The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-07
RESENTS THE CIRCULAR
 OF BROOKS LAWRENCE
Deprecates Attempt to Revive Car.
 pet Baggery.
Review. the Legislation and Court De- sfsions Affecting the shipment ef Intoxicating Liquors In- to . Prohibition state
 Discusses Position of
 Opponents.
(Communicated.)

In his speech at La Pine Saturday lion. s. H. Dent dealt frankly with existing issues in the Congressional race and with the attempts fade from outside the district to influence its voters.
 MT. Dent said:
 There is another question in this campaign which has seemed to attract more attention than any other, 1t has certainly been the subject of more dis cussion. That question is the posi- ton of the candidates upon the anti- shipping whislxey bill by Congress. I have fixed views upon that subject. ! do not jump at conclusions. When decided to run for Congress I did not run to jump upon the band wagon. but took a deliberate rest at the sit- uation, studied 1t, considered 1t, I pondsred over it before reached my conclusion. but having reached 1t I am willing to state 1t fairly and frank lv to the people of this district any, where. I have nothing in the world upon thts subject to conceal, propose to state my position fully and frankly, to give the reasons for the faith that is in me. and let the people judge, whether or not it meets your views upon the subject. I have no desire in the world to obtain this nomination upon false pretenses, I have no desire in the world to obtain 1t by conceal ing my political convictions. my poiit- teal views and convictions are of determined and positive character. am perfectly willing that they may be made known anywhere and every where.
 Now. sent to Washington and I se- cured the proceedings before the Ju- diciary Committee of the Fifty-Eighth and Fifty-Ninth Congresses upon this subject, read every word that was said upon this subject at those two sessions of Congress, and it was at those two sessions that this matter had it's principal consideration. I also read che discussion before the Judiciary Committee, and read the argument pro and con upon both sides. and read the report that was finally sub- Congressman Clayton, from Barbour county, member of that committee. a unanimous report agreed upon by, every member of the committee, both Republicans and Democrats.
 Although this is Q matter that Con- grsss must dispose of one way or am other. although this matter Is still pending and will continue to stay there until dispoed of. until recently only two candidates, although there are i've candidate in the field. had declared any views whatever upon this ubject. one of those was my friend, Mfr. Sanford. from Pike. and the other myself. I in the County of Wilcox that my good friend. Colonel Bricken. had finally gotten down off the fence, that he had quit riding the top rail. and had finally committed himself in a fashion upon this subject, but it was not until hu was called upon in the County of Will cox the week before last when he was stumping over there that he did conn init himself upon this ubject. although Dr. Crumpton had written letter at the beginning of the campaign and al- though the people all over the district had been desirous of knowing how the candidates stood upon this question. I understand. did not hear 1t myself but was reliably informed. that my good friend, Colonel Bricken, under. took to take a sort Of middle ground between the position of Mir. Sanford and the position of myself. under stand that he said that he was in favor of Congress passing an anti-ship- ping whiskey bill but that he wanted the quantity of the stun limited. in other words he was in favor of q bill by which interstate carriers should bring into the State to each consigned only one gallon of whiskey at a time when heard that. made the remark to the friend who told me in Wilcox county. that I thought that was a sufiicient quantity to keep every man reasonably drunk most of the time, one gallon of whiskey to each consignee as fast as he desired 1t, or he could get 1t.
 Now as to my friend Mir. Sanford. I do not know exactly how he stands in his speeches upon this subject, but he and I spoke together at China Grove at the beginning of the campaign on this question. and we locked horns upon this proposition down there. now understand that his views have under gone a marked change since then, and believe that can say without flatter- ing myself, that had something to do with his conversion upon this prop osition, for as I understand him now he does not take the same position that he did at the beginning of the cam paign. But not having heard him speak since we were together at China Grove. I am not able to speak with positive knowledge exactly as to how ho stands, but I do know what his written platform is; I have road that. and can quote 1t literally. he says this: I shall advocate the passage of a bill prohibiting the illegal shipment of intoxicants Into prohibition State