The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-02
Defends the Legislature.

IS Intended to O1Set the decision of the supreme court which holds that liquor is property.
 Defends the Legislature.
 Mir Bowie continued the discussion of statutes on which the amendment de- bends for its effectiveness, stressing those features which prevent the keeping of whisky for medicinal or any other use in peivate room of a hotel, in an up stairs used as dwelling where the lower stories are used for other purposes, in home in which some cotton Is stored
 He then defended the legislatures of the state against the claim of the amenders to the effect that the amendment must be had to prevent future legislature from repeating the prohibition laws at the in- stance of the whisky trust.
 He referred to the fact that since the time when Morgan and Houston wiped out the footprints of the carpetbagger, no legislature has been or could have been bought in the state of Alabama
 He made the claim that all the good women of the state were not on the side of the amendment. He made the claim that all the ministers were not on the side of the amendment.
 He then took up the editorial printed in the Birmingham News of some time back to the effect that the amenders were all very holy, and the defenders whisky men, paid agents of the distillers, gam blers, cut-throats and dive proprietors. He discussed this proposition without the use of gloves, and concluded with the cheers of the people ringing in his ears with a prediction that that insult will be wiped out November 29.
 Judge WeakIeys Defense.
 Judge Weakley opened with claim that the amendment will win. He next dis cussed Leon McCord, head of the Safe and Sane league, charging him with sending out libelous cartoons at the in- stance of the whisky trust. He next paid compliments to the ladies of the audience, saying: They helped me win great victories in Blount and Jef- ferson counties in 1907." He then assailed MT. Bowie because he did not support prohibition. He referred to Bowie as a bull in a china shop. He then declared, in answer to Bowie s charge that the amendment would be ineffective because it contained no pen alty by claiming that there are other sections of the constitution which contain no penalty
 He next charged that were the amend ment defeated, the legislature which re- pealed the laws would be in violation of its oath.
 "The forever in the amendment" he said, Ifs what hurts the opposition" He repeatedly referred to what he had done in behalf of prohibition, how he had worked in Montgomery when the weather was very warm, and how he had always rallied to the cause of prohibition in Alabama
 He referred sarcastically to Senator Frank s. Moody of Tuscaloosa as the Thigh priest" of temperance. Definition of Amendment. Section 1,'' stated the judge. Ifs meant to break up the saloons. Section 2, | to break up the blind tigers l. He then discussed at length the antics of the blind tigers with which Birming- | ham was infested some months ago. | Claiming that the wearing of the United | States flag was mistake by the defend- | CTS, he declared the government had | driven whisky out of the capitol, and that | revenue officers, without warrants. go l into the hills, and without affidavit l search for ''stills,'' and without trial of l their owners destroy them. l He claimed that the homes were pro- l tected by section of the constitution. 4 He declared that he had protected tho I people against the searche of homes by night by making provision in the Fuller | bill denying the right of search between l 6 o'clock and 6 o'clock at night. l He referred to the fact that Blount county rejected the constitution of 1901, 1 which has dsfranchised so many people, and which was supported by those who are now leading the fight against the l amendment"
 | He referred to the fact that the good
 roads movement won by small major | ity, using this against Bowies claim that /, nothing save that on which the people 1 are practically agreed should go into the constitution.
 l He referred to the fact that the con
 stitution of the United States was amend | ed 15 times.
 He declared that he had learned on ex-
 cellent authority that after the decision l of the supreme court declaring liouor l property a brewer of Chattanooga sent a Birmingham lawyer a cask of beer with l which ito rejoice over the defeat of pro- | hibition."
 On the Defensive.
 Judge Weakley then affirmed that nc
 anti-amendment orator and no newspaper 1 defending the constitution had quoted him l correctly.
 He resented as absolutely false that they--the amendment leaders-had acted in bad faith.
 1 That the laws are drastic, he declared i was on account of the fact that i've 1 knew the gang with which we had tc /, deal"
 1 q deny that the legislature can desig- l nate the home as a place wherein liquors l cannot be stored. I deny that such was I our purpose he said:
 He said that a person could invite
 guests to his home and give them all 1 they wanted to drink. He referred to a gentleman in Dothan buying some whisky
 and inviting his friends to drink of it l on his front porch. under the eyes of the l sheriff.
 He stated that he is not afraid to try l prohibition, and claimed that Bowie is 1 He affirmed that a skyscraper had iSnHe up in Birmingham where formerly there l was saloon He stated that prohibition had hurt only the pawnbrokers and sur geons. He announced himself fully re- paid for the work which he had done fl
 he has kept one man off the operating ta. ble.
 He referred to the Montgomery platform of the defenders of the constitution.
 and charged A. G. Smith is the only de. fender who remains on that platform. 1 Here he took occasion to state his De.
 lief that The Age-Herald had never in