The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-14


 Talapoosa. who said that MT. Goodwyn had asked for Montgomery and for every other city in Alabama that which those cities did not ask. They would say what they wanted January l and the answer of Montgomery would be the same. stsf&g I.a- y Grown Beyond The Party. He declared that he had never seen man who could make good argu- ment for a bar room. Speaking of the local option plank in the platform, he said that the prohibition question had grown beyond any plank. beyond any, platform. beyond any party.
 Tt has swept from the mountains to the sea and the people all over the state demand prohibition unanimous iy' He claimed that state prohibi- ton bill would avoid much dissentton | in Montgomery. If we have got to sell" said Mir. Bulger. "the honor of our young men and the virtue of our young women for revenue then let us all go to the country" 7. 1 Mir. Sherrod said he regretted to have to appear before, the House In opposi- tion to. the bill. but I am no candt- date. and no man dare impugn my | motives. My record is clear.
 | T voted for the anti-shipping bill
 because I believed In local option, in | local self-government and believe ii | protecting those who do not want l whisky sold. I favor local option be- 1 cause favor home rule
 That being my record. no man has I . right to say take the position do | now for any ulterior motive. have | done just as much and more than Mir. BuIger to put down the liquor traffic.
 The only difference is in our methods. | Mir Bulger has said that wherever elections have been held the county has I gone dry. If this is true. why the necessity of the present bill?"
 At the last session singularshrd
 At the last session a similar bill was introduced and the Committee on Temperance choked D If this is a l good bill now. why was it not good
 bill then. If Montgomery County
 wants to go dry 1t will do so and so will Mobile Why should we say to these counties, you must go dry" | Mir! Sherrod said he had received a
 telegram from town six miles from
 his birthplace and a place he visited frequently, urging him to vote for pro-
 hibitiona He knew every man In the town. but the telegram was signed by
 six men, three of whom he had never
 heard of. INr. Prohibition Reduces Grimes. I Mir. LoveIady said he was glad he did not have to apologize for this side. H They tell you said the Jefferson
 prohibitionist" that there are so many , revenue licenses In Maine but do they
 give you figures as to the crime in that
 state. Maine has only three murders to our ], 900. What we are after Is to
 make it easier to do right and harder
 to do wrong.
 "Mr. Goodwin is growing in grace.
 Last year he favored a beat unit, now he is in favor of county unit and next
 year he will favor a state unit on the
 prohibition question. They tell us we | we men can't do it I am in favor of turn ing the thing over to the women and
 they'll do it"
 He quoted from Birmingham's police
 record to show that the open saloon
 stimulated crime. He admitted that nc
 was not a prohibitionist in July out
 is-a prohibitionist now
 lI He was asked by Mir. Hoffman whS Eh he did not speak of Alabama and not
 alone of Jefferson county.
 ''Because" replied pr. Lovelady "1 1 am afraid the people of Mobile would come up to Birmingham and bring their whisky with them." This reply was } greeted with applause.
 MT. Hoffman replied that he knew many good Jefferson county people,
 who had enjoyed partaking of Mobiles , hospitality.
 ferson county the districts which had .l been wet had less revenue and poorer schools than the dry sections of the } county. { MT. Jenkins spoke against the bill. , FFs declared that if he lived in Sir. .mingham he would favor 1t, because. . ha decIared. a man takes his life into , his 'hands every time he goes into Jeff I ferson County. but in good old Mont , romery, and in the city by the sea, where the salt air keeps a man In good condition, it's a different proposition" Good Some Places Not in Others. rr4 eiA that in Baldwin County he
 would vote for prohibition. but he did not believe that what was good for l Tsay Minette was necessarily good for Mobile and Montgomery.