The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-12
THOMPSON CAUsTIC
RED-HOT REPLY TO 4 CAMPAIGN
 STATEMENT.
Says he Has Not Been Fooled by the Conner PrOpaganda--The Can- dnte's Record fin Barr
 Bour County.

Marion, Aug I--fSpecial) )--solici- tor J. F. Thompson is out in a caus- tic letter in answer to a publication in which he is indirectly charged with telling an untruth in his recent pub- lished interview, relative to MT. Corners 8 action on the child labor law. After brief introduction as Co cause of the letter Mir Thompson says:
 'Tet's see. what are the facts. in the statement made as to what MT. Co., mer did against the child labor law. I plainly stated that 1t was during the session of 1908 and MT. Wilson R. Brown referred to the session of 1so0-01 and said nothing about the session of 1903. Mir. Brown was not even a member. of the Legislature of 1908 and. of course. was not the Chair man of any Committee therein nor could haHhAznown anything. of what MT. co3Viedid during that session. Mir. Brown1 Element does not ssconfiict with bR@ssord of my. statement nor did ycohradict one word of his Now records ands see what year Mir. Brown was in the Legislature and you will see that I am right.
 rNo fair man can read Mfr Browns statement and then read mine and say there is any conflict. and had your contributor wanted the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" he could have gotten it straight from two statements as they were published in the newspapers for mine was so plain as to the session of 1908 that the Biblical quotation ap- piled which says "the wayfaring man need not err therein CYou will re- member the rest).
 MT Thompson then takes occasion to pour the following hot shot into MT Conner and his supporters:
 Tt seems that AmIsrepresentation is the chief stock In trade of the Co., mer campaign. His supporters don't want the people to have the facts straight from the shoulder. Now will give a few reasons ~hy have not been fooled by Comsr.f
 'Tn the first place my interest is with the farmers of my country be- cause I was raised on the farm and most of my people are farmers and the farmers could get twenty-five cents per pound for their cotton and can't see where 1t is to their inter est to vote for millionaire cotton manufacturer whose interest Is to get the farmers cotton for three cents if he can.
 'Tn the second place I am interested III lHt GuuCdlIOn OF every WnllG kIFl and white boy in our land, and Dr. Cunningham stands for the same and has shown "his faith by his works Under the new convict system of which he Is the author. last year the State received more than a half mil lion dollars and this year will receive more than seven hundred thousand dollars when the best year under Johnston's administration the sum was ninafV-1fY fhafra,o r1A A1l1aEh he convicts are more humanelv treated and the death rate lower than ever before. This is g gain of about four hundred thousand dollars to the tax payers of the State and this increase in earnings of the conviets put into the school fund ought to add at least two months to every white school in the state.
 When MT. Conner was County Com missioner of Barbour county he let the county conVicts to one Dr. Andrews for the pitiful sum of S2,00 per month. and Mir Conner, made the bond for the contractor Andrews, and the convicts were worked on Mir. Corners planta- tion. After Mir. Conner went out of office as Commissioner those convicts were at once hired for s13.0o per month. This matter Is public history. published several weeks ago in The Clayton, Record. newspaper in the county in which Mir Conner was raised and so far he has made no explan- ation or denial The Clayton Record says its on the records in that coun- ty.
 T have always had the Idea that this was a free country and every man had the right to vote for whom he pleased, but in this campaign. con- ducted by the Hon. Clustering Bragg Conner. 1t seems that this is all chang ed and any man who dares expose his deception is at once marked for slaugh- ter.
 You know MT. Conner talks all of the time about railroads supporting pr. Cunningham. Do you know that Hon. Ben F. Elmore, the chairman of John V Smiths campaign com nittee two years ago? That Frank $, White. General Counsel for the Ill., inois Central Railroad in Alabama; Hon. George N Parker. Counsel for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at Cullman; Hon. John C. Eyster. Rail- road Attorney at Decatur; J. s. B. Thompson. the political agent for the Southern Railroad Company. and many others are all supporting MT ComerI
 Do YOU know that the -iskey deal CTS are largely supporting Mir. Conner on account of the splendid record of pr. Cunningham on the temperance