The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-19
MR. CRYMES'S TALK
SELMA METHODIST PREACHEf' MAKES SENSATIONAL CHARGES.
relr. of Blind Tiger Evil in Firth Wara of Central CIty--Doesnt Hesitate to Use
 Names.
Advertiser Bureau !.

Selma June IS.
 .rhe arrest and conviction in the Po- ffoe Court one day last week oi .wo vouns whits men for operating oiinu tiger in the eastern part ot tue GUY @ .ha raase of a powerful sermon rssnr nreached on this evil at the Ala h.rne Street Nett odist Church last nirht by the rastor. Rev. w. w. Crymes. .~a Tho services at the church were largely attended and the sermon asits at cred proved most interesting 70 tue s.cnpreuation and the sermon which ne delivered proved nothing snort or s ssnsation and it has been tho topic or much conversation upon the streets to- day.
 For his text he took that passage from the Scripture which reads, LOOK ,,af unon the wine when it is red, Tor |, hiteth like a serpent. it stirgeth like =, adder [" He charge1 that Whlskey was heinz sold in the Fifth Ward con trary to the laws of the city. 1nat N was not sold at only one or two places sss h,,t that it was sold In four or nVe s1a.as ana uossibly more. In two in- stances he called the names or the vounr Griffin boys who last week were aned in the Police Court. and ne also calied the name of Mr. Summers an other East Selma druggist.
 Resides calling these named MT f-rxr,cs in inc other instances gave To- cations SD clear and distinct that none ~ those who sat within the hearing of his voice failed to recognize 10 whom he alluded After the text or the ser ,y,on had been read. the prSacner saio' "Y an yning to preach tonight on the ~saiaEev devil Some of you know him. snyna of YOU don't, but I hope before .r, through all of you will know con siderable about him. I am gong 70 bring whiskey to trial. and II there IS anything good fin 1t we ought 10 tahe cara of it. if there Is wrong Hi It we r.,h, ,o condemn it. W'hiskcy is the .rsnfest evil of the day. Talk about eor,hltng, usury, corruption in high ,,ares @yerything and I tell you whis- kev is the greatest evil Of all these. If is the greatest crime which anecls any community, the greatest that ar fects the South, the greatest tnai @t fects Selma"
 To the conxregation he then gave the crsricns of number of prominent men on whiskey and related his personal experiences. saving that whiskey was never known fn his family until his ssster married. 'sThere is no pure whis- Eav ana some of the rottenest stun is rnia right here in Selms in the Fifth vvard T don't know how it is in all of selma. but I kEow that the stun that is sold right in the Fifth Ward IS sons of inc worst made. It would kill bull I hog Yes. say that whiskey is sold ana has been sold for months contrary fn sto law in the Fifth Ward, and am going to tell you something tonight. and am going to be plain about it.
 TWO r1onths ago ! said that would cs4Sn r,n with the blind tigers in this nart of the city. If I had been going fo canfnre an outlaw I would not have Taken underhand methods. but knew that no open plan could be dsvised Lo run upon one of these blind tigers. so one night put on my overcoat. put ta,,ss1 it m around my throat and pulled nv nat down over my eyes and went down near the railroad. When l got there I found a negro man and asked him if ha knew where could get some whfskey. He said, Boss, l don't think you can get any nearer than town. told him that didn't want to wait that long and he replied that If knew where it could be gotten he would go for fl I told him that l would give him a quarter with which to buy the whiskey and would give him another quarter for getting it. Then I directed him to GsifAn's drug store and saw him 20 in there. In two minutes ne came back and brought to me half pint of rotten whiskey, and 1t Is now in the keeping of my landlady.
 You may accuse the Birmingham me- gro detective brought to Selma by the
  to say it is a fact there are blind tigers being operated in East Selma. and l don't care if the newspapers quote me. That is not all. I went over on Water street q few weeks ago and met an old white haired negro. He said in reply to a question that he didn't know any thing about any whskey and he wouldn't attempt to get it. I met an other negro, and he said he could get some at the bong negro restaurant or store but I told him that I was atfer big game, and that I didn't want any of the negro bli1d tigers. met third negro and gave him money put he re- turned without the whiskey.
 "A good woman who was blind came to me and with tears in her eyes sait she had begged the keeper of one oi the blind tigers not to sell her son an! more whiskey and that the man haC laughed in her face and said he would sell him all of the vhiskey he wanted if he could pay for it. Another woman said she had noticed on her drug stor' bill item after item of coca cola ana that she had asked her husband if h. had been drinking all of that coca cola and he broke down and said. No. wife that is whiskey.' And 1t was not a Griffins drug store that this bill wa made out.
 "one night not long ago about 1.