The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-29
GETS YER WARM
Georgia Legislator OenouEces
Preacher on tho
OF THE HOUSE

I lUUN "! itB6 0lVVSE
Representative Anderson, Of Savan-
nah, Who is Fighting the Near
Beer Bill, Calls Rev. L. G..
Broughton, of Atlanta, Wilful,
Malicious, Vicious liar.
Some of the Georgia legislators
who are now in session in Atlanta
got hot on Tuesday and said some
very naughty things. The trouble
began when Anderson, of Savannah,
who is fighting the near-beer bill,
arose to a question of personal priv
ilege. He was white-faced, tremb-
ling, and had to moisten his lips
several times before he found his
vbice.
81 notice." he began, "that a To-
cal minister named the Rev. Len G..
Broughton, is quoted in the press as
having said in a sermon that l was
fighting the near-beer bill because L
had bought stock in a Savannah
brewery after the prohibition Dill
was passed, and that l was the only
man in the State who had made
money out of prohibition in Georgia.
desire to say that this preacher is
wilful, malicious, reckless, malig-
nant and vicious liar. 1 fully eX-
pected to be assailed and villif1ed
when obeyed my constituents will
and opposed the Alexander bill.
But never even dreamed that a
minister of the Gospel, q follower
of Him who preached charity and
taught truth, would stoop to become
q slanderer and common liar.
"In the first place, no Savannah
brewery, nor stock in one has been
sold since prohibition went into ef-
feet. Hence this Is another lie of
the reverend hypocrite. About If
teen years ago I bought ten shares
In a Savannah brewery, and paid
500 share. was out of the
State when the prohibition bill
passed, and when I returned and
tried to sell my stock, 1 could not.
1t is now worth about $50 or $50
share, but cannot be sold.
"This Alexander bill is a new pro-
hibition bill, and we already have
the strongest prohibition bill ever
drafted. If it be not enforced, then
it is because the officers are negli-
gent and the people do not want it
enforced. I have never placed as
much as a straw in the way of its
enforcement. But you know you
cannot enforce an unpopular law.
Anderson sat down in breathless
silence, and little Representative j.
A. Slade, slight, dignified and minis
terial looking, arose. Slade is from
Muskogee county, and is Baptist
minister, the same denomination
which Broughton serves. Every one
expected a bitter retort to Ander-
sons outburst. What was the as
Punishment of all, then, when Slade
went further than Anderson in de-
nouncing his fellow clergyman.
II was astonished and insulted,
he said, "to hear the slander heaped
upon a worthy member of this Leg
islature by a man who processes to
be a minister of the Gospel. | am
a Missionary Baptist preacher.
believe in and practice temperance
hut do not believe in prohibition. In
the name of all good Baptist, how
ever, want to resent this attack
upon Mr.. Anderson by long-haired
loud mouthed, itinerant preacher
who has done more harm to the tenn
perance cause than all the brewers
and distilllers in the world. And the
really honest temperance advocates
should realize that unless they curl
these freak extremists, they will sec
the pendulum swing to the Other
extreme"
Speaker Holden did not let any
one else get the floor, declining tc
recognize several excitab!e members
and calmly forcing resumption oI
the consideration of the tax bill.
Broughton's Rcioindcr.
DR.. Broughton gave out the fol-
lowing statement in regard to thf
scathing denunciation he received n
the hands of Representative Ander
son:
Il am glad. at least, if I have
done nothing else than force M
Anderson to acknowledge in The
House of Representatives, where hf
is posing as the champion agains
legislation for the prevention OF the
near-bcer evil. that he is 4 stock
holder in 4 brewery, one, at least
in Savannah. that is manufacturing
more near-beer than any other il
the State.
1T is immatcrial. so far rs thi
point | made against his right tt
sit in judgment upon such lcgisla
ton, whcther he has recently boush
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