The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-24
Personal and General.

Miss Elsie Reinhardt of Summerheld, IL. is visiting her aunt. Mrs. R. w. Lammert. at Palmer Terrace.
 W. R. Rice, vice president of the Har- bison-Walker Refractories company, was in the city today looking over the new plant at Wylam
 Rev R. R. Harris of North Carolina, who recently received a call to St. Johns Episcopal church. arrived in Ensley this morning. He will be here several days looking over the field. He Is the guest of Hardeman s. Meade.
 ~--~-~--~-~-~-~---o-o-~ ~-~-~----~---------- could have voted on the proposition and that it's fate would have been more just, whatever that fate might have been.
 He pointed out too that had the cleo tion been postponed another 60 days thou-
 sands of dollars would have been gath cred in for the benefit of the schools. He
 gave as reason why that tax had not
 been paid the wave of prosperity that had followed the Conner administration. His biting sarcasm brought forth laughter. He charged too in stentorian tone that
 under false guise of religion the politi- cal agitator and office-seeker was en- deavoring to conceal the insidious attack against the liberty of the people of the state.
 IICNCut TlSS INRi Sooi0ns q charge that the purpose of rushing l the election this fall was to prevent 8 free and honest expression as concerns this proposed amendment by the white men of Alabama and that the administra- | ton by so doing revealed its lack of faith | in the ability of the people to govern | themselves"
 Beginning with the statement that l Conner, having been elected on a loca | option ticket and having brought about statewide prohibition was guilty of vio- lation of contract and of political em- bezzement, he traced the beginning ol the liquor agitation to the present day showing that there has in this connection been ceaseless worry and perpetual agi- tation. He predicted there will continue years unless the ambition of politicians be checked.
 Illustrating this point he used the rec ord of South Dakota, which spent the first 10 years of its existence as a state of the nation in continual effort to put the proper harness on the liquor traffic going from saloon to dispensary, to state wide prohibition, to prohibition amend nent to the constitution, and all the way back again.
 At this time too he referred to the fact tnaL Onlo ndd prOnllDtlOn clduse III US | constitution, and that Ohio sends out eacf | day an immensurable quantity of beer | and whisky. He referred to the recent | decision of the supreme court relative tc | the storing of whisky and the abuse by | Brooks Lawrence which followed. Ht | did not charge that the threats of Law. | renee caused the calling of the extra
 ordinary session, but declared that he I took charge of that section and tha1 | Conner and Weakley were merely mem
 bers of his staff. He challenged Weak
 ley to disprove that fact
 O'Neal continuing his argument, came
 to the point where the people of tn.
 state refused to follow longer the agi-
 tator that he charged was striking at the
 homes of the people and their liberty by
 means of an insidious clause in proposed
 amendment He proceeded to point out
 how constitutional liberty would become 2
 myth with the passage of the amendment
 and used all the arguments showing tht
 danger from malice, spite, falsehood ant
 blood money.
 Opponent Not InfaIIibIe.
 Tn spite of the fact that my opponent } today V sSeak lawxs<.' he said. ''n ii