The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-15
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vbite man were indicted in the court of Judge Busteed.
 several of the most distinguisneo lawyers of Alabama" said MT conner volunteered to defend those seventeen men, and among them was the siiVer : haired Edmund w Pettus, and l want to say if there is any hand that can he reached out to keep Edmund w. Pet tus in the Senate by the Conner poys who were in that seventeen indlcueo men, the call needs only to be made
 He reminded his hearers that he hao piven to a son of Dallas, J. Craig Smith. the fairest flower of his home, and there is now a second J. Crais Smith a baby, but yet citizen or Dal- les. and the line of Dallas Smiths now seem perpet1ated. The brief 1ami'y allusion was cheered by the audience.
 He apeared, he said, as an advocate of no new Democracy In urging the ideas he stood for It was the Democ- racv of Bryan, the Democracy which opposed trusts and governments by the trusts A burst of applause greeted the name of Bryan.
 Bryan and The Advertiser.
 "There IS another kind oe Democracy, the Hamiltonian kind" he said, the truest kind of which The Montgomery Advertiser is an exponent" said MT Conner and The Advertiser is behind him to push him through
 eve are going to elect him, too," said a voice from the audience, and there was some laughter and applause He declared had made two starts In the race for Governor He compared what he called the second start to Mary ana her lamb with The Advertiser as Mary Gritting his teeth and shaking his arms Mr. Conner said vehemently, T want to say to you, Doctor. that tals nsht is the same fight that we made three years ago. I don't know how you feel about 1t, but The Advertiser has taken vou to its arms and made you its can didate and The Advertiser has been fighting us ever since we started.
 At shis iuncture there started the great demonstration for Cunnin gham. a demon nstration which has had no fel- low or equal in this campaign It was started by some man in the gallery with no very strong voice. He only piped out "Hurrah for Cunnin gham. and this gave the Cunningham men their chance great roar of applause went ur. Its sourse spread from every section of the crowded house. NOT were the Cunningham men willing to stop with one roar of applause but the cheering had to be kept up and main tained.
 The Cunningham men had been bid ing their time to give vent to their enthusiasm and now 1t burst forth. There was no comparison of this vol ume of noise with the cheers. as hearty as they were, which greeted the ap- pearance of MT. Conner. For full two minutes hurrahs were longer and louds CT and continued The cheering would die away for a few moments and then rise again in greater volume.
 MT. Conner stood smiling, though somewhat embarrassed through 1t all. Chairman Rountree rose as though he would ask that MT. Conner be permit hTf he peal At length the Cunningham cheer CTS vi ire themselves out and quit. MT. Conner resumed his speech but in a lower key and with less emphasis.
 He took up feature of his speech with which he was thoroughly famil- lar, and which he brought down from his campaign with John V, Smith, the comparison of the freight rates of Ala bama. He told his story of the meeting g of the railroad commission at which Traffic Agent Green of the Southern, when asked how freight rates are made said:
 AIabama's sorriest Railroad.
 "As long as the stuff continues to move the rate Is not high After en- laring upon this remark, and growing violently indignant about 1t, T want to say to you," said MT. Conner that the sorriest railroad in Alabama runs from Selma to Mobile and yet 1t runs through as rich an agricultural sectlon as there is in the world. But l can say the road from Selma to Akron is just as sorry If you find sorrier one let me know it."
 He declared that the fight beine made in Alabama was made that this State would have the same sort ot railroad legislation as Virginia, Geor- gia or Texas where the "Descendants of the heroes of the Alamo said to the railroad: We'll rule this State; and fl you don't like it you can get out Here MT. Conner sprang his feature ot the joint discussion. He picked from the table long paper saying: The bill giving the railroad commission its present power is invalid. It is uncon- stitutional. I am reliably informed ot this VI
 The Railroad Commission therefore had no other power than that given by the old advisory law passed by the Legislature of 1881. My attention was drawn to this by MT. Purdue of Bir- mingham and Bibb Graves of Mont gomery later wrote me to the same ef- feet. At his suggestion, I had W. L. Martin, ex-Attorney General, to in- vestigate the law and see if 1t was un- constitutional. I have here his opinion in which he says the bill is unconsti- tutional because 1t was not properly engrossed. The opinion is here to be printed by the press of the State if they want it. Now we have only the law of 1881 and it's an advisory law not worth the paper 1t was written on'
 Turning to the crowd on the stage MT. Conner said: T wapt to tell you that these reports that I have gone about in various counties trying to in- terfere with their local affairs is not true. I want to say to you that have not opposed any man for the Legisla- ture and I have not tried to dictate to any County the sort of a man they should send to the Legislature"
 Hamburger and Conner.
 Max Hamburger recently nominated for State Senator from Mobile County happened to be sitting on the front row ofssthe crowd on the stage, his mouth opened in surprise and he all but rose to sspeak. As MT. Conner turned away MT Hamburger said: Good Heav- cusi He stumped Mobile County against me and wrote letters all over the County"
 MT. Conner resumed his attacks upon