The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-02
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<xzaexNaAzxaEszszz test of 1b months. He referred to the fact that Senator Overton had offered a resolution postponing the election on the amendment for To- months. He charged that the amendment leaders had entered a conspiracy to submit the amendment at time when the majority of the people, due to a panic and to 8 cents cotton, and because they ha9 not figured on an election this year, had not paid their poll taxes.
 Weakley's Sole Interruption.
 And I have excellent proof that the foregoing is true," stated MT. Bowie, "based on good authority"
 What is your authority?" interrupted Judge Weakley.
 'The Age Herald and the Advertiser returned MT. Bowie quick as a flash, and when he noted suggestive curl of his competitors lip, he added in thnn- derous voice, and with arms gesticu- lating in the direction of his competi- tors face: And my authority, too, Is R. J. Goode, an excellent citizen against whom you cannot bring a charge, and W. C. Crumpton, the son of the president of the AntiSaloon gue."
 There were no more interruptions during the course of MT. Bowie's speech.
 After the foregoing, MT. Bowie read the interview of Goode to the effect that Crumpton had informed him that Brooks Lawrence had made the ex- pression that he couldn't postpone the election for fear of the payment of poll taxes. MT. Bowie put emphasis on the words He couldn't postpone" and elicited laughter and applause.
 He then addad: "Uuhappy is tn at land on the judgment seat of which the stranger sits"
 Defense of Majority.
 Mir Bowie charged that to disfranchise white people was contrary to the spirit of the constitution of 1901 and said: ''It was left to Brooks Lawrence and the Conner administration to perpetrate this r infamy-to submit this infamous docu- ment to the people of this state at this time"
 He then assailed the plan of the amend CTS to bring it about that in Alabama the minority shall bind the hands of the ma jority.
 He referred to the claim of the amend CTS that 10000 votes will give them the victory. He suggested that were this true Alabama could not be termed a free country and compared 1t then to Russia where the minority has always ruled"
 He charged that the amendment, con taining no penalty, was of no importance when disconnected from the statutes. He challenged Judge Weakley to dis- pute that were the amendment adopted and were the statutes repealed, saloons could be re-established in Alabama with out danger to their owners.
 Making of Wine. MT. Bowie, after declaring the amend ment was dependent on the statutes, discussed the Fuller and Carmichael bills, claiming that they denied a trial by jury, that they endanger the homes of l the people, that they with the amend ment make a crime of what Is now no crime (having whisky in the home), that they make innocent people liable to ar rest on frivolous grounds and charges, that they take discretion from the so- licitor, from the sheriff, and from the grand Jury and contending that they are, in other words, iniquitous. l He referred to the manufacture of wine, laughing to scorn the idea that the manufacture of wine Is not identical with the making of wine. He traced the derivation of manufacture to 'manus,' '' l the hand, and 'facere," to make. | He then read an editorial from the
 
 per, an amendment paper, admits that 1 after the adoption of the amendment, l no wine, in accordance with law, can be | made in Alabama for home consump- | ton.
 'The Ledger advises" declared the | speaker, "the breaking of the law; asks the grand jury to break the law in fail | ing to indict, and asks the governor to 1 break the law in pardoning those who | have broken the law.
 "But in spite of the Ledger" continued MT. Bowie, "the grand jury, having nc | discretion, cannot fail to indict, and the governor will. not have tenure of of- | flee longer than 12 months. And I have not learned in what regard his success sor holds this point in the controversy And the next governor" he added, "might be an extremist"
 Making New Crime.
 MT. Bowie pointed out then that the first section adds nothing to the prohi- bition laws, inasmuch as no liquor is manufactured or sold in a saloon in Ala bama at the present time. He then took up section g.
 "If the legislature" he said, lear designate one place wherein iqYprs can l not be stored or kept the legislature car dNsi~Date all.
 ',rhere is @ difference between she povve 1 with which we are asked to decorate fhs | ierfslAtura and the ssarcb law which ba. long been in Alaba-rh.
 "It hes always been lawful for off cers to enter mans home when he ha. flown there after stealing something ant when an affidavit Is made by some repu. table citizen to the effect that such ha. l occurred.
 Tt has always been possible for the 1 officers to enter and search a mans home 1 when murderer, with his hands drip l ping blood, has flown there, and wher an affidavit to that effect has beer I sworn to.
 But in asking us to adopt this amend ment we are asked to empower the legis lature to enter, in its discretion the homes l of the people when an affidavit has beer issued setting forth the fact not that l robber has stored his ill-gotten gain there not that a foul murderer has flown ther, for protection, but that man has stored therein a little liquor.
 '.They would make a crime of what il now no crime In this way they seek t' take away the liberty of the people, ant to make the sanctity with which the hom has been surrounded a thing of the yes terdays."
 MT Bowie thought that Judge Weakle! should have substituted "Alabama" fo ssBassemer'' and asked the people tn ns'