The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-17

"Xp minus office, plus Safe and Sane league, equals the whisky interests vs. the state of Alabama. He alleged that unless they are laboring under mis- apprehe sion they are with the liquor interests.
 In answering the argument that the state had been bankrupt, MT. Price asked how much of the money. that goes to education do they pay?
 The womanhood of Alabama wants us to do this thing for them and by the eternal We are going to do it. have no quarrel with the saloon ele- ment, or the brewers, but have a quarrel with the newspaper that have been supported by the homes of Ala bama which sell their columns to the whisky interests to tear down our homes These are the ones I am after and I am going to camp on their trail in this state. If they can offer $500 to little newspapers to do tn cir work we know that large papers and bigger men can get bigger pay.
 When they put us down with the : preachers and the women and the children they put us down right and We are right when we put them down with the liquor interests" He urged that the country man with untrammeled conscience can be induced to line up for the amendment. Mrs. chatfieId Speaks. Mrs. J. B. Chatfield was called upon | to make a few remarks. She said that i the Woman's Christian Temperance | union has worked and prayed for thiI consulnmation.
 "The temperance union in many oth CT I states has franchise department. but In Alabama we have never undertake en | it because We believe in the men of Alabama" She plead with tn em to fight
 for the women and believed that God
 would give them victory.
 | Rev S. E. Wasson of Huntsville was | called for. We are facing that same l fiendish, devilsh creature which has l been leering into the faces of our mothers, our wives and our children.
 He thought that the issue is liquor or no liquor. T am glad to be political parson. There is nothing that makes | me feel more like Christian than I when I raise my bludgeon to strike | down this foe"
 Senator Miller Called. | Senator Nathan L. Miller next an swered the call of the audience. He 1 took up the charge of politics in call | ing the election in 90 days, saying that ! the friends of the measure wanted the | proposition submitted solely, alone and l on its merits. We did not want to l mix it up with a political election We
 separated it from politics" He de- l clared that when they talk about those | laws being repealed they damn them selves. because their representatives | will have to go there and swear before | God that they will support the consti- l tuition. He further brought out the | point that the laws had been tested | more than any other.
 1 His opinion was that the Fuller biI l never would have been passed had no 1 Montgomery Haunted in the face of thu {, legislature that it would show how | flagrantly they could violate the law He explained section ? of the constitu | tional amendment as having been put I | out of deference to the supreme court Q | Alabama, the court having ruled severa
 months ago that storage of liquors | l soft drink stands could not be prohiblteo
 Committee on Nominations.
 P. c. Ratiff submitted the report of tn | nomination committe on q campaign com
 mitte as follows:
 r. NJ Jackson, Birmingham, chairman. | R. P. Roach, Mobile, vice chairman flrs
 district.
 Geo. P Miles, Montgomery, second dis
 trict
 l James D. Flowers. Dothan. third dis
 trict,