The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24
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 MT, Bowman declared that he was . prohlbitionist was against the saloon and had fought them to ( finish in Birmingham But he fdescrbed wth some sarcasm the Birmingham prohi- bitionst In the big city he saidsthe prohfbitionist and his wife would go to the theatre and after the theater they would so. to the club At the l club q fine dinner would be served about o'clock the man would get to his palatiai home saying thiclxiv
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 These fellows. he said. never spen, l more than four or five hours at theil homes and did not know how to love 1t. And then he described the farmer who after taking out his mules, feed. ing them and setting everything tc rights at the barn. joined his wife and children at their fireside, to spend the entire night with his family. Tt may be an humble. cheap sor, of affair. but do you know that old wool hat loves that little old lime kiln as much as J. Pierpont Morgan loves his castle.
 Conner ssla Whisley.
 Mir. Bowman reiterated his charge that Governor Conner had not only sold whislxey in Barbour County. but that he quit only when the United States revenue officers got after him. The Governor, he said, explained that he quit selling liquor to negroes because he found out that 1t made them drunk. He pictured the Governor. in . long apron, waiting on the negroes him. self. saying that the Governor who was never afraid of work sold the whisl<ey to save clerks hire. And in this long apron he pictured the Gov ernor as experimenting on the negroes to find out if whiskey really made them drunk. Mir: Bowman asserted that the whiskey selling was stopped. not be- cause the Governor found out that the negroes got drunk, but because the rev. enue department found that he wanted to make money too fast. and was sell ing 1t by the wholesale when he only had retail license. William Young blood, a former revenue ofIicer. Mir. Bowman said. would substantiate all he said.
 Mr.. Bowman charged further that the Governor while a citizen of An- niston headed a mob to lynch a young man. who in an unfortunate dificuIty had killed man. If John Calduell, Ed Caldfell and others had not gotten their Winchetsers and threatened to
 
 if they tried the iynching, Mr. Bonn tan declared that the young can uouid have been lynched.
 The speaker praised the Governor as a business uan. 'Jim Dandy" meal was mentioned and the Pike County rural voters laughed as soon as it came out. Mir. Bouman told the story of the Avondale cotton mill. He himself had bought little stock in the mill. But the Governor ofned the mill now and he did not know what had become of his little stock.
 Reckless Extravagances,
 The speaker was earnest and serious when he alluded to the mismanagement of the States finances with a deficit of a million and half now which would be more than twice that much next year.
 And some of you old soldiers out there are shy. on your pension money he said. "They have tried to explain 1t to you. but you are still shy on that pension money. The Governor said he would not have tempered with the pen- sion system, except that you old fel- lows, when you drew your money in wad wonld go out and spend it for booze. and get drunk. What do you think of that? He could not pay you your pensions. but he could take S126.- 900 out of the treasury ot pay for two extra sessions of the Legislature, and he could pay more than S10o.0oo to ex- tra lawyers to represent the State when you and I were paying an Attorney General and his assistants 9e,00O a year. And he could force this election on you for his political purposes at a