The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22

eign and outside agencies which care
 nothing for the common veal 0 : our fair
 state MT O'Neal dodges the whole is-
 sue and raises a false issue vainly sup
 posing the people of Alabama capable of
 being duped by stuff svch he under
 will not dance. and when we mouru he
 will not lament.
 have shown that MT. O'Neal con-
 forms, not in a commendable way, to
 the principles of Paul in being all things
 to all men. But his religion is about as
 rickety as his politics. While he seeks
 to follow Paul by perversion, he disre-
 gards Solomon openly when the great
 sacred philosopher suggests that 1t is
 vain to spread tho net in the' sight of
 any bird. The plans of my opponent
 are too fagrantly open for him to de-
 ceive our people, who are endowed cer-
 tainly with as much sense as MT, O'Neal
 ever dared possess.
 T wish to call your attention to an- other fact. Notwithstanding MT. O'Nea! is indebted to the liquor interests for his success thus far. and notwithstand- ing he knows that it is known to the intelligent public of Alabama, now that
 he is nominated by the grace of the
 saloon forces beyond the state, he dis
 ports hinself with a hectoring spirit,
 and dares to challenge the moral courage
 of the honest citizenship of the state
 by snappying his fingers in it's face, and
 dares it not to support him. Riding to-
 ward power on the pillows of liquor that
 have destroyed it's thousands and it's tens
 of thousands, and some Of the best or
 our state, and threatens to engulf our
 promising boys. he now insults an intel ligent public by pompously proclaming
 himself practically the keeper of the con
 science of a proud and chivalrous cit h.- pocket their convictions and rally to his support Notwithstanding the oblique methods, to call them by no worse name. employed by himself and those whose be- hest he obeys from remote cities Of the northwest. he dares to insult our people
 now by demanding that they shall sup port him whether or no; no matter If he has defied the principles which he helped to promulgate in the conference held by him and at his call in the city of Mont gomery in September, 1909, he insultingly tells the moral citizenship of this state that he must be supported. And who, pray is Emmet O'Neal. that he should be prating about this state concerning party fealty? If the good people among whom he was reared are to be trusted he bolted his own party in 1896, and went fter strange gods. It is remarkable how much of the Bible can be applied to thls wonderful man from the mountains He went after strange gods, and forsook the | idol of his own party at a tune when party fealty meant something. NOW TOT scoth this apostle of the barroom. this nolitical renegade proposes to teach party 1 fealtv: Tell it not in Gath. publish 1t | not in the streets of Askelon. And here | if is fitting that I quote another Scrip | ture:
 .Physician, heal myself I never knew a greater anomaly than the appli- cation of so much Scripture to a man | but it fits to a dot. Suppose were as | base as he tries to make me out though, fortunately for me, at least, both our | records are we'll known, personally and otherwise, to the people of this state; suppose all that he seeks to do in smirch- | ing me were true, is Emmet oNeai the man to lambaste me? l sincerely tninK l that MT. O'Neal is unfortunate and un- | fair to himself in seeking to belittie me before the people of the state H,s own poljtical record reveals the man that he 1 is. his renunciation of his own declared principles at the Montgomery conference | when he felt that he had the party in l his vest pocket; the means wnich ne employed, together with others, In de- | feating the amendment. and In procur- | ing his own nomination, 10 say no more | make him an exceedingly vulnerable man 1 If is a mockery. travesty, positive | iolxo if it were not so serious that the | democratic party of Alabama should be | in the hands of the men who now con | trol it. For this condition, my Fellow citizens you are indebted to the brewer barons, who aspire to nothing else thau | the domination of this state. Look al the actual condition which to day prevails l Here is the august triumvirate whose l triple hands sway the sceptre today un- | der the sanction of the fit mastery ol | the dramshop. Emmet O'Neal. Jess Stall ings and P G. Bowman. And, this, my fellow citizens, in the twentieth century | with it's splendid civilization, and its un' surpassed progress and intelligence Lout applause and laughter)
 | What would such peerless statesmen
 as William R. King. Dixon H. Lewis Arthur F. Bagby John Gill shorter Thomas II. Watts, Edmund w. Pettus l George G. Houston. John T. Morgan anc | William J. Sanford think if they could | revisit the earth and look on this inn | posing trumvirate? No wonder the peo pie revolt In response to sheer self respect they revolt. No wonder what | they are saying from the mountains tt the sands of the gulf that they will not follow such leadership. They owe It tc their own conscience, to ordinary decency and to the preservation of their noble manhood to revolt This were enough but when 1t is remembered that they ar'