The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

the call Of the slsction. when thoussnd' l of honest men Of Alabama were tempo rarily diAranchissd end when naer
 chant and farmer were busiiy engaged | In the harvest season When he said The calling of the election under thes' circumstances at this time was reck less and criminal disregard of public duty" the Old Guard on the front rowi ross and cheered him. and the younge' men behind them joined in the cheer ing.
 Tn words Atly chosen. and in dictior rounded and effective he presented ths weakness and ineffectiveness of "a con stitutionsI provision without autonomy and without apenslty. .
 There are some of you. perhaps wno earnestly wished constitutional pro- hibition," he said.
 what they have given you. is . deiuoton and a snare. You asked Tor bread and they gave you 0 stone: yea asked for fish and they gave you a
 serpent. You are worshiping an idol that has neither breath nor life nor heart" l-
 He asnounced the action whioi, forced at the harvest season at an ex- pense of es0. .000 an election on an '.un- necessary nonenity."
 The greatest of his power he re- served for his assault on the second section That the adoption of the second section would leave the home to search and seizure. as the Legisla- ture might direct no man would deny As for him he doubted that the next Legislature would pass a law directing search of the home for intoxicating liquor. but that the Legislatpre would have such power was positive and ap- parent.
 "They come to you asking you to surrender the rights and liberties guaranteed to you by your constitu- tfon; they ask you to give into the keeping of the Legislature the i'm herent rights of your constitution, to generation of liberty loving ances~ tors. But you have learned to place your trust in the written guarantee of the constitution rather than in the verbal promises of the politicians"
 I've sure have" the audience called out from the rear seats. amid the emphatic approval of this declaration by stamping and applause. ~ < MT. Dent presented the politicians of Alabama as now being in the attitude of pleading to the people, Give 1t to us. for Gods sake give 1t to us. We win never exercise it." And he warn cd his Pike county hearers that they might take lesson from the record of the last Legislature, a body which moved slowly in restrictive legislatioa at first but which went finally in leaps and bounds towards the close of Its work.
 'Give them this power" he said. "give them this power, and never fear but they will use it.. They wi lgo from one state of It's use to another, in depriving you of your liberties. It is your duty to nip 1t in the bud: to stop it now; to surrender no more of your. liberty" .. .ss sf41k
 This assuredly struck . responsive chord in the breast of the audience. a They stamped, cheered and aplauded ;, One voter would lean over to another canoe of the declaration. saying: .-
 T told you SOL
 Again one would slap another on the back. saying:
 That's what I have been arguing to you" =.
 MT. Dent closed his address with paraphrase of that magnificent lite- rary picture fan uprising of the peo- pie. drawn by Jeremiah in the Bible, With fine effect. he uttered the rolling periods. and the people were stirred to high enthusiasm by the rhetoric of the Old Testament so effectively de- claimed.
 With the speaking ended. the crowd surged forward and one by one wrung the hands of the speakers. The au- dience was plainly. clearly and unde- niably with the speakers and every body there had great time and great meeting.