The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-09
Communicated, San1ford AnsDers Dent Unfounded Charges Annihilated In a
 Strong Speech.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY ENDORSED AT H
His Opponents Appeal to Prejudice Boomerang.
The Whole Truth About the AnSaloon League Letter Puts
 New Lighf.

Troy. Sept. 7.--(SpeciaL)-Hon. w. II. Sanford, candidate for Congress, addressed large and enthusiastic au- dience here today. Ills speech was an eloquent and forcefui presentation of his position on all public questions, and was applauded and enthusiastically received by the hundreds who gather ed to hear him. He was given an ova- ton at the conclusion of his address.
 Mir. Sanford said that he had cons ducted his campaign on a high and dignified plane and was seeking the office on his own merits and not on the demerits of any other man; but not withstanding this fact lot of mean and contemptible campaign fabrica- tions had been industriously circulated against his public and private charac- ter. some of which were absolutely false, and others containing just enough foundation to make the false hood all the meaner and the islander all the greater.
 He called on the vast audience of hls neighbors and friends to witness in this community for nearly twenty years. and that there was nothing in his public or private life that could not stand the searchlight.
 Endorsed as Solicitor.
 He referred to a report that had gained circulation in Montgomery through the agency of some of Mr. Dents friends, to the effect that he had been forced to resign the position of solicitor of Pike county on account of charges against him. in order to keep down indictments. Tn this con- nection he read a letter from Hon. R. II. Parks as follows:
 ''ofice of Solicitor of Twelfth Judicial
 Circuit.
 
 sHon. W. H. Sanford. Troy, Ala.
 My Dear Sir:-It has been brought to my attention that a false report has been circulaeed to the effect that you were forced to resign the office of so- licitor of Pike county several years ago because of charges made against you in connection with your oiiice.
 T cannot understand how such re- port gained circulation, except that 1t was done by your political enemies for campaign purposes, for there is not syllable of truth in the charge.
 T was circuit solicitor at the time of your retirement from the office and during the entire time of your service as county solicitor. and 1t affords me pleasure to state that the conduct of your office during the entire time was such and only such as to merit com. mendatlon and praise; and I so stated to you at the time of your retirement from the office.
 sincerely your friend. "R- H. Parks" A In stating his position on the public %uestions of the day he said he stood slnuarely on the Democratic platform, a& he had always done; that he had never bolted the Democratin Party as he was informed Mir. Dent did In 1896; thaA he favored increased aid to agrI- cultural and industrial education; the restriction of pauper immigration from Southern Europe and the orient; the betterment of the rkvers and harbors of Alamaba: the building of good roads by the Federal Government in aid of the post roads and the rural free delivery system. He discussed the in- iquities of the present tariff system, and showed how the people of the ag- ricultural districts of the South were grievously diseriminated against.
 Assalis Dent's Position.
 Referring to the anti-shipping bill which has become such an Issue in this campaign. MT. Sanford said:
 T believe in the utmost individual liberty of the citizen consistent with the rights and liberties of every oth- CT individual; there is no such thing In civilized society as absolute Fberty. Every mans right must be exercised with reference to every other mans right and the people of Alabama. by fheir sovereign representation have passed a prohibition law for this State. and 1t is the duty of every good man and law abiding citizen not only to obey that law himself so long as 1t remains a law. but to endeavor to have every other person to obey 1t. And how any man who claims to be a States Right Democrat. and who subscribes to the doctrine of local self government. can fall to support a law by Congress to protect a law passed by the sovereign State I cannot un- derstand"
 Chief Justice Differs From Dent,
 Mir. Sanford here read a letter from Chief Justice Tyson which said such q law could and ought to be passed. He stated that the entire Alabama delegation in Congress, without an ex- eeption. So far as he knew. favored the passage of such a law and no fight had been made on them on that ao- count
 MT. Sanford said:
 It is true that I favor prohibition and took an active part in my county against whiskey. and for that, too, the whiskey men say I am doomed; but