The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-14
wEAKLEY FOR GOVERNOR;
 THE POLITICS OF IT
CentreviIle Press.
 The great poet once said: Cromwell, I charge thee.

The great poet once said: Cromwell, charge thee. Fling away ambition.'' And with the next breath laid dowr one of the most splendid rules for man to live by.
 Let all the ends thou aimest at be thy country's.
 Thy God and Truth's." It would have been we'll for the State of Alabama, and the peace, happiness and welfare of its people. if one Sam uel D. Weakley. had had these things in mind and remained out of the Gov ernor's race.
 Being, however, man of ungovern- able ambition, he has lost sight of the good of the State, and of the cause of prohibition and has given himself over to selfishness and desire for personal advancement.
 Whether intentionally or not. the fact remains that he Is using the pro- own political advancement. It is a known fact that he has felt keenly his defeat before the people when rum ming against Judge Tyson. but he has no right to seek to cure his wounds by endangering prohibition.
 The prohibition forces already had Q champion in the person of Hugh q. D. Mallory, a great and good man. who through personal ambition, but at the urgent request of thousands of people throughout the State who believed that 1t was for the good of the State that he should be made Governor. Ills ca reer. public and private. is beyond re- proach. He stands. and has always stood for the people. Before the name of Weakley was known Mir. NMallory stood and worked for the cause of pro- hibition
 When the first statutory prohibition laws were passed, MT. Mallory aided materially fin their passage. That the prohibitionists wanted him for their leader. and that he would have been easily elected over any local option candidate is conceded by all.
 Judge Weakley. unable to resist the call of his own ambition, announces action can but divide and weaken the prohibition forces, and make possible what was heretofore impossible, the nomination of an anti-prohibition can- one Is responsible but Weakley It Is incomprehensible that a man whose heart Is really in the cause should thus endanger 1t
 The Press predicts that the moral forces of this State will resent the ac- tion of Judge. Weakley and will give their influence and votes to the ac- knowledged champion and leader of
 And why should Judge Weakley think the people are so indebted to him?
 He has rendered services in the rate cases. For these services he has been paid over $1O.00o of the peoples money out of the State Treasury. He re- fused appointment on the Supr eme bench, claiming that his services as an attorney were needed in the rate cases. His services are needed more now than ever, and yet he wishes to quit these cases. Where is the consistency?
 He has drawn a good many of tha prohibition bills, but 1t must be re- membered that he was the retained, paid counsel of the Anti-Saloon League. Certainly this should not entitle him to the office of Governor.
 He is not responsible for the passage of the bills for Colonel Mallory had more friends in the Legislature thar Judge Weakley.
 Judge Weakley Is now riding ani claiming as his own, the proposed Constitutional amendment He saw he could not defeat Mallory on straight prohibition fines, and so he sought 3 new issue. But when the amendment faced certain defeat in the Senate. ] cry of distress went out for Mallory, not for Weakley. and Colonel Mallory saved the day. and he did so in that quiet, unselash way of his, and with out attaching any conditions. Had he not been the splendid citizen that he is, he could easily have played poli- ties
 There is no danger of Judge Weakiey being elected Governor. The people of this State have long since made up their minds to give this honor to H. s. D. Mallory. They will remember, though, that the man above all other men who has endangered, and is en- dangering the cause of prohibition more than any one else is Samuel D. Weak