The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-23
LieutenantG Governor Sup
 porterS at Work.
Are Enthusiastic Over the Outlook and Say Their Man Will Re Returned a Winner
 August 27.
RY WILL T. sHEEHAN.

ms one-horse wagon pulled up in front
 or the stairway of Knowles's Hall
 while the big crowd was gathering for , The Cunningham. meering. The streets were filled with merchants. clerks with mill operatives and foundrymen
 and small boys. awaiting the hour for
 Lieutenant Governor Cunningham to begin his address.
 1 The men with the fee cream blocks
 knew his business. He was just as
 shrewd as politician In finding the popular side and planting his feet on
 Vt and he reaped the reward of his shrewdness. Every few minutes in voice thai carried over the Chatta-
 hoochee river Into Columbus which
 With all the rest of Georgia is having
 its Hoke Smith and Clark Howell i troubles the fee cream man would call out:
 "Hooraw for Cunningham. Here
 they are-cold and nice-two blocks
 for cents. Bargains in ice cream. The nights hot and ger 'em while they are cold. Hooraw for Cunningham Of course he sold his wares. He couldn't have found a more popular | cry to win trade. Fvr Girard Is d Cunning ham community. The Conner
 men admit that The Cunningham
 not know how overwhelmingly 1t is for Cunningham, and it's the biggest
 beat in the County. too.
 P. M. Daniels, the most popular man in Phenix City and Girard lis leading the fight for the Lieutenant Governor. The people of Russel County recently nominated Mir. Daniels by an over whelming vote for Sheriff He lacked but three votes of getting as many as the other two candidates combined and | they were popular men in Russell, Here in Girard." said Mir. Daniels. am looking for Dr. Cunningham's vote to be as big as mine In the primary
 in Girard beat I got PA votes while my two opponents together received forty eight. That's the sort of vote I want this beat to give Dr. Cunningham" As big chalmers as the Conner men are, they are not claiming this beat. There are some bad stories out around here. which hint to some of the boys that there will be some Conner money out on election day. Now I don't know that his is reliable. but I tell you that some of the boys around here have been told that there will be something do- ing on election day, The time has passed when Girard beat could be car- r:ed with money. If the other side turns loose a lot of money they may cut into our majority a little bit. but
 they will never wipe 1t out in the
 world.
 Having the biggest vote in the Coun-
 ty, we are going to eat up Conner ma
 jorities from at least half a dozen
 beats in the County and maybe more.
 hardly think there will be any big
 majority from any beat in Russell and
 don't see where they are going to get
 the majorities to eat pthe big vote
 we are going to get here In Gtrard The Girard speech was the third of
 trinity delivered by Dr. Cunning
 ham in Russell. The middle speech
 was given at Scale at 11:3O on
 white hot day in August. Superin-
 tendent of Education J. l.. Pollard had
 Dr. Cunningham in charge from one
 end of the county. for like all other
 enthusiastic supporters of the cause
 of common schools MT. Pollard Is
 staunch friend of pr. Cunningham.
 Mir Pollard was inclined in advance to apoIigize for the small crowd which he feared would meet the doctor at Scale. The people of Scale were never aiven to going to political meetings and they had not yet been stirred up in this present campaign. MT Comer had spoken there Saturday and al- though he had (. good audience the Cunningham men believed that 1t was largely due to the fact that the town was full of visitors.
 No Call for Apology.
 But there was no call for an apology for the Scale audience. An agreeable surprise awaited Mir. Pollard The court house was packed and damned There were no vacant seats and many in the audience had to stand through the speaking. The Cunningham men declared that the crowd was consid- | erably larger than that which MT. Conner addressed on Saturday. At any | rate. the Cunningham men wore smiles | the day
 They were no less pleased with the | splendid impression Dr. Cunningham | made upon the big audience. At Scale. | as it has happened in other places in | Alabama, 1t was developed that men who had been counted as friends and supporters of Mir. Conner, were already | friends of pr. Cunningham, And it de- veloped that men who had not made up their minds and who had been on the fence until the speaking, came forth as Cunningham supporters.
 Dr. Cunningham was presented to the large audience by Mir. Pollard. MT. Pollard in few effective words told of the Lieutenant Governors magnih- cent record in services to his party and his State. He told of that long and consistent public record of Dr. Gun bingham on the vital question of this question of rate re- form.
 Dr. Cunningham was not only given an attentive hearing. but the attention broke into applause. A num- Der of ladies were present and they enjoyed the address
 Dr. Cunningham again read the state nent of Judge J. M. Carmichael giv- Ing credit to Dr. Cunningham not only Tor conceiving the present plan of working the States convicts. but pay Ing tribute as well for his great ser- , vice in advising and directing the in- ;tallatio1 of the new system. z
 Now. fellow citizens," said Dr. Cum bingham, chiefly because of the suc- f .ess of your present system of work I ng the convicts, you have in your I ;tate Treasury the sum of $1,S0O, 900, of which a million dollars Is a clear sur e ,lus You have, in other words. the a um of $1, 100000 which you can devote | O your schools and for the benefit of he old soldiers. The success of the f ew system Is so widely known that 1t S eeds but little comment. In one of Y UT joint discussions, asked MT. Conner V { he was In favor of continuing the | resent system if he should become a iovernor. His only response was. I'll V ross that bridge when I get to it." e
 A feature of the day at Scale was S by three or four negroes who Il card Dr. Cunningham speak and who k ung around to speak to him after the f peaking was over. They were ex-con- t .ets sent up from Russell County who ,a1 served time In the mines They 2 1ouldn't go away until they had thank i. d Dr Cunningham for his kindness and u harity 10 them while they were Tn the 1 b hines. r