The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-13
AT ALEXANDER CITY
CANDIDATE COMER STILL UPON
 THE HUsTINGs.
Objects strcnuousIy to The Advertisers Effort to Get Complete and Ac- curate Reports of His
 speeches.

It being the opening day of court, the town was crowded. Immediately atter empanelling the juries. Judge Brewer adjourned the court until afternoon, turning the court room over to MT Conner who was Introduced by J; v. Maxwell. MT Con4er spoke for two hours His speech was well receiVeo and he was frequently applauded
 During his address MT. Conner ac- cidently struck his pocket in which ne carried matches causlrs them to isnise @ He picked up Il glass of water Iroi., the table in front of him and poured part of the contents in his pocket causing much laughter He thanked the voters of Tallapoosa county for the Jim Dandy" majority given him at the last election. He al. Iuded to his audience as Hill Billies. saving. That 1 snot meant as term or reproarch to you. I was a Hill Billy myself" and then referred to Abraham. inc follower of the faithfuT as the first "Hill Billy"
 Speaking of education, he said favor education to the utmost extent that the economy of the state VIII ,.sd ai- 1 low, not only in the towns and cities but as far as children go. l tako 1t there Is something in the water or the air or something else that produces large families in the country As to the old veteran, he said "l am | in favor of the veteran. l see by the papers this morning that there is some | trouble about unfurling the old flag. but I hope there will never be time | in the history of the country when the old flag can't be unfufle d.Back there when you carried that flag, you carried ! 1t for States rights ard trust the | time will never come when we cannot
 unfurl 1t for States rights, ana march under it though not with musket. Let us take care of them. {! l am in favor of carrying for the old soldiers as much as the economy or the State will admit"
 Speaking of immigration, he said: | "I have talked on immigration. say one of the first things to do is to take care of the people that emigrate out of our State ard make it possible that the people instead of going out like swarms of bees will stay in the State; make the conditions so that we wont go about seeking immigrants but that we will be making them"
 q favor local option" he said. T favor that any county or any place can vote whether or not you shall have the saloon or dispensary or prohibi- tion, and the majority should rule. That is Democracy pure and simple
 They say talk one thing. l spoke last Saturday to some people, friends of mine and yours, over at Jasper. and sitting before me was Baptist min ister. I said to this gentleman, he was an old man, You have been preaching through a long life. Don't you preach from the same book all the timer Of course he does. Take a man who Is preaching and departs from the Bible and he is preaching himself. What I am preaching to you is the story of the people, telling you of your inter- ests, and I don't depart from 1t, and intand dan1rf from If "
 He said, There are three ways of making a freight rate. One by com petition,' one by law and one by pri- vate interests"
 Turning to MT. Maxwell, he said You take my brother here. He has a bank over here. Suppose that it was the only bank in the county or in this part of the State and you had to go to him for your money. Brother, would you charge 8 per cent. No. Wouldn't about 15 be nearer right?'
 He declared there was no man, not even the judges and ministers, who, If they had the power to name their prices, would not put them higher. He declared that There is no measure for cupidity. You can measure the dist ance from here to the sun, you can measure how long it will take a ray of light to come from there here, but you cant measure cupidity. You can't tell what a man will charge you if left to himself.
 You take the farmers. When you started out this year you thought that 10 cents would be about right for your cotton. You moved that price to II cents, and at this meeting in New Or leans you thought that 15 cents would be dirt cheap for it,"
 Mir. Conner then introduced your stenographer to the audience and pro- fn aff kN ing He follows wherever I go." He then read this papers notice to its cor respondents to keep 1t advised of MT. Corners movements, and said Isn't that a proposition. It's exceeding im- portant for The Advertiser that they know the whereabouts of Mir. Conner, and what he is saying. Why have they singled me out to send a man on my track as you would send a bloodhound on the trail of an escaped convict? Why am to be pursued and followed? What have I done to be a criminal? Is that manly way to fight a man? Is that Democracy in the State of Ala bama when you take a man and pursue him that way? Is that Democracy or oligarchy?"
 Mir. Conner then read from the report of this paper of his speech at Jasper as to his stand with reference to the appointment of senators saying, q nev- CT said that any vacancies in the sen ate should be filled by the Governor.
 Can anything be so unfair taking what he understands Me to say, and telegraphing 1t in without giving me one single opportunity of looking at 1t? Is that fair?
 Not only that but I have given to The Advertiser a statement of exactly where I stood on this great question in writing, that I favored that the people should elect their senators in the primary. I have stood on one plat form for years. and I have not varied a hairs breadth. I stand where stood fifteen years ago and four years ago when l walked your streets and two and q half years ago when was elect ed to your commission I said four years ago that the people should come face to face with the man they elected. That's what I have always stood for.
 T bow to the will of the executive committee, but I think it would have
 been better in the event of a vacancy.
 that the Governor be required to call q primary to fill the vacancy. How can you vote on a man who is to come in six years hence. But 1t is the ex
 ecutive committees plan and l bow to it as all democrats should do. "I like The Advertiser. It is a great paper, but I don't like most Of
 their ways and neither do you. l trus; | they will mend them"
 The candidate made his usual com parison of the freight rates of Ala l bama and other states and attacked the
 valuations submitted by the roads or l Alabama, saying that the valuation as submitted to the Auditor was about 1 thirty-six million dollars, while the valuation as submitted to the commits