The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-06
THONIPSON'S REJOINDER TO O'NEAL
 IS BACKED UP BY RECORDS

1 in this state. will go to any length with
 him as their tool and undo the work
 of long years of struggle I am a consist
 ent and Wcompromising prohibitionist,
 and this is "a matter of vital concern to
 those who represent Emmet ONeaI. They
 know, as does he, that I shall fearlessly | do my duty. if made governor of this
 state. There is no misrepresentation
 which they can devise, no appeal to
 prejudice which they can make, no rumor which they can imagine which they will
 not employ to compass my defeat.
 have proved what I will do by that which
 I have done. I have aided the Anti
 Saloon league since first it entered the
 state by contributing money to it's cause
 and otherwise aiding it, as pr. Crumpton
 and the Rev. Brooks Lawrence will cer- | tify. I eanvassed in behalf of the amend
 ment as Governor Conner, Colonel Nal | lory Governor Cunningham r. M Jack | son and thousands of other democrats
 know. I was a statewide prohibitionist, | though I knew that that law would when
 it became effective, reduce my salary $l5O0 per annum, from the maximum to the minimum point
 | I should be recreant to my candidacy
 and to the fundamental moral prin- ciples for which I stand in this o1I. | extremity which now faces the good people of this state at this time did I
 not call special attention to the latest deliverance of Emmet O'Neal in the city of Birmingham on the night of Novem- | Der S. Nothing could more aptly illus trate that for which he stands than
 that, in his closing speech, he should address club organized solely for the express purpose of defeating the efforts 1 of the moral, law abiding people of l this community to suppress the sale of intoxicating liquors in this state. Be- ..1. ,a.@An with appropriate company to encour- | age that club in the work for which | it was organized and Is maintained. Let us see what they say Dr. El
 kourie. who spoke with Emmet ONeal
 on the same occasion, said: The Good government club. organized to defeat | the amendment to the constitution. will always be a safeguard against
 fanaticism in the community" In oth
 CT words, that club will continue to support O'Neal, if elected, in favor of | liquor Immediately following Emmet O'Neal in the outset of his speech re-
 ferred with gratitude to the fact that
 his campaign was begun from that
 platform and he thanked the club for its support
 | This absolute tool of the whisky ring. l owned by tn em, body and soul, has inn pudently referred to the federal of- | hceholders in this state in sneering way. Now. let the facts be known. for | they are all that honest people want.
 nor can they be beclouded by the con
 temptuous allusions of the whisky can
 didate, Emmet O'Neal The same fight
 was made by Patterson against the federal officeh olders in Tennessee, and was effective along with other thing | in resulting in the assassination Of
 the martyred Carmack, and recent de- velopm ents show that we may look for l ha nf state.
 so bold and desperate have the thugs | become. What was the general re- suit to which the reformed democracy was at last driven? 1t was to appeal | to the federal officeholders in Tennes
 see in order to protect the independence of the supreme court of that state. Without such aid from the federal of hceholders in Tennessee, where men of all parties united on basis of pro- | tection and principle, rose above party
 name and redeemed that state from liquor domination If we are only true
 to manly conviction it can be done in l Alabama as well as in Tennessee for
 the same officeholding element stands
 ready to cooperate with the reform element of the democracy to break
 down forever the power of the bood l lers, whisky thugs and law violators.
 who are now being beckoned on by Patterson's counterpart, Emmet ONeal. | must meet it as men.
 | I should blush with shame If such
 man as Emmet O'Neal could compel | the reformed element, which I have
 openly aided by my purse, my time | and by every possible influence, to op pose me, by means of a traditionai party name, on which he Is now appeal- ing and that alone.
 On my publicly declared principles
 for a governor of a state and upon
 my record as an officer and as a cit izen, born and reared in Alabama, shar- ing in the pleasure of her prosperity.
 taking delight in labor for her walfare,
 I submit my claims to the upright honorable and courageous citizenship
 of this state. Our homes, our rights, our children, our institutions our laws,
 our peace, our future prosperity arc imperilled. and it behooves us to labor together for their preservation till the
 going down of the sun on election day. JOSEPH O. THOMPSON.