The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-28
LOCAL OPT|ON|STS
 LOYAL ID THEIR
 DEMOCRATIC FAITH
Senator Judge Spoke Last Night at Brighton and Threw Down Gaunt-
 let to Opponents

senator Thomas J. Judge continued his speaking campaign yesterday, making addresses at Sumter, Johns. Virginia
 Mines and Brighton. Tn his address at 6rlghton last night, he scored Congress-
 man Huddleston for his speech before | the State Bar association. in which he advocated votes for negro men and ne- gro women. Senator Judge was given a
 hearty reception by the voters. and his | address created most favorable i'm. pression,
 He spoke in part as follows:
 Tn my campaign xor the Senate I declared unqualifiedly for the principle of local option and you commissioned me to battle for this principle and have kept the faith with you.
 The prohibitionists now line up to de- 1eat me in my fight for congress. The leaders are passing the word for MT. Huodleston. I believe that the local op- tlonists are as loyal to their democratic ralth Of home rule-the faith of Jefferson. wilson and Underwood-as are the prohi- oluonists to their strange propag aganda Of nationwide prohibition. They have drawn the prohibition lines in thelr er fort to defeat me. and I know that rho local optionists will answer tnem Inv nre- sehting solid front One of the pro- hlDition leaders in the legislsture de- clared that the people of Alabama. could not be trusted to vote on prohibition. They seek now to destroy all democratic Ideals of government and tear down the doctrine of states rights so dear to southern hearts, and turn the functions of state government over 10 the federal government-this to be done. not bv tha people Of the several states, but bv the leelslatures. They are as usual. fond of the legislatures but afraid of the people. do not fear a fight along prohibition nnes, It they choose to pitch it there. TOT the local optionists of Jefferson coun- ty nave twice honored me, and can and will do it again.
 MT. Huddleston, at a meeting of the Alabama Bar association, in indorsing a socialistic speech made by Clement Wood, used these words, which appear in the record of the bar association for 1912:
 So l say, it is unfortunate for the people of Alabama that they nave denied the right of suffrage to so large a part or our population. We have the negro here with us, we cannot kill him, we can not deport him, we have got to make nm a citizen. How are you going to do It so long s you deny him the right to vote? The right of manhood's ex- precision is the greatest incentive he can have to make himself a man. I agree with MT. Wood that the right of suf- frage should be extended irrespective of race and sex, irrespective of anything save honesty and intelligence'
 Tt is said, God cannot blot out the spoken word The white men of Ala bama will never consent to negro men and woman suffrage. and MT. Huddles- tons only hope, to arm the negro with the right of 'manhoods expression is through the federal Congress- believe the people of Alabama hold sacred their reserved right to prescribe the qualifica- tions of their electors. There is now pending in Congress a suffrage bill which encroaches upon this reserved right of the state How will he vote? Feeling about the negro as he does, how would he vote on the Crumpacker plan to cut down the souths representation unless she gives suffrage to the negro? How would he have voted on the force bill when John Tyler Morgan immortalized himself by his famous fight for the white south's right to home rule, and removed the bayonet from the southern ballot box?
 Thank God your congressman was not or guard in that dark hour of the south s struggle for white supremacy"