The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-13
ID HURL STATE INTO {. ANOTHER FIGHT ON
 PROHIBITION ISSUE Rev. Brooks Lawrence to
 Move Headquarters to
 Montgomery CONFERENCES HELD
 TO OUTLINE PLANS General Opinion, However. Is That Efforts to Make State Dry Arbitrarily Will Not Succeed
Fly HuGMW. ROBERTS


 The Rev. BrooRef.awrence, having re- turned from ohic, where he waged furious and ridiculously ineffective fight for prohibition and woman suffrage, is prepared to hurl Alabama into another campaign the basic principle of which will be statewide prohibition and tho usual collection
 It is said that this week he will trans fer his headquarters from Birmingham to Montgomery, and that there he will re- main a fixture until after the next ses- sion of the legislature. While the road the superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league has followed for the past sev- eral years has been rocky it is said that he is still vigorous and full of expecta- tons. His plan, in brief, is to push through the legislature statewide pro- hibition bill hold, during the session of the legislature, prohibition convention in Montgomery, and then turn loose his fell dogs of war in the shape of orators with power to thrill and convince. Despite the plans of MT Lawrence, 1t is generally believed throughout Alabama that he is headed toward another dismal brink and that he will fall over. The Lawrence Plans
 During the past week prohibition lead CTS have conferred in the hope of outlin- ing a plan. In the first place they will work for a measure repeating the Smith and Parks local option bill which In the event of it's success, would restore ipso facto the Fuller and Carmichael bllls. Should they fail in this scheme, they will exert their efforts toward securing a milder bill, one which would provide for the submission to the people of statewide prohibition. They cannot foresee fall ure, and some of their leaders have been quoted as having said that they would rush their measures through immediately. l However, 1t is true that they will have | a fight on their hands In the first place, | there are members of the legislature who were prohibitionlsts at one time and are l not prohibluonists now. In the second place, there are prohbitionlsts in the leg l islature who will oppose reconsderng the old liquor problems In the third place l there are prohibitionists in the legisla' l ture who will vote to submit prohibition | to the people and will oppose the enact I ment of a statewide prohibition bill h l the third place, it Is not altogether cer- | tain, despite their claims, that they have ! O. clear-cut, uncomproInlsinB majority II the senate. They thought. as Is remem bered that they had majority in tn, 1 last senate. ,
 I Conditions in Alabama 1 It is pretty well established that Ala
 bama is local option prohibition, tha | the great majority of counties are dr!
 and will remain dry, but that tho majorit, | of the people of the state are opposed t | the people of the one county attemptinl
 to dictate terms to the people of tn I other.
 l It Is generally known. too, that tn prohibitionists of the state are no longe
 to be cajoled by tomfoolery or driving b,
 the bull whip. The Rev. Brooks Law
 renee, despite his onslnughts against Os car W. Underwood, as is remembered carried R. F. Hobson into the most ig nominious defeat ever inflicted on a can
 didate in the recent history of Alabama The time has long since passed when thi
 one man could fool all the people all tn
 time.
 Therefore there are dangers ahead fo
 the dry craft, despite the present sea
 son of general preparation. It Is inter
 esting however, to note that both fac
 tions are confident. The battle will b. ) pitched as soon as the legislature. is or ganzed, and for several weeks 1t is des
 tined to rage with unremitting fury