The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-25
Lstfsrs to The Editor
~A Blood Boiier.-

"A nt0oO nVthUks ~ Editor The Advertiser:
 The following extract Is taken from Governor Corners speech at Wetumpka, that being his first public appeal In behalf of the constitutional amendment new before the people or the state Tor their deliberate suhrages Tor or In reading 1t, bear in mind that the only safeguard of our free institutions l Tn the untrammeled, unconstrainea, honest votes of the people It would seem that every patriot. martyred since Bunker Hill, would turn over in his grave at sound of such an insuft Tn the name of government; ;.p,a nat ,hs Legislature give Wetumpka $l0.ooo Tor her schoolsf Now, are you going 10 give value received, or. will you bite that s hand ,S that fed i.y0n yonF Fcare,u,ly non. der It's full meaning. understand the circumstances which called It out, pc cool and deliberate in your Judgment, and 1t is Impossible for you 70 con, con fit to trust with administrator or the Does 1t not furnish key to the veal veal the lengths and depths of out rage to which the bald tyranny of ma jorfties may reach. What Is there fn the corruptest blood sharing days of ehrontefy, and the insulting presump- ton involved in this appeal.
 wetumpka deserved a school appro- priation. 1t was her right. The grant ing 1t by the Legislature was . simple duty; the people rejoiced. Then comes the man honored with the highest office in the State, the man who should be the inspirer of liberty and the dispen- their Judgment for a secondary propo- priation of sio.ooo. what outrage ever exceeded this insult to the intel forsooth, to be bound to approve cis judgment in return for a just or even an unjust appropriation? were they 10 be scolded for ingratitude If they dafe to exercise their intelllgence, ana oii- fer from him7
 To understand the clearer. the des- picable nature of this appeal, and the sorrupt,ion of this Rtea; n;sopIsp uRIpooe os We tumpka had appeared at Montgomery before the appropriation of this $l0,o00 and plainly pledged the votes of It's citizens ey name ,h. rs.srh csSs ths .9 sorrnps nature of the act would be almost suf- ficient to class 1t as felony.
 How much more immeasurably out. raseous and subvsrslve or aH tb,s iset set of the Governor, brazenly claiming as value received for such an appropria- tion, the enslavemeft of the elective (And in the same connection he used the other educational appropriations made by the Legislature as further claims upon the people in generaD,
 Such a policy, carried to Its logical conclusion. would as readily, excuse the action of a Governor should he en- ter into a written agreement with Mo- bile, Montgomery and Birmingham to cali an extra session of the Legisla- ture for the repeal of the prohibition laws and the election of the successor to Senator Bankhead on the express condition that in case popular vote should be called for these three cities would furnish him certain specified votes. This extreme illustration Is a just conclusion of such corrupt policy, and in exact parallel to the appeal above quoted. Both proposals are equally conceived in corruption, born in a spirit of despotism. and could only be prompted by character wholly unfit to trust. and entertained only by people as wholly unworthy of the Blessings of free institutions.
 Disgusted Citizen.