The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-28
CAMPAIGN OPENS
At AUTAUGAV|LLE.
Leon McCord Speaks Against
Prohibition Amendment
GOES AFTER W0LATORS
Sheriff Hood Secures List of Holders
of Revenue Licenses, "a in All,
and Will Investigate-Mont-
gomery Wants Home.
GOES AFTER WOLATORS
BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery, August 27.-(Special)- $50
far as indications go the campaign against
the adoption of the prohibition amend
double-barreled. The call for a meeting
here on September Is appears to be dis
tinct from what is known as the Safe
and Sane league, of which Leon c. Nc
Cord. former member of the clerical force
of the supreme court, is active head. C.
b. Teasley, county tax collector, will be
in charge of the preliminares to the Sep
tember 10 meeting, which, according to
report. will not be affiliated with any
other organization and will probably con-
duct an independent campaign
Mr.. McCord and his friends have OPP
ened a live campaign, the first speaking
being on yesterday evening at Autauga-
vile, In Autauga county Mr.. McCord
seems to have laid the fight out on Gov.
B. B. Conner rather than the amendment,
saying that the voters will be called upon
to settle the question not of constitutional
prohibition, but of whether or not citizens
shall board the Conner band wagon thus
indorsing his policies. His speech was
devoted in the main to Governor Conner,
whom he charges with having made ST.
900, 900 out of the labor of children in his
cotton mills
Mr.. McCord denied that the Safe and
Sane league is supported by the whisky
men, and asserts that the list of contrib
utors to the movement is an open one,
that any one may see who chooses. He
attacks Brooks Lawrence, head of the
Anti-Saloon league, berating him for his
criticisms of the supreme court. Mr.. Nc
Cord charged Kyle b. Price, who spoke
for the amendment, as a man who had
just come from a good job given him
by Governor Conner. He also said that
state and had led it into a fight on con-
stitutional prohibition that is likely to
break up the democratic party in the
state. Pretty much the same line of talk
was heard at Evergreen today, where
the party were Joined by ]. Thomas
Hefiin, congressman from the Fifth dis
trict. 1t anticipated that Eugene
Ballard representative in the legislature
from Autauga, and author of the consti-
LuIlOndl d1ucuuiiCht Dii, WIN was III tHS
audience last night, would speak, but he
did not Many went from Montgomery
and Prattville to hear a joint debate with
Mr. McCord on one side and Mr.. Ballard
on the other, and were disappointed that
It did not line up that way, though Mr..
Price made speech that called out APP
plause,
Going After violators.
Following out the provisions of the new
laws, Sheriff Horace Hood has secured a
list of the holders of internal revenue
licenses in this county, "a in all, and
will make inspection Of the places to see
what they contain, rendering report there
after to Solicitor Phil Stern, who will
make use of the testimony secured in
running the men who do wrong to earth.
Deputy Sheriff Horace Hood secured the
list of names at Birmingham. in the
office Of the collector, yesterday.
There are conflicting duties, or. at least,
confusing demands in the many bills
passed, all of which Sheriff Hood is try
ing to reconcile and get in line. He is
giving his personal attention to the in
itial work under the regulations and will
see to 1t that all features of the acts are
carried out. He, with his lawyers and
the solicitor, are trying to find out just