The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-28
ATTACK
 UPON PREACHER Legislator Bitterly AssaiIs Rev.
 Len 6. BToughton ANOTHER PREACHER AIDS Mr. Anderson, the Legislator, Is Backed Up In His Words By Another Lawmaker a Bap-
 tist Minister.
ANOTHER PREACHER AIDS

Atlanta. July 27.-The anti-prohibition- ists in the state legislature forgot tbe truce today. rolled up their sleeves. sraoped their war clubs and sailed into the opposition with such bitter invectives that an aged clerk shook his head and re marked:
 Nothing like that ever happened in tha legislature in the 40 years I've been at- tending It."
 The nun began when Anderson of Sa- val nah, who Is fighting the near-beer hill. arose to question of personal privilege He was white-faced, trembling and had to moisten his lips several times before he found his voice.
 I notice,' he began, that a local min- lster, named the Rev. Len G. Brourhton IS quoted in the press as having said in a serrne n that I was fighting the near-beer oili because had bought stock in sa- vannah Brewery after the prohibition bill was passed, and that I was the only nan Ill the state who had made money out of prohibition in Georgia I desire to gay thE preacher Is a wilful, malicious reckless. malignant and vicious liar. fully expected to be assalled and vilIified when l obeyed my constituents will and opposed the Alexander bill. But I never even dreamed that minister of the gos- pei-a follower of Him who preached charity and taught truth-would stoop to become slanderer and a common liar.
 No Stock Bought.
 "In the first place no Savannah brew cry, nor stock in one has been sold since p1ohtbition went into effect. Hence this is another lie of the reverend hypocrite. About l5 months ago I bought 10 shares in. Savannah brewery and paid sl0o A share. l was out of the state when the prohibition bill passed, and when I re- turned ano tried to sell my stock I could not It is now worth about $50 or se0 a share. but cannot be sold
 This Alexander bill is a new prohibit ton bill, and we already have the strong est prohibition bill ever drafted If it be not enforced then it Is because the of hcers are negligent and the people do not want It enforced. have never placed as much as a straw in the way of Its en- forcement. But you know you cannot en- force an unpopular law"
 Anderson sat down in a breathless silence and little Representative J. A. Shade, slight dignified and ministerial looking, arose. Shade Is from Muskogee county and Is a Baptist minister, the same church which Broughton serves Everyone expected a bitter retort to An derson's outburst. What was the as- tonishment of all, then, when Slade went even further than Anderson in denounc- ing his fellow cregyman.
 Preachers Warm Words.
 T was astonished and insulted." he said. ito hear the islander heaped upon a worthy member of this legislature by man who professes to be a minister of the gospel. l am a missionary Baptist preacher. l believe in and practice ten- peranoe but do not believe In prohibition. In the name of all good Baptists, how ever, l want to resent this attack upon MT. Anderson by a long haired loud mouthed. itinersnt preacher who has done more harm to the temperance cause than all the brewers and distillers in the world, and the really honest temperance ad- vocates should realize that unless they curb these freak extremists they will see the pendulum swing to the other OK . treme"
 Speaker Holden did not let anyone else get the floor declining to recognize sew eral excitable members and calmly fore ing resumption of the consideration of the tax bill.
 broughton's Hepiy.
 Dr. Broughton tonight gave out the following statement in regard to the scathing denunciation he received at the hands of Representative Anderson in the house this morning
 q am glad, at least, if I have done nothing else than force MT. Anderson to acknowledge in the house of representa- tives, where he is posing as the cham pion against legislation for the proven ticn of the rear beer evil, that he Is a stockholder In a brewery, one at least in Savannah, that Is misunderstanding more near beer than any other In the state.
 Tt Is immateral, so far as the point made against his right to sit in judgment upon such legislation. whether he has recently bought stock or not It Ia a fact that he owns the stock and that lines hfm up with the whisky interests
 Protest from CIgarmakerA
 Boston, July 27.-The Boston Cigar makers union today sent the following telegram to President Taft: Two thous- and cigarmakers of Boston respectfully petition against the admission of 150- 00O,000 ci 's from the Philippines free