign don't ears what your
proposition may be about expmpting cot
ton mills from taxation. Tell me the peo-
pie are aroused upon this point. [ Rnow
In Alabama's great prosperity people in
the mad rush for money bow down per-
haps to the golden calf. But I know there
beats heart in the breast of Alabama s
sons and that It will continue to beat
and that 1t will never be impervlous to
the calls of humanity.
THE wealth of your state is not IN
your vast deposits of iron. your fertile
valleys ana your vine-clad hills, out
your power and your glory is IN the
hearts of Alabama.
Much as you may boast OF business
prosperity. much as you may boast OF
your cotton mills even though they vomit
their smoke against the sky, human CHAR
acter Is worth more than money. You can
not put the dollar above the man. Have
the people Of the state come to the point
where the dollar mark is the open sesame
to political offices.
Cunningham Example.
IAN example of one man Ike DR.. Cum
ningham to the youth is worth more than
all your material wealth. Tell ma DIR.
Cunningham is not sincere, why he wrin5s
that confession from the peerless hero d
the Merrimac
HE has waged the most heroic fight
ever fought in Alabama. He has gone
forth single-handed and alone tle has
had no aggregation of coat-tail oandi-
dates swinging to him to get office.
"A mans ideals are worth more to him
than political preferment In politics
man doesn't have to stoop and grovel
to be governor. The great silent vote re-
spends to this sentiment and on next
Monday they will place DR.. Cunningham
on the executive chair of Alabama. We
all know that Jefferson county has been
conceded to DIR. Cunningham. l don't see
why the Birmingham News hasn't claimed
that along with everything else 1t claims
for Conner.
Your verdict is going to be written
in Furnished letters so he who runs may
read Go back, Mr.. Conner and stay
where we put you; carry out your prom
ises and II in future you are deserving of
higher place we will call YOU to it And
you might say: 4 charge thee, Conner,
throw away ambition You will write in
letters that reach to the blue waters Of
the Gulf the name of him who Is known to
the people and weighed in the balance
and not found wanting. Lieutenant Gov
ernor r. M. Cunningham will be your
next governor for four years.
Terry Richardson.
The next speaker introduced by Mr..
Lane was Judge Terry Richardson Of
Montgomery. The chairman said:
You have heard the voice of North
Alabama. You will now hear the voice of
South Alabama. Judge Richardson spoke
in part as follows:
II met my friend Captain Hobson the
other day. He said the railroads were
the veins and arteries of the country.
I agreed with him. He said they needed
a doctor. l agreed with him.
"Sweethearts wives and children, when
DR.. Cunningham makes a diagnosis you
may know 1t is safe one. Let us see
about our friend Rufus Rhodes, who says
that DIR. Cunningham has withdrawn from
the race. But he knew when he made
that statement that 1t was unjust and
undemocratlc. They are as much afraid
of DR.. Cunningham as they are of the
truth, and they are afraid of both. Conner
recommends himself very strongly. He
owes his very existence to DR.. Cunning
ham for he made him when he voted for
railroad commission.
Conner and the Dollar.
whenever you have found Mr.. Conner
in politics you have found him in politics
for the almighty dollar. When as an
humble pill peadler, you DR.. Cunningham,
were working for white supremacy, where
was Mr.. Conner? He was down in Conner,
Ala. working negroes, making $25 piece
out of them and getting a freight rate
from the Central of Georgia which his
neighbors didn't enjoy. This was the time
when the oderlferous son of Ham was
casting his vote for a dollar or even a
drink of whisky, and Conner was lobby
ing in Montgomery-and Captain Hobson
says 1t is a crime to lobby-appealing for
the exemption of cotton mills from tax
alton. Whenever you see Corners anatomy
darken the atmosphere its for money.
Whenever you see DR.. Cunningham's
smiling face Its for God Almighty, the
widows and the orphans.
"Dr. Cunninghams campaign cost about
$4,000. He has nothing behind him but right,
the women folks and the people of Ala
bama Corners circulars alone for post
age cost $4,000 l understand he has
bought two men in Montgomery for a
$1,000 piece. would call their names but
I am scared. Corners campaign has cost
him 100000 Now Conner is a stingy man.
First Millionaire.
Bear in mind, my brothers and sisters,
Conner is the first millionaire to assume to
be governor of Alabama, and If l am not
badly mistaken, assuming will be about
all there is to IT,
Conner is the poorest state official who
has ever occupied a chair on the hill at
Montgomery. He has violated the law.
Colonel Sanders tells me that Conner was
asked to make an annual report, 49, ~
fused. Now, he comes and asks you to
make him governor when he has violated
the law. But then he recommends himself
so highly.
while DIR. Cunningham Is working for
the old soldiers. Conner is working to keep
little boys and girls in slavery. His cry
Is rates, rates, ratesi We are all for rate
reform and rate regulation, and here we
find the brigadier general of the last four
years DESERVING his post.
"Pick up the papers every day and you
see where twenty unfortunate people are
killed by the railroads, but not a lag do
you hear of Mr.. Conner doing alNut this,
He could pass such laws not permitting
tired operator to work eighteen hours
controlling a hundred trains. He could
have his work limited to six hours. Why