The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03
FORMAL STATEMENT
ISSUED BY KNOX
Reasons for Opposition to the
Amendment
ANALYZeS The SITUATION
Former President of Constitutional
Convention Discusses Montgomery
Convention and Praises Men
Who Preserve Constitution.
ANALYZ1S The SITUATION

Admission. October -(Special)-John 3.
Knox, who was president Of the consul
tutional convention in 1901, gave out the
following tonight:
/ regret that l was unable to attend
the Birmingham meeting. I made speech
at Montgomery to that great gathering
of delegates from every part of Alabama,
which was the greatest convention l ever
attended suppose there must have
been three or four thousand people in
the convention hall. Ny engagements are
such that I fear will not again be able
to address the people upon the pending
issue. I have had great many invitations
to speak, but I have not been able to
accept any of them
In the few remarks l submitted at
MONTGOMERY I felt called upon to make
some observations in reference to Cover
nor Conner and his administration, in
ssmuch as he was critcising me from
every stump in Alabama He did this
few years since in a speech which ne
made at Tuscaloosa, inaugurating his
campaign for governor of this state l
prepared a speech in answer to his Tus-
bv some of my Conner friends and did
not deliver it. However, dealing with
the present situation and not with that'
7 will say TO our tax-burdened citizens
that the constitutional convention OF lsol
reduced the rate of taxation from 10 TO
e5 cents on the hundred. With all the
prosperity which Mr.. Conner claims TO
have brought US we have never heard
suggestion from him or any member or
the dominant majority of his legislature
during the frequent sessions that have
been held. for a reduction of taxation
on the contrary, although limited by the
terms of the constitution of 1901 as to
the rate of taxation, he has Increased
taxation by a process OF raising Valua-
tions of property assessed for taXatlon.
The Conner Administration.
know not where the people live who
are ENJOYING the blessings OF the Conner
dispensation. have looked for them. Out
] have been unable to find any or them.
THE nrosne11ty which he depicts as COM
ing to the people OF Alabama Wy lea 5oa
of the measures which he has succeeded
in having adopted. is purely IMAGINARY
uba neople of Alabama, under TINS al
ninistration, are very much IN the posi-
ton of s. large planter who, from over
work, had brought himself to the very
verge of nervous prostration. he told ms
wife and family that he was going away
for civ weeks. that he would not write
apv letters nor did he desire to receive
anv On his return at the end of his va
cafion his old negro body servant met
him at the train. well, Uncle Nose,
he ino,1ired chow is everything at nome
..T1yerything is all right, Marster' the
ssrrsl,t,, lie along
mighty well except your dog Is DEAD
seWhat nv dog deadi How did that nap
nen9" Well, boss, I don't know exactiy
but think she died of eating TOO much
bnrnt meat" eating burnt meet? HOW
Aid she get it?' well, | don't know
exactly. except I think she got 1t when
yo1r harm burned and burnt all your
s r,,s ord horses. Barn, cows and horses
burned. how did that happenY wen,
don't know exactly, but l tnlnK II
ixe+cbed from the candles around the cor
An when your mother-in-law dled.
..What, my mother-in-law oeao! why
she was sound and well when ieit
What could have been the matter WIN
ber9' "Well. I don't know exactly, but
the doctors think she died from the shock
when your wife ran away with the chaul-
feur"
Montgomery Convention.
There were at the Montgomery con-
vention DR.. Wyman, more than ~ years
OF age. and late president Of the Univer-
sity of Alabama, there was DR.. Murphy.
few years his junior and also one or
the leading EDUCATORS of Alabama There
were thousands of others, who perhaps
not so venerable were not whit less
patriotic and high-minded These men
! love the state and have the interest OF
| the state at heart. II prohibition is
| good thing; if 1t will work for the up
| lift of our people; if it will create pros
| perity and regenerate our citizenship
| why should they not be for 1t?
| The Montgomery convention declares
that statewide prohibition in this state is
| an untried experiment and that conven-
| ton, by it's action appealed to the think
| ing people of Alabama to go SLOW, ana
| before changing their fundamental law