The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-09
Fuller Bill ReceiUes
 A Seue,e Drubbing

are going to give these laws tuii anu fair trial. and. if necessary, we are going to tighten them" This was met a with cheers. we are going to tighten them,s he repeated. and then there were more cheers.
 Judge weak1ey criticised the record of Mir O'Neai on prohibitioa. "Aha en November 2s we are going to give him constitutional prohibition" e>ied Judge weakley, amid applause.
 You will not do It, called one old man down In front.
 Judge weakiey spoke of the prob ability of Mir. o'Neai's being a candi- said. Ion the result of this election. and I'll tell you he's not going to run"
 Judge weakley explained the opera tion of local option. declaring that it's adoption would mean that the cities would flood the rural communities with liquor. He said Mr. ONeal left tho in- ference that he was against the, amend ment because he was for local option.
 The speaker said Mir. ONeal raised q great deal about the old soldiers. He said the old soldiers never fought for talked with. he said. were for prohibi- tion. -s.
 Explnins Amenament sections.
 Maintaining that Section of the amendment was a burden on the con science of every Degislatuie and every Governor to prohibit liquors in Ala bama. Judge Weakley explained It's operation. Then Judge Weakley came to Section 2 of the amendment, which, he said. was the great bugaboo. He de- clared that 1t wac framed to meet the decision of Justice sayre of the su- preme Court, and that its purpose was not to invade the home. He said the decision was hailed with delight by the whiskey men.
 "Prohibitionists demanded the ex- traordinary session because prohibition was being undermined and Governor Conner answered the demand. It was an extraordinary occasion" he de- clared.
 Judge waakley said 1t was true that some of the members of the Legisla- ture had been coerced into voting for submission of the amendment.
 "The people back home had de- manded 1t of them,' he said, "and this is the kind of coercion that is going to carry this amendment" Judge weakley rfdiculed "an obscure young clerk for the Supreme Court who stepped out as a leader and who was now sending out literature that contains islanders and talsehoods."
 The speaker condemned the German American Alliance, which, he said. was organizing to vote in the States against prohibition. He denounced that asso- citation as a beer garden organization.
 With fine fuency Judge Weakley read in German, from a German news paper. This threw the audience Into uproars of laughter and cheers. He then interpreted the editorial which condemned crazy laws.
 .Hurrah for the Oermann.n
 "Hurrah for the Germans" cried one enthusiast.
 Advertng to the Fuller bill. Judge weakiey said It's search and seizure clause was taken from the New York statutes and he. said search warrants had been legal in Aiatmma for 100 years.
 My friend ought ro know these things" said Judge Weakiey. but he does not know because he has never been engaged in breaking up blind tigers" There was laughter and ap- plause when Judge Weasley alluded. in passing. to the fact that sherin Higdon had poured 256 gallons of H. ouors into the sewers of Birmingham last week.
 Judge weakiey closed with a further reference to invasion of the home. He said the people of Alabama were more exercised over how to keep liquor out of the homes than about invasion Of the homes. He declared that the pres ent statutes carefully guarded the people in their right to have liquor in their homes for their own use. In part ing Judge weakley made the audience laugh in burlesque of Mobile and Montgomery when he said the saloons had been closed and that this was tho most dangerous thing since the recon- structjon
 We are not going to suppress the women and children" he said. You haven't done 1t in the past and you're not going to do it in the future. Any cause that hectors the women and lectures the preachers Is doomed from its beginning"
 MT. O'Neal opened his rejotnder by saying that the women were not to he suppressed, but if the bill you wrote is enforced, good women can be mt in tail." MT. o'Neal declared that he had heard that one of the men who met weakiey in Montgomery yester- day had discovered place where ne could get liquor. This was in answer ing enforced The speaker said Judge weakley had made good prohibition speech and he agreed with him In that part of his speech.
 Prediets Downfall in Court.
 Referring again to the Fuller bill, MT. ONeal declared that as soon as 1t went to the Supreme Court it would be flung out as violative of the funda- mental law. He charged that 1t was proposed to amend the Constitution so as to give validity to laws that Judge weakiey knows are invalid. Mir. oNeai declared that every honest man knew that the Fuller bill was being violated everywhere because that act made IL unlawful to have whiskey or peer outside house
 "we are not going to try to repeal your Fuller biil." said MT. o'Neal. "The courts will do that" (Applause) "Hy- ocriay. hypocrisy" cried Mir. o'Neal, Hypocrisy from beginning to end
 MT. o'Neal appealed to the people to stand up for their right to eat and drink and wear what they pleased in their own homes. This was a principle of free men for 1000 years. It Is not for you saints to tell us." he cried. turning to Judge weakley. what we shall do in the sacred circles of our homes This was received with great