The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-17

to lose any of our friends, but whenever try it on the issue of liquor or no liquor, I believe they will vote no liquor. Let us see that we do not suffer from shots of our own men. Let's keep 'em to the issue. If we should meet awful defeat, it will be due to them.
 .'Oh they're making big hurrah about politics. We are patriotic enough, brave enough to do away with personal ampi- ton, and the God of battle Is with us.
 Tt is my opinion that if such thing as defeat should befall us, the next leg islature would open up saloons in Ala ba1na I do not say that they are all hypocrits but the most of them are in favor of liquor. They are keeping quiet now for policy, but just wait until after the election. Litigation and continual at tacks will begin.
 "Where are the liquor people? The liquor people are not on our side; then they must be on the other side, giving them comfort and consolation for pur- pose that means death and hell"
 Begins Taking Contributions. , Brooks Lawrence then began taking contributions, announcing that F. M Jackson would raise and donate Sll0o S. D. Weakley $50, R. M. Goodal s25O. J. B. W@dsworth s250, W. D. Seed s10oo. H. O. McNeill for Mobile $500. Many con- l tributions varying around $l00 were sub scribed and the total nearly reached | s10OOO
 It was announced that 56 counties were ! represented and contributions were made l from all of them.
 Walter D. Seed, candidate for governor, was called to the platform. He predicted l a wholesale desertion from the opposition 1 He explained his reasons for favoring the I amendment and in closing said; Prohibition uneovers the moral foun- l tain, chooses its channel and gives the | stream its best impulse to cut into the l strata bed of mental and moral excel | lence that it's banks may be fringed With the flowers of lofty thoughts and noble 1 purpose. while the stars mirrowed in their 1 beauty like diamonds glittering upon its l placid bosom in their reflex light suggest ] eternity beyond. It's subjects are lowing l to the will of that Omnipotent Com 1 nander who marshals the legion or the | clouds and fires with the lightnng's thun- | derbot in the artillery of the heavens"
 Johnson Speaks. Ed M Johnson of the wire grass sec 1 ton made a short talk, giving notice that his two weekly papers will advocate 1 constitutional prohibition.
 "We want politics to get into the 7, churches he said, i've want to purify politics in Alabama.
 ''They tell you that Conner wants to i go to the Senate and is using this issue i to be elected. Would to God the halls i of Congress were all Conner. '"rhis came as a big surprise, as MT. Johnson has | always opposed Conner in the past. Asked to tell about an offer made to | his paper he said: "They sent me note
 offering $500 to help defeat Comersm.'
 He said he turned 1t down and paid his
 respects to the gentleman.
 Night Session.
 The night session was opened with
 prayer by A. G. Moseley of Enterprise. l Kyle B. Price was introduced as the
 man who obliterated Leon McCord. He
 said that it is as impossible to separate
 this movement from the churches of
 Alabama as 1t is to separate the other
 side from the liquor interests.
 He compared the "hippodrome at
 Montgomery to Shakespeare's plays
 calling the Advertiser the grandma of
 the Nile. and Governor Oates Antony
 '.The asp of the liquor interests is still
 twined about the neck of this Cleo 1 patra." He compared Judge Jones to
 the Dago of Othello, who had received his position through the craft of the ] Moor of Tuskegee. and declared thai Henderson had cut his political head 1 'I saw lists of the dead brought back to life.'
 He stated this algebraic proposition