The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-04
COMER APPEALS
 NOW TO WOMEN
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was a question of prohibition against liquor. and denounced the man who, claiming to be a prohibitionist, will vote against the amendment.
 Turn the search light on his heart" he said, "and you will find the black spots"
 The Safe and Sane people figured in his speech at tkis juncture.
 These sane and safety people have no regard for the law" he said, and he told of one man in Montgomery who owned, he said, 105 barrooms, and who would cell liquor for any purpose, even in prohibition territory.
 He denounced the whiskey lobby, as the toughest proposition have ever been up against"
 T have fought the railroads, have been up against the trusts. have op- posed the corporate interests."s said he, glowering, but the hardest bunch was ever up against was the liquor bunch. It was hard for us to pass laws"
 His speech from this on was a tenn perancei lecture. He quoted from The Montgomery Journal-"and no man ever accused The Journal of being a prohibition paper" he said-showing that business in police circles was dull.
 He touched on the constitutional amendment, telling of his knowledge of man sent out by the brewers through the State to corrupt men and matters in an effort to have the pro- hibition laws repealed.
 Tt was my duty" he declared, 'to embody constitutional prohibition in the call. The amendment will prevent your next Legislature from sneaking in and repeating your laws"
 He undertook to array the sentiment of the country against the cities. quot ing from the now famous Knox inter- view as to the desirability of inde- pendence of municipalities.
 Thank God there is a country vote to save the State," he said. Governor Conner was introduced by E. c. Turnipseed. a prominent fruit mate of the Executive. MT. Turnipseed declared:
 We are on the right side because we are on the side of the ladies.' Editor Gets In. A. F. Smith, editor of The Bullock | County Breeze. and a temperance work CT for years in Illinois, his native State made a speech of @ half hour, in whicL he rallied the men to fight for the | cause. appealing to their patriotism. After the speech of Governor Conner
 
 those present, that the Governor b( endorsed for his stand on prohibition and electing J. Prior Hall, a planter of James. as chairman of the prohibit tion forces of Bullock County, with power to organize in every beat. Mir Hall spoke shortly. declaring his zeal in the fight for the amendment and his intention to fight bravely. MT Hall Is an ardent adherent of Governor Conner. one of the foremost in the county.
 During the afternoon. an open-air reception in front of the court house was tenedered the Governor by the W. c. T. U., and the Governors sig nificant appeal for aid of the women was made. The Governor returned tC Montgomery tonight.
 Politics the Issue.
 The amendment issue in Bullock is one partaking more of politics than oi prohibition, and of the question of what shall go into the constitution The county is strong for prohibition and little sentiment leans towards whiskey. It is likely that, outside oi the campaign of the church and the women, prohibition will play but little part in the fight.
 It Is likely, from present indications that the amendment will be defeated in Bullock. With administrator poll cies as the issue and with past rec ord of a defeat for Conner in both for' mer campaigns. the prospects for th' l amendment look slim. However, leading minister. Rev. Crawford, ex' pressed his belief that the amendment will carry in the entire county, if no' | in the city.
 But from the country beats, some In | dications point otherwise, M. E Pruitt. a prominent planter of Midway says that his beat will go heavil! against the amendment. Hector Mo lane of Inverness tells that his dis trict is against the measure. other l reports are similar.
 Bullock County will cast only abou 800 votes in all. Probably twelve t twenty of its prominent citizens vii be in Montgomery for the rally of th' anti-administration forces Sept. 10.