River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-12-18
CALLS UNDERWOOD
LIQUOR ADHERENT
RE PR Essen hTIVE HOBSON
AGAIN ATTACKS ALABAMA
COLLEAGUE.
BOTH AFTER SENATE SEAT
Leader Denies the Charges After Tu.
multi Observation-Disclosures are
Filled With Pro-
hibtionists.

Washington, Dec. 13.-Shattering
the rules of the house of representa-
tives, champions of prohibition who
packed the galleries broke into re
peated outburst of applause and
Pearson Hobson of Alabama pleaded
for a resolution which would submit
a constitutional prohibition amend
ment to the states.
Mr.. Hobson Dramatic.
The extraordinary demonstration
continued uIrestrainad for many min
utes as Mr.. IIobsOn proceeded dram
atically to discuss the prohibition
question. 1t was not checked until
the speaker had drawn into contro-
versy his colleague, Representative
Underwood, who is now engaged with
him in race for the senate. The in
lection of personal politics into the
situation brought the majority leader
to his feet with a reply to Mr.. Hob
son, and this precipitated applause
In the course of his speech Mr..
Hcbson had said:
I'VE ought to have our party I'M
derstand now while the war is on.
that it never was intended for an al
lance with the liquor interests. Yet.
there is a great Democrat, a great
ALBANIAN, who is present today, who:
recently announced, that is at least
the way | read the reports-that if
prohibition continues to be injected
into Democratic politics, either pro-,
hibition would be ground to the dust,
or the Democratic party must die. Il
take second place to no man who
loves his party and let me tell Won
that il the Democratic party can only
live by joining with the liquor inter
ests to debauch the American people.
then in Gods name let it die"
Underwood Replies.
L wish to say to the gentleman
from Alabama" Mr.. Underwood be-
gan. that / regret that in presenting
petitions for the cause of prohibition
to the house that he should have drawn
into his speech a partial utterance of
mine that misinterprets my remarks
At some other time and in the proper
place | will interpret my own re-
marks"
Mr.. Hobson replied that the person
al issue had become national oues-
ton, that the senatorial fight in Ala
bama was such that "the liquor inter
ests on the one side and the moral
forces on the other had made it a ma
tional question.
After the tumult had subsidized MIR.
Underwood arose:
Il cannot sit here in silence" he
said, and allow my colleague to as
sert that am the candidate of any.in-
terest without challenging his state
ment. ! am not, never have been and
do not intend to be the candidate of
the liquor interests. l never have re-
ceived dollar from the liquor inter-
ests nor do | intend to receive such"
Mr.. Hobson concluded his speech by
declaring he came with petition sane
toned by the majority of the American
people, demanding a referendum on
the liquor question. The fight of the
people for this referendum was an
earnest one, he asserted, and men in
public life had better realize it.
When the Alabaman had taken his
seat, Representative Bartholdt OF Mis-
souri, suggested that Mr.. Hobson had
packed the galleries with multitude
of his adherents and that he (Bar-
tholdt) could bring two million Ger
man-Americans to Washington for in
timidation, but he did not think it
was a healthy thing" to do anything
of that sort. He attacked Mr.. Hob
sons statement and said that $50
briefly and temperance are not identi-
cal with prohibition" as Mr.. Hobson
had said, but prohibition lis an at
tempt to make a man sober by law.
The Creator Himself put temptation
in the Garden of Eden and it's been
here ever since"