The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-14

less Of course, 1t IS lmposslple to print the next day every word he says we have given the complete reports. of two of his peeches--something no one of his newspaper friends has done, and our instruction to MT. Beckham now is to take down every word Mir. Conner says, but to send in by wire each night only the new portions of the speeches. The public does not care to read his old stock speech every day. Besides. The Advertiser is printing news paper
 Now, let us examine Mir. Corners catalogue of grievances against The Advertiser. The first is that it has sent out circular of instructions about his speeches to it's correspondents. The instruction was a mimeograph letter, and it is reproduced in full on this page. There is nothing in it for MT. Conner to make a fuss about: 1t IS simply an instruction to our corre- spondents to wire us as soon as they learn of an appointment by him to speak in their counties. This was es- sentiaI for the guidance of Mir Beck ham. MT. Conner has not published list of appointments, and he has not given all of them to MT. Beckham. We did not know of his appointment at Ma rion on ths 5tll and this circular was the direct result of the failure to have our short-hand reporter there.
 Mir. Corners apparent grievance in &I,s cd him incorrectly at Jasper. As already alluded to, this matter is explained by Mir Beckham in card. It is clear that Mir. Conner has tried to make a noun tain out of a mo1ehill. He seizes on a very small difference to make a big row.
 When analysed, 1t is doubtful if any serious mistake was made. It Is notorious fact that MT. Conner bitterly resents the action of the State Com- mittee and never fails to denounce what 1t did, as the action and plotting of a lot of railroad attorneys. At Athens, where he read his views as to the Sena- toriaI primary and which were printed literally in The Advertiser, he held a position different from the one he as- sumed at Jasper, and it was calculated to mislead our correspondent or any other man. At Athens, he said:
 If the intent was to have given the people the right to express their choice why did they not require the candi- dates for Governor to pledge them selves that in the event Of vacancy, they would ask for primary, then A hay real and not an imaginary candidate. and the young men coming Of age in after years could vote. --.~'..
 Here was a distinct proposition for a primary in the regular way. At Jasper and Alexander City he said:
 I believe that the Governor should pledge himself that he would call a primary Tn case of vacancy.
 At one time he calls for a. primary in the regular way, through the regu- lar authorities. At another he wants a primary which the Governor would call at his own sweet will and inclina- | tion. It is evident that he would like to set the committee aside and sub stitute his own will and pleasure. He asserts that he bows to the will of the Committed, and yet he is constantly criticising it, and knifing it. He likes the Committee and it's action just about as much as he likes The Advertiser, and he is showing his like the same way.
 Now to the main grievance of MT. Conner. He states 1t himself in these words:
 Why have they singled me out to send man on my track as you would send a bloodhound on the trail Of an escaped convict? What have l done to be criminal? Is that a manly way to fight a man? Is that Democracy in the State of Alabama when you take a man and pursue him that way? Is that Democracy, or oligarchy, or trust!
 Whew! What an outburst of wrath! It Is both amazing and amusing. What spectacle he makes of himself! In the first place. The Advertiser has not singled him out, because so far he is the only candidate for Governor who is busy making speeches. His opponent Dr. Cunningham, seems to be biding his time, perhaps until MT. Conner is winded, when he expects to come in on the home stretch. Just as soon as Dr. Cunningham goes on the stump The Advertiser will take just as muci 1 care to get full reports of his speeches We will not treat him any worse o better than we have MT Conner.
 MT. Conner demonstrates the truth O what The Advertiser said two week aeo-he does not want his speeches re ported by a shorthand man; in fact he does not want them reported at all He resents in the strongest language the constant attendance of reporter Isn't that astonishing in this goth cen tury when the freedom of the press il recognized as never before? Look a him, candidate for the highest offic' in great State, going about over i making speeches every few days, anC denouncing the enterprise of a news
 paper for letting the whole people know what he is saying. Who hal ever heard of such a candidate before
 Where. in all the Union. has there beei an aspirant for high office who has no desired all the newspaper reporters h. could get at his heels, and the utrnos advertising in the newspapers? Wha j fairer way is tnere to light a man thai V to give the public promptly and full!