The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-04
POLITICAL vAUDEv1LLE-No. 1.

gentleman is the logical leader of tho prohibition forces.
 Mir. Mallory answered to the call of his friends and more than Q year ago announced his candidacy for Cover nor. As far back as he can remember he has been a consistent prohibitionist, devoting his time and talent to its es- tablishment and its maintenance. He is not an opportunist.
 He has ever been ready with an en- swer to any query to him as to how he stood on all public questions. He has never hesitated to see which way the straws were pointing.
 He is absolutely independent of any clique or any undue influence--simply stands on his man, as 1t were. He Is so profoundly independent in fact as to incur the non-support of the pres- ent Governor. Unlike Judge Weakley in this campaign, there Is no fne-too about him. He will lick no mans boot: He is truly the man of the people and what he conceives to be right, that will he do regardless of the whims of others.
 No man disputes that it wss Nal lory's influence which coaxed the con- stitutional amendment through the rec cent Legislature.
 Weakley was hanging around, but Mallory was the power behind the
 As. The Advertiser says. Mallory has ever fought for the cause of temper ance without accepting an attorneys fee for his lahors.. Can Judge Weak
 MT. Mallory has never asserted that he thought the people of Alabama were due him a reward for the services he tIon. Nor once has he even thought
 But on the contrary Judge weakley feels that the people of Alabama are
 He has admitted as much himself.
 Not so long ago, while en route to Birmingham, the Judge was heard to say that he was sure the services he had rendered the State while Justice of the Supreme Court would give him a "pres-t tige'' which would be inval- uabie to him 'in case he should find the welfare of the State depended upon ther that in view of what he had done for the cause of temperance we could III afford not to honor him upon this golden opportunity.
 too seriously. He has rendered his bill to the peepul, but we submit as sim pie business proposition that he should furnish an itemized statement.
 True, his bill bears the bold stamp of the Governors O.. K. but the peo: pie of the State, we fear. have learned that If we continue to pay up every his finger as we have for the past few years, bankruptcy is not improbable.
 Now by the simple algebraic process of elimination, even the most consist ent numbskull should be able to see who is entitled to the big end of this proposition.
 Internationally Colonel Mallory has delivered the goods in greater propor- tions than Judge Weakley. The former doesn't take on" much over what he has done while the lat- ter Is using ;he story of his toll in be- half of temperance as campaign slogan.
 Judge Weakley has been settled with in cash for what he has done; Colonel Mallory Is yet to be settled with. The debt the people of this State owe him would have gone unpaid had the mat ter been left to the discretion of the grand old man from Dallas--but his candidacy was scarcely optional with | him.
 His friends, which is to say Alabama, demanded that he put himself in posi- l ton to receive the qualification of a | grateful people.
 He yielded and is running. Weakley l yielded to his own demands. to appease | the appetite of an ambitious man, and | biRum he Is running.