The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-13
VT. Corners s Statement follows. '
Former Governors Statement

q do not attach much importance one way or the other to anything from Mr. Sheehan, who merely says what his em- ployer, 'ex-Near Senator Glass, tells him to say, and this accusation is so plainly untrue on it's face as to merit little at tention on its own account. Evidently the O'Neal- l-Henderson conspirators are hard pressed on the rate surrender crime which they have just committed. and Sheehan would direct attention to his own misconduct as a shield and relief to them. The whole importance of the Sheehan card is not in it's libel on me, but in the con nection of Mr. Sam P. Kennedy Mir Charles Henderson's campaign manager, with the Sheehan visit to the Glass-O' Neal paymaster at Nashville.
 Tn speech at Troy, Pike county, on March :, l asked Mr. Gormley, reporter representing the Montgomery Journal, Birmingham Ledger and Mobile Register, to inquire of MT. Sheehan, editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, whether he did not, in company with Mir. Sam F. Ken nedy, campaign manager of MT. Charles Henderson, visit Nashville on January 16; whether Sheehan and Kennedy did not there meet MT. Charles Lewis, ethe known political manager of the liquor manufac- turers and Brewers association: whether the intention of the meeting was to se- cure liquor money for MT. Henderson S campaign, and what promises were made in return on behalf of MT. Henderson?
 Never Saw Lewis"
 "ln the editorial columns of the Mont gomery Advertiser on March s. MT. Shee- han states that he did meet MT. Lewis, .l .xf 11,,O. ing MT. Lewis to break off alleged cor respondence with me regarding the SUD- port of the liquor interest in my cam paign for governor. He carefully did not state why he took MT. Henderson's cam paign manager, Sam F. Kennedy, along with him. and he omits to state the re- suits of his mission to have been to per- suade Mr. Lewis to arrange with MT. Henderson, the Advertisers candidate for governor.
 MT. Sheehan charges that previous to his visit with MT. Kennedy to MT. Lewis I had been in verbal and written corre- spondence with the liquor interests and had made them promises in return for as- sistance. In full answer to all this stuff have never seen Charles Lewis or com municated with him directly or indirectly through his agents. I have never of- fered in any way, shape or form any con- sideration to any special interest for in- fluence or votes. I have always prom ised the farmers miners, merchants manufacturers and laboring men and all others the full and equal protection of the law. have been addressing my cam paign to the proposition that the shippers of Alabama are entitled to the same freight rates as those in Georgia, the Car olinas and Virginia, and that an Alabama dollar should have as much value in the payment of these charges as a dollar in these other states. I have said all the while that I look to the great body of the people for my election, and if elected my only boss will be the people.
 MT. HendersOn's Card
 "On February 10. 1910, Mir. Henderson published in the Advertiser a withdrawal from the gubernatorial race, stating that the allied interests which had just financed the anti-amendment campaign were demanding full control of the state government It seems that Mir. Tender son has in 1914 listened to the demand. and it is a pertinent inquiry that Mir, Sheehan might answer namely, what promises were made by MT Henderson s campaign manager at Nashville to fn- | duce Charles Lewis to switch the liquor support from Kolb to the Advertisers own candidate Henderson?
 No. The real issues in this campaign are too vital and important to the people to be lost sight of in a discussion of the