The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24
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 Taking up the Auditors report Mir. Bowman pointed out and discussed the fees which had been paid to Judge weakley and his assistant lawyers in the railroad litigation.
 He pictured Judge Squeakley" as getting ,io.ooo and then not standing He furthermore declared that Judge WsAkley told him that what he had ai- ready drawn from tue State treasury would only be e circumstance to whGt he would draw. ss44s
 After brief but vigorous s,arratgnment of the tyrannical Fuller bill. Mir. Bow man closed his address while the audi ence cheered him heartily.
 Cheers for NIT, Dent.
 When Mir. Dent was presented the audience cheered its welcome to the Second District Congressman. In the face of such friendliness and assured of the sympathy of his rural audience. the Montgofnerian loosened his orator. ical restrain. and allowed himself to be swept along with the tide of his own oratory. Not that he made any wild statements-fore he did not not that there we're appeals to passion and prejudice in his presentation of the issue-for there was none and not. that he was uncertain or hesitating in the use of any hord of phrase--for he was not.
 Mir. Dent spoke his gratitude to the Pike County audience for the county's kindness and generosity to him in the race for Congress when Pike had candidate and when Mir. Dent received in Pike nearly as many votes as the Pfka C0uutv candfdate. 4
 He had. he said. assurances that had he kept out of the present fight he would have no opposition in the race for Congress next year. He was told that should he take part in the fight he would arouse antagonism and have to make a fight again next year for his seat in Congress.
 Since this issue was first sprung, .said MT. Dent. there has not been the slightest doubt as to where I stood or how I should vote. There were reasons of expediercy perhaps why I should not have taken a part in the contest. But when I consid- cred the danger of his proposition when saw in it a. covert attack upon the rights and liberties of our people not to have raised my voice against I the dangerous measure would have \ been cowardly."
 The amenders of the constitution had not met the issue fairly, the speaker submitted They made excellent tenn perance lectures, but temperance lec- lures were no new thing. They had been made for hundreds and hundreds of years. The question squarely be- fore the people was not saloon or no saloon, whiskey or no whiskey. for Alabama has the most drastic prohibi- ton laws that had any State of the Union had ever had. Not one jot or title of those laws would be affected by the adoption or the rejection of the 
 Issue is Shown.
 The issue squareiy placed was: twin you amend your organic law, the con crete idea of reserved liberty handed down from generation to generation of English speaking people?"
 He asked if it were not fair and just for those who propose to change the organic law to bear the burden of proof to show why the proposed change sh ould be made. And right here he sketched the history of the prohibition in the constitution. placed in the State of Maine in 1S46 and about which the last election In that State hinged and which has for more than half a cen- tury been the bone of political conten- ton in that State. In claiming weakly that the amendment would stop agita- ton. the speaker declared that theyI were trampling upon the record in Maine. And he submitted. too. that they were not carrying the burden of proof that they should carry.
 He dealt with the unfortunate and suspicious circumstances surrounding