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cry Conferences. The Montgomery Con
ference he said. had declared 1t had
mo purpose of restoring the saloon in
Alabama"
Mr.. O'Neal. as a supporter of that
platform. he said. could NOT claim to be
q local option man, and stand on that
platform, Judge Weakley argued.
Judge Weakiey quickly took up the
Montgomery Conference. which he has
explained and discussed in each speech
he has delivered in the debates. He
said he would warn the members OF
the Montgomery Conference that nc
temperance law in Alabama had beer
weakened In Alabama in twenty-five
years.
That was a bitter pill that my good
friend. Governor Jelks. handed that
Conference. when he presented tina,
report on resolution" said the speaker
"for that report showed that the Mont
gomery conference did not dare lay Its
profane hands on either the Carmich'
ael or Fuller BILL"
At considerable extent he reviewed
the local option election in Jefferson
County. Judge weakley. without say
ing SO, sought to warn Montgomery
audience by the action OF Jefferson
County.
we nave WOu oIC 6IC6S NAS%SAy 80
Jefferson County. and We are march
ing on to another" said Judge Weak
ley. 1--WE have ten speakers to their
one and we can hold ten meetings to
their one. Scores who voted against
prohibition will vote with us and the
county will give at least $500 major
ity And since Mr.. Stallings and Max
winkler are in charge of headquarters
In Birmingham We expect to increase
that majority"
Judge weakley returned to Jefferson
County to describe conditions which
arose, with the clubs that sprang up
under the first prohibition law.
TN Birmingham 1875 of these So
called literary and social clubs sprang
up" said Judge Weakley. You would
have thought that we were going to
stop making steel and iron and devote
ourselves to the social and literary
graces. But when we went into those
clubs. after the Carmichael bill had
been signed, the principal thing we
found was a lot Of lockers. where the
members stored that whiskey. which
they got by telegraph in one minute,
GAS for a 1ibrary-well, in one club
we found copy of The Police Gazette
and The Birmingham Age-Hera1d."
Judge Weakley alluded to the eff
forts made in Montgomery County and
declared that the opponents OF prohf-
billion were "quaking in their boots
for fear Of the possible result of the
election.
The fight against the amendment, he
said, had been pitched, at first, on the
first section of the amendment. The
Tight was continued on the first section
until the Montgomery Conference when
section. which 1t was claimed invaded
the home.
There never has been an effort to
eradicate the liquor evil but what the
wolf cry was raised that an invasion
Of the home was being attempted.
mo-" said Judge Weakley. 1--WE are
not attempting to invade the homes.
We are trying to keep liquor from in
vading the home. You talk about in
vading the home: Look at this" (ho1d-
Ing up a newspaper containing a quar-
ter Of page OF whiskey advertisements)
"How Is this for an invasion of the
homer They talk of whiskey as a
medicine: no medicine chest Is going
to hold the six quarts offered by this
advertisement. Prohibitionists made
these laws and prohibitionlsts propose
to live under them. We are thinking
~ great deal more of keeping whiskey
out OF the home than keeping whiskey
In the home"
Search and seizure, Judge Weakley
contended. was no new thing In Ala
bama. It had been the law for years
and years. and no cry was raised about
II until this fight was started. The
good effects OF this search and seizure
provisions of the new laws, he said,
had been shown In Birmingham where
great quantities of seized liquors had
been emptied into the cellars. If
brewers and distillers insisted on send
ing their contraband stuff into the
State. he said, the people of Alabama
would rise in their might and destroy
the stun.
Abiding again to the Montgomery
conference, he said there was not u
prohibitiontst in It. There was not a
man in 1t. he said. who had sweated
one drop in the cause of prohibition =.
Much had been said of the Old Guard.
He wanted to draw the attention of
his hearers to the young guard of Ala
bRma, who had come on. He saw
seventy-fve of the young guard get
on q train in Marshal County wearing
the white ribbon of prohibition. II
the Old Guard would go to Sunday
school and hear once every quarter
the lesson on temperance taught In the
Sunday schools, or teach a class, they
might secure q new idea of temper
auce, he said. He spoke of the Old
Guard as being composed OF men VINO
had come down from another genera
ton and had ideas not in harmony with
the present day.
He told his hearers that II any of his
Montgomery audience INDUCED any
hope of the return of the saloons IN
Alabama, they were INDUCING in an
"iridescent dream" He alluded to the
position of Jefferson Davis on the pro-
hibition question, and said that Jeffer-
son Davis. IL he was living, would be
living now in prohibition State.
Judge Weakley was discussing the sa-
loon and its evils when the expiration
of his time drew near. He said that
If the saloons were returned to Mont
gomery. the Methodists would remove