The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-17

letter asking whether I would vote Tor the elective railroad commission. 1 Tobs Wbv tne fs,ie, letter and did not answer it. well write to Methodist minister, if you believed in immersion, and to a Eaptlst minister of you believed in coeT wifi rsss1, And fsllew @ citizens, if MT mat the question of an elective railroad commission or not, Is on the book in th the county of Jefferson, and call upon bes bsss cifzens ,hs, of Anniston, If they are % m my speech. in which got my. posi-. ton. and T stood for a commission of power to be elected by the people. ff1 it lies In the mouth of Mir. Conner to criticise me for. not jumping on the railroads. Mr. Conner tells us himself ,,,at Una . hs spent ss:ooo so oe presiaent of sand dolIars,a fellow citizens, have tury and I have never spent outside never been defeated, and I have never had but one campaign fund in my life. and gave s130.00 of that.
 Now. fellow citizens, want to say expenditure of money except in strictly legitimate purposes. And I want to tell you what consider is not 1egitl- mate; ma aud that ,Ssnn,! is hiring men to vote to vote. for me for Governor of the State of Alabama, # he does not have sufficient confidence in me to go to the and that alone.
 Fellow citizens. want to say to you this. Whenever we say that money expended s5sr in, in such 1sh way is legisiate fItfcaf due, and when you do, you will oust American liberty from this grea;
 Let me say to you right here that am not a railroad candidate. and I am no shipping candidate. There has not been one dollar contributed to my campaign, and there is not a man in of Cunningham's money, and want to say that If there is a grafter in this State that expects 1t. he can hold his wifi be rid of one T'I srafter M o 'is have 1s nc campaign committee It Is fmpossi- ble for me to buy the advertising col. uann, umns of the papers of the state: I of these letters would wipe me off the map, and am not going to be wiped off the State. My plan is to go before cIpies and views. That ' is my my plan plan That is what I have done heretofore. I believe 1t will win. If 1t don't win, down in defeat with my ideals of power intact than to go on with success with them dsep down in the mud, And. fel- low citizens. the effort that is being made in the State of Alabama to line me up with the corporate interests Of the State ls not true. and there Is no evidence of it.
 Now, I am not opposing tho rightfuI rights of corporations any more than I could those of an individual, but I would scorn to take advantage of any special interest whatsoever
 I would present laws providing that no child under twelve years of age shall work in a cotton mill except those who are orphans or who have a provided they are not under len years of age, and then no child shall work at night who , Is not thirteen years of age says that know not5ins aSont ho obis labor. I admit that I know nothing | of the earning capacities of the child. and for that refer you to him. Doubt less hc will tell you what he pays them in. the cotton mills and viii tell you what they do. and then you and | will | say what they are worth, But. fellow from the standpoint Of physician My l business Is to look after the bodies of children, not their we+lth producing capacities. and say to you. as a sci confined to a cotton mill or any other | factory under fourteen or fifteen years of age; If ! am elected Governor of s,,,. this State. l wni recommend to the limit and shorten the hours Of the child | lahorers in the cotton mills and fac l tories.
 Now. fellow citizens. Mir. Conner and differ in presenting our policies. We | differ in that. MT. Conner since he an- nounced for Governor, has criticised | the candidates of the State of Alaba- ma all the wa pack Now Mir Conner
 will 1ell yo. ~'t Tn 1sod in speech l that made in convention that used
 language something &ke this. "on 1 our side was patriotism and policy, and
 that fecency would prevent ne from l discussing the other side" words that | 1t is impossible to say would convey ap insult to the other side.
 l Now fellow citizens, along about | the fir %lf March the Commission met
 and Mi Conner subu. ltted several crit icisms to that commission. Now. fel- low citizens. the Governor of 'the State l of Alabama can not control the com mission. they are an Independent de rartment of the government bur the | Constitution of the State of Alabama l authorizes the Governor to convene | the Commission under circumstances where he considers 1t necessary.
 l s9ATS uoluM uoIssTuWoO 9UL 'L9Aoc Now. fellow citizens. I want to ask | my friends this question Suppose he | has a wife. and she Is sick and he sends | for a doctor and says I will be around and examine her. If she is sick. ht will get another physician. As far as law made rates are concerned, I am the l original in that letter submitted to the l leader of the Commission of Alabama have tried to show whether l was consistent or not. I want to call at tention to MT Conner on this pronosl- tion that In that letter did not saN