The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-24
Conner Sun Sinking in
 Greene.
People of County Have Begun To Look Closely Into situation and Friends Are Made For the
 Doctor.
BY WILL T. STEPHAN.

BY WILL T. STEPHAN. I Eutaw, June 23--(Special Correspond !, ence )-The sun of MT. Conner reached 1 it's meridian in February in Greene
 county. It has sin- been steadily de- I In February. MT Conner could have 1 carried Greene county by an over f whelming vote. In June he couldn' t ]! carry 1t at all Tn August Cunning | hams majority will be large and sub- 1 stantial
 i Such Is the opinion of the leading citizens of Eutaw They have kept
 their hands upon the pulse of public
 opnion and what the~ have to say
 comes not out of speculation. but out of
 fullness of Knowledge. They who are
 most familiar with the situation are l convinced that Cunningham is easily
 leading in the race for Governor in i Greene, notwithstanding the fact that
 in February while Dr. Cunningham was
 quietly at Lome attending to his pro- fessionai duties, MT. Conner was riding
 on the top wave f his evanescent pop
 u, ity Tn Februars MT. Conner came
 to Eutaw with Captain Richmond Pear son Hobson, and the two made rousing stump speeches and the Conner men went away highly elated
 1 Day of Elation Over. But their day of elation in Greene c unity Is over. The Cunningham r n are the confident ones now. They have no doubt but that they will take the
 county with a safe and satisfactory vote. The wonderful change in political sen timent which has been going on for | the past three months to Dr. Cunning l hams advantage and to Mir. Corners | disadvantage, been quite as re- | markable in Greene as in any other N-r >h Cfok ThA I even are e-.nittin- a change of senti- ment.
 | Of course the reason below and be- I hind the change is that the voters are 1 beginning to think. And when they l begin to think Mir. Conner begins to lose votes. Calm thought on MT. Co., mers campaign is like frost on new gardon. It chills and destroys. MT Conner. was strong at one time
 because the people believed that he was | going to remove the evils under which | they suffer. The railroads discrin-
 mate against Eutaw. Of this there is
 no doubt.
 Freight can be hauled from Mem | phis right on through Eutaw to Epes | and Livingston, for rate from two
 to five cents hundred cheaper than 1t | can be hauled into Eutaw. In other | words 1t would be money in mer- chants pocket to have his freight sent
 through Eutaw to Epes and then haul
 ed back to Eutaw.
 I No one knows why it has existed, but | fl has. The Commercial Club of Flu | taw at a recent meeting figured 1t out | that Eutaw was each year paying out l $40 900 because these determinations which she ought not to pay. NOW
 these figures may or may not be right but the Commercial Club is responsi- | ble for them.
 Now there are many people in Eu- l Jaw, merchants mainly, who thought l all that had to be done to remove l these discriminations was to give Mr. 1 Conner an office There were mis- | guided people who believed that when | ever Mr. Conner touched q button the | railroads straightway had a fit. MT. | Conner has been touching all the but | tons he could reach and the railroads have not been throwing any fits nor have they been reducing any rates. | MT. Conner as President of the Rail- | road Commission hIs not been able to | remove this and other determinations
 and the people are beginning 10 un- 1 derstand that what he could not oo as a member of the Railroad Commission he certainly could not do as Governor People Admit Mistake.
 l The people understood that they were l mistaken in believing that MT. Conner | could take an axe and a -handsaw and | % at the job fixing freight rates. In inc first place neither the Railroad l Commission nor the Governor can lift af finger to remove the discrimination aeainst Eutaw in the rates from Vest ern shipping points. It Is matter TOT l the Interstate Commerce Commission | The rates are interstate rates and no Igovernmental authority within the State of Alabama can touch them. Now when nnderStAnd Ithey cannot remove these conditions by merely electinS MT. Conner to office, pr Cunningham begins to get new votes | Three years ago the people wire led by MT Conner and his friends to be- lieve that all that had to be done to remedy these conditions was to elect MT. Conner President of the Railroad Commission This was done and no re- suits followed Now MT. Conner and his friends are engaged in another effort to make the people believe that, aI- though nothing has been done, If MT. Conner is elected Governor, the indust- I rial millennium will be at hand and the railroad will have to walk chalk line.
 So in Greene County, around Eutaw,
 which feels the force of these discrim-
 nations there was feeling that MT
 Conner should be elected, but when
 thought and reflection had their inning | a radical change m sentiment came anu inow Greene is looked upon as absolute Fly safe for the Cunningham column.
 pr Cunningham was almost given an
 ovation at Eutaw yesterday. Nearly all the stores were closed when he began his speech at II o'clock. The bis court room in the quaint old-fash-
 toned court house was crowded from
 window to window. A local man famil-
 far with the relative capacity of the
 court room estimated that there were 175 voters in the room
 Dr. Cunningham was presented to the
 audience by Hon. Edwin Wilson, Regis ter In Chancery. He was given a hearty and warm greeting He deliv-
 cred q strong and convincing address,
 the impress of which could be plainly
 seen upon the minds of his hearers.
 The audience was especially intelli- gent and representative. It was so much so that those conversant with country affairs and country citizenship made comment upon 1t.
 Audience Was Representative.
 Tn this connection Probate Judge A.
 P Smith said. "A more representative
 audience could hardly have been got ten together. In addition to the mer- chants and clerks who came from their ! business to tho court room to hear the
 address ot Dr. Cunningham were some
 of our best and most intelligent farm
 CTS, some of whom rode many miles to
 hear the speech. It was a thinking au-
 dience winch was made up of men who
 will retain what thev heard and will