The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-14
PROHIBITION AT
BOTTOM OF FIGHT
st. John Has Battle on His
Hands in Race
TROUBLE IN WINSTON
Petition Blanks to Voters Over the
State-The Repeal of Some
Sections Is Certain
BY HERyEY w. LAIRD

montgomery, August 13.-(Special 1.-The
TACT that Cullman did not take kindly to
prohibition lies at the bottom of the fight
F. E. st. John is having to be elected
senator from the district made up of
Cuilman, Blount and Winston counties.
Winston is republican county, long lost
and given up. Cullman, however. is dem
ocratic, but made up largely of Germans
who took not kindly to the statewide
ideas. Hence Mr.. st. John, who was a
prohi in good standing, is finding many
of his own neighbors with cold feet on
his success. However, it is hoped that
he will pull through and the leaders be-
lieve he will
Winston's Trouble
Winston. little but loud, is also making
sleepless nights over In the Fourteenth
circuit, where James J. Ray, as an indie
pendent, is fighting Sheriff Lacy, demo-
cratic nominee for the judgeship Wal
ker and Winston are the counties in the
circuit Walker is In the habit of handing
In about 400 majority for the democratic
nominee, while Winston, in a pinch, can
get out that many republicans to the
good. Thus, II there is not the utmost
harmony in the family, the democrats
have a chance to lose 1t is said that the
democrats are by no means giving up,
but. on the other hand, hope to win.
They know, though, that a fight is on and
that the state campaign committee is
going to send help in large measure.
Prohf Forces Busy
There are several evidences of prohlbi-
ton activity in the state, all looking to
what may be done at the regular session
OF the legislature In the winter. Those
who are DESTROYS of having no open sa-
looms are taking much comfort from the
statement of Emmett O'Neal, nominee for
governor, made at Blount Springs this
week, in which he said that he stood on
the Montgomery platform and that plat
form meant no open saloons. This, of
course, has reference to the state as a
whole. The platform Is emphatic In the
statement that local option shall prevail.
Colonel O'Neal has been emphatic that
this is a question for the people to deal
with and upon which faith must be kept
with them.
Testing for Strength
The Anti Saloon league fellows are
testing Tor strength, however, having sent
out blank to be filled in by any who
may be interested. The paper is address,
ed to the Honorable Legislature of Ala
bama," and proceeds: IT hereby peti-
ton your honorable body to preserve the
present statewide prohibition law against
the manufacture and sale of all intoxi-
eating liquors, within the borders of the
state of Alabama, by refusing to repeal
any part of this law, or by the enact
ment of any measure that would permit
the manufacture or sale of Intoxicating
liquors in any part of the state" A blank
is left for the sgner to indicate IL he is
or is not a voter Of the state. 1t Is re-
quested that the blank be mailed to the
Anti-Saloon league, COZ Chamber Of Com
merce building, Birmingham.
Repeal Is Certain
AS matter of fact, however, a great
many of the laws now on the books will
be either appealed or amended. They in
clude the Fuller BILL with its various rad
been almost international comment, and
the club bill, by which any club of any
kind, allowing liquors sold in It's rooms,
or parceled out among members, in such
privilege annuls It's charter. The plat
form is based largely on the local option
plank and there is no man so poorly
posted as to suggest that in Montgomery
Mobile and Birmingham; there will be no
sales in legal way of intoxicating liquors.