The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-09-27

mented upon in birmingham yesterday
when The AgeHerald became circulated.
Edward d. Smith, former city attorney
in discussing this case which is similar
to the one in Mobile, where the Nelson
family was compelled to go through their
trunks to convince officers that no whisky
was concealed about the premises, said;
Il have not learned all the particulars
as yet However, it is safe to say that
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II had fallen and placed it on the hisn-
est plane of morality
Henry Adams Thompson, who ran for
vice president on the ticket In 1889, was
at the banquet. He is Y years old.
Some misguided person nearly
wrecked the party in Ohio few years
ago. he said when he advocated push
ing women off the craft" So long as we
have women willing and able to do the
splendid work for the cause and the party
which they have done in the past, am
and will be against any such move, Ana
am glad to say that at our convention
vear or two ago we rescinded that out
rageous action.
Zone of the women speakers was MIS-.
Frances Beauchamp of Lexington, Ky
IF you think that you are winning
victory when some local option measure
carries, let me disabuse your minds she
said. Local option was born In a saloon
in Louisville, KY, on a Sunday afternoon
and is the child of the liquor interests
They use it to defeat us when they see
an, oausa growing strong
Law and Order League in Parade.
According to these newspapers the pa
rade of Saturday was to be the crown
ing feature of the celebration Describ-
ing the parade the Tribune says:
"All forms of religious belief and prac-
tically every shade of political affiliation
will be represented in the parade. Many
of the churches and temperance socie-
ties have planned floats the nature of
which they are keeping secret. The Law
and Order league will have two floats.
one a funeral car bearing a banner in
scribed Chicago Sunday Saloon Victims
to be followed by a ghostly company of
81 persons shrouded in white burial robes,
each bearing banner telling of the trag-
edies directly attributable to tarc Sunday
saloons. The second float will typify Law
and Order
1.-THE Woman's Christian Temperance
union will be led by company of the
original crusaders among whom will be
Mrs. Mary Anderson, 81 years old, and
Mrs. Anna Gregory, who is only one year
her junior. Other leaders among the
pioneers will be Mrs. Emily Hill, president
of the Cook County w. c. t. u, and
there will be many representatives of the
Washington, D. c., union, led by Mrs.
w. I. Cawthorn.
Anti-Saloon League Takes Part.
"a float 20 feet long will be part of the
display of the Anti-Saloon league. This
float will contain two maps, one showing
the United States as it was before the
league was organized 16 years ago, with
respect to wet and dry territory, and
the other depicting It as it now isl
Describing the parade the Record-Her-
aid says:
"a temperance army, estimated at from
Is, 900 to 100000 marchers will seek to cap
ture Chicago today. Hundreds of floats
and thousands Of notices and banners
will proclaim the principles and the VIC
tories of the marchers' advocates.
Following the parade two monster
mass meetings will be held, one in the
Auditorium theatre and the other in Or
chestra hall. Seaborn Wright of Georgia
will address both meetings, first in Or
chestra hall and then at the Auditorium.
A special programme of music by prof.
D. w. Towner will be given.
1.-THE Chicago Law and Order league
will be represented in the parade by two
floats. The first will be a funeral car
drawn by four black horses, and will be
surmounted by a black banner inscribed,
Chicago Sunday Saloon Victims. This
float will be followed by a ghostly COM
pany of 81 persons clad in white burial
robes, each carrying banner containing
a record Of some violent crime alleged
to have been committed on account of the
Sunday saloon"
Lawrence's Recent Utterance.
And yet the Rev. Brooks Lawrence, SUI
perintendent of the Alabama Anti-Saloon
league, In a signed letter to the editor of
The Age-Herald, which was published
last Thursday morning, used the follow
ing language:
1.-THE Anti-Saloon league is an omni-
partisan movement without party political
affiliation and it receives the same pro-
hibtion press reports in the offices of it's
papers as does your paper and all other
papers printed in the United States.
There is absolutely no connection be-
tween the Anti-Saloon league and prohi-
bition party movement, and SO bitter has
been the opposition of the prohibition
party leaders to- the Anti-Saloon league
movement that John G. Wolley, one of the
most leading representatives of the pro-
hibition party has practically been read
out of his party in these latter years be-
cause of his Endorsement of the Anti
Saloon league methods.
II write this letter in order that 1 may
set straight before your readers the
party's influence in Alabama is SO minute
that there is no danger to our democ-
racy.'