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Show GOVERNOR FOE OF RAILROADS 'T 1 1 "'xl Gov. Braxton Bragg Comer of Alabama has i. vv X become n new big figure In Alabama statu poll- ' .CS ' s t,ca 1,ecall8u cf llls "t"1'1 against the railways. fY He is the man who led thu "Morris Avenue IV, ' L- Wlj ' V Soreheals" against the state machine and won. iC? v4. '1 Ills motto was "progresHlvcness" as against " 'l W lGr"'j "tHdpntlsm." i S, r I Comer as u mere stripling of n boy sorved s ' j V" . T r f 11 fitate 'n,'i,t dining the civil war. From pov-i pov-i 'y pps? M, ' erty ho rose to ainuencc. He became a merchant, ' J l-A VC- Jlnctl nel(1 to lle,rt' 011,1 toili,y 18 8al(1 2"tV l5? to r,,n moro P'0W8 than ''' other man In Ala- ii"0"yv ''trff 1 ',n,IM1, 'a ntorested In cotton nnd flour n (" Jt)'"'""' i11!"8 -nd other business concerns, but It was " ' yrjjjf'- not until he was fifty-odd years that ho entoted a r, i -rr-rzr:. J political life. It Is said that ho got Into liolltlca by accident that ho did not know what ho was doing. It all caino about when ho began to kick on what ho termed high freight rates. I lie was wholesaling at this time and something happened that per-mltted per-mltted his great competitor to undersell him, and after a while ho Identified this something as railway rntcs and discrimination, or thought he did, and thu fight was on. Ho took the matter beforo thu Birmingham Commercial club only to find thu railways owned tho club. Ho left thu club and organized organ-ized a soml-secrct league popularly known as tho "Morris Avenue Soreheads," Sore-heads," with a number of branches. This organization presented a bill to tho legislature but when It was passed It was not up to tho Comer standard. Comer becamo president of tho new railway commission, winning by moro than 20,000' votes. Then came tho state election. Comer told tho pcoplo ho wanted everything the lieutenant-governorship, tho rest of tho railway commission and both branches of tho legislature. Then ho could get laws to regulate tho railways. Ho carried sixty of tho slxty-sovon counties, and won by 20,000 votes. And Gov. Comer .Is still fighting tho railroads. Y |