The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-07

about the conviction of yioIatcr of thceiaw. I speak as a practical man engaged in this business now for near iy six years. Because have found
 that there is . lurking danger in his antt-shipping bill, because have had
 the courage to point out to the people all through this district the dan gers of it. because I have had the courage to say to the people if yon
 adopt a measure of this kind you will likely soon find your local self gov ernment destroyed and your individual liberties gone forever, because have had the courage to do that. Mir. Law renee comes out from Birmingham in the Ninth Congressional District--not in the Second Congressional District of Alabama---and commands this peo- pie. these free men, that they shall not vote for Dent. That is the only reason
 Why my fellow citizens. according to the conception and judgment of MT. Lawrence. It does not make any dif- ference what the fitness or capacity of any candidate for Congress may be. 1t is immaterial what m&y have been hts training or talents. 1t is imma- terial how he stands upon the tariff or trusts. 1t is immaterial whether he Is in favor of extending the rural de- livery system In the district. 1t is in1-
 material whether he stands upon the
 Democratic platform adopted at Dem yer or not 1t Is inmaterial to him
 whether he Is in favor of the election
 of Mir. Bryan or not, 1t Is fmmaterial
 to him how he stands upon any sub ject on Gods green earth, unless he
 comes up to the one, single. solitary
 standard. unless he fits the only single.
 solitary pattern cut out by Lawrence
 himself, he is incapable to be a repre-
 sentative in. Congress. According to my conception and to my notion, a man
 with only one idea in his head has not
 breadth of intellect enough to be NCongressman. There are too many
 questions coming before Congress.
 there are a thousand and one things
 that a representative has to face and
 vote upon. If he goes there with one,
 little, narrow, idea in his mind, an
 nti-shipping bill. or the withdrawal of the internal venue license, he goes
 there united to represent the peo- pie.
 l want to ask you. who is Mir.
 Brooks Lawrencef I sometimes call him the Reverend Brooks Lawrence. but have quit calling him that, I am
 going to quit calling him that be- cause he has left tie pulpit and gone
 into politics, he has quit the Chris
 ttan calling of a minister of the Cos pei of love and peace and gone into political affairs of Alabama. Who is he and where did he come from? Born
 and raised in the State of Ohio, born
 and reared above Mason and Dixon's line, he has not single. solitary drop
 of Southern blood coursing through
 his veins. His heart does not the material interests of this people. He has no use for you except this. He has organized a league. He has secured to himself an office and a home, doubtless in Birmingham. and that league Is drawing whatever mon ey it can from the women and chill dren in this land and putting 1t into its treasury. and he has his hand there ready to dig into that treasury and he dips and dips into 1t in. order to support himself and to take care of his family. if he has any in BirUing- ham. sas
 < had thought, my fellow citizen. that the reign of the carpet bagger had long since ceased in Alabama; thought that the last one of them had been driven from Alabama. soil, and forced to seek a more congenial cline. But it seems that after all of these years of peace and repose from the reign of the carpet bagger. that his spirit Is sought to be revived. and his body sought to be resuFrected in the spsrson ps 2 Mr. Brooke Lawrence from the State of Ohio. Il
 Now. did not start this sort of proceeding. I did not start 1t at all. I. am not responsible for 1t. He .start- ed. it and he must bear the results of whatever attack I am making up- on him because he has assailed me, and I propose from now on to the close of this campaign throughout this district to tell the people what I think of him and his interference and his tntermeddling in the political affairs of this district. I know that the peo- pie of the Second Congressional Dis triet of Alabama are free men. know that they have not lost their man. hood. I know that their Independence has not gone. and know furthermore that on the twelfth day of September, on next Saturday. the free men of the Second Congressional District of Ala banra are going to walk to the polls and cast ballot that will overwhel- minRlS rebuke MT. Lawrence for his interference in this campaign.
 I spoke in the county of Covington upon this proposition. and some of