The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-08

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 States Right Democrat, and who sub scribes to the doctrine of local self government. can fall to support a law by Congress to protect a law passed by a sovereign State I can not under stand"
 MT. Sanford here read a letter from Chief Justice Tyson which said such a law could and ought to be passed He stated that ths entire Alabama del- egation in Congress. without an excep- tion so far as he knew. favored the had been %nade on them on that ac- count
 MT. Sanford saidi
 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 I favored prohibition or not, as good citizen and a Democrat I would be bound to favor the protection of Alabama against blind tigers and the flooding of this State with illegal shipments of liquor in violation of the State law.
 "The State prohibition law specially exempts. wine for communion pur- poses. the sale of pure grain alcohol by druggists on a physicians prescription, and the use Of liquors and other bev- erages ini private homes. How much more liberty does a man want?"
 Defends Brooks Lawrence.
 Mir. Sanford then read Mir. Dents comments published in Sundays Adver- tiser on the letter written by pr. w. B. Crumpton and Rev. Brooks Law renee, and said:
 q did not direct the issuance of that letter and knew nothing of it's con tents until copy was shown me by Mir. Bennie Griei, of Montgomery; who assumed the authority to advise me ethat that letter would defeat me for Congress.
 MT. Dent has seen fit to heap abuse on Rev. Brooks Lawrence and to call him a Carpetbagger.' I am the son of Confederate soldier who battled brayely for the South. The blood of those dear to me has baptized South ern soil in sanguinary battle, and all my sympathies are with Southern peo- pie: but I had thought the war was over, and the reconstruction period past.
 Many Northern people have come among us and invested millions of dol- lars in the development of our re- sources without abuse, but when a Christian minister. of pure character, dares to aid where great moral issue is involved he Is subject to the abuse of men who disagree with him. It is not where men come from. but what they stand for that weighs with sem sible people.
 But MT. Dent told only part of the truth and he failed to say anything about the other gentleman whose name was first signed to Hhat letter as president, and who, I am informed, was responsible for the issuance of the letter. Why did he fail to say in his speech that the first name to that let ter was Dr. W. B. Crumpton, who was born in Wilcox county and has his headquarters in Montgomery coun- ty? That he fought for four years as a Confederate soldier; that he is a leading minister in great Christian denomination. that he Is honored and revered of all men.
 But these men, MT. Dent says. be- ing moral and Christian leaders. have no right to interfere in race for Con- gross, but he finds no objection to the active inteersts taken in behalf of his own candidacy by Mir. Jake Weiss and the leading whiskey drummers and representatives of whiskey dealers. in Mobile, who are outside of this dis trict.
 .'So far as I am concerned would rather have the endorsement of such men as pr. Crumpton and Rev. Brooks Lawrence and the Anti-Saloon League of Alabama, than the organized whis- key dealers Inside and outside of this State, who wish to flood this fair State with liquor in disregard of the laws of our commonwealth"