The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-14
Corporate Interest is Making Itself Felt.
In Town of TaIiadesa County Dr. cun- ningham Finds That Money Is Being Used to Carry the
 County for Conner.
By win IT. sheehan.

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 The sinister influence of corporate interest" is making itself felt In this campaign of 1906 for Governor. And that influence is not lined up behind Dr. Cunningham.
 There are men in Alabama who will doubt this. good men and true men. but whether it is fortified or not by their belief, this fact will continue to exist. Runior after rumor has come out of Talsadega county that the Co., mer side is turning loose money" pr. Cunningham Saturday made a brief tour of Talladega county. Win all the friends who talked with him over the Talladega county situation the burden of their talk was that the Co., mer side was beginning to spend mon ey in Tailadega county. The same talk Is heard in other counties of Ala bama but the talk is not so persis- tent as 1t is in 'Talladega county.
 Mir. Conner may not be spending the monevahis campaign committee in Bir- mingharn may not be spending the money, how much it is, great or small. It may be that corporations who .ex- neoa special favors under the Conner administration are helping falong the Conner campaign in Talladega county. There are men in Talladega county who believe this at any rate.
 Tn the first place there are two or three cotton mills in the county, One of MT Corners mills is located at Syl- acauga. Moreover, there are consid- erable lumber interests in Talladega county. The lumber men in Alabama. like the wholesale grocers, are back Ing Mir. Conner in various ways. So in Taliadega county the talk is that the lumber men and the cotton mill men are laying on hard licks for Mir. Conner and that the need of little money shall not stand in the way of carrying the county, for him.
 So much Dr. Cunningham found out while he was in Talladega county at his childershurg speaking and in his brief stay at Talladega. In the af- ternocn of the same day, which was Saturday. he crossed over Into Shelby and encountered the same sort of cor ; porats Zfnnuence in opposition to his candidacy. He found there that men who had been hiring in the old days convicts for $s and $s a month while under the new system conceived by pr. Cunningham. if they set conviets posing him. Therefore. because the profits of this corporation have been cut down, the men at the head of the corporation are waging vengeful war fare on the man who turned the money into the State Treasury.
 Making Itself Felt.
 The corporate influences that have been behind the fight in Talladega county on Dr. Cunningham has made itself felt. The county normally is for Cunningham, but the men who have been behind the fight have been so active that the Anal outcome in Talladega Is doubtful. The Cunning ham men are hoping to carry 1t. But they have no campaign fund, they have no fund to flood the county with literatnEA- ThAy have no fund to pas men to go out and talk for him and distribute literature in his behalf. Notwithstanding this handicap, the Cunningham men are active and ag- Eressive in Talladega and still hope- ful that the county will go as fl should normally go--for Cunningham
 An attempt Is being made to put the onus of corporate support upon Dr. Cunningham. It is unfair and unjust. It. Is in keeping with the other unfair ahd unjust neane which have been used ao encompass his defeat. A cot ton mill Is always q corporation in