The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-28

laws are SO good. he Is forced to take
100000 to pay for their lawsuits.
which have not yet been brought
about The idea of anticipating law
suits. and threatening lawsuits.
People, am not after any office.
This is just McCord talking to you,
plain McCord. who wants nothing but
to carry on his private fight, and for
the toilers to be unshackled and free.
Ask the speakers on the other side
whether they are running for office
or not-ask Weakley and Mallory and
Seed. And this amendment IL just a
And they can run, too. They're
got 100000 to run on: they can at
ford to make q long hard campaign.
Fifty thousand dollars q year for two
years; railroad litigation.
Toilers Pay Debt.
who's paying all this debt. You
toiiers are paying It. Remember this
when the hardships come this fall, that
you are picking cotton to pay Corners
debts"
McCord attacked Brooks Lawrence.
bitterly.
"The negro-loving carpet Dagger
from Ohio" he called the prohibition
leader. After he had attacked the
Supreme Court Of this State, he was
forced to apologize. And he didn't
mean 1t, for didn't he come right back
ghoul, and I don't believe the honest
yeomanry Of this country belong to
him yet.
And now. people, you see where
| they have gone. In three years they
have enacted the most rigid set Of laws
of any country. Where will they stop:
they won't stop at tea or coffee. or
shirt waists-it's always just one more
river to cross for them. The only way
you'll throttle them IL at the ballot
box. It's the last call for the people
to assert themselves on this PROPOSE
| tion, after Conner and his crowd have
gone the limit.
II am bringing this my private
fight. not fight for office or for gain,
to you. didn't betray the people,
and the platform. by swearing one
| thing and voting another.
And to say that he means IL.
Conner did not appoint men in Mobile
and Montgomery to enforce the laws.
And Conner 10 a prohibition Governor
He even believes In constitutional pre-:
htbition. i went to him to appoint O
man whom I knew would enforce the
laws. That man is in this room now.
He referred to w. A Henderson.
| Governor Conner named another. and
named q man In Mobile whom the pro-
hibitionists didn't want. And the gov
ernor did not get his laws enforced.
He didn't want to. He was paying
political debts. Prohibition had moth
ing to do with It"
Kyle b. Price was no less severe in
his denunciation OF the "whiskey ring"
and Mr.. McCord's alleged affiliation
with 1t.
ale tells you that he is not the agent
of the brewers and whiskey men"
Mr. Price declared. II ask him. and he
will not deny it., IL in June he did not
20 TO Birmingham with Mr.. Greil OF
| Montgomery, and there meet lawyers
ana agents of the Eastern brewers.
| Did he not return the next day, and
old Grandma"-he exhibited clip
ping from The neutrality-suspicious.
the article signifying the birth OF the
Safe and Sane League. VIII give MIN
five minutes in which to answer"
Az the conclusion of Mr.. Prices
sneech. Mr.. McCord declared that he
| had never interviewed a brewer, that
he had gone to Birmingham with Mr..
,,refI more than a week before ths
publication of the League organiza-
ton, but. as he said
| "Because I was good enough lawyer
IN draw up a contract for his purchase
of the Morris Hotel. And I got fee
for It too"
| Price Big as Conner.
| Mr. Price and Mr.. McCord engaged
In a heated tilt following the end OF
Mr. McCoris speech. Mr.. McCord had
said:
."They're all office holders or they
want to hold office, these men VINO
come to tell you honest toilers to vote
for the amendment-an except TINS
fellow Price. He's not big enough.
Mr.. Price replied heatedly: