The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-04
What the State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing

For Political Ends. Dothan Home Journal.
 Oh! morality. has 1t come to where men should use you for the purpose or forwarding their political ends.
 Others Are Also Guilty. Florala Democrat.
 Headline in daily paper says: "Longed for a drink from the old well at home." Nothing new about that; we've been guilty a many time.
 New Jokes Wanted. Huntsville Tribune.
 managers supply him with some new jokes for his campaign. He dosed Huntsville with the same ones on three different occasions.
 Fuller Bili a Handicap. Birmingham Ledger.
 If the constitutional amendment Is defeated 1t will be because the fierce ness of the Fuller law makes so many bpFohiRAtkonists gsteB back apd, refuse to.
 The Real Rattle Ground. Birmingham Ledger.
 Lee Long has made few phrases the campaign. The finances of this administration will be the real battle, ground after the prohibition amend ment is out of the way
 h This sarcasmS Huntsville Tribune, Judge Samuel Weakley, of Birming- ham, former Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court of Alabama, has made for the Dem ocratic nomination for Gov ernor in 1910. Judging from the rec ord made by Judge Weakley, he will; the office of tiovernor--espectally in Alabama.
 Some May Be Fooled. Marion County News.
 They are fixing for killing fight in Alabama over prohibition going Into the Constitution. There will be good and true men on both sides of the question and the result will be doubt full It is a matter that no one cen give a correct idea on how the peol@s will vote. Some of the strongest ad- vocates of prohibition will be opposed to writing 1t in the Constitution and perhaps after the battle is oyer the white people of the State will be di- vided so badly that they will never get back together again.
 The Ohio Provision. Walker County News. It has been discovered that Ohio has In It's constitution the following:
 NO license to trafflu in intoxicating r liquors shall hereafter be granted in this State, but the General Assembly may by law provide against evils re- suifing therefrom." Art. IS. Sec; 9.
 And yet Ohio manufactures, sells ano whiskey than all the Southern States ever did. The trouble with Rev. Brooks Lawrence's State seems to be that It snd gSes SSt on on fts old tme trunks usual The thing looks well. hut don't | work well. Ohio simply taxes saloons but does not license them. How would | that mockery do in Alabama? It may come.
 Splitting the Party. Dothan Homo Journal.
 In Dale County the new party will be designated as a County Temperance League and for more perfect organi- zation a convention Is called to be held September 4. In Houston County the baby has not yet been named and they are laboring without organization some claiming to be Democrats others prohibitionists others Populists and stiIl others Republicans; but in Gene Va County they seem to be getting a little nearer to the real truth of the thing and are openly admitting that it is clearly the child of the old-time Pro- hibition Party and there Is no use to make other pretensions and the old mer and the rest of his gang the right | hand of fellowship. Geneva County will probably put out county prohibi' | ton ticket.
 The OHlce of Governor. Mobile Register.
 Governor Conner lets 1t be understood that he will not divide time with other orators in this constitutional amend ment campaign, making an exception, perhaps in favor of MT. Emmet O'Neal or one of the leaders, and in order to defend the administration from at tacks The Governor does ont think 1 1t Is Incoming to enter into debates | indiscriminately. The Governor Is right in this and we may go farther and remark that 1t Is not becoming of the Governor of the State to enter into debates at all. Let him set forth the accomplishments of his administratton and defend the policies he has adopted taking advantage of suitable occasions but the dragging of the .governorshtr through the mire of politics should bs avoided. l Judge WeakIey's Candidacy. Selma Times.
 Surely Judge weakley is a most able and accomplished gentleman, but she in earnest? Is he sincere prohi' bitionist?
 Surely he knows the cause he and