The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
GENERAL FEELING
THAT LAWRENCE
IS WHOLE THING
Even Fred Jackson Takes Back
Seat In the Fight for
Amendment
GOSSIP ABOUT FUTURE
OF THE SUPREME COURT
Colonel Russell Says Members De-
serve an Endorsement After the
Attack Made on the Mem
bers by Lawrence.
BY HERvEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery, November 10-(Special. }
The feeling among the lawyers that
Brooks Lawrence, head of the Anti
saloon league and actual manager Of
the amendment forces in the state,
libeled the supreme court in his SEN
sational utterances shortly after thu
famous locker club decision, Is renewed
with the assembling of the court for
the November term and the opportun-
tiles to talk together over the cam
paign. 1t came out markedly on Mon
day when Col. e. L. Russell, head of
the Mobile and Ohio railroad, met Judge
John Anderson of the supreme bench
in the lobby of the courtroom, and re-
called 1t all in a way to how that he
feels the sting of it very forcibly.
Court Due Respect.
L am glad to see that you are going
to stand for election again." said Col
onel Russell, addressing Judge Ander-
son. Il think every man on this bench
deserves and ought to have the cor
dial Endorsement of the people who love
our courts and revere the memories of
the great men who have made them
the high and honorable tribunals
they are in the states of the land.
Every good man resents that fact that
after all these years with it's record
for all that Is right and just, an out
slider from another state should see fit
to come in and undertake to bring It
into disrepute. 1 say all honor to the
men who have made this good name
and are making It,"
The Fight Is Won.
The methods of the amendment forces
to bring every little thing possible to
bear in the fight for it's adoption has
firmly convinced the people down this
way that the friends of it are In a bad
fright. This is the impression gained
from the recent interview with Gov
ernor Conner, in which he disclaims re-
sponsibility for the measure or it's
passage, contenting himself with re-
citing list of the good things done
by the legislature, as he sees them,
and casting himself adrift from the
movement, save as a man fighting for
1t. The belief is general that the gov
ernor felt that he had to do this to
relieve the movement of the charge
that he was using 1t.
Getting Sensitive.
The amendment froces are getting
sensitive on the charge that it is a.
political move, and to prove that 1t is
not, but on the 9th er hand, a moral
activity, they cite the fact that the
preachers are fighting for it. Down this
way the fight seems to be left almost
wholly to the preachers, the othe
Glasses taking little hand in the pub
licity programme. In fact it seems
that the leaders have unloaded upon
the preachers, so that In case of the
defeat, which most of them are begin
ming to see, they can say 1t was not
their doings. Some of the most VEN
cradle pastors in this section have
been forced upon the stump in this
way. and 1t is said that many of them
resent 1t, though they will not say so
in the open.
Who Is Manager?
One of the interesting things down
this way is the fact that while Fred NJ
jackson of Birmingham Is the accred-
tied manager of the amendment forces
the most of the orders seem to come
from Rev. Brooks Lawrence, and the
larger part of the interviews in the
papers have been ascribed to his Civ
ing out. Whenever anything Is saN
about the movement 1t Is Brooks Law
renee who is pushed to the front, and
the impression has gotten out that not
only Is the preacher politician the head
of the Anti-Saloon league, but the
amendment organization as we'll There
is no more honored men in Alabama
than Fred jackson, who is well known
all over the state, and it has been COM
mented upon that he has not shown
that vigor many thought him to have
when he allowed even Brooks Law
renee, the greatest of the amendment
apostles. to take his place in keeping
the people posted.