The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11
pn. cRunrruN AaAIN.

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The oficers OF the Alabama Ahti-sa-
loon League seem to enjoy the Roose-
veitian habit of getting in the lime
light and also his misfortune Of talk
Ing too much. They avail themselves
OF every opportunity to get into print.
always hammering away with a reiter-
alton of their familiar ideas and usual
ly demonstrating their intemperance
Of thought and expression.
Now comes their jealous President
again. DR.. Crumpton. He made a talk
at the meeting OF the Law and order
League Thursday night, ami, OF course.
The Advertiser failed to report 1t to
suit him. Instead. however, OF conhn-
ing himself to the point, he Tugs in q
lot of extraneous matter. which il IL
Illustrative of his weakness--intoler-
ance In attitude and injustice In at
tack.
It seems that the President of the
Anti-Saloon League does not want the
public, to believe that he endorses its
Superintendent in the latter's anti-Su-
preme Court utterance. And yet. ac-
cording to DR.. Crumpton's own state
mepts. he praised Mr.. Lawrence for
all sorts of goodness and efficiency. but
forgot to express his disapproval on
the only question which brought the
Superintendent's name UP at this par
ticular time. That was grievous
oversight on DR.. Crumptop's part, but
It certainly was not the fault Of The
Advertiser or its reporter. As q mat
ter of fact, no one who heard DR..
Crumpton's speech would have sup
posed that he had any sort of differ
now, his criticism il very mild: he
merely regrets the mistake he had
made sort of tactical blunder not
unjust In itself.
DR.. Crumpton, In his new issues,
complains that the papers did not de-
nounce Boston attorney, who, he says.
was here recently In the liquor inter-
est. He must have, been very quiet
here: he made no speeches, wrote no
newspaper articles, did not roast any
body or anything. He must have gone
shout his business la a business-lik e
way, for DR.. Crumpton's statement Of
his presence Is the tirst we have heard
OF II. It is a wonder that DR.. Crump-
ton did not send some newspaper an
article about 1t at the time.
AS q matter of course DR.. Crumpton
could not write many hundred words
without showing his spleen at The Ad-
vertiser. He asserts that The Adver-
tiser gives the most of its energies to
the most shameful abuse of the execu-
tive and legislative departments of the
government, and then goes wild In de-
Tense of the judiciary when one mild
ly Cd criticises one Of Its decisions"
This 10 another exhibition of the zeal
Gus Doctors inaccuracy and injustice.
The Advertiser has never shamefully
abused anybody, even under the utmost
provocation. Its Criticisms have al
ways been dignified and parliamentary.
II its criticisms have hit hard, 1t has
always been due to the weight of the
facts adduced and to the unavoida bic
1t has never trusted to adjectives and
billingsgate for effect. Nor has this
paper put down Jus" (the prohibition
ists) as menace to the State" We
have never used an ugly word about
the prohibitionists or their movement:
we have simply dissented from their
wisdom and the movements efficiency.
Whatever bad blood has been stirred
up has not been by The Advertiser. but
by some Of the over-zealous, hot-head-
ed. loose-thinking. reckless-talking
prohibition leaders.
1t Is to be hoped that the next time
DR.. Crumpton speaks he will say all
he intended to say, and not roast The
Advertiser afterward for not being q
mind-reader. practically and putting
into his speech what ne ought to have
said. Now. however, that he has
amended his speech he has not i'm
proved It, for observe. he considers Mr..
Lawrence's indecent arraignment of
the Supreme Court only mild criti-
cism, n mistake, and The Advertisers
condemnation "a wild defense of the
judiciary" The President of the Anti
Saloon League has not helped his Su-
perintendent a bit with this sort of a
correction, nor has he strengthened
himself.
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