The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-18
cunninrharn sentiment.

the Cunningham men was the fact that four out of the five candidates for Pro-
 bate Judge were supporters of Dr. Cum
 ninrham. This statement was made
 uneduivocally by member of the club,
 that four of the five candidates had an-
 nounced their intention of supporting
 Dr. Cunningham
 There is significance in the fact. too.
 that the editors of the two papers in
 Camden, The Banner and The Progres- sive Era, are staunch Cunningham men.
 we are very hopeful that Wilcox
 County is going to give Dr. Cunning
 ham a good majority over MT. Conner.
 said Dr Benson. President of the Cum
 r!ngham Club. We are not permitting
 ourselves to he deceived by overconfi- dence. either. but are weighing the con-
 ditions carefully. and working energeti-
 calIy I have no doubt whatever but
 that Camden Beat will give two votes to Cunningham to one for Conner. From
 what I can hear the Cunningham sentt-
 ment predominates even more In Pine
 apple Beat. We have reason to believe
 that Cunningham is going to get good
 majority in all the eastern beats of
 the county Of this I think there is
 no doubt. The western beats. we have been led to believe, are against us "The Conner movement get strength | from the old socialists and popuiists who have fought the Democratic par 1 ty in past campaigns. I dc not mean to ! say that all the Conner men are Popu- | lists or Soci a ists. There are ] good men and patriotic men among them but I will say a good part of the voting strength of that side will come from men who have opposed the con- servatism and intelligence of the Demo- cratic party in the past. The sort of
 campaign that Mir. Conner is conducting appeals to those men. In Wilcox. how ever we are not fearing for the result"
 One of the most enterprising state ments heard in Camden was the state- rent of E. E. Hunter. well known Black Belt man but now living in Mon- roe County. of his belief that Cunning
 r,am would certainly carry Monroe County. It is surprising from the fact that three years ago Monroe County gave MT. Corner in proportion one of | the very largest maJorities he received 1 over John V. Smith. MT. Hunter was | sure that a revulsion of public senti-
 ment was taking place and so great
 had it been that he believed the coun- | ty had now turned to Cunningham. Nor
 was he the only Monroe County man
 that was heard to make that statement | Sentiment in Monroe.
 | They had in Camden the story of a l prominent Monroe County official who | had been a staunch friend of Mir. Conner
 ever since he has been in Alabama poll l ties who heard him speak in Monroe vile and after hearing the sort of 1 speech that Mir. Conner makes announc- | ed that regardless of consequences he
 was going to support pr. Cunningham | There was the story too. of the Monroe l County man who lived at Tunnel | Springs and who had ten grown sons.
 Father and ten grown sons are all Cum ningham supporters.
 | Dr. R. O. Semmes, county health of1-
 cer. and who lives in one of the beats
 adjoining Camden. was positive that his
 beat was going to give Cunningham
 handsome majority. He knew that the ] Cunningham men greatly outnumbered
 the Conner men.
 The Cunningham men were not fear ! full of any part of the county except
 the west side of the county where there | was believed to be considerable Co.,
 mer sentiment. Dr. Cunningham spoke
 over there tonight. To do SO he rode 1 more than twenty miles through the | country. in a surry. His speech was l delivered to a good sized audience at ] Pine Hill Immediately after it he
 took Couthern train for his home In l Ensley.
 ! At Camden, where he spoke today at | 10 o'clock. a large audience heard him. l The large courtroom was crowded to | hear the address. He was presented l by President Benson of the Cunningham l Club. The crowd was most apprecia-
 tive.
 Dr. Cunningham gave his auditors a l dignified discussion of the issues of | the campaign. He studiously refralned
 from any personalities and in every in- | stance where 1t was necessary to men ton his opponent he spoke of Mir. Co.,
 mer respectfully and cautiously. He | explained to his audience, however, 1 that when he and Mir. Conner were to-
 gether in a joint debate he did not fol- | low that rule so closely but in his ab- sence he would make no attack upon
 him, but would discuss his position on
 the rate issue of the present cam | paign.
 Dr. Cunningham went out to show
 how he had been represented as a band
 wagon climber on the rate question | when in fact he had a public record | on 1t before MT. Conner ever came into prominence as identified with that is l sue. He moreover illustrated to his | hearers the different positions MT Co., l mer had occupied on that question, de- l claring one time for the Georgia rate | as the maximum rate and declaring | again for the Alabama rate, whichH Dr. ! Cunningham declared mad been demon Strated to be too high. Now Dr. Gun | ningham pointed out Mir Conner had abandoned both positions and stood for l the Georgia rate on one hundred arti- ! cles and had nothing to say of the l other 3.1OO articles hauled by the rail | roads.
 | Dr Cunningham made clear his po- l sItion on the evils of Child Labor He
 declared If elected he would recommend l 10 the legislature law that would