The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-21
PLANS FOR FIGHT
JEFFERSON COUNTY PROHIBITION
 IsTs TO BEGIN ACTIVITIES.
Chairman Sessions In Interview Says that Citizens are Ready for Elee- tion and that AntA-Wets
 Will Win.

Birmingham, Aug. 2o.--(Speciall--- Every county in Alabama Is watching Jefferson County and taking notes on how she is planning to make a prohi- bition light this fall.
 The movement started some time ago by the Pastors Union of the Bir- mingham district has resulted in the appointment of p&rmanent campaign committee of ten. which will look af- ter every detail of the fight. Those appointed on the committee are men Identified with large interests in Bir- mingham and the chairman, Walter l.. Sessions, State agent for the Pruden- tfal Life Insurance Company, has a rep utation for making prohibition lights.
 The first meeting of the campaign committee will probably be held in Birmingham Wednesday, when all de- tails will be worked out. Sub-commit- tees will be named to work. in vart- cus sections of the county and gem eral campaign manager will be ap- pointed at a salary that will warrant him to devote his entire time from now until the election, in talking and work ing for nothing else but prohibition. Literature will be sent broadcast throughout the county and the people educated up to everything prohibition stands for
 ii is the intention of the campaign ' - meeting just as soon as all the pre- limfnaries have been arranged. This meeting will be held in Birmingham after the leaders have had time to get in thorough touch with the situation. The election will probably be held the middle of November and the prohis are confident of victory.
 When seen Tuesday, Chairman Ses- sions had the following to say:
 .I believe the citizens of Jefferson county are now ready for a prohibition election. and I also believe that when ft comes to a vote for whisky or nc whisky, that the prohibitionists VIII carry the day. am conVineed tnat, with the appointment of such efficient and competent members ofs the cam paiau committee, great work will De done. The question that is to De oe- cided by the people of Jefferson county is whether there will be whisky sold or no whisky sold. I believe that when a man is shown the conditions from all sides that he will not vote for the sale of whisky, unless he has become har- dened. I tell you the man who says it will injure business ought to think of some other things.
 T know myself that prohibition will not Kill the town as many have said but nevertheless I tell the man who favors whisky to think well before he 
 the sals of whisky offset Che risk that a man is taking in bringing up his children? I say the man may take in A little more money but will this pay him if the saloon is responsible for the downfall of his boys? I know and all well read people know that the great majority of the crime of the nation can be traced to whisky. The homi- cides right here in this city and county have been for the most part traced to the saloon. fought whisky twenty years ago in Georgia, and I am always ready to take off my coat and so after the demon-
 Tn Cobb county, Georgia twenty years ago, I made a fight for prohibit tion and we won out. Cobb county has been for prohibition ever since that day. I am an old war horse in the prohibition game and know how to fight it. ..
 The citizens of this c$ty and county for the most part favor the prohfbi- tion movement, I believe. One of the most promlnant real estate men in tl4s city has told me that he will vote tc bEnish the open saloon and I feel en- couraged at such statements. Petf- tions of citizens asking the committed appointed by the Pastors Union to call the fight have been presented and con tain the names of many citizens of prominence.
 T cannot say at this time just when the election will be held as that will have to be decided by the committee. It won't be long. however, before the prohibition banners will be floating in the air. 'Whiskey' and No Whiskey will be the prominent banners used in the election and will be the paramount Issue.
 ssrhe election tickets to be used will be red and white. On the red ticket the whiskey voter may cast his ballot for the reign of whiskey and the ruin of men, while on the white ticket the man who favors prohibition will place his cross mark.
 ~There will be no mistake in getting the wrong ballot The people must res member that the red Is in favor oi =gh4skey and the white against it.
 'T expect large vote to be boiled on the question and trust and believe that prohibition wilt carry In Jeffer' son County as it has in many places throughout the country"
 Mir SerGions feels honored at his ap- pointment which he says came rather as a surprise. The pastors committed has finished It's duties and the matter is now in the hands of the campaign committee
 IL is estimated that the full vote oi the county will be cast on the prohibit ffou question and it is believed about l3,O0O votes will be boiled. The fight is on in Jefferson County for and against whiskey.
 HOLDING THE REMAINS.