The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-07

Nopitai VI u ENatioh- ~ Ado etSo~
history and proud traditions. 1t was
the home of Yancey and Hilliard.
Manly and Cobbs. Watts and Chiffon.
Stone and Goldthwaite, Marion Sims
and Baldwin, Clanton and Lomax. It
numbers among its living citisens en-
inent men in all the walks of life, who
are respected for their ability and
clean lives. For its population it has
always been as orderly a city as ex-
lists. In schools and churches and
good works. 1t stands abreast with
any community in the land. 1t has
borne it's full share of the trials and
adversities which have befallen the
State. 1t is a community whose good
the hospitals and gladly did the most
! mental service for the sick and
wounded soldier from 1851 to 1865. 1t
is a community where, Immediately
after the war, the carpet-bagger. the
| scallawag, the negro. the military die
tator and the sergeant with his Ale Of
| bayonets." exerted all their power to
Cypress its people in the effort to sub
| due it's spirit. as an example for the
country people," In the days of the
Capitol" and court House Legisla-
tures," when Spencer overthrow the
peoples Legislature at the point of
| the bayonet, and installed one made
| by Attorney General Williams. 1t was
| the manhood of its people which stood
| behind the Capitol Legislature, and
supported and protected 1t. Governor
Lewis reported to Washington some
time afterwards. that the city had
during the struggle. Its people had
| hardly begun to restore their waste
places when the City of Montgomery.
as the records of the town council
show. sent money and provisions to
save some of the people in the Ten
| nessee Valley from starvation, after
hostile armies had destroyed their
farms and means of subsistence. When
Swayne and Pope disbanded his local
military, it kept up private organiza-
lions to protect it's own people and
those in the surrounding country. AS
soon as Houston became Governor. its
young men formed and the people of
the community supported. fine mill
tary companies which were quick and
glad to respond to calls from any part
of the State threatened with lawless-
ness, or in danger of being overrun
by negro hordes. Never has a calam-
ity befallen their brethren in the
country, when the manhood and wo-
manhood of this community failed to
community whose people the Governor
of the State goes among its neighbors
to attack and villify. He tells the
people of Elmore that "the City of
Montgomery has always fought me at
every stage" This is the unpardon-
able sin: 1t fought '-me." The occa-
sion for the personal bitterness is that
they oppose the Lawrence Amendment,
and. therefore. its people have become
shamelessly sacrificing their honor.
and the welfare of their wives and
children to get more rent for their
real estate. and more revenue from
whiskey. He insists its splendid man
hood is dominated by a man who
owned a large number Of bar rooms
Never before has Governor of Ala
bama used such language about the
people of the Capital of his State.
william H Smith was made Gov
ernor of Alabama by bayonets, and
represented the conquering power at
time when negroes and carpet-baggers
controlled the fortunes Of the state
and made its laws. David P. Lewis
represented the same forces. Bitter
ness knew no bounds. Men In those
days fought those Governors at every
stage. 1t was a struggle for their
race and civilization. On the streets
and in the press passion was ram
pant. Neither of those Governors
ever dragged their office around on
the stump. and singled out the people
of this city above all the rest of the
State as publicans and sinners. They
knew they could not separate them
selves from their office. They knew
the Governors office was not a per-
sonal possession. and that the holder
of it owed something to the people.
They shrank from deporting them
selves on the stump like "a beggar on
e-back" or a silly school-boy in
a tantrum.
Every good Albanian. and every
good citizen in this community, whom
the Governor singles out for bad en-
inence as lawbreakers and partners
with vice. wishes to respect the Office
of Governor, however much they may
fight the Governor on public Policies
The Governor ought to take advice
from some level-headed friend as to
the things Governor cannot do with
propriety. He should stop his intemp-
crate and vindictive utterances, and