The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-23
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TB8 kAfF AAFF OE ALADAMA.
 Chairman r. NJ. Jackson. of ths State Amendment Committee In the face of certain defeat appears to have lost his head. In . recent circular addressed as 1t says te good men personally and good citizens," Mir. Jackson writes of what the riff raff'' will do when the amendment is e. feated. sayins:
 with all their riff raff registered and qualified don't you know that they will at once proceed to cap ture the Legislature and put the sa- looms back into our beloved Slater
 From the man who was the chief spirit of the secret cabai which forced this unfortunate campaign at time when probably so.ooo men were dis qualified temporarily from voting. from the leader of the secret cabsi which took snap judgment on the vot- CTS of Alabama 1t would seem that Mir. Jackson Is adding Insult to in- jury. In terming the men he and his allies prevented from voting in this election riff raff."
 MT. Jackson again demonstrated that the political campaign with its accompaniment of strife and hatred among the people is political immor- aiity. It was immoral to take snap Judgment upon thousands of citizens of Alabama and prevent them by . political trick from settling an issue at the polls which will vitally affect the future of the State. It Is im- moral to attempt to tie the hands of all future Jegisiatures 70 that they can not deal with governmental ques- tions as they arise. It is Immoral to assail with siandsr, men who have the courage to protest against the political conspiracy wrapped up in the scheme.
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 The most direct and fragrant appeal to prejudice that this campaign af- lords Is contained in the following of MT. Jackson in that same letter. s
 If the amendment is lost 1t will be a staggering blow to- the cause of prohibition and temperance through ont the nation and the world. The whiskey people will proclaim broad h Alabama and has proven a failure that it was defeated by those who formerly were It's best friends. They will take heart again and will be efn- svsTy state se nsass Thsy will turn Alabama into a political They will pay the de- poll taxes of all roustabonts, the tas dsnxsruas a tne TSey vii have regular night schools to teach these minions how to eonstrue. a clause Of the Constitution sol that an them certificates--and so they viii dump a a3,hideous horde of dangerous voters into our State electorate. there by injecting. charge of rank poison State. from which 1t will take years
 with their riff raff qualified and registered. don't you know. that they Tesisiature and put the saloon back into our beloved Statef
 If this is not low appeal to preju- dice there never was one rnade in Alabama. A threat of political pam demoniumg. is good, coming as it does from one of the cAbaf that isf respon- sibie for the political pandemonium of the past three years.
 Chairman Jackson and his political allies threw the disqualified voters into a muddie puddle. and now stand ing on the banks of the puddle they reviIe and abuse them as being dirty.
 Again Mir. Jackson says in this re- markabie appeal to the prejudice and hate of the voters of Alabama:
 "Is 1t going too far to say that they will even register a huge horde of negroes: thereby putting as back to rible Of all the phases of negro dom tnation at that, viz: negro domination with the negro himself dominated with vile wbiskey."
 Of all appeals to passion and preju- dice nothing has ever descended quite as low as tfis. MT. Jackson charges that the honest opponents of the amendment propose to turn the State over to .dranken negroes. It is doubt fui. If in a campaign remarkable for islander and malice anything more ma licious than this has appeared. The Black Belt of Alabama, freely and willingly deprived Itself of whatever political power there was In the me- gro vote. The negro vote. outside of the Black Belt is nnimportant and i'm consequential. and the white men of that section sacrificed their political power to purify the electorate of Ala bama. It remained for Mir. Jackson to intimate. what every honest man In the Black Belt knows to be false that the white men of the Black Belt would under any consideration re- store the negro to his voting power.
 Fanaticism in Alabama has run wild and MT. Jackson in this letter illus trates this fanaticism in its widest form Mir. Jackson is evidently one of those men who can not brook de- feat but must allow his passion and his preiudices to run away with him