The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-11-20
CAMP AICN
GROWS CINCERY
Week Of Work Against the
Amendment.
CHAIRMAN RUSHTON BUSY
Rally on Last Night viii Be
Feature.
TorchIight Parade and speechmal<ing
BY Bsnkhesd, stallings. Dent and
ousries VIII BE Program
for Saturday, No
venber ~.

will be done by the defenders from
now on till the election on the 2sth
The committee of which Ray Rushton
Is chairman. was raised at a mass
meeting in the early part of the cam
paign, and consists OF two hundred anu
thirty-two representative men of the
city and county.
The campaign conducted by them
has been on high plane from the be-
ginning and has been wonderfully ef-
fective.
A meeting OF the entire campaign
committee will be hold Saturday night.
o'clock. at the anti amendment coun-
ty headquarters on Court street and
Dexter avenue. The meeting will be
informal and a business session will be
held.
Great Rally Saturday.
The feature of ths entire campaign
win come next Saturday night, Mo-
vember 81. The last day of the cam
paign VIII be marked then by a real
torch light parade aud experimenting.
More than q thousand men have all
ready signified their Intention of taking
part in the parade, and 1t Is the hope
of the leaders that The procession will
be 1000 strong. with every man bear
ing a torch.
Headed by a band. the procession
will take its way to the Grand Thea
tire or the Auditorium. the exact To-
cation not yet hayirg been fixed. A
quartette Of the most prominent men
In Alabama will address the crowd.
Senator Bankhead will make one OF
his few speeches OF the campaign on
hnk terA lAa 1kall -.
gresham Hugh Dent and Col. w. w
ouarles. of Selma. Will be the other
speakers.
The county. during the next week
will be the scene CT heated cam
paign. Each day speeches will be
made In various parts of the county
and the anti-amendinent COMMITTEES
will bend Its every effort to swell the
majority which is eoseeded against the
amendment In Montgomery county.
Speaking Appointments.
The following announcements are
made:
Hon. s. H. Dent al Mr. Ray Rush
ton will address the voters on the pro.
posed constitutional amendment at tbs
following times and places:
Union Academy, Monday. Novemb bel
%. 10 a. M
Ramer. Monday, November 22, D. m
I Dublin. Monday November ~. 3 D. m
Mr.. w. w. Hill aid Mr.. Ray Rush
ton will address the voters as follows:
Grange Hill Beat 10. Tuesday, Mo-
vember 20. .. m.
Downing. Beat IL. Wednesday, Mo-
vember "a. 10 a. m.
Showdown, Beat 22. Wednesday, No
vember "a. p. m.
Hon. p. @. Bowman will speak In
Montgomery Friday night, November
2s. at o'clock.
Senator Bankhead, Jesse A. Stallings,
Hugh Dent and w. w. Quaries as
speakers win wind up the week.
Ray Rushton. county chairman OF the
anti-amendment forces, will devote ev-
cry hour of his time from now until
election day. in work against the
amendment.
Mr.. Rushton said last night:
Yes. / was compelled to be out of
town four days. but on my return /
am gratiied to find that the other
members of the committee. and Mr.
Clark. our secretary. have kept things
going in fine shape. l have had re-
plies from nearly every voter in the
week. before leaving.
Few Are for IL.
1T would surprise YOU to know how
few people now even attempt to de-
fend the proposed amendment. Most
of them who are getng to vote for II
admit that 1t 10 all great mistake.
and the only reason they can now
give for their position Is that they are
afraid that the breweries and liquor
dealers would claim that 1t was vie
tory for them II II 10 defeated.
when one stops TO consider the
very few voters In tire State who have
any interest in the sale OF beer and
liquor, II is hard to see how they could
vative people of Alabama are in a
large majority and are going to settle
this question and they are going to
settle it right. They are not going to
allow the extremists on their side to
tamper with the Bill Of Rights. They
will fight this proposed amendment be-
cause the first section is meaningless
and abortive of any possible good re-
suits. and the second section is so radI-
cal as to be startling If its purpose
should ever be enacted into law
However pious ard cody some of
it's advocates may be, conservative men
will fight 1t just as strongly as they
would any similar provision that might
Il cannot believe that the people OF
Alabama will be swayed by sentinen-
talism in such an important matter.
Nor can they be cowed or scared into
doing so by any clap trap argument
that II is a question Of voting the sa-
loon back into the state. No man Wa
thinks can believe 1t. Thinking people
are always conserl alive and thew
know that it won't do to tamper with
the Constitution"
Sends out Letter.
To the 232 members of the county
executive committee Chairman Ray
Rushton mailed letter Friday, re-
vealing the outlook in the country from
his viewpoint The letter, In part. said:
''On my return to the city today
from a short business trip. / find that
the very complete returns sent In by
the members of the committee. to-
gether with the responses to the cards
sent out from Headquarters. have
enabled us to make a very complete
check OF the voters of this county.
The list of those not reported on and
OF those who are now disposed to vote
for the amendment is so small that we
are now ready to divide out a list OF
them amongst the committee for a
personal house Ia house canvass with
them between now and the election.
This will necessitlte a fnll meeting
of the committee at headquarters to-
morrow SATURDAY. evening. at 1880
O'clock. / sincerely hope that each
of you will he present and that you