The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-29
PASTORS MAKE FINAL STAND Poi6cs Take Places of ! Sermons. AMENDMENT ISSUE TALKED Dr. Stakely Attacks Marchers in
 Big Saturday Parade. Declares He VIII not Permit Newsps- pers to Dictate what He shall
 Say in His Puipit--lssv.
 o'Hara treats the Per-
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Availing themselves Sunday morning of the last Sabbath Day opportunity to discuss pertinent politics from their puipits rather than preach their usua Sunday morning sermons, some Mont gomery pastors made their closing nght for the adoption of the amend ment.
 Wherever the amendment issue was the text of the morning address, the speakers took occasion to pay their respects to the newspapers that have fought for the sanctity of the homes of the State and refer slightingiy even to members of their own congregations who took part in the magnificent pro- test against the amendment registered by the parade through Montgomery streets Saturday night.
 pr. Charles A. Stakely, pastor of the First Baptist Church. was especially bitter against the defenders of the home and among other things said in the course of his address:
 Representing as we do the best peo- pie of the State and the kingdom of Heaven. 1t is but fitting that we should enter Into the means of settling the liquor question once and for all.
 T was present at the first great con- yention held in Montgomery by the anti-amendmentists and in that body l saw many of the best men of Ala bama: men to whom we have looked for guidance, on whom we have leaned for aid in the march of our State and in the march of moral progress, but eliminating them there was left but those who have evaded and defled ev. cry law on the statute books and these are the men who are in the forefront of the ranks of them who style them- sny s IA x1xe AA~ <S Al. defenders of the rights of the people and the defenders of the sanctity of the home.
 Under the guise of defending the sanctity of the home these men are but seeking to again thrust upon Ala bama. whether she will or no, the in- iquitous whiskey traffic. Admitting that there are many side issues to this question that encroach upon the polit- icai. 1t is nevertheless true that they may be cast aside for the political is- sues may be utterly disregarded be- cause the issue Is: Having put liquor it to be re-introduced. Everybody knows we'll that the whole animus back of the fght against the constitutional amendment is that 1t shall be brought back into the State. If you want 1t tt return then vote against the amend ment Monday: tf you want 1t to stay out forever, then vote for the amend ment.S
 In effect proclaiming every advocats of the defeat of the amendment to be coward, pr. Stakeiy said:.'If favor ed the return of whiskey into the State I should stand up like man and say so. I'd be a man in the matter at any cost and not hide behind pretended de- fense of the sanctity of the home or other spectous pretenses.
 What others may say of me for preaching this doctrine from the pulpit care not, nor will l permit newspa- pers that have grown rich from the profits accruing from whiskey adver- tiseinents to dictate to me what shall say from my pulpit.
 T maintain that I am preaching the Gospel when I say these things for Il is I that am the defender of the home and 1t is our fight that is for the good of Alabama
 Attacks Defenders.
 Attacking those who marched in the great parade of Saturday night as 6 protest against attacks upon the rights
 of the people and the sanctity of the home, pr. Stakely said: Tn that pa rade there were many good men, many men from my own congregation, and was ashamed of them.
 .'Eliminating them. who was left None but the old gang that has cor rupted our politics, deRed our laws broken our statutes from time imme-