The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-11
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After listening closely to the speech of Hon. S. H. Dent, Jr.. last night, the friends of Hon. W. H. Sanford said that 1t seems to be substantially a repetition of his speech at LaPine, and was no answer to Mir. Samford's speech made at Troy on Monday.
 At that time. he said that he had conducted his campaign on high and dignffed plane and was seeking the office on his own merits and not on the demerits of any other man. but not withstanding this fact, a lot of, mean and contemptible campaign fabrica- tions had ben 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 his neighbors and friends to witness that his life had been as an open book In this community for nearly twenty years, and that there was nothing in his public or private life that could not stand the searchlight.
 In stating his position on the public questions of the day, he said he stood squarely on the Democratic platform, as he had always done: that he had never bolted the Democratic Party, as he was informed Mir Dent did in 1896; that he favored increased aid to agri- cultural and industrial education; the restriction of pauper immigration from southern Europe and the Orient; the netterment of the rivers and harbors or Alabama 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- lquities of the present tariff system, and showed how the people of the az ricultural districts of the South were grleVously discriminated against.
 Assails Dents Position.
 Referring to the anti-shipping bill which has become such an issue in this campaign. MT. Sanford said:
 believe In the utmost individual liberty of the citizens consistent with the rights and liberties of every oth- CT individual; there Is no such thing In civilized society as absolute lberty. Every, mans right must be exercised with reference to every other mans right. and the people of Alabama, by their sovereign representation. have passed prohibition law for this State. ana 1t is the duty of every good man and w-abiding citizen not only to ooey that law himself so long as 1t remains law, but to, endeavor to have every other person to obey 1t.
 
 States Right Democrat, and who suoscribes to the doctrine of local self government. can fail to support a law oy congress to protect a law passed 1y the sovereign State, I cannot un. derstand."
 Chief Justice Differs From Dent.
 MT. 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- ception, so far as lie knew favored the passage of such a law and no fight had been made on them on that &C., count.
 MT. Sanford said:
 Tt 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 whether l favored prohibition or not. as a good citizen and a Democrat I would be bound to favor the protection