The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

In ms own county attest the confidence
 of the people who know him best, and who would give Alabama a wise, efficient
 and economical administration" The resolutions follow:
 Resolutions as Adopted 1 'The verdict of the people as ex- pressed in the primary last Monday
 was a clear and unmistal<able repudiation of Conner and Comerism.
 1 The campaign he conducted was pitched on a lower plane than ever be-
 fore known in our political history.
 He offered to the people no pro- gramme of constructive or progressive Legislation, but in his efforts to gain power, appealed to prejudice and pas sion.
 Claiming to be the implacable foe of the selfish special interest, no man who ever sought the office of gov ernor was more completely their ser Ivile and pliant tool. His campaign was supported by favor-seeking corpora tions and by those who hope through his election to secure exemption from ! taxation and special privileges. And, although an overwhelming ma jority of the democrats of Alabama de- cline to support his candidacy he still persists in his efforts to mislead the people and again seeks their support Therefore be it resolved, by rep resentatives who supported Walter D. Seed Reuben F. Kolb and Charles Henderson in the recent primary in conference assembled:
 T. That We are unalterably opposed to the candidacy of B. B. Conner His nomination and election would mean another four years of waste and ex- travagance, of business and political | unrest. It would check investments stop the wheels of industrial progress and put the state under the control of a political ring whom the people scourged from power four years ago. l "2. We oppose B. B. Conner because during the whole course of his former administration he never wrote single | statute progressive In it's character or in l spired by desire to secure greater so- cial justice or equality of opportunity to the toiing masses of our people. It was through the efforts of B. B. Conner that Alabama today occupies the unenviable and humiliating position of being one of the three states in the union that permits | the life, health and intelligence of little children to be coined into gold to swell the dividends of the cotton mill owners of the state.
 Unrelenting foe of Labor 8. We oppose B. B. Conner because he has constantly opposed the demands for social justice for the toilers in our mines, our mills and our factories for better
 
 guards, and for reasonable hours of labor.
 "A We oppose him because he has been the unrelenting foe of labor and as gov- ernor, without warrant of law, by an act as arbitrary and despotic as ever dis sraced the annals of free people, drove the striking miners in the Birmingham district from their homes, and denied to large class of our people their legal and constitutional rights.
 "5 We oppose him because he secured the passage of laws which allowed the l revenues of the convict department to be placed in the hands of an official without bond and to be withheld for | three months at a time from the state | treasury, and because by his own leg l islation the Lacy dedication was made l possible.
 | "6. We oppose him because this legisla- | tion was not in the interest of the people, | but appears to have been for selfish per- | sonal purposes.
 '7. We oppose him because claiming to favor the rule of the people he sought by | all the means in his power to overthrow | the time-honored democratic principles of majority rule to gratify his own selfish ambitions.
 'S. We oppose him because of the record his administration shows that he sought to exempt from taxation certain industries for his own personal benefit, and to vest | in our common carriers the right to dis l criminate in their rates in his own favor and in favor of certain favored indus | tries.
 "9 We oppose him because he filled our l statute books with laws inspired by spirit of hostility and which were subse- quently nullified by the decisions of the supreme court of the United States.
 '1O We oppose him because if elected he would not be the governor of the peo- y~1 hut nf na1t f- ton, and would use the powers of his great office, not to promote the interests of the people of Alabama, but to build up a political machine. and to advance his | own selfish ambition.
 | .11. We oppose him because he is unfit by temperament to fill this great office
 and because he would be willing to plunge the state into another four years of tur-
 moil and bitter agitation and check our growing prosperity in order to punish his political enemies ana advance the personal fortunes of his political adher- ents.
 .12 We oppose him because he has de- nounced every former friend whose as pirations crossed the pathway of his am- bition, and because he has sought by abuse. islander and misrepresentation to conceal his own vulnerable record and to
 ride into power on a campaign of false pretense. hypocrisy and islander.
 '13. We opposed him because he has unwsely dssipated the millions of dollars left in our state treasury by former Gov ernor Jelks: because he has increased our taxes created usless and unnecessary of- fees, and because his former administra- tion was characterized by deploraole lack of business capacity and inefficiency.
 "A. We oppose him because he seeks
 office not to promote needed reforms. to improve the efficiency of government. but to punish his political enemies. and
 to build up a Conner machine and to ex- ploit the office of governor for his own personal use and to gratify an ambition which is not justified by his record O. his ability.
 we. therefore. present to the people of