Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-08
Declares Children of Fifteen
Are Being Made intoxicated.
RapS Rich Men.
JUDGES BELONGING TO
CLUBS ARE CALLED UNFIT
Dry Candidate Attacks SIaton
as "StiII Hunter" and Hall as
"Too Economic"

Relocating the doctrines given ut
terance in his Ringgold speech, but
dealing BADLY with the prohibition is
sue as the "one subject that over
shadows them ALL" Hooper Alexander,
gubernatorial aspirant, today an
nounced the platform upon which he
proposes to wage his fourteen days
campaign for the highest office in
Georgia.
Alexander handled the prohibition
issue with no gIoved hands, declaring
that the question was no longer for or
against prohibition. but for or against
anarchy. Anarchism in its most hid
eous form, he asserted. stalked in the
cities of Georgia. and the challenge is
before the people whether the cities
shall defy the law of the state.
'The Tippins bill, he declared, was not
prohibition bill, but an effort to aid
the governor and the courts in the en-
forcement of the law.
In his defense of the Tippins bill and
it's explanation Atlanta locker clubs are
attacked and supreme and superior
court judges, who are members of such
CLUBS, are pronounced unfit to sit n
judgment on cases involving violations
Of the prohibition law. Along this line
Mr. Alexander says:
They can not disguise that ISSUE
The rich clubs are violating the law
They refuse to obey it. They are will
ing, and many of them say so. to indlct
and prosecute the common criminals
who follow their example and take
shelter under it. But they demand and
enjoy immunity for themselves, and it
is utterly hopeless to expect the law to
be enforced against the common crimi-
nails, when the judges are members Of
lawless associations, some Of them ac-
tually buying liquor at pleasure from
these law defying concerns.
where the judges belong to a club
they have clearly disqualified them
selves to pass judgment, and anarchy
is in the community because the in
strumentalities for indicating the law
are paralyzed.
1T is known that some members of
some of the heightened social clubs.
perhaps all of them If so, I fail to see
how they are in position to pass judg-
ment
Under the shelter Of these clubs that
call themselves respectable there have
been formed dozens of purely lawless
liquor selling specializing associations,
in which debauchery has proceeded to
such stage that Women-even Young
girls of fourteen or fifteen years of age
-habituaIly frequent some of them.
and hardened gamblers travelling here
have turned away in disgust from the
sight Of young girls drunk"
That the standpatters in Georgia pol
itics fear his candidacy more than they
are willing to admit, Mr.. Alexander as
serts in his closing paragraphs.
You don't see their newspapers at
lacking Joe Hall" he says. why?
They are not afraid of him. He is an
honest man and has been a valuable
man in the legislature and would make
good governor if he wasn't so an
tagonistic to economic progress"
As a reiteration of utterances made
at Ringsold. John NJ. Slaton is attacked
for what is termed his "stiIl-hunt"
methods and the vast expenditures of
money in favor Of his candidacy.
In dealing with general state issues,
Mr. Alexander advocates the following:
The extension Of the Western
and Atlantic railroad to the sea as
the solution Of the high freight rate