The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-06
5. H. DENT GOES FOR LAWRENCE Candidate Arraigns Anti
 Saloon Man. CALLS HIM .,cARPET BAGGERs Declares He Used "Unelean
 Methods" me Recent Circular Frcm the Anti- saloon League Hesaauarters Be- comes Basis for Sensational Attack on Superintendent
 Brooks Lawrence.
CALLS HIM .,cARPET DAGGER"

T had thought that the reign of the carpet bagger had long since end- ed in Alabama and that every one of his kind had been driven from the State, but 1t would seem that the carget bag ger Is revived and his body resurrect- ed in the person of Mister Brooks Lawrence, from the State of Ohio"
 With these words as beginning. So- 1icitor 8. H. Dent, candidate for Con- gress, in a public speech at LaPine in the lower end of Montgomery County. yesterday arraigned Rev. Brooks Law renee. Superintendent of the Alabama Anti-saloon League. and attacked him for alleged interference In the Congres. sfonal race Mir. Dent was most caus- tic in his handling of the well known prohibition leader. His arraignment was based on circular letter sent out by Mir. Lawrence to the voters of the Second District in which he advocated Hon. W. IT. Sanford and mentioned Mir. Dent as one for whom prohibi- tionists should not vote.
 A large crowd heard Mir. Dent at LaPine. The spirit with which he at- tackled the prohibition leader who had attacked him won some hearty ap- piause from his hearers.
 Mir. Dent declared that the circular letter sent out by Mir. Lawrence from Birmingham advised the voters to sup port Mir. Sanford and mentioned only one man for them to vote against--hifn- self Mir. Dent declared that he had been marked for defeat in that circu. lar because he did not wear the collar of Brooks Lawrence. He did not. he said. bend his knee to any other man. nor did he form his convictions at the order of any other man, but they came of his own conscience.
 Brooks Lawrence directs that I be beaten" he said, because have the .k atHMr sztffh htfya anY, fnn af6 of enforcement of the prohibition law. why should Brooks Lawrence inter. fere in this carnpaign2 There is pro- hipition. law duly enacted in this State. have conducted my campaign by fairs Iy stating my convictions without in" dulging in personalities. but Mir. Law. renee has injected the issue of person. aiities in the campaign, and I have no fear to meet 1t. Who is Brooks Law renee? He was born in Ohio and ratsed north of Mason and Dixon's line. He hasn't drop of Southern blood In his veins.s
 The issuance of the circular in the closing hours of the campaign when he would not have time to go over the district and refute 1t, was. Mir. Dent said. most unfair. This "unclean meth. cd of politics" he said. was the natural result of the action of a man who quilted the pulpit and the gospel Of peace to enter politics and stir up strife. He declared that the independ- ence and manhood of the district would resent such unfairness and rebuke the gentleman from Ohio.
 if was announced last night by MT Dents friends that they proposed .o publish MT. Dents speech, defining his position on the anti-shipping bill. and arraikning Mir. Lawrence and give It as wide distribution as possible, thus making the circular q campaign issue