The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-16

....s.s..sss.....s.s..ss.. tice and rules shall govern the delber 1 ations of this conference.
 D. That all resolutions offered shall be referred to the committee on resolutions, heretofore raised, without discussion. G. That the order of business shall be as follows: (a) That after the consideration of this report and the installation of permanent officers this conference recess
 for one hour. Ob) Report of committee
 on resolutions. Co That there be raised
 a committee consisting of chairman and
 two from each congressional district to be appointed by the chair, to nominate all executive committee, consisting of a chair
 man, five members from the state at
 large, and one member from each county
 of the state. (d) That the conference then adjourn W. c. OATES, Chairman Committee on Permanent Or ganization, etc.
 The report was unanimously adopted.
 Moody Conducted to Chair.
 Senator Moody was conducted to the
 chair by Senator Thomas of Barbour,
 Senator Hamburger of Mobile and A. G.
 Smith of Birmingham. The applause
 which greeted the distinguished Tusca-
 loosa statesman was deafening. He made a few extemporaneous remarks, fiinging
 back into the teeth of those who have
 malinged the character and purpose of
 the delegates rebuke. He called attention
 to some of the splendid men aligned
 with the Ideas of the cause, and referred
 especially to two members of the Tusca-
 loosa delagation-Dr. William Stokes
 Wyman, formerly president ,of the Uni
 versity of Alabama, and Col. J. T. Mur-
 phee president of the Marion Military
 institution.
 IIA other side could be won by crusade of abuse He declared that many excellent
 men, brave men, earnest men, gallant Confederate soldiers were on the opposite side-excellent though mistaken. He attacked the idea of changing the constitution for frivolous causes, and said, We are here representing real temperance, the temperate view, of the temperance question"
 In speaking of his personal position Senator Moody said: q do not feel that I have yielded one little of my temper ance belief or doctrine. I have studied the question for 25 years, and today I believe that in some sections of the state . there should be dispensares and In others
 prohibition should obtain"
 He urged the delegates to make a
 nperate" campaign, refraining from abuse and doing nothing out of modera- tion.
 Takes a Test
 AS text for opposing the amendment Senator Moody adopted the use of reso- lutfon passed by the Southern Baptists in convention at Louisville, Temperance consists in the moderate exercise of that which is good and proper'
 Does 1t not follow,'' continued the speaker, that 1t is wise to exercise mod erately temperance legislative remedies
 Q QY1tfn hot The senator then reviewed the tenn
 perance legislation In the state, and spoke at length on the early efforts of those who sought to relieve the country of the evils of the dives Senator Moody, as Is known.
 Is the pioneer of temperance in Ala bama
 Senator Moody spoke of the appetite of
 the pro-amendment faction in devourng
 the local option bill, then the statewide prohibition bill, then the Fuller bill. then
 the "where did you get your boose from?'
 biil, and Is now hungrying for the amend
 ment to the constitution. "They need ! ooctor-such a doctor as this conven- ton is," said the chairman. IndiscretIon in Ranks. He then spoke of the indiscretion in the ranks of the other side, where zeal with
 out knowledge exists. He charged that
 In their zeal to reform they are going too rast-towards intemperance again. He declared many men on the other side were
 good men, but too young in the cause.
 As one of the veterans in the cause"
 he said, T feel permitted to say to the
 younger men, You are going too fast "
 He spoke tellingly of how far from tenn
 perance the other side is going and H.
 lustrated his point by telling the story
 of the man who in hatred of the west
 and following a desire to get far away
 from the west. went so far east that he turned up again in the west. Senator Moody concluded by stating,
 Tn making the campaign I hope the com
 mittee in charge will publish every bill passed by the legislature and write on
 the rear of the package, 'Is this not enough for the once"
 Let your moderation be made known in the land.' was Moodys suggestion for motto during the campaign The convention then, 3:15 o'clock, re- cessed for one hour.
 Reconvene After an Hour. Immediately on reconvenng commit tee was appointed to select the members
 of an executive committee. While this committee was deiberating the speech ! making of the morning was continued. Joseph J. Willett of Annston was first called to the platform. He spoke briefly | but eloquently and poetcally. He de-
 nounced the amendment. He charged that 1 1t was meant to deceive the people, He ! asked the reason why He declared that ], 1t would not put to rest the whisky agita- l tion He declared that it would not take : the question out of politics, and he l charged that all these facts were known | to those who fathered the bill. He de- i clared many of the prohibition bills could I not stand the test of the courts, and charged that the administration knew that ], fact He made an eloquent defense Of | the supreme court of Alabama and of the : United States.
 l He pronounced 1t crying shame that | it had been necessary for the people or ] Alabama to resort to the federal consti-