The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20

This last move followed the published interviews of a number of members of the house and senate to the effect that they would oppose such a bill on the ground that it was contrary to the party doctrine as expressed in the platform made in Nashville in June. All other re- forms are to be sidetracked by the pro- hibitionists until this one gets legislative attention, and Its advocates are sparing no effort, overlooking no epithets or ugly words in their effort to drive the proposi- ton through the legislature. An appeal for money has been issued and sent throughout the state. Just what this money is for has not been explained, but hundreds of dollars are being collected In the churches and forwarded to the man. agers of the campaign in Nashville.
 As much as the conservative people re- gret this situation, they are unable to stem the tide and every day fire breaks out in a new place. The newspapers that dare to oppose the prohibition measure are denounced from pulpits and rostrums throughout the state. Men who dare to oppose it do so at the peril of having their records read from the rostrum. 'All's fair in war" they say, and the war has devel- oped into a cruel one.
 The death of Senator Carmack Is 
 friends, and some go so far as to contend that the killing was done with his full knowledge and consent. He was killed, they~say because he stood in the way of other aspirants for Senator Frazier s seat in Washington and because the pro- hbition tide could not be stemmed while he remained in position to fight.
 To prove that Senator Carmack was assassinated, his body has been exhumed t, CoInrnhio nd ryixy another thorough examination. The state has given out nothing that resulted from that post mortem, but the story is going the rounds that three kinds of bullets were found in the body, one of which was fired from a window near by and fired before either of the Coopers had an op- portunity to shoot. Another story has it that the pistol found by the side of the dead man was not his own but was the weapon of Colonel Cooper who ex- changed pistols with Senator Carmack after he had fallen.
 All these things mawke up a portion of the prohibition literature and oratory be- ing poured out upon the public. Then came the postponement of the. trial of the Coopers until January 20. at the request of the defense, and this has been summed up by the prohibitionists as indicating that the judiciary might be interested. Openly they clamored for a speedy trial that the assassins might be convicted and hanged' as an example to other of lenders.
 TO aid the state in prosecuting the Coopers the, contribution box has been passed around at every church. The Car mack Memorial association, which has about collected the amount of money nec- essary to erect a $25,000 monument, con tinues collecting and will offer the sur plus to Attorney General McCarn to use in the prosecution
 This monument is to be erected in Nashville and the committee has asked that space be given it on Capitol hill inn mediately in front of the capitol build ing This matter was also laid before the authorities in Washington with the request that space be given on the post office lawn.
 In the mean time this faction is face to face with one equally as determined. Governor Patterson won his election on the local option platform. and while he has said nothing on the question recently. 1t is understood that he is determined to veto any bill passed by the legislature contrary to the platform expression on the saloon issue. This declaration is that the old four-mile law shall not be ex- tended to include a city now licensing saloons until after the people of thRt city have voted on the question and approved the change.
 But one side is hardly more severe or determined than the other. The fight is free for all corners and sees no nights or Sundays. The red letters on the cal endar have all been scratched out and there will be no holidays until the legis-