The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
THE USUAL SPEECH
CANDIDATE CoMER APPEARS AT
 LAFAYETTE.
Says That the People should Choose LegssIafure in sympathy With the
 Views He Holds.

Lafayette, March lo'~-Nopce'ot-t Conner spoke here yesterday afternoon to A crowd of about l50 people, includ- ing a small number of ladies. He was introduced by MT. James Hines who referred to the candidates last cam paign, saving, He agreed to do certain things, but was prevented largely by the other members of the commission, but he made an effort to carry out his agreement and if he is elected GOV ernor. we have no reason 10 beltev otherwise than he will carry out what he says he will do"
 ], The candidate, in a two hour ad- dress, made his customary arguments on the freight rate issue and said that if electrd he would do his best to carry out the purposes of the campaign, put admonished his hearers that 1T they were not going to give him the right kind of legislature, not to make him Governor.
 E9 favored education, local option, the old soldier and immigration.
 'In the last election" he said, T spent eight thousand dollars, not for the purpose of buying votes. but for the purpose of education. You remem- Der all those circular letters that were sent out to show you exactly where you stood It cost $2.500 to send those circular letters to the people of Ala bama and those were sent you for the purpose of educating you and show ing you exactly where you stood. In that campaign we spent S11,000 and never was $11, ,000 more better spent on earth and we never regretted one singl solitary cent of it.
 He made his usual freight rate com parisons and reference to the valuation of the roads as given to the Railroad Commission and the State Auditor
 Turning to the reporters table, he said. ""This is MT. Beckham of The Ad- vertiser They love me like brother and they are so afraid they will lose something l say that they send Mir. Beckham with me wherever go. You put down that I say it was published In The Age-Herald that the railroads were going to give me up; that they were going to let me go, but they were going to try to control the rest of the State government and I want them to explain to the people of Alabama what they have got to do with our Auditor, our Treasurer and our Secre- tary of State and why they should have, them more chan. the people of Ala bama-"
 "The quickest way to get relief he said, ifs through the Legislature. They Say I am misleading you when l say that when I was in Montgomery the other day, I said this to the Adverti- ser. I have got no fight against the Advertiser. I like those men. I like Frank Glass and Major Screws and came from the same county, but don't like their ways and when we get through, you won't either"
 The Advertiser" he declared, "has gone clean away from the people and they blame it on me- It's not my fault that they have got away and got out side of the crowd and are not fighting for the same thing you and are. say the quickest relief will come from the Legislature. I don't mean to throw out the commission. What I am say ing is by no manner of means to take duty or power away from the commits sion, but I would take the Legislature if I had the power and have them pass the present rates of Alabama as the maximum rate and those rates couldn't be changed to a higher rate without an act of the Legislature. You know as well as do that the rates are con- stantly changing higher. not lower. There is no fourth class today and third tomorrow, but every time they change the rate is higher and what l am try ing to do is make the present rate the maximum rate. A maximum rate is a rate that can't be made higher. You can tinker on 1t until doomsday and make 1t lower but you can't make 1t higher"
 Mir. Conner made his usual talk as to cupidity and said 1t was human na- ture for man to ask higher price when he had power to name his price, and referred to the insurance scandals where McCurdy and Mccall were re- ceiving princely salaries and yet con sidered them small
 The candidate was listened to with some attention and was applauded fre- quently, but his strength in this com munity is a disputed question. His re- marks as to Dr. Cunningham were the same as he always makes, but the Doc tor has many friends here, who will not desert him.
 MT Corners next stand will be at Jacksonville, Friday.