The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-17

ceed. When the corporations of this
 tenth of ore. per cent, l directed ihe Tax Commissioner tv bring suit and I notified them that if they did not 1p9,ig paisg %ouid Sast ins assess them one-iifth of onS per cent instead of one-tenth.
 the soy Tax K z commissioner. ,ms compromls. up each of them. l uIldertaks to say that as q candidats i, & Tor SoysrpSr Hyiiss of the oflce of Governor and give you my
 policies that would control me In al
 ministerlng the ofice Of governor or
 the duties of the once of Governor are divided into two classes. his relation to
 the legislative and executive autIss.
 iatyre in this way. Under the Consti-
 tuition he recommends to the LeEisla-
 ture certain policies which he sug-
 gests as 2 lay. and when @ fns piil sn o0mso do
 one of three things. He can agree 70
 tt, when, 1t becomes fE "; he can & veto to
 it in which case It .iain.tsd to ns osGn sbsre 70
 In order to make 1t s law it eauires
 majority of fifty-thres in the House
 and eighteen In the Senate, or, third,
 he en c.e1. thoss of m voa s SRs SRss arc
 you Who are interested in any other
 question: that Is all the Governor can do Stats of Alabama. and If there are those among you who believe thst the Governor is the whole thing. I call your attention to orticle three of the Con stItution, which makes three depart. ments of government, the legislative. Judicial and executive, and the G3vern- or cannot diseharEs the dnties rS or si'nrr nTs
 those who believe when you have elect
 ed d Governor. and right here MT. O. mer. let mo say that challenge the
 nothins to say as to legislation. have not gone into the counties of the State of Alabama and undertaken to place State of Alabama I don't care what
 zens to this: that 1t is not who a man
 is. put what he is; l subscribe ,ss, nIons to or wlelds the pick, or who pulls tbe throttle, or IS Q lawyer or h dootor. lf
 he is a man, will do what he says re- Now, fellow citizens, in regard to the executive duties of the offios. They are set out in the Constitution and In tue statutes. and they are very. many. I giving you my record as Governor. Now' gsnIlemen. the subject of AlabamS
 Alabama Is a great State, Ii l aays sisys State in cotton production, 1t Is the | fourth coal producing State. and the third pig iron producing State. There make more cotton, more coal. more iron. but there Is no State in the Union that equals Alabama in all these. It has
 been truly said that AlsoamSa Sa o,id e0uid ,,p ne and live we'll by themselves. and be- | lieve that we could have everything ex- cept coffee. and chamPagne' and dia- monds. and as substitute for them, we can have the beautiful eyes of the
 women and girls.
 Now, fellow citizens, the destiny of
 what man does. and what God does; Now, If Alabama Is the richest State. of the Union by nature, ther in proportion
 t. our. area We ought m tne course ,.2 9t nave 1sO, 900 acres of mineral land and
 more than 2oO.Uo0 of agricultural land, and only Sn 000 acres of agricultural land Is being cultivated. and the greater nart of your mineral wealth has not | been touched. There ought to be an exclamation for this and l will offer 1t
 s% got enough folks. At this time Ala kstna should increase her white Dopu- lation. To do this there are two ways. 1 First to keep our own boys and girls.
 The second Is immigration IT send a message to the Legislature l shall recon mend to that body the enactment of laws looking to the Introduction in the State of Alabama of desirable lmml-
 grants. They are essent,ai to the vel
 what are desirable immi~rants? Our sort of folks? Where do we come from | ASK your boy who Is familiar with the Yon that our ancestors were English. Welch, Scotch. Irish. German Scanda- | navIan and Hollander, and from these fellow citizens comes the blood that IS no -'.Sare on earth such an individual as an American. He has more "get