The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-09

F. w West, a steamboat agent. to the
Mobile Item, in which it was charged
that the louisville and Nashville rail
road rad Naged such a merciless war
1are against the steamboat companies
that when one of the boats was burned
It's captain committed suicide.
Seed Tells Treasury Secrets
In his rejoinder, Seed asasiled the con-
tentlon of Conner that when that candi-
GATE lett the office of governor there was
almost Sl,000,000 in the state treasury.
Mr. Seed said: 1.-Two days before Gov
ernor Conner went out of office, never to
return, there was in the treasury of the
state $3.50. II: | say that very softly be-
cause | do not wish to jar him. On the
day he left office, January H. there was
in the treasury $7o9,520. We made every
effort to collect as large a sum as pos
sible in order that the financial showing
of Governor Conner might not appear SO
horrible On February there was not
a dollar in the state treasury, and |
defy Governor Conner to deny that charge
The sum which he had gathered through
great effort was exhausted by the over
hanging claims against the Conner admin
istration, and to which the O'Neal ad-
ministration fell heir"
And thus it happened, as had been pre-
dicted would happen, secrets which during
the term of Mr. Conner as governor and
Mr.. Seed as treasurer, were regarded as
secrets of state, got into circulation and
became public property.
Opened Very Mildly
Mr.. Seed opened very mildly. During his
address he charged that the defalcation OF
Lacy was due to the bill passed during
the Conner administration at the instance
of J. Craig Smith. son-in-law of Conner,
providing that the president of the con-
vict bureau could make quarterly settle
ments with the treasurer. He stressed
the point that the companion of that bill
that which required a bond for the presi-
dent of the convict department, was lost
somewhere. He declared the treasury OF
the state, as a result, had not been Lacy
lied, but Comerized
He again charged that Conner was toe
extreme in his views to be governor OF
Alabama. and gave as proof the fact that
while governor Conner had, for the sins
of certain men, torn down tents over the
heads of miners wives, some of whom
were ill and others very ill. He declared
that Conner had refused in the beginning
to debate with him for fear lest his recort
, would be held up before the people of the
state barred in all of it's naked horrors
He charged that new offices had been ere
ated and salaries increased during the
Conner administration. He declared that
the increased remuneration OF the Judi
ciary department amounted to $4,000
while the increase for schools amountee
only to $4,000. and that to old soldiers
to but $4,000.
He quoted from a letter written by E
G. Murphy of New York the former wei
known philanthropist to the effect tina
Conner was the most bitter opponent OF
child labor reform that the writer ha6
ever known. The writer gave testimony
as to what occurred when child labor re
formers were trying to get a bill with ;
punch in it through the Alabama legisla
ture, stating that what concessions were
obtained were granted by Conner onl,
after much persuasion, and that Come
appeared unwilling to produce any remed
for conditions which then prevailed. MI
Seed limited at some sensational incident
alleged to have occurred between Come
and 'his right hand man, John Lusk'' il
! regard to the same bill and asked Come
when he took his feet to tell the peopl
what really did occur. Conner, as init
mated, ignored this request.