The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-06

could take charge of the government
and rule.
II am sure" he said. I'VE would put
! the state in a state of paradise. But
We find. ourselves so situated at this
time that we have to rule by men and
In accordance with the law"
Mr.. Hoqman's argument that the
Constitution II q Limitation on the
powera OF the Legislature and should
not be tempered with just any old
time. did not have any effect on the
opposition He charged that there was
nothing in the proposed amendment
but to fan the flames Of an excited
people and to make an issue tor can
didates
| Mr.. Rushton IN o brief speech said
he was not afraid to submit any ques-
ton to the people. He added that the
Legislature was determined to put 1t
up to the voters.
When Mr.. Glover. of JEFFERSON. asked
IL the sovereign people Of Alabama
had petitioned for submission. Mr..
Rushton replied that they had
Mr.. Rushton. answering question
| OF the opposition, said that the reason
| why 1t was proposed to get vote az
| a different time from the general cleo
ton. said that IT was to keep the mat
ter clear of politics. He referred to
i tuU NUMEROUS anu toeeDS
that might detract from 1t In Novem-
| Der. 1910. and furthermore he said
that 1t would not give the brewers and
| distillers q chance to spend their cor
| ruption fund. He charged that there
was to be used such q fund In Ala
| bama.
Mr.. Rowe was the most emotional
| and excited Of all speakers during the
| day and afforded much amusement to
both sides. He lauded the Governor
| for all he had accomplished in beat
| ing the railroads, as he claimed. In
| beating the two Smiths, in meeting
Judge Jones and taking him in. and
pronounced him tn. greatest business
and educational Governor we had ever
| had.
Then, with a fury that sent the
speaker whirling on his feet before
| the press table, Mr.. Rowe cried out
long TRADE against The Advertiser,
CHASING it below the devil.
when I was a boy. my mother used
to forbid me doing certain things"
said the speaker. telling me that the
devil would get me II did. Well.
bless goodnes, when ! am about to do
bad things now / don't fear that the
devil will get me, but maybe The Ad-
vertiser will.
Gentlemen, wouldn't walk on the
same side of the street with The Ad.
vertiser."
Accused of Being Crazy.
Mr.. Rowe said his wife had once
told him he was crazy, but he never
did believe 1t.
Here a vote was taken on the
amendment viva voce. and the same
was killed.
Mr.. Bulger of Tallapoosa made an
impassioned speech in defense Of the
bill. saying he was surprised the fell
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out of the path OF the storm. He pic
tured terrible storm on the horizon
and 1t would pull up the tiniest bushes.
He said that putting 1t In the Consti-
tuition would settle prohibition forever,
declared that the people Of Alabama
were on their tiptoes asking for right
to vote on the proposition.
Il deny the statement that prohibi-
ton doesn't prohibit" declared the
member from Tallapoosa, "and I would
ask any doubling member to stand
around on the streets here Just q little
while after the Governor signs these
prohibition bills. He will see II pro-
hibition does not prohibit.
Mr.. Bloch came in here for the most
striking speech of the opposition. He
said that the unjust assumption SEEM
ed to prevail among the prohibitionists
that when I'VE rise up to speak against
the mere question of submission. we
are agents of the brewers and against
the women and children"
The speaker denied that he was
against the women and children and
that he was employed by Tiquor peo-
pie. He said that he done no little
in the Legislature and at home for the
girls and had worked his share for the
Democratic Party and for driving the
negro and the carpet Dagger from Ala
bama rule. Therefore, he believed he
ID - -
than was the disposition of the oppo-
sition.
Mr.. Bloch said that he believed the
church was a great thing in its sphere
but that there is now no more demand
for union of church and State than
there was in the past. He asserted his
belief in the doctrine of seIf-govern-
Hnent and pleaded that the Legislature
go slow in passage of law so fraught
with disastrous possibilities. He point
ed to the fact that constitutional pro-
hibition had been tried in iowa and
other places and repudiated. He said
that Statewide had been tried by nu-
merous States and repudiated. There
fore, 1t was nothing to be so conciu-
sive about.
The speaker twitted the members
for having gone back on the pledges
on which they were elected-on voting
for Statewide when they had been
elected on a platform guaranteeing To-
cal option. He said that he had been
a follower of Conner. but that it was
not binding him in his Judgment on
prohibition. He was therefore going
to vote against submission of consti-
tutional prohibition. Mr.. Bloch chaI-
lenged the prohibitionists to let the
verdict on constitutional prohibition be
the verdict on Statewide. but 1t was
not accepted when thrown into Mr..
Carmichaers speech a few minutes
later.
Changed in Thirty Minutes.
Mr.. Haley, of Jefferson. said he had
changed in the past thirty minutes and
stated his purpose to vote for the
amendment. He was applauded.
Mr.. Lee of Barbour, arose to state
how mysterious 1t was to him that
there was any opposition at all to the
bill and pleaded that I'VE for one time
get on the Lords side"
Mr.. Fuller, of Bibb. spoke for the
bill, saying that the people should be
allowed to put prohibition in the Con-
stitution so that future Legislatures
in this State might not change 1t. For
this he was afterwards twitted by Mr..
Mastin of Montgomery, who charged
that the member from Bib had an
swered the great question of the day:
Why do the prohibitionists hurry to
put prohibition in the Constitution?
THE gentleman from Bib has re-
piled to that question" said Mr.. Mas
tin. he is afraid Of what the people
might say in the future. He declared
that 1t ought to be put in the Consti-
tuition because later the same people