The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-29
LADIES CELEBRATE FIRST ANNIVERSARY Lawrence Says Liquor Interests
 Are Raising Fund OTHER SPEAKERS HEARD Lovelady Intimates That Recent Raids Were Only Beginning In the
 Work of Enforcing Pro-
 hibition Laws.
OTHER SPEAKERS HEARD

The keynote of the anniversary cele- bration commemorating the victory for prohibition of last year was Keep on Fighting" Brooks Law renee state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon leage, made the state ment that a fund of 1000 has a1- ready been raised in the state to back a whisky candidate for governor" He further declared that the liquor ele ment is silently at work placing candi- dates to run for the legislature with the direct intention of electing an anti prohibition legislature, and insisted that the Law and Order league people must keep wide-awake with their lamps burning.
 About 200 ladies, together with mem bers of the Law and Order league, gathered yesterday afternoon at the First Methodist church to celebrate the first anniversay of the prohibition day sacred and set it aside as an annual anniversary of the occasion.
 Mrs. W. H. Jeffries, president of the State Women's Christian Temperance union, presided, and the first half hour was devoted entirely to a praise ser vice. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing was sung with unusual pow CT. and Faith Is the Victory was an- other of the appropriate songs. Several ministers of the district led in prayer and made talks attributlng the victory to the hand of Providence.
 J. R. Dunlap a member of the board of registrars in Jefferson county, made the startling statement that 2200 new voters had been registered this year, and that a lot of them are dominated by the saloon interests. He said that some had the poll taxes paid seven years ahead, and, calling attention to the fact that the victory was only by 1900 last keep busy all the time.
 Fred M. Jackson made a short talk in which he hinted that a conspiracy has been formed by the lawless ele- ment to defeat the ends of the proibf- tion law, but said that Birmingham would never go backward, that while there are many rebuffs and discour- agements, and he had never thought the saloons would be run entirely out, he enumerated a number of the advan- tages brought about by the change.
 Representative R. F. Lovelady urged +ba h dias to cantinua their activity and do all they can to keep the cause to the front, and to see that the next legislature is not one that opposes pro- hibition. He held up to them grave danger, and while commenting their past work, insisted that they must not rest.
 Walter Sessions reviewed the effects, and added his praise for the good pro duced. F. W. Barnett talked along the same lines as MT. Lawrence. and called attention to numbers of prominent bus mess men who now favor prohibition contrary to their previous votes.
 The meeting closed with Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow" and the ladies were highly gratified with the results.
 The committee of 100 met yesterday morning and transacted business be- hind closed doors. Secretary Lovelady would only give out the information that speeches had been made and de- tails of the plans for the enforcement of the law completed He said that the league would always continue to be an active means for the enforcement of the law, and that the recent raids were only the beginning