The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-16
DR. CUNNINGHAM SPEAKS
 IN TALLAP00SA COUNTY

that was SO responsive that it was en-
 thusiastic at timee.A There Is some
 thing queer about Tallapoosa County.
 By every known political rule 1t should
 bc for Conner. It Is a white county
 hill county and county which has
 Populists have always been strong
 there. TAllapoosa gave Reuben F.
 Kolb tho overwhelming majority of 2.s00 votes.
 But some of pr. cunningham's friends came to him today and told him that
 he was going to get the majority in
 the county. pr CunnirEham was in clined to doubt the good news. It didn't seem probable under the cir
 cumstances But some Of his friends
 were positive, while others thought
 that back in the hills the new Gun ninKhana movement had not had tune
 to do its work. They were afraid that
 the politically nknown sections of the
 known sections in which Is Dr. Cunning hams strength and the county would go for Conner.
 .sThe county Is a Cunningham coun- ty." said J. s. Knight, an ardent ad- nlirer of Dr. Cunningham. Tt Is go- ing for Cunningham. have never seen such a poiiticai revolution az there
 has been in this section. What was once coiner's Is now cunningham's. Of course the towns are for Cunningham and not only are the towns but some of the country as we'll You see the time came when the voters had to corf- pare the two candidates. In ability. in character. in talents. in experience. two men who are offering for this of- flce. And that's what's the matter with Mr. Corners campaign. arhe peo- pie are making this comparison and Mr. Conner is losing, votes steadily. aI once lived in the same town with Dr. Cunningham. In business, in pro- fessionai life and in the lodge room I was thrown win him. I am like every man who ever knew D.. Cunningham personally: am for him for Governor first. last and all the time. I wonder if the friends of Mir. Conner can say the same thing for him." A few other friends of pr. Cunningham conceded
 the county to Conner by small na- jcrity,
 zen of Taliapoosa County and a mem her of the late Constitutional Conven- l tion, is also one of pr. Cunningham's active and aggressive supporters in ITAllapoosa County. MT. Maxwell is one of number of leading citizens of the
 county who are aaboring early and late | in the endkavor to have Tallapoosa
 give pr. Cunningham a big vote. ! Campaian Gains Steadily. Its "a risky thing to predict how | the county is going, whether for Cum Iningharn or against him" said Mir. Max
 well. At this junctnre the majority would not be large either one way or the other. But Cunningham has been gaining steadily ever since the cam paigu opened and he continues to gain Mir Conner would have taken the county three months ago by an
 overwhelming majority. The situation | is not the same now. In the town beats, Cunningham has decidedly the best of 1t. Uniess Mir. Conner Is as strong in the ceuntry as his friends clalfn, he will be woefully disappointed ct the vote of Tallapooea County" On his arrival in Alexander City. pr. Cunningham was met at the depot by a connmittse of prominent citizens head ed by Hon. J. A. Goggans. So anxious were the voters of Alexander City to
 meet pr. Cunningham that he was l tulI half hour in walking from the de- pot to hIs hotel. block away The l time he spent in meeting and greeting knots of voters on the sidewalk. The speaking was in .-le court room lof the Alexander City court house. tTallapoosa County has two court i houses. one at Dadeyille and one at l Alexander City. The Tallapoosa River | runs between the two towns and cuts | the con lty in two.