The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-31

Police officers are or the opliiOn ti"' the boys are due for a little license on the Jack o'-Lantern night, Hut when u
 
 therefore. the legislatures can be trusted comes with i'll grace from a set or men who proclaim that the very necessity lor this proposed amendment is that they are unwilling to trust a future legisls- ture on the question of prohibition
 2. We think, along with large num- her of the wisest of the men who are favoring the amendment, that it's proposal at this time was unwise; that there was no general demand for it; that it was not discussed before the people prior 10 us submission by the legislature; that i's language carries implications as 10 us meaning which makes men differ in opln- ion about it. We know that lawyers, in construing it, have reached diametrically opposite conclusions. And these facts we insist. should give us pause; and we therefore call upon the Confederate vet erans who have always had the good ol the state at heart, to aid us in opposing the amendment the meaning or when is certainly not clear, and the erect ol which even It's proponents cannot state.
 The Only Issue.
 3. We declare that there is no issue in this campaign of saloons or no saloons; hecause the saloons have been closed by lax., and there is not legalized saloon In Alabama.
 We declare that the issue in this campaign is not whisky or no whisky; because prohibition has been established In Alabama by law.
 5. We declare that the sole and only ls- sue is the adoption or rejection or the proposed amendment-with all It's opJec- tionable features with its granting uilre- strained power to the legislature, whlch experience has shown us can be used to the injury of the people by over zealous advocates. The power Is now in the hands of the people, by guaran- tees secured by the constitution of their state. and we urge the old veterans not to give this power over to the keeping of the legislatures that may hereaIter be elected Our homes, possessions, per sons and effects have been secured rom unreasonable search and seizure, because of the wise provisions made by our lore fathers when they wrote into our pili ol rights that they should be so We con tend that, having them in our constitu- tion, and, therefore. in the hands or the people they should not be lightly thrown away. and we urge the old veterans to stand for those rights for which tsey have always stood
 s. The argument that if we give up these rights into the hands of the iegls- lature, we may yet find protection in the constitution and laws of the federal Npv- ernment. is a poor argument to be ad- dressed to the old veterans of the Con federate army, whose principal fight was against the encroachments of federal power. and in vindication of the rigH,s of the states
 r We. therefore, call on you to rally around the flag of constitutional govern ment. because constitutional rights are being assailed.
 w. B. LEEDY, Chairman.
 w. II. SIMS.
 J. K. P. LACY.
 SAM MUEL Ul>IMAN.
 J. c. MABEN.
 The resolutions, after being read, were unanimously adopted by standing vote and after a slight change the following was also adopted:
 Whereas. the last session of the legish- ture of the state of Alabama did pass a bill making an appropriation for the re- pairs and Improvements on the veterans home at Mountain Creek, Ala.
 And. whereas, said appropriation failed for the want of the governors signature. And, whereas, the helpless old veterans at the home are now calling on the pu~- lie for aid to put their house in order
 Therefore be it resolved by the Con federate veterans here assembled, That we condemn in unmeasured terms the action of the governor in failing to at tach his signature to the bill Resolved, That copy of these reso- lutions be sent to the various camrl in the state
 Captain Smith stating that it would be contrary to the constitution Of Con1Si- crate camps for them to take action on the resolutions, Col. j. C. Savage E-oved to strike out the word camps in the last resolution and substitute 'counties' therefor. This motion prevailed, and the resolutions as amended were then unanl- mously adopted.
 MT Petersen sent q note to Captain Smith. saying that we have 5000 Ger mans and 1000 Scandinavians in the state and that they would vote asarhA the amendment"
 The following Confederate veterans were enrolled as members of this con vention to oppose the adoption of the con stitutional amendment.
 The Members Enrolled.
 John G. Smith, W. B. Leedy. J. C. Ma ben, N. A. Stuart, w. B. Hansell, T. J. Hickman J. T. Wagoner, A. N. Johnston, T. B. Cowart. w. E. Douglass, J. P. A. Slaughter, w. T. Mclaughlin J. B. w. D. Holcomb. J. D. Dab- ney, R. H. l.. Whorton, James A. AL len. H. R. Merrill. A. Ragland. R. H. Milan, D. l.. Bridges, J. K. P. Lacey, J. s. Savage, J. J. Dunlap, H. M. Brown, Robert J. Beasley, E. Carpenter, J. s. Newman. W. H. vilines. J, J. Jones. W. H. Lovins, A. F. Smith. W. D. Evins. Joseph A. Jones, H. Wide man, Fred Smith s. H. Coggns, W. M. ". nL Grant w. J. Lacey. B. B. Brown.