The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
ALL EYES TURNED
 TOWARD ONEONTA Colonel Mallory Will Outline Policy for Campaign SUMMARY OF ISSUES Rumor Says Effort VIII Bc Made to Have strnightout Fight of Saloons
 or No Saloons, Liquor or
 No Liquor
SUMMARY OF ISSUES
By BURR BLACKBURN


 It is now the Mallory turn to strike. Driven into the corner, the time comes when he will have to turn and fight back. It is understood that his speech at Oneon- ia today will be something hot off the reel. He will in all probability bring up again the old issue of saloons or no sa- looms, and charge the O'Neal supporters with being the tools of the liquor inter ests to gain control of the state gover1- ment.
 Mr Mallory is passive, peaceable man. and has endeavored in every way possible to make this q personal campaign. Such was his intention when on Feb'n- ary Il he gave out a statement in which he said: "In my opinion the late pro posed amendment is not and cannot ne an issue in this campaign. The question of constitutional prohibition was settle by the vote of the people in November last and the result has been accepted in good faith by the people of this state, md no enc proposes to open or attempt to re- open it."
 He thought that the best chance to split the O'Nea vote was to paeify the anti ame nders and to promise them that he would do whatever they wanted him to do. if they would just tell him in the con yention which is to follow the election.
 But the developments of last week sent his close friends hustling to Selma. Sev- aral wont from Birmingham. We call not fight for you without an issue, they saie. Tn this day of intelligence and publicity you can't run q gumshoe cam paign. You've got to say something.
 Rumors About Liquor Interests
 It had been understood from the inuen- do suggestions scattered about that the liquor interests are trying 10 get into the saddle" that the Maloroy people were saving it for a last card. It Will De re- membered that this issue was not used Tn the fight for the amendment until TWO weeks before the election But from the whispers in the wind, it seems that MT. Mallory will now stake his all on the charge that MT. ONeal is the representa- tive of the liquor interests.
 such charge. complicatng all the lead CTS of the antl-amendment fight, would hrine down such a torrent of righteous indignation that the meeting at the Jef- ferson last week would hardly be CIT curnstance The fact is that the anti O'Neal forces court an issue on which the motives of the men who led the people of Alabama to triumphant victory last NO vember arc impugned. The amendment would again be in the limelight and clear-cut fight would be made by both sides.
 Ii may be that Mr. Mallory will not re- sort to such a desperate chahce' TIC has been the most polite man Ill the whole crowd when it came to making speeches for the amendment which could offend no one, as they were good temper once lectures. If the charge is made now he will have two months in which to prove it. and it will take fire and prin- stone to convince the voters of Alabama without good evidence.
 His speech today, however. will be the indicator of the rest of the campaign. If he is to remain quiet, according to his own bent, he will be on the defenslVe during the rest or the campaign. and the O'Neal wave of enthusiasm will sweep on with little effort to check if. If he follows the auNlce or HIS lTitllh9 anu iiohNS charges against the character of his op- ponents the hottest political fight in the history of the state will be on. MT. Nal lory's stand today is the most important event of the week
 Noise in O'Neal's Camp
 ID to this time there has been plenty of spice, and the battle cry has rung loud. hut it has all been from the ONeal camp. If has been charged that Mallory is Corners candidate, and is being backed by the Anti-Saloon league. that the amendists are trying to get control or every office from constable to governor. Here is some of the spice that MT. Nal lory will probably answer. and it will be interesting to watch just how he does it..
 The issue has been put up to the peo- nle as a fight of conservatism against fanaticism, and they have been asked to support the man who did most to defeat the amendment, instead of the man who did more than either Governor Conner or Brooks Lawrence to bring this outrageous thing upon us.
 flames Weatherly said: "You don't want to select a man too timid, too nerveless to resist the aggressions of the fanatics and extremists.'
 It was charged that MT. Mallory "fol- lows the line of least resistance, that his support of the constitutional amendment bill in the senate was for political pur- poses. as evidenced by that triumphant telegram from his leading supporter to the friends at home that - the dis tinguished Selmian had done an act that day which would make sure his election by a grateful people to the chief executive office of the state"
 The amendment has been called That great outrage which Mallory perpetrated upon this state."
 All eyes are turned toward the little city of Oneonta to hear, first, MT. Nal lory's defense, and then what line of att ta oIr bo will folloW.~