The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-01

papers publishing the same, were guilty,
and in the last case tried, the court and
| jury awarded me substantial damages.
That Enormous Campaign Fund
''The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
company, through Mr.. Milton Smith, at
! tempts a vague denial of the expendi-
ture of s142,3S5. %, which Il charged was
used by 1t to bribe and debauch the
voters of Alabama. The statement of
the subdivision of this amount among 13
states is intended to be deceptive and
evidences the usual misleading swearing
of the Louisville and Nashville. | charge
that 1t used SIP, 3s5. 25 in Alabama, and
reports say more than that amount. 1t
is like the Montgomery Advertiser, when
that paper represents that 1T got only
$4,000 of this money. This must be taken
subject to amendments. The Louisville
and Nashville forgot TO touch upon the
insidious lobby" which now and for a
year past has been in evidence through
the press of the state and which seduc-
tive system of lobbying has cost 500, 600.
They do not state that this is also
charged to 1.-The general expenses"
This Milton Smith, Louisville and
Nashville article did not mention the
expelling by impeachment of Judge Arch
bold from the interstate commerce court
on account of the judicial adultery com
mitted with the Louisville and Nash
vile road
Some Straight Questions
Il ask the Louisville and Nashville
read to answer how much money it put
in the state primary eectionlof 1906? And
what was its part of the bribery fund
charged by Mr. Charles Henderson in
the Montgomery Advertiser February s,
1910, as being furnished by the allied in
terests which financed the amendment
campaign? | also ask by what author
ity did that high official of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad recently make the
public statement in Montgomery that the
Louisville and Nashville railroad would
furnish thousands of dollars to defeat
me in the present campaign? I ask if
1t is financing or proposes to finance any
candidates for state office in 1914?
The whisperings of these things are
abroad in the land and come from the
previous reputation of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad company and seem
authorized by their article
The Staples Suicide
In regard to sitting competition ON
the Tombigbee, and the bottling up of
Mobile harbor, | ask Mr. Milton Smith,
and the Louisville and Nashville rail-
| road to tell the people of Alabama all
company know of the thousands of dol
lars provided and furnished by the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad to Staples
| the steamboat man. to break down the
| Birmingham and Gulf Transportation
company on the Tombigbee river, and
which liason finally resulted in Staples
suicide? And also to explain to the peo-
pie of Alabama the influence brought
| to bear by the Louisville and Nashville
railroad on the Southern railway which
| caused the latter road to shut down on
the Montgomery Barge Line at Mobile?
| Some of the l.. & N. Methods
| why did not Mr.. Milton Smith deny
that the Louisville and Nashville had al
| all times rpaintained in Montgomery the
| seat of the state government, a skilled
political lawyer, not for his legal services
but as political lawyer, who was
charged with unsleeping care to 'nip in
the bud every independence of thought
| or action? That its potentionality to
control was accomplished by financing
leading papers, by specious advertising,
| by retaining many important citizens in
| various employment, by the use of free
passes, distributed where they would con-
tribute the most to the environment of
the beneficiary. thus creating a powerful
| lobby-statewide in its extent-easy of as
| sembly, even on telegraphic notice. all at
| the expense of the people? This. NOT
only in our legislative halls but also in
the making of our last constitution.
One Flagrant Instance Given
| Il am challenged to point to a single
| Legislative act that may have been
favored or promoted by the represen-
tatives of the Louisville and Nashville
| Rallroad company that was antagon-
istic to the interests of the people OF
Alabama Place ex-Gov. Thomas 9.
Jones' now federal judge, at Montgom-
cry, on the stand. Swear him. He, a
member of the legislature of Alaoama.
and at the same time the legal adviser
| of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad d
company, helped to defeat the railroa Il
commission bill proposed by Cant Wal
ter Bragg, then president of the rail :
| road commission of Alabama This bill,
would have given the Alabama rail-
road commission jurisdiction of the
| railroads similar to that then and since
exercised by the railroad commission of
Georgia. and which Captain Bragg be-
| lieved would eliminate railroad control
| of this state and would enable the
| railroad commission of Alabama TO es
| tablish equitable rates similar to those
that We're then and now maintained in
Georgia. and In every progressive state
That defeat of one of the most i'm
portant laws ever proposed by an Ala
| bamian was secured by the louisville
and Nashville Railroad con,panv
| through It's representative, then men,
Der of the Legislature of Alabama, and
has cost the people of Alabama In
money alone enough to build every
| railroad In the state, besides the pres
tige lost to the state from railroad
dominance and control.
President Wilson. before the South
ern society at New York, declared that
some men had the idea that thew hs
been appointed trustees to do the think
Ing of mankind and the building up
| or wealth in conformity with their own
plans and purposes. He also declared
that that sort of Intolerance no longer
impressed audiences as it once did
Bryan's Great Declaration
William j. Bryan, at a crucial moment
IN the Baltimore convention, declared he
would not stand for any nominee Sc
cured under the influence of Messrs. RYAN
and Belmont, the representatives of cor
porate interests That speech, like a bolt
from clear sky, shook the temple of
democracy, and from its inspiration came
the nomination and election of that uuex-
celled representative of the people, Wood
row Wilson
Wilson'S True Democracy
"Presiden# Wilson at Chicago declared
bring on a coercion of business by dis
tressing and squeezing methods. because
of the democratic party's proposed cur
tailment of their power, he would see
to 1t that they We're hanged as high Al
Haman in public opinion. President VIII
son declared that he would veto the cur
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