The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-02
nan from keeping lIauor in his

his associates from the charge that they were opening the home of Ala bama to search and seizure Aiapania, he said, had laws allowing searches "i the home to prevent or punish cI since it's formation as State ana tnal a search warrant was not new thns
 At this point his time expired anu he sat down as his friends cheereo him.
 Mir. O'Neal was warmly greeteu as he came to the table anu ne s, terminR the issue "a false and hypo- critical movement designed to decei'e and mislead the people,.
 Judge weakley he said, had told him at Sheffleld that it was his puri.ose to stick to the issue and not 10 De leu off by extraneous issues,
 Did he stick to the issue and discuss the ouestion?" asked MT. O'Neal fou heard him and he spent one hour Tn making the prohibition speech he has been making for months and he spent three minutes in discussing the con- stitutional amendment"
 Mir. oNeal said that he, and every sensible man, recognized the evils or the liquor traffic, and all men, having l the welfare of their country at heart, would join in the work of reducing the evils of liquor drinking. Judge weakIey persisted in chasing any man who had a different plan of re- l ducing the evils of liquor different | from him as a whiskey man. There was time, said Mir. ONeal. | when the whiskey traffic was not re- | garded in Alabama so much an evil as | it is today. There were no laws re- straining its sale and gentlemen Kept 1t openly upon their sideboards. This' according to latter day prohfbitionists. was a terrible state of affairs, and yet | under that state of affairs Aiaoama | produced a race of men, or vfgor, Q, courge, of devotion such as the world had never seen-the men who had ioi- | lowed Lee and StonewaH Jackson. For Local Option.
 Mir. ONeal again declared his alie- glance to the doctrine of local option | in answer to the questions or Juose weakley. It was the platform oi the Democratic Party, State and National he said. The Governor Of Alabama % on every stump on which he spoke had vowed his allegiance to local option. And I. tell the gentlemen and his associates who are trying to rush things. that there is an authority Tor local option which he should hlmseit appreciate" said MT. ONeai: Ihe wear book of the Anti-Saloon League inc year book of the organization for which he has been the attorney. under the direction of which the prohibition movement has been carried forward III Alabama, declares for local option. It says. and mark the word, Local op- tion is the only true way Of settiinS this issue accoroihs to A0 'N' ideals. - He charged the Governor of Alabama who had been elected on local option platform with a Legislature elected on the same platform had been guil.y of what Mir Bryan called An em- bevzIement of power" For such MT. prvan had termed the betrayal of platform of the party.
 Mr. ONeal spoke with some bitter rass of the attack made by Rev. Brooks Lawrence on the Supreme Court oI Alabama on July 3. when tne coua' erty and that as property u eouiU oe stored in the state.
 IJtterances of Lawrence. Brooks Lawrence, he sald dehouhSee tbe Supreme Court as being allied With whiskey and every indecent interest in 'he sue said furthermore that If the | .on,titution was in the way ne anu his associates would change the coh- ! n.t.,,tion And he declared that when | the constitution was changed 10 suas his notion he would select judges to renaer opinions according to his idea' said MT. O'Neai.
 
 carrying out that threat We see niHi s noIitical alliance with the Gov | arnor of Alabama under which spe- | c,aJ session of the Legislature Is call | ed The Governor and the Legisia- l ture hasten as far as they can 10 nave | Mir. Lawrence make good his threat. The amendment is passed and an elec- tion is ordered.
 of the amendment is carried Brooks l hto then proceed to carry out the second part of his threat and select Supreme Court | judges to decide cases according to his ideas"
 Getting well into his argument and | practically standing in his stirrups as he galIoped along, MT. O'Neal said. why was this special election order ed in November? Why was 1t hurried? I'll tell you, my friends. It was or | dered because Governor Conner and Brooks Lawrence wanted to take snap | judgment on the people. There are in | Alabama 10000 men who have not paid their poll taxes this year. Of this I am informed by the Secretary | of State. They would not give these people a chance. They would not al- low them to pay their poll taxes and
 turn into the bankrupt treasury of the State a million dollars for the Ala bama schools.
 l Turns On wenkIey. You thought, Burning to Judge weakley). You and the Governor thought that the people had not read
 up on this question. You thought the people had not thought on this ques-
 tion and that they were going to fall
 in behind you because they were ig- norant
 "The Governor said that there would
 be some opposition in the towns and
 cities but he said there would be no
 opposition among the country people. He made the mistake of thinking that
 the country people were ignorant
 that they had not read up on this question. But he found himself facing
 a revolt. He found that the coun- tryman had read the papers and was
 as well informed on 1t as the town man. And now the Governor is on the
 stump running around to head Off the
 revolt which he has discovered
 "why did you not wait, Judge
 weakley? Why did you not wait un-
 til next year? Answer that question
 when you come to reply. But I'll tell
 you why you did not wait. One man