The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
PRATT CITY CHEERS
 INTERPRETATION Captain O'Brien and Other Speakers Well Received CLOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN Guy Johnson. Makes ForcibIe Appeal To Voters Not To Cripple the
 District By Prohibi
 ton.
CLOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN

Pratt City October 26- -tspecial)-The grand final rally at Pratt City tonight was attended by an audience filling the city hall with little standing room left.
 It was an nti-prohibiton meeting, but some of the opposition were present Per feet order prevailed under the splendid executive ability of the local chairman, Dr. James Seay. who presided with dig- nifty, ease and remarkable accuracy.
 The first speaker was Capt. Frank P. O'Brlen, who is well known and who enjoys the friendship of hundreds of the citizenship and who supported him in his every request for preferment.
 Captain O Brien, in a conservative way, appealed to the conservatism of his hear CTS. That was the slogan of his every remark. He wanted liberty of action individually and collectively; and made no attack upon any man or woman who opposed his views. He paid a beautiful tribute to the womanhood of Alabama, and expressed the belief that they would not allow themselves to be drawn next Monday into the maelstrom of politics. He was frequently applauded and it was  and favorable impression.
 Captain O Brien was followed by Frank V Evans of Birmingham, who told of his experience ina prohibition city for two years, and of his work for 16 months in New York and other eastern points in an effort to induce immigration to the south. He told his audience of the ab- surdity of any and all efforts to legisla- late morals of the baneful influence of blind tigers; of the way in which the for eigner fears an infringement upon personal rights in prohibition sections and of the necessity of a broad policy toward the great developing agencies capital and labor which we so much need in Jeffer- son county; of the things thus far ac- complished by these agencies and the things yet hoped for to spring from their constant efforts.
 J. W. Mcqueen, vice president of the Sloss- Sheffield company, next spoke, and amid repeated cheers told of the great interests involved in this contest-speak- ing forcefully from a business stand point and telling his hearers of the work thus far accomplished by capital and labor in this district under wise laws and making a strong appeal against some primary laws now threatening Jeffer- son county. under the leadership of an emissary from Ohio.
 hS d ptioA htioh, MI. htNSutCHi III h dignifed manner said. 'It has been stated that the Sloss-Sheffield company sells whisky-that is simply a lie" This re- mark was followed by immense applause.
 Guy R. Johnson. vice president and general manager of the Alabama Consol- idated Coal and Iron company, was the last speaker. MT. Johnson stated that he was not a public speaker, but a busi- ness man, and wanted to say few words along this line
 Much to the surprise of the audience MT. Jonnson's remarks established him in the minds of his audience as a real speaker, a forceful one, and man whose heart, mind and soul is turned in the di- rection of the betterment of a people among whom he has cast his lot and for whom he has yearning for magnificent success. He told of the possibilities of this district; of it's glorious achievements, and of its possibilities in the future; of the money invested under the laws of Alabama and of the things under those laws yet hoped to be accomplished by his company, as well as others.
 Said MT. Johnston: 'I have recently vis- 1ted New York, with a view to inducing more money to Alabama I was some- what disappointed for to me came the answer: Not now; for. you are fussing among yourselves down there. Your con ditions are unsettled. You have before SSH ttC PtoitioitiNl IcoS liti E of opposition to perfect liberty has been raised and by that you frighten labor away. Money goes with labor every time, and labor follows money, and money with out labor is of no use. Wait until you can tell the people that the gates are still open.'"
 Mir. Johnson demonstrated his earnest ness as a speaker his accumen as a man of affairs, his admiration and desire for morality and his contempt for ignorance and fanaticism. He was loudly applauded from the beginning to the end of his speech.
 Pratt City may be fairly placed in the column of anti-prohibtion, because in that precinct dwell populace opposed to the idea Of sumptuary law--a community bidding every day of it's life for more men and more money to develop God given resources which lie, move and have their being beneath the soil upon which they dwell.