The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-25
SAFE AND SANE
FORCES PREPARE
FOR CAMP A|GN
Leon McCord Sends Out Cir
cuIar Letter to People
of Alabama
GIVES SEVEN REASONS
AGAINST AMENDMENT
Why Governor Conner and His Political
Aids Should Not Force Con-
stitutionaI Prohibition
on the People.
BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery, August 24.-(Special)-
Leon McCord. secretary of the Safe and
Sane league of the state, which organiza-
ton is seeking to prevent the adoption of
the prohibition amendment, is sending out
a warm circular letter to those whom he
would interest In the fight. It goes after
Gov. B. B. Conner, Brooks Lawrence and
other prohibition leaders with the bark
off. The letter presents seven reasons
why Governor Conner and his political
aides are seeking to force upon the peo-
pie Of Alabama constitutional prohibi-
ton" They follow:
ITO make them forget that the Confed-
crate veterans have not been paid the
amounts promised them as pensions.
ITO make them forget the 100000 of
the peoples money appropriated for those
lawyers who are close to the governor.
ITO distract attention from the fact that
the state treasury Is facing a deficit.
ITO perpetuate those laws which make
1t possible for sherifrs, constables and
police officers to break into and search a
private residence: for II this prohibition
amendment is engrafted into the constitu-
ton, no home will be protected against
arbitrary search, and the people of Ala
bama will have less freedom than those
of Russia now enjoy,
TO appoint the Rev. Brooks Lawrence
of Ohio guardian of the peoples con-
science.
ITO force the several counties Of Ala
bama to pay $4,000 of the peoples money
Il
to hold a special election,
ITO divert public attention from the
condition of the children who labor in the
Conner cotton factories"
The letter closes with this terse in
quiry: What are you going to do about
it,"
The copy furnished your correspondent
came from the Office of the governor, and
was directed to J. L. Whit, r. f. D. 5,
Montgomery, Ala. and later turned over
+, to the governor as a showing of the ac-
tivities of the campaign. Both Governor
Conner and Mr.. Lawrence take the matter
much joke, neither seeming to be
worried over its contents.
All Agreed Now.
The little disturbance between Senator
John Gamble, President of the Railroad
Commission Charles Henderson and A c.
Edmondson, probate judge Of Pike coun-
ty, yesterday and Gov. B. B. Conner, as
result of which Mr.. Gamble undertook
to have the new jury bill recalled, has
been amicably settled, the whole thing
growing out of a misunderstanding. Mr..
Gamble and his friends say that the gov
ernor has made everything understand
able, and there are now no hard feelings
of any kind.
PeIIagra Cases.
Dr. e. NJ Mason, state bacteriologist,
has returned from an inspection of some
60 cases of pellagra in Clarke county.
where he found the disease rather wide
spread. AS a result some of the patients
will be brought to the rooms of the de-
partment for observation, so that if there
is anything that can be done to help the
afflicted or protect the well, it can be
worked out In the opinion of DR.. Mason
the disease is not contagious. Further
than that he is not saying much.
Hobson City Gone.
Hobson City, the only negro town in the
state has passed away, with the signing
of the bill passed at this session vacating
territory back into Oxford. The negroes
have made there, according to statements
of reliable men, a most abject failure Of
government Crime and murder have
been rampant lately, and half dozen
have been killed. The officers Of the town
have been utterly unable to keep any
sort of order White people living in the
neighborhood were fearful Of their lives
all the time.
Rate Litigation.
The testimony in the rate litigation be-
tween three big Alabama systems and
the state will be taken soon, possibly be-
ginning the middle of October. w. S.
Thorington one of the masters, says
that rooms will be secured in the Bell
building, this city, and the work will be
long drawn out. The outlook is that in
the end the whole matter will have to go
to the supreme court of the United States.
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