The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-20
GOVERNOR CONFER INVITED.

GOVERNOR COMER INVITED.
 It was during the afternoon that a resolution was offered inviting the governor to appear before the associa- ton and make an address, and 1t has originated among a few members, who had prearfanged the invitation for the purpose of introducing the resolutions roasting the governor
 The above is an extract from a Mont gomery special in the Birmingham Age Herald of yesterday. It is a gross misstatement about a matter that has been unduly agitated and exaggerated. At the morning session of the Alabama Press Association on Thursday Mir. John C. Williams. of The Talladega Mountain Home offered a resolution extending to Governor Conner all the privileges and courtesies of the floor during tho meetings. Those who know MT. Williams know how unjust is the above statement as to the motive which in- duced him to offer the resolution.
 He is one of the best and purest men. who ever lived in Alabama and was perfectly honest and sincere in his action. The Association adopted his resolution without a disenting voice and there was no thought of trick or trap about 1t.
 When Governor Conner in response to the invitation appeared on Friday Ac- sociation by the President with all the respect due his high position. and was correspondingly received. The Cover nor did not make an appropriate speech. We do not believe that his best friends will so assert. He was not happy either in matter or manner and this is said with all due respect. He en- tered at once upon discussion of mat ters that has been thrashed over time and again in every part of Alabama. He said things which could be con- strued as an arraignment of the press particularly when he denounced as demagogy the proposition to fix a basis
 
 and denounced as demagogues the sup porters of the bill in the Legislature looking to that end. To say the best there was a lack of that amiability of expression which should have char acterized a speech for such an occasion. We did not know of the resolutions offered by Mir. Greer. and even when he arose to offer them being in a dis tant part of the room did not hear them. It is possible that he and d few others may have prepared the reso- lutions in advance, on the idea as ex pressed by Mir. Greer. that it was felt morally certain he would speak on the lines he did. Be that, as 1t may, the | Association as a body had nothing to do with their preparation and knew noth- ing about them until they were offered by MT. Greer.
 The resolutions were published in | full in The Advertiser yesterday and we fail to find in them single in- | sulting word or reference.
 l The only comment that can be made on them is doubt of the proprlely of their introduction at the time they were presented. They express nothing g that has not been often expressed in a majority of the papers that were repre- scented at the meeting and whose ideas on several matters had been assatled by the Governor in his speech A calm consideration of the whole matter will acquit the Alabama Press Association of offering an insult to the Governor by anything contained in the resolutions that were offered by Mir Greer They are vigorous in tone, but not insulting in expression