The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-03
.te. His interview in full is as

follows:
 q was somewhat interested in the
 movement suggested by MT. Ross Black
 mon to hold a meeting in the new thea tre Wednesday night for the purpose of
 buryng the amendment, and I was rather
 amused at the suggestion made by some
 one that Mallory club be formed then
 and there. I respectfully suggest that
 if the amendment Is buried (and 1t has
 been) that Mallory should be buried with 1t. as he was the chief factor in sub-
 hitting the proposed amendment to the
 people for adoption or rejection. 1t has
 been asserted so often and by so many
 speakers. and has never been denied by
 MT. Mallory or anyone else, that it must
 be accepted as true, when the bill sub
 hitting this proposed amendment to the constitution was in the senate, after It
 had passed the house. that the requisite
 three-fifths of the senate could not be
 had that thereupon Brooks Lawrence,
 Governor Conner and the Anti-Saloon
 league brought MT. Mallory from his law
 1t was through Mir Mallory's personal
 and direct influence with three senators
 whose votes were changed and who had
 been before that time opposed to the
 amendment, that the bill passed by a
 three-ffths majority and the proposed
 amendment was submitted to the people.
 So then, MT. Mallory was more respon-
 sible for the submission of this question
 to the people and the bitter campaign that followed than any other man.
 T give him credit for sincerity and for
 being good citizen and an amiable nian and when he stated on the stump thai we have driven whisky from the saloons we have driven whisky from the clubs
 and we are now going to drive it from the homes' I assume, of course, that ht
 meant what he said. Now, after his pol icy of searching the home and driving whisky therefrom has been overwhelm ingly repudiated by the people of Ala
 bama. including his home county (ths amendment having carried only in si, counties, with insignificant majorities 1T each of those six counties), and after h' helped to bring this election on at { | time when 100000 Alabamians wers disfranchised by reason of not hay | ing paid their poll taxes, 1t seems thu height of absurdity to ask those of u, | who at heart were really and bitterly opposed to the amendment to acquiescs | in the nomination of a man who dit everything in his power, and more thai | any other man in Alabama, to brint l about the adoption of the amendment ant l to deprive Alabamians of their persona | liberties. A dscredited leader whose pol | icieS have been utterly repuulateu py tli' | people usually retires and waits for pub | lie sentiment to change or for mor' | favorable opportunity. What would hav' been thought, if after the siege of York town, and after the rejection by the peo pie of the United Colonies of the doc | trines of the divine rights of kings, an' | of taxation without representation, it hat been suggested to them that Lord Corn wallis would have made suitable Pres | dent of the United States? And yet while this would have been an extrem case. it is not more incongruous than tha H. s. D. Mallory. with his policies ut | terly discredited and repudiated in hi | own county and in the whole state, woult now be nominated by the democrats O | Alabama as governor. While 1t Is know that one need not always be entirely con | sistent in politics to be successful, yet i
 has never been thought by serious mind | ed men that politics and statecraft ar like opera bouffe. wherein the incongrou | and the ridiculous are the chief feature | of the play. Or Is this suggestion O MT. Ross Blackmon merely sop given b. | Calhoun to Dalias?"