The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
7OMER TERR|F|C|N
 HIS NEW ATTACKS
 ON OLD ENEMIES
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tain prominent people and organs that the Louisville and Nashville continue to assess and collect its $40000,000 in taxes each year and pay into the treasury d sum of $6,OO0.Oo0. pitiable in comparison.
 His main address consisted of the most terrific arraignment of the Louis- vile and Nashville railroad, and Judge Thomas c. Jones of the inferior court of the United States, he has ever de- livered He was without mercy. Re- peatedly he referred to Judge Jones as a suborned man, and having started with this phrase, mild indeed in com parison with others, he continued even unto the end of the long list of highly sensational charges. And he did not stop.
 Doesn't Overlook Anyone
 Having mathematical Judge Jones, he next paid his respects to W. A Gun ter and Judge Thorington, who were paid 1000 each to act as special masters in the rate cases. Among oth- CT things he charged that Judge Jones, a suborned man, had selected his own jury, knowing in advance the jurors. for the purpose of trying the cause of the people.
 Next, he assailed George W. Jones. division counsel of the Louisville and Nashville, and predicted that he would De made boss of the state He then in a sarcastic manner appealed to Presi- dent Smith to give the people a boss whom they could respect, even as they had respected Colonel Faulkner, "an excellent man, save for his unfortunate environment he said.
 Calls Bowie Decoy Duck
 The next individual across whose shoulders Conner slashed with the whip which he was yielding with such re- markable abandon was Sidney J. Bowie of Birmingham. He referred to Nr. Bowie as "P. Sid,' the initial and given name of Mir. Jones, the well known dis trict passenger agent of the Louisville and Nashville at Birmingham. He com pared MT Bowie to a decoy duck. which made to move by the exertion of live duck, appeared to have some independ- once of action itself. He added Just so is MT. Smith, l mean Milton IL Smith. president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. making some of his benefciaries swim around as if they were really alive and had some inde pendence of Knowledge and action"
 Incidentally, he referred to MT. Taft as the most dangerous President in the , history of the United States.
 Mir. Conner was introduced as one of Alabama's really distinguished citi- zens by J. Lee Long. After the speak ing MT. Conner was entertained at the home of MT. Long In the afternoon MT. Conner. in the automobile of MT. Long, rode 5S miles from Greenville to Montgomery in an effort to catch the Central of Georgia train for his plantation in Barbour county. On ac- count of an accident, however, the con nection was missed He will leave for Barbour tomorrow morning.
 Text of His Speech
 Governor Comer's speech was as fol- lows:
 At Baltimore the democratic na- tional convention made a progressive platform and nominated progressive ticket. Wilson and Marshall embody those policies and principles which reach into and protect the homes and avocations of all the people. The re- publican national convention at Chi cago reiterated its old protective plat form in the wake of which are 50 years of class laws with their hosts of tar fir barons and trust magnates, preda- tory wealth. rich indicators, railroad domination, with the Congress- the President and the courts environed by evil influences. All these are concomit- ants of those policies which go to make up the enrichment of the few and the oppression of the many
 "The republican convention renom- inated MT. Taft, a man whom Senator Deliver described as "a large body en- tirely surrounded by people who know exactly what they wanted and by MT. Roosevelt as "a good man, a feeble man, who was surrounded by people who were not feeble and who were not good"
 The New Jersey Son
 "Scarcely two years ago New Jer- eey blazoned in the democratic firm ament a new man. a man born and schooled amidst the Virginia hills, who was carried to Georgia to be matured and mated. The faith of Washington, Jefferson, Monroe and Randolph was kneaded with that of Hill, Stephens and Toombs and had grown to be of the fibre of the man. No wonder that the classic Princeton with his advent throbbed with a new and democratic life. Minerva came full grown from a depression. In the darkness of mans spiritual affairs God sent Abraham to Canaan and released new soul at Golgotha. So in mans affairs those who trust him and keep his command ments have always found an angel at Jabbok, a Joshua at the ford of the Jordan, a David at the valley of Ella, Q Merdacai at the gate of Ahasuerus. IOnB otIuSSe
 ''For fifty years the democratic party has struggled against the spoil system. 1as struggled thSt the rights of men
 hould not perish in this great America
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 '.Seymour, Tilden, Cleveland and Bryan ith varying success have led our peo-
 2 and taught them always, whether in
 sfeat or victory, to preserve those cove Y, lnts of liberty without which no white race can exist.
 le s'At the Baltimore convention Bryan :with his fifteen years added maturity, ex- tperience and wisdom, with the love of z he people strong within him, with burn- Eng words appealed to the delegates to remember the folks at home and not to allow the Janizaries of predatory wealth 10 cruelty democracy and the people. It |lx well said that Bryan gave us Wilson Nor the nominee and that the voters will A7've us Wilson for President.
 The Wilson Platform
 "Mr. Wilson has said there can be. no long as we are honest men, no quarter |1yith any man who deals. privately or hu,blicly in a practice that Is unright- .,ous.' and that a man who lays him }elf. his life down for that purpose ough, ia die more happy than he lived Life is . little thing. life lasts only little while, and if 1t goes out with the torch lighted with glory, it is better than if it had lasted upon dull level thous- and years
 Tn nominating MT. Wilson at Balti- more Judge Westcott said: The great voice of America comes in murmer . rom the hills and woods, the farms and \ Xtories and the mills, rolling on and <f.Ihing volume until it comes from the H +A1es of common men
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