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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18

What. In Heavens name. are we to
expect. or what may we not expect.
when one Of the high priests and
chief speakers Of the amendment
forces stands up before an audience
and advises the friends of the meas
ure TO go armed to the polls on cleo
ton day7 Do those who favor the
amendment. believing that 1t will do
good. endorse such counsel as this
man gives? Are we to infer that they
have reached such degree of dos
peration that they propose to carry
their point by the use OF buckshot and
bullets? II the amendment forces
have not lost all sense Of reason and
moderation they will call down the
man who IL trying to incite riot and
murder at the polls.
1t is a significant fact that this talk
OF trouble and shooting up" at the
polls all comes from men who boast
Of belonging to the God and moral
ity" party. 1t comes from those who
loudly claim that this is strictly a
moral issue, and some Of them are
giving examples of what they look on
as morality. These ebullitions Of hate
and intolerance remind us Of Henry
Ward Beecher's advice to the Free
an Of II L.
with Sharp's rifles and shoot aboli-
ton into the people of the Territory.
This sort of thing is not to be toll
Grated or encouraged in Alabama.
There was time when the white men
of the State had to go to the polls
in arms in order to save themselves,
their families and the State itself
from being run over and trampied on
by the black element that was trying
to take control of Alabama Their
action was dictated by the laws of
self-protection. and was commendable
in the eyes of God and man. but such
conditions no longer exist or will ex-
list. This election should be con-
Quoted as becomes good citizens of a
great State. and not on the Bcecher
plan. II there is to be violence and
disorder and bloodshed in Alabama
on election day 1t will be engendered
and precipitated by those who are
claiming all the morality In the cam
paign. They will do well to call
halt and refrain from such advocacy
OF lawlessness. They cannot shoot
the amendment into the people or in
to the Constitution of Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18

the money question, on Imperialism
and the tariff. Democrats who enter
into deals with Republicans are guilty
of rank heresy and should be punish
ed by dismissal from the party.
They recall the rewards given to the
various Democrats who voted with
Cannon. Fitzgerald went on the COM
mittee on rules, Harrison Of New YORK
got the ways and means committee,
and the rivers and harbors committee
was enlarged in order to provide u
good berth for Representative Edwards
Of Georgia. M
Burleson and others. 1t Is doubtful IL
any serious attempt will be made to
read Fitzgerald and the others out OF
the party For few weeks after the
Clark did not speak. Later there was
& truce and the men resumed speaking
re.ations. Fitzgerald advised clark on
certain phases Of the tariff fight. The
minority leader informed some OF his
friends that he regretted having lost
his temper during the rules fight. and
WAS sorry for having spoken SO rough
~ tJward Fitzgerald In debate. He
gave other signs of desiring to become
friendly with the Brooklynite.
While the two were not enemies at
the time OF adjournment. II was APP
parent that little love was lost be-
tween them. and that Clark did not
regard Fitzgerald as one OF his trusty
lieutenants. Whether the warfare on
the Brooklyn man Is to be continued
during the coming session Will de-
pend altoge Their on the attitude OF
Clark 1t Is not generally believed
that BurIeson will be able to induce
the Missourian to countenance the
plan TO bar tho twenty-three from the
minority caucus.
1t is already plain that the Republi-
can majority Is to have serious trou,
Bile. Speaker Cannon will be engaged
in a hot fight from the start with
large body of well organized insur-
gents, VIII. will be aided by senators
La Toilette and Cummins. II Is ar
Sued that IL would be lad politics fer
the Democrats to weaken their own
position by engaging In a fight among
themselves. However. Burleson Is
talking in a most belligerent way
about throwing Fitzgerald and The
Iatters associates out of the Demo-
cratic party. and everybody Is waiting
to see what Champ Clark will do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18

claration that no State or community svnich
has adopted direct nominations has ever
from 70 TITS is ns pe ene
a suggestive answer to this declaration:
When Oregon adopted the direct primary
this State in the lead of the progressive
movement. They little imagined that Ore
restoration Of the convention or assembly.
The City OF Portland did this last election.
loT S to = BY offlss fng faiiuss res q the
as a whole viii do the same next spring
and the people will sanction the middle
ton ana new tangled primary. Just as the
voters Of Portland have done to their salts
The experience Of oregon with the direct
primary is also not uninteresting, 1t de-.
serves to be added to that great and growing
testimony OF states which have gone through
the horrors Of actual application OF this
The Oregonian says:
THE direct primary, beautiful In theory.
disrupts party organization. admits rivals
into "a party's affairs. nuitiplies undesirable
aspirants for office and deters aDlest men
minority vote candidates which the majority
viii not accept, and breaks up party into
united expression and fuIfiilment OF the ma
Jortty Will. Altogether II makes for party
disruption and political anarchy--troubles
that we have always believed we had left
10 5ther less advanced peoples BY the grace
OF cur superior methods. Wherever the wide
open primary is tried this record OF disap-
pointment and failure Is repeated. 1t is
abandonment OF the representative principle
the principle that has raised the English
speaking people above others and made 1t
their example and teacher"
After tive years Of actual trial. Oregon IL
ready to return to the convention system.
Its return takes the form Of an effort to
combine direct primary and convention by
allowing referendum on the action OF the
convention This temporary compromise
however need not detraet from the real sig
nificance OF the Oregon reaction. The real
value of the thing lies In the fact that Ore
gon. one of the first Republican States to
Join the direct nomination camp is resolved,
to be the first to get out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER Is. 1903.
IN NEW YORK, ALSO.

among the poor tenement house
people in New York." says the woman
hygienic expert sent out to hunt the
causes and prevention of ook-worms,
u found more OF this dreaded plague
proportionately than in the factory
districts of Alabama. where. they told
me. should run up against hook
worms in dumbfounding quantities"
No doubt those who care to look for
It can find many worse things in New
York than In Alabama. In fact, as
The Pensacola Journal remarks, I'VE
can at this distance easily believe IL
there is disease that flesh is heir to
which has not found singularly ap-
propriate soil in the crowded. filthy
East side tenement district. we have
yet to hear mention OF 1t. It may
yet appear to Mr.. Rockefeller that
charity begins at home and that,
while decidedly the preponderance Of
intelligent Southern people appreciate
his magnificent gift of million to-
ward the eradication OF hook-worms
in their part of the country. the South
will not have the smallest particle
of objection II the oil king shall de-
eide to employ little more Of his
surplus coin--he admits at last that
he can't spend his income-on hook
worm fight in the city where he has
such tremendous corporate interests.
And then there is ohio---the dispatches
tell us that Miss Davis found more
or less Of this hook-worm business in
Ohio. the State whose oil wells and
natural gas veins first started Mr..
Rockefeller's now enormous wealth a
rolling. 1t is inconceivable that he
should decline to draw a generous
check for the reduction of the disease
among the Buckeyes. Ohio has stood
handsomely by him."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18
SUGAR Trust SCANDAL.
Mystery OF Long ana Profitable Inn
munity Wants Clearing Up.


munity Wants Clearing Up.
New York World.
Through sworn testimony taken in
court. in legislative and Congressional
Investigations and in other proceed
ings the sugar trust Is shown to have
been guilty of:
!. Bribing political committees of
both parties
2. Seeking to influence United states
Senators by stock tips and other fnan-
cial transactions.
3. Accepting rebates in violation Of
the interstate commerce law.
government through weighing frauds,
5. Conspiring to ruin independent
sugar refiners.
6. Violating persistently the Sher-
man antitrust law.
7. Using short weight scales
s. Blacklisting grocers who handled
Independent sugar.
3. Importing cheap contract labor.
10. Violating factory and health
No high official was ever criminaily
prosecuted or convicted for any OF
these offenseR. The only indictments
ever found against any OF them were
returned recently by a grand jury after
the trust had violated the sherman
law.
The relations of the trust to govern
ment have long been intimate and in
tricate. Its activities in Congress have
rightly been described as a scandal
The reasons for Its long and profitable
immunity have neverA been explained.
What better work for the purifca ton
OF government and commerce could a
Congressional committee perform than
TO clear up this extraordinary mystery
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18
p,.srealtlng It. own intelligence

Birmingham
THE birmingham Ledger. which f.
usually frank and fair in Its political
discussions" said an old Democrat.
had this remarkail utterance In an
editorial article: So EAR as The Ledger
can see there has not been real sound
reason advanced why Alabama should
not have constitutional prohibition.
II do not see how the editor could
have read Senator Bankhead's reasons
for opposing the amendment and then
written as he did in the sentence just
quoted. But speaking Of sound rea-
sons, 1t Is safe to say that never In the
history OF Alabama has there been
such a compelling array OF splendid
talent and unouestioned patriotism
lined up on any great issue as we ma
lined up now against the amendment.
How could any one read the arguments
advanced by Judge Thomas w. Cole :
man. Frank $. Moody, Judge Richard
Walker, Charles $. Henderson pres
ident Of the Railroad Commission: the
Rev. DIR. w. i. Sinnott. stated clerk OF
the Presbyterian synod of Alabama
John B. Knox. president OF the last
Constitutional Convention; Colonel E.
L. Russell, DIR. w. S. Wyman,. former
president Of the university. and the la
mented T. G. Bush and then they sas'
there had not been a sound reason
etc?"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18
says The Chattanooga Times:

DIR. Broughton, of Atlanta, in a SER
mon delivered in that city last sun
day, Jumped on the Elks and called
the members of that order all sorts or
ugly names--"whiskey soaks," buns"
*toughs," etc, winding up by saying
that no member of that order, should
be member of his church. The Elk 8
will probably reciprocate by making
rule that no member of church that
would stand for a pastor like Brough-
ton should be allowed to take the OBJ
legations of the order.
That has long been the Broughton
style of preaching the gospel" and it
Is not to be expected that he will
abandon it at this late day. 1t may
be, too. that he is afraid that some of
the Alabama preachers will get ahead
of him in the way OF denunciation
and abuse of other men. If that is
what they call preaching we suppose
they must keep at it or fall behind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18
SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS.
Would Read Certain Representatives
Out OF The Party.
Special to Brooklyn
Washington
EaRlh

Washington Special to Brooklyn
Certain Southern Bryan Democratic
members of the House are planning
lot of trouble for Representative Jonn
j. Fitzgerald OF Brooklyn and the
twenty-five Democrats who voted WIN
him for the Cannon rules and saved
the Republican house machine IN
March last. 1t Is proposed to read the
twenty-five out OF the party by deny
ing them entrance to the Democratic
caucus which will be called Just pc
fore Congress eonvenes next month.
Representative Alfred Buriesoh ot
Texas is giving out talk OF this sort.
couple of DAYS ago and ever SINE
ment to push Fitzgerald ana ms Iwsn-
ty-two supporters outside the Demo
cratic ranks 1t is now definite.F
known that the Texas member favors
this course He is waiting the ar
rival In town 81 Minority Leader
Champ clark and other Bryan men 10
see II they will back him up
Burleson Is in favor OF denying tue
twenty-three admission 10 the Demo-
cratic caucus 1t is apparent ina
there viii be lively times soon. both
in the renks of the DEMOCRATIC ana
the Repu ican members OF the House
Cannon t. t. make war On the tie
publican .usurgents. and now 1t Is pro-
posed to renew hostile operations on
the so-called Fitzgerald deserters who
voted with tile Republicans on the
rules. Tie meE who are after the
Fitzgerald crowd say that while MEM
bers Of tie Democracy may differ on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18
Money An the Camp.ir.-


Foresesing the failure OF their cam
paign upon the issues made by them
selves, the emendists are tilling the
columns of the newspapers that sup
reproduction Of The Birmingham News
story that st. Louis brewers are pour
ing $350,000 into Alabama to purchase
votes to defeat the amendment. 1t will
be observed that aside from the Birm-
ingham newspapers statement they
have nothing to base their charge
upon. Not an atom of evidence has
been produced to support its story.
Not penny OF corrupt money has been
traced.
Is this a scheme to distract atten-
ton from some Of the work of the
Anti-Salooh League?
Recently. before the local option
ming of this month of November. in a
wet meeting held at Tarrytown, N. Y =.
an affidavit by one n. C. McBee, of
Chicago. was read. This was tc the
effect that John ID. Rockefeller.
Mccormick. had In tho last two months
given the Anti-Saloon League $335, 900
with which to carry on its work. Nc
Bee. 1t Is said by The New York World,
for the league. had a disagreement
with its chiefs, and Is playing even by
disclosing it's secrets. A color of ruth
Is lent this story by Rockefe,ler's az.
NiNAtJ Az viz HBhl All Ills own nome
The World saws that. on the day be.
fore the election. "all the Rockefeller
employees, from Superintendent N. q.
Allies down to the dav laborer, Were
out all day elections ering" Rocke-
Teller has already given scores of mill
lions to various charities and public
enterprises. He could as easily give a
score or two millions more to carry the
prohibition cause TO CORY. And II
his heart was really In the cause, II
Is conceivable that he might do so
Last summSr the story was widely
published that Rockefeller had given
a million, in a lump sum. to the Anti.
Saloon League. and as far as we have
noticed 1t met with no denial
No one will assert that the Anti.
Saloon organization in Alabama has
shown evidence Of anv lack of neceS.
sary money to make a stiff fight fuI
the adoption Of the amendment ItS
organizer is q man of particularly
effective constructive ability-a mar
| who as political leader need not take
a back seat for any one. He Is this
real leader of the amendment forces
and II Is the Anti-Saloon manager ir
Alabama who Is directing the fight
That this leader believes In the
power Of money is we'll Illustrated by
his last deliverance as to the danger OF
bribing the people whose votes he de,
clared were going to win the amend
| ment in Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18
A BAD RESULT.


"--.e s~@s% oHtASn rum HutRAt8
Birmingham Age Herald
Three OF us were standing on the
corner Saturday night discussing the
amendment. and the division was one
Tor and two against. said a well
against the amendment stated that the
action of preachers in using their pull
pits for politics in the present cam
paign had driven him away from the
church, and just at q time when he
was beginning to take interest In
church work. estst
THE other two are sons of minis
tiers, and one Of those two is the
brother OF a minister. and he agreed
with the speaker The speaker stated
that some time ago he went to hear a
prominent minister preach and that
the subject of the sermon was fran
chise sought by well-known public
service corporation. Thinking Il prob
able that he had picked wrong time
to go TO hear this minister. he went a
second and third time, and each time
he heard political and not a religious
sermon. eF
"Not willing to trust even these
three experiences he went to hear a
second preacher and then a third. and
the experience was the same at al. five
sermons; heard nothing of the beauti-
full life of Christi he heard nothing OF
love thy neighbours he heard nothing
of the commandments; he heard moth
ing of anything that would tend to up
build him morally.
ION the other hand he heard his
fellowman abused. He heard 1t eharg-
ed that nearly every one against the
amendment was a gambler. whiskey
man or bought bv the whiskey inter-
ests; he heard that the world was go
Ing to the bow-wows and that there
were no good people except for tina
amendment.
do YOU think that class of sermons
Will tend to Quicken faith in religion.
1t tends to estrange them. That is one
of the most lanentable features OF the
present political campaign, for lnanv
of the ministers of God are delvInR
into violent politics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18
DESIGNATING THE SABBATH.


Birmingham Age Herald
One of the best known women in
Alabama. who IL In sympathy with
prohibition. said yesterday:
On the streets of Birmingham Sum
day was found every grade OF defend
er and amender. In front of the Hip
podrome and the BiJou hundreds stood
idling.. waiting to see the crowds come
out of both speakings. 1t was into
this moi that the amenders introduce
ed Mrs. Armour. who mad spoken at
the First Methodist Episcopal Church
at 1880 p. m. little before.
Eugene Ballard, who claims to be
the author OF the amendment intro
duced Mrs. Armour Somehow, the
crowd at the very beginning snow II
that 1t did not want to hear her speak,
and everybody expected that she would
retire. But she did not. Not single
word could be heard from her twenty
feet away-but as she gesticulated and
nodded In very emphatic way, We
called out. oh. you Carrier and the
crowd laughed and jeered. For more
than an hour this was kept up, the
great crowd surging here and there
and joking and sometimes coming
"At one time Mr.. Brooks Lawrence
stood in the crowd, and as he saw
some acquaintance whom ne knew to
De opposed 70 the amendment. he said
to him with sheer. oh l must con-
graduate you on your crowd Mat
reply he received i don't know. L vi
he evidently Intended to class all d.
tenders with the noisy boys who mike
with the crowd and jeered at the lady
speaker.
IAN instant later a young lady
teacher In the city schools said to her
companion-both were wearing white
ribbons--'Lets go. II that lady wishes
to speak under such conditions won't
hear her.
The glst of the whole thing is this:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18
franklin County. .
SEARCH AND SEIZURE.
The Old Law. Quite Different From
what In Proposed.

The Old Law Quite Different From
What In Proposed.
Gurley. Ala. Nov. 16. 1875?
Editor The Advertiser:
I am in entire accord with your ell
forts In defending the peoples. rights
by opposing the constitutional amend
ment. There Is one matter ] have
never seen properly explained to the
people. The amenders assert that the
search and seizure law of the Fuller
bill is the same we have had for fifty
years. That Is only half truth
which often amounts to terrible
falsehood. There are two elements
that enter ,i int every Sn Few or 'he tSe
yerbiage or law itself, the other is the
mode OF executing the law which
makes 1t complete. AS / understand
IL the two modes of executions ars
altogether different. The old mode IS
for the party II It is whiskey viola
'tion TO be arrested. carried before a
magistrate or some court. where he
valves trial. and refers the matter
to the grand jury, by giving bona.
strong probability Of guilt finds a
true bill and he Is then to be tried by
Jury and tried no other way. Under
the Fuller bill he cannot refer the case
to grand jury. but must be triea
without a Jury unless he knows the
law we'll enough to demand jury In
five days. / may not have the matter
right, but II ! have, 1t is terrible
blow at our liberties.
It then becomes a precedent ana
stepping stone for further encroach-
ments upon our liberties, under the
guise of morality. The right or trial
by jury Is very sacred to the people
and they should be made to under
stand the dangers that threaten them
especially If the amendment carries,
and more drastic laws are enacted.
endorse the action of your synod In
moi drifting from religion to politics,
by endorsing the amendment.
Respectfully.
T. w GraySOn,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-18
A Fa,her,s Advice.

Lexington, KY. Herald.
advice was given to young student en-
his way to the Millersburg Military Insti-
tute Wednesday by his aged father The
courIe were seated on the Maysville train.
and the fond father, with his arm thrown
affectionately around the lads shoulders.
spoke as follows:
son. l want you TO realize in the first
place that for the hard-earned money which
am spending for YOUR education. l want
good hard study in return. do not expect
you to take the first place In your class
nor to teach the professors anything. hat
do want you to bring home with you some
prize even II snatched In passing from the
bargain counter. First honors do not mean
a good shortstop, nor a good quarterback q
fine dancer, expert card player. or spend
thrift. BY honors l mean that want you
to take a high standing In your class work.
close application TO your studies. and lake
a good standing In department. Do not try
TO be too smart. brain fever may result. do
not discover the North Pole. two men are
already In trouble over It; do not startle
science by the invention of wingless flying
machines. Do not revise Euclid. let Web
ster spell English his own way: let prohi-
bition. Christian science. cigarettes and JOY
rides alone The young idea learns to shoot
there-but not craps, Study"