The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-24

CTS received enormous salaries and Una there was 30.000 graft fund H. accused the local optionists Of mis- leading the voters by leading them t' believe that they had a chance to b' appointed excise commissioners. H' called attention To the serious affraN at Florence. and attributed it to the sa' loon. He touched on the decision thai two saloons could be made from one bS having an archway built over the rooms He stated that the 30-room ho- i tel was d stench in the nostrils of the people. He termed Governor oNeal as ring master" and accused him of at tempting to build up a political ma chine by virtue of his patronage.
 Mr. Beddow was in the midst of few questions addressed to the local option committee when he Was informed that his time was up.
 Mr Bowman was then introduced and received an ovation from the crowd. lie was unable to begin his speech for fiNe minutes. MT Bowman began his reply 10 Mr. Beddow by stating that he had not touched on the question which he had Iagreed to debate That he had not men tioned prohibition but inferentally. That he had not asked a man to vote for Ero- ihibition today. He stated that he warned lMr Beddow II minutes before his time was up and gave him a chance to discuss the dispensary but that he refused.
 Mr Bowman had his audience with him from the start. In fact both speakers were unusually ready with repartee. NIT. Bowman provoked cheer after cheer from the audience when someone from the back of the theater shouted something Iderogatory to Chief Bodeker.
 
 ..Bodeker." shouted MT. Bowman strik- ling a posture. "Bodeker," he repeated. Yes, l am going to tell you something about Bodeker He has been abused dur ling the entire campaign. Yes. Bodeker. Whenever anything was done il was Bodeker. You prohibitionists shoot your ldarts at Bodeker all day and all niglt. Why don't you jump on somebody else Here Is Walter K. McAdory, a prohibl- tionst-by belief, a gentleman by birth, and a man by training, who ls shefIf. He has not rooted out the blind usefs' I although he has more power than Bode- ker Why don't you jump on him. Why don't you get up in the church of which he is a member and say that lie has been bought and paid for? Why don't Iyou? Why, because that 2OO0 majority you are talking about would desert you and you know 1t. Those people out al Bessemer and Jonesboro and else where would quit you. Some of them nave quit already
 The crowd went wild as he closed his remarks about the chief. He stated that "O'NeaI and Bodeker" had been the islogan of the prohibitionists. He cited lconditions when there was a prohibition governor a prohibition sheriff, and q so- licitor appointed by Conner himself and even then the blind tigers were not sup pressed. He again inquired why didn't somebody jump on them for not enforcing the law and not Bodeker and O'Neal | Mr Bowman brought down the house when he replied to the nsinuations of Mr. Beddow against the character of Governor O'Neal. He stated that the at tack on the statement of Governor o'Neai that he would appoint good men on the excise commission implied that he lad been bought and paid for by the whisky trust.
 All the money that all the prohibi- tionists of Birmingham. of Jefferson county, of the state of Alabama, of the whole United States have could not buy i single thought of Emmet O'Neal," he cried, at the top of his voice.
 Figures on Dispensary | Mr. Bowman gave some interesting | figures on the dispensary. He stated that l the prohibitionists of the county were going around telling people that the dis pensary would reduce their taxes. He l attacked the statement made that dis pensary would bring into the city rev enue of one million dollars. He stated l that to do this it would be necessary to debauch every man, woman and child in the city. He gave the following figures
 In order to bring into the city treasury r $650, ,000 which would be the city's share of one million-dollar revenue derived , from the dispensary, it would be neces- sary to debauch' every man, woman and child in the city. He figured on buying whisky at g. gallon. He stated that . there were about 10000 inhabitants of the city and a conservative estimate of the men was one in five. He stated that it would be necessary to sell million gal Ions of whisky every year to 1000 men to get the revenue. He stated that but one man in three drank whisky, there fore, 1t would be necessary to sell it to three thousand men. This would mean that every man would have to buy a gal lon and three quarts every day to get the revenue. He then drew the conclusions from that
 MT Bowman then called attention to the inconsistency of the preachers of the gospel asking for votes for the legaized liquor traffic. He stated that they were asking men to go to the polls today and vote dry, but if wet carried to vote for d dispensary. He stated that the only diff ference between the open saloon and the dspensary was that the open saloon was run by John Smith and the dispensary was operated by everybody in the com munity.
 "A preacher in politics is a ship with out a rudder or a sail," declared MT. Beddow. and proceeded to pay his re- spects to MT. Willie Upshaw' for al leged statements made by him at Mt. Pinson.
 He referred to the charge of MT. Bed dow that he had changed when it suited him by referring to Walker Percy and James Weatherly, who, he stated, had at first favored the open saloon. He stated that Mir. Beddow was very stter toward them then but that when they changed their minds andsvoted for the dispensary it was all right. He referred to the in- consistency.
 MT. Bowman refuted the charges made against Governor ONeal, and pointed with T pride to the excise commissioners ap- a pointed in Mobile, Montgomery and Col bert counties He stated that the ap- pointees pleased everybody. There was e no reason. he said, why he should de- l viate from his previous policy in Bir- n mingham
 f MT. Bowman spoke highly of Isadore Shapiro and declared him the ablest young
 man he had ever known. He thanked d other members of the Flying Squadron l for their services and said that he was | pIa to