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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27
POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE
 DUE INV ALABAMA
Leaders of Whiskey Faction Declare Constitutional Amendment WNSpit Democracy Wide Open, While
 Prohibition Legislators Push Fight to Finish

passed late Saturday evening aud ap- proved by Governor Conner Monday. goes into effect at once. This law pro- hibits any newspaper in the State from prohibits any advertisement of liquor er place in the State. It cuts out the 9essr s,uS ;5s sna the sns tiger is run and holds the keeper In damages to the owner. It cuts out the manufacture of near-beer and other really intoxicants. It provides tor the raiding of public places without war rant where liquor is supposed to be on trains a .misdemeanor. It makes the refusal of witnesses in court to di- vulge the names of law-breakers. con- tempt of court. and 1t provides as a not less than six months imprison- ment. It Is very drastic and when we get prohibition written into the Con mountaineering of statutory iegis- lation will be at an end:
 But right here comes the pinch with the liquor people.
 down in Alabama and the time has ar rived when something must be done. or else the powers that be must step Chairman Albritton Announces New Prohibition Journafnnd Asks Go.
 Operation of Friends Every
 where.
 For this reason, l ask for the innme. diate aid and cooperation of all pro- hibition friends throughout the land. whiskey money Is going to flow like water in this election. ProhIbitionfsts everywhere must of necessity also be interested in the outcome of the cam paign.
 We are going to begin the publica- ton of The Alabama Prohibitionist September 1, to lead the light for this amendment. We are having a circular announcement printed ana sent out to the press of Alabama and to many prominent people of the State, asking for campaign subscriptions, the price of which will be $l. This is not high prohibition and the amount of gratis work that we will have to co.
 It Is work of love and sacrifice. and we hope that our friends everywhere will help us out in this fight. which means so much for us. Every dollar you send to us will aid us very mate rially to. become the color bearer in this fight.
 paign will be the continued publica- ton of our paper. and the thorough or The place of publication will be at Samson, Ala, but your remittances' can be made to me at this point. Get busy friends and forward your subscriptions and get the first issue of the paper. The press will please copy and ex. change Very respectfully
 J. B. Albritton.
 State Chairman Prohibition Party.
 Bellwood. Ala.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27
"Press and People .!v

Andalusia Star.
 In these days of prohibition argu- ments The Star regrets to see so much printed about corruption of press and people, especially the press. Politics are pure at the South. There is no corruption here. Southern people scarcely knew the meaning of the word corruption in politics. Because some one tries to buy $100 worth of space in newspaper is not good and suffi- cient reason for all this hue and cry about corruption. Space is the stock in trade of a newspaper. Sale of edi- torial opinions is quite another thing No one has attempted to buy editorial opinions. As we understand 1t, a Dothan doctor merely wanted to buy some space to defeat Conner and his methods, and the would-be purchaser added, If l tax your columns I'll add to the appropriation. Nothing wrong about that. Governor Comer did the same thing with The Andalusia Star. and no one rises to say that 1t was wrong When Conner was seeking the nomination of Governor this newspaper sold to him about $1O0 worth of adver- Using space and opposed his nomtna- tion in the editorial columns. There was nothing wrong about that. Un- fortunately there are to many people in Alabama who cannot see. or do not
 are to see, the line that separates le- ultimate sale of advertising space and outright corruption by bribery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27

E The Associated Prohibition Press has just received from State Chairman J. B. Albritton the following graphic which will be read with interest by prohibitionists everywhere:
 The people of Alabama will soon be ssisa led to yots o an the manufacture and sale of intoxicat- ing liquors, the House having passed the constitutional bill by vote of 70 to 2s, and the Senate will certainly pass the measure when 1t reaches them.
 On the vote for a new Statewide prohibition law. the House stood 75 to ate should fail to accede to the de- mands of the people on the amendment proposal there will be hot times in the old State. If the Senate passes the 1t. the election will be held within the next four months and then come the greatest battle of ballots ever waged in Alabama.
 up. so are the prohibitionists. and the aasr Rsttls w ass be Sa sgng D Bowl feG aays
 Prohibitionists Instantly Respond.
 Leon Mccord. clerk in the Supreme Court, church member and teacher in the Sunday School. has resigned his position as clerk to lead the fight dSaluSI tue dHcnuufent f1e dufnltS that there will be vast sums of money spent to defeat the amendment and that the liquor people, perhaps. have contributed largely to this corruption fund, but that fhe Is not seeking any position on account of his stand. He says that 1t will be the hottest fight ever seen In Alabama since the days of secession.
 In the debate over the bill in the House, Representative Long said that if this bill was submitted to the peo- pie and passed, that 1t would disrupt Carmichael, the Speaker of the House, retorted quick as a flash, "If the Dem ocratic party has to live on whiskey, let it go," whereupon the crowded galleries went wild with enthusiasm.
 This significant sentiment indicates that thousands of former loyal Demo- and out from the party ranks once their party is made the champion of the liquor traffic.
 We are on the brink of two great events, either the writing of prohibi- tion in our State organic law and the dissolution of the Democratic party, or else the withdrawal of the liquor ele- ment from the Democratic party, leav- ing the anu-liquor people in full and undisputed control.
 Every State that writes prohibition in her constitution drives a nail in the coffln of the liquor traffic and writes a plank in a national platform against this curse. When a few more States of the South go dry it will be goodbye to the domination of national politics by the liquor people, or else goodbye to the National Democratic party.
 The new Statewide prohibition law,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27
This Might HaUe Happened,
 But tt IS an Imaginary EUent

as ready to serve you as in the past. We thank you for your consideration in having the bills drawn up and pre- pared by paid attorneys (paid by the State) cut and dried-ready for us to pass: This saves us all thought and trouble of investigation.
 We retire. In the bonds of self-es- teem and mutual admiration.
 The, ever faithful.
 Committee. as follows:
 My Faithful Leutenants and co-ad- tutors:
 I am greatly moved (almost to and admiration of your chief. It was so sud leu! l scarce have language to express my satisfaction. l knew I prepared for such laudation from your most august body of law-makers. You have been indeed faithful, will not legislation (and litigation}. care pend on you. For are you you not the the creatures of my hands? The clay in were bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh, the offspring of my brain the breath of my nostrils. We are the Siamese Twins. our hopes and aspira- mean as to getting offices.) We can form a trust, a close corporation, and woe to him, who does not subscribe to our faith and promise obedience to our orders. If there are not enough State offices to go around. when I get to be President or United States Sen ator. your loyalty. shall not go unre- warded; I mean those of you whom I have penned. marked and branded as my own. There are a few Harrydies have turned out to grass. The OK knoweth his masters crib. I dismiss you with my blessing. Take consola- tion in your retirement (and I know many of you will be retired) that yor suffered for too great devotion to me and my policies. You will have my ] sympathy. Selah-Amen.
 An Old Time Democrat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27
HYsTERIA IN ACTION.


 The Advertiser publishes today under the title of Political Earthquake in Alabama" the prospectus of the Ala bama Prohibitionist. and signed by J. B. Albritton, State Chairman of the Prohibition Party. Chairman Albrit- ton declares that unless certain things are done 1t will be good bye to the National Democratic Party" And in place of the usual. A collection will now be taken up for the good of the cause" he asks all the readers of the prospectus to send in their dollars. This appears to he characteristic feature of the meetings or movements of the Alabama agitators.
 Chairman Albritton gets the free ad vertisement of having his prospectus printed in The Advertiser because we would like to have it given as wide a circulation as possible. It shows how. at least one class of the prohibition leaders are making the fight There are no rights of man that prohibition is bound to respect. there is nothing that may not be done in the name of prohibition, there is no tradition, there Is no constitutional right, there is nothing in the wide range of human life that may not be overturned in the name of prohibition.
 Disrupt the Democratic Party hurry 1t forward to its dissolution and Say good bye to National Democracy. There is no question. there is no party, there is no government, there is no just human endeavor-unless they all be in the name of prohibition. Tear down all else, run rough shod over the constitution, bend and break men to the will of the leaders. Thero is nothing sacred but prohibition. And send in your dollars.
 Says Chairman Albritton:
 "This significant sentiment indi- oates that thousands of former loyal Democratic leaders are ready to step down and out from the party ranks, once their party Is made the champion of the liquor traffic"
 MT. Albritton is hardly consistent. According to his ideals the Democratic Party Is now the champion of the li- quor traffic if standing for local op- tion makes 1t such a champion. For the last National Democratic Party In convention, by a platform which If not written by William Jennings Bryan, had his approval declared for local op- tion The Democracy of Alabama in Its last convention reiterated that de- mand for local option and the present Governor of Alabama declared for it nri every stump in Alabama. Mir. AL britton. under the circumstances show ed forbearance. in not denouncing the party now for standing for the liquor traffic, and. leading away his thousands of loyal Democrats
 The pronunciamento is of piece with
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27

Imaginary proceedings in executive session which leaked out
 On motion of Senator Peter Simple a committee was appointed to inform his journ and to know if he has any oth CT orders to give this political con yention; also to prepare and present sions of our great administration and fidelity to him in his political aspira- tions. The chair appointed Magnus ick Random on said committee.
 The following Is the address:
 To His Excelency, the G., H. F. Of all railroad reforms. moral reforms have faithfully executed all the or. ders promulgated in your ukas and the commands of your. ally, Brooks Lawrence; we have destroyed all the they cant run, can hardly crawl We have pumped the the State so dry that it will be hard for ns. or you, to get reached ourselves. but had to obey orders.) We have made all the new offices we could: we have farmej them out (and the old ones tool and divid- ed them among your adherents; we have spent all the money in the State Treasury, tand more tool, and there is none left to pay our per diem. so home. We know you are a good fin ancier and can borrow money to pay | your salary. so we feel relieved in thai point.
 We go. but beg to assure you, Most Potent Ruler of Alabama, that we shall be ever ready to respond to any future call for an. extra if your po- litical future requires it. We return with the satisfaction that we are the greatest makers (we have madr | the greatest number of laws) history | gives account of that you are the greatest statesman since Solomon and Lycurgus; that you are the shrewdest diplomatist since Talleyrand. when 1t age-(also called pie). If politinA exigency in the future call for anoth- CT extra, be assured that we shall be
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27
The Renaissance Of the Puritan fin Ala
 bama.

The Renaissance Of the Puritan fin Ala
 bama.
 Atlanta Constitution.
 We thought at one time that Geor- gia occupied an undesirable eIninence in the particular field of freak legisia- ton. but the latest developments across the line cause us to yield the palm without a seconds hesitation to Ala baIna.
 The latest paramount issue Ill our sister State has been "dominoes.' Just
 Be it remembered that the Alabama Legislature, in special session assem- bled, has been agon4zing for several aays over a pronlbIt.on Dill that will make whiskey restrictions Tn Georgia seem like Sunday at AIlantlG City with the lid off.
 So far, so good!
 But the gentlemen whose forefath- CTS must have been the most cerulean variety of blue-law makers, were not satisfied
 concomitants was tc be sewn ID in bag and fed to the crematory!
 The climax made its debut when the TWO houses hitched on the vital and deep-lylng issue of dominoes, checkers and pool as applied to social clubs.
 The Senate wanted to license such institutions to indulge in these mon- strous pastimes, so long as there was no money consideration.
 It amended the steel-ribbed an l mag anese-bronze Tarrant bill to this ef- feet.
 The House objectcd--wit both feet and to the full length of its ears.
 The rose-littered road to perdition was paved with dominoes and check CTS, reasoned the immaculate and evan gelistic House
 Therefore. down with dominoes and checkers, and pinochle and tiddledy- wtnks. and pigs-in- clover, too if these latter amendments were essential to the salvation of Alaba soul.
 All of which. of course. iR strictly Alabama's business. But the detached observer cannot forbear asking Where In the name of sanity and common sense, will 1t end?"
 Are the Legislatures of our respec- tive states baat Tn beating back to the middle ages. and reviving the blue laws and all the meddling and Puri. tantcal embargoes wherewith our starched fathers used to make the world the abiding place of gloom?
 What will they be doing next? In troducing bills to whip actors at the carts tail. or providing for witch hunt ing and wiZardburning?
 Such developments a. these whether enacted or not, make any State a screaming farce in the eyes of the ma tion. Isn't 1t bout time for the pen dulum to swing back to pOise and po- litical equilibrium?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27

the startling declaration from cer- tain Ohio gentleman. new conner In Alabama, who stirred the State when he said that Alabama was tired of 'pimp. hariot and whiskey domina- tion."
 We have fallen upon hysterical times. Hired leaders blacken the rec- ord of our officials and our State. our history is repudiated. our constitution Is overridden. our courts are assailed, and some of the best and purest men of Alabama are called whiskey men and tools of the whiskey trust.
 Hut collections must be taken up and dollars must be sent in.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27
Democratic Party.

Political GTaZeIlS.
 struction in the South It mas been the ambition of the Republican party to split the solid South. but owing to the fact that Democracy saved the South in the troubious time following the Civil War only made the Democrats line up more solidiy and the power of the section was due tO it's unbr0ken front ...
 Of late years. however. a plan has been put into operation that threatens the disruption of the party that has so long been prominent Tn the South. and judging by the success 1t has been meeting with in the varlous states of the South. Democracy will soon be a thing of the past and will be laid to rest along with other great parties which have had their day ot fleettng greatness and now rest in oblivion.
 Through a chain of circumstances beginning In a combination in the EaS- tern part of the Union and which has been assiduouSly grasted on the South the prohibition party Is growing in strength. while every advocate of 1t lessens the strength of Che Democrats and increases the strength of the pro- hibition party; The idea has been time. possibly in the next federal elec- ton. the pr 1hibitionists will be called to line up for the national ticket, and as a prohibitionist cannot be Demo- crat (their platforms be.ng different. Democracy believing in local optionl the time will mark the beginning of the prohibition party as a national party and the death Of the Democratic
 Much more can be said along these lines but close observer can see where 1t will naturally end. This Is to be deplored. for the Democratic par triotism and was not disposed to be paternal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27. 1909.
WHAT IS GovERNMENTs
NOT A SAFE PLAN.

The suggestion has been made to Mir. Taft that when he goes on his pro- posed tour of the country he should, in discussing the tariff question, 1t his remarks to the locality and the audi ence he is addressing. That sugges- York Globe, which declares that MT. Facing Both Ways has never been popular character" That Is true, as Mir. Taft will soon learn if he tries to play Janus with the people of the country. To a man who cared noth- ing for consistency such policy might have been practicable a century ago, when communication between different sections was slow and uncertain. but it will not answer now. What he may say in one place tonight, for example, will be printed in the papers of the next stopping-place by the time he reaches it, and If his speeches at the two places do not agree the audience will know it at once; and it will be the the same throughout his tour. The safe, manly and creditable thing for him to do if he must discuss the tariff is to be open and straightforward in expressing himself on it. and not try to be all things to all men. That way only will be creditable.
 But when we say that talking out
 fa Inl a plan for him to follow we do not lose sight of the fact that it may not be good politics. There are very many Republicans. especially in the West, who are as much dissatisfied with the lnew tariff law as Democrats are while on the other hand some of it's strong est supporters are there. MT. Taft is anxious to bring all the elements of his party together and harmonize them if possible, but how is he to do 1t? If he praises the tariff as a whole he will offend one branch of the party. If he denounces 1t he win antagontz" the other side, while if he follows the ad- vice of some of his friends and fails to mention the tariff at all he will probably offend both sides The Pitts burg Post ventures to advise him not to make any speeches at all on his trip but just smile" Perhaps that might be his safest plan, even though 1t would not be manly one. We are almost sorry for Mir. Taft.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27
DRIF WOOD

The boa constrictor has 320 pairs of ribs. He could be literally tickled to death.
 A mans speech in this world Is never quite so eloquent as his money. Heaven has a few suburbs right here on earth if you care to make them SO. Keep your temper-and give away your smiles and fife will all at once become a hundred-fold sweeter.
 
 A girl can look so pleasant with dimples. There Is no picture so fair as a blush . ing rose; no song so sweet as asslnging bird. Nature is ever paramount Biggs-Edison is contriving a scheme to put autos in the reach of every Riggs-wen. he'd do better If he'd put the pesky things out of the reach" of everybody.
 Funny thing: a man gets whiskey for snake-bites and snakes for whis- key-bites.
 Maude-He obeys her every time she CIaude-oh. see; you mean she keeps his nose to the grindstone!  ,,.5 "5 ,s thought you said she sang like a She d0es-like a pea-fowl" Little drops of water
 And whiskey dashed with mint You don't give a cent.
 4 +a .. T understand she is connected with some of the most prominent fam Ssure-she stays in the telephone central office"
 One crop that never fails is when you sow wild oats.
 Anyone desiring to know sure. quick method of getting rid of money should just be good fellow" T told him what thought of him" "Yes-the telephone IS 8 great con- Venience."
 The newspaper humorists are going to meet in Buffalo next month and there is a proposition to build monu- ment to the man who laughed himself to death at a funny story. This Is not intended to prevent Paul Cook and Drift Armstrong from naying ing, th their IF There's Always One to Take Your Place
 l. There's always one to take your place; You won't be missed when you are
 gone
 When you have run your little race The world will still somehow roll on. Men will buy and men will sell, Succeed and fail-move on apace. So do your part and do 1t we'll There's always one to take your
 place.
 There always one to take your place To do it just as we'll as you. The world will greet anoCher face, And yours will be forgotten. too. So don't complain about your lot, Or after tinsled baubles chase, Just be content with what you've got There's always one to take your
 place.
 P. H. A.