The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-17
MAKING MR. CONFER ANOTHER
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 The following is from The Selma Times:
 About the surest indication that we can see that B. B. Conner is sure win ner Is the fact that The Advertiser IS against him. That paper IS sena, to tos report i"orjbane Eomer,s 'S Speeches. yer batim. but The garbles these re, ports and Conner does not fail to call him down. MT. Conner does not , object but I he has a right to Kick on incor- E rect. garbled reports. The Advertiser has started out to make the kind or campaign 1t made against kolo, put every time it nlisrepresents SoHer " makes him votes
 1t is a serious confession of the,weak- ness of his candidacy when one of MT. Corners leading supporters considers this papers opposition the principal proof of his success. MT. Conner may well pray to be delivered from the ad- voeacy of such foolish friends. MT. Conner himself has much longer head. he is very sorry The Advertiser is against him and has publicly said so.
 The Times Is also wrong in saying that Mr. Conner does not object to be- Ing reported fairly. It has been very clear from the beginning that he did not want to be reported at all. It is very annoying to him to have any re- porter around when he is speaking. He is not sure of himself. and is con- stantIy afraid he is going to make some break that win hurt him. And he Is right: he. has made several bad breaks. and the newspapers are keep ing him in constant dread. He made 1t unmistakable at Alexander City that he resented the constant attendance of the shorthand reporter, not merely be- cause he was working for The Adver- tiser. but because he regards any re- porterss steady attendance as an intru- sion. He wants to say what he pleases, away from the cities especially, and a record of his utterances hampers him. There is no reporter living who could please Mr. Conner. if he didn't let him patch up his blunders after the speech is over. At Alexander City he ad- vanced the claim that he ought to have the privilege of revising the short hand mans report. He. does not want exactly what he says to go out much of the time. 2t
 Our Selma contemporary is getting on dangerous ground. too, when it nn- dertakes to make a Koib out of Mir. Conner. and to get him sympathy on that line There may be more resemb- lance in the two men than The Times in it's thoughtlessness realized. Kolb's 6 campaign was based on two things, ap- peals to class prejudice, and arraisn- tnent of the Democratic organization. MT. Conner is in pretty near the same attitude. He is trying to array the
 mass of people against the railroads and to ride into office on wave of popular passion. Furthermore, he has been arraigning Democratic adminis- trations as belonging to the railroads I and is now criticising the Democratic | Committees recent action as the work i of railroad attorneys. He is following i Kolb's footsteps pretty closely. The
 Times may think that likening Conner I to Kolb Is making its favorite votes
 but the more the people seriously con
 slider that idea the less they are going i to take to the Conner program. Ar raying class against class, denouncins l Democratic administrations for years
 past and knifing the State Committed: recent action may be crafty politics
 but so far they have not been success | full in Alabama.