The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-02

The southern conference of Anti-Sa-
 loon league workers opened last night
 at the First Baptist church with repre- sentatives present from nine southern states and @ big crowd of Birmingham people on hand.
 The Rev. W. S. crumpton, president
 of the league in Alabama, presided and
 speeches of welcome were made by
 Georg H. Estes for the city and Gov B.
 B. Conner for the state. The Rev E. E. | Folk of Tennessee replied and was fol-
 lowed by former Lieut.. Gov. R. M. Gun
 ningham who delivered most interest
 ing and instructive extemporaneous l speech.
 l pr. Folk in telling of the fight in | Tennessee spoke in no complimentary l term of Governor Patterson, while he 1 lauded E. w. Carmacl1 as the Strong est, boldest advocate of prohibition the
 south has even known" "They killed
 him." he said, Ito get rid of him but forgot that out of martyrs is the seed of | the church.
 "I confess that there is an element
 of sadness in my joy in being with
 you this evening"" he said in beginning
 Not long ago we held a convention of 1 this kind in Nashville and there was
 no alderman there to greet Us and no
 governor to speak to us
 "Thank God that Alabama has a
 Christian prohibition governor with a backbone and that on the right side. l Thank God that Alabama has a gov | ernor who will not veto a prohibition
 bill.
 But up in Tennessee, we too, as well
 as Alabama will soon have a clean state. 1 It will not be by the aid, but despite ] our governor" He then recounted in
 detail the fight which has been waged
 in Tennessee for the past 20 years, end
 ing with the declaration that the state
 rose up and decided to throw the liquor
 curse out we have 20 of the most honest moral incorruptible senators and l 60 of the staunchest, bravest representa- | tives that ever trod the legislative halls.
 Right here I want to pause to give 1 credit to the man who did more than any one else to bring about prohibit l tion in Tennessee. I speak of the late lamented, the noble, the true, the brave,
 the martyred E. w. Carmack. Cried for Vindication.
 "They killed him to get rid of him i but they forgot that out of the martyrs | is the seed of the church. The blood split there within few blocks of the leg | islative halls cried out not for vengeance,
 not for justice, but for vindication. The
 legislature of Tennessee with an over
 whelming vote carried out the policy for
 which he lived and for which he died. He was the strongest and the boldest ad- vocate that prohibition ever knew" l Dr. Folk said that only one man in Tennessee had dared say that his town wanted liquor back. "I wrote about him
 to his pastor, a meeting of the church of
 ficers called him before them, reprimand-
 ed him and came very near putting him
 out of the church for lying" z
 pr. Folk declared that the negro had been the greatest cause of prohibition in the south, that the people of the south were obliged to protect them selves. yet, "a drunken white man is bigger fool than a negro fool" "Whisky is going to be knocked out of every state in the Union because it is not wanted in there. A war was fought to abolish slavery but the southern people would not go back to slavery if they could. l want to make