The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24

amendment" he continued, they ask you to give the legislature the right lo designate places wherein liquor might not be stored or kept
 They are asking you to give the legislature more power. They ask you to trust the legislature of Alabama. Qaughter.) Why, would not trust that body as far as I can throw a red hot stove.
 They have legislated whisky out of every nook and corner in Alabama. They are now aiming at the homes Homes. How can they banish whisky from the homes and not make it crim- inal to keep it there?
 And Governor Conner says he will par donl (Great Laughter.) Your wife makes some wine. She Is arrested in the stilly hours of the night. She is jailed. She is tried before the court, and subjected to great humiliation. She is convicted and sentenced to hard labor.
 Then 1t will be quite a balm to the sore for the Governor to issue his par don. He might have said: I will jab this red hot poker through your body, and when 1t hurts I will draw 1t out again And Conner would not pardon those who voted for Cunningham.
 Such statements of the Governor are too absurd to be ridiculous"
 Lawrence Rings" Conner.
 He then 1ayed the Fuller bill, stating that in spite of the fact that after six readings he still has a dim understanding of it, he knew that it removed from grand juries and from solicitors the right of discretion in making indictments and convictions.
 Under this bill," stated the speaker. they will have to indict and prosecute Al able deed of giving a drink to a sick friend"
 The admission of Senator Reese, Comer's floor leader and a bright light in favor of the amendment, to the effect that the second section does contain a danger to the home-an admission which has not been denied-was touched upon. It brought those who sat upon the fence down into the ranks of the defenders.
 Brooks Lawrence" stated MT. Willett, lis the brain of the movement. It is Brooks who leads Conner around the state as if he was bull with a ring through his nose.
 And I am not censuring Lawrence If he comes from Ohio with his hands clean, settles among us, works by our sides and becomes one of us, all very we'll But when the statutes of Ohio remain as they are, we will resent MT. Lawrence and his carpetbag attempting to teach HIS morals"
 MT. Winett startled when he said
 The Startling Charge.
 This whole fight is directed against the supreme court of Alabama. tiover- nor Conner did not consider the movement for Greater Birmingham important enough to warrant the calling together of his lawmakers in extra session. But Law renee got him busy when Sayre rendered his opinion to the effect that liquor is property. Lawrence, as is remembered, made a vicious attack against the su- preme court and its members, threatening to weed them out. and supplant them with others who would render decisions to his liking
 purpose of covering the members of the supreme court into rendering decisions favorable to the Conner administration. This whole fight is against the supreme court and Is based on the decision of Judge Sayre'
 MT. Willett concluded with a fine trib- ute to the supreme court of the United States. He showed that the court had stood between the south and danger on numerous occasions-between the south and the negro, permitted the south to pass laws forbidding miscegenation, for bidding the confiscation of the home of General Lee for the purpose of making a burial ground for northern soldiers, permitted Senator Morgan, General Har- rison and others to practice before the courts of the country
 He quoted Senator Hoar as stating in a recent speech that since the Civil War the supreme court of Aiabama has adopt ed the southern interpretation of the con-