The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09


 account of those articles. this fight is heine made today. I would go into that If I had time. but l havent
 I didn't quite get through with tne comparison I was making with the ralis aas road statements. You remember l was ia liking about the statements; the state ment of value and the statement or ln come; their valuations as made py thetr own statements and their 1iatenents income S niad T have in my hand a comparison of their valuation as given to the com mission and as given to the AuoiIor ios the purpose of taxation. The l.. ana N. gave in to the Auditor for the pur- pose of being taxed for the peopi,e $7, ,006 a mile, and gave Tn to the halIS road Commission. for sne sne purpIGIse riIIs. aIi under oath, more than seven times the difference. It Is customary througn 2 the State to give in about iO per cens of the value. Suppose Inis ,,a Ta,iiond o,,5 take their affidavit as true statement, ', 1t would take about s40.00Q; and tnat would help build your public schoois, and you need them. Now, further Inan tnn that. Take their own statements. This was taken on basis that they had $36, ,0O0. .0O0-they value their roads t3 t9 the Commission at s25O,ooO oVoMun naa .1i 1t was raised in Alabama to $54,ooo, ,000. They are paying taxes on S54,o0o'Vov. You remember two years and hall ago when was making the fight. l am todo aa that they spent something llke stoo'SeV Seo feat me and I was very dangerous man. I have several times takeh up the papers and shown this and crltl, cised it; The papers repI replied aas shS Sassh: % but I like the press. I think the press a great institution In Alaoana, anu U when one of them said 1t was open 10 me as 1t was open to the raiiroads, they forgot that no man in Alabama can advertise like the railroads: sup pose had advertised like the ralirqads s 1t would have cost me SzoS;Vy1po oon sor one great advertisement 1t made. couldn't answer that. It's the men that tax you and me who can do this, but the. man who mas mas to go do do"f it II am told there was something like SoOO.- 900 spent to debauch you-to nuy me; re We are here in the court room. anybody was caught trying to ouy a jury. they would put you in jail. Ana here was the railroads of Alabama ouy ing right and left, as far as they couIu reach. with money taxed rom tne pe92e pe9e ple. They taxed you at a higher rate and they taxed you for the purpose oI buying you They have given that TOT the politician and the grafter to puy you with, but not one single solItary cent to reduce your freight. They can't afford to carry your freight. pus they can afford to carry men dean head. Any grafter can go dead head' but they can't touch your tEeiffn' So ft frs cause they ain't able to do It. wrong; wrong as it can be. an.
 Now we are going back to the ngnt between Dr. Cunningham and myselI. When the Constitution was oelng formed, we tried to get Dr. Cunning ham to go with us then. We tried 10 get then the Constitution law of Geor- gia When we were making the Iace about four years ago and Dr. cunning ham was running for Governor, ms re- nIv to us. when we asked him where he stood, was no reply at all, and when, two years and a half ago, when the fight was on through the state anu R1r n YOU, he lodged the issue-he was m Europe. I am making this statement to you because the fight Is between pr: Cunningham and myself for GoVernor of Alabama. MT. Cunningham Is nice man; he is a nice, genial gentle man, and wish 1t had been so ne could have taken this issue and fougnt that YOU could trust him to take load and pull it. If he had not been baIky horse. he would be in the race race today. but every single. solltary uils nS to talk Back wonder in the Leglsla , ture, back there he did make two good moves for you. One he voted TOT the majority of the committed and the other he referred to trlendiy eoi'iiiitt- tee. 1,.,,
 Today he is running for Governor. and he has come out and taken our platform. He has gone little farmer he favored rate for Alabama lower than the Georgia rate At Union Springs he said that he would try 10 carry that out. and he said also at Union Springs that he was not wiling to ask you to get a Legislature to carry this out. He said that that was in the Commission and that it was my place to do it; that l was elected TOT tnae mat nnOht fO elect two more men like me and boss inc com mission and let them boss the rali- roads and name the rate. He has been endorsed by some of the strongest pa pers in the State--as safe and as con servatiVe. l have copies Of The Ad- vertiser. I name that splendid pap'L and I like The Advertiser ana Wlsh they liked me. And I wish besides that The Advertiser liked the people better. When l made the race against John V. Smith, The Advertiser was against me to the bitter end and put great Dig az vertisements in against me Not only that, they had editorials endorsing Smith against me. Since that time l have had the same kind of showing. MT Smiths advertising was paid by the railroads; paid mine myself. They charged me 17 cents line. If they had charged smith IT cents. then smith and all his kinfolks wouldnt nave had money to pay for the adverttseing. Do you recollect that Pro Bono Publico Committee down there? That Pro Bono Publico Committee was the railroads. Everything that the Pro Bono Publico Committee carried around there was paid for by the railroads. It was mon ey taken from the people by the rail- roads to pay for the advertising of a man running for Commissioner. =.
 Now, gentlemen, they pronounced me dangerous man at that time. They said If I succeeded 1 would stop the building of railroads; that I would stop the coming of capital in this State. Do you all recollect Jim Dandy Meade? I am told that they spent s50.000 adver- tising Meade and the people responded by giving me Jim Dandy majority. what was the truth and what was not the truth. This paper pronounced me dangerous and Jon V. Smith conser- vative; a sane man; one who would do right between the people and the rall- road Today John V. Smith is in the before the Commission. Suppose you had elected John V. Smith? Would 1t not have been q calamity for the peo- pie of Alabama If you had done so? What man in the State would dare say that? Think of trying these great ders and Tunstall. The railroad rates being tried before John V. Smith, San ders and Tunstall That was your jury. You might just as well try. man who has committed a crime by his wife and two daughters. That was back wonder two years ago that The Advertiser says l was dangerous man.
 Tn his speech at Union Springs Dr. Cunningham says that T favor the bama should have a lower rate than Georgia. l have diagnosed the case and 1 have gone over the facts and l be- lieve that Alabama should have low