The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02

product. empty freight ears, idle en- 1 zines. closed shops, depreciated values, shrunken securities. laborless laborers. Statewide depression. food stinted | families. hunger,suffering children. l want-driven criminals and suicides, we
 stand as proxy In protest ana dennn- l ciation, warning the people. not so l much that they let this wisdom lack l ing 'Iesder' not fool them again. but that they do not fool themselves by | listening to him; for what he has done l for them has been a plenty.
 Is it denied that he Is responsible for the disasters which have come upon the State? What was the condition be- fore the blight of fanaticism swept over it. when Conner and This" Leg
 islature--and it was his. for he de-
 manded It. and is therefore responsi-
 ble for its acts--wsre electedf Was
 1t ever more glorious in the States
 historyf
 We have had but eighteen months
 of him and what the states loss is
 now. God only knows.
 And he asks the people of Samson. and presumably of the State. what they are going to give him for what he has done for them. It is . brazen game of bluff. a char | aeteristio Conner stunt; no more. no | less. He threw dust in the eyes of | the people twice. and he has started his dust mill again, and Ia running 1t overtime. | Is 1t any wonder. esteemed Journal.
 that "Editor Johnson, who. after tn- | troducing Governor Conner st Samson | to make . Fourth of July speech. be- | came 60 wrought up that he made
 reply after the Governor had con | cluded."
 ls 1t any wondsEf
 | It is time to puncture the pretenses of '.Our Great Leader" aa Henry Clay l ton sereastically called him in open | convention. We did not have then q 1 full opportunity at the Fourth of July gathering. The Governor had as an audience sbout 800 people when he began but his hearers had dwindied down to about two hundred and fifty when he finished. Curious to know
 what induced this number of heroes ana teroines to remain, inquiry devel. oped that they were insensibie and couldn't set away.
 If the Governor would only extend 1t. we would accept bis invitation to meet him on the stunnp in every coun- ty In the State. the only condition be- Ing that he pay the expenses. If he isn't responsible to Aiabama for his pro rata share of the destruction which has come to the South or if he thinks he isn't he ought to be willing to un- dergo the expense of vindication and endorsement. We are willing to stand
 wear and tear of travel and even the
 penalty of hearing him. The task of forensicaliy flaying him alive before
 his audience wouldn't exert us any to speak of. s., s2'sa- sTsri ss- Alabama wants no more haiE.brhffeq theorists. legislative tinkerers.s sglld- eyed ana wind A5amming fanatics T to
 take charge of her affairs. 4 man who
 hasn't sense enough to know that he
 hasn't sense enough to conduct the
 State's business should be made to pay
 all possible of tho damages of his ex-
 peritnentai ineompetency. What the
 State needs is Brains! For Mir. Conner
 as a private citizen we wouldn't have
 elnRle word of critieiens. therefore. eeHaure of him is not personal. But
 as Governor Conner. the Servant of the
 State sHd not its master, we perform
 a solemn duty to the people when we
 point out the disaster of their selection
 and condemn him as responsible for
 theiT error and for the financial and
 industrial dasolation with which the
 State is now visited.